skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really a problem, just that when the app is run in the intranet sourcemaps will be applied, since you aren’t in the twitter intranet, you don’t have access to the sourcemaps so they just fail to import. Not a problem :)
You're completely welcome and I'm happy that you saw some value in it. Your military-training analogy is good too. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger" is a powerful concept, but comes with many caveats that are usually overlooked. It is the ability to heal and learn and adapt that is most essential, not the need to challenge, and unfortunately the Nietzschean expression obscures that. The ways in which his ideas were later used should also serve as a stark warning of how dangerous that particular line of thinking can be.
They are also overwhelmingly people who get triggered by random people they don't know online, and are pushing for this narrowing of the information space so that their safety/income is maintained.

You are right, the spin is as bad as the copying. Always an agenda, that agenda is never made explicit, every event, same underlying cause. It often seems we have the worst possible people in that role of relaying information (and I do actually feel more comfortable with someone who doesn't pretend to be either objective or, shock, even particularly serious).
if i was a remote at twitter i would go just to satisfy my curiosity. It would be one hell of an experience to witness Musk in all his crazy and what the plans are. Back in reality, I think my expectations would be solidly set on jumping ship within 30 days though.
If you're still on HN and you can hack, head to YCombinator's HQ. Bring photos of all your hacks from the last 6 months.
The "conspiracy" in that case is poor management and oversight, not slacker devs. One of the (many) aspects of this that Elon has not grasped.
Elon recently tweeted about amphetamines and psychedelics.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591850617462738946
No, subtly different. It contains all the things, and the proper slant on those things, that activist editors want GL to be known for regardless of the actual prevalence of people talking about that. I doubt even 1% of people who know his name know that he's involved in "gender critical" debate, let alone his views.

Further, these ideological corrections are always biased because they're based on outrage articles and nobody writes counterpoint articles in which nothing happened and nothing is wrong. "Dog does not bite man".

Nobody is going to pen a Guardian article saying "GL can tell the difference between the type of people who give birth and those who do not" because we all can and it's just not interesting. But if a few people working for Pink News and Gawker write that GL's statements are actually dog-whistles designed to stigmatize "fake women" or something, then all of a sudden 100% of the sources agree that he's committing literal violence against trans folx.

Another article was attempting to trans an 18th century person. They said "Oh, it's okay, we'll also accept reliable sources that say they weren't a trans man" as if such a source could even exist.

The point isn't his positions but that Wikipedia is a platform for activists to pick and choose which words to amplify or to amplify pushback against, and our rules for academic sources break down entirely in a culture war where new sources can be spun up in an instant. This is giving undue weight to certain elements and ignoring others.
I think he devolved into this state over time. Back when he started SpaceX he had no Twitter, no mob of fans that worship the ground he walks on and of course he wasn't THAT rich. I don't think any of this is healthy for a human in the long term.
Don't forget time for teaching, avoiding students (tried to say 'advising' but autocomplete had a better word choice), and grant applications...
The upside of consuming calorie and nutrient-rich foods is not hidden. They allow us to sustain life.
Can GPS handle this? Or is it under a different time standard?
No, there isn't. Socialism literally requires the lack of a state. There hasn't been a single actual attempt at socialism.

State capitalism != socialism.
Maybe? Some employers might value the trait of “will go down with the ship” but I’m not sure the ones you want to work for would…
I thought this classic paper was highly relevant given the mass exodus from Twitter.
Why do some people not snowboard skillfully?

Why are some people bad drivers?

Why can't I cook a great lasagna?
Now I'm curious how many of his tweets would count as "negative"
Yup, too facile.

Astronomy commonly uses TAI or raw GPS time. In fact if you look at video footage from NASA control rooms and such there's usually a GPS second clock up on the wall somewhere.

The motivation for leap seconds wasn't astronomers, but to just keep civil time tied to solar time long term. However, the unpredictability of these leap second additions has proven to be pretty annoying, causing bugs and such. This is why google and others actually "smear" the introduction of their leap seconds over half the day.

Considering the current difference is 37 seconds, its natural to wonder if this is worth it. Certainly most people wouldn't notice relative to dawn dusk for a very long time, long enough that the entire concept probably wouldn't even make sense anymore. So why not just stop? That's the basic argument here.
According to some video I saw on YouTube, there's already a large number of repossessed vehicles that banks are being very slow to release to the market, because they want to keep the prices high.
I'm a software engineer and I still suspect Twitter will be on average no worse (could be better even) with 1/3rd or less of its current engineer count.
I've never felt that way at the 3 tech companies I've worked at.
More to the contrary, I'd want the CEO or CTO to know me, who i am, and what I've done.
Ben Horowitz write this thing about wartime vs peace time ceos and I think it was particularly salient: https://hbr.org/2011/04/peacetime-ceos-vs-wartime-ceos

For a long time tech was eating the world and the more engineers you had the more likely you were to accidentally walk into a massive piece of the pie (the google model). Now things are more mature and there’s probably just less opportunity to do that.

But really I think leadership styles have to match the leader. Most leaders can’t get away with this because they fundamentally don’t want to.

It will be really hard to take the right lessons away from this situation. 90% of what Elon is doing that is successful is probably below the surface, if the lesson is, come into a company and fire 90% of people and you’ll thrive, I think you’re going to have a bad time.

Most important Edit: you have to have fuck you money for this to work so you can sell $4 billion in stock to keep the company afloat after you tank the revenue.
>> Yes, but who is left to onboard and train the contractors?

To do payroll!? You must mean something else, right?
I have spoken with one of the leading researchers of cholesterol in the US and he said if you have high cholesterol you should only eat beef once a year due to the inflammatory nature of beef.

I have cut out beef easily. There are a whole host of other reasons to not eat beef or minimize it in your diet. But I'd be curious who funded this research directly or indirectly.
Totally agree. As distasteful as Elon’s process may be, at the end of the day all of us making boatloads of money should be able to point to our results and deliverables. If an engineer is making $200k and wrote a couple hundred lines of code all year, that’s probably a problem. Certainly, only a relatively few people should have the valid excuse that their work doesn’t involve writing code.
From screenshots? There's no way that Musk has any ability to judge the quality of a programmer based on "up to 10" screenshots of code entirely divorced from its context, especially since he is not a programmer and has no experience whatsoever with any of Twitter's codebases.
It looks like many serverless platforms have different syntax or features. How to do serverless that works on many platforms? Has anyone abstracted APIs to have same syntax?
He's obviously been infected with all the online right-wing anti-wokism ideas about tech companies. What's surprising to me is that I thought a lot of those people were in on the troll, but apparently he was a true believer.
He's obviously joking.
There’s an interesting dive into his educational and work background floating around Twitter right now; it sounds like he lied about his college degree and was working in the U.S. illegally for a while as a young adult.
If he is trying to cut staff, it would be easier to just institute a drug policy and fire everyone who tests positive. That is going to hit about 25% in any company that isn't already doing drug tests.
You're right, but I'd argue this problem is already here.

Thanks to glaciers melting, earth rotation is (temporarily) accelerating. Because of that, positive leap seconds, regular before, didn't happen since 2017 - so there could very well be (recent) software out there that has that code-path broken, and nobody noticed yet.

And due to exact same geophysical effect we might see a negative leap second - something that never ever happened before. What are the odds that every single piece of software gets that one right?
He has done this repeatedly in the past, at Tesla.
Nobody is trying to make you eat red meat, although its weird that you require it to cure cancer.
> I just wish there was a way to buy meat from animals that hadn’t been systematically tortured for their short life

A good portion of the meat I consume comes off my own land, mostly as venison although a little bit of turkey too. It tastes better than farmed meat, it's cheaper, it helps keep the animals from overpopulating, and the animal didn't live a miserable life of torture before it was harvested.

But I get that not everybody lives in an area where that is practical.
He's got a mega case of "George Lucas Syndrome" it seems. He needs someone who can tell him "No."
For me it's not so certain; I think that most of the devs/engineers at Meta, Twitter, et. al., might get a bit of cold feet with the biggest tech companies and with Silicon Valley in general.

I think smaller companies and upstarts have a chance to get some great talent that will be strongly considering their living situation and looking for something more stable, but I'm not so sure that Twitter is going to have its pick of the litter for a long time until it demonstrates a stable and mature environment to work in.

I have no doubts some persons will be very nervous and take the opportunity, and I wish them luck. I'm not so sure others will be as eager.
Hate to break it to you, but we don't care. We never have. "We" being the "enlightened west" in general. Study enough history and it becomes pretty clear. Governments only take humanitarian action against evil when there's a clear threat to their interests (Ukraine), a perceived strategic opportunity (Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya) or there's little/no risk in the confrontation (Somalia/Libya). We have a hard enough time getting people to care about their immediate neighbors, I'd be surprised if 1/100 Americans could even find Yemen on a map. Throw institutions and economics/ideologies on top and the international good of the common people always takes a back seat.

And lest people think I'm just shitting on America right now, look at the deals Finland/Sweden are making with Turkey for NATO membership. The vaunted, enlightened, socially democratic, supposedly-closest-thing-to-the-Star-Trek-Federation Nordics are screwing the Kurds for their own interests.

No institution outside of charities/NGOs has ever functioned from a standpoint of moral purity. Sure many have claimed to when a convenient narrative was available, but no nation that implemented a "morality first" platform would survive for long. They simply wouldn't be able to strike deals with most other nations on moral grounds, and would turn themselves into a nicer, gentler North Korea. I guess Bhutan comes the closest, but aside from their use as a buffer zone/chess piece between the Indians and Chinese, no one outside of some human-interest bloggers cares about Bhutan (if I have to hear about their happiness index one more time...). Europe's various moral stances are the result of American strategic overwatch and a globalized economic system where they didn't have to secure their own resources. Take those away and the morality will dry up awful fast (where do you think the old European empires came from?)

As for the Saudis and Yemen specifically, I think most Americans in the abstract would agree we should be sanctioning the Saudis... right up until they learn that means gas shortages and insane prices at the pump. For most Americans the cost of gas directly impacts their families' livelihoods, and people will always pick their own family's welfare over the welfare of strangers half a world away. Sure there's a minority that's willing to sacrifice regardless, and sure it would be nice if the whole world was that way. But it isn't, not even close. So we have to deal with what we have, and Yemen, among other places, is screwed.
Any reason those cars wouldn't sell at the going (probably high) used car rate at the time? e.g. https://publish.manheim.com/content/dam/consulting/ManheimUs...
Giving children into adoption because their primary care-giver is in prison is pretty traumatic and society should avoid this whenever possible. It should be a measure of last resort.
I was talking about Uber / Uber Eats.
For one thing, there are two groups, those who went there and eventually left, and those who are still there. I bet they give very different answers.
When people proudly proclaim that they simply do not care for the suffering of animals, I wonder if they realize that they sound like the millions of people who were on the wrong side of history.

The circle of moral consideration in the Western world started generally with land-owning white men, then (still generally speaking) widened to include white men without land, then women, non-white people, etc. The circle of moral consideration is slowly starting to cover non-human animals, though it will take hundreds of years before they are truly protected.

The folks who say they do not care about animals join the company of everyone who has historically opposed the widening of that circle, the people who stood against granting basic rights and basic consideration to those who enjoy them today.
But people aren't paid based on the quality of their work, or productivity, but simple supply and demand. We're constantly told this justifies both the high wages of tech and the low wages of, say, Amazon warehouse workers and janitors, on principle. People at Twitter make $100,000 a year because that's what the market value of keeping an ass in that chair is worth.
Everything Elon's Dad says flies in the face of his son's "started from the bottom" fictional short story.

Common sense should also tell you, no legitimate tax paying business allows a mildly educated middle class family to go to one of the poorest countries in the world and leave multimillionaires when 90% of the population lives in poverty and is under a violent racial apartheid system.
A lot of Seniors/Staff don't write "code". They're architecting/planning/guiding. If I'm a Senior Staff DevOps engineer who maintains our entire Kube infra, am I gonna show Elon some sweet YAML configs? "Oh here's my Go templating for our org wide Helm charts that isn't really novel but is really important?"
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Note that this is the dictionary definition of shadowbanning, which is the primary thing the free speech advocates on Twitter were hoping Elon would stop Twitter from doing.
It's quite hard to study this stuff but here's an example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946062/

The study includes an appendix with photos of all the meals - it's very interesting!

The evidence suggests that various qualities of ultra-processed foods drive overconsumption. There is also speculation that the calories in ultra-processed foods are more bioavailable than those in less processed foods because ultra-processed foods are easier to digest due to their low fiber content, though I don't have any evidence for than on hand (will update if I find it).
Right, you don't build a spaceflight / rocket company in a vacuum, or from scratch as a software engineer. He poached top talent and got the job done from the bank and his twitter account. Not that I'm knocking that (it worked!), but the "Elon is a great engineer" trope is questionable.

Look: http://larsblackmore.com/

That's the kind of person who makes spacex successful.
I'd suggest the problem there is reading Blind uncritically. There's at least as many trolls as serious posters
Sure, but I feel like that's just part of the trade-offs. And chicken-and-egg, really.

But if I were really bought in to Sandstorm.io, developing new apps for it would make a lot of sense, and I agree with their assessments about accounts and security - that those are better left to the OS.

So I'm just wanting to build federated apps, using that same philosophy.

And if Tailscale Funnel let me safely run in a sandbox on prem...?

That sounds amazing.

Like, this is the kind of thing where I'd buy a headless PC just to host federated apps for my extended friends and family network, if the config were painless enough and the sandbox secure enough, and the self-updating, self-maintaining story of Sandstorm.io worked well enough...

It's like the Chrome OS of federation, in my head. The OS does exactly and only what you need, making it easy for you to add the business logic of your thing.

Like, I wish this was roughly how SAS worked...

I wish to hell more businesses felt secure in letting their employees stand up convenience servers. And I feel like these are steps in the right direction.
If the new link color brought in 0.1% increased engagement and $5M increased revenue then that engineer's salary is more than justified.
I think you're misunderstanding the situation. It's not that ALL software engineers don't do anything. It's that Twitter has so much staff, you start to question what can they all actually be doing.

If someone had 10 people cleaning a small apartment every day, you'd question what were they actually doing. That wouldn't make sense.
I've never really understood why smearing the leap second is such a big deal. Surely if you have software that is going to be sensitive to small variation in the clock over 24h, you're already not using wall time.
Every month in fact!
It’s literally the question being asked, not a different question.
There's an interesting tension in academia between the need to publish regularly, the fact that deep research often needs longer work periods before achieving impactful results, and the fact that sometimes quantity of output produces better net results.

I wonder if this could be alleviated by incentivizing the publishing of papers on work with no statistically significant results, as has been discussed here and elsewhere. That might increase quantity of output, while building a useful database of what not to spend time on.
It does.

The question is, why would the mother being in prison be taken into consideration when the father being in prison never is?
The NOVA system covers this.

> Group 1 - Unprocessed or minimally processed foods (fruit, vegetables, eggs, meat, milk, etc.)
Group 2 - Foods processed in the kitchen with the aim of extending their shelf life. In practice, these are ingredients to be used in the kitchen such as fats, aromatic herbs, etc. to be kept in jars or in the refrigerator to be able to use them later.
Group 3 - Processed foods. These are the foods obtained by combining foods of groups 1 and 2 to obtain the many food products for domestic use (bread, jams, etc.) made up of a few ingredients
Group 4 - Ultra-processed foods. They are the ones that use many ingredients including food additives that improve palatability, processed raw materials (hydrogenated fats, modified starches, etc.) and ingredients that are rarely used in home cooking such as soy protein or mechanically separated meat. These foods are mainly of industrial origin and are characterized by a good pleasantness and the fact that they can be stored for a long time.
Does removing attribution constitute a GPLv3 violation?
This has happened to me a number of times. People fork a GitHub project of mine only to remove the attribution where my name appears. I find it to be rude.

Example: https://github.com/Fordeer/2fa-qr/commit/c2c5321ddb6b5f00246f52fef1cb6977c39c7352

This fork is served at https://2fa.fordeer.io/

My original is served at https://stefansundin.github.io/2fa-qr/

The project is licensed under GPLv3 and there is a LICENSE file in the repository. Besides being bad behavior, is this violating the license?
I think that the example was in PL/1.
Which sport? Football's world cup is once every 4 years...
>a stock rebound

There is no publicly listed stock that can rebound. Any new investor will surely want to look at the books first:
"A lot of staff devs do nothing but critical organizational work"
successful in what metric? Elon can privately throw billions at this if his ego can't let go of it. If you want to see success you just need to look at bytedance and tencent.
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
I'll start. For me, I think the most impactful thing I've ever built was an internal application for a FX trading desk that eventually went on to handle billions in daily trades.

It didn't use any fancy frameworks, just plain old CRUD on Java.
The prefixes ronna and quetta represent 10^27 and 10^30, and ronto and quecto signify 10^−27 and 10^−30. Earth weighs around one ronnagram, and an electron’s mass is about one quectogram.
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Deepfake detector can spot a real or fake video based on blood flow in pixels
> ...please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code.

Holding my fingers crossed that he receives many many screenshots... of Leetcode.
I would think that would work rather well, since it is 100% visual.
i suspect because there are so many bad managers.

There's few tests to root out bad managers. The damage bad management is capable of is.. impressive, extensive.
Over one million creditors say “Nope.”
i mean, he owns SpaceX, he can put whatever title under his name as he wants to. Elon Musk has an excessive desire to make it look like he is a technical genius and a genius engineer/scientist, but he most likely is technically very competent but his true strengths lie in his long term vision, manic energy, great PR skills and work ethic. He is more akin to Edison than he is to Tesla.
More info if anyone wants to understand this in depth: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-is-great-replacem...
This is exactly the point I was going to make.

I have no doubt Twitter and most companies could be run in maintenance mode with 20% of the current staff. However figuring out which 20% is the tricky part.

Typically I only need 20% of the lights in my house to do what I need, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea for Elon Musk to come into my house and just randomly remove 80% of my lightbulbs.

To successfully pull off such a major change in staffing in such a short window would require knowing the ins and outs of the company extremely well.
This is a troublesome thought. It will mean that our profession is likely to get a lot more difficult.

Perhaps a union or guild of some description would be in order.