skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to what others are saying, I find a lot of communication problems, especially technical communication problems, are rooted in the Curse of Knowledge [0]. I try to work that bias into conversation on technical teams but it can be challenging. It's easy to over-correct for this bias and the over-corrections can illicit bad reactions to the conversation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
Well, it's annoying for you. "Others" is a bit of a stretch.
I mean, if chaos is the goal, then sure... Let me refer you to: https://qntm.org/abolish
> are going to cause the most talented people to go to greener pastures.

People keep repeating this trope as if Twitter is some paragon of technical excellence and innovation. It is no such thing. It is a popular website with a textbox for user input.

You don't need "talent", you simply need to people who get the job done.
Basic rules as in ”when the funds move from corporate account to founder account, is it a dividend, a loan, a bonus, or something else”. Basic rules as in ”not printing our own tokens as collateral for our own loans”
I don't think it's that Musk denigrated your work. It's that Musk claims Twitter has a horribly designed product on the specific thing you specialize in. People then spread this around that Twitter has a horribly designed thing that you specialized in building. Now there's not an off-chance that without anyone actually knowing the source, people in tech just "know" that Twitter has a horribly designed X. You, in charge of X, are now collectively understood on your resume as a horrible designer.

Think of it like this: I cannot name probably more than a handful of Google abandoned projects. But whenever Google announces a new project I'm happy to meme about how it will be inevitably abandoned. It's just something I "know" despite not hunting down some weird statistic of exactly what percentage of Google products to market survive after X years.

Reputation isn't a science. It isn't even that well correlated with truth.
You're assuming that (1) Tesla and SpaceX's missions compare to that of Twitter and (2) the people at those companies like Elon and want to work specifically for him.

Many people working at Tesla and SpaceX view Elon as a distraction to the mission, not an accelerant other than putting the pieces in place for the companies to exist.
If you step back from the trainwreck and look around, the job market is not good anywhere. Some definitely will find fast employment, but > or = quality & remuneration is not a given. For the rest, 3 months may cover on-boarding time, if they strike an offer quickly. This just sucks all the way around. I wonder if EM has a master plan or a brain tumor.
But being severely critical of Musk right now doesn't necessarily mean you hate him. He has deserved a fair amount of criticism.
I'm the author and I just meant I had left behind a small uncommitted diff back when I stopped working on it, and I didn't bother to read the diff before committing. I actually understand it just fine, on second look…

Overall, at least so far, I haven't encountered much "WTF" dealing with PDFs actually. The spec (especially the Adobe version: the ISO version based on it is only slightly different but feels much worse) is quite pleasant to read. There are some warts from backward compatibility with earlier poor decisions, but not too many of them. And while it's surprising what different PDF programs will produce as long as any PDF reader in existence happens to accepts it (Hyrum's law) (e.g. in this example, the dictionary key having a space in it), for my purposes it hasn't been a big deal as I'm only trying to do the first level of parsing, and when even that is problematic I can happily just declare the PDF malformed.
I'm not sure if you were trolling, but you probably are also getting downvoted because the idea that you have to put money on a bet against something before you are allowed to voice criticism, even scathing criticism, is not a good take. You shouldn't be required to play stupid games in a volatile stock market where you are just a bit player against behemoths just to criticize something.
Wouldn't work afaict. You'd have to get rid of the mass, not just explode it.
The people who worked on SpaceX and Tesla were probably incredibly ideologically aligned with Elon genuinely believing they were changing the world for the better. Its really easy to pitch someone to work long hours when you are making one of the worlds first mass market electric car and honest to god rocket ships.

Meanwhile we are a years into total disenfranchisement with entire concept of social media. The sell just isn't there like his earlier ventures.
i've been there. kind of am there. prob going to job again, ideally part-time or 4-day, but we'll see.

always trying to launch my own business, but i'm not so good at it.

whenever i'm not working a 9-to-5, i often feel a great amount of energy to do ALL THE THINGS, and I try many of them, and that part is great - it feels natural / normal / human.

as opposed to, how Adam Smith describes jobs in Wealth of Nations:

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ”

i listen to a lot of side hustle-type pods -- like Side Hustle School:

https://sidehustleschool.com/

the guy has one or two books too, i think. in one recent episode he said something along the lines of, "just start something, and other stuff may/will appear because.... that's just how the world works."

which sounds reasonable to me.
The difference is working for a startup with the potential to make some good money vs working just for salary.
Is this a joke to him to play with people's mental health? How can people fly or commute or travel to SF on short notice. People have families, kids, personal commitment and lives out of the show he is running.

Even if someone is the most brilliant engineer with the best solution to requirements it does not necessarily means they have 10k lines of code solving hard leetcode to please him.

I feel for everyone living through these hard times.
Good thing there's not a peak event like the world cup starting in a few days that will possibly stress test all their services that no longer have any devs owning them.
Having released SQL::Abstract 2 people are trying to convince me to port things.

Since the SQLA2 expr layer was deliberately designed to be JSONable I have a horrible feeling I can actually do so and I might actually crack and do it, but if I do I'll be writing vanilla ES6. If you love typescript enough more, a commit bit will be yours for the asking.
> Wild prediction: Twitter will continue to work as it did even after that ~80% workforce haircut.

Not only that.

If Elon succeeds that opens a new era in Sillicon Valley. An era where programmers are like steelworkers and coalminers in 1980s. You can raid large tech company (think Google or Apple), make workers redundant, cut costs mercilesly and return value to shareholders.
Yes it varies unpredictably based on changes in the distribution of mass within the Earth from magma flows, air currents, ice pack movements, ocean currents, and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_length_fluctuations
That’s the stated rationale, but with respect I disagree that it isn’t ideological or slanted.

In my experience in the UK people who describe themselves as gender critical are older left-leaning (majority lesbian) women and hold their long held (1970s onwards) beliefs in good faith and from a position of pro-female / pro same sex-attracted rights, and resistance to gender as a useful social construct.

They’re not anti-trans by primary motivation - it’s that the logical consequence of what they believe about the nature of sex and gender leads them to believe that “Trans-X aren’t X”. But from an opposing ideological viewpoint this is deemed definitionally transphobic, and the slant becomes evident when it’s asserted that this transphobic sentiment is and must be at the heart of what motivates gender critical beliefs - “They espouse their beliefs as racists espouse ‘race realism’ - as a guise to discriminate against the other”.

But in this case it’s simply not true, and denying that citing “false balance” is in itself biased and disingenuous.
In tech - today's leaders will not be tomorrow's leaders. The tech graveyard is full of former high fliers.

How about the early days of Covid when Zoom came out of nowhere to dominate Video Communications? They were nowhere near the market leader.

Facebook (as you recall) was also not the market leader on social media when the VCs decided they were going to be the winner.

I am taking a wait and see approach to Twitter. I wish them the best, but history is not on their side.
> They don't have stock?

Twitter is a private company now. Not sure if you missed the news that this guy named Elon Musk bought the whole company.

> Also maybe don't say your employer is a "petulant man child" in Slack or otherwise undermine them and you'll be fine. The idea that an employer should keep people that actively dislike like him or her is insane.

I think the issue most people are taking with this is that the same standards aren't being applied. Elon is publicly deriding his employees, and then firing them when they respond in kind.
Indeed. I recall reading, in the end, that some 90+% of the code had been converted shortly before OS X became the mainstay.
It's also possible X isn't true right now but could be made true given extra work, and the other person has mentally skipped ahead.
You've created the plot for 'Space: 2099'. Don't let Hollywood steal your idea.
"Never trigger anything" is actually not the worst outcome, compared to prematurely releasing your secrets, accidentally or intentionally.
You don't need to switch editions, new language feature generally are available in old editions too. For example, generic associated types, which came out two weeks ago, work fine in edition 2015.
On the contrary, I think Elon knows the type of person at Twitter and is getting rid of them as fast as possible, the only bad side being that he doesn't (maybe) realize the harm that will do when the knowledge of the systems walks out the door.
The slowdown is the long-term trend caused by drag of the Moon's gravity, but the speedups are sporadic and as a result of events such as massive earthquakes that cause the Earth's rotation to speed up as some significant mass falls further to the Earth's center. The conservation of angular momentum is the principle that leads to those brief speed ups, but they will not fully counteract the longterm drag caused by the Moon.

Edit: TLDR; Local maxima vs. overall trend.
worst part of this whole thing is how musk's attitude of how work should be done contributes to toxic work culture. rhetoric like "mission driven work", "long hours are the only way to change the world and get ahead", and "my way or the highway" as a successful businessman preys on people's (especially young people's) desire for social status, meaningful work, and money while in reality just enables overwork, underpay, shitty bosses, and every other aspect for a bad workplace
So people dying avoidable deaths because of insulin prices is less important than brand reputation? Deaths should be a much stronger signal than a day of bad stock prices.

He deserves credit for potentially taking action now but also blame for the deaths caused by the status quo.

As much as the verified chaos shouldn't have happened, whoever sent that tweet is a hero.
There’s a flip side to this: the act of surviving all this culling and thriving afterwards is going to be one heck of a resume addition.

The big challenges create big opportunities.
Brazil did the same in 2014, and somehow FIFA made them change. Overpriced beer makes a lot of money.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-16624823
This is one of the dog whistles I mentioned in an earlier post. Women asking for sex-based rights such as female-only sports.

An example of this is the LGB Association in the UK. They're a homosexual rights organization and they talk about sex-based rights. They're currently undergoing a tribunal to strip their charity status depending on in their charitable goals match their actions.

Wiki editors have gamed what sources are considered reliable until they're all the ones that condemn this organization and none that support them. The article doesn't actually mention any of their words or stated goals, just what you're supposed to think about them ("anti-trans agenda, etc") and the criticism section is even worse. None of the sources explicitly used for criticism is even criticizing their actual words - just the supposedly hidden meaning.

> Wikipedia's broader policy of rejecting "softening" labels that groups use to obscure their positions

Pro-Up isn't Anti-Down. There's a big difference between pro-woman and anti-trans and trying to "unsoften" one into the other is trying to put words in people's mouths.
I wish I could upvote you twice. Totally incompetent fraud. I mean SpaceX was a total stroke of luck. Sometimes you just get the right mixture of methane and oxygen by accident and the rocket just blasts off by itself. And we definitely wouldn't have to go grovel to the Russians had SpaceX not been the only company in US capable of delivering astronauts to ISS.

Same with Tesla and his other previous companies - just an accidental stroke of luck for an incompetent fraud.
The entire payroll team resigned yesterday so that's probably correct for the moment.
Fraud, and other such white collar crime, has very harsh high-end penalties when the government chooses to enforce it with each offense potentially reaching 20+ years. If the government chooses to enforce the law, SBF could easily spend the rest of his life in prison. The question is will they?

That's what makes this case so interesting to observe. SBF is extremely well connected, donated to all the right people, and even actively advocated for their causes. It's a major, and very visible, test of the US Justice system.
How do you know this and why should we believe you?
> No, in the very literal sense that Bytedance has a board of directors,

The board of directors of a company are not generally owners.

> and on that board is a CCP member who has the real final say on everything the company does

Which is why it's figuratively true in the "pwn" sense, but not literally true.

Wording matters, and so does getting the facts right.
UTC is the atomic clock (TAI minus 37 seconds currently); UT1 is "Earth time".

We would use UTC. UT1 would end up only being used by astronomers and whoever else cares about the Earth's rotation.

By the time UTC and UT1 diverge enough to matter, humanity will have either destroyed itself or come up with a new time standard.
It's really location-dependent. The upper midwest US can go weeks without direct sunshine or much wind in late December through the first week of February. Batteries fed by solar simply won't suffice- even on sunny days, there are fewer hours of sun.

To reduce the number of power plants in the area, we'd need to import electricity from elsewhere, at which point you need to overprovision some geographies and run significant amounts of HVDC lines across the country. Neither of these are free or without their own impacts. Whether that would be better than fission or waiting for fusion or continuing with natural gas is debatable- steel and aluminum are not entirely coal free yet either, nor is the concrete or any of the construction work.

OTOH, very sunny areas like the southwest could do quite well here.
So there are two things to note. First is that it takes a long time for the seconds to add up, and second is that when we're looking into the deep future the current system of leap seconds won't be enough even if we do keep them.
Maybe that friction exists cause western companies follow some pesky regulations about user data. And, they want to make sure they can monetize their content by blocking unlimited access to those who have not accepted their terms and conditions.

Maybe tiktok doesn't follow those to begin with...
Just from your list I only am aware of Bjork and Death Grips. Bjork is interesting but I would consider death grips the greatest troll on the planet. You could make an album of a man screaming over banging pots and pans and achieve the same level of avant garde notoriety he has. It's not good in the same sense post-modernist art is not good. It's meaningless noise searching for meaning.

Anyway I keep getting downvoted for this which is hilarious. It's obvious people have virtually no idea what musical talent sounds like. Talent is not what you like, it's legitimate hard earned skill. Sampled trash and top 40s 4x4 beats augmented by auto-tune and filters is not skill no matter how much lipstick you put on the pig. Neither is shouting into a microphone behind overdriven noise-music. Being avant garde also doesn't imply skill, the relationship is not a bijection.
You will not change the world by working at the new Twitter. You will only do two things:

1. Work long "hardcore" hours for no increase in pay merely to dig Musk out of the financial hole he put himself in.

2. Clone existing services. Musk's grand ideas for Twitter 2.0 are simply to clone WeChat/TikTok/YouTube/Instagram/OnlyFans.
No, that's a meaningful definition. When food is transformed through a process, it becomes processed.

The alternative definition seems to be to throw the word around randomly, and to vaguely mention something like a tv dinner from the 50s as a counterexample.

It's annoying. I wish when people were talking about "processed meats" they'd talk about which meats and which processes. They're not fungible. Once you've learned one process, you haven't learned them all. Whether I'm using sodium chloride or sodium citrate makes a difference if we're doing science.
>it's not reasonable to expect all employees to understand how effective communications works

By chance did you mean "it's not unreasonable" here?
Doesn't astronomy already use their own time reference standard?

It seems like JPL (NASA) and the scientific community have defined two currently used sets of time standards for observations from Earth and from space near Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_standard#Time_standards_f... Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB) and Geocentric Coordinate Time (TCG) with DE430 as the current revision of their standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory_Deve...
That article: Yawn. Couldn't care less about what it has to say.

I'm interested in Japanese houses because I want to live in it like a regular human being, for today. I'm not inerested in buying a house in San Jose because I have moral and ethical beliefs against propping up the housing-as-an-investment industry as if I'm some kind of investor.
Kinda weird. He spent half a year convincing his followers that everybody at twitter was a lazy liberal who would rather woke than code. From his perspective, now he's "right". Congrats on the win!
Never underestimate the force of procrastination.
Without naming names, there are specific well known fintechs who were not SOC or ISO compliant when they were 2 years old. And SOC compliance is self determined anyway I believe. Plenty of people did business with them because their customers were small businesses (mostly startups) who didn't think about such matters. These were/are good companies, doing the right thing, but not doing things they didn't need to do.

Plenty of businesses did business with FTX. The things large enterprise want in a vendor or counterparty are generally not a consideration outside large enterprise. I used to be involved with oil price hedging where our counterparties were small/mid sized oil and gas producers - it didn't even occur to them that they were taking credit risk on us or that they should know if we had a credit rating.
* OpenMediaVault - Have this running on a 4GB RAM Raspberry Pi connected via ethernet to my router. Only accessible in-network. This is my solution to accessing my music from multiple devices in the house, and it works great! I use foobar2000 on my Windows machine and RhythmBox on a Linux laptop and the experience is seamless.

* Pihole - got a PiZero running this. Low-effort setup, and great benefits.

* Jellyfin (kinda) - I say kinda because I only start up the server on my desktop when I want to watch something on the Roku in the living room.

* Whoogle Search - Very fast privacy-centric Google front-end.

Also have a bunch of tiny self-made webapps and a PG database running on an 8GB RAM RPI 4.
4-day work week training.

i know there are at least consulting people, if not full-on firms, doing it.
Well, yeah - For a minimum of $20/month just for the personal license!?! and THEN I need to still pay for my own infrastructure, AND run all the setup, etc.

mine is free and as easy as 1,2,3:

npm i -g tolocal

tolocal config -> answer the 3-4 questions about domain, vpc, etc.

tolocal apply. -> tunnel will come up to my own custom domain.
It's almost touching if they were serious. In southern Germany there's a dish called Maultaschen (similar to Ravioli) that used to go by the name "Herrgottsbscheißerle" (swabian dialect, literally "little god cheaters"). During the easter week it was prohibited to eat meat before easter sunday, so they put the meat inside the dumplings, so god could not see it.
Noticed that too.

I've assumed that the root cause is the Russian aggression/war/invasion.

https://blog.archive.today/ is perhaps are good place to ask that question.

(I've somehow gotten the impression the person running this service is either in Russia or at least russian.)
How to find the current time for any location using Mapbox free tier
Avoiding processed foods is more about avoiding the unknown than avoiding something specific. I would say more analogous to rolling your own tobacco vs buying a pre-packaged cigarette. At least you know what's in there for the most part.
Quite, although even “every human on earth votes” isn’t the most literal interpretation: the planet becoming sentient and itself voting would be.

Of course, that’s an absurd interpretation.
Now days they call them "Influencers".
Because humans use time as an indicator for day and night
Absolutely - it’s no coincidence that brands throw brand deals at them. It works better than classic ads if the ad is effectively narrated by someone you’ve got a parasocial relationship with
What startup deliberately builds back doors to siphon away customer funds with the knowledge of only the founders, and deliberately misleads internal finance folks.

Who "lends" customer funds without any documentation to let founders buy multi million dollar property in their own personal names

This isn't messy, move fast break things of a startup, it's fraud
Is this going to make dealing with time/time-zones/etc even more difficult in code now?
What if I introduce a new http.Request between 1 and 2? Now all the references are broken.
What if it was $5 per NYT article instead of 5c to make the economics work? Would you still do it?
It would surprise me if we could not measure and detect any variation in the earth’s rotation.
A leap second is on the order of less than 0.000001% variation, at least according to the leap seconds applied recently.
Blood is used for blood meal, which is used as a fertilizer.
Communication skills are hard, and just speaking your own ideas in a way you think is clear isn't enough for effective communication. Learning to manage conversations, bring things back to a focus when they wander, and work on understanding the person you're communicating with to help keep conversations focused is a part of becoming a senior software engineer.