skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 30 (I think that's reasonably young?) and have had many vaccinations, but you make a lot of assumptions about any preexisting conditions I and those close to me may have. COVID is a brand new disease and even in those with mild cases we are just now starting to understand the long-term effects, especially of getting it multiple times.

It is a bet that I'm taking; I'm definitely curious to see 10 years down the road the difference in health between me (with a few years of social isolation) and those I know that have caught COVID multiple times. Usually they are catching it multiple times within the span of a few months/a year.
Internal reps for large advertisers and agencies alone would exceed that number. Long tail advertisers can self-serve, but ad platforms need their whales and whales expect inside reps.
I thought they sold a very small number at 35k, and certainly the implication is that price point (at least adjusted for inflation) would be maintained. What's the cheapest Tesla you can buy now.
Shouldn't the move to digital recording also made the ability to make key changes much easier? Frequent key changes in music are supposed to be difficult for musicians to handle, but in the bass example shown adding a key change would have meant you need to record four notes rather than two.
I don't want to lecture anyone, but as a person that until recently used alcohol way too much as a crutch in their life, it's really not a good solution. The problem is when it wears off, the anxiety will return but extra. Think maybe 1.2x what it was before, but if you keep using it then to address that anxiety that multiplier gets ugly.

If you're getting really nervous for interviews, you might consider why you're investing so much importance to the interview itself. It's just a job, and their opinion of you should not impact your opinion of yourself. If they choose not to hire you (which is, generally speaking, most likely), or you choose not to accept, that's really a blessing. It means you both figured out it was the wrong fit before anyone got too invested. I just left a job after only a couple days because I realized it was the wrong fit, and I feel awful about it, I wish I had grilled them more during the interview process and vice versa. It's much better to get a "no" than a "yes" that isn't right.
TikTok is the spiritual successor to Vine, but with YouTube scale.
The court documents can be found at https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/3cberzj42/superior-court-o..., item 52 is the full records that include copies of his degrees (pages 164-165) and the subpoena response from Stanford University (p175).
> For instance, no one reads the deal documents they’ve paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for (if not more) after they’re signed

The financing docs don’t costs hundreds of kilobucks, more like an outrageous 20K or so (with the investors’ lawyers’ bill coming out of proceeds — scandalous, as that’s what the 2% management fee is for!). An acquisition can cost a lot more.

And actually I do always read the deal book. Because they are huge piles of cut/paste & patch, they are inevitably full of inconsistencies, overlooked deviations from the TS etc. None of which matters to get the deal signed, but as you say: potentially fatal down the road if a situation comes up when you actually need to consult it.

Also notes were never a big deal to put in place; I used them on a deal just before COVID and it simplified a lot of things. SAFES are handy too, but I didn’t like the change to post-money which I find much less founder friendly.
Did you ever have an interaction with your manager where they could not understand the technical details of a project and insisted on only a high-level overview?

People understand the world through dimensionality reduction and lossy compression of information in domains that they are not involved on a daily basis. This causes an inherent issue when you stack these phenomena across multiple organizational levels; this is how you end up with Intel's or Ballmer-era Microsoft's management failures, to use some non-WITCH examples, or the issues that we're talking about in this article.
I told someone earlier it’s going down and not coming back up by Monday night.

I forgot about the World Cup.

I don’t know what to say anymore.
Github has a "squash and merge" option during merging. You can disable the other options (merge, rebase) in the repo settings.

I've worked with squash and merge almost everywhere and it's great. Keeps history clean (1 commit = 1 ticket, usually), and links back to the PR with discussions and context.
Oof, this is obviously a very sad man trying to rationalize his depepency on TikTok
Based on how incompetent Twitter is being run right now it's not an unreasonable proposition.
You spent a whole month? You must be a big fan of apples.
This is commonly repeated, but if you game out the incentives it doesn't hold up. Instead, politicians tend to sacrifice the worst criminal donors (see Madoff) to avoid scrutiny of the whole system.

A politician wants to maximize future donations. SBF won't donate in the future, and other donors won't stick up for him.

So why should politicians continue to deliver? A deep sense of fairness?
don't smartphones in China mostly run Android?
Seems like a weird thing to compare OSs with apps
People have felt that way about folk music, blues music, atonal music, pop music, bebop music, avant garde electronic music, rock 'n roll music, hip hop music, EDM, etc etc etc etc
Don't even need to wait until then. Apparently the entire payroll team has quit.

Surely more resignations are coming.
Creation of Advanced materials on Nintendo 64 (Bumpmapping/Environment mapping)
I acknowledge that my mental health is suffering because of COVID precautions I am taking. I still get plenty of exercise- more than I did pre-pandemic because I had to force some healthy physical habits on myself while working from home.
And as long as their patients are willing to pay the costs of this practice with their blood, everything will be fine :)
I also blame the previous management. They should have gone forward with the lawsuit.

Instead they took a payout and this happened.

They destroyed their company. I don’t think they knew it would be this bad this fast, but it was never going to go well.

I blame them all.
> On top of that, I became very busy with managing software, installing updates, configuring the network access

Ironically using a Windows as a NAS is easier because everything is point and click, reducing cognitive load.

You can also afford to be on a slower update schedule if you stick the application behind a NAT and proxy, which blocks 99% of drive-by attacks (because the attacker don’t even know where to look).
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
https://www.boringcompany.com/hyperloop
Wow, this officer and the rest of the justice system ruined their family. Their tax dollars at work!
Are you going to convince someone with another day job to do this so you can try to convince them to work at your company instead?

This filters out the best
They had a banner inviting people with experience in high risk payments to contact them, which screamed "inexperienced and looking to be honeypotted" to me.
>"The operating principle is simple enough, once the neon is ionised and the device is operating in the breakdown condition, pressure variations in the surrounding air are conducted through the glass, which causes pressure variations in the neon next to the electrodes. Take the current signal through the lamp and high-pass filter it, and you’ve got yourself a really cheap transducer. What a device!"

Now that's interesting enough... but what really blew my mind was the following comment:

>"Experienced Experimenter says: They can also detect electromagnetic waves including light and terahertz radiation. They are technically simple but multi-application devices that were primarily used as indicator lights."

Now, I don't know if all of that is true or not -- but if it is, it would certainly be interesting to do more research/experimentation -- around this set of ideas...
> The idea behind the regulation would be to prevent these situations from becoming so large in the first place.

I agree that's the idea, but how do you identify a ponzi scheme via regulation before it is revealed as a ponzi scheme?

> Finally, regulation doesn’t cause bailouts. There’s no rule that says regulated industries get bailouts while unregulated industries don’t.

I didn't say cause. I said pressure. Yes, the auto industry received a big bailout in 2008 and the cruise industry during the pandemic. There were other pressures that made those happen, right or wrong.
I want my kid to use linux/windows/mac to train his ability to recognise basic concepts and apply them across any device. I also want him to hit issues and ask questions like "why can I do that here but not over there?"
A couple weeks ago 50% were laid off and nothing happened. Now I read on Twitter that Twitter died and it's at a record high DAU. Make it make sense!

It may be bumpy in the short term, but then all of the supremely confident naysayers are going to look ridiculous and spiteful if it turns out that Twitter can operate with 80-90% fewer employees.
That's funny! So they can lose another 5 billion and do as little real work as possible, like at the old twitter?
Yeah i never experienced fight-or-flight panic (outside of the brief moment before a car accident collision or whatever) until a few weeks after i tried a strong salvia extract. Its like those neural connections got well-trodden enough in that afternoon to become a real pathway.
Well, yes. After he presented an acquisition agreement to the Twitter board of directors and presented them with a committed financing package, the Twitter board literally could not refuse Musk’s without spending the rest of their lives in depositions with Twitter public shareholders.

So Twitter of course accepted the deal, Musk (voluntarily) signed the merger agreement, and that was that - he was indeed locked into buying the company (subject to certain conditions - receipt of regulatory approvals, Twitter shareholders approving the merger, stuff like that).

This was not like hitting a lucky streak at the craps table and waking up 12 hours later with a new wife. The decision to purchase was deliberate. Doesn’t mean he didn’t develop buyer’s remorse after - he most certainly did - but the threatened tender offer, the rich, target-friendly merger agreement - this is exactly how you aggressively and deliberately pursue ownership of a big public company.
Unless it was off the record, I wouldn't. There are all kinds of potential conflicts of interests. These include ownership in companies where valuation is directly connected to Musk'a perceived competence and his ability to help/hinder their career.
That's a very good thing.
I've found that to be a universal truism in marketing. If your product is missing some important attribute, put it into the name. The power of suggestion overcomes reality. The Red Delicious apple is the very product that hammered this home for me.
I don't intend to be mean, but I think your statement is trivially disprovable:

$4.8B annual revenue, even if every advertiser spent $1M annually, that's 4,800 advertisers who all require inside reps. If each rep can handle 100 clients (unlikely; that's less than 1 hour / month attention), they would need 480 inside reps alone just to keep ad agencies happy.
You brave soul, I wish you luck.
The common refrain from Tesla owners is they love the car, but wish Elon would shut up so they'd have to stop defending their choice.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.

The police said that they couldn't do their jobs because the DA wasn't prosecuting.

The Progressive bloc said that the police were fudging the reported numbers and shirking their duty just to make the DA look bad. (Pretty strong accusations IMO.)

But we don't really have the data. The Progressives claim is that the official figures are cooked. But anyone who has spent time here has seen the crime for themselves. So which is it? Are the cops doing their job but the DA lets the criminals walk? Or are the cops lying and shirking their duty to get rid of a DA who is willing to prosecute their misconduct?

In the event, we voted the DA out. The Asian-American political bloc and many Democrats went with the police version of the story, and the Progressives said that they (we) were all just bamboozled by the Republicans and the Police.

So now if crime does not go down after removing Boudin then the Progressive bloc will be handed a PR victory (not a real victory, because more crime is bad even if it helps your side politically, eh?)
Sad news but he left a legacy to be proud of. Few people write anything which will be read half a century later, much less as a source of insight rather than historical context.
I wonder if Musk effectively burning it to the ground and trying to rebuild with far fewer staff may also result in returning to a far simpler and less bloated site than the horrible SPA it forced upon everyone ~2 years ago. Something more like Nitter.
That is probably because there are a lot of people in college who shouldn’t be there. I was one of those people, but just kept at it until I graduated to meet parental and societal expectations. I’m still paying on a degree I will never use.
It's a disciplined approach to explore vs exploit.

Just like the Kelley criterion tells you how to turn predictions into bets, the multi-armed bandit tells you how to keep a user engaged in the short term by showing them things you know they'll like but also keep them engaged in the long term by showing them things they might like occasionally which, if they pass the test, will expand the range of things that you know they like.
You are maybe not thinking flexibly enough.

That’s why they have a fleet (parallelization) and why they outfitted the cars with sensors before self-driving was a thing (so they could simulate decision-making and have it corrected by driver action).

Their customers’ feedback absolutely trained their models.
Technically, it is easier. But I think the article makes a good point that the specific tools and techniques chosen influence the artistic expression.
Sometimes it's bad and I join a deserted game full of bots, mostly today bots get kicked very fast. I think last year was worse.
I love the concept of Amor Fati.

It serves to remind me to stop comparing my existence to others or ones that I have imagined. Love your fate because the only thing you truly own in life is your experience. It's unique in the truest possible sense.

If you practice amor fati it might make you uncomfortable to say it to yourself when experiencing bad things, this is until you realise that there is no good without bad and visa versa. At best the bad experiencing is amplifying the next high. At worst it is a price that you are paying to have and relive beautiful memories.
The people at your link didn't have anything to do with Area 51. The guy in TFA doesn't have anything to do with Russians or any other war-media-appointed "enemies". We in USA ourselves have a long history of spying on (and interfering in the internal matters of) every other nation. We're not at war with anyone who could gain any advantage from information about Area 51. If we were to go to war with Russia, it would benefit no one but already-incredibly-wealthy USA armaments manufacturers. Also it would probably result in the extinction of humanity in nuclear war. "Plainly visible reality" is not secret, by definition.

Somehow you have claimed that a war we're not fighting with people who couldn't benefit from knowledge of information that isn't secret justifies charging this guy with espionage. One would marvel that anyone could be so incoherent, except this is the typical result of consuming American corporate war media content.
It always starts with wine in the mug here and there to everyday they get stressed. These are definitely signs of alcoholism. People love their alcohol though so a lot of people will defend alcoholics.
The experience isn't bad until it is. And then the bell can't be unrung.
I don't even understand why this guy gave Fuji so low, a lot of Japanese fruits are another level.

I will have them all day if only they weren't so expensive.
This is HN, if this is failure, people here aspire to fail upwards like this.

Who wouldn't?

Most of us here hang out for listening to fellow hackers who have failed upwards.
> People try to compare it to things like gold for protecting your money from inflation, but that's completely nonsensical.

It's just like gold. You give me your gold and I'll take it all right now, saving you from losing it incrementally or at a later date. Not your vault, not your bars. Theft-as-a-Service. /s

Gold has a special status because of how long we've mythologized it, but generally you'd be encouraged to invest/buy futures in things that impact your life and income directly. Your inputs and outputs.

If you produce food from fertilizer and power then those are your three important commodities. Gold isn't a great fit because you can't eat it, fertilize with it, or run a tractor on it. You have to do a gold-to-dollars transaction first which can waste a fair bit of the value.

If you forward packets and consume electricity to do so then holding gold also isn't economically relevant, but by trading proofs of work which were generated by burning electricity you track the value of your commodities and do so natively.

If we used HashCash (or similar) to solve the initial-contact problem then we'd be creating a secondary market in the proofs and they could be used as currency by a related ecosystem like hosting providers with little friction or risk.

Tulips didn't cause the problem, speculators (and scammers) did.
I once worked for an adtech company that had profit sharing instead of RSUs. The early employees were compensated very well because it was unsurprisingly very profitable. I joined after they raised money so they switched to "phantom equity" in a LLC instead of RSUs. When they went public I was granted 1 stock for every piece of phantom equity plus about $5. These weren't options, I didn't have to pay anything to exercise them. Worked out to a 50% appreciation over two-ish years of working there, so not too shabby at all.

The point is there's other forms of variable compensation beside options you can give to employees of a private entity that are just as good (or even better) than options that may or may not become liquid over 7-10 years. Twitter could set up something similar to entice top performers to stay.
Hm didn't the boomers famously not save nearly enough for their own retirements? Maybe they were just trying to help you avoid mistakes that they made.

Also weren't they the generation of 'sex, drugs, and rock and roll?'
5-meo-DMT is indeed a tryptamine, and related to "DMT" (n-n-DMT, the DMT everyone means when they say DMT).

But it's no more a "variant of DMT" than Psilocin (4-HO-DMT), or more exotic ones like 4-ACO-DMT
While I suspect this is the case, this is also looking like his first high-profile expensive failure. If Twitter survives, he might grow up a lot during the process.
> I really can't believe he didn't put any escape clauses in his contract, no due dilligence, etc. I think he's very smart in general but this mistake is pretty much colossal in size.

As an almost ironclad rule, acquisition agreements for big public companies don’t have escape clauses or diligence outs. The buyer does the diligence before they sign the acquisition agreement. His very, very good lawyers at Skadden advised him of this. After it’s signed, it’s really just a question of how quickly the logistics of taking a public company private can be completed.

Musk, for all intents and purposes, bought Twitter back in April. He just didn’t take possession and pay for it until October.
Aha, so overpaying _was_ just part of a grand scheme to light a fire under the employees and the fanboys are right that he's playing 6d chess?
I guess I missed that.
Can you tell whose doing it for the first time or are they lumped into fakers?
You can do recursion in Boolean logic. It leads to imaginary Boolean values. See "Laws of Form". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form
A photograph of reality can and often does look 'unreal', or odd, or fake. So many, many, aspects cause this; lighting, expressions caught mid point, even the colour. My point is, the invitation is nether a robust or an intriguing one. Nevertheless, it is a success for other reasons.
They list no stipulations about prohibited certificate uses[1]. Their restrictions on domain uses seem to be mostly tied to legal requirements (not issuing for sanctioned countries, for example). It's all also pretty transparent, from what I can tell[2][3]. Certainly more so than a normal CA.

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/documents/isrg-cp-v3.3/#1.4.2-prohib...

[2]: https://letsdebug.net/

[3]: https://github.com/letsdebug/letsdebug
Offer this offer that, we are not seeing any technology improvement here. Only marketing words.
Well if it's so common as to be a kind of uniform isn't that the very definition of contrived? How else would you explain the phenomenon then, that slobs just naturally gravitate towards prop trading?
Basically, his business skills got ahead of his capacity to self-regulate. Flawlessly executed the wrong plan.
I worked at Ticketmaster as an Engineering Director for a few years. I'd be happy to share my perspective.

- Selling tickets is hard. I mean really hard. By coincidence, I just hit my 14 year mark at Google. I also spent 5 years at Yahoo! in the early 2000s. I'd like to think I've seen hard technical problems over my career. And again, ticketing is hard.

- There's not that much money it. Especially relative to the technical challenge.

- Most of the thoughts here are how to build a ticketing system that fans want. Ticketmater could already do that.

There's a few things about ticketing people don't realize:

(1) Ticketmaster doesn't own tickets. They don't see the prices. They don't set the fees. These are typically by the promoter or the artist.

(2) Ticketmaster doesn't keep much of the fees. Read LiveNation's financials. Last time I checked, I think Ticketmaster was keeping about $3 per ticket on average (i.e. revenues / tickets sold). Almost all the fees go to other parties in the value chain -- venues, promoters, artists.
You can buy them in Oakland at Zide Door. Though my friend told me they also saw them for sale at an Oakland head shop. I’m not sure which one. Also last time I went to Dolores Park on a sunny day, multiple people walking by offered to sell me shroom chocolates.
It works fine until a cert expires somewhere or a hard drive fills up and there’s no crew to catch it before it kicks off a cascading failure.
How dare you suggest adding more engineers to a slowing project, now of all times?
Long I wanted to tattoo this. My favorite (maybe false) story is that this was told to Roman generals when they came back from a victory. Kind of “be humble”. I don’t know if it’s true but having always in mind that death is there both humbles you and makes you appreciate things. Doesn’t make acceptance easier though and I think it’s normal.

I also think it goes perfect with mono no aware from Japan.

Know you will die but appreciate beauty in things even though they will finish/decay/die
let's hope that if or when things turn around and go right you also attribute it 100% on Musk, becase there are a lot of hypocrites running around.
The weight of the snow depends entirely on the temperature gradients in the air, from cloud to ground. People in the mountains seem to have consistently light, powdery snow, while people in the plains seem to have consistently heavy, wet snow. But sometimes it is the opposite!