skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but as has been brought up multiple times, for how long? Are those that remain the right people to fix hardware or software failures, which are inevitable?

I put in the request to download my data last night -- not because I'm leaving Twitter, but just as a precaution -- and I wonder if it will be fulfilled. I'm sure it's an automated process, but will the systems be running by the time it gets to my request?
How do you know it will be an algorithm? He did not even say how it would be implemented yet. It may be a dislike button.

FWIW, I do not like the dislike or like buttons.
You are suggesting that in an environment without the right to free speech, there is no right to free speech.

Back to the twitter context: if I bought twitter and simply did nothing at all, anyone would be free to post anything, because in order to stop it, I'd have to act, which I already said I won't do.
Nobody knowledgeable is going to argue that US employment law is great, but in much of the US worker protections are targeted towards those that do not make a lot of money.

Twitter's software developers make a lot of money. The only similarity to a Victorian factory worker is that they have two arms and legs (but all of their fingers and toes).
Or it's just a brute expression of dominance to find out who the subservient employees are.

A hazing ritual to find out who is properly loyal, and who is unwilling to bend the knee.

I don't think he cares too much about the screenshots themselves. I think this is a pretty simple test to see who comes running to the 10th floor and who says: "that's insane, no".
How rich was his family, and how many families are as rich or richer than that in the world?
Maybe he can raise funds and recover with - I don't know - a music festival in (he's not going anywhere) the Bahamas! Top acts. All-inclusive, gourmet meals, luxury lodging and transportation. Private island?

Give it an exciting name - "Fyrefest" sounds catchy!
I have this exact problem. I know how to solve a problem, but I can't get that chain of actions across to others. Very infuriating and also the reason, why I mostly work alone.
I would also count the following as software successes:

2012 - Google Drive

2017 - Google Meet
Good point, that's definitely a part of comp'.
The surprising afterlife of unwanted atom bombs
I feel the same about leatherwear for motorcycling. Are there viable substitutes nowadays ?
There's also a cryptographic way: https://syskall.com/proof-of-liabilities/#what
If today's Google was the one building and releasing Google Docs, would they have cancelled it in the first year or two?
OK that is hilarious!
I liked one of my old bosses for this. He'd notice a meeting with 5 engineers about licensing some software and would swoop in.

"How much is the license for this software?" Upon hearing an answer, "The company bills your time out at $250/hr - this meeting has cost us the licensing fee of this software. Next time, just buy it. If I have a problem with that, I'll change the policy then."
My own way of thinking is both spatially and visually. I encode all my understanding into visual concepts (which may be very abstract), and link them to each other. That makes it difficult for me to do direct recall if I'm not given sufficient context. But makes it easy to connect things and do pattern matching. When I'm explaining, I found myself wandering down a particular path that I think the other person may not understand well, but can backtrack to the main conversation.
It sounds like your issues with Nix stem from its steep adoption curve, rather than any technical concern. This _is_ a concern for a team that needs to manage it - I agree.

I'm quite diehard in terms of personal Nix/NixOS use, but I hesitate to recommend to colleagues as a solution because the learning curve would likely reduce productivity for quite some time.

That said - I do think that deterministic, declarative package/dependency management is the proper future, especially when it comes to runtime environments.
How big of a hit is it on the future generation, they can just change their DST, which already happens every few years anyways?
If elon has a massive success, which I define as taking Twitter back public in 2-3 years at a huge profit, then likely wallstreet will start to demand copycat behavior from public tech companies.
Mh, my actual desktop, witch is not an web-app but it's definitively self-hosted anyway. I have a home server who host various things, the only web app so far happen to be home assistant for my p.v. and small automation around it. The rest revolve around ssh, imaps etc, like my mail setup where the homeserver downloads my mails from a handful of remote imaps, index locally with notmuch and I sync against it with muchsync over ssh on two desktops and a laptop.

Another is an experimental an obscene (so far) video-surveillance setup a day I'll humanize a bit, that allow just video streaming, no web app so far.

The homeserver manage some of my backups (zfs + ZnapZend) and offer some files over webdav, no WebUI again for them...

Long story short: I feel no need nor no reasons to COPY the Big of IT modern web model where I can get FAR BETTER without a modern WebVM improperly named browser for legacy reasons. The personal/home/user power lie in classic Desktop computing not in trying to recreate a buggy and limited GAFAM-alike infra at home... If/when a day enough people will realize that....
The Julian Calendar was good enough for centuries after the empire that invented it had fallen, which I think counts as good enough in general. That said, I'd love to read a story about tracking down some time bug a million layers of abstraction down from the state of tech in 9000AD.
How do I buy kubernetes?
So... if i live in a country without a beef tradition, where the beef is imported and -ing expensive and most people have no idea how to cook it... what am I supposed to do now? :)
Related:

Strassen algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm

Matrix multiplication algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication_algorith...

Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4:

General Google search: "Matrix Multiplication Optimization": https://www.google.com/search?q=matrix+multiplication+optimi...
I am not misunderstanding the profession. At a small or a large SW company, engineers should —by and large, with some exceptions— be writing code. I don’t care (and never mentioned) how much time the writing of code takes… whether people spend one hour a day typing or 8.

But while engineers obviously have to spend time thinking and designing, it’s the code that does the actual work and embodies the value of the engineer’s plans. I simply fail to see how a software org could exist where only a small minority of engineers are coding. Makes no sense to me, sorry.
But it has to be engineered to do so.
They are fine-tuned in the sense that we have to postulate them as axioms, due to lack of any further reasons or causes of why they are how they are. The more we can constrain the value space from which the parameters could conceivably have been chosen, the more “typical” the actual values we observe become, and the less remains unexplained.
> A shrinking population is only bad for people with a vested interest in growth; investors and employers, but good for everybody else

a shrinking population is a disaster overall. productivity goes down, more elderly, social services strained, smaller taxable cohorts. the needs will still be there, the money and the people to solve them won’t.
That's a fair point. I jumped ship before I got that far, obviously. From my perspective as a student it looked a lot like habit on the part of the senior/tenured people in the department, but I should not have been so quick to assert that.
Sweden finds explosive traces at Nord Stream blast sites, confirms sabotage
In my experience, yes.

A small change in a dependency, essentially, bubbles or chains to all dependent steps. I.e., a change in the fizzbuzz source but inherently run the fizzbuzz tests. This cascades into your integration tests — we must run the integration tests that include fizzbuzz … but those now need all the other components involved; so, that sort of bubbles or chains to all reverse dependencies (i.e., we need to build the bazqux service, since it is in the integration test with fizzbuzz…) and now I'm building a large portion of my dependency graph.

And in practice, to keep the logic in CI reasonably simple … the answer is "build it all".

(If I had better content-aware builds, I could cache them: I could say, ah, bazqux's source hashes to $X, and we already have a build for that hash, excellent. In practice, this is really hard. If all of bazqux was limited to some subtree, but inevitably one file decides to include some source from outside the spiritual root of bazqux, and now bazqux's hash is "the entire tree", which by definition we've never built.)

(There's bazel, but it has its own issues.)
If the Tesla in LA works fine and runs perfectly, the market will coalesce around that fact and accept it as a major player on the road, giving the pedestrian the necessary confidence they need to be safe around a Tesla.

Again, these are brand new problems that Elon is solving, so they may be hard to parse due to how forward-looking he is.
It's exceedingly easy to detect sentiment for any human who cares and follows context, next to impossible to do automatically. "Good job Elon :)" can mean diametrically opposing things depending on author's views and what they wrote up to this moment. Same with "I love my job :)", etc. Employing an AI solution could cause some fun blunders but would likely amplify the amount of burning sarcasm overall.
> but I haven't seen the material in there elsewhere

Indeed. The references are full of works to studies from the Design Studies journal, in-situ work studies, works of philosophy etc.
Because visa employees are basically shackled to their organization. They stupidly cheap compared to a fare market value. There's probably like 1000 at most, and not all of them will bite. It would be a cheap way to get really reliable and CHEAP devs to replace the 10k they just dropped.
Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh, Prop -- Dice Game

http://sagarin.com/sports/dice.htm
Indeed, but all life would be extinguished by the ensuing orbital bombardment, thus solving the problem.
I thought the point of shadowbanning was to trick the poster into thinking their posts were visible while they were hidden from everyone else.

Here it seems like the poster and anyone else can directly search for the poster's account or the "filtered" post and still see it. But I guess the tags won't work. Kind of a middle ground. Perhaps they will explicitly remove/block the tags so the poster knows this is happening, which at least isn't tricking them.
I don't understand the strategy behind creating an atmosphere where the threat of termination is so regularly deployed to drive action. When I think of the best engineers I have ever worked with, I suspect every one would be turned off by Musk's behavior and leave, not just because of how they themselves were being treated unprofessionally, but because of a strong sense of decency regarding how their coworkers are being treated. If this goes on long enough, who will be left to work at this company? Can engineers effectively collaborate to create great products that appeal to a broad global market, if they are all self-proclaimed "hardcore rockstars" who are at least willing to overlook, if not excited about the mistreatment of their colleagues?
I can't help but thinking of the Simpsons episode "Bart the Mother"

Principal Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.

Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?

Principal Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?

Principal Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

Lisa: Then we're stuck with gorillas!

Principal Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

Lisa: Hmm.

EDIT: Yes, I understand you are referring to keeping predators around, and not necessarily introducing new predators. But this is still what jumped in to my mind.
My biggest tip is to learn when it's going awry and force a level set. Step through the question. Break your question into mini questions to guide the thought process towards the answer you want.

I know I'm personally awful at explaining technical things I worked on a day or more ago. Even just some simple spreadsheet or something, if you want a confident answer you'll let me open it up and look at the formulas. Don't expect me to answer off the top of my head. I'm pretty confident in saying this aloud but many people are not. They feel like it reflects negatively on their intelligence and whatnot. I feel like many people start rambling on when they just simply don't know the answer or don't understand the question. In this case, just make sure they understand the question/problem and give them time/space to get the answer.
holy shit you're totally right.

not sure if this is normal but tons of resources link to ton.local.twitter.com which NXDOMAINs against quad-8

also you're totally right; none of the JS is minified!
Yeah, I generally assume the AC chargers at business's are for employees cause it's just not worth it to plug in if you're running in to shop for less than an hour.
Although they probably don't employ nicotine anymore using trained animals to guide sheep to a slaughterhouse is not a thing of the past. Another comment mentions Temple Grandin. This video of hers showcases the use of leader sheep in a short clip (WARNING: graphic content): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoB3tf9Q2AA&t=155
it isnt about truth or fiction, it is negative/hate tweets. I run a politics forum and the one rule is no insulting other people, groups, or positions.

This makes for a very civil, but bland conversation. People engage with negative/hate tweets.

I personally like talking politics without insults, but most people are incapable of it.

It is easy to detect insults.
the heroes are where they've always been - working on real problems, not promoting.
A language that has no stable ABI should not be in the kernel.
They indicate how much of a clown he is.
Nice! Was it difficult to find values that would force a collision? What kind of checksumming did it use?
I would say mastodon is really a better alternative.
"and over here, we'll add a few happy little change sets"
Not really. The "Show HN" content is more in-line with the TMRC definition. The labor and social content is orthogonal to hacking, it's more about the experience of low and middle-level software engineers/managers in large tech companies. The "techbros" of old HN actually talked about what and how they were building, though the puff personality/PR pieces were pretty stupid also. If we could have more actual hacking or building content, I'd be over the moon, but that's not what's happening here. I'm actively looking for a more interesting/balanced forum than HN at this point. Not every discussion about tech has to be from the point of view of a mid-level Big Tech/F100 engineer.
He did do the firing whole teams bit, but not the fucking up the product bit.

I assume, for example that Apple didn't need as many finance people after the cuts, but he didn't manage to make the whole department quit in disgust.
I have chosen to turn off the ventilation in this coal shaft, we are all breathing just fine so it obviously wasn't necessary.
I definitely agree with this. But if an org is full of people doing nothing but this, you got a real problem on your hands.
Go out for a walk. Read a newspaper, magazine or book. Visit a coffe shop. Hang out with friends. Play board games. Start a hobby. Do some woodworking or sewing. Go to a museum. Visit a theatre. Go to the movies.

The possibilities are endless!
>It’s inconvenient. You can’t get started in ten seconds. This leads to less initial stickiness. It means that the people who get through the learning curve are more likely to be committed and perhaps generous.

It is an interesting point. Also ratios of individual Mastodons to federated ones will be instructive.

I haven't used it yet - more of a subreddit type experience than a Twitter type experience?
How large are the companies approximately? I've worked for small to large. The visibility was possible on the smaller companies, the larger was increasingly difficult (oceans of smaller teams). I haven't worked at a company where I've feared the CEO.
He wanted to add payments and digital identity and whatnot to the mobile app. Maybe cool if adoption is universal for some reason. Not exactly revolutionizing energy and transportation or colonizing Mars.
I've heard some people use propranolol to help with their anxiety for things like this as well. I used to drink before interviews as well, I've also tried xanax, and shit sometimes even a combination. It helped me get through them at the time but I don't know how overall helpful it was.

I recently went through the interview process as a sober guy and found that while I did get anxiety, it was a more healthy anxiety and not a crippling one. I'm on a low dose of an anti-anxiety medication (Buspirone) which I think helped; though I attribute it mostly to a better overall healthy state I've been in due to consistent exercise, healthy eating, and sleep. Not a super sexy answer outside of maybe the medication part.
Also google voice
> I thought those people were extremely demanding?

Their demands are inversely proportional to the size of whatever profits they're anticipating.
I'm not saying that we can't, but saying that we can seems quite brave (and by "brave" I mean foolishly reckless) without actually trying it. I, for one, am not so sure. There is a lot of stupid stuff about calendars and clocks (of which DST is worst by far), but at least nothing is really drifting.

Is it important that midnight is actually midnight? I don't know. I would prefer it to be, but perhaps I can just update my knowledge on when the midnight actually is once or twice a year. Perhaps it isn't a big deal at all. But I wouldn't dare to claim that "surely there can be no problems with it".

And, yes, that kinda means I don't support the leap second removal. It wasn't great, but eventually fixing the software written by incompetent people sounds more like a solution, than breaking the existing solution and making both competent and incompetent people alike eventually come up with a new one (to abolish it as well after 100 more years).
He's really asking all 5 of the remaining engineers to come meet him at his office.
There are no shortage of such people - I've encountered a bunch. And yes, it's always a pain in the workplace. In my experience, this strategy:

> Know this I would try to formulate as simple and direct a question as I could, but always the answer would be to a tangential, often more basic question.

Always fails with them. At some point, you have to become humble enough to realize that your approach is flawed and look for alternative approaches.
Elon Musk begins reinstating banned Twitter accounts
Well the most plausible path to salvation is probably to issue a shitcoin that he can pump and dump a shitcoin, so I don't think that will have much salience to the rest of the industry....

That said, I do think it's very likely that 80% of the present value of any given company is derived from work that was done on the very first version. Twitter the product can likely coast as is for a long time. However I think the reason for having large product teams at mature companies working on marginal projects is because the stock price depends on it. Your potential for discovering new S-curves is priced into your revenue multiple. So while a private twitter might be able to find profitability as a 700 person company, theres (probably) no way for them to achieve meaningful growth. As a result, public companies probably wouldn't view this as a viable playbook.

However I feel like Elon's public statements (and track record as an eng focused leader) make me doubt this will happen. He seems much more enamored of Hardcore Engineers who can ship new features (ie fart pillows[1]) rather than the ops/business side, so I don't think creating a glorified lifestyle business is something he's interested in pursuing.

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/01/19/how-to-make-your-tesla-fart/
Also known as a sky burial in parts of central Asia.
If you are serious, it's a common way of specifying a nickname.
Both these articles are from 2018. It would be remiss of you not to mention the 2018 ArbCom case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

> Philip Cross has engaged in a personalized, public, off-wiki dispute with George Galloway while simultaneously making significant content edits to George Galloway’s article over an extended period of time.

> Philip Cross has demonstrated a conflict of interest with respect to George Galloway and certain other individuals in the area of post-1978 British politics.

But also:

> There is no evidence to indicate that Philip Cross has used alternate accounts or sockpuppets to edit or support his views on-wiki, nor that he has coordinated with any other editors, outside individuals, or organizations in his editing.

ArbCom took a very dim view of Galloway's, and another Wikipedian's, attempts to "out" Cross's identity.

Ultimately, ArbCom banned Cross from doing _any_ editing on "post-1978 British politics, broadly construed". That is an enormously wide topic ban.

You can also see from his user contributions and the block log that he has been banned by admins for repeatedly defying his topic ban. A 1-week ban in August 2018, a 1-month ban in November 2021, a 3-month ban in July 2022... and now he has a PERMANENT ban since last month. He can't appeal for at least a year.

It doesn't seem like a shadowy cabal to me, it sounds like one person who does nothing but edit all day. Wikipedia has quite a few such users, and that's why there's a big list of contentious topics which are more heavily patrolled and restricted than the rest of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions#Ac...
The education space definitely relies on Google (was also big during the pandemic) and the tools are decent.

But I was definitely surprised about the mentions of Chromecast and Youtube TV, particularly YouTube TV. All of the cord cutters I talked to opted for Fubo, Hulu or DirectTV. Good to hear it sees adoption. Is there a marketshare analysis that you're aware of?
It's in the '+'.
Isn't Twitter about sending short messages to the world or to people who are listening to you? How different are you envisioning Twitter could be?

I really just want to make sure this isn't a cop out in the chances his stunts succeed(ie yeah it's successful now but it's different!)
Pixel Buds, particularly the new Pixel Buds Pro as well. They are fantastic.
Not during the code freeze. Using the same container image that worked before for a while doesn’t need dev input.
There is literally no reason to think he means that. That seems more like a deep personal hatred of someone and just trying to find the worst in everything they say or do.
Nothing you are saying here is evidence of what you claimed.

It isn't evidence of anything because it isn't really information, it's just your opinion that you don't believe things you've heard.
Same reason he didn't do due dilligence before offering them $44b; He spends most of his days sniffing his own farts, telling himself he's awesome, and being adored by legions of random people on the internet.

He's basically a twitch streamer in terms of behavior and pleasure response to attention, so expect him to act like one.
Is deployment and management easy?
Why would you assume it was them, and not the people who didn't get fired or quit?