First to hack iPhone, tech prodigy joins Musk's Twitter to fix search function - Deccan Herald

Game recognises game, and Elon Musk is bringing connected endowment to Twitter aft a slew of layoffs at the societal media institution that followed his takeover. George Hotz, who made a sanction for himself arsenic 1 of the archetypal radical to jailbreak oregon hack into an iPhone, has joined connected a "12-week internship". 

The determination came aft Hotz shared an representation of Musk's message to his employees hailing the world's richest man's cognition arsenic the close mode to execute success. There were detractors commenting connected the thread, and an idiosyncratic said "Workers should beryllium consenting to service arsenic indentured ICs everlastingly sprinting portion taking arsenic small superior arsenic imaginable from those they are enriching. This is hardcore. This is however we alteration the world." 

Hotz decided to enactment his wealth wherever his rima is and offered to enactment a 12-week internship astatine Musk's institution astatine the outgo of surviving successful San Francisco. "It’s not astir accumulating superior successful a dormant world, it’s astir making the satellite alive," Hotz said. 

Musk replied, "Sure, let's talk". 

Sure, let’s talk.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2022

Since then, much astir Hotz's enactment astatine Twitter has emerged. He is moving to amended the site's hunt function. Hotz has 1 period to bash it. 

that’s what Elon told maine my occupation was, and I volition effort my hardest to bash it. I person 12 weeks

also trying to get escaped of that nondismissable login popular up aft you scroll a small spot ugh these things ruin the Internet https://t.co/vZbSfEqlfW

— George Hotz 🐀 (@realGeorgeHotz) November 22, 2022

While moving to hole the problem, Hotz shared much thoughts connected Twitter's precocious hunt diagnostic and however it works. 

He shared immoderate takeaways, including "Searching wrong 'liked' and 'seen' tweets with a modifier should beryllium array stakes, the information that modifiers and precocious hunt should beryllium surfaced a batch better, and the request to determination distant from nonstop substance hunt and toward embeddings". 

Okay, summarizing:
‣ Searching wrong "liked" and "seen" tweets with a modifier should beryllium array stakes.
‣ The modifiers and precocious hunt should beryllium surfaced a batch better. Discord does this well.
‣ Move distant from nonstop substance hunt and toward embeddings.

— George Hotz 🐀 (@realGeorgeHotz) November 22, 2022

The newest summation has galore excited but determination are immoderate whose views of Musk and the mode he's handling Twitter person impacted their opinions of Hotz. His tweet asking for suggestions received immoderate unsavoury replies, to which Hotz said, "I'm an intern trying to amended search, immoderate feelings you person astir Twitter and Elon are not astir me."

The spectrum of responses alteration from:

- I won't enactment for escaped besides <hate hatred hate>
- That's intolerable to bash without <excuse>
- Hey bro cheque retired this codification <link>

I'm beauteous assured who volition spell the furthest successful life.

— George Hotz 🐀 (@realGeorgeHotz) November 23, 2022

Musk wrote connected the aforesaid thread, "Welcome to Twitter!" 

Hotz whitethorn person travel connected lone precocious to enactment for Musk but the innovator had his oculus connected the tech prodigy for a while. Hotz - who besides developed comma.ai - was sought retired by Musk to assistance Tesla's self-driving technology. However, astatine the time, Hotz felt Musk kept changing the woody and is known to person famously replied to him "I’m not looking for a job. I’ll ping you erstwhile I crush Mobileye." Mobileye provides Tesla with astir of its self-driving tech.  

Musk's latest prosecute is simply a antheral who claims to unrecorded by morals. "I unrecorded by morals, I don’t unrecorded by laws. Laws are thing made by a**holes", helium said during a New Yorker profile. They had done a communicative connected Hotz erstwhile helium was 22 and had conscionable hacked the PlayStation 3 and released the bundle for others to use. 

He studied concisely astatine the Rochester Institute of Technology and past enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University. Hotz had besides worked concisely astatine SpaceX - different of Musk's ventures - for 4 months. 

Musk's thrust for excellence finds reflection successful Hotz, arsenic per his LinkedIn bio which cheekily riffs connected the Pokemon theme opus to accidental "I privation to beryllium the precise best, similar nary 1 ever was".

With the 'chief Twit' hiring radical who somewhat irked him successful the past, it present remains to beryllium seen if the feline tracking Musk's backstage jet lands a occupation astatine Twitter arsenic well.