skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the teams support advertisers (the actual customer, not the users). They would be either a) keeping conversations such that advertisers want to have their brands next to them b) keeping relationships with advertisers or c) running machine learning to match ads with users.

If your advertisers go away, then a whole lot of the iceberg of complexity underneath the bird app goes away.
There's a difference between saying "I could bang that out in a weekend and replace the whole department" and recognizing that 3,000 people supporting a relatively small feature is a sign of bloat in an organization. Surely there's _some_ point where the headcount becomes a sign of a problem -- would it be okay to make OP's comment if 100,000 people were working that feature?

I agree with your general point that a "software team" in a big org requires a lot more people than just engineers developing new features, and that the headcount doesn't necessarily scale linearly. That doesn't change the fact that in a normal business, if 3,000 full-time staff (support staff and all) are working on something, it's probably something pretty big that generates enough revenue or has enough growth potential to justify that cost. Even if a team is working hard and "doing stuff", they can still be grossly overstaffed.
Somehow your ad hominem argument via a strawman fallacy projected on a medical professional who provided valid data when orthodoxy opposed this data on emotionally biased political grounds is not super compelling.
I believe communication is the responsibility of the sender (not a two way street, like most people say).

When I started taking personal responsibility for all communication mishaps, things changed around me.

If I think someone is communicating poorly, I attribute it to my own ask being vague - and make sure to clarify my current goals by mapping to every else's goals. "Seek first to understand, then be understood" was the mantra I kept in mind.

People rise (or fall) to the expectations around them. If someone lacks a key skill in life, it's possible they've never had a good role model for that skill. You could be that role model!
SOP for these cases should be to write a post about it asap and post to HN, so that there's an additional carrot for AWS to forgive the cost (a happy ending update where AWS did the right thing)
Usually, people asking me questions don't want to hear "I don't know.". They want me to dedicate myself to solving their issue.
...but UTC is still offset from TAI by 37 seconds. Any plans to do anything about that, I wonder?
I'm a big fan of Nirvana, so in that sense you are correct. But I'm not sure I want to live that life or want my kids to live that life.
When you say it's limited in what it can do, what are you comparing it to? And what do you wish it could do?

Fly has a lot of ideas here, and we've also been able to optimize how things work in terms of downloads and as for boot-up speed, it's less than 1-2s before a runner is connected.
Doesn't this assume that you won't eventually just replace some of these people?
There aren't any NixOS-like tooling that isn't incredibly burdensome. I think Nix and NixOS have the right vision, but there's way too much friction for most orgs to use. Containers are imperfect, but they're way easier to work with.
He's a techno-feudalist. The lord doesn't need to explain to his serfs why his demands are required.

Elon's previous companies are populated by true believers (albeit because of a shared vision ie: colonizing Mars) who behave more like serfs when pushed. With Twitter, it's like Elon started governing a democracy and didn't realize that almost everyone (except H1B holders) can just leave and do something else.
Yes, good catch! Add in maybe 20% for management and it's still a manageable amount of headcount. The $1M/advertiser does a lot of the lifting here - so I looked into it a little more. In 2016, Twitter had 130k advertisers[0], some can self-serve but many need inside sales reps.

Fermi estimates are crude, but the point is there are many non-engineering functions that are absolutely critical. Many HN folks seem to think like Elon, that these roles are unnecessary. I disagree.

[0] https://www.marketingdive.com/news/twitter-increases-number-...
Twitter became Twitter by branding functionality that everyone with an email address already had access to, and slapping a simpler interface on it. Could that be replicated? The historical success of innumerable chat startups suggest it could be.

The successor to Twitter has an advantage that Twitter didn't have, which is an existing social graph ready to migrate. If a critical mass of the Twitter graph moves to Mastodon, and the interface and experience can be made as simple as Twitter, it has a chance.
Do you have a study?

The "control" line is there to prevent exactly this problem. If there are no antibodies (reagents) in the test, the control bar won't "light up", making the test invalid rather than negative.
A few things:

- gitea for git
- a drone CI
- a few WordPress blogs
- a Jellyfin server for media
Diet can have different effect across different states in the US too. California doesn't (seem to) use the same types of lard and oils that you'd find in Georgia, judging by cholesterol issues that self-resolved without change in diet or exercise.
SBF branding himself as an effective altruist and even purposely dressed in the silicon valley "genius" attire. His condo in the bahamas was after he hit it big and needed to be close to Washington to work on crypto regulation.

There's a huge gap between that and the majority of crypto founders at the time.
Twitter Is a Usability Mess
The claim about processed foods has usually become very much accepted because of the failure to correlate any other aspect of food convincingly with the obesity epidemic. That is, there are populations much less obese than others eating all variants of macronutrient distributions (high fat, high carbohydrate, high meat, etc - you can find a low obesity population eating like that somewhere in the world). Processed foods are more or less the only remaining food-based explanation.
i won't link to them, but this is public information, at least for the H1-B. you can find the number for a given company and their respective positions.
I had this at an apartment once. They were a large enough company that they did this and it was great. Now I have to mail a check to my current one. It's a shame, but probably is related to scale.
Yes, that's the selling point of crypto. This is not about crypto however, which continues to work perfectly fine, this is about an exchange.

Nobody would be opposed to have these companies audited. In fact people have been asked for tether and so on to be audited for ages.

The problem is anytime regulations are mentioned, they are about hurting the user, and not preventing things like FTX from happening.

I'm talking of things like the bill SBF himself proposed, which aimed to fuck defi (actual crypto, where you can't steal people's money like FTX did), to force people into these centralized exchanges where you don't actually own or hold any crypto.
Nobody in their right mind would publicly support Elon right now because they would be mobbed
This speaks like greek to me and I'm a software engineer.

Don't get why this incredibly niche company is boosted like crazy on HN.
Other like-minded people are some of the former vegetarian/vegan run butcher shops [0]. Basic premise is they only wanted to eat meat if it was from somewhere with animal well-being and conservationism as a focus, and they came to the conclusion that the best way to do that was to source the meat themselves.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/dining/butchers-meat-vege...
All instances I see federating to everyone else, they all handle CSAM reasonably quickly
This is the ground crew being raptured, the flight crew all exploding, the plane had an engine removed "to trim the fat", the company who sold you fuel pulled out of the deal, everyone on the plane who has ever played flight simulator dies and is replaced one of those people who know just enough to fuck up.
There will soon be seven billion people on the planet (2011)
Do you have a favorite software that you just love?

I'm also curious how you decide to self host vs host on cloud. Is it purely for public facing vs private stuff or is it different?

Also, what are the majority of your costs? Do you have a few different VPSs or one big shared one?
Using rebase and reflog really taught me a lot about git, because it "rewrites" history and exposes you to some nuance. Like: basically nothing in git is ever gone if it was at one point committed to the repository, that includes branches you delete and never pushed, it also includes commits that are removed with git reset --hard. Once I learned about how to find references, refer to them, and manipulate them, everything else made a lot more sense.
> How, and whether, to keep atomic time in sync with Earth's rotation is still up for debate.

[…]

> The CGPM — which also oversees the international system of units (SI) — has proposed that no leap second should be added for at least a century, allowing UT1 and UTC to slide out of sync by about 1 minute. But it plans to consult with other international organizations and decide by 2026 on what upper limit, if any, to put on how much they be allowed to diverge.

So everything about this hasn't quite been sorted out yet.

At some point there may need to be a reckoning like was done with the calendar:

> Second, in the years since the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325,[b] the excess leap days introduced by the Julian algorithm had caused the calendar to drift such that the (Northern) spring equinox was occurring well before its nominal 21 March date. This date was important to the Christian churches because it is fundamental to the calculation of the date of Easter. To reinstate the association, the reform advanced the date by 10 days:[c] Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 October 1582.[3]

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

As annoying as handling a leap second could be, if it happens even somewhat regularly it can be testing more often. Deciding in the future to do a 'one-off' event may be more challenging from both a coördination point of view, as well as trying to handle a rare event correctly in (e.g.) code.
I would only want qualified people and not laymen voting on this. It's technical, not social. It has little bearing on anyone's lived experiences apart from scientists and engineers.
so you are project manager?
I suspect Elon wildly overestimates the attraction of working on Twitter.

For Tesla, it was one of a handful of places in the world where you could work on electric cars. SpaceX was one of what -- maybe 3 places in the world? -- where you really could work on rockets. If either of those inspired you, Tesla and SpaceX are premier employers.

If your interests are building large distributed systems, that has lots of choices.
It seems you're in a narrow minority with that opinion, though it's closer than I would've guessed. 65% for No Outages by Dec 15, '22.

https://polymarket.com/market/will-twitter-report-any-outage...
16 and 17 are not divisible by 3
Dominance of App Store and Google Play is hurting developers and users
The psuedojournalists you are referring to are worse than simple plagiarizers: they share content they lack the capacity to analyze, but still add their own spin.

I think they have played a significant role in enabling many of the dumbest outcomes of the last decade.
Shared notes, timesheets, device backups, video and audio streaming, calendar, email, addressbook, various utilities.
Do those make you actively deeply angry? If so I don't know how you have the energy for that. My reaction is closer to sadness in addition to taking a very different shape.

There's a big difference between how bad something is and how much it causes personal anger. And most people in the world haven't faced disasters like those. So I don't think it's begging for that comparison.
Hurrah!

Each leap second event causes hundred of millions of dollars worth of disruption and that's not including the disruption created by leapseconds even when they're not happening (e.g. the frequent false leap seconds) or the mini-disaster we're sure to experience should there be a negative leap second (which we are still trending towards).

The delays are unfortunate because it's harder to transition applications that need UT1 to use an offset from UTC when the available time sources are still unpredictably and unreliably leaping on you (since to apply a UT1 correction you need your UT1 offset and your UTC source to agree if and how a leap second has been applied).

From a practical perspective it would be better to immediately discontinue leaping, then UTC would immediately become a stable time that adjustments could be applied against for those few applications that need them. It would also save us from a negative leap second.
Family locator service Life360 to acquire Tile for $205M
The engineers (don't care about non-engineers) who quit need to face the fact that were part of "company" which gave negative returns to both public and private investors for almost a decade.

I think "committed" will still be 8 hours/day, like I said he sussed out people who are "triggered" by words or don't love what they do.
> How is trusting your network entry point to Cloudflare (or whoever) any better than having it at a VPS?

I was referring to the other advantages, not the privacy. They're about the same on privacy.

> Here's a better solution: Get a free/cheap VPS. Setup a Wireguard tunnel from your home server to it. Slap a reverse proxy on the VPS that forwards internet traffic through the tunnel to your home server.

Way too difficult for the users I'm trying to reach.
A lot of people are interested in working for him.

Tesla and SpaceX fight for #1 and #2 spot for place to work.

Is changing the auto industry, he is overpassing Nasa with a fraction of the budget. How much proof do you need?
If you have things on your device that match entries in the CSAM database, yes there's a chance you're a victim of a targeted attack taking advantage of highly experimental collisions... but the odds you "accidentally generated" that content are not realistic.
This seems like such a stupid boondoggle. Loved this quote:

"I can relax assumptions all day," Handmer wrote. "I can grant 100 percent transmission efficiency, $10/kg orbital launch costs, complete development and procurement cost parity, and a crippling land shortage on Earth. Even then, space-based solar power still won’t be able to compete. I can grant a post-scarcity fully automated luxury communist space economy with self-replicating robots processing asteroids into solar panels, and even then people will still prefer to have solar panels on their roof."
Just one brand name on your resume can entirely change the trajectory of your career compensation. I see so many people working as SWEs at these small businesses or even fortune 500 companies. Sure they make 6 figures usually but their compensation is not in the same stratosphere as even entry level big tech SWE since so much of big tech pay is in equity.
This blog post claims that they're seeing only 10% the volume of postmarket sales they usually see, and Ticketmaster isn't running any resales for these tickets. Seems like this might be a genuinely difficult supply/demand issue, rather than a "Ticketmaster is evil" problem.

That being said, scalpers disgust me. Anybody selling their tickets for a 500%+ markup on the aftermarket ought to lose their tickets and their money. I say this as a waitlister who genuinely wanted to attend one of the Eras concerts!
Honestly can't tell if this is in parody or not lol
To be clear, you want to move off of earth to another planet because you think all children of law professors are sociopaths? Do you think there's any irony in accusing other people of having a child like view of the world?
Imagine going to jail because someone uploaded a file to your computer
I'm not even a sycophant, and I'm starting to wonder this, only because it somehow makes more sense than to pull a Dark Knight Joker and light a pile of money on fire.
No, we are not an outlier. Nearly all fintechs that work in traditional finance must have these controls in place, because otherwise nobody else will do business with them. E.g. you've got to have SOC 2 or ISO27001 compliance (or some other standard) for counterparties to even pick up the phone to do business with you.

I don't mean to be rude, but you seem very unaware what standards are in this space. (Or rather, I should say the financial space, as everything seems to be a shitshow in crypto). You seem to be conflating what, say, some social media platform or todo app startup needs to do for compliance vs. a financial company.

FTX was in the business of handling other people's money, and they can't even say where billions of dollars have gone. If you think this is just normal "startup chaos", please, please, please don't ever work in a financial startup.
I think there is a question of "Wait till when?" Its not like these kind of languages pop up all the time, let alone get adoption. Rust checks most of the important boxes, and the few it doesn't do well they are working on.
Edit: As burkaman said I misspelled units.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612668
congratulations on the launch. it looks pretty much like a self-hosted version of https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions
Very much this.

Anecdote time: I have an acquaintance who’s an engineer who works on nuclear power plant technology. They’ve wanted out of their current employer for over a decade now.

Why have they stuck around? Because their current employer is the only one in a several thousand kilometer radius with any use for their expertise, one of only a couple they could work for without leaving the country, and one of only a handful whose primary language of business is one that they speak.

Tesla, SpaceX, and perhaps even the Boring Company have much more in common with that situation than they do with Twitter.
Having this belief a year ago got you fired from work, barred from gyms and restaurants, deplatformed from social networks.
State of Private Markets: Q3 2022
Sure, but the "collapse" is terrible management here lol. Terrible, by the metric of his own inconsistent actions. To suddenly reverse the decision of accidentally laying off 80% of your workforce is hilarious.

People aren't saying the app isn't working. If you lay off all of HR will your company still run tomorrow? Of course. Lay off all of engineering will the app still run tomorrow? Of course (most likely lol).

The collapse is the implied result of all these terrible decisions. Terrible decisions which imply terrible leadership. And companies can only survive terrible leadership for so long.
Lol, who is doing the communicating?

I haven't met a single defender of Musk that has the slightest inkling of business or tech, and this is a great example.

You want to have random engineers talking to the press through their Twitter accounts? Sounds great! Especially if there's no way to tell who actually even works at Twitter because verification is now purchased for a tiny amount of money, rather than reflecting any sort of trust based verification.
I think everyone agrees that the Bazel/Nix approach is correct, the problem is that Bazel/Nix/etc are insanely hard to use. For example, I spent a good chunk of last weekend trying to get Bazel to build a multiarch Go image, and I couldn't figure it out. Someone needs to figure out how to polish Bazel/Nix so they're viable for organizations that can't invest in a team to operate and provide guidance on Bazel/Nix/etc.
I tried to archive a page and it started after ~5 seconds, even though the queue is long (2173). They seem to have different priorities for different IPs/URLs.

While I'm sure some abuse the service, the long queue could be just a side effect of them being more popular now than they used to be. I find myself using them, archive.org, and Google cache more now because of geo blocks and/or pages that are hard to view.
Ask HN: Paid training by my company, what should I propose?
My manager told us in the last area meeting that he had to design the training plan for this following year, and he said that, if we had any particular interest in learning something, we could propose it. So here I am, asking for your suggestions!

For context, we mainly work with Node.js, MySQL and AWS. Our company is AWS Advanced Technology Partner, so getting AWS certs is already in the table. Some of my colleagues proposed learning about Domain-driven design / Hexagonal Architecture / Clean Architecture, which I think it's a good idea. But I wanna hear your suggestions, no matter if you propose learning oriented to specific tools or about programming concepts in general. Of course, I believe that these suggestions should be related to the things I do in my job: maybe learning Kubernetes is useful, but I don't think I could convince my manager to pay for it if we don't use Kubernetes anywhere.

Wanting to hear from you! Thanks in advance :)
"Change the world by adding PayPal to Twitter."

Nah.
And knowledge drain? I mean the codebase must be substantial?
Can you elaborate on some of the lessons of Bazel? I've only just heard of it recently, and while I'm intrigued, my impression is this is similar to Facebook writing their own source control: different problems at massive scale. Can a SMB (~50 engineers) benefit from adopting Bazel?
Is it?

There's two angles to justice. The legal, and the moral.

What was done to him was legal, and nobody's denying that.

Given the scope of the crimes he was convicted for, I don't think it was immortal to throw the entire book at him, to the maximum possible legal extent.
Two reasons:
1) Not focusing on why the question is being asked.
2) Not understanding the person asking the question's scope of knowledge

You need to target your communication to the audience.
I had a similar thought - perhaps Elon was visited by a time traveler from the future who convinced him that the only way to stave off some impending disaster is for someone to drive Twitter into bankruptcy as quickly as possible, and he heroically offered to ruin his fortune and reputation to save humanity. That's a stupid idea, but it would elegantly explain his recent behavior...
In some sense, all jobs are bullshit jobs. But I have to ask if you're doing ok - this isn't an appropriate response to my Fermi estimate.
Every well built tech product will continue to “work” indefinitely with a small maintenance crew if no one touches or changes anything. Not changing anything, however, is not exactly what Elon has planned for Twitter. The company will only start to get tested when the current code and deploy freezes are lifted and new features start to ship.
> how do people store data for 100+ years?

Print it.
Which ones are new? I don't speak french (I think it's french, not sure)
> People who pirate would not pay for that stuff anyway.

How can then Steam, Nerflix, etc. reduce piracy by orders of magnitude? That means that at least 99% of the people getting stuff without paying would instead... pay?
I'm really excited to see competition in this market. I wish Twitter the best, and I hope Elon succeeds with that. I also hope Noam succeeds. And maybe they will push each other to be better for users overall.

One fear I have is that platforms will divide along ideological lines and inhibit respectful disagreement and open conversation. We seem to be short enough on that already and I really don't want it to get worse. It's so important for us to acknowledge that the people "on the other side" are also smart, well educated, and want the best for people - just like we do.
weird question for anyone with the relevant knowledge, would 25 ronna-Reagans in one place behave differently than our sun? I know that mass would be mostly oxygen, but at that scale does it matter?