skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You underestimate Elon Musk. Many people have done that before and lost that bet. If anything, he repeatedly succeeded in building world class software and hardware teams for Tesla, SpaceX, and a few other companies. The notion that he won't be able to attract world class talent is ludicrous. Yes, he is a bit of a liability and his management style is obnoxious and unconventional. But he does get things right once in a while.

And he hates bloated inefficient teams. His decrees on meetings are infamous. Tripling the team at Twitter implies a lot of internal politics, fiefdoms, communication overhead, and generally a lot of headless chickens running around. There's no nice way to fix such a team. A sledge hammer is one way to fix it and obviously he likes getting results quickly.

So, the notion of laying off most of that team was a foregone conclusion. The notion that a lot of the better people would get upset about that and leave as well is also highly predictable. What's left is a team with some gaps but also a lot of breathing room. And he can always lure key people back in by throwing money at them.

Simple plan. It might actually work. At the cost of a bit of drama, temporary instability, and lots of free publicity. Exactly his style. Cringe worthy and effective. I can see the logic here.
Don't forget about Canadian football.

edit

>Was it a patriotism thing, to ignore the world's most popular sport, and make their own one where America will always be no. 1?

In America they were playing something like rugby football and eventually dropped the rugby part at roughly the same time England was playing association football and dropped the association part. It was hardly the most popular worldwide sport at the time.
Just a correction. The fat guy wasn't from his team, he was from some other team. And he didn't fall, he jumped down onto the first base because that's what he was only barely able to do, he knew that in the best case scenario he only have like 50% chance for the first base because he run so slow.

So basically his tactic was: if I run as fast as I can I have 40% to reach first base. If I run as fast as I can and jump I have 50% to reach first base. He didn't even consider going to second base, ever.

Moneyball is great movie, go watch it.
(Creating a throwaway account to respond to this post rather than use my regular HN account)

I see the comments about what the kid did being abhorrent and that autism should not excuse it. I understand where these commenters are coming from. But allow me to tell you what you're missing.

I'm the parent of an autistic pre-teen. He's "high functioning" because he can talk, read, write, do math and goes to a regular school. But I can totally see him doing something stupid and insensitive like this. The problem is there are several things he just doesn't understand no matter how many times you explain it to him. There are echoes of this problem in the article:

> He [Brandon] just doesn’t understand why he’s still in prison.

> Brandon recently started writing letters to the prison warden and to Judge Ruiz, asking to be let out. “Brandon, that’s just not going to work,” Fleury tells him. But he has to keep explaining it. These days they have the same conversations, over and over, round and round, and get nowhere: Brandon just doesn’t understand.

It's obvious to us that sending such hateful, hurtful messages is wrong. But some autistic brains simply do not understand this. Here are some things my kid does not understand no matter how many times we explain it to him:
* If someone doesn't want to include you (e.g. in their Minecraft server, or party), there is no point in crashing in uninvited.
* You don't say to someone every day that they stink (have BO).
* You can go to the bathroom when you're at your piano teacher's house.
* Just because one Chinese girl bullied you does not mean all people of Chinese origin are evil.

If you haven't experienced interactions with such an autistic person, you would not believe there exists anyone who doesn't get something so basic. Even if you've met several autistic people, it's possible you haven't met someone with this specific blindspot.

So yes, if I were the judge in Brandon's case, I'd be more lenient.
> "Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 pm today. Before doing so, please email a bullet point summary of what your code commands have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code"

Actual quote.
Anyone using the term "code commands" comes out a little detached from programming reality, let alone the rest of this request, it is out of a Dilbert strip.
Could you give a brother a hint on how to find this site?
Great to see that getting more traction than my submission. I hope to find time to incorporate it into my terminal. Are there already some projects generating the various color schemes?
Television and radio pretty much works that way. Print media too.
part of me wants to argue that the interface to a complex piece of software is a language, really, and if it were a self-consciously made language, it could be a lot better in a number of ways.

but, i think you're probably right.
There's Gaelic football as well.
I think HomePods are very different devices compared to what both Amazon and Google make. Even the HomePod mini sounds way better than anything competitors make. Many are willing to pay premium for the superior sound quality. Apple simply plays a different game. Not the one where it would have to compete with $10 echo devices.
Same, I would really like a third Jensen game. DX:HR and DX:MD were great followups to the original and incredible games in their own right. I do understand the criticism of MD as unfinished in the sense that it clearly felt like it was designed with one more big level in it. But everything that was in the game was great and I think MD had the best side quests of the series. Prague was a stunning hub with some of the best in-game architecture I've seen.

I also feel like both Jensen games hit a really good balance with Jensen as the protagonist. He's a defined character with his own history and personality, but you get to choose just enough dialogue as well.
> I mean wholly crap, this reminds me of old German industry where people retire in the place they started.

German here. I think this actually is a huge part of the success of the famous Mittelstand - all that institutional knowledge these people have is extremely valuable. It's not just basic stuff like "know time tracking, billing and other admin systems and internal processes", but also the stuff that really can speed up your work: whom to ask on the "kurzer Dienstweg" aka short-circuitting bureaucracy when needed, personal relationships with people in other departments on whose knowledge you rely (it's one thing if you get a random email asking for some shit from someone you don't know, but I'll always find some minutes to help out someone who has helped me out in the past), all the domain-specific knowledge about the precise needs and desires of your customers...

Attrition is bad for a company as a whole, the problem is US-centric capitalism cannot quantify that impact (and it doesn't want to, given that attrition-related problems are long-term issues with years of time to impact), and so there is no KPI for leadership other than attrition rate itself.

The only problem is that over the last years, employers' mindset has shifted from regular wage raises to paying the bare minimum which makes changing jobs every few years a virtual requirement for employees to get raises, and so we are already seeing the first glimpses of US employment culture and its issues cropping up.
I am willing to concede that I might be overthinking situations where "Spaniards" should be used instead of "the Spanish." Perhaps I was premature in citing a half-remembered verbal tic without having an actual example handy.

But there is neither need to be presumptuous nor offensive, nor officious, in your attempts to grasp at my meaning.

Amusingly enough, in the process of trying to find an erroneous misuse of the terms, and striving in vain, I stumbled upon this article, which is about the complexity of "Spanish" as a transatlantic identity, when it conflates Latin American hispanics with actual immigrant Spaniards:

> The most common adaptation my interviewees reported to deal with the automatic association of Spain with Latin America was for them to disassociate from using the term Spanish as their primary identifier with Anglo-Americans. Rather as Susana, a 25-year-old ESL student, quite vividly noted they had to actively try to reinforce their geographic connection to Europe:

> Susana:

>“I’m not Spanish, I’m from Spain.” I always say that. In fact, I say “I’m from Es-pain” because I cannot say the [English] “s.” And they say “Olé” and laugh.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23326492187663...

Though that, of course, is a different issue altogether!

Edit: After having a think, I'd say that there have been instances where in actual conversation I've heard individual Spanish people referred to as "a Spanish" rather than "a Spaniard." Which, of course, is wrong. It does feel like the word Spaniard has a rather historical, almost literary, sheen, so you don't hear it used in everyday conversation often. And so colloquially speaking, people are more likely to default to incorrect uses of Spanish as a noun. But that might be a misconception I've picked up, I freely admit.
This guy was diagnosed as a child.
Stop repeating this, because Elon had the gist of it correct, if not the specifics.

a) Twitter is atrociously slow for something that displays a mere kilobyte of text at a time.

b) Much of that is because of hundreds of client-server JavaScript requests on first load. Not technically RPCs, but just as slow and looking nearly identical on the network.

c) Most of the rest is because of a thousand microservices chatting away at each other. Not technically client-to-server, but still taking significant time.

Elon accidentally conflated the network path of (b) with the performance issues caused by (c).

They're both bad! They both need fixing! The fact that Musk mixed up doesn't matter.
Ok? Are we going to pretend that perks like that aren't common in the tech industry? Are you being disingenuous on purpose?
Having an idea of what your child is up to on the internet is a good idea for a parent of a neurodiverse child.
> All of those people could have been doing useful, money-making, cost-cutting things instead.

This is how you kill a tech company: stop innovating and fall back to simple “maximize revenue, cut expenses” MBA theory
Interactive Brokers startem Playing in this space too.

https://eventtrader.interactivebrokers.com/en/home.php
The article describes that he liked to recite the lines of movie super villains, and was fascinated with internet trolls because they were popular. And he wanted to be popular.

And how now he repeatedly writes letters to the judge and warden asking to be let out, and in calls with family he doesn’t understand why he’s still there.
Exactly.

It is puzzling that those individuals feel the need to attempt to suppress what they elect not to agree with.
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Spoken slander, literate libel
>I strongly disagree that the iOS App Store should be treated as an "internet service"

It’s entire purpose is to look up data and download stuff across the internet. How can it not be an internet service? How much use could it be if it was cut off from internet connectivity, what would you even do in it?
Barring him from social media for a certain number of years would be a reasonable punishment for this crime. Not prison.
If someone can't properly control himself, then it's up to society to ensure that nobody is harmed.
Jd.com to slash top exec salaries amid China's 'common prosperity' push
> If, for any reason at all, a cert fails to be regenerated (say, your etcd certs, or some weird one-off tool underpinning everything that somebody has to remember to regen every 360 days), they will expire, and it will be a very fun day at the office. Over a long enough period of time, your web server's TLS version will be obsoleted in new browser versions, and nobody will be able to load it.

At least for expired certs, most people have learned the hard way just how bad that is, and either implemented automated renewal (thank to heavens for cert-manager, LetsEncrypt, AWS ACM and friends) or where that doesn't work (MS AD...) monitoring.
Its possible to teach a horse to eat less and less each day. They just have this unfortunate tendency to die just after you succeed in weaning them off food altogether.

A horse, of course, is not same as a reduction in force.

Engineers don't eat hay, neither does a horse have a 401(k).
Why is my project not on the list?
Python Type Hints: case study on parsy
Another evidence for Last Thursdayism.
I think your interpretation is fine :) Maybe I was aiming for a fully generalized decentralized database, but in the end there's probably too many finance or business-specific concepts in the core model to really deserve the title. At least in Corda 4.

And I should have given you more credit in my post, apologies for that. Indeed Corda has successful 'blockchain' projects where other platforms often don't, largely because of your rigorous problem-definition-first mentality that kept us seeing Bitcoin/Ethereum as a bag of useful ideas rather than a template that we had to follow. It was a great collaboration which I enjoyed a lot, and the platform was very fundamentally shaped by your efforts and insights!
Using an “audited” app like signal on an iPhone still requires you to trust apple, because they could replace a library signal depends upon or they could just replace the whole app and you wouldn’t know. I also don’t know the extent to which we can verify that the app we get from the App Store is actually the audited version. I’ve always imagined signal could have secret code that gets included at compile time for certain platforms that could make it more vulnerable.

If we controlled all the code on our device and we could build the open source app ourselves that would go a long way. Otherwise you still have no choice but to trust your OS provider.
People keep complaining about this when it's really not a thing, and it has nothing to do with the USA.

For example in European-ish countries it's called Calcio (to kick) in Italy, Nogomet (leg) in Boznia/Croatia, mappa (ball) in Cyprus, labdarugas officially (ball-kicking) in Hungary.

There's another 8 or so countries where it's called another form of kick/ball/leg/something etc.

Finally it's called soccer in about 15 countries, of which the USA is only 1, where almost none of them have another variant of football.
That's the inner platform syndrome, and yes, it is bad.
The second my computer starts talking back to me is the second I throw it in the garbage.
Did Musk fire the right people? Or did he slash based on obedience, mood, whim? In what situation would one want THE senior SRE for the cache systems (which are unique and affect twitter across the board) GONE? There's a reason why managers were trying to claw back some engineers and employees after the big layoff. Sure you chop off a few fingers and keep working.... but lose a thumb?
Modern laptops are getting too slim for ethernet ports. Of course they're not going to include a bulky drive that would reduce the space for battery capacity by 30-40% and is used by almost nobody. I think I haven't seen anyone use a disk drive in a computer at all in the last 10 years, except for the few times I ripped a CD with an old external drive.

No, not only Macbooks. My 6 years old Thinkpad doesn't have one and it was completely normal back then too.
More like a racecar without maintenance. Heres an example checklist what they need: https://www.teamstradale.com/frequency-of-maintenance-keepin...
Like I said leprechaun, taniwha, unicorn... all mythical entities - just like ghosts.

Isn't it funny how people can draw these various mythical creatures but only after another person has shown them how.
That's assuming he's dumb/stupid/retarded as well. A person with sufficient intellect and self-control is capable of suppressing such actions after a punishment. It doesn't have to be a heavy sentence, but autism by itself is not sufficient.

Well, autism as it's used today. It used to be reserved for rather severe cases, but the meaning has been watered down a bit.
And Australian football, and Rugby football, and Association football that got shortened to "soccer". In England, originally. There are probably more.
Installed yesterday for the first time (VSCodium "variant") on linux via snap.

I was using Atom (will be retired in Dec this year) but Zen is not ready nor testable.
All I do is bash, basic python, basic ruby and some markdown/asciidoc so no need for special extensions and VSCodium seems to fit with reasonable defaults.

I am also fan of Geany which is very lightweight and has some plugins but the UI feels a bit outdated and some extensions are orphaned.

My dream of an editor: FOSS, lightweight, modern GUI, multi-language and with a nice API for extensions (I will seriously try vim/neovim some day)
I love Markdown but it's probably not enough for this.

It's hard to give specifics without more info, but you want every API reference to link back to its definition.

Say a function is called like `function(arg1, arg2)` then I should be able to click on the arguments to go to their definitions.

You probably want to use Sphinx or Doxygen or something else which can programmatically produce doc from the source code.
That's likely optimistic.

Maybe the user facing site, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.

There are plenty of internal/backend/restricted systems to support and/or monetize this part.

And that's not counting the huge number of support people & moderators needed.
From the article: "Police and prosecutors generally don’t expect much evidence from Echo recordings — if any — because Echo speakers are activated with a wake word — usually “Alexa,” the name of the voice assistant."

They complied with a legal order - they didn't submit it to the FBI.

Do you need some more tinfoil for your hat?
Wasn't last year where a bug in a Java well-used lib (and pretty easy to use) caused mayhem in every SRE/SEC services in every banks? It was a fun two weeks. I worked like 50 hours the first three days.
The better the programming language, the less need for a custom language. You can then create the DSL inside of the host language. This requires flexibile syntax to some degree and a fairly advanced typesystem if it should be statically typed - hence not too many languages are a good choice here.
Seconding the other comment, i previously got boards for my Plaid/tht for relatively cheap and fast from jlcpcb.

Of course, if you want fastest you could cook your own pcbs, it's a bit involved but it gets you 3d-print times on pcbs.
After the SBF thing about boxes--

> Matt: (27:13)
> I think of myself as like a fairly cynical person. And that was so much more cynical than how I would've described farming. You're just like, well, I'm in the Ponzi business and it's pretty good.

> Joe Weisenthal: (27:27)
> At no point did any of this require any sort of like economic case, it’s just like other people put money in the box. And so I'm going to too, and then it's more valuable. So they're gonna put more money in, and at no point in the cycle, did it seem to like, describe any sort of like economic purpose?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/sam-bankm...
> What a horrible thing to do. His autism shouldn't give him a pass.

As it was kind of explained that, 'trolls' are seen as cool in the online world and so he emulated that behavior. In fact one could say he went to the extreme. But his understanding of the context and emotional impact is nothing compared to us on the outside.

This isn't a case of him falsifying a condition to get off, this guy has his whole life documented with diagnoses. It's not a 'pass' but it's simply not the same situation and so it doesn't seem sincear to charge him as such.
Now apply this to all of the goods you consume and places you travel.
I've no dog in this race but I'm excited to see what influence, if any, this will have on the topology of similarly inflated tech companies.
At the very core of criminal justice rests an assumption, that is false.

> The concept of criminal justice rests on the fundamental principle that we are responsible for our own behavior.

Human behavior is the result of lots of factors, none of which they have control over. evolution, culture, prenatal environment, uprising and more shape human behavior and what they want and need. This is true for good as well as bad behavior.
Roadmapper – Roadmap as Code (RaC)
Open source Roadmapper beta3 is now available. You can now generate graphical roadmap with simple Python code.
Have you ever thought about creating your own 'Netflix' service? If so, check it out!
But cookies I can choose not to allow, right?
Who sees the foundation of a high-rise starting to crack and thinks, "perfect time to get in on the ground floor"?

Ground floor is exactly where you don't want to be when the structure collapses under its own weight.

Rather than bring in additional specialists to reinforce it, Musk has partially evacuated the building at least.
Elon Musk wants every Twitter employee sending weekly updates via email
Well, define 'failure'. Minor outages like the one you are talking about were happening from time to time long before Musk bought Twitter, and it even suffered long outages frequently - remember all those fail whales?

I meant that there will be no catastrophic failure that will permanently (or even for a few days) stop Twitter from working at all.
Tracking is about following breadcrumbs across activity in third party apps. So if the Facebook app uses identifiers in common with Uber, and can see what you do in Uber or something, that’s tracking. Recording what you do in a single app, or apps from one company that isn’t strictly necessary for providing the service is telemetry.

Apple doesn’t share user data and identifiers with third parties except as necessary to provide specific services, so it doesn’t track. It does record telemetry though, most of that is in a non personally identifying way, but some of it can be traced to a user.

Obviously identifying information necessary to provide a service is different. If I buy an app off the App Store, they need to identify who bought it. The edge cases are things like, do they need to know I searched for fitness apps on the App Store and associate that with my ID. Amazon does on their web site so they can show ads related to my recent searches, but it’s not strictly necessary for providing the service.
Thanks for the write-up OP! Appreciate it.