skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Twitter's management STILL trying to recruit back experienced software engineers who left Twitter last week, opting in to not be part of the "hardcore" Twitter 2.0.

Wonder how many of them return, knowing they also can be fired at any time based on a single code review."

Why would you return to something that will try to spit you out at the first sign of trouble? Or have those poor people working on a visa no choice?
Elon Musk Hires Prolific Hacker George Hotz to Fix Twitter Search
I once worked at a very high-end online fashion retailer, and as a programmer, it was a decent place to work, and I look back fondly on my time there.

However, if you were in the fashion industry, and especially if you wanted to work at a company founded by an inspiring woman, it was absolutely the place you wanted to work. HR were inundated by applications for non-tech positions by highly capable and motivated people, and HR acted like it. It was very selective, and the best people fought for jobs there and worked hard.

But for tech workers, it was simply an decent place to work, and was perpetually a little bit short-staffed. HR couldn't wrap their minds around the fact that this one segment had choices and weren't really that fussed about working there, and so it took a lot of work for engineering managers to free up basic recruitment marketing money, to streamline recruitment processes etc.

I wonder if there's some of that going on. For people who want to work on the cutting edge of space-tech, SpaceX has to be very high up on the list of places you'd want to work. For people who want to build electric cars, ditto Tesla.

But for software engineers who are good enough to do the work that needs to be done at Twitter? meh, there are choices. There are companies with much more interesting problems, companies with larger scale, companies who'll pay better. Are there that many Twitter True Believers? My understanding is the big draw beforehand for Twitter was that they had a great working environment, and that's evaporated.

I wonder if Musk will be able to get his head around that.
It’s true that we can’t really know whether Google is exploiting these expanded permissions to collect more data unless we have some insider information.

However, it’s generally very easy to predict what a company is going to do by observing their business model and incentive structure. In Google’s case, collecting as much data as possible is a major part of their business, so without more information, there’s no good reason to assume they won’t do it.
Manjaro is like Arch but not exactly like Arch. If you have a problem with Manjaro and then go to the (stellar) Arch documentation to try to figure out why it doesn't work in a case like this, that documentation won't help you.
Oh no, people can speak their minds without being shadowbanned by political algorithms and woke[1] moderators. How dangerous.

Taking a look at the actual data[2], hate speech has decreased.

1: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595250835096621057

2: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595630109116989440
> I honestly don't understand why Elixir and the Erlang/BEAM ecosystem haven't taken over the software world more completely

I thought similar things in 2016 when I started learning Elixir and Phoenix but after 2 years, building multiple apps, dabbling with it for years afterwards (up until about last year) and giving it everything I had (and more). It wasn't for me.

The conclusion I came to was Elixir makes certain things that are hard in other languages easier and there's certain things in other languages that are simple but much different in Elixir. For the apps I build (typical web apps like GitHub, etc.) I found that I ran into more scenarios where Elixir as a language made it harder for me to build the things I wanted. For things that Elixir made easier, other languages have "good enough" solutions.

If the goal of all of this is to build things to provide value for others, choosing a stack with a larger ecosystem of tools and community support wins in my book when you've reached the point of "good enough" in other things. Responding back in <= 100ms for the p95 case is "good enough" and most web tech stacks can do this without a huge amount of server costs or extra effort if you're talking about million dollar business sized apps where you might be dealing with a few hundred thousand visitors a month for a typical SAAS app.

Things like Hotwire[0] are also tech stack agnostic. You can build really nice feeling apps with minimal effort. I spent about a week upgrading one of my apps to use it while learning as I went and it made a massive difference. Conceptually it was low effort to understand and didn't require rewriting everything. That has been the polar opposite experience I've had when I used LiveView.

[0]: https://hotwired.dev/
I'm on the spectrum and I'm not a piece of shit to my employees. Being on the spectrum does not automatically make someone an asshole. That is personal failure of Musk.
> Oh boy.

Do you mind pointing out where you think this applies?
‘Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells
> Nobody except delusion fanboys would be willing to work for such a company

This is the point. It's by design. Musk wants that level of loyalty right now. You can hate his methods or decisions, but I think the entire point is he wants 100% dedicated people right now at Twitter.

Given the magnitude of resistance from so much of the staff about the entire acquisition, and the bloat of silicon valley companies on top of it, I can see his reasoning.
Not a lot of friction. Especially if you don't restrict the allowed email providers.
Vitest In-Source Testing
Note that we're only hearing one side of the story here.
Not only that: the power itself depends on other people believing in it.

If literally nobody in the company believes you to be the CEO, then you are no more powerful than anyone else. Similarly, even if you're not the CEO, but everyone believes you are, you have all the power of being one.

This means if you want to stay powerful, you have to exercise your power to remind people that you have it, thus reinforce their belief in it, and retain it so you can exercise it again to remind people and so on.

Of course, I would argue there are better ways to gain and display power.
Why is it astounding? Leadership is there to serve the interests of shareholders, not employees. For obvious reasons, this truth is usually elided behind talk of "company families" and "valued employees", but it never ceases to be the truth.
For what it's worth, one can reduce the impact of such issues by populating /etc/resolv.conf with "options timeout {t} attempts {a}" {t} being the time you find acceptable to wait for a dns response and {a} being the number of attempts. In a datacenter I also ensure that all occurrences of "domain" and "search" are removed from /etc/resolv.conf as they amplify the timeouts. Always use FQDN's in applications without exception. One can also populate /etc/gai.conf with parameters to prefer ipv4 over ipv6 or even disable ipv6 if your outbound servers talk through an edge device that will translate/proxy to ipv6 when required as having resolvers try both A and AAAA will amplify problems.

To see what I am talking about, create a ram disk on your edge recursive servers and configure your DNS daemon to write query logs to a file in that ramdisk. This will slow down your DNS servers a little but unless one sees the bigger picture of what is happening, one can not make educated decisions to retrofit the platform architecture. This is only require temporarily to analyze the behavior of the application and OS DNS requests.

Another useful improvement is to literally run Unbound on every single node and configure it to use multiple edge recursive servers and set the parameters to keep probing all of them but prefer the fastest ones. This reduces load on the edge recursive servers, improves application response times and minimizes DNS outage issues. Tune cache-min-ttl to what is optimal for your datacenter. I also find it useful to set delay-close higher on all the edge recursive servers to further reduce latency.

There are thousands of other improvements one could make but then this turns into a book.
It's easy. It's easier to buy there than elsewhere because it's habit.

I stopped prime a couple years ago, I buy from other stores when I can, but sometimes you just need protein powder, spray bottles, stove gaskets, a 300 piece puzzle, and a cello stand. Amazon makes it possible to just buy one spot.
An app that inventories all your tools and checks them out when they are borrowed. SMS messages constantly nag your neighbor to return said tool(s) after a specific time interval. Sell with ads or go ad-free for $.99
It seems fine to me, IMDB is on the first page of results for the few random movies I just looked up.
Peter Zumthor is one of my favorite architects <3 Therme Vals is just spectacular [0]. Zumthor is all about plain surfaces and 90 degree angles (maybe he used the Wolfenstein 3D editor to make his plans?) but somehow Therme Vals feels like being in an underwater cavern.

I don't know if I'd live in a house designed by him (although the author of this article seemed to love it). Might be too minimalistic -- thinking of the Kunsthaus in Bregenz for example. Of course this cabin is made of wood, not concrete. But in terms of a house that feels like a home, I'd go with Alvar Aalto; his designs ooze cozyness in a way that Zumthor's don't, and for a famous architect, they feel surprisingly pragmatic and sensible :)

[0] https://7132.com/en/therme/thermal-baths-and-spa/overview
I am a practicing physicist and I took a whole course on the history and development of physics and the natural sciences in general. It was useful.

For example, the general public, and even scientists and engineers, still talk about "heat flow" as though temperature itself is a fluid being transfered between objects. This is incorrect physically, but nevertheless there are clear mathematical analogies between how objects in contact with each reach equilibrium, and other physical systems, like two containers filled with water to different levels and connected with a pipe at the base. The reason for this is entirely historical, and if one is not mindful of that the terminology can be very misleading.
I will accept motivated reasoning when in a friendly setting but big tech is not my friend. Their only and only purpose is to extract as much value (data or money) from me as possible.

Looking at Heartbleed and other famous security we should know that minor mistakes "disguised" as "typos" can have devastating effects.

They know what theyre doing alright.
But isn’t collected/shared inherently the same thing here?
Compiler Errors for Humans (2015)
I mean if I were working at Twitter, and on H1B (at the mercy of the US Gov), I would have started my job hunt and jumped off the moment all this drama with Elon started. So, I don't think anyone smart would be _starting_ their job hunt now..
Removing NSFW content is fine, people who care about that can work around it easily. Removing celebrities and commercial artists was a mistake though and I expect this will need to be really impressive in other ways or people aren't going to bother using it.
If you want to make a point the best way is probably to give a couple examples, that's the laziest comment I've seen all day.
Yeah but, the biggest browser is Chrome, by Google; they have an incentive to allow tracking and access across their services.
Why astounding? They got paid a lot more than they should have so it made sense. Money makes people mean but that’s business as usual.
The point I was trying to highlight which predictably went over some heads is that just because you can prevent 99.99% of something doesn't mean that would not be an absolutely asinine endeavor with little payoff.

Medical events, mechanical failures, software failures, they're all in the long tail of "rare causes of accidents". The fat part of the curve is made up of various flavors of willful dumb driver behavior. It is pure foley to direct more resources at those problems than the bare minimum needed to look like you're "doing something" so that the people who don't understand how likely these events are are placated. The bulk of resources spent toward safety should be allocated toward reducing dumb things drivers do.
My shipping has deteriorated massively in the last couple of years. What used to be 2 day shipping as a prime member is now often as much as 10 days. That, plus all the knock-offs and bad product quality, has made me stop using Amazon for much.
See a list here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/quotes/qt0466959
> I wonder if Musk will be able to get his head around that.

Doubtful based on how this is going.
> apparently SpaceX have a load of people who basically are a buffer between Musk and the bits of the company that actually get the job done.

Every company I've worked for has this, its very common.

Also, I suspect this is the same story being repeated rather than being sourced from multiple different spacex middle managers. (Which doesn't mean its untrue, just don't assume hearing something in multiple places means it has more than one root source)
Why the worst recipes imaginable are blowing up on TikTok
I'm a big fan of Deflemask, but this does look cool. Will have to have a play later. Sounds fantastic, and I really do love the low level looking interface. Hoping it allows "poking the pins" directly, but will need to have a proper look this evening. Great work!
As one former early Tesla engineer remarked to me “Your chances of being summarily fired go up exponentially when you are in the same room as Elon”
A lot of people who stayed did so because of H1Bs, and a lot of those people were sacked last night. Imagine having to find a new job in 60 days, starting the night before Thanksgiving. My heart goes out to those poor folks.
"Achievable" is quite charitable from my experience. With the previous ISP I would get located in a city some 2000kms away, sometimes the scam ads would detect my location as null.

Maybe it's more effective in places like the US.
Truth. People in that situation would likely be in a mad scramble.
You could try working in small walled gardens. Like, for example, extension stores for various shopping cart software. Lurk around the forums for something like opencart, shopify, etc, and you can usually find some niche that isn't covered. Like a module for a lesser known payment gateway. Or find a popular addon that's overpriced, buggy, etc, and release a competitor.
The thing is that regulation could very easily require that exchanges be decentralised.

But that won't happen because money laundering is a religious belief. Instead we'll just get more stupid attempts to watch the watchmen.
Yeah, if there were no bugs, this application would lose its purpose, lmao.
Because he has money? Elon sounds like a real dick, but people forget that literal tech super-villains like Larry Ellison exist. Compared to the previous shareholders of Twitter, Musk is frankly a sidegrade. You literally cannot do worse than Jack Dorsey.
It’s very much like comparing AI generated human faces with faces from stock photos, you’d have to pay attention to weird artefacts and quirks. The use depends on what it needs to be used for, and for AI stuff I think it’s mostly for generic background that nobody cares too much to find those quirks.
I agree it's probably by design, but I contest that it's a bad thing. People comment on this takeover with a mindset where the company is made only of employees and owner. There are quite a few more stakeholders in this, much more than usual in this case. There are its clients (advertisers), its users, and everybody that's indirectly affected by the dialogue that goes on Twitter.

From the mindset I mentioned, yes, Musk is needlessly cruel and a bully. But he was quite clear from the beginning that he's doing it in good part for society at large - so the normal priority of stakeholders is actually reversed. Society and discourse become most important, then users, then clients and employees.
If this is just a link to a bunch of PDFs, then presumably PDF malware is an issue here. I would have thought computer books would be a fine vector to choose if you were trying to compromise websites and business systems.
How the Chinese takeover of the UK’s largest semiconductor factory unravelled
You're assuming that Firefox is eating all your commit space, but it's not, far from it, I can see it from the crash reports. You've got other applications running and they are also fighting for it, leaving large chunks unused. Without some swap space available Windows is leaving 10+ GiB of physical memory free which it cannot use for anything else.

This is how Windows behaves by design, there's nothing we can do about it. Windows without a swap file sucks.
Could you make a paid TTS engine App on Android and iOS?
one account to buy anything, quickly. having to sign up at a million independent stores sucks
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mapy-cz-navigation-maps/id4114...
>Astounding to me that this is what the leadership at twitter wanted

If they didn't accept and try to finalize his offer, they could have been successfully sued by shareholders: You don't turn down a premium offer unless you think you can get better, and you absolutely finalize that deal if the market takes a sharp downtown after getting it.
Tesla is rumored to integrate Dolby Atmos in its electric cars
Local zoning regulations don't allow it. But backup power systems? No problem.
On anything vaguely Elon related I've learned to ignore high-frequency reporting. It's all about creating instant disgust. Who knows what we we'll eventually find out; my guess is that it's more likely everyone gets similar longish severance.

(Or pseudo-severance, for countries and states with certain regulations, to ensure actual legal compliance even among the public perception of everything happening instantly without regard to sources of delay.)
requestIdleCallback isn’t something that you need to protect yourself from. It just executes a function when there’s nothing else happening on your page essentially.
Then don’t have above average outgoing expenses that put you at the mercy of a tyrant?

I’m 48 now and I learned a long time ago after my first job to always live in a position of f*^k you (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI). I believed in living like that from 1999 when I was making $60K a year, for the next 20 years when I was bumping around as your bog standard journeyman CRUD Enterprise developer and after that when I pivoted slightly to get into BigTech.

You are seeing the consequences right now of what happens when you let lifestyle inflation happen.
> Free and fast shipping is no longer exclusive to them

It's much worse than that. They no longer offer fast shipping; you're not allowed to pay for it even if you want it.
Mixing artist names was by far the most effective way to create aesthetically pleasing images, this is a huge change. DreamBooth can only fine-tune on a couple dozen images, and you can't train multiple new concepts in one model, but maybe someone will do a regular fine-tune or train a new model.
> firing people on H1B who have 60d to get a job or leave the country.

And during the holidays at end of year, when hiring seems to slow down for a couple months.
*spain
You are probably right, tbh.
It mostly works but it's clear that some features are slowly breaking. Maybe it won't matter that it's starting to look rough around the edges but I would love for a real competitor to show up
In know this may be an unpopular take, but some of it comes across to me as an entitlement mindset. Retirement is viewed as something expected and a debt owed by society, rather than something prudently planned for.

I’m in favor of a strong social safety net, but geared towards helping low-probability or unforeseen circumstances, not for avoiding a completely visible and very slowly approaching cliff.
Shopify and Apple Pay make it a lot easier than it used to be.
Honestly, I don't get you can live in a country which is (presumably) constantly raided by some sociopaths in power and don't hate them more than anything else. I certainly do hate such people in my own country, because of whom we are in the second hundred of any country rankings. And to combat their financial crimes, the only possible solution is a hard control of all "schemes" of moving funds. Including tokens.

Sure, in some utopian world it would be nice to have something resembling bittokens, only in a scalable and working state. But in reality such system break so many things that it's closed to dystopia than to utopia.
“How much do twitter devs have to take?” - before a union vote, I hope?
What do you mean with social cost? Ranking lower in status?
Interesting - worker solidarity to you is equal to "tribalism" and violence? So unions are actually violent tribal groups in your mind?
they can reskin what they want, the press still spread an incorrect information
Time for somebody to make an alternative interface, like teddit.com. I imagine this could be done with front-end code only.
https://archive.ph/YMyrH

https://web.archive.org/web/20221124034213/https://www.washi...

Note: Some parts of the archive don't render correctly? Unsure why. You will get better results clearing cookies + localstorage for washingtonpost.com.
anecdotally, it seems really bimodal for me. Either I can get something same day/overnight, or it'll take a week or more
I only need to buy something online every couple months, maybe once a month at most. I hate shopping so I'll be damned if I will spend 1 more second thinking about the process than I have to. Amazon always has the thing, ships it in 2 days, I can be relatively sure I'm not getting ripped off by more than +/- 25% and that's good enough for me. I've never had any issues with fakes that HN complains about all the time.

I think Amazon lives off the backs of folks like me, or maybe people that shop slightly more than me but not much. If I was the type of person shopping for things everyday I'd imagine I would branch out. But for the vast majority of folks consistency is king.
This looks awesome, but will switching branches or reverting commits in the repo affect the history of my git-bug issues?
At this point Musk seems to be doing things just for attention and losing least money with Twitter.
Leadership didn’t necessarily want this, shareholders did. Musk paid a huge premium in perhaps the worst takeover deal in a decade.

If the ceo and board had not taken the deal they would have been (rightly) ousted by the shareholders who lost tons of money.
Anything I ingest would not come from Amazon, or rather one of its numerous anonymous, unvetted sellers.
How do you find the products that you need?
Haven't seen the Fail Whale in some time. But Facebook has been glitching terribly the last few months on desktop — mobile is smooth, but desktop has been acting very weird.
> How do you make that kind of determination when you're missing the wider context which led to the code being written?

Dartboard.

Musk believes that, having fired 80% or so of the staff already, it's still overstaffed. He wants to reduce it to a group of people he can fit in a room and shout at directly. It's the literal implementation of "firings will continue until morale improves".
At this point, I think Dolby pays other companies to license their tech for them.
It's actually a pretty clear labour vs capital conflict. Elons just a regular PE style investor who's hoping to gut the company and sell it off without actually changing anything
The maximum value any human being should be able to control as wealth in any form - property, stock, rights, cash, what have you, is $1 million dollars. Anything more gets appropriated and redistributed by the state.

More than rich enough to live on, but nowhere near rich enough to buy governments and corporations on a whim.