skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "down to base" would be a significant shock based on what levels.fyi has for them - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/twitter/salaries/software-e...

Taking an $80k/year pay cut for a SWEII ($70k stock, $10k bonus - I'm assuming no bonuses for a while) is, well, that's a lot.

With no future stock or the ability to sell it... and there are certainly other places that pay at least as much as Twitter's base alone, there are options out there.
`http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt`

Wonder what kind of uptime this service has and what sort of footprint is needed?
I really don't think that's the case here. Most beliefs that align with "hard work" is often touted as "Fascism". That's what we're dealing with here.

I've been searching for last few years, I read HN every day and haven't found anyone pro-hard work and celebrating perseverence.
Something like "your ideas are completely wrong, but we won't mock you for them"?
I don't know, it's hard to trust anyone who has worked for a narcissist like Musk to tell the truth about said narcissist in public media. Powerful narcists love to surround themselves by people who are willing to use their credentials to launder the reputation of the narcissist. My favorite example comes from Dr. Deborah Birx regarding fmr. President Trump during the pandemic:

"He's been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data. I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.”

This is just about what Jim Keller says about Musk in the first video. You'll notice when he talks about what he learned from Musk he's very vague, and then he pivots directly to a story about how his friend invented a more efficient electric motor that was better than anything they had. That's a story about engineering prowess, but that story is pointedly not about Musk. Why does he need to pivot to another engineer when talking about engineering prowess? Because he doesn't have anything to say about Musk's engineering prowess, and can only speak to his technical philosophies. Of course those may be sound, and perhaps helps the engineering team, but having ideas about local maxima doesn't make one an engineer.

The second link isn't any better. Jim says Musk is the "real deal" and a great engineer, but instead of examples of that, just talks about how Musk prefers to receive presentations with solutions first, and got upset when they weren't frontloaded. Which is a fine point of view I guess, and maybe is related to managing an engineering process, but all the technical work was done by others.

And finally, as a robotics engineer myself, I have a very hard time listening to anyone from the Tesla autonomous group unless they want to explain why they are testing Tesla's beta quality AP (that is in fact lethal and has caused deaths) on the general public without their awareness or consent. Or explain why after the first decapitation caused by Musk's insistence on not using LIDAR in their cars, this group failed to step up and course correct. Instead they doubled down, and their decisions resulted predictably in nothing getting fixed, leading to a second decapitation. Who exactly made the call on those decisions? That's really all I need to hear from them.
My impression as a Canadian resident was the bar seemed a lot lower to get into the ICU in the US. Unless they needed a tube to secure an airway, pressors, or CRRT we managed COPD with BiPAP, pretty profound hyponatremia, cirrhosis with& bleeds, DKA/HHS on the ward pretty regularly just as examples of repatriated patients I remember. I always figured it was due to an overly litigious culture and a money maker for the hospital. To be clear I didn't practice in the US.
Why would economic losses be the primary rubric? She was selling a fraudulent medical diagnostic that people were literally using to make life or death decisions.
Pearl Jam tried to beat Ticketmaster. At the risk of sounding like the big fan I am, if Eddie Vedder and co. (at their commercial peak) can’t beat Ticketmaster, I’m not convinced that software can.

I’ve been pasting this Rolling Stone link since I was in my teens. I can’t believe how old I am…

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-taki...
What does that have to do with the announcement of the unauthorized access?
Their wealth is not sitting in cash and they are not "hording it". They built the company through free enterprise and their wealth is in the very thing that they built from scratch.

This is just elementary misunderstanding of "billionaires".
SBF discussion with Vox reporter is a big hint.
... that is going to lack meaningful stock and bonuses... or work life balance for a while.
Is federal prison worse than a county jail? On its face, my initial reaction is that I’d rather stay out of a county jail.

(But I’ve never done time or really looked into it)
This is a great idea. I didn't teach my kid how to drive stick shift and I feel bad about it. My grandfather knew how to drive heavy trucks and tractors and use those skills in world war II, and I never thought about it but he didn't teach me how to do those things!
I'd guess the same. People still ride horses, there will be ICE cars. I suspect the Mazda Miata or some similar roadster may by the last ice cars?
Do you have a docket number or just feelings about how it should all work?
While this might maximise the amount of money the organisers get for an event it doesn't handle variable fixed costs.

That is I might need no capital at all to run my tour if I sell tickets at a highish (but sub-optimal) price early on.
We never met but I had evaluated ODK for the Sharedsolar project at Columbia U for data collection purposes. I used to work alongside mberg and ODk was an indispensable tool for nearly all the health initiatives and surveying.
Truly impactful, congratulations!
They didn't incorporate in the Bahamas.

They incorporated in "Antigua and Barbuda", which is a very seperate country. The only relationship FTX has with Bahamas, is the location of their headcounters, and a single wholly-owned subsidiary that probably didn't hold much in the way of funds.
Choosing the correct paint for unsightly heat pipes and radiators (2021)
Elon Musk orders software programmers to Twitter HQ amid 1k resignations
I don’t understand why you would choose a jvm language to write a database in.
A JavaScript app that automated the resolution of half of Twitter’s support tickets. Logic got refactored after a few years, but still used at Twitter. Probably saved Twitter about $10 million a year over the last ten years.
I agree that in contrast to regular crime, there is no need for prison for incapacitation purpose of punishment, some record forbidding any kind of entrepreneurship or managerial posts would be enough. For reparation purpose of punishment, garnishing the income would be enough.

But there is still deterrence purpose of punishment - if you remove prison from considerations, it significantly changes risk calculations for white collar crime making it much more profitable.
Impressive application of the sentencing guidelines. But I can’t help but view this as barbaric. A society shouldn’t put mothers of young children in prison.
Have you tried the --initial_prompt CLI arg? For my use, I put a bunch of industry jargon and names that are commonly misspelled in there and that fixes 1/3 to 1/2 of the errors.

I was initially going to use Azure Cognitive Services and train it on a small amount of test data, after Whisper released for free I use Whisper + openai GPT-3 trained to fix the transcription errors by 1) taking a sample of transcripts by Whisper 2) fixing the errors and 3) fine-tuning GPT-3 by using the unfixed transcriptions as the prompt and the corrected transcripts as the result text.

Whisper with the --initial_prompt containing industry jargon plus training GPT-3 to fix the transcription errors should be nearly as accurate as using a custom-trained model in Azure Cognitive Services but at 5-10% of the cost. Biggest downside is the amount of labor to set that up, and the snail's pace of Whisper transcriptions.
Is this a critique of dev-tooling companies in general, or just the kotlin-jetbrains connection?

The quote you mention doesn't seem all that different from other companies building paid-for dev-tools that help their userbase in ways not directly related to their project.

This seems similar to Vercel putting out articles about how they make next.js better, when it's obvious that the integration to their system is how they make money.
My first manual car was an Alfa Romeo Milano (aka 75). It was the first thing I bought after graduating from university. The guy that sold it to me had it in service for sale. He taught me to drive on his new Milano 3.0L in a town north of the city. The lesson ended with him teaching me how to balance the car on an uphill incline by slipping the clutch.

I picked up my car a few days later and drove it home. I drove that car to its end, loved the high-compression V6 that would engine brake if you lifted the gas even a little.

Sometime much later, I bought my first motorcycle after taking a weekend riding course. The thing that was so hard to learn was doing the mechanical things I had learned but then adding the turn signals and watching for all the traffic was a lot of cognitive load and I took hours to go straight along one road that should've been a half hour.
I wonder if you'd see "bank runs" happen spontaneously as nervous fans see the number of available tickets start to drop, causing a spontaneous feedback loop.
The Windows Terminal. It was a long journey to get the console code fairly modernized and maintainable. Another long journey to build a whole new application that could be compatible with the old. And years now of iterating of that original prototype, out in the open.

It's not a perfect application, by any means. But the bar was _so_ low, that I can't help but think of how much we've helped users just over the last few years.
If it's okay to misgender people, let's start with Elon.
Ironically, there are people here bragging about popular scraping software they wrote back in the day
in recent version of macos, you can run x86 app through rosetta inside arm VMs: https://docs.getutm.app/advanced/rosetta/

I did a few basic tests and the performances were quite impressive.
Wrote del.icio.us and invented tagging. Echoes of my original design are still around (notably account urls being web.site/userid)
m6.12xl are 48 vCPU systems. 25 million cores is a hilariously huge amount of compute to use to run a site of twitter size, which I guess does point to how much tech debt they have ignored over time.
This might be it: https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/rtgcl/i_have_a_highpa...
Sadly true and relatable. Thanks for fighting that good fight.
They might just want him out of the news cycle. Just look how many stories tying FTX to democrats FOXNEWS already placed on their website. A counter-story would require that people listen, and that FN would report that story. They won't. So getting the story buried and forgotten might be the best play.
Agree with you that we need to move away from pesticides (and also do think something like lasers sounds like a great idea). And also agree with you that John Deere is not a great example of how to run a company (they are monopolistic and are know to charge insane pricing for repairs).

But, the thing I like is John Deere is the major player in farming equipment. They can have a huge, immediate impact on the amount of pesticide used today - this not a product that is being developed, it is available and already reducing the usage of pesticides.

It'd be better if it came from a better company, but it's a great transition product that will probably have a large impact on pesticide usage.
I don’t understand at all why prices aren’t raised in these severe demand/supply imbalance situations.

Same applies to PS5 etc

There wouldn’t be a shortage at all if it were priced appropriately. And scalpers just end up capturing that value anyway
I spent a grand total of about two minutes. I just block things I don't like in my feed as they come up and it got better very quickly. Sure, it's up to you to be principled enough to stash your immediate emotional reaction and desire to engage and instead evaluate and block content that's bad for you, and, sure, that's difficult at first, but it's easy once you realize it's bad for you and making you unhappy.

I think it's just like food. You need to develop the mental response when you look at something so that you consider whether it's good for you first.
> I researched the secret keyboard combination that allows you to shell out and then restart with the ability to do a network-free install.

What is the secret keyboard combination?
There's literally an Ask HN on the front page right now about the most impactful thing readers have built with like 300 comments. Hard to believe that such a thread isn't celebrating hard work and perseverance.
When you have a router with multiple WANS, LANS and VPNS etc, routing can get a bit complicated.

For example how do you tell traffic to go via WAN2 (or 3 or whatever) instead of WAN1 if is really down (define really down). So you create a rule that says that all inbound on LAN is routed via a failover thing. That's fine but now you've broken RFC1918 routing. You try to connect to a remote site via 192.168.lol and its fucked.

So you now create a rule that forces 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12 and 10.0.0.0/8 to be routed via the usual routing table and after that you have a rule that worries about internets and multi WAN. Simples.

No of course it isn't that simple but it is quite close and good enough mostly!

There are several problems in search of a solution here. Is a WAN down? Usually you ping something. What do you do if the thing being pinged is down but the link is actually available and how do you deal with that? It gets to charts of risk/reward at this point.
The universe is Minecraft with cubes the size of 1 Planck length.
How much would it take to simulate that? Another 100 years of Moore's law?
> But it doesn't solve the issue, because durations are often computed as the difference between two absolute points in time.

other way around. e.g. unix time is determined by the number of seconds (as experienced by some point fixed to Earth, roughly) relative to some reference point. duration is the native format for most time systems, like UTC, because “absolute time” isn’t a thing that can be measured. faking the duration (e.g. adding leap seconds) within a time system is sort of nonsensical: we only do it to make translation across time systems (UTC, UT1, local/human timezones) simple. if that’s the justification for things like leap seconds, then better to keep the time system itself in its most native format (assuming that format is useful locally) and explicitly do those conversions only when translating, i.e. at the network boundary: when communicating with a system that doesn’t share/understand our time system(s).
I think when considering SBF's political donations, conflating SBF and FTX and FTX.us and Alameda Research's donations is correct.
As a pandemic project, I started a kids stories podcast with my then 5 year old son. Two years later, it has over 5.5 million downloads and I get letters from parents telling me how the podcast has impacted their kids lives. I actually haven't posted an episode in over a year, and need to get back to it!
Ah, I should have specified in the US. It's more common to say numbers between 100 and 10k as hundreds, unless it's exactly on a thousand. I think most people would say nineteen hundred, or 21 hundred for 1900 and 2100, but nobody would say 20 hundred for 2000(except for military time).
yeah, I've got one friend I follow who is hopelessly enmeshed in politics, so I hit "Not interested in this tweet" and then "Show fewer posts from X" and that solved it.
It's absolutely appropriate in the workplace. I'm not going to be mean or snide, but if I'm asking you a reasonable question and you're not answering it, I'm going to be increasingly direct. If I need information from you to do my job, and you're withholding it from me, then you're the one acting inappropriately.
I did, because op is explaining personality traits by means of race. A narrow view of the world.
Yes I know plenty of people who rather live in the big city with all its amenities and interesting people than in a giant house in suburbia.
There is a reason why housing prices are so high for the Amsterdam's and New York's of this world.
How does that solve comparing days with 23 to 25 hours of data when aggregated by hour? Or are you suggesting using days in UTC?
> 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

There is no going above that. That's what psychological abuse looks like, and you're justifying it to yourself

You can have a community that isn't full of passive aggressive people and also not a disgusting shithole. Look at hn as an example. You're only hurting yourself in the long run
The problem is that if the originating system didn't record the time in utc, you've lost the information needed to make the time unambiguous. What's 2022-11-06 01:30 USA/San Francisco in UTC?
If I've been following tech news, Pro lets you move on with a local account, but Home might not.
> The only relationship FTX has with Bahamas,

The Bahamas has the only relationship that actually mattered: apparently SBF was physically in their custody.
Whilst weapons of mass destruction have been a deterrant, I would argue that weapons of targeted destruction are just as useful, if not more so, like drones, missiles, anti-missile defense etc. They are also less bad for humanity if they are used. If the US dismantled substantial stockpiles of nuclear warheads it would be unlikely to impact their global standing.
You will have do your own searching for the specific group because most of us on this website are rust software dudes.
This (training a model with no NSFW content) would be preferable to me. No false positives to worry about. People who do want to generate NSFW stuff can fine-tune or train their own model, nobody owes that functionality to them in freely available ones.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but how? Was the Bahamas' SEC holding its own copies of FTX's keys? I thought the entire point of these schemes was that this kind of seizure-by-force wasn't possible (absent exploits or insiders).
I didn't see you mention portability in the post I responded to, though.
Any news on Bootcamp for Silicon?
I think the OpenJDK variant has had JS for a long time now, yeah.
Whenever I shoot pool, I play really well in the middle of the evening, never at the start or end. It's just the right amount of inebriation to not think but still execute.
I don't think this fully captures his prior sentiments. This was all packaged with the idea that the algorithm should be made public, possibly literally even posted to github. Without that, he's just doing same kind of unaccountable tweaks as the previous operators, and there will still be sizable cohorts of users that feel "persecuted" and others who feel like their feed remains full of "negative/hate" content.

I don't think it's fair to expect the algorithm to be open-source so soon, but I also don't think this represents anything like the meaningful changes he promised, so it's relatively insignificant.
What reasons am I wrong about?
When you say "Kubernetes service provisioning" I'm assuming you mean Kubernetes application provisioning (k8s manifest)? But I'd be cautious of using Terraform to deploy k8's applications, it can be done but it has some drawbacks. One of the biggest issues is around interpolating k8s credentials in the provider config (you can google this for more details).

"When using interpolation to pass credentials to the Kubernetes provider from other resources, these resources SHOULD NOT be created in the same Terraform module where Kubernetes provider resources are also used . This will lead to intermittent and unpredictable errors which are hard to debug and diagnose. The root issue lies with the order in which Terraform itself evaluates the provider blocks vs. actual resources."

I'd recommend some solution such as argocd, flux, or if you're using a cloud provider such as azure they have automated deployments for k8s applications onto clusters (I'm sure aws has something similar).
well... yes?

> Centipedes (from New Latin centi-, "hundred", and Latin pes, pedis, "foot")
In fact, if you watch the video in the article, it takes you through the 3 prior iterations. Hollow clock v3 had a gear that drove the hour hand from the motion of the minute hand (which is driven from its end).

The problem with that, at least with 3d printed parts, was the motion is "jerky". I built one and it never worked well. I'll be trying this version soon!
Keep It Simple with the Hock Principle
It's not something I built necessarily but my stack overflow account, which I've only posted on about 100-200 times, says my answers have been viewed by 5.4 million people. Anyone with a stackoverflow account can check this in their profile I believe (for me it is in top right and says 5.4m which I presume is million pageviews on q&a pages I've posted), q&a is incredibly impactful.
The airline industry, you and me flying, 80% of it purely for leisure, will release something like 700 million metric tons of CO2 this year (and typically over 900 million metric tons per year pre-pandemic.)

The private jets flying to this conference will release maybe 10,000-20,000 metric tons of CO2.

That's 0.000016% of the annual CO2 from air travel.

Some of the most consequential travel for curbing climate change, literally a drop in the ocean compared to what you and I cause with our freaking vacation flights, and you all turn to insults and claims of hypocrisy.

What a joke this board is becoming. Hackers that can't or won't do simple arithmetic.
Or how about a lottery system. You get an email if you win the privilege of buying a tickets. Tickets are named and require ID check, to prevent scalpers. If you are unable to go, your ticket just goes back to the lottery pool.
Does Time Flow? New Clues Come from a Century-Old Approach to Math (2020)
You don’t keep the $100M when you get caught
Hamish McKenzie was a journalist and is one of founders of Substack.
What happened at the 2:00 meeting at Twitter for “anyone who can code”?
Some of these fools stash the wealth on the side for when they get out of jail. During their sentence they take classes, meditate and self actualize or possibly write a book about some life lesson they just learned in prison. White collar crime is quite lenient in punishments, jail may even be a good experience for some
BBC Basic and Econet.
Because sports teams and singers need broad audience interest to maintain their brand’s popularity, which can drive things like merchandise sales, future concerts, music streaming, etc.

If they simply sold to the highest bidders, the populace at large will stop being fans and they will move onto the next entertainer. In the short term, you might make a little extra from richer people, but longer term you will fall out of popular culture, and the rich will move on or not be sufficient in quantity to maintain as profitable of a following.
The obvious fix to bots and scalpers is just to not allow ticket transfers - you give your name when you buy the ticket and show your ID at the door. Why this isn't the current process is left as an exercise to the reader.
$13B buys what, a few hundred miles of transmission lines?
She’s a mid-30s woman looking at a decade in prison. It was either now or never.