skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a security engineer and advisor that has had access to the internal practices of dozens of crypto-asset companies, I can assure everyone this level of negligence is -so- normal that if you actually behaved responsibly in this space it would be very hard to compete with those that are not.

Almost no one bothers with even the most basic of security controls, often connecting to production systems containing billions of dollars with compromised personal use laptops.

There are several more MtGox, QuadrigaCX, and FTX style events cooking right now.

Also, here is your daily reminder that decentralized assets stored in centralized third party systems are not yours, and will probably be abused or stolen.

Learn to use a hardware wallet or stick with low-tech asset classes like precious metals.
I had 193 LDL-C, which is about 97th percentile, and I'm fairly lean so I can't look to weightloss as a solution. I was scared when I saw this measurement, and after some research started a mostly plant based diet. I purchased another blood test 10 days later and my LDL-C had fallen 50 points to 143. Both tests were reliable; performed by Quest diagnostics. I hope I will continue to improve. I feel a little shitty though, perhaps I haven't mastered a balanced plant based diet yet. I do eat lean meat two meals a week. I believe a proper plant based diet takes more skill to balance than one that includes meat.

I also believe that what works for one might not work for another. So yes, trying different things and getting measurements is good advice. I'd warn against chiropractors (they call themselves "doctors", but not of medicine) on YouTube telling people that cholesterol doesn't matter; it is a risk factor, but only one of many factors.
Oh so that's the "extreme programming" I have been hearing about.
> Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.

"coordinate and plan technology" can be a huge amount of effort, vastly greater than "nothing".
https://github.com/coutego/version-control
Hasn't he figured out that whatever the rules end up people will game them for their own benefit? Dynamic system next to impossible to police.
What do you mean "we" the information has been out there for years for anyone who wasn't trying not to see it. The racism lawsuits, the article by his ex-wife, the thai cave thing, the SEC case, his general behavior on social media and the people he publicly associates with. It paints a picture of someone who is, at best, unreliable, thin-skinned, egotistical, and reckless.
It's current engineer count as of today, or it's current engineer count as of 2 weeks ago?

By all accounts after the layoffs, voluntary resignations in response to layoffs, and people who refused the ultimatum and so probably consider themselves laid off, it's not clear Twitter even has a skeleton crew
And he misspelled two of those three names. And one of those accounts he banned.
How do you expect a staff engineer in the middle of driving a multi-year project to revamp some large crufty part of the architecture to a better state, something that will pay off in 3-5 years time, be able to take screenshots of their "best work" to prove to Elon Musk they're worth it?

It's a special kind of hell, it manages to be much worse than the hell it is on having to politically push this kind of project to multiple layers of decision-making higher management to get enough buy in because it's a damn expensive project.
TC please
I'm personally surprised that with so much of the workforce gone, and internal operations being total bedlam, the only thing that went down were 2FA emails.

Someone at Twitter knew what they were doing. Let's hope they didn't get swept up.
That’s a huge impact to the Phoenix job market, which isn’t quite as robust as the bay.
I don't think the issue is all on the engineers. Empire building at big tech companies is how we get to a place where some engineer can work 5-10 hours per week doing essentially nothing of value. The entire management track is set up to promote people who have X number of reports under them. A manager who makes 1b in revenue with a team of 10 will be passed up for a promotion over a team of 50 that makes 100m but looks busy.
There has never been a negative leap second.

>If we kick the can down the road such that eventually we'll need to add a leap minute

The drift is not in a single direction. The total drift is not going to be significant for a very long time if ever.
That’s cheating. Your link is a referral link. Stop it.
Hot take…

Storing anything as UTC was a mistake and we should be using TAI for all storage and computation, only transforming into more human friendly formats for display to end users. This never needed to be a problem except we decided to make it harder to use TAI than UTC and so everything got built up off the backs of legacy bios level hardware supported UTC style clock behaviour, when we should have been using TAI from the start. Yes I know it would have been harder, but we got off our collective asses and decided to fix our short sighted decision making for Y2K date storage, why not this… if it truly costs as much for everyone to endure a leap second why wasn’t it just fixed from the bottom up and rebuilt correctly!
"most salient lines of code" - just yesterday I joked that next thing Melon gonna do is pay for amount of lines of code. I mean - it's pretty close to that. just when you think there's no way it gets more absurd, dude magically appears with new craziness :D
All personal accounts I've heard of from people that work there are yes, he does know about engineering and is incredibly smart.

But that doesn't mean you know how to run a social media company, and trying to pivot Twitter's work culture on a dime is going to be chaotic.

FWIW I think he's a toxic asshole, but that doesn't mean he's an idiot.
The stock can't rebound, it's a private company now. Whatever price it's available for on the private equity market will be unknown and/or fake.

Twitter stock didn't tank, it actually stayed really high because he was locked in to purchase it well beyond the market value (as the entire sector was falling). It oscillated a bit, but you couldn't really call it a tank (especially in light of how the rest of tech was doing at the time)
>Btw, a dev build is in prod right now. Or someone forgot to minimize the JS. Tons of import map issues.

That's the way it works. Maps aren't uploaded to production so they fail to load for you.
The article mentioned GPS uses UT1
Went to confirm this for myself and: lol. Also, poke around the loaded JS - most certainly not minified
That's not what Elon thinks based on his actions.

He's trying to decimate the workforce on purpose, although it's not going as smoothly as he hoped from outside appearances. He wants huge numbers of Twitter employees to quit, and he has been very clearly laying out the terms for behavior for the type of people he would like to run Twitter with. He's intentionally shaking the tree violently. He's hoping that the types that remain will be his types of employees. He's going to try to rebuild the workforce starting from those, so it's his company in ethos / function.

He thinks Twitter can run with far fewer engineers, and drastically fewer staff overall, than what it was operating with previously. He knows the value of engineers, he has made that part clear: he plainly said that engineers are most of what is important about Twitter, not the rest of the staff, he said it should be an engineer heavy company.
And it was good that we did go after him! But the issue is our own western leaders and generals walking free when they have the blood of hundreds of thousands innocent lives on their hands.
In an org with thousands of software engineers, shouldn’t most of them be writing code?

Feels like everyone wants to be the exception, and just assumes “someone else” should do actual hands-on work
Why I did not sign up for hardcore Twitter 2.0
Assuming that Twitter doesn't crash and burn in the next week or so, and assuming Mastodon doesn't draw enough users to create its own network effect, sure. But then, people don't always act according to a single metric. Mastodon doesn't have ads and it doesn't follow a single moderation policy. I can see people sticking with both for different reasons.
Didn't the press turn pretty harshly against her?
You truly wonder at this? Look at the state of the world the last few years. If you’re lucky or brazen enough they may even let you run a whole country!

Qualifications make the people suffer less but historically have never been required for leaders in any venue. In Europe awful kings were simply born to the throne and people had to accept it, for example. We remember ‘X the Cruel’ but none of their subjects.

The victors write the history books.
I see. I manage my own instance. Hopefully they will get you to 25 soon to see this: https://nextcloud.com/blog/press_releases/nextcloud-hub-3-re...
At my last exit interview, my CEO was asking me how he could improve his understanding of the engineering team. I threw out the idea that he could meet with people for 15 minutes on a rotation. He explained that he couldn't do that without terrifying people.

Just because people are scared of the CEO doesn't mean most CEOs weaponize this into a tool of micromanagement.
I enjoyed Twitter for these same reasons. I have to be honest though that it took time & effort to cultivate it to do what I wanted, as it didn't do that straight away without effort. I'm disappointed that all that work will come to nothing and I'll have to start over at square one with a new service, whatever it turns out to be.

In the meantime, Twitter is still running and will continue to soar triumphantly in a straight line on autopilot, until its fuel runs dry and its wreckage comes to a gentle landing at the bottom of a deep dark abyss.
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Telehealth Sites Put Addiction Patient Data at Risk
A company filing for a chapter 11 reorganization starts the process with a story about how they came to be in some temporary trouble, and how a renegotiation with the debtors will allow the firm to continue and thrive.

But in this case, FTX filed with a blank page where that story would be. Now the new CEO is explaining to the court that nobody knows how they came to be here, he has no idea if there is a viable company, and he has no idea if the money was spent, stolen, lost, or smoked. He doesn't even have a list of employees, or a reliable list of the bank accounts. He is aghast, and in no position to tell that kind of story.

I don't understand if there is any path for FTX that doesn't end in chapter 13. I certainly wouldn't bet on it.
It's more fundamental than that. Some forms of speech can indirectly or directly limit the speech of others. Free speech absolutism in an unachievable panacea; it is a logical fallacy.
See also: Compuserve, AOL, Facebook

WeChat succeeds because it caters to a less mature market with a simple integrated product. American network service users have demonstrated repeatedly that they are OK with bundling products but less enthusiastic about bundled services.
Are you suggesting that he's pissing people off intentionally for the controversy?
There is a misconception that Kaniko means non-root, but in order to build a container it has to work with layers which requires root.

Using Kaniko also doesn't solve for:

How do you run containers within that build in order to test them? How do you run KinD/K3s within that build to validate the containers e2e?
Last night he said the Twitter office would be locked until Monday. This morning he tells everyone to be there in person this afternoon anyway. Then sends a follow-up email encouraging remote employees to fly into SF today on just a few hours notice. And he said it may take until midnight (on a Friday) to talk to everyone.

Also, didn't they already do the "print out the last 6 months of your code to prove yourself" thing once before like... only a week ago? What new info do they expect to come from this?
I wouldn't say I like the culture because I don't actively participate in Twitter. What I do like is the curated list of folks I've built up over the last 15 years.

Twitter allows me to keep up with Technologists, comedians, journalists in one location which has made it very useful to me. That made Twitter sticky for me personally.

Unfortunately, Elon has probably pissed off enough people that I'm going to have to branch out to other services anyway so that immediately reduces the value of Twitter.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517716718382166016
Because they pick and choose the science they want to believe. Teenagers should start school later too. And Open Offices reduce productivity for a large segment of the workforce. Vacations are a good thing, not a weakness.
The most important person on my team can probably no longer write idiomatic code for the platform we use at this point, as the platform has moved forward while he's spent the last 6 years mostly working on high level architecture and tying together systems that range from HMI to Automotive to AI...

You could probably fit his committed code for the last 6 months on one page, confuse it for a junior dev's output, and yet firing him would kneecap the team. Other people know individual parts of what he knows, but the value of having one person who knows them all in immeasurable.

I can't imagine a place at Twitter scale didn't have similar individuals.
Sort of reminds me of the Freenode drama last year. The outcome of which might be informative -- almost everyone moved off Freenode, and all their new non-IRC platform stuff seems to have vanished from the web by now.

EDIT: I assure you, this made sense in response to the non-stock part of the now-edited-away parent comment. :D
i would gladly solve like 5 captchas per request to archive a site if thats what it took to combat spammers. their archiving service is invaluable
Study uncovers new threat to security and privacy of Bluetooth devices
He is also currently in court to prove that he earns his pay at Tesla. A declaration of insanity would not be helpful there.
I've done it before but just to be annoying or catty. You didn't hire me but I've been getting notifications from linkedin for your endless reposting of the same job ad over the last 6 months. What are you looking for in a candidate? What's been holding you back from making that hiring decision. I'm not interested myself but I know a few developers who might be interested.

That's probably the only way I've gotten solid feedback. This would not work at a larger firm. You slowly realize they are trying to find someone cheaper or someone with specific experience that they wouldn't normally share.

Advice become a recruitor and don't make it about you.
Sheep don't wear pants!
That's a really good question, and much more interesting to me than just commenting on an ongoing train wreck.

I suppose that we would need to first decide whether (in this scenario where he succeeded) Elon had actually fixed Twitter, or whether he tore it down to the studs and built a different company out of it, one which happened to be called Twitter, but did something completely different, with new people and new leadership. It feels like that's what he wants to do, and maybe that's why he's not backing down as everybody in the company leaves.
That's not "doing nothing" it's "doing bureaucracy" and IMHO it's a lot more mentally exhausting than coding.

Imagine if every hour of every work day in your calendar is full of various forms of "planning" meetings. How are you supposed to write code and attend all this nonsense at the same time? You can't.

To be fair it sure feels like doing nothing but employers consider it necessary and a job that only senior people can handle.
How is that the fault of the developer since in all likelihood a PM dictates what they do. If the PMs don’t prioritize important things and obsess over the shade of blue, fire the PM and give the dev a chance
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The largest amount of traffic twitter has ever received was November 7th after his takeover.
> Btw, a dev build is in prod right now. Or someone forgot to minimize the JS. Tons of import map issues.

Not the first time this has happened: https://twitter.com/NilsIRL/status/1479065003684765697
Yes this.
Maybe true, but it could also be true that the ones who are smart enough to maintain it will leave and the ones who aren't will stay.
Depth vs Breadth. A Tesla is much harder to engineer, but only needs to work for 4-5 people at any given moment. Twitter is a CRUD app, but needs to work for hundreds of millions (billions?) of people.
Depending on how much spare land there is, and who will inherit that property. I couldn't imagine sticking grandma in a grave on the corner of a subdivision, or having any serious offers come in once potential buyers see a headstone in the back yard.
Advertising is basically their whole business, right? Technically I guess most companies can employ fewer people and do less of their core business but that isn’t a great trajectory to be on…
I’m a software engineer too and I think software engineers are some of the worst at understanding the extents of a business outside their own niches.
Alameda CEO's Blog Hints at “Imperial Chinese Harem” Lifestyle at FTX
I thought Microsoft got rid of the architect role? At least it was that way in the mid-2010s when I was there. After Vista/Longhorn there was a definite push to stop all the architecture astronauts and actually build and ship things.
Conversely, if you had 7,000 people cleaning an apartment occupied by a few million people across the globe, that might make some sense.

There's no doubt that Twitter could be leaner than it was as of September, but haphazardly firing employees at random and alienating the most employable of the remainder into resignation is not the way to go about it. He could have spent a few months getting to know the place, but deliberately chose not to.
Was pretty sure that blood is used for something, but still had to websearch for it in spite of working at a slaughterhouse. Linked the result (0).

Killing itself is actually a very interesting process. Cow is led through a series of corridors to a single-cow pen resembling their feeding spots in a cowshed. It puts it's head trough a familiar U-shaped opening (or has to be pushed a little by remotely controllable hind side wall/gate). There it get's calmed down by a slaughterman with a license to kill. He then grabs a big, ceiling mounted, pneumatic bolt gun and skillfully shoots the cow in a specific spot on the forehead (bolt retracts after the shot). This stuns the cow and it literally falls to the ground with it's legs straightened out(1).

After stunning, the whole single pen rotates on the back-front (in relation to cow position) axis, by 90 degrees. What was the side wall becomes floor and what was the floor becomes the wall (it's L-shaped). There the difficult part starts. A man in the other room has only seconds to tie a chain to a hind leg and lift the cow before the cow starts kicking. The smoother the process, the more time there is. Halfway trough the lifting it is paused to stab the cow in the main artery, so the cow can momentarily bleed out and as a consequence die.

This other room is a place of carnage with floor covered in blood, most of it flowing trough floor grates into big tanks on the floor below. It would be pretty problematic to have the cow aproach by itself if there was only one room with floor covered in blood. Cows still smell what's happening but this L-shaped flipper helps keep a resemblance of normality.

0: https://www.theearthawards.org/red-recycling-how-abattoirs-p...

1: There is a phrase in Polish "Wyciągnąć kopyta" meaning "to die", which literally means "to straighten out one's hooves". Used mostly in books or by older people. I saw it used in books for many years before I witnessed it in reality at work. I guess the people of the past were much more aware of where the meat comes from.
It’s probably more of a filter to see who can’t even come up with 10 examples of work they’ve delivered over the course of a year.

I do a lot of code reviews, and it’s very obvious who on the team barely churns out useful code —- even just from the low density and volume of their code.
I think it will have outages/fail whales until stumbling into a new sale or bankruptcy because it's scared off the advertisers.

I don't think the majority opinion on engineers is that it'll crash and then they'll throw in the towel and that's it, but there's plenty of other ultimately fatal outcomes for twitter, and plenty of non-fatal technical issues they can encounter on the way there.
I would guess, though I don't know for sure, that having your hero buy your company and then fire a bunch of your friends and valued colleagues seemingly arbitrarily, including entire teams that exist for actual reasons, probably would dampen your opinion of him somewhat.

Like, I like Steve Jobs, he could be a dick sometimes but I think he had the right idea and the right vision overall, but if he 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, I would have soured on him pretty fast.
If you want to skip the article and go directly to the conclusions of the research:

> ...given all the data available on red meat intake and risk of a subsequent outcome, we estimate that consuming unprocessed red meat across an average range of exposure levels increases the risk of subsequent colorectal cancer, breast cancer, IHD and type 2 diabetes at least slightly compared to eating no red meat (by at least 6%, 3%, 1% and 1%, respectively). Furthermore, the conservative interpretation of available data is consistent with no association between consuming unprocessed red meat and the risk of subsequent ischemic stroke or hemorrhagic stroke

In other words, very mild risk of _unprocessed_ red meat consumption.

Here's the thing - the culprit isn't the meat itself, it's the saturated fat within the meat. Fatty meats have more saturated fat, and the dose-response of red meat (which is generally higher fat than other meats) means it takes very little to hit general recommendations for saturated fat consumption (less than 10% of total calories).

Also it's hard to decipher what "processing" really is. Ground meat is processed. Bacon is really processed. But you have to cut up meat from an animal to make it packageable - this is all processing. What is "bad" processing of meat? What is "good"? Is there such a thing? Does the moment you cure the meat (i.e. bacon) make it "bad"?

This is how the general public is left with more questions than answers when research like this comes out. But if you stick to the canonical advice of eat lots of plants and a little bit of animal products, you're probably going to be okay. Keep saturated fat and sodium in check. Keep your fiber high. Don't smoke and don't drink to excess. Manage stress. Exercise. All that stuff in aggregate is what matters far more than a grass fed ribeye for dinner tonight.
> The back-end reporting and tracking apparatuses built into that site are probably failing miserably, and pissing off a lot of undisclosed clients

I guess every cloud has a silver lining
I think he meant it from an evolutionary standpoint, if it wasn't good for us it would be so tasty. We're animals too so we inevitably taste similar.
Funnily enough that's the one stupid idea he isn't into, SBF tried to get into the twitter buyout on the idea of putting on the block chain and Elon shot it down.
Elon enjoys a massive following for his moonshots. And people have dedicated their life to his vision. Outside of it many investors and customers have supported him to be part of his grand vision.

But last week has shown his true colors. He's no visionary. Just your neighborhood slavedriver with mastery in storytelling. At this stage I am willing to use deceptive to describe Elon. On a public square he broke his persona. He's weak and dangerous as far as I am concerned.