skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does he not do anything, or does he do things you don't see? How do you know?
Ah, of course I forgot lisp. Came so early, considering what it could do.
Seems pretty clear the goal is to create a cult of subservience at Twitter.
"Rationality and reason seems to have shifted from liberals to conservatives. We can't even say biological facts. Many others are leaving the woke non-sense,"

Isn't it the Republicans that are still saying homosexuality is a choice? Aren't they the ones aligned with QAnon woke-conspiracies? Aren't they ones that pushed that Obama was born in Africa?

What biological facts do Democrats say you can't say? At worst, Dems maybe bend over too much to be inclusive to those that historically haven't been included.
An electron's mass is about a rontogram, not a quectogram.

(A bit confusing since most sources list electron mass as 9x10^-31 kilograms, rather than 9x10^-28 grams.)
That was a parody tweet. In fact, the account name had "(Parody)" in it.
> Basic premise is they only wanted to eat meat if it was from somewhere with animal well-being and conservationism as a focus

When meat is being served, you know animal welfare is not being considered. One cannot claim to value the welfare of a being before killing it prematurely and unnecessarily. That is a simple fact.

EDIT: I'd love if someone could reply and provide an analogous situation where we can safely say that we value someone's wellbeing before causing them fatal harm, outside of mercy killings.
According to what they've told Wikipedia, they want the links to be to archive.today (and not archive.ph even if it redirects there).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_archive.today#Archi...

"The owner of archive.today requests Wikipedia always use archive.today - it is a gateway that redirects to one of the final destinations (.is, .li, .fo, .ph, .vn and .md) based on load and availability. It provides archive.today flexibility to dynamically redirect traffic to other domains/servers."

So I'd go with archive.today until the site owner specifies something different. I'm not totally sure why the domain is necessary for load balancing, but if OP is having trouble with queue depth, maybe try archive.today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#History

https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1081276424781287427

They started deprecating archive.is in 2019.
It might be that he's alienated all of the competent people who have helped him so far and now there's no one left for him to take advantage of.
We don't really do that on a second accuracy though. We need to add a whole new day to the calendar every four years to make up the difference. Meanwhile we've added less than half a minute worth of leap seconds.
I struggle to understand how we benefit that much from the same wall clock times mapping roughly to the same times of day across time zones. It seems like there's pros and cons to both ways and there's no clear "better" option when it comes to the human experience. Meanwhile, doing away with timezones also does away with a lot of complexity both in computing and other areas (e.g. scheduling across timezones)
I tell everyone I know to check Mastodon out, but that IMHO, it's fundamentally flawed for what most people expect from Twitter. Simply because Mastodon has a NUMBER of major issues which include deep, hard to resolve issues. For example:

You MUST trust your administrators of the server, who in many cases just set the server up to 'help the community'. It's admirable of them to to it, but running any kind of server takes time, energy and effort for no pay. It can be a rough gig, see no further than 'mastodon.technology' for an example of what happens when 'life happens'.

Migration from one server to another is on a "Mother may I" basis, where you have to have permission from both ends to enact the transfer. If your 'I joined this Mastodon server because I couldn't find another' decides to shut down in a couple of months, good luck getting that history back.

The server relay feature is hap-dash at best, and both of the top two Mastodon servers don't even support the feature.

Those three issues are just scratching the top of the problems. At the end of the day, if Mastodon works for you, great. However don't lie to people by telling them that it is a full replacement for every Twitter user. It isn't.
> That's a stupid idea, but it would elegantly explain his recent behavior...

I think Elon Musk's character as we've publicly known him last few years explains this behavior elegantly and comprehensively enough. As someone else in this thread said, he's a "techno-feudalist", he gives the orders and peasants comply. He's been operating on this mode for a decade now.
It's really noticeable that work on site at spacex really ramps up before an Elon visit, and then pretty much stops when he leaves again.

If he doesn't visit for a few weeks, nothing gets done.
At this point it's so hard to tell. Humans are weird.
But wouldn't the rotational speed of the earth become more erratic?
The badge employee was not real. Musk just played along. It's becoming hard to distinguish these things.
How does he get away with doing almost nothing? Why can't he be fired?
We'll find out! I suspect not long.
This seems a bit like a non-sequitur to my comment.

Even if I accept that "Processed foods are more or less the only remaining food-based explanation." My questions really boil down to "what are processed foods" and "What's the evidence they are bad"?
Sorry to hear. That is honestly a huge reflection on the company and in my case for every 1 of those devs there are 9 that are incredibly talented and hard working (in my <10 year experience in the CS workforce)
That's true, and collective punishment tends to not be good long term. But you'd also want some kind of incentive system to encourage the department heads to actively discourage the behavior internally as well.
What is your take on Plex vs Jellyfin?
I am considering the move, but haven't really had a lot of problems with Plex other than it not being open-source
To a very good approximation, it is simply not eating too many total calories. If you want to go one extra step, then also not eating too much sugar.

Some people might find that they have a hard time not over-eating with processed foods, and maybe for them their preferred diet is just to avoid all processed foods. But it's useful to treat that as a means to an end, rather than saying that avoiding processed foods always needs to be the end goal.
3. Sourcegraph
I'm from Europe too, from a country that is not one of 5. I have a personal account from 2009 and a business account from 2015. Noone verified.
I find that all polititians from all countries are verified, many other from different countries are verified, I'm not.
$8? Why not. But I think there is one core problem. Those verifitions are "fake".
If Twitter want a real verification will use some verification apps available on internet to verify users with IDs and proof of address. That will be a fair verification. Price for verification? $0.5 one time fee for verification.
Having worked around some folks similar to Elon, they literally do not think family etc matters and since for them there is a small army taking care of everything like child care and so on, they assume it is similar for other people. This is another reason, young people are preferred in hiring, no other commitments means they do not have to plan around anything like spouse or kids or old parents and so on.
I love watching curling during the Winter Olympics...my favorite version of the Olympics, and curling is just really high on my watch list.
It's unfortunately missing quite a few, e.g. like the Jupiter images:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/08/22/webbs-jupiter-images-...

(agree again about the obnoxious orange mouse-over).
I see nowhere in this comment chain, where "we do that too" was used as an attempt to shut down discussion or to justify the bad behavior.

What it was being used to do was to support the argument that "instead of just banning one company, we should create rules that apply fairly."

That isn't deflection.

Notably, the first non-TikTok entities that were mentioned as needing to be reigned in were the KGB. Nobody complained that was off topic.

So while "whataboutism" and allegations of "whataboutism" can both be (edit: and frequently are) used to distract and deflect, that doesn't mean that every instance of either is doing that. You have to ACTUALLY READ what is being said and how it relates, not make snap judgments.
It could be a rough test to weed out the non-coders who may try to cheat his call. What matters is a low false-positive rate. Like there may be several hostile employees looking to sneak in for some stories they can sell to the media later.
Some services already have similar features that triggers on inactivity or death:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212360

https://www.facebook.com/help/103897939701143
Companies don't need to offer severance in the US, unless there's an employment agreement that specifies it.
I suspect this is what he's after. For whatever reason he thinks a significant number of Twitter devs did little if anything. Maybe he's even right about that, it's not exactly unheard of in big companies.

But I don't think this is a particularly effective way to root those people out.

It's also possible he's reassigning teams from the ground up, and this is his sorting method.
Football Twitter is pretty big, but I don't think it's big enough to cause a big dent.
Great, now if we could also stop using GMT in the UK and stick to British summer time year round that would be great
Enron, and now FTX, are the reason why that is like that.
Isn't that true of most CEOs though? When a CEO comes around, you have nothing to gain and your entire employment to lose.

Edit: The point is not that we all reside in toxic workplaces. The point is that there is no upside to interacting with a CEO. A parallel situation might be giving a loaded pistol with a child. In that case, the upside is that they now have one thousand and one chew toys instead of one thousand. The downside is that they can kill themselves accidentally. Outside of a few specific people in a company, a CEO most likely can't make anyone's life better. However, if, for example, you're coding and a pornographic ad appears in Firefox on your second monitor, then your employment isn't likely to continue much longer.
Does Twitter have a management team right now? Who are the top 5 people there? Does anyone know? Musk can't do it all.
Yes, but who is left to onboard and train the contractors?
The largest dam demolition in history is approved for a Western river
I don't quote the website, and I was very clear about him being convicted of the things he went to trial for. Furthermore, my whole post was about adding time.
If you would detonate the moon, break it up into small pieces and smear them out over its orbit, tidal friction would cease. Tidal friction is a major component of the earth's rotation's slowdown.
https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md
"I don't know" or variations such as "why do you ask?" or "how did you come to that?" (note those are questions in response to a question). In my experience it's increased by an order of magnitude in the last 30 years.

I don't know why that is. I suspect it may be partly being uncomfortable with uncertainty and racing to build an internal map, or having been trained to do so by (real or perceived) unhelpfulness in increasingly automated and disembodied tools.

There is also the phenomenon of perceiving a different purpose for gestures and the act of speaking: does it serve them, or does it serve the audience? Preference or even awareness of this latter issue may be due to old age, life experience, I dunno; seems like people who used to be in the "serves the speaker" camp used to more generally talk about "art" or "expression", and now they talk about "internal truth" and "narrative"; dunno if that means anything or helps.

I can swing either way.
>>> but I'm self-hosting a telegram bot that does a bit of scrapping of a certain site I'm interested in, and serving those messages to a couple of subscribers (around ~10 people).

Very interesting, I can see how this can be more practical than you think
Reddit had a clear killer feature with user created and moderated subreddits though, which Digg lacked.
Maneuvering deliberate ambiguity is a professional skill. That being said, most people will actively avoid making your problem their problem.
The IT department might have sent the email, not Elon himself...
Currently some big portion of the company (maybe a third?) have decided to quit but haven’t been terminated yet, and are still receiving these all-company emails. They are not afraid of being fired by Elon.
I got the impression that a majority of folks left took the severance offer. This means he’s looking to cut even more. Who is going to be left?
Most of us never considered Raku, even before the rename, to be Perl.

A perl in the sense that, say, Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure all count as a lisp.

But no further.
I didn't say no one ever has, just that there's a very strong negative reaction even when they don't have reasoning for it
I noticed yesterday on one website that was quoting a tweet that it looked all funny, like the service that places a tweet on another site wasn't working.
How can I find a recent YC participant to review my application?
Hello,

I and my team currently want to apply to YC and would be filling out a late application. Is there any way that I can find anyone who recently participated in YC who can go through our application and who can also prepare me and my team for the interview if it comes to that?

Any help would be appreciated!

P.S: compensation etc would be talked about
Start my data science career in a 2nd- (or 3rd-)tier midwestern city instead of the same job in the company's NYC office.

I have a lot more competitive advantage, real estate, and discretionary income (adjusted for purchasing power parity) than I would have had in NYC. Yes, the diversity of cultural options (and diversity in general) is not anywhere nearly as wide ranging, but there are only so many hours a day in which I can experience that stuff.
Great selection, I need to check the Alexa music streaming. I didn't know it was possible. thanks
I don’t want to see this movie. So far, it’s an entitled and mentally-ill man-child learning that all the praise he’s gotten in recent years is for other people’s work, and he’s not a domain expert on every type of technology.

I think we all deal with enough of that on a small scale to be sick of it.
Here you go https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa...
Despite the circumstances that sounds nice, in all honesty.
90% of their revenue comes from their massive and complicated ads platform, not the basic web app you deal with.
The compiler will catch it at the point of use, but it's clearer if the error is at the point of declaration. Consider:

type FooReader struct{}
var _ io.Reader = FooReader{}

func (r FooReader) Raed(p []byte) (int, error) { return 0, nil }

Before you even use FooReader as an io.Reader, you can find that you typo'd "Read". This is useful in practice because you probably wrote FooReader to have a bunch of other methods that aren't implementing io.Reader, and it's possible that your tests for this object don't actually ever use it as an io.Reader. So you won't notice this mistake until someone tries it elsewhere in the codebase.

It also acts as documentation that you intend for this thing to be an io.Reader. But I also recommend that you document Read as "// Read implements io.Reader." to be extra explicit.
London is also part of the imperial core.
What if Twitter actually succeeds after this? I'm not saying that it's likely, but what if? Let's imagine it as a thought exercise. What will this say about the current state of software engineering in startups and big techs?
I'm for that as well. Some minor issues that I've thought of. Currently the day changes (Mon -> Tue) at midnight local time. If the day followed UTC, then would California change from Mon->Tues at midnight UTC, which is 4pm currently?
Lawyers and bankers a) don't fly on their own dime, b) have huge potential financial upside in getting those deals done.
Yes and no, but first we need to define novelty.

I'm in ML and all the academic issues are on full display here (comes with any hyped research area). Reviewer 2 will always knock you on novelty no matter what you do. That's because all research is to some extent derivative. As it should be. We shouldn't be reinventing the wheel. But on the other hand, all research is incremental (especially in a publish or perish system. You can't publish breakthroughs frequently). Leaps and bounds don't happen often and they generally do either by accident (someone doing something dumb) or because someone was spending a lot of time on that area (likely not publishing in main track or at all). But novelty is also hard to measure post hoc. Most things are non-obvious a priori but are obvious post hoc. Reviewers go after these all the time and all it encourages is researchers to make their works convoluted. I've literally been told that papers I've written are too simple and straight forward. I've also seen those papers get better reviews after complexifying the text. I don't feel good about this btw.

But I want to give a perfect example of all this in ML. Diffusion models. The stochastic noise process has been around for decades. People have been applying them to generative models for awhile too. But they were basically unknown until they beat GANs at image generation and within a few short months they are a household name (even more than GANs). This looks like a bigger breakthrough than it is because they were flying under the radar for so long and really just one team spent a lot of time with them AND had access to A LOT of compute resources. But still, I think this should make you think about how novelty works and if you're reviewing, maybe don't squash papers because you think they are dead ends. Diffusion was a "dead end" until it wasn't.
I can't disagree more with this take.

The benefits and salaries that Twitter employees get are just the free market at work. Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple don't pay big bucks and give huge perks because they're liberal, they do it because it's the only way to retain talented employees.

The take is hypocritical at it's core. Musk himself is an extremely privileged billionaire. Under the same principle that Musk deserves his wealth, Twitter employees deserve every penny of compensation and every hour of time off that they get.

Musk doesn't get that. He's going to utterly fail because the engineers at Twitter have other options. They don't have to work there. They worked there because they were getting competitive benefits and salary. Musk is cutting that just because he doesn't like the rate. Ok, fine, but don't be surprised when your company falls apart and you can't hire anyone as a result.
This simple method would weed out half of Microsoft. Lots of Principals and Architects who haven't coded in a decade.
Having an explicit stack as part of the algorithm is not usually counted as recursion, as far as I know.
There are always two sides to a dialogue.

The one asking.
The one answering.

The one asking thinks their question is simple. It could be true, and it could also be a lot more difficult to answer. It could be the asker is missing some context, which the one answering thinks they do have some of that missing context, and attempts to fill in the hole before answering that question.
Sometimes the one answering is the one missing some crucial context and attempt to adjust what they think they know to what the asker is asking.

I didn't really answer your question, but my point is

TL;DR nothing is ever simple, and two people who look at the same thing will never perceive the same things
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-payroll-finance-depa...
It is almost but not quite true.
Twitter experiences massive usage surges every year during the World Cup.
How do you know they're normal?

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -Hunter S. Thompson
That is part of their job. They are likely well paid for that disruption to their lives (or should be, I honestly don't know).

This is not part of what the engineers signed up for and has nothing to do with being "coddled"
I've heard from tesla autopilot engineers that he just comes in and lays everyone off if he doesn't like their approach. The self-driving teams have apparently cycled through engineers like crazy. I'd love to get a current, internal confirmation on this.
Elon “free speech” Musk.

>Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized.

Guess this guy finally realized that a free for all model is not feasible.
You only do if you want to make that argument successfully.

>> Everything that isn't raw is processed.

> Likewise, this is a circular definition.

No, it is not. A circular definition is that everything that is processed is processed, the one you're carefully avoiding in favor of argument by calling something ridiculous.
Loyer's and Bankers know that's part of the job depending on where they work. When going over job expectations at all of my jobs traveling with one days' notice was never expected.
Dice baseball, for any visitors here who may not be aware, was played by untold thousands upon thousands of kids -- and a few adults too -- over the course of more than a century, and seems to have faded as a popular pastime only since around the early 1980s.

I may have missed it, but does the article really neglect to mention that probably a lot of the reason is that people now can play sports video games? Tabletop is great, but video games let you do so much more.
That was from a parody account.
Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.
No they wont. Its corporate virtue signalling. As one example, I remember back in 2020 1000+ vowed to leave Facebook [1], but guess what...they came back.

The sad thing is that people are suckers who actually believe alot of this corporate PR.

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/business/media/facebook-b...
There seems to be some consensus in the Twittersphere that this is the case.
Corroborated by Kate Conger from NYT:

>In a follow up email, Musk encouraged people to fly to SF for this.

https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1593657847564353536
Until this year I believed that if I would attempt to make bread at home every day I would waste too much time, because I was making bread in a traditional way.

However, after some experimentation, I have discovered that it is possible to make bread in a simplified way, which does not need more than 10 minutes of effective work for one bread made of 500 g of wheat floor (including washing the vessels etc.).

I bake the bread in a microwave oven, in a lid-covered glass vessel. The right baking time must be determined by experiments, in my oven it is 13 minutes @ 1000 W for the dough made of 500 g of floor.

The advantage of the microwave oven is a short baking time and perfect reproducibility. After kneading the dough in a glass bowl for a few minutes, I can put it in the oven and go to do other activities. Now I make at home one bread every day after I wake up, for breakfast.

When baked at microwaves, you can use a leavening agent for a more conventional bread, but even the unleavened bread grows enough for my taste.

Previously I was tempted from time to time to buy some commercial bread or cakes, but now I no longer care about them, I like more my own bread.
It's simple, Elon Musk has no clue what he is doing.

Can he code.to save his life? Does he know anything about engineering from Tesla or SpaceX, beyond catchphrases?