skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have almost no idea what is compelling about these. I feel like I am reading another language.

A man dancing poorly. A woman riding a train? What's so compelling?

I guess i am finally middle aged.
As some evidence, a desire for a 75% cut was widely reported:

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-...
Probably zero.

Musk paid 44B for Twitter.

This was with some loans and some equity sold.

Generously, Twitter was worth half what he paid, 22B at the time he took over, given the decline in the market from when the Twitter tender offer was made.

$13B in loans
$7.1B from equity investors (did they have a liquidation preference?)

How much has he degraded the value by scaring away all the advertisers?

https://archive.ph/JhTuM
This strikes me as unlikely. A VC does not look stupid for passing on an investment, even one that would've been successful. Do you think 90% of that list "looks stupid" for not having invested in Google? These big name VCs reached their status through vision, extreme due diligence, and of course luck; not from FOMOing into investments.
Just based off that news article with how much the VCs were delighted after a call with SBF while he was playing League of Legends it certainly seems like they base most of their investing off gut feeling and "vibe check" vs actual fiscal due diligence. Which is how charismatic quirky founders like Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann and now SBF keep finagling big round raises.
>...Flooding and spamming are hated by everyone and are otherwise unimportant,

Free Speech absolutist don't put any concern the listener may have on the content, but the fact that the speaker is being prevented from distributing their message. Not to mention, one of the points cited by free speech absolutists is "who determines facts/truth/value" and who determines the entity who gets to do that. That means you can't make a judgement value about the spam being spam and have to treat it as something SOMEONE somewhere might desire.
If the ads systems still actually work, Twitter could theoretically be pretty profitable without much headcount.

IMO there's no way those profits last more than a quarter until everything breaks. But yeah, maybe it is technically profitable tomorrow.
> SpaceX saved the tax payers a ton of money by reducing launch costs.

Do the tax payers really need anything launched?
Wikipedia is now updated.
What a bizarre statement. By that logic, someone can't say Trump is a failed president unless they've become president themselves.
Yeah that seems weird to me. I would think prescription meds would be way riskier, especially if used for something other than their normal purpose. But even if they aren't, a small amount of alcohol sounds essentially risk-free.

Regardless, if a glass of wine is enough for you, it seems silly to go through the trouble of getting a doctor to diagnose you with anxiety and prescribe something for it. A lot more work for... what, really? Sure, if you actually do have a general anxiety problem, it's probably a good idea to get that checked out. But if you just get anxious in specific rare scenarios (like interviews), that seems like overkill.
> You can read AGL's post about why DANE just adds an nth new CA to the trust store

Who's AGL and where is that post?

I don't see why it would be like adding a new CA. If the client can do DNSSEC validation then he could just use DANE, bypass the whole WebPKI system and basically distrust all CAs (if the website has already migrated to DANE).

It's not the same as adding a new CA, because in that case you are trusting that CA and you are also trusting all other CAs at the same time.

> (or, it would: no browser currently plans to adopt DANE; browsers actually removed their DANE code).

Yeah, I wonder why they did that. So Firefox adds DNS-over-HTTPS but then it doesn't implement DANE?

How does that make any sense? If you're already doing DNS-over-HTTPS then you're basically already at the point where you can get full DANE protection for free.

> Meanwhile: it simply is the case that if LetsEncrypt starts misissuing certificates, Google and Mozilla can (and likely will) revoke it.

According to their own stats, Let's Encrypt is protecting around 300 million active domains.

Which means Google and Mozilla can't revoke Let's Encrypt without breaking the Internet. So don't count on that happening, ever.

> Meanwhile: if the operators of the root zone or any the FVEY TLDs misissue, nobody can revoke them.

If those operators were attacked, they can revoke themselves.

If they are the attacker (like when the government hijacks your website due to e.g. piracy), you are exactly as screwed as you would be with the WebPKI system.

> You could try to argue that this was academic, except that the USG routinely and publicly manipulates the DNS for policy reasons.

Yes. And how does the WebPKI secure your website when that happens? Answer: it doesn't.

You're moving the goal posts and you don't even notice.
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I have tried a number of coding games with my daughter since she was 7: lego mindstorm. swift playground. minecraft. godot. She probably got the furthest with swift playground, but the end of day if her friends are not into it it's very hard to make it stick.

Now she's 11 I found more success doing challenging math problems with her. There's a book series called "art of problem solving" which focuses on competitive level math. I can see her eyes light up after solving a hard problem and she enjoys sharing them with her friends.
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> Even with a lot of money, this is no small feat.

Unfortunately we will never know how much Musk contributed to any of these companies.

It is in his best interest to act like he was vital but unless you were there, there isn’t any way to know.
> I'm not sure what Elon was thinking when he even decided to buy Twitter.

He lives off Twitter. His fame and fortune would not be where it’s without Twitter and he very well knows it. You can label that an emotional connection or even personal. I don’t think he out right planned to buy it. One thing after another, he found himself locked into - buying it.
MAOI's on their own can be dangerous depending on your diet -- I wouldn't be surprised by a 2.3% number representing people who consumed a lot of tyramine beforehand, despite the fact that you are supposed to fast.
It wasn't flagged. What made you think it was?
In addition to the "show your dev work to the CEO" use case, tunnels (ahem, "funnels") like this are useful when you're building functionality that requires pointing webhooks at your devlocal environment.

e.g., if you're building an integration with any of the myriad of SaaS tools that fire webhooks, you can test in devlocal and have a URL of whatever.tunnel.com.

There are tools like ngrok and localtunnel that exist to do just this. I'm looking forward to replacing those with TS Funnels.
What’s missed in these discussions is that you need to get ROI out of the time spent working on code. If you spend all of your time rewriting code, your simply not going to get any ROI.

If a piece of code works and only needs changes once in a blue moon… well then it’s pretty good. Even if it’s a tangled mess of assembly.
Meh. Why not take all the learnings from failure and create something better, that doesn't fail so hard at things we take for granted in the West?
Is it similar to "shrooms"?

I was considered traveling from San Francisco to Oregon or Colorado (?) where I think psychedelic mushrooms were legalized and you don't need to "know people" to get them.

I've wanted to try psychedelics for a while, I haven't done them before. Unless Salvia counts.
The tech has to be solid to serve timelines, video, etc. to half a billion people
Twitter is one the few Scala shops around, would be sad to lose it.
maintaining any reasonably popular web property is a constant battle of striking down spammers, scammers, and hackers. their basic server code might keep running for months, but unless their engineering teams have been doing some truly magical work up until now the quality of the content is going to rapidly degrade if there isn't active intervention to keep the bad actors suppressed.
> and hand the CEO a 10-figure golden parachute?

That's two figures more than actual. Reportedly, Musk paid Agrawal $42M and spent $120M total on golden parachutes, which is still only low 9 figures. Still obscene. Most employers do not give severance to fired former employees. They were in charge of Twitter while it was losing billions. They should have paid him. He could have saved money right there by giving them the address to the unemployment office.
> alcohol addicts resulting from self-medicating for anxiety

Sure, but we're talking about OP's "mug with wine in it" during the span of an interview, not a pattern of drinking to excess.

> Alcohol, as a drug, strictly speaking, is one of the worse ones.

Citation needed? Certainly it's worse than some potential prescription options out there, but... c'mon, it's alcohol. Humanity has been using it for millennia. As long as there's no abuse involved, a mug of wine during an interview sounds like the definition of harmless.
Of course.

I compete in pistol shooting at an amateur level. I have never been even slightly intoxicated when shooting a firearm. But I shoot 10m air pistol[1] at home for practice, and I've tried it while a little tipsy. So I can tell you that for sure, 3+ drinks will have you thinking you're doing well when in fact your vision is so delayed from reality that you cannot call your shots accurately. You'll think it was a good shot and it was a 7.

But one or two drinks in, there is a small performance boost. It comes from not 2nd-guessing yourself. You just hold on target and watch it happen.

Pistol shooting is a lot about quieting the mind because nobody can hold the gun perfectly steady. You get the best results from accepting a little bit of natural wobble, and smoothly operating the trigger during the smallest part of that wobble pattern. If you try to shoot the gun right as the sights cross the bullseye you will typically throw the shot off badly. Even if you don't yank the trigger, your reaction time is such that the wobble has moved on by the time you react to it looking perfect, so you end up grouping all around the 10 ring instead of in it this way.

The other thing you'll do in pursuit of perfection is hold too long on the target, not happy with how large your wobble is. You end up holding for 10+ seconds and by the time you break the shot your vision is suffering from the Troxler effect[2] and your hold has gotten worse, not better -- you just think it's good because you aren't seeing it as clearly.

It is best to steadily break the shot not at a specific instant, but anytime within your mostly 9-ring ideal wobble area. You settle into this good wobble zone for a few seconds, perhaps from 3 to 7 seconds after putting the gun on target. By Gaussian distribution you will shoot a lot of 10s, a fair amount of 9s, and a scarce handful of 8s.

But I cannot tell you how hard it is to convince yourself to do this! The mind thinks it can make the gun fire when it touches the 10. It also thinks that the wobble is way, way bigger than it really is, and that you'll shoot 7s if you let it happen. You'll even panic subconsciously right before the shot breaks when it looks "imperfect" and twitch to try to fix the alignment at the last moment -- always terrible.

A little depressant makes it much easier to relax and confidently break the shot in that "good enough" zone. Don't get me wrong, it'll never turn an amateur like me (520 - 550, depending on the day) into a top shooter (580+). But it does make it easier to perform on the 540+ side of my average.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSF_10_meter_air_pistol
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading
Yeah, when they're fresh I basically get whatever I can here. In the late winter / spring though, well, it's whatever stores best :-)
Isn’t Facebook like 95% of the way there? (Not Meta.. I’m talking about FB specifically).

News. Media - social and otherwise, payment processing, shipping, messaging.

The restaurant ordering thing is about the only box they don’t check.
I've made one such frontend for not only backblaze but also Nextcloud (via webdav), and pretty much every protocol like FTP, SFTP, S3, ... It's all open source: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
I developed an anxiety condition from extensive periods of deep meditation. In my viewpoint it had been there all along and I had mostly just covered it up with other emotions - but the meditation amplified things a lot, I went through a crisis lasting months about a decade ago. I still get anxiety attacks sometimes and had never had them before. I don’t know if your trip caused something new or just uncovered something that was already there, I think either are possible.
Assuming its the same post as I found when searching, that's me... https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/9ymkmg/h... you'll also see the same date too. The order itself - https://imgur.com/TkDmLPv

I try to keep the same name/idenity-ish across systems. It was originally a collision of names (three people on the team all had the same first name). One got the short form, one the long form, and the Scoobie Do movie had just come out and for some reason, I got "Shaggy". A bit later, had a coworker who was Japanese and my first name is awkward to say to the Japanese sounds, but "shaggy" is fine - except that it was pronounced as "SHA-gie" which turned out to be much less taken as a user name than the traditional form, so I use it where I can.

That order also had Slack and Peopleware by Tom DeMarco (which I'll also recommend).

These are things that are timeless (though Peopleware is on a 3rd edition).
No, I'm not saying that the current market price of bitcoin is the same as its intrinsic value. I'm saying that you can calculate a value of bitcoin using objective measures rather than the current market price of bitcoin. Those objective measures can include things like the capabilities of the bitcoin network, the number of types of people using it, etc.
Wasn't the PR department fired a while ago now ?

TheVerge was already reporting on getting no PR access after the team was fired, like one or two weeks ago (damn that feels like a long time in this timeline...)
I was more than half expecting Musk's financiers to smell the bullshit and run screaming. He's already talking bankruptcy so I'm still wondering why they went forward.
I replied to this in another comment with a more sarcastic example. I thought that "around" means within an area. Like if I said I was "walking around the store" the assumption is that I'm moving within that area not walking around the perimeter of the area.
The court records are sealed so I couldn't find anymore details.
There's no benefit to puking you guts, it's a side effect. Chemo is basically poison.
the more I sit with it the more I can see different ways it might be valuable. even if it's just to simplify setup. the use cases just didn't really jump out to me this time, even as a happy Tailscale user
Yea they do. Science experiments, future commerce, national defense, etc.
I think the danger is overstated because I sense there is a lot of misinfo and exaggeration going on
The Scala community is so small that I know the names of almost all of the top engineers many of whom worked at Twitter.

The idea that they are just going to find dozens of them is hilariously insane.
Brake dust is less of an issue, but tyre dust is arguably worse (since EVs are near-unavoidably heavier than ICE equivalents).
Ok, we'll restore the thread. The fact that OP is by a Columbia CS prof makes it pretty likely.
To be pedantic, that just mean a script exists that can roll the new cert out everywhere it needs to be. There could still be a human who needs to initiate that script being run.
I think the main similarity between TikTok and traditional social media is the "keeping up with the Joneses" aspect. Once you've bought in, you see how amazing these peoples' lives are and you want your life to be that great too.

IMO it's all an illusion, but it's not much different from seeing a friend, family member, co-worker. or a prominent business-person/celebrity being more successful than you. The interesting (scary?) thing about TikTok is that it hyper-compresses that environment into a few seconds, then constantly bombards you with it via a neverending flow of videos. It's like keeping up with the Joneses on amphetamines.
Just buy spores, they are legal.
that's an excellent use-case, thanks. I didn't think of local machines when they mentioned webhooks in the article.
Can you explain how does it actually work and how does it help with the audition?
Dude, they use machine learning to tune JVM and OS scheduler, they'll handle restarts just fine.
I have exactly the same thing, I figured it was just my brain getting used to the adrenaline although I have no evidence or measurement of this.
Lots of faith in musk.
Yes, hopefully someday GitHub will have all the major features that Gerrit has had for years. By the time I'm ready to retire, GitHub PR review UI should be up to approximately 2010 standards.
I am a bit of both. I am completely immobilized on leetcode rounds (tons of side projects so interesting coding challenges are always present). However I am extremely on the ball with system design round! I think it has something to do with which I care about more! Almost disdainful of leetcode!
Maybe antivirus should be a protected term. The amount of fake, ad-riddled,and downright malicious antiviruses are absurd.
> Could you elaborate on what exactly you experienced (and your takeaways) from your bad trip?

I experienced the worst pain I could ever imagine, felt my consciousness stretched to fill the infinity of space, and was then convinced this was my eternal state, with no possibility of escape.

> Do you feel like set and setting or your previous mental state going into the trip caused the bad trip?

It did. Set and setting is important. But it's almost impossible to get the ideal set and setting that precludes any possibility of a bad trip. Especially because psychedelics often appeal to those already suffering. It's the catch 22 of people suffering being told that psychedelics might help them. But how do you gain an ideal set and setting to take psychedelics until you gain the internal peace you want so badly that led you to psychedelics in the first place?
They can make 100 copies if they want

Twitter's value is not the platform, its the userbase.

Everyone here should already know that
Initially I actually believed this to be true. The line is getting more and more blurry with every single day under the Chief Twit!
The authors cherry-picked benchmarks where the VM goes off the rails.

Because warmup is probabilistic, there must be cases where it goes off the rails.

So yeah, I’m dismissive.
Don't treat programming as performance art. Some are great performers, but many are not. Don't force them to do something that's unnatural like code on a whiteboard. A whiteboard is not an interactive medium. A computer is. It's OK to riff on a computer the way you do on guitar. I know few that get it right the first time. Everybody thinks its all orchestration but Joe Beda points out the improvisation going back at least five years. He wasn't the first and likely won't be the last.

You may see Donald Knuth once in a career. It's rare. Don't expect it from everyone.

As an interviewee I use badly copied FAANG style as a red flag. Most will cargo cult interview styles copying what they've seen without thinking much about it. I've seen people memorize and pass interviews because Gayle Laakman McDowell's book was so overused. Do we really believe memorizing the book is better than not testing everyone exactly the same? I don't.

As a person who's sat on both sides of the table, I'm a huge believer in technical conversations, but I believe that's very different than code. To me, programming is not a performance art.

I recommend a few things:

1. Ask for sample code, preferably with git history showing that the author did most of the work or it was pairs or something like that. Ask lots of code review questions: why, how, alternatives, etc. Public github repos are fine. Private git repos are fine too. It's the history that tells the story both in terms of code frequency, velocity, revisions, tests, style, etc.
2. Use a pull request style in which the interviewee is the reviewer: what's wrong with this code? How should it improve? Is it good enough for MVP? What about production? Good opportunity to test whether they can speak truth to power when you show them rubbish that is patently wrong. I always hated reviewing bosses code when I had to march into their office and tell them they needed to fix their broken class inheritance or whatever. Interview is a good time to test for assertiveness.
3. Use pairs style where the interviewer is the keyboard/mouse driver and the interviewee is the navigator/commenter keeping the driver on track.
4. Ask them to bring their own hw/sw stack. Examine the choices and reach your own conclusions asking questions about why/how they arrive at their stack when no one is guiding the choices but them or their influencers. They don't really need to do much, more than a show/tell, explaining choices and why/how. To me, this is really interesting philosophically, particularly if it gets into stuff like *nix that are not the typical ubuntu, fedora, etc. and go off into arch derivatives or left field in a telling, R&D way such as shell, package managers, tmux, language, lint, tests, and so on.

Hope this helps.
The magic proclamation is actually going the other way. If the company is ending the employment, that is termination. The company does not get to simply say "well you've resigned."

Perhaps you're not arguing termination vs resignation but rather whether they're entitled to unemployment and wrongful termination protection? That's more open for debate, but the former employees are entitled to those considerations (which they would not be had they resigned).
They weren't making money with those 1000 employees, either. Revenue 10X'd since then (along with cost).

WhatsApp/YouTube were in the same boat when purchased. Good at getting active users but monetizing takes a lot of employees and they hadn't tackled that yet when acquired
You are completely right but if not Twitter, it will be something else. There is real demand for these net negatives.
Do you know what prices per kg looked like before this new alloy?
Thanks for sharing this. I agree the risk is just shrugged off by experienced users.

If you're reading this and thinking about it - don't do it if you're uneasy in any way. I've had awesome experiences taking boatloads of shrooms but it was only after I figured out settings I knew were 100% safe (caretaker, extensive prep beforehand reading online and had friends who had done it that talked me through details).

I believe these drugs will save us all someday but we can't just shove everyone into the pool hoping they figure out how to swim.
I once had to do this and turned all the docx into one document, used Word to export as PDF and then used a PDF splitter to get separate documents.
some of them didn't. at least the saudis and @jack both rolled their stake over to the new ownership.
Such a classic book. Are any other computer books from that date still relevant at all, let alone relevant to such a wide audience?
Hard disagree. I think the best discussions can be had with chaotic circumstances, because they provide a new surface for thought. A very small percentage of the comments in these threads are appropriate for HN [1]. These comment sections look like they're straight from reddit.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> future commerce

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

> national defense

Yeah yeah, I've been hearing that ever since Ronnie Ray-gun 40 years ago.