skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed - and it can help reduce evaporation, too. It's just that in some instances, some algae growth and some evaporation might be desirable.
1/3 … sure.

But the current reports are in the vicinity of 60% to 90% of the companies employees.

Obviously it’s extremely hard to get accurate numbers because one minute it’s reply yes to this or your gone, the next it’s report to this room, then batches are getting rehired because they are essential to operations and it’s jumping around like the staff head count graph has arrhythmia.
I fully understand the benefit to the company.

What I don’t understand is the benefit to me as a customer.
This tells me you’ve never worked 80 hour weeks.
It’s part of it.

What get promoted, what get shut down.

It’s clear for most people moderately conservative.

We can agree to disagree. For my part I think we will see massive changes for the better, time will tell either way.
> If you want to change the world, are ready to push yourself, work with the most dedicated people, it is.

Yikes.

Maybe for SpaceX.

For Tesla 5 years ago.

For Twitter 10 years ago.

But now "change the world" is only true for SpaceX.
Well, it probably also applies to Plato, but what Fred Brooks wrote is still not considered _obvious_.

Exhibit A : every single project manager who tried to address a tight schedule on a late project with a "well, we'll get more people in.". Today.
> What is meant by "processed"?

In the case of meat I think it's usually referring to added nitrates as a result of processing, which is linked to health problems [0].

> To me, it's not obvious that "processed is bad" particularly because I don't know what "processed" means.

Yeah I think your point is valid - "whole" is a bit like "natural". Too broad and undefined. We're supposed to think one is good and one is bad because marketing of "whole" and "natural" is trying to create that impression. No-one says "chemical" in their marketing, like no-one says "processed". You only advertise as "natural" or "whole".

[0] WebMD, but there's loads of articles about it https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-nitrates
I'm a senior developer at bit tech and I had 1 small CL this year.

I've spent whole year aligning a team strategy with an overall company strategy, and making sure that rest of the people on my team build is actually fitting into that strategy.

In the past, team spend many years build custom stuff, that always had to be thrown away. Now, work we're doing is a part of a company direction, our expertise influenced it, and as a result we're no longer building throw away things, but also building something that impacts the whole company. I'll be blunt - I've made people on my team 10x more productive as a result.

At bigger companies there's many ways you can be a senior developer. Does it sucks that people need to do stuff like that? Oh yeah, I'd prefer to have 100s of CL this year. But that's often a motion, not progress. As a senior, I'm accountable to make sure we make progress.
> every year during the World Cup

Wat?
Thanks a lot for your answer!

EDIT: Just to know: clang sanitizers or anything else?
People act like this asshole out there wrenching on Raptor engines or something.

No. He sits at the top and commands, like a king. And yet he is apparently solely responsible for engineering achievements? The guy who gave "cold gas jet thrusters" on a tesla a legitimate idea for more speed, or using rockets for fast travel on earth, or "humans drive with just two eyes (and a millennia of evolution and experience) so we will replicate that with just two shitty off the shelf CCDs that don't even compare to eyeballs, and oh btw we are removing ultrasonic sensors and I promise it's not because we are cheapskates trying to balloon profit margins to meet our absurd overhyped valuation". Has he ever said anything of actual engineering value?

Like come on. He doesn't even technically run things at SpaceX, they literally had to hire someone whose job is to stand between Elon and any semblance of control of the company.

It would be like if you went to mcdonalds, got a burger, and thanked the statue of Ronald Mcdonald on the way out. That's not how the world works, ronald didn't make your burger.
> if [Steve Jobs] came in and bought my employer and then just started firing whole teams and fucking up the product while taking away perks and demanding more work

Isn't that pretty much what Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple as CEO?

"Ultimately, Jobs axed more than 70 percent of Apple’s hardware and software products."

"His product cuts resulted in the layoffs of over 3000 employees"

"Jobs managed to force the resignation of most of Apple’s board members"

https://www.macworld.com/article/219225/steve-jobss-seven-ke...
To add a little bit to the other good answers:

https://wiki.c2.com/?CoinductiveDataType
> Do normal humans publish "waking hours"? Not typically.

I believe I just fell in love with that idea. If this would become a social norm people would maybe stop trying to reach me in the morning.

And I would know if it's too late to call others.
Datetime storage would consist of two explicit parts: one free from leap seconds (similar to the raw timestamp you get from a GPS receiver), and description of when leap seconds happen, so that you can transform the leap-second-free timestamp into UTC. Feels like a more robust way in principle to me.
That's like asking an artist to bring screen shots of the best 10 brush strokes.
I like to drink tomato juice and pretend it's blood, and eat gumi bears and pretend they're little fetuses, to get all the blood sucking baby eating urges out of my system.
What a glorious entertaining shit show - nobody could have predicted this - Jason Calcanis probably send this one.
Every organization is different but no, I don't think most of them should be writing code. I wouldn't put any kind of quantifier on it. Software development is not just "writing code". Shipping code from ideation to production is more complicated than layman want to make it out to be, especially at these scales. This dystopian "nobody works" fantasy that some people wish for is simply that, a fantasy. I'm willing to bet most, if not all Twitter developers were above average across the industry and were producing work of value.
Then the email wasn't targeted to you. So all of what you said instantly becomes irrelevant.
I'm sorry but who is this guy and why should we care?
You'd be surprised how much space/robotics is just analytics and reporting. But I get the sentiment. If you want to get into robotics, coursera courses and some ML knowledge can go a long way in today's hiring market.
Generally the same sheep is used for wool and slaughtered for meat. Old sheep produce subpar wool, just like old humans hair is thinner etc. You also don’t want to keep feeding an animal that’s likely to die before you can harvest the wool.

Warning video at bottom of page is graphic: https://www.woolfacts.com/wool-and-animal-welfare/slaughterh...
> and didn't want to work there anyways?

Who would, anymore?
To play the devil's advocate, what if you met people in your recurring dreams that could communicate to you that they're observing the dreamworld the same as you, how would you know the difference between dreams and reality?
You are what you eat.

What you eat is what it eats.
> Lazy people work the hardest.

What's amazingly funny is that many people think this is a positive, because they ascribe more value to working hard than to achieving results. I even thought your comment was going to go that way when I first read it.
I'm not that type of engineer, but I suspect it would be much easier as well. An ME could just show a picture of whatever part he designed. If it's part of the car's running gear it is unlikely to be something un-needed. If that person was an EE, they could just show a picture of the wiring harness potentially if they built that. The car is basically just a static display without that.
Why does an online car webpage need 18k+ employees? I don't get why they are so huge in employees.
What if your most important contribution so far this year has been removing 10,000 lines of code?
Plus he could just search for that code in the repo to get the overall context, he probably has access :)
SDCBench: A Benchmark Suite for Datacenter Workload Colocation and Evaluation
This is a lot of defense, which is sort of irrelevant. All I've said is that Linehan's current public status and notability centers around each of the things mentioned in his Wikipedia article, which is...exactly what Wikipedia is supposed to be for.

The material content of his positions isn't that important to me; only that Wikipedia doesn't conveniently omit those positions.
To what future employer? The culling seems almost entirely arbitrary. Are future employers going to see someone with exceptional talent, or a high tolerance for further abuse?
Presumably this case was covered in the first round of layoffs when they stack ranked engineers by lines of code produced in the last (6 months? 1 year?)
I'd just like to hear from one of the reportedly million people affected directly.

Is there a subreddit or something? One person tried to open one but was called out as a scammer [0], and commenters in that thread are also asking if there is any FTX victim even on the subreddit.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/yvqyji/i_have_cre...
Elon has clearly read enough Hacker News to ask the question we've all been asking for the last... 5? 10? years. "What do all of those engineers do at [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Netflix/Google]".

That's a fine question to ask -- it's clear that plenty of those engineers aren't contributing real value. They're working on passion projects, or side projects like React or Docusaurus, or pie-in-the-sky next-gen products, or reinventing the wheel in-house, or infrastructure, etc. Many are working on similar projects in separate silos of large companies, completely unaware that they have "twin" teams elsewhere in the org solving damn near the same problem, but not in a generalized way.

The big problem is that Elon has no idea what the fuck he is doing. I don't mean to disparage anyone, but jeez... the guy has fired thousands of people in the last few weeks and looks like he's on the cusp of running a company that's been around for over a decade into the ground in the next few weeks. Over the holidays. And who's going to deal with the issue? Oh yeah, the H1B visa holding employees who can't escape. He's officially a jerk, and that's not even counting the times when he called innocent people child molesters, or spouted lies about crypto, or tried to manipulate Tesla stock, etc. etc.

TL;DR: Elon is an idiot trying to use internet wisdom to run a company. This whole situation reminds me of when some rich person you know tries to run a small business, like a coffee shop or an ice cream shop, and they screw up just about every piece of it... because they don't get the fundamentals. Elon does NOT get the fundamentals, based on observations of him over the last few years. It's clear he's just a lucky rich kid with a big ego and lots of confidence who loves smoking weed and ruining other people's lives.
This is much nicer for other people coming into this. It's the same problem with spoken language and slang, slang is better if you know it, worse if you don't.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years - dumbest HR question ever - earn bucket loads of more money ???.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593458225533313025.html
Congratulations on the launch.

The interesting part of this is that the client supplies the most difficult resource to get for this setup. As in, a machine on which Firecracker can run.
This really depends a lot on context and there's no right or wrong answer here.

If you're working on something safety critical you'll want correctness every time. For most things short of that it's a trade-off between risk, time, and money—each of which can be fungible depending on context.
Smoking pot isn't going to make you in to Jack Herer. He's just describing some amazing experiences people who've never done it probably don't even realize are possible.

And the person with Aspergers is again just simply describing experiences which are open to anyone... you don't have to have Apergers to benefit from such experiences, though of course they're not guaranteed to anyone.. nothing in life is, and different people experience these substances differently. Still, I found it interesting. Sorry you did not.
IMHO (my first and I hope last Elon comment), at a higher level of cognition, Elon is just playing two simple games: maximum buzz (media game), and maximum control (politics game).

All his public persona, including all that pre-acquisition drama, is just for maximum buzz (Who cares about a few hundred millions ?)

All this post-acquisition drama is just for maximum control (over Twitter and ?).

If this is the case, some superhuman resilience and confidence are certainly needed. And if you have them, it is just mind-boggling how you can generate and control such a colossal level of human activity and attention by using a few words here and there.

I'm not trying to be condescending or original here. I'm really just refusing the idea that the inner-Elon is really as conflicted as it appears, so I'm refusing to react to his games (because as I can afford to, not like twitter employees for sure)
The whole of how we experience reality is made up by our mind. Decisions and actions are sort of precognitions - rather than being reactions to stimuli, they’re actions with expected results, adjusted very fast after we get feedback. Probably sharing some wiring, most of us agree on the same stuff. But there are outliers. If the mind can create reality and all the worlds we can imagine awake, then certainly in an altered state it can create other experiences. What’s real? Anything or nothing, maybe everything in between.
Alternative theory:

They save all the "stuff that requires physical activity" to when he visits, some of it for show, and actually are doing the real work when he's not there. It's hilarious to think that what you can see from the fence line, constitutes an assessment of what work is being done
Well, if you buy them all checkmark, they will probably be able to stay
Here's a different take. I was a Staff Engineer at one job. Want to know what my best work one year was? An outsourcing contract I spent a few months negotiating.

Any code I checked (that year anyway) in paled in comparison to the value I added by doing that.
Carvana likely has very few engineers. Most of the employees are in operations facilitating car purchasing, inspecting, pricing, etc.
I'm no Elon fan, but why does essentially everyone in these threads automatically assume he is wrong?

Has no one here worked at companies where there was more dead weight than talent? Where 80% of the work being done is by 20% of the people, and there are whole teams that do almost nothing?

What if there is no clean, efficient way to discover who should be fired and so Elon's fallback plan is to test for who really wants to continue working for the company vs. who is apathetic?

I'm not saying it will necessarily work, but I'm also not going to assume he is grossly incompetent either.
I don't like the title. It asserts a finding that wasn't actually found.

They determined that the science doesn't really support claims of red meat causing x, y or z health issue. That is not the same as finding that red meat is not a health risk.

The real conclusion: Nutrition science has a long history of poor methodology and cannot state much at all with much statistical confidence.

That conclusion should not shock anyone familiar with how most such studies get done.
Just like we didn't need to be devs at twitter to know 7000 devs were probably too much, we don't have to be the CEO of twitter to look at it's burning body and call for the bucket brigade.
Look carefully at the ingredients list on any packaged foods you're buying. Many things contain sugar in the US when the equivalent product in Europe does not. A particularly insidious example is pre-made broth/stock: nearly every single product on the shelves at my local grocery store contains unnecessary sugar. Same goes for canned beans and salad dressings. Doing your due diligence when buying packaged foods is an unfortunate necessity if you live in the US and want to stay healthy. God, I miss grocery shopping in France!!
"Larry Sanger, one of the original founders of Wikipedia, has openly stated that Wikipedia is clearly biased."
Larry Sanger is a nut.
The section 230 "analysis" is bs too .
cool it with the antisemitic remarks
I'll take getting rugged over becoming a burger any day
TAI is monotonic clock, and isn't adjusted for solar time of day, it could be considered universal as TAI would be the same between any 2 points, but UTC is adjusted for earths rotation, so a theoretical mars UTC would end up out of sync with earth UTC.

EDIT: info below is incorrect about UTC not being monotonic, as pointed out in thread but is useful for monotonic vs non-monotonic:

In UTC you can jump forward or back, so it's possible to do an operation after another operation but have a timestamp before it, which is bad for many reasons, top being auditing.

do operation one at T0
do operation two at T1
do operation three at T-1

in TAI it would always be
do operation one at T0
do operation two at T1
do operation three at T2
>just saying more research needs to be done

Right, because the results of the previous studies amount to evidence that is too weak to conclude that red meat is inherently unhealthy to consume. I'm not sure how your comment contradicts this.
That's definitely the bet he's making. I think most of the best people will leave because they can make the same money working normal hours. He'll end up with those who can't find another job, those stuck at Twitter because of visas, and some unknown percentage of his desired "hardcore" employees.
Comments talking about how Musk will look at those screenshots of code and somehow determine an employee's worth are hilarious.

This obviously has nothing to do with evaluating a developer's quality; this is a classic move dictators do to determine who has chugged the kool-aid all the way (who are the most loyal and subservient underlings willing to demean themselves to this level). Nothing more, nothing less.
the problems outside NIMBYS are the costs of drilling and the "short life" of plants. Usually 20 years or less. Innovations on these fields could bring costs down dramatically
You don't seem to be across what's happening in Europe. All of the companies you mentioned are invested in Ionity which provides 350 kW chargers at over 400 locations:

https://ionity.eu/en/ionity/who-we-are

Europe has standardized on CCS Type 2 Combo for charging. Any CCS EV can charge on any CCS charging network. Teslas can charge on Ionity, BMWs can charge on Tesla chargers, charging networks like FastNed, BP, GridServe, EnBW, Circle K and friends can charge all brands, etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y33AArvMUQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TVohXHjLro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yra3AsicSRY
I think everyone from 1850 would trade their favorite toe to live in the lowest quartile in the western world.

When I lived below poverty line I still had internet, a computer, an apt, access to high quality food and medicine (by 1850 standards), plenty of friends, and a television. I just had to live with 3 other people.
True, but vapid.
Yeah that's wild, so you have like maybe 80-150 lines per shot to prove your worth. What is he looking for, algorithm interview tricks like a quick sort or graph traversal? He's in for a shock when he learns most coding isn't what is done in interviews--I bet most Twitter engineer's best work would look like some ugly tangle of complex syncronization logic to allow highly parallel processing. Fast, efficient code isn't always nice to look at or read.
how many commits of the fast inverse square root are being added to twitter's codebase right now, you think?
> A lot of Seniors/Staff don't write "code". They're architecting/planning/guiding.

This is a problem.
Sometimes corporate greed is why systems are so hard.

My previous company had a very rigid repayment system and i swear it was designed to deny expenses.

Once i submitted an expense for $3.25 for a train and they wanted receipts. I didn't have one and they wanted me to sign an affidavit that i would not find the receipt and resubmit my expense.

This is for $3.25 and the amount of time spent trying to get my money back exceeded the expense amount.

The obvious common sense question should have been : If my plane landed in X, and the office is located at Y, how did i get there?
I've found it to formalise the realisation that there are a number of developers who are hands on and keep the stuff running in production, and rather than employ another bunch to do this, it might make more sense to just leave the developers to it.
This is a matter of degree, short video sets the bar lower and encourages the behavior. After all, the reacting videos are only small part of Youtube the whole platform, but short videos are always like that kind of nonsense.
He received paychecks from Twitter which automatically makes him a hero on HN.
I think there are still some really in-depth, really interesting articles posted on here that you're much less likely to see on, say, /r/programming. like the thread today from @mosquitocapital about 30 SRE/SRE-adjacent scenarios that billion+ DAU social media platforms need to consider. Some of the comments from those posts are also really, really interesting.

Also consider that tech at the moment is going through some insane sea changes that definitely affect entrepreneurs and hackers starting stuff, so lots of news is to be expected
Well said. I think this is where the 4-day work week and WFH pushes in the software industry get their momentum: most of us don't need to work 40 hours in an office with a manager looking over our shoulder to provide that value.
It really depends on who stays and who goes. Big organizations are collections of individual teams. Each key part of the site has a team behind it with 5 - 10 engineers.

If the departures are such that for each team, 1 competent senior engineer remains who can keep that domain running, then Twitter could be unaffected with 1/5 of its workforce. They might not be building new features, but the current site could function, which is reasonable since the current site is arguably feature complete.

But in reality it won't be as clean as that. If the whole localization team quits, suddenly the site won't be translated to other languages. If the whole mobile release team quits, suddenly the Twitter app might disappear from the app store. Or the security team is gutted and suddenly everyone's passwords are leaked.
So you bar all junior developers from writing code until they've gone through tested coursework in your domain, or what?
I mean honestly, yeah?

If I was forced to take part in this absolutely idiotic exercise I’d be including descriptions of the purpose of the code along with the screenshots/printouts.

“These are the configuration files I maintain. Collectively these control the orchestration of 9,000 of our servers which make up over 80% of our infrastructure” would be be pretty compelling.

Ultimately, while he’s going about it in an insane way that I will not defend one iota, he’s trying to figure out who does what.

It’s one of those things where you have to read between the lines and figure out what the client/exec/boomer actually needs and wants, versus the nonsensical thing they actually asked for.

Your boss who wants his emails printed out every morning may actually just literally want them on paper OR they may actually want a system of triaging and responding to messages that is easy to do with paper but is difficult to achieve with software (and is still, honestly, clunkier than using paper sometimes if we’re being honest)
May I suggest that you acquire a dracunculiasis parasite to verify your perpsective?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis