skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it hilarious that people are leaving Twitter because Musk is allowing speech they find offensive and going to things like Mastodon, which has WAY LESS moderation.

It's even more hilarious that the false predictions like this one [0] and exaggerations of Twitter completely collapsing didn't happen.

> Nothing, is going to replace Twitter, Twitter is not doomed. Moving off of Twitter because you don't like the owner is fools errand.

Well, only the techies here are still pretending that Mastodon is a viable replacement to Twitter when Mastodon is the one losing users [1] because of the same fundamental issues, including less moderation - A inefficient and worse version of Discord.

Just wait until some instances get bought out by companies because of the number of users a 'moderator' has under their belt to sell the instance over. [2] So much for 'Social networking that's not for sale.".

The 220M+ daily active users on Twitter still didn't care to move to something even worse.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/jan/08/elon-m...

[2] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mask-network-acquir...
> I think it was actually extremely clear that Git would win. It had a guaranteed audience by virtue of hosting the Linux kernel. And forget even about its distributed nature; Git was already better at the centralized model than "centralized-only" version control systems ever were.

I think you're forgetting about Mercurial, which was also created by a Linux kernel developer around the same time. It brought all the same benefits of git, but had a simpler command line API and better cross platform support. Mercurial saw wide use, especially in large corporations like Facebook.

Indeed, a lot of people will say that it was the success of github itself that pushed git over the top. In a world where bitbucket won instead of github, we could all be using mercurial.

Although I've never used it, I'm not sure how much of an improvement either of these was over BitKeeper. The primary impetus to create git and mercurial was licensing changes in BitKeeper, not technical deficiencies.
Do you have anyone you trust who has built a product / company before and would be willing to coach you through this thought process? If not perhaps that's the relationship you should be looking to build.
> My understanding is that neither source of energy was winterized to transmit the energy to the grid, not that they were unable to produce.

Transmission was not the problem in any of these blackouts that I’m referring to. Powerlines failing affects extremely localized parts of the distribution network, but the coal and gas plants literally stopped producing. It was a production failure.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-st...

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-...

On the other question, that goes back to how we desperately need energy storage and demand response.
> I think pulling specific ideas from your actual system is full of traps. These are probably problems you've thought of - both actively and passively - for days, months, or even years.

The first time you give the interview certainly, but you have time to formalize and tune the interview. Write down what you're going to ask, what signals you're looking for, the quality of a solution you expect. Socialize this with engineers who weren't directly involved in the design of the system, ask for their feedback.

You can usually iron out a question in 10-20 interviews and make it really stellar within a 100. I know that's a lot of potentially wasted hours, but the ROI in terms of candidate quality is worth way more.
Who else do you think could make such a decision at Twitter now without Musk's approval? Employee empowerment isn't exactly a thing with Elon. When you are the smartest man in any room, anyone else in there making any kind of a decision is by definition someone dumber than you trying to think for you.
Be aware of attributing causal relations to that which has no indication it is not just a coincidence. Lights definitely don't effect catalytic converter thieves in many cities like SF. That's not to say lights in other locations have the same lack of effect. One incidence is not enough to say anything.

But also all lights are not equal. All lights are not equal for safety and all lights are not equal for light pollution.

Light pollution could be vastly reduced without diminishing needed lighting if the light temperature is warmer and if proper fixtures ensure the light is directed only where needed instead of half of it going directly at my bedroom window like my last couple apartments have done, among other undesired locations.
Ask HN: Why is everybody copying layoffs?
Google: 12000

Microsoft: 10000

Amazon: 18000

Meta: 11000

Twitter: 4000

Salesforce: 8000

200,000+ laid off in tech since the beginning of 2022.
Unions are not a bad idea; they're just tackling an impossible problem.

The economics literature in the 1960's and 70's proved that employees will be largely unable to capture the benefit of increased productivity due to excess coordination costs relative to owners -- even when unions try to address those costs. The intractibility of the problem, ironically, stems from laws protecting the free enterprise of the employee, which increase coordination costs. No one wants to lose those freedoms.

So there's no more reason to believe unions will work now than to believe that more hardware will always fix scaling issues.

The actual solution has been outsourcing - for the outsourcing firm (OF). At scale they have negotiating leverage, particularly over time as a company becomes dependent on them. That has lead to a huge shift in wage benefits from the US to India and China et. al in IT. It works so long at the OF employee has no better alternative, but it's still the OF owner who gets the lion's share of the benefit (witness India's richest men).

Everyone plays this game, some better than others. Apple is fully outsourced for manufacturing, but their iPhone production line take ~1400 workers, while Android's take ~100. So Apple is much "nicer" in this world, but operates within its constraints. Businesses who ignore these constraints don't survive and don't get funded.

To get power, you have to own something - tangible or IP - that someone else will pay a lot for. That's the only solution. MBA's and JD's exist only to make sure that when you do, you don't give it away -- or they take it from you.
These are not stored energy in the "stored energy" sense, you can't feed solar power into a gas plant and get it back out at night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage
I taught myself to create websites after 30 and have made a decent living and career from it. I may struggle with burnout and lack of motivation from time to time, but that really isn't a problem of restarting a career after 30 as much as it is a personal issue with juggling priorities.

After 30 I taught myself to code HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and build Wordpress themes. I spent 5+ years at a multi-million dollar (US) ecommerce company in which I was part of a small (5 dev) team that built a ecomerce cart and inventory system from the ground up (admittedly I was a small player on that team for the first several years). From there I went to a local marketing agency and built out custom Wordpress sites for client.

Throughout all this time I worked on my own side projects and freelanced for small clients.

I took several months off during COVID, and went back to work at an agency building WP sites for clients. I still Freelance, and work on personal side projects.

I don't earn FAANG $$, but I don't live in an area where that is necessary. I make an excellent living for where I live, and it all started after I was 30.

EDIT: To clarify i SWITCHED careers after 30. I had gone to school for Finance and Economics, and came out of school into Financial and Investment sales, then into banking. I did it for 7+ years, hated it in the end, and learned to code so I could build a website for myself, then switched careers when I realized I could actually make $$ building sites.
First you go to Mexico. Then you go somewhere without extradition.

Although if I had high resources and was fleeing justice, I probably wouldn’t buy a ticket ahead of time. If anything I would book some domestic travel to be on flight manifests.
It does depend on what kind of ticket you're travelling on, and what restrictions apply to it.

Full disclosure: I have a bit of a history of flying on what some call "mistake fares". Back in 2013 I flew "from Europe to Hong Kong and back", except it was routed via Australia(!) both on the inbound and the outbound. Was convinced I was going to be denied boarding at every single stop on the itinerary ...

I was also younger and fitter then :)
Not sure what this has to do with what we are discussing? Even otherwise, as the article says the court dismissed the case.
I'm pretty sure they were not making a joke and were instead referring to the time she said, "They don't put pretty people like me in jail."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33661969
Even then the sentences are reasonable while in the US you go to jail for just as long as if you killed someone in some cases.

The ATT "hacker" got 41 month for guessing URLs. US sentences are insane.
Enforce it on clients over a certain number of users where they are big enough to manage following a bunch of rules around the ads. Then they can be audited to make sure they get doing it correctly.
Here you go: https://twitter.com/bfontn/status/1456536089963995148
these people are not exactly criminal masterminds. same for the FTX guy
What's the context here that I'm missing?
Cheers for challenging it and making me think about it. The example I would use is a vegetarian bailing in an invite to a barbecue because the main meal wasn't to their choice. The point is the gathering and someone doing something special, and instead of being an ingrate about the invitation, one should go and eat before, or have the salad. As a lifestyle choice, it's anti-social purity.

My general point is that preferences aren't identities, and when they are accepted as such, they erode the social fabric and prevent the growth and social opportunity that benefits everyone. It adds a punitive downside to giving parties when suddenly we have to worry about a guest having a crisis because their idea of self gets offended.

To the immunocompromised people I know, if you can't make it out because you are sick, fine, happens to the best of us, catch up another time. If you can't make it because your condition has become an identity that is irreconcilable with other identities, that must be very hard, but it's your responsibility to be interesting and enjoyable to be around, even if there are unique barriers to that, and especially if you want accomodation.

If your diet were vegan because you are immunocompromised, or even religious, own it and take responsibility for your needs instead of making them a condition on your company, and then be worthwhile. Of course we manage things at our own expense, it's what ownership means. You can't blame your disease for your being lame or use your identity as social leverage and expect anyone to find that appealing and interesting for very long.

My point is, the world owes us nothing and thinking it does is part of what has made giving parties less appealing. The (mostly) men who ran massive party scenes during the AIDS epidemic did so in spite of a more terminal and persistent illness than anything we are dealing with today, and so there have been better parties in worse conditions than the medical one your comment refers to, and it was because their general attitude was better than the one I think has been promoted over the last decade.
White collar damages are more indirect but they hurt society just as much if not more.

Imagine how much better US cities would be if the white collars that pushed oxicontin and fentanyls by corrupting doctors, officials and insurance companies had been more scared of consequences. But no, most of them still roam free.
Lack of incentives. I would take it.

It seems like a common theme here.

In regards to worker liking the untaxed incomes:
I live in a US city that rely on tourism and thus the service industry.

I had countless conversation with industry worker about this and it seems like a chicken and egg problem.

They need it because the base pay is shit, but they also hate the irregularity of it. ( triple pay in season, not worth to work outside of it )

They also would take more stability in order to raise family.

Most stop to find « a real job » when they reach their 40 or so.
> I'd be surprised any airline gave you flak for telling them you were missing a segment. They might try to charge you more (!).

They do indeed, including trip change fees. For myself, I luckily got an agent who was nice enough to ignore what I had told her.
The psychology of those heavily vested in the platforms is a constant curiosity of mine. Some complain repeatedly about all the problems with the platform that the fediverse solves but are seemingly trapped and hoping desperately that things will improve. Deep down they know they will not improve and struggle to face reality. The mentioned opinion piece in WAPO uses other distortions to justify maintaining the status quo. I can only suspect it is a combination of her personal situation and her employment.
My grandmother, at the grand age of 95, shows better understanding of tech than is demonstrated in those videos.
The only reason I continue to tip is out of fear for being called out, or something done to my food. So much of tipping has been about constantly badgering them then guilting and shaming people who don't do it.
nostr is missing from the list.

While Mastodon is much more well known, programming clients / servers based on nostr protocol is a lot of fun. I see people having different crazy ideas being implemented in a day, it's an addictive protocol to code against.
I know I'm an old fart but this is yet another reason why I don't want my servers supporting UTF-8.

LC_ALL=C

It's important and NECESSARY to be inclusive, and as long as nginx can still provide the UTF-8 characters I don't care; but there is no way I can allow anything other then US ASCII to be on the terminal.
Nice response!

I agree. As someone who has also done a great deal of hiring, having sincere interest is just so important in the big, wide world of software engineering.

So now I tell people this…

1. Live for yourself not your mom or dad or societal expectations.

2. Provided you don’t have any responsibilities besides yourself, do whatever you want for a profession.

3. It’s completely OK to have a job that you can stand and hang out with friends. If you’re not motivated by money or the work itself that’s perfectly OK (See #1)

4. Don’t become a developer because someone said you could make a bunch of money. Do it because you love building things. (See #1)

5. If you don’t know what to do then do everything and you’ll find out what you don’t like eventually. (See #1)

6. Life is not a race. Literally none of it matters except how you treat yourself and others. It’s your life. You’re allowed to change your mind but be kind to those who love you and take care of your dependents. (See #2)
One of the bad things of our modern lifestyle/civilization, most of the population hasn’t got access to a dark sky. I think of myself as privileged since I have the possibility to visit a Bortle 3 or 4 location in less than an hour of driving.

Do yourself a favor, try to visit a really dark place, ideally with binoculars and a sky map and you’ll feel again connected with the Cosmos.

Here is a very good map to find a dark place: https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

Some extra info on the Bortle Scale: https://astrobackyard.com/the-bortle-scale/
Ha! Glad to see I’m not the only one.
What other, renewable, sources being constructed rely on much steel?

Solar just now uses a lot of aluminum. Wind uses a lot of fiberglass.

Both use a far bit of copper, although aluminum works in wind turbines and transmission lines.
I mean it's underwhelming if you've done it before, but for people who are unsure about how to succeed in a proof-heavy course, seeing it laid out like this in concrete steps is helpful.

You've outgrown being in the target audience for it, but that doesn't mean the audience wouldn't find it helpful.
That might even be covered under the optional flight insurance
Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN, and breaking the site guidelines generally? You've been doing it repeatedly, in this thread and elsewhere (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34424187) and we've had to ask you many times already not to. I don't want to ban you, but this is not cool.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33209948 (Oct 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32922335 (Sept 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31010834 (April 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27927198 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27089584 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26857484 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21875867 (Dec 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15143690 (Aug 2017)
If the children/descendants of other sociopaths like Alexander Dugan, Mussolini, and Jordan Peterson are any clue, they will think it is clever and be grifters just like their ancestors.
This is actually the first time I've heard that. Is this urban legend (it is funny as hell), or did it actually happen?

"Two of these pieces bore a vehicle identification number (VIN) that the FBI traced to a rental agency in Jersey City, N.J. The man who rented the truck, Mohammed Salameh, had reported it stolen.

Seeking a refund of his $400 deposit, Salameh repeatedly returned to the Jersey City rental agency where he rented the Ryder van. Working with the rental office personnel, FBI agents arrested Salameh." [0]

So, yes, it really did happen. At least he reported it stolen first. I cannot believe that did not eliminate him as a suspect as that was such a well thought out alibi. Besides, how much was that $400 refund in comparison to the money that Osama surely must have paid him to carry out the deed.

[0]https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/1993-world-trade-ce...
Happens all the time on Air Canada and Air France between Toronto and Paris.

Round-trip: $800

One-way: $2000 (or $4k for two one-ways to make up a round-trip)

I don’t know why anyone would ever book a one-way. It’s insanity.

It’s a real pain, and makes it harder to create your own open-jaw when the airline doesn’t serve all 3 cities.

What ends up happening is I book through other airlines entirely that don’t pull these shenanigans.
I blame COVID, but our neighbors started doing low-key happy hours about once a month and these have been wonderful. We've also started meeting people for pizza at restaurants again and that has been similarly great. So I'd like to think that we're all out of practice and it's taking a while to get to ball rolling again.
I am continually baffled just how utterly stupid these rich people are.

Who in their right mind enters a flight manifest, let alone an international one, as a high profile wanted person.
This is true for domestic flights, but international round trip tends to be cheaper
I posted this down thread: E.g. LAX-NRT on 3/2 on UA 32 is $966 right now. Add a return flight on 3/9 and the flight _drops_ to $893.
Bookie’s Club 870 – Detroit Punk Archive
7 months deep, hundreds of applications, blah blah, so to answer your question, for the most part people in this particular situation don't write public stories about it.

1) It can feel like it will sabotage your chances even if it raises awareness of your situation. Firstly because you cannot help but "call out" some of the hiring practices/people, and secondly because, well, must be something wrong with you if no one is snapping you up, right? Which leads into...

2) A lot of really obnoxious folks like to pounce on this and "blame the victim", and then reference stuff like this post to show how "it must be your fault", etc, and "ain't nobody got time for that". It's hard enough to deal with impostor syndrome kicking the brains in without inviting the mob to kick as well.

3) It's depressing to think about it, much less to write all that down where it becomes an objective thing that cannot be ignored. Especially if you've tracked everything in detail (I have). Much more pleasant to sell off your belongings and pretend you're just embracing minimalism and forget about it.

4) Feels a lot like begging, and there are many complicated reasons why people mostly don't like to do that.
I would love to see SMRs deployed at older coal fuel power plant sites to replace baseload power these facilities offer. These locations are already connected to their respective grids and are environmentally degraded.
The public API is still there and not going anywhere. Twitter is getting the worst of both worlds.
Small reactors are being pushed because new big reactors in the US are stone cold dead. This is why I call them HMRs, "Hail Mary Reactors". They're nuclear's last desperate chance in the US.
I have more trouble interpreting emojis then I do emotions. God help me.
A appreciate you 'describing' the emoji for me.

I'm on the spectrum, and I can't tell 99% of these things apart. Looks like a sad face to me. no different then the 500 other sad face emoji's I find.
I'll stick with =(
pro-tip 4: be a better criminal and avoid federal investigation
tell that to the gif guy
That and posing for photos of her holding up a vial of blood and peering thoughtfully into it
Gebru is not an audio hardware engineer. I call your attention to this passage I quoted above:

Gebru presented her doctoral research at the 2017 LDV Capital Vision Summit competition, where computer vision scientists present their work to members of industry and venture capitalists. Gebru won the competition, starting a series of collaborations with other entrepreneurs and investors.[11][12]

And to the fact that she got her PhD in computer vision, i.e. the main area of AI research that the article seems to be criticising.
> I wonder how many people's RSS/JSONFeed readers we broke with the title...

Well played.
Antidepressants inhibit cancer growth in mice
On that note, how does a beginner do what you just did in under a minute? Versus, someone going through the walkthrough for Go and seeing you can make a website using net/http, because it is built-in and doing it? This is the nuance I'm talking about, built-in or at least core-maintainer supported libraries are usually easier to adopt because you know there is a lot of investment into them.
This may happen once in a while due to some algorithm weirdness, but it is absolutely not "often" the case.
Especially when you’re in California and Mexico is next door. You can just drive there.

Which helps the story that it wasn’t an escape plan because they couldn’t be that stupid, could they?
Yeah, if that's your mindset, stay away from hallucinogens!
Just because I don't get to talk about this much, as far as centralized version control goes, I liked Perforce when I used it. It could store everything: assets, builds, source code all in one, and you could do fine grain checkouts (I think git structures this as shallow clones but they're hard to get right).

It also let you put permissions on the repository itself, so if you didn't have the correct ACLs you couldn't see part of the code. It was really good for monorepos.

It has its quirks, and when I used it, could be a bit slower on the execution side, but generally thought it was really nice.

I also maintain that Mercurial & Fossil are superior to git, but git won the marketshare so its kinda moot now.