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Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by int_19h »

elijaht wrote: post #834
christophilus wrote: post #750

Between FTX and Twitter, I've run out of popcorn, and the local grocers are out of stock. I think the best tweet on that thread is [0]: "I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out." I'm not sure if it's true…

That’s a comedian dude

The sad part is that it's actually believable at this point.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by dang »

imron wrote: post #106
slg wrote: post #50

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It is a little strange that I have seen almost no Twitter stories on the front page in the last week. Has dang or anyone talked about why that might be? Is it getting caught in the flamewar algorithm? Are they treating this as one big story so any individual article gets removed as a repost?

> Has dang or anyone talked about why that might be? I’ve personally been visiting new and flagging all Twitter/mastodon posts I see (i started doing this after getting sick of all the Twitter/mastodon posts hitting the front page). I don’t want the front page to be all Twitter all the time, and most of the posts boil down to speculation and gossip and the ones that don’t, usually don’t offer anything meaningfully ne…

You're right, and the people complaining are also right because the story does deserve oxygen—just not all the oxygen. It's our job to balance this so it gets some oxygen but not all the oxygen.

The system tends not to be able to do this without human intervention—either the flags win (in which case the story gets smothered) or the upvotes win (in which case HN becomes Twittermusk News with a side dish of SBFTX). Human intervention is needed to keep the teeter-totter from teetering one way or tottering the other*.

We're super open to feedback. If you (or anyone) want to influence the balance, you should make your case to hn@ycombinator.com. That's the only reliable message queue.

More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667761

(* Unfortunately. It would be so much nicer to just write code to deal with this.)

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by faangiq »

tmn wrote: post #909
faangiq wrote: post #830

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Elon is finally getting exposed for having very low IQ. Quite simple really.

It's hilarious that people have convinced themselves that Elon Musk is low IQ. The coping is outrageous

Who needed convincing? Remember this guy thinks AI is a thing.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by Gravityloss »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #506
andyjda wrote: post #419

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> I don't see what it is about the Twitter product that would require going "hardcore". It's been more than twenty years since the dot-com bust and people still think that just because a company is on a website that makes it a tech company. Sure, Twitter's product is twitter.com the website, but most criticism of it and ideas for improvement don't revolve around the engineering aspects of keeping a website running: t…

> Thinking that by having engineers go "hardcore" you're automatically going to have a better product is like if a pizza delivery company decided to invest in better cars because people criticized their pizzas. Bingo. Hard-core engineering has been the lynchpin of Tesla and SpaceX's success -- they literally won via designing and manufacturing superior physical things. It makes sense that EM would blunder by attempti…

SpaceX did some good standard mainstream solutions. Sometimes success is not about some exotic innovation but doing your normal job well. A standard lox kerosene gas generator rocket engine. Flat aluminum panel construction. Only the interstage is composite. Started small with Falcon 1. The Merlin engine had heritage from NASA's FASTRAC program.

If you look at Ariane V, Atlas V or Delta IV, they all have some peculiarities and operational warts. Large solid rockets, Russian engine, hydrogen. In some sense, Falcon 9 is the most "ordinary" of the launchers available now.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by davidw »

dang wrote: post #976
davidw wrote: post #14

@dang - maybe let one twitter story through to the home page?

The current thread ended up spending 10 hours on HN's front page. IIRC it was flagged by users and we restored it. I didn't see your comment till just now. (@dang doesn't do anything—if you or anyone want to tell me something, the reliable message queue is hn@ycombinator.com.) I agree that this is a major ongoing topic (MOT) and needs to be discussed. At the same time, so many of the submissions are repeats of things…

As elsewhere in this thread, I think you all do a great job juggling a bunch of different factors. Thank you!

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by scheme271 »

GaylordTuring wrote: post #279
7e wrote: post #228

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But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove i…

> He failed at Full Self Driving His time plan might have failed, but that doesn’t mean that full self driving has failed. That’s like if I said: “I’m going to make 10 million dollars by the end of next week”, and then people would call me a failure for only making 5 million in a week. Or do you mean that full self driving actually has failed, not taking into account any time plans? I think the full self driving capa…

I think it's closer to saying you'll build a bridge in a week but you build a bridge where the roadway ends part of the way across. You can still get to the other side using the steel girders but it's really not useful. FSD sort of works but fails in unexpected ways and at random times so you have to pay just as much attention as if you were driving.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by dang »

tstrimple wrote: post #500
davidw wrote: post #14

@dang - maybe let one twitter story through to the home page?

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Ouch. I don't mind so much when people call me 'SJW cunt' and 'literal fascist' but 'centrist' gets my goat. Now you know my terrible secret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxYl5EzNG3Q

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by dang »

davidw wrote: post #985
dang wrote: post #976

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The current thread ended up spending 10 hours on HN's front page. IIRC it was flagged by users and we restored it. I didn't see your comment till just now. (@dang doesn't do anything—if you or anyone want to tell me something, the reliable message queue is hn@ycombinator.com.) I agree that this is a major ongoing topic (MOT) and needs to be discussed. At the same time, so many of the submissions are repeats of things…

As elsewhere in this thread, I think you all do a great job juggling a bunch of different factors. Thank you!

I really appreciate that, considering that the two of us have been arguing (nicely!) about these things since long before I was dang. Thank you as well!

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by dang »

DAVer98 wrote: post #770
eugenethespleen wrote: post #591

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Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by dang »

eugenethespleen wrote: post #591
shp0ngle wrote: post #569

I would obviously not want to work in such an environment, but. Given that he fired so many people, yet the site is working unchanged and works exactly the same as before, maybe he’s not that crazy? I can log in to the website and see no difference; nothing is obviously broken. Maybe he’s right and most people were doing nothing? I don’t know.

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