skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the comp? Is it a typical FAANG range? Do you get a lot of stock options for a hypothetical future (re-)IPO?

If there aren't outsized benefits, then the only compelling reasons left are that you either really love the product or the leadership against the opportunity cost of all other jobs.

The work culture is admittedly "sleep under the desk" intense. Typical startup vibes, and it's unclear at this point with what autonomy/product ownership that comes with.

Taking this job either needs to come from a place of really loving what you do or being compensated extremely well.
Yea, that's pretty much my point of view as well - at this point the salary I'd demand would be obscene but given how many bridges Musk is burning I feel like he'll be desperate soon. I would, however, try and organize a union if hired on and I encourage anyone currently at the company to investigate collective bargaining to ensure you have a more stable working environment. Being fired from twitter on twitter is absolutely ridiculous and creates a terrible working environment.
It's a 'Special K' kinda person that would work at Twitter :-)
Well actually people did, or we'd still be on the Julian calendar.
Anyone remember the leap second?
This is like when you set up a forum for the first time and have all of these weird moderation ideas.
Thanks dang for the insight

> The other option, of course, is to find a good third-party article reporting on the same news. Whatever it's in an organization's interest to obfuscate, it's in a good reporter's interest to uncover, and if the story is important or popular, such an article probably exists somewhere.

The problem I think that there's (as of posting) no third-party articles about this from reasonably-credible writers.
Religion was only half the reason for the Gregorian calendar reform. Church and state, being interlinked and intertwined, the civil calendar was gradually slipping away from correct calibration with the equinoxes and thus the seasons. So it was important for farmers and mariners and politicians to all have a reliable calendar that matched what the Earth was actually going through.

It just so happened that the religious authority in the West was able to make a significant change to the civil calendar which also happened to match the Church calendar, and it was adopted by all of Christendom, eventually even Asia and the four corners of the Earth have accepted it as universal and not so religious.
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His ego really isn't what you are making it out to be. Has he ever said any of those things? In almost all the interviews he has he never talks about how smart he is, he talks about how good the engineers he works with are.
You know even if Twitter goes away Americans still have free speech, right?
Not OP, but at several jobs our labs were small server rooms stuffed with network gear, servers, and client PCs. They were used for end-to-end simulations and tests. It wasn't uncommon to actually do work in the lab, keeping an eye on the blinky lights or somesuch.
We may be approaching the first time in history employees will demand a security deposit from their employer.
The taboo aspect is irrelevant. The biggest thing is to take away these power levers from people who abuse them for personal goals. Remember when the whole Pornhub CC payment issue happened? That was because of supposed "child pornography/trafficking".
I have a liberal-arts degree but I code for a living. I'd describe my skill as "would have difficulty writing my own compiler, but can handle pretty much anything below that". I don't have a communication problem as you describe, but I've seen other engineers that do. It's just a rarer ability among them, unfortunately. Brains taken up by highly-complex problems often do not have bandwidth for careful or clear written or verbal communication lol
Sounds like you have a toxic hiring process anyways.
Accountants: a group a people famous for seeking out risky, exciting and tumultuous work environments.
The patent has expired anyone can make insulin cheaper if they want to. The new drugs on patent (many set to expire in the short term future) are all improvements that greatly improve quality of life for patients which is why they are preferred to just using human insulin.
I can think of few things more pointless to do with my life.
Should read "$0.000000000000000000000000800000Q"
Funny how the literati have discovered that twitter is bad as soon as their friends no longer run it.
That's how I see it too. It'd be fun and it's a high alpha opportunity. It's like a startup that already has network effects.
I bet they will crash 25%. On the wholesale market, that might have already happened.

I was seeing 20-year-old Ford Rangers and Chevy S-10s with 200k miles listed on Craigslist for $10k a month ago. If you adjust for inflation that is actually more than they cost when they were new! Pick pretty much any make and model of car and you will see the same thing.

Even just from looking at Craigslist occasionally I have noticed a significant drop in prices for used vehicles in the past month.
You should spend some time with an internet search engine and the term "perceptual hashing". What you're talking about is another type of hashing, which can be useful for classifying image files, but not images. The former has a very concrete definition that is specified down to the bit; the latter is a fuzzy space because it's trying to yield similar (not necessarily identical) hashes for images that humans consider similar. Much different space, much different problem, much different collision situation. Cryptographic hashing is not the only kind of hashing.
There a lot of tech layoffs and the market is nothing like it's been the last 15 years, so it's probably not going to be as easy as you think.
"the number of people of working age (15 to 65) is set to decline in the coming years."

1) In richer countries with better working conditions "working age" can be, and for many people has already been, extended into the 70s and 80s. "Working age" and 'retirement' are new concepts, not a fixed part of being human.

2) While so-called 'unemployment' is low, labor force participation rate has continued to drop: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
Broken out by age: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip...

Both of these things mean that there is still a lot of room to accommodate a decreasing "working age" population.
Parent is pointing out that if you view the current twitter situation as "a good job" then they don't think the way you view the world would be healthy for their business.

There's no reason to believe this poster has any say over hiring decisions.
A couple of challenging communication and behavior patterns I've experienced are:

* Didn't clarify requirements. Didn't outline or discuss potential solutions and tradeoffs to different approaches up front. Instead spent days writing an overcomplicated implementation based on their understanding of the problem in isolation. Typical code review feedback triggers a defensive response citing sunk cost fallacy and will not engage with non-syntactical questions, for example "why did you choose approach it this way instead of that way" is ignored or called out of scope

* Didn't prepare or share meeting agendas ahead of time. Instead tries to explain meeting context verbally on the fly. Monologues for 10-15 minutes touching unrelated points, outlining different ways we could structure the meeting, gives random bits of anecdotal context, then says "what do you think?". Is met with crickets. Attendees are confused and very little is established or clarified. Rinse and repeat at the next meeting.

These left me pretty much stumped and negatively affected my future efforts with the individuals.

I wonder how other people would approach these situations?
No remote work is a dealbreaker for me! I also refuse to work at a company with an overall negative impact on the world. As far as I can tell, Twitter's subscription walls (for essential government services) and "bubble" effect isn't making the world a better place. We can only guess about Elon's future direction for the company... but given the pay-for-verified-check snafu last week, I don't think he's trying to make the world a better place with Twitter. Maybe he's trying to make it better for Twitter power users like himself, but even that I'm not sure of.
SwiftUI is not Swift, it's a framework for iOS/macOS

Swift is crossplatform, whether you like it or not
If I didn't have a family and still lived in SF, I would jump at the chance I think. Maybe I couldn't keep up the "hardcore" hours for many years, but I think I'd come out of it for the better. I've never thrown myself at something to the degree where I'd be sleeping at my office, but why not life's sort.
As others have already written, there are many slightly invalid PDF files out there in the wild that many readers can display mostly fine and which your library should also be able to handle.

If you can, grab yourself a copy of the most recent PDF 2.0 specification since it contains much more information and is much more correct in terms of how to implement things. Also have a look at the errata at https://pdf-issues.pdfa.org/32000-2-2020/index.html.

As I'm implementing a PDF library (in Ruby), I have started to collect some situations that arise in the wild but are not spec-compliant, see https://github.com/gettalong/annotated-pdf-spec. That might help you in parsing some invalid PDFs
I have sometimes thought that it's a shame humans came from the sadistically violent branch of the primate family rather than the constantly horny branch.

Even before I learned about the horny branch of primates, as a teenager in the UK I thought it was very weird that media — games, films, TV shows, books, etc. — were all able to depict lethal violence to young audiences, while conversely consensual sex was something we could only witness when we were two years above the age of consent in the UK.
> I made this mistake burying the cat in the back garden. There is now a dent in the lawn where I buried him.

General speaking, you can add top soil loosely over the grass until the ground is level, and the grass will grow through it. This is assuming a depression of only a few inches of course - will be harder to accomplish if it’s more than that. That said - I once tried to smother some lillies by added several feet of dirt on top of them - they grew through anyway.
What if I followed you around and shouted my speech really loudly every time you tried to speak?
Because a minute is a huge amount of time (and, by the way, don't forget, that minutes don't exist, I just understand that you mean 60 seconds) and there is no such thing as "leap milliseconds" because UTC is literally just counting seconds. Basically, UT1 already is an implementation of what you call "leap milliseconds". Not literally, but achieves the same thing. And it is way too complicated to use it in practice outside of astronomy-specific tasks.

So, to sum it up:

- TAI is a real thing, it has a concrete meaning, and it's "leap infinity".

- UT1 is a real thing, but is unusable in practice, and you could think of it as "leap ms"

- UTC until yesterday was a real thing, meaning time, which has seconds equal to TAI-seconds, but not drifting from UT1 for more than 0.9 s. Since today it's broken and I'm not sure what it even means anymore — I mean, not in practice, but "platonically".

- Nobody just introduced a standard that would mean "time with seconds equal to TAI-seconds, but not drifting from UT1 for more than 59 s" yet. I guess you could be the one to do it, but I'm not sure it would get a wide adoption.
Don’t forget about the towers of silence in Zoroastrianism.
Impactful?

Designed and deployed credit card readers used in gas pumps back in 1979. (Sold to Gasboy)

Wrote a fine tuner to allow communication between satellites (precursor to TDRSS days). Still used to this day.

Failover of IP in ATM switches (VVRP, PXE, secondary DHCP, secondary DNS, secondary LDAP, secondary NFS). While not invented here, it is still used today as this is a Common setup to this day.

Printer drivers for big, big high-speed Xerox printers on BSD. Still used to this day by big, big high-speed printers.

Also, early IDS products (pre-Snort) at line-speed. Sold to Netscreen.

Easy zero-setup of DSL modem before some BellCore decided to complicate things (thus exploding their field deployment budgets; Southwestern Bell/Qwest enjoyed our profitable zero-setup). Sold to Siemens.

1Gps IDS/IPS before selling it to 3Com/Hewlett-Packard Packard.

Now, I'm dabbling in a few startups (JavaScript HIDS, Silent Connections, replacing the systemd-temp).

Impact? It is more about personal pride but its impacts are still being felt today.
It's less about anonymous account and more that this account is new, and has mostly only replied to posts about Twitter which all but this are flagged as dead. Not looking like a very useful account that is going to come in with constructive discussions.
effective altruism?
In what sense do you mean "ground floor"? Financially this can't be true, due to massive debt financing of a ridiculous overvaluation.

Technologically and careee skill wise doesn't make much sense either.

I agree that the demise is overhyped, which is also why there's not really much of a ground floor, it's falling from heights down to the ground, or already high.
Only roadblock would be if he expects TOO much grinding. But 40 hours week of focussed intense work seems fine.

I'm optmistic about twitter under him. He seems intent on actually advancing the platform. There would be real work. What had Twitter achieved lately before Musk takeover? Not very much!

(Though I do really appreciate that they added back a strictly chrono timeline, and I will be very sad if that gets axed...)

To me a true highlight of how dysfunctional Twitter was was that they bought the viral hit app Vine, did nothing with it, eventually killed it, only to watch the very-similar TikTok take over the entire world. Show's what an absolute lack of ambition to build stuff existed at Twitter, IMO.
I'm fairly associative and I tend to wonder off like you describe. When someone asks me a question it lights up tons and tons of context and information which I start to describe.
My mind wonders a lot, so a lot of the time I'll have an answer already there and at these times I'll usually be very eloquent.
But sometimes a lot of details and caveats pop in to my mind and I feel compelled to include them in my answers.

On the flip side this sort of thinking enables me to be very creative in my job and often I am the go to guy when you need solutions for difficult problems.
Yes, and? Again, this is just an explanation of why one should expect insincere apologies - because the apology is being made for financial reasons, not genuine contrition.
The number of cases to examine is small enough to make it difficult to extract a trend, and the nature of the question is very subjective, but my best attempt at an observation is that the described behavior is one of the many personality/cognitive faults that people on both sides of politics exhibit in roughly equal measures. I think an observation of a strong bias in one direction here might be due to other factors (e.g. biases that affect one's exposure to these things).
You know, I was reading some of the comments here and I was thinking, “maybe it wouldn’t be so bad…” but your simple statement brought me back to self congruence. Thanks for that.
You might want to tell him severance gets worse with each round of layoffs. Would he get 9mo if he hadn't chosen to stay this week?
Impossible to answer without more information.
By shifting moderation responsibilities to the individual mods on each subreddit. Reddit employees do very little moderation on their own - mostly reviewing entire subreddits once they get reported enough times - and banning them entirely if they are unsavoury enough. They basically outsourced it to volunteers in exchange for a platform to have your community on(interestingly, Discord works in the exact same way - discord employees only review servers once they get bad enough and ban them, general reports go to server mods and only to them)
Except this actually happened IRL.

https://twitter.com/jinglejamOP/status/1310718738417811459
US-based principal and senior staff engineers, as well as staff engineers who negotiated hard with competing offer(s) and/or saw significant stock growth between their RSU grant and vest dates, could all have plausibly been clearing $800k in a given recent year. Even senior engineers, in outlier cases of the stock growth case.
Isn’t that a sign on bonus?
Yeah, no idea, maybe they’re just understaffed for the region or something. So in his case it just happened that the exchange he chose was faster with KYC than Wise.

Come to think of it, this actually highlights the point very well. People on this thread generally seem to think that international money transfer is fine. I don’t think Wise would have a business case if that was true.
Yeah they have problems that most companies don't, and a scale that most companies don't. But, web dev and scaling is not nearly as hard as car manufacturing or rocket design. Both of which are far more complex, also have a ton of software and people's lives are on the line.
Yes, it's a unique opportunity to watch well-built infrastructure fail under load and any success at keeping the product going will be a real achievement. I like what I'm doing now and I don't trust the guy though so comp would have to be maybe $2M/year and paid one year in advance.
> but why not life's sort.

That’s exactly why not.
It does not even exist in every area of the US?

Here is in the Midwest we have no Housing Crisis, and very few homeless... We also do not have 50+ years of Heavy handed Government regulations...
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It makes sense, though iirc over the life of Coinbase management has been a large net seller, larger than average.

I'm interested the directors have been buying. Is that typical?
You can hardly ban a true, scalable, proof of work cryptocurrency.
https://docs.grin.mw/
There’s no business reason behind it. I saw this happen on a much smaller scale at Amazon, management trying to inject “start-up culture” into a profession that doesn’t need or want it.

Accountants specifically work for companies like Twitter to avoid this sort of environment.
still 3x more than what i make. and if i can get a visa more easily because a bunch of pampered americans threw their toys out of the pram and quit, great.
At another point in my life I would have said yes. I think I agree with this assessment of the company vs perception overall, but at this point in my life/career I would rather that if I'm going to be working 12+ hours a day to push products out, that I would be on more even footing as a cofounder or super early employee than a Musk vision factory that's just reimagining a 15 year old product.
I don't know how to translate some specific terms to English, but in certain point of my life, I took a course about "internal customer service" at my job, i generally don't like those kind of subjects, but at that time it was part of my duties, so... I went to the course, the teacher started talking like this: "Everyone of us have an 'access code' to communicate with each other" that grabbed my attention, and then he said something like there are "visual, auditive, and kinesthetic" kinds of people. I discovered then, that I was a visual person and finally at my 33yo totally understood why i do not understand others when they talk to me and try to explain anything. To me, school was very hard. So, maybe this could be one of many many reasons, i hope this help others to investigate more about this subject, and take some extra steps before losing your time trying to explain something to someone using an incorrect communication channel.
No, not everything needs to be turned into a product for the capitalistic machine. Let us have some fun without trying to make a buck off of it!
Exactly. Ultra-processed foods are a supernormal stimulus that drives an exaggerated response in humans, e.g. overeating.
For most of us that are doing implementation engineering, a lab is simply a collection of the gear that can be put together in a simulation of the production environment without being constrained by formalities. For me it would be a bunch of network and server kit and cables in a rack.
The title and article are intentionally provocative.
...agreed. Contrary to the HN bias, it might be interesting to work for a high energy/high demand place. After you rebuild the staff with people who have not been involved in the recent leadership change, it could turn out to be a fantastic place to work with engineering folks focused on a singular mission. Who knows, but it's worth a shot. That said, not sure how long I might last :-)
There's definitely a balance to strike.

On the one hand, you don't want to be constantly re-inventing the wheel. If someone has made a great package for doing a specific thing you need (printing data in tables, making ergonomic http requests that cover edge cases, reading an epub file, etc), then IMO you're better off using theirs. They care about it, they've tested it, and the implementation of it is one less thing you have to think about it. If you consider that every line of code that you write/maintain is a liability, then offloading that to others is very convenient.

On the other hand, external packages typically come without guarantees. Their owner/maintainer could lose interest, get hit by a bus, get hacked, anything. You're running their code in your projects and suddenly, all this uncontrolled code becomes the liability. You'd do best to do _everything_ in house in order to limit your external risk.

Ultimately, I think there's no single right answer here. Sure, you probably shouldn't add dependencies for things like "left-pad", but the line is a little blurrier for things like npm's "is-promise". It sounds simple enough (and the implementation [0] is only a 3-line function), but I'm unlikely to have written it correctly if I did it from scratch. Plus, it's tested! And lastly, I think your risk is lower the larger an external dependency is. Large projects, like React or Django, are much more upside than liability; it's everything in the medium range that you really need to consider.

[0]: https://github.com/then/is-promise/blob/ec9bd8a3f576324a1343...
Maybe,

I already saved a couple of projects and companies from eminent disaster, but that was not for free.

If you're close to elon, let him know I'd help him and expect to retire after a short tenure in the company.
In my 20s: absolutely yes. I had few responsibilities and tons of energy. Great pay, interesting challenges, becoming guru-level at some niche, working on something very visible, along with other very driven people. Why not?

In my current 40s: hell no, can't be bothered.
I voted no, nothing against Elon or Twitter, I just don't like working for other people, regardless of the pay.
Mine does too. I just bought fruits for 4.65€ and Total Emission was 250 grams.

Does not tell what was emitted and when, so assume farts while bicycling to store and back.
Elon isn’t an idiot who has never been around real world software development. He will happily accept:” Here's a screenshot of where I fixed an off-by-one error, but it took two weeks of unraveling 137 microservices to find which RPC was guilty.”

Not to mention, it plays into his perception that twitter architecture is too bloated to be productive.

He is likely looking for people who have zero or less than 10 things to show.

I bet you could squeeze by with one big thing to show and nothing else if it is explained.

This sort of net would catch lots of zero screenshot responses for multiple reasons- I doubt there will be any scrutiny applied.
Getting a quote just by entering your license plate was also brilliant.