skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both Russia and China have been pushing to do their oil settlements in a basket of currencies and not just the dollar. This should tell you all you need to know why KSA has the US right where it wants them.

The British Pound is a powerful currency backed by an industrial base and a consumer led economy everyone wants to sell into. EUR is the same way. But neither of them are superpowers because no other country needs the GBP or EUR like they need the USD.

Countries all around the world keep USD in their current account balance even if they barely import stuff from the US because every country needs oil and oil can only be bought with dollars.

Say your high school bully demanded 10 SchruteBucks every day to leave you alone at lunch. And the only supplier of SchruteBucks in the whole world was this paper salesman called Dwight Schrute.

Quite evidently, your entire life would revolve around making sure Dwight was still willing to give you SchruteBucks just so that your bully would stay off your back for one more day.

That bully is KSA. Dwight is the US. The kid sucking up to Dwight is all the other countries in the world.

When Putin rants about a unipolar world, this is what he is talking about.

It’s an unjust world where we can’t afford to antagonise the US without also running the risk of not being able to buy petrol to run our economy.
Adversarial Attack Beats Near-Superhuman AI Go Player
This comment thread is so disappointing. The goal of the post wasn't to convince people to use TikTok. It was to try to explain it as a product and why it works so well.

So many comments on here saying "It's just short form YouTube" - did you read my blog post? It's literally the opposite. That's why the clones of TikTok don't work

The audience of this post wasn't potential users of TikTok, it was for people who make software in various capacities.
The Psychological Impact of Slaughterhouse Employment: A Systematic Literature Review - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380211030...

Animal Cruelty, Domestic Violence, and Social Disorganization in a Suburban Setting - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639625.2018.14...

As line speeds increase, meatpacking workers are in ever more danger - https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/18/line-speeds-increase-mea...

How safe are the workers who process our food? - https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/how-safe-are-the-w...

Killing for a Living: Psychological and Physiological Effects of Alienation of Food Production on Slaughterhouse Workers - https://core.ac.uk/outputs/54847380

The Slaughterhouse, Social Disorganization, and Violent Crime in Rural Communities - https://brill.com/view/journals/soan/23/6/article-p594_4.xml

American Slaughterhouses and the Need for Speed: An Examination of the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine Hypothesis - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/108602661769703...

Additionally, Upton Sinclair who wrote The Jungle, which is largely attributed with launching public pressure to create federal reforms for more sanitary meat packing, originally created this to highlight how it fucked up the workers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
Having illiquid shares in a company that has already gone through most of its growth is completely unappealing.

What is the value prop for a talented, high productivity employee to work at Twitter? The management hates its employees, seemingly hated the product, and doesn't even understand the business that he bought.

What's the upside for employees? There's a reason people were hanging up exactly at 5pm as Musk was giving his pitch to try to keep employees from bailing. He's offering a shit sandwich and he's not even good at selling it.
> 1. Because none of his actions are irreversible.

They are partially reversible, but definitely not fully reversible. For example, there's no taking away that Musk started his tenure by angering advertisers. He can apologize, he can make amends, but there's no taking away that some amount of the damage will remain, if only because some companies already made new plans, allocated their budget, and aren't about to tell some other company that they changed their mind because Musk said "sorry".

> 2. If he acted responsibility, he still would be running a company that is losing billions (plus the extra debt he saddled it with) in a terrible economic climate. I don’t think he can afford it.

Well, if he couldn't afford it before making things even worse, how is that not an existential crisis?
I remember Git from the inside out and Learn Git Branching were very helpful when I started using git. The Git Command Explorer was good as well. Links from my notes below:

Git Command Explorer

- https://gitexplorer.com/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888763

Learn Git Branching

- https://learngitbranching.js.org
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18504948

Git from the inside out

- https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside...
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9272249
If you want to claim that coloring or preservatives are bad, then just make that claim instead of the more vague "processed foods".
I was really wondering what he would do away from comma, and this is an exciting move
I suspect you may be overestimating the weight that being denigrated by Musk carries in the industry. It could even be a badge of honor.
Mission Driven Software Engineering
A lot of this can be solved by cooking your extras into something that freezes well using one of the basic techniques. Soups, stews, casseroles etc. can use up almost any random vegetables you have lying around, no formal recipe required, just keeping around a few basics like oil, butter, flour for thickening/dumplings, and your favorite spices.

I recently had a pile of potatoes sitting around for reasons unclear, now I've got several portions of an amazing potato chowder sitting in the freezer, ready to nuke in minutes when I want them. I had a spare onion and carrot lying around so those went in too, worked out great, no planning or recipe required aside from keeping basic cooking staples on hand.

Alternatively most raw vegetables (and fruits!) can be pickled. While you do have to get the proportions roughly correct, making refrigerator pickles is as simple as throwing extra sliced veggies into a jar with water, vinegar and salt (herbs and spices optional to your preference). The acidity keeps them from going bad.

Fruits can be turned into freezer preserves almost as easily. Almost any combination you have lying around can be mashed and cooked down on the stove as much or as little as you want with some sugar, pectin is optional. They'll last for months in the freezer, weeks in the fridge.

People think I'm a cooking genius when they see all this random stuff in my fridge but it's all so easy, the truth is I just don't like waste.
Then you are almost certainly an outlier, and it's nice to see. If I may ask, how old is the company? While the accounting situation at FTX appears to have been a disaster, it just doesn't seem out of the ordinary for a 2 year old company.

What does negative $8 billion mean in the context of double entry? Matt says clever sounding things that don't add up sometimes..
Speaking as someone that prefers weird and experimental music but also has some theory training, IMO, most key changes, especially a big one at the end of a pop song are overrated and don't add much.

Also, if this is only looking at popular music as defined by the Billboard charts, that's more likely caused by the homogenization of music production and a very small group of producers that are responsible for the majority of hit songs. This is a much better analysis:

https://pudding.cool/2018/05/similarity/

I really don't like the assumption behind these types of articles that increased complexity of music theory-wise automatically means better music. Just like adding unnecessary complexity when writing code is always better.

Both complex and simply structured music both have merit, and I'd argue that more simple music is harder to do well beacuse you need a really strong central idea/concept to make it work.

For example, musically Perfume Genius is extremely simple, but it's still some of the best songwriting I've ever heard. It works so well because of the simpliclity makes the subjects he's singing about even more stark and makes it feel more vulnerable. If complexity were all it took to write good music, then everyone would be listening to things like Ornette Coleman (who is great at doing the exact opposite).

You can still be an excellent musician without knowing a lot of theory, and it also should be pointed out that our system of music theory is based around classical composers who made up the rules as they went. All you really need is muscle memory and recognizing harmony and dissonance.

As much as I respect people like Rick Beato that are into this old school view of music needing to be heavily backed by theory and saying "they don't write songs like they used to", I think it's very elitist and extremely artistically myopic to claim authority on something that's completely subjective.

Yes it can help to know theory depending on what type of music you want to make, but you might also make even better music not having that sense of what's correct or not. This is the approach that Giorgio Moroder took and he's one of the most successful and inventive producers of all time.

And just remember that pop music is a market demographic and a product more than it is a distinct genre/style, and that we should all be free to listen to whatever music we want, however correct or wrong someone else tells you it is.
Email from Elon to the Engineering Team
Simplistic answers to difficult and chaotic questions are bogus, heuristics. They may work on average, but twitter is not an average company.
I bet 20% of their workforce was support + inside sales reps for advertisers.

I'd further guess that 10-20% of their workforce was staying on top of regulations. If twitter works, but does not comply with the FTC consent order and gets fined out of business, that is not a technical failure but still is failure.

Large enterprises, especially those under consent orders, spend a TON of effort in compliance. Given that environment is constantly changing, there is net new work needed in almost a Red Queen effect.
Probably will.

But, if not, absolutely no harm will come of it. What would be the worst part of losing twitter entirely?
Twitter shouldn't be a service, it should be a protocol. Technically, when Twitter launched it didn't offer much you couldn't already do with email and listserv.
Make teaching videos for posterity.
Show environment setup
How to deploy an app
What technologies you use
Common issues.

I'd watch every bit.

But you might wanna to take breaks from tech to freshen up.
I’m not convinced, was the determination of what employees to keep and what employees to get rid of sound enough for that? Will quality employees to fill the gaps that exist in the future be willing to sign on with the company after all this? Was the way employees determined whether to leave conducive to keeping the best employees twitter had, or just the ones who didn’t have other good options?

I ultimately feel like Musk went too hardball too fast. Twitter can definitely recover of course, but I think the road to doing so is going to be much longer and harder than it had to be.
you're not a dev, I see
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.00241.pdf
> it would be a big a big boon for my career to work at Twitter..

And I'm not even sure it would be a big career boost to join twitter at this point. The way things are going there you'd probably be burned out pretty quickly which would mean a shortish tenure.
For when I want to keep track of stuff that's connected directly to the projects that I work on, OpenProject has Wiki functionality built in: https://www.openproject.org/docs/user-guide/wiki/

For when I want to keep track of stuff that's connected directly to a particular codebase that I'm working on, turns out that Markdown files within the project's repo are more than sufficient.

Nothing wrong with BookStack, of course, it just felt like I didn't need it as a separate system.
> Growing a garden on someone else’s land is dumb and I think more people are starting to get it.

The absolute majority of the people on the planet have neither the time and technical knowledge, nor the desire to maintain their own platforms or stacks.

Decentralized communities suffer from all the problems of user-friendliness and ease of maintenance that Open Source generally suffers from.
Wait, FTX, or SpaceX?
>Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter?

No because it never was like this. Nice try, though. Have fun blowing your fortune on something that will never catch on.
Working for musk is NEVER piss easy work. That's the point. You could be a god-tier coder, able to literally rebuild twitter in a weekend, but elon is one of those managers that will try and micromanage every little thing you do, get pissed if you tell him no, not understand when you try and explain to him, and yet still find a way to call you stupid after saying literal technobabble to the aide next to him.
Why are billionaires immoral? That seems completely backwards. They created value not by coercion, but by commerce and improved the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJwAYJ9B08

The whole pie has gotten larger since the industrial revolution and has lifted people out of poverty at an unprecendented rate through Capitalism.

The current zeitgeist in places like HN and in progressive circles is worrying. There was just a recent thread about how India lifted people out of poverty and people were downvoting pro-Capitalist comments even though that's the truth no matter how you twist it.
"even though"? Seems natural.
https://archive.ph/xilRT
“There is, however, more evidence for a health risk from eating too few vegetables. That is really the risk of a high-meat diet, those meat calories are displacing vegetable calories.”

Isn't a calorie just a calorie though? Or is this in regards to what comes alongside those calories?
Also https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1593649550446628866
> I'm frustrated thinking of all the pointlessly-spent energy required to have those discussions the first place.

Have you effectively communicated this to those you're conversing with? Why not? This is worth some thought.

Otherwise, I have noticed the same and agree with you. I recommend the book Crucial Conversations.
You can type in prompt and generate an image from dalle2 and the mint it as part of a collection of art made by the community! Your prompt becomes unique and can't be used by anyone else!
I'm pointing out that the parent comment has some bad economics in it, not arguing one way or another about whether we should have a UBI or how it should be funded.
A share of what company?

The company has no vision, no real captain, nor is it public.
GOGS, MQTT for IOT/tasmota devices, rwtxt, some tg bots, pgsql, an ethercalc fork, c9sdk, Codiad, redis+webdis, sqlpad
>But you now also have a liability of $200,000. Your total asset is still $200,000 , not $400,000.

Assets are not liabilities, so you'll need to explain why you think it is a liability.

Fashion brands and their physical goods are definitely not the same as NFTs, insomuch as they at least have intrinsic value. NFTs only intrinsic value is they good for ripping off greater fools.
Of course, but it's not binary. It's not a choice of people who hate you or love you unquestionably. There's a middle ground between those.

I don't buy into the notion that the chief engineer of SpaceX, which puts rockets in space, and CEO of Tesla, which efficiently produces electric cars, doesn't know how to stay in touch with reality. The evidence is in direct conflict.
According to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...

"As of 1980, the longest cost-effective distance for DC transmission was 7,000 kilometres (4,300 miles). For AC it was 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles), though US transmission lines are substantially shorter."

The distance from Saudi Arabia to Greece, by road, is roughly 2389 km according to Google Maps (albeit passing through Jordan, Syria and Turkey). As the crow flies or using an undersea cable it would be even shorter, so a monumental project but it could be done. Would require striking a deal with the Jordanians and Israelis, but that's well with Saudi capabilities should they choose to do so.
I didn't cite any numbers. You can look up the age discrepancies between AM/FM during the early 80s. FM was dominated by the 12-24 demo, but the music industry was attached to AM and reacted slower to audience research back then. If you prefer a qualitative approach, you can look at the charts from the late 70s/early 80s and compare them to today.
This 100% I used to work adjacent to teams in GTech (Google's customer support org) and asking for a HAR file was standard practice back then, whoever the support agent is just doesn't realize that given the context it may contain sensitive information.
COIN and HOOD both have an opportunity to make major changes and become profitable businesses. But just looking at their cash/debt/stock comp/revenue growth/expenses, it doesn't look great.
China’s New Daily Covid Cases Jump Above 24,000
I think there's a couple of compatible perspectives that are both correct but often framed as mutually exclusive:

1. Rust will become the main language for new projects

2. There will still be an enormous amount of C that will be maintained for many decades and the majority of "lines of (systems) code" will be C rather than Rust for decades
He was also offering them a chance to have options in clear growth companies that would make you financially secure after you put some time in. Twitter has no such promise, he is saying it might go into chapter 11, and he added all that debt. Why would you sign on to that, when on the backside you'll have options in a private company riddled with debt and no clear exit or growth path.
https://archive.ph/m1PEA
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/02/kamala-harris-wikipedia/
Highly doubtful. Will it go down immediately? No. Will the bitrot accelerate and things start breaking/deteriorating with no one around to fix them? Yes.

It's hard to argue that Twitter wasn't incredibly overstaffed. Maybe even 80% overstaffed. But ripping 80% of the humans out of the equation basically overnight is not a recipe for a successful transition.
Agreed on the mouse over
Different reason for different people.

Some people are bad at communication due to social anxiety.

Some people are bad at communication because they're trying to be the smartest person in the room.

Some people are bad at communication simply due to lack of practice.

There are other reasons, but those come to mind first.
for the frontend space, NX gives you bazel caching / features. It just doesn't cache dependencies, but in my experience with GitHub Actions running `pnpm install` or `yarn install` is not the slowest operation, its running the tools after.
As long as you're willing to accept a company that is not growing in revenue due to new value created, you can build a system entirely dedicated to maintenance of existing features with a small group.

In Twitter's case, however, how long is it until they're sued for child porn (lack of moderation) or get 50 million euro fines for running afoul of Germany's Network Enforcement Act?
Wait, what? What happened to Zero Covid????
The technical interview for my current job was phenomenal.

It was a leetcode style interview (maybe it was through hackerrank? I dont remember), but it was just writing code to hit a JSON-based HTTP API and collect the results into a list. I was encouraged to google things, and explain what I was thinking about in relation to the task.

The task was trivial if you've done it before, but probably not easy if you didn't know how to write code. While doing that task, I was able to expand on my knowledge by talking about what my code was doing.

It was in python, and I was doing it recursively (because that's what I like), so I was talking about how performance optimizations would be to make it iterative instead, if needed. I got into explaining this was because python doesn't have TCO recursion, so it just blows up the call stack if it's too large.

The interviewers were chatty, and were happy to banter and in general be cordial during the interview as well, which I really liked.

At the end of it, I felt really good about the interview and was confident that I had "passed".
Running fine just now. I waste a fair bit of time on HN and Twitter and remain unsure why Twitter needs 7000 people when HN does similar stuff with maybe two.
if you didn't have a farm system to pull from, how many animals would you slaughter to subsist? Where would you raise the animal? what things would you give up for proper animal husbandry? I'd argue it is incredibly efficient!
Would you take a new job at Twitter right now?
Just looking at the stock perf. They have high trading fees and still lose quite a bit every quarter. They need to figure out their business plan when trading activity is lower, or figure out some way to drive trading activity.
Many natural languages have grouping at every three digits in a decimal number, but it's not universal.

Like in English 10000 is ten thousand, there is no new single word for it.

IMO most of it is momentum and convention, there is nothing inherently natural about grouping by every 3 digits.
I agree. If these aren't public benefit corporations, I'm not interested.

I used to gleefully ridicule all things Twitter. But I've come to see it as more of a public benefit than a public menace. The automated censoring aggravates me because it does get things wrong, even after requesting review. So a tweak was in order, but this is not that kind of tweak, it's worse. I think we need something like it. I'm not sure if one is enough or if two is too many.
The Nothingness of Personality
Plato is still read, but there have been may philosophers since then that are also read.

We are quickly passing the golden age when anyone can see the obvious problems and write on them. There will be many thinkers to come, but they are all building on the giants of the past and so will mostly not be commenting on the obvious.
The problem is he's getting rid of the solid workforce and keeping the bloat. No decent engineer would work 80 hours a week in the office over 40 in the home.
Not writing, but I have found all of Brett Victor's speeches to be incredibly inspiring on how I think about what I want to work on and where we're going.

Inventing on Principle by Brett Victor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

Growing a Language by Guy Steele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE

We Really Don't Know How to Compute! by Gerald Sussman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI
Instant payment, no paper checks, and ability for tenants to use credit cards vs pay you late.
"Hey guys, it's Mr. Beast about to fight Jake Paul in a boxing ring made of ferraris!"

The YT Algorithm is much more spammy when it comes to influencer content that I never click on.

Whereas my Tiktok is chock full of interesting art, design, music, and programming.
I agree with your prediction. Sorry, I was unclear in my post, and left that part unsaid. I agree that it will likely just be the big newly released 'base' models that will be scrubbed of NSFW images, but there's really no way to prevent these models from making those kinds of images at all.

It will only take some dedicated individuals, which I know there is no shortage of.
I suppose we only have one point of reference to make observations from, but it feels a little strange how the graphics tend to give a false sense of us being at the center of the universe.

Would this graph essentially look the same if the observations were made elsewhere, like way over near the redshifted elliptical galaxies? Sometimes it's difficult to wrap my mind around the combination of distance and time represented at these scales.