skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah how much can you derive from a screenshot anyway? code formatting, variable naming? any references to classes/data structures/whatever not defined in the screenshot can't be attributed to the screenshot owner. maybe everyone is getting fired for putting '{' on a newline??? i have no idea.
Come up with some ideas or pick random large/complex project. Think how it works and start googling for the terms then open blogs link in new tab and read only title and skim 2-5 new buzz words and then open new tab and again start goolong those buzzz words and repeat this process until you get tired. And before you close browser save all the tabs links so that you can waste your time next time by opening thoae tabs.
This is how I waste time on some days.. currently wasting time playing chess
Note that what the article actually says is that there will be no more leap seconds starting in 2035. There could easily still be more before then.
> "Free Speech (tm)" is what you appear to be arguing against.

And what would that be?

> If I had to guess, you envision people who are vocal about free speech as holding views you disagree with.

This has nothing to do with Wikipedia. My contention is that Wikipedia is not for "speech" at all, of any kind.

Eg, this is not "free speech" in any of its meanings: "New York, often called New York City (NYC),[a] is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States."

That's a factual statement that can have been compiled by an AI. It's not an expression of the views or opinions of any single person, and one that can be extracted from maps and databases.

> Whereas as a moral/ethical principle, you cannot have a Wikipedia without the free exchange of ideas - whether it's fact or opinion.

True, but the actual contents of Wikipedia articles aren't supposed to constitute exchanges of ideas.
I would not underestimate the challenges they face operating on the scale they do. I would expect problems in databases, servers, message queues propagate pretty quickly all over the system. Then you need a specific expertise to locate and fix such problems.
Very insightful. It is definitely a balance. They could get away with less devs. I guess I am curious what the specific breaking point will be. Sr Devs will only put up with so much (Even when making an incredible salary).

Side note: do we know how much Twitter Sr. Devs make for sure? I know the term "400k for 5hrs a week" keeps getting thrown around. However, that doesn't seem incredibly well researched and has some triggers baked in
And we finished that transition in 1917. Time is hard.
I've always thought that the best way would just have leap seconds every six months, and have it be ± 1 second no matter what - so sometimes you'd go back a second twice in a row, and then go forward a second to get back to correct.

That'd test all the software paths.
Software Engineers aren’t doing things all the time but there is a tremendous amount of company knowledge and experience locked up in them. You basically pay to keep them employed for when you need them. They are paid for value not hours.
I don't. Crypto traders will never learn. They'll continue to see that coinbase has high fees, low volume, and a limited set of coins and they'll continue to use scammy unregulated exchanges. When one dies they'll just switch to the next one. The majority of crypto volume will never be on a centralized US regulated exchange.
The Buzzards Are Circling Technicolor
> This could be handled for civil/local time via an adjustment in the timezone definitions (something which happens a few times a year today), leaving the underlying UTC timebase unchanged.

Like I said: it could become a huge coordination problem.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_by...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_cale...
Web Technology Optimism Hour
What would using TAI solve exactly? I'm unfamiliar.
Worked on (ironically) my habits and goals platform Conjure[0] every day, now 664 days in a row.

Building it solo and bootstrapped I ensure I track a minimum amount of time every day to maintain momentum.

[0] https://conjure.so
This is what everyone is afraid of. His firings are an assault on the professional credibility among a lot of people
Leap seconds are not useful. We do not need to use them anymore. While yes you are right in that more leap seconds makes it easier to handle leap seconds, it is just better to not have to worry about leap seconds altogother. It is unneeded complexity that helps no one.
More like the precision of ± 0.5 seconds / year, that is to say 15 parts per billion, is that ludicrous. For comparison, time acceleration in geostationary orbit due to general relativity is somewhat less than one part per billion. Household tools (other than clocks) rarely go beyond a percent, and if you need a particular quantity you don’t have a ready-made tool for you’ll likely going to be hard-pressed to go beyond ten percent.

The more precise you want to be, the more complex and numerous physical phenomena you need to consider become; with a system as involved as the Earth, at some point you get to weather-like chaotic behaviour, so no practical amount of additional precision in input data helps anymore.
> Thus, my understanding is that this would be standard diplomatic immunity, no?

Diplomatic immunity is very nuanced and has multiple levels, but in general being a head of state alone does not qualify you. You need to hold a role within a diplomatic mission to the country in which you committed the crime.

Historically the US justice system has blocked civil suits against foreign states and heads of state out of respect for their sovereignty. The major exemption to this under the FSIA is if the foreign state has a commercial nexus to the United States. The Saudi sovereign wealth fund's multiple investments in the US absolutely pierce the protections they would have had.
Boasting in popular science articles with large prefixes is hardly better communication compared to scientific notation. If the prefixes aren't commonly used (anything above tera/peta really isn't), then the majority of people have no frame of reference for what it is any more than it being "a big number".
> shouldn’t most of them be writing code

In an org of that size, there's much work just in stopping other people writing really bad code.
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I'm guessing they were just offered a half-decent severance and didn't want to work there anyways?
Same thing as the Kolmogorov complexity the original poster mentioned. It corresponds to entropy somehow, so I don't think quantum mechanics is on topic here.
> Lots of staff devs do nothing but their jobs.
When I started coding I'd type

10 FOR F = 1 TO 10
20 PRINT F, F*F
30 NEXT F

Because "FOR" and "F" shared the same key, on my ZX Spectrum keyboard.
These employees are in the same situation.

a) will be using Twitter expenses to fly (company credit card or reimbursed)

b) may keep their 6-figure jobs.
He used to be able to code. He created zip2 (predecessor to MapQuest) practically by himself apparently.
I'm starting to think that Elon has really bought into the myth of his own genius (i.e. that he's something like a real life Tony Stark). That didn't really exist until maybe 8-10 years ago.
At this point, I’d like to see a tv show of all this in the vein of recent silicon valley shows like ‘The Dropout’ or ‘Super Pumped’
Larger discussion thread over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197
Two spaces are sufficient.

And with https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news you get even nice gray boxes around code.

Enjoy!
> I think any skeptic should be skeptical in both directions

I agree.

However, I think skepticism should not stop at "we can't know nothing". Once we've established that, the purpose of skepticism is to figure out which reality has a higher probability to be true. In which case, the sober reality has the advantage of being the first (we are born sober and intoxicate ourselves later) and always being there at the end of every trip. Trips are relatively short compared to our sober state.

Of course, an individual might be intoxicated more than he is sober, in which case, from his perspective, sober life wouldn't be "real". But that might also be the case for alien lifeforms that perceive the world with something other than 5 human senses.

Our world only exists in our minds, but our ability to communicate with others allows us to describe the world to them and hear their descriptions, which gives us a lot of confirmation about reality - which we define to be same for everyone.
I suspect you're right. His brand is definitely tarnished at this point.
And Europe is in that situation because of southern Europe
Why have them at all? how many people do things where they actually matter? at the current rate it'll be ~9000ad before we hit an hour offset, and we do hour offsets twice a year, so if an hour off is okay why is 1 second off not?
Genesis of fecal floatation is causally linked to gut microbial colonization
It's getting harder and harder to discredit the idea that this is the most well-crafted and effective $44 billion marketing campaign for socialism. We are seeing Elon speed running the lessons of:

- There is no value without labor;

- Labor organization is crucial to protecting workers; and

- Meritocracy is a myth.

SpaceX was always the primary cause for people deifying Elon but I think it's becoming clearer and clearer that SpaceX succeeded in spite of Elon not because of him.

You literally could not make up the happenings at Twitter since Elon was forced to purchase it after impulsively agreeing to buy it. Between this and the elction we're seeing a bunch of fat Ls for Peter Thiel and his blood boys (JD Vance notwithstanding). I'm including Elon in this cabal (ever since X.com/Papal) as there's a lot of evidence that Thiel was whispering in Elon's ear about acquiring Twitter and may well have been instrumental in Elon shifting further and further right politically.

Imagine for a second firing and losing 90% of your workforce in a month and then scrambling and begging to get some of them back as you realize they're essential. Thing is, this is only beginning. Wait until law enforcement and the government get involved (eg child safety, consent decree compliance).

And on top of that Elon is taken mere weeks to completely destroy verification and then discover exactly why verification existed and is necessary.

And today we have employees simultaneously locked out of the building (after ending remote work) and begging engineers to show up with screenshots of code. You couldn't write this stuff.
Best comment hahaha. Made my day.
Sure, but then you ask them what they do and keep the ones who clean your toilets and drop the ones that organize your fridge.

Your goal isn’t one cleaning person, it’s the right amount
A couple of decades and several jobs ago I wrote some file transfer code that displayed human readable sizes, and as a joke to myself, I included prefixes up to yottabytes. Careful readers of the code should have flagged this as impossible because anything above exa- is impossible using 64 bits, but it got thru review and as far as I know the code lives on to this day. I'm hoping someone adds these new prefixes.
(insert link to canonical "standards" xkcd)
Exactly, go to your 25 year old HotMail account and open the spam folder. That's what they've been fighting.
Not if all few million people live in the same few variants of one apartment, and the same cleanup cleaned all of them.

TBC, talking about the code part.

There's another Twitter, which is not code, but guest and resident services. Your example holds there.
Eh, I'd be willing to wager that a skilled and experienced physicist at SpaceX could probably leave whenever they wanted and go to any other space rocketry company owned and run by an insecure, egotistical, self-centred, human-exploiting, planet-destroying billionaire.
No, I'm not and I never said anything like that.
Do you actually write software then ? In practice I've found DevOps to mean "sysadmins who know how to write scripts and understand enough development process to be supportive".
An alternate read on the situation- these strong reactions aren't indications of hatred, they're indications of irritation. Elon Musk, like his friend Kanye West, like the previous POTUS, like Charlie Sheen back in 2011, has become one of those hugely polarizing, hugely attention-seeking celebrity figures. The way he currently injects himself into controversy and actively courts it, the way he actively trolls everyone, the way he tries to steal limelight with initiatives that go nowhere like the Thai cave submarine or Starlink to Ukraine - there isn't really a partisan angle to why this public behavior can seem annoying. Over the last few years, Musk went from a typical technologist CEO to a social media celebrity, and a particularly obnoxious one at that. Even he and Grimes' child has a name that is inscrutable and pretentious, which is something Hollywood celebs are known for. So that's one reason why he elicits such strong responses.

Compare him to some similar cases. Larry Ellison is a cutthroat executive, huge Republican donor, and is known to make abrasive and belligerent public statements. He was even temporarily the richest man in the world (there was a week in the early 2000s where Microsoft's stock dipped, putting Gates at #2). But he doesn't get the irritation that Musk gets because he stays off Twitter. He doesn't try to stick himself and his brand everywhere. Brian Armstrong banned activism at Coinbase and that also attracted backlash, but he's not seen as a hugely toxic figure. That's because that announcement was in the form of a long dry company policy statement, not by declaring himself to be a free speech absolutist or some sort of protector of not being political in the workplace.

So long story short is, beyond Musk's corporate actions and political stances, he has made himself to be a public irritant. People who don't like his actions and stances are going to be extra-aggrieved by it. I think in some ways there is a certain strategy to it, as we've seen since 2015, to use the negative emotions stirred up in social media to bolster one's aims. Musk has embraced the mantle of a universal celebrity, one who can produce infinite amounts of admiration from his devotees... and infinite amounts of annoyance from those who disagree strongly.

A pretty good video likening that public style to magician's tricks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvvAQxxo_0
Wait what? 6000? I hadn't heard that and did a little searching. This fact check here seems to debunk that number. Though I don't have time to investigate further, and any lives lost is terribly sad.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-many-people-have-died-f...
Inside a boot camp for Chinese TikTok sellers bringing live e-commerce to the US
They take platinum, and we don't have enough. Sure there are a lot of platinum-free alternative's on the horizon, but they have been saying the same thing for decades. Until the day that we figure out how to make a catalyst out of nanotubes, I'm afraid fuel cells will never compete with batteries on a large scale.
They are useful in come niche situations though, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Helios_Prototype
I am lost. Where did Musk say anything about fanciness of the code? Or is it your interpretation of what he said?
If they stopped builds, should be stable. All the infrastructure I've ever worked with has been the most stable when developers aren't pushing to production. 95% or more of incidents are caused by deployments. If you send everyone home, and things autoscale, it can stay up for a good while without SRE or similar functions having to do something.
Populations of Magnetized Filaments in Intracluster Medium and Galactic Center
Stock, "$400" lunches, remote option, etc. Everything that's not a paycheck seems slashed.
I would not want to be on that list.

If it does tank they were part of it.

Hopefully somewhere in the twitter headquarter they are yelling at him to stop. It would be great once times passes to hear their side.
Unrelated but I wish the market/VC/wallstreet put more value into hardware. I know why they never will (lower margins and harder to scale) but as an engineer I would much rather work on something like space ships or automation in robotics over just another internal reporting service that is being rebuilt just to deliver a report in 1 hour instead of 1 day.
Capitalist learns the hard way that his company is worth nothing without its labor
Hardware segmentation in general is just pretty unfortunate. Another example I saw mentioned recently was in-band ECC - Intel’s memory controller apparently supports this but is only enabled in some limited scenarios [0]. If I could enable in-band ECC on my workstation I absolutely would.

Given that some folks did manage to unlock the VGPU functionality on consumer GPUs [1] the silicon is certainly capable, but I guess Nvidia doesn’t want to cannibalise their data centre sales.

[0] - https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/ipla/software...

[1] - https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
This is cool. I find myself also often taking screenshots and sharing as a convenient source of info.

I also feel like when I share the screenshot - via slack, the million messaging clients my various friends / colleagues use, etc. - the context and convo is often lost.

I see the value here in unifying that data in one place - instead of the screenshot, I can just share a link and then go and find all the screenshots somewhere. I like that. Actually, now that I think about it, if you set the `og tags`[1], chat apps should also make an image preview when you paste a link (maybe you are already doing this - I didn't check) so it's a similar effect as what we do today but with the added benefits of cataloging / commenting / finding.

Congrats on launching. Who do you envision as the primary users and first niche use cases?

[1] https://ahrefs.com/blog/open-graph-meta-tags/
> It probably highlights that we have more work to do to bring down the cost of insulin for more people

...

> We want to do our part and work with payers in the system to provide copay assistance.

In other words: to a Pharma exec, "bring down cost" means that insurance and the government should pick up more of the bill, not that they should charge less.
> Why does international oil trade primarily happen in dollars then even when USA is neither of those countries nor is it the biggest trade partner for either of those countries?

Most international trade happens in dollars. This is due in part to competence: the Fed had electronic payments in 1915 [1]. In part to geopolitics: America was the only advanced economy not bombed into oblivion after WWII, an advantage it used to create the Bretton Woods system [2]. And in part to practicality: there aren't many freely-convertible currencies issued by big, stable countries.

> what industrial base?

The U.S. is a massive manufacturer and manufactured-goods exporter [3]. (Number 2 is Europe, another reserve currency issuer. Number 1 is China, which doesn't have an open capital account.)

> How does Srilanka holding dollars benefit from a strong US consumer market?

America is Sri Lanka's top export partner [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedwire#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...

[4] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/lka/
98% of it was/is just opinion articles. There's very little research or real information gathering involved.
Negativity is an extremely broad concept. There is no chance that “negative” tweets will be uniformly deboosted.

Will Elon deboost tweets from Ukrainians condemning Russian war crimes?

Will he deboost his own negative tweets toward US politicians?

Will he deboost US politicians’ tweets criticizing the other party?

Will he deboost tweets critical of his management of Twitter?

Discouraging “negativity” necessarily means “discouraging negativity based on some ideological priors”
the whole thing really does feel like when VW tried to blame engineers for their emissions scandal. Engineers do not set hiring goals or vision for the company. They are not responsible for coming up with features. Yet they are getting 100% of the blame right now.

This is really about two things. 1) Twitter can't afford the debt burdens Elon put on them and 2) Elon really resents being forced to buy a company he does not want and is sticking it to people in the most asinine way possible.
A difference is that with SpaceX and Tesla he was involved in the growth as CEO.

With Twitter he is an outsider coming in to a company serving a very different market, with existing structures and projects he can't know about.
Thank you. That makes sense!
I don't even know why one would bother. Oh you want me to justify my job? I have a better idea - how about you try to find someone else to do what I was doing, without my help.

Good luck!

--I don't work at Twitter
Elon’s War Room
I highly doubt the majority of engineers who are actually good at what they do would be willing to remain in such a toxic environment Musk is creating.

Also so far he has displayed very little understanding of what engineers actually do (the bring you screenshots thing and the way he responded to one of them correcting him on Twitter and a bunch of other cases don't paint the brightest picture).
And yet WhatsApp had 55 employees at acquisition.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/whatsapp-bought-for-19-b...
What will we use.... Euros? Renmenbi? Lol
The benefit of Kaniko (relative to Docker-in-Docker) is that you don't need to run in privileged mode.

We test our containers in our Dev environment after deploying
The full resolution can be found here https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811223/Resolutions-20....

To quote the relevant section:

> [the CGPM] decides that the maximum value for the difference (UT1-UTC) will be increased in, or before, 2035

> [CGPM requests that the ITU] propose a new maximum value for the difference (UT1-UTC) that will ensure the continuity of UTC for at least a century

I think there are a few possible interpretations of this:

- We'll readjust UTC in a century (why would you do this to yourself, please no, nobody wants this) by setting a predicted maximum that'll last 100 years

- The maximum is now 1 hour, we'll adjust clocks the same way we adjust for DST

- The maximum is infinite, UTC is now TAI + the same integral offset forever

I'm hoping for the last one, but who knows. They've once again kicked the can down the road to the next 2026 meeting to decide what the increase in max UT1/UTC difference will look like.
The first is a legal determination and maybe a contract issue. The accounting for it is easy - accounting for thousands/millions/billions of transactions is difficult.

The second is not an accounting issue, it's a combination of legal and business judgement.
I think what happens is his strange behavior is proportional to how little he sleeps. He has a spectrum between mildly unusual to full Kanye.

While I'm usually not in favor of professional unions for programmers, I think that's the only option at Twitter at this point unless people are ready to quit en mass.
Elon's internal memos read as if Twitter engineers were below his standards. I don't doubt that there are some truths in it, but there are also many great engineers who want to build great stuff, who make progress despite the infighting culture of Twitter, and who have built pretty scalable and autonomous systems in the past years. They may feel dignified by Elon's policies and memos, for good or for bad, and then chose to leave - a net loss for Twitter.

And what's so hardcore about Payroll system? Shouldn't we demand quality instead and I'm not sure if working 80 hours a week would lead to better quality of the system.