skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's the WARN act:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...

California also has their own version:
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...
For qualifying situations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retrai...
What milestone? Tesla is a growing company
Yes. By law, they have to report it, esp in CA
Yea seems like the more interesting title/angle for the article would be "Tesla misses model3 production by 5-6x", rather than "Tesla fires 1% of workforce".
I boggle that a) this site exists and b) it is getting any traction on HN. Because this is guilty of all the things I have been accused of in terms of being irresponsible and dangerous and possibly profit motivated.

How do sites like this seemingly thrive (Goop!) when doing something really conservative like talking about food chemistry and germ control is such insane drama? I just don't get it.

(I have a form of cystic fibrosis and have spent a lot of years getting stronger and healthier using primarily dietary and lifestyle changes. I used to be really open about that, which was nothing but an ugly shit show every step of the way.

I am probably making a huge mistake to comment on that. There seems to be zero path forward for me. I genuinely don't understand it.)
Per Chapter 4, Part 4, Sections 1400-1408 of the Labor Code, WARN protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring that employers give a 60-day notice to the affected employees and both state and local representatives prior to a plant closing or mass layoff.

http://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN...
I suppose "dead weight" can be redeemable, however I would say that if you are "dead weight" you probably have the wrong job, and are very likely better off finding something different.

As we get older, that's less and less of an option, and often we have to put up with a job rather than enjoy a job.
How's it sneaky? Business management and shareholders routinely try to shut down unionizing all the time throughout the last two centuries. My buddy is a manager at a national retail chain and often comments on how proactively anti-union they are, just like their competitors.

Other demographic groups like the ones you pointed out really don't have that same collective effect on the bottom line for shareholders across industries like those that unionize, whose only trait in common is that of a provider of labor.
NurdRage, a relatively popular YouTuber, also replicated the Epipencil experiment on his channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQajOum6wA

The reason I'm bringing him up is that he synthesised Daraprim (pyrimethamine) from domestically-available materials over a period of ~2 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCuWX4vtOA&list=PLU79801KtV...

There's an NMR spectrum at about 12:08 in the last video in the playlist, which shows that he doesn't quite have medical-grade Daraprim, and that he'd need a lot of purification to get there.
Strange that always happens at the bottom of the org chart instead of the top.
My understanding was that tech (and I consider Tesla tech even if it's inherently auto) companies were getting away from the stack rank evaluations (save a few). So I'm a bit surprised Tesla is going in that direction.

High demand workers have more opportunities and those that can (the good ones) will find a diff job that does not play this kind of churn game. So I'd thought.
Do you have an example of 'world-class stuff?' I am just trying to understand.
For the record, I know jchen has already responded but I thought I'd add my bit here.

I display html content based on quill data all the time. I've done it using quill to generate the html source, by writing a separate library to convert from Delta representations to html strings, and most recently as an angular 2 webcomponent (since angular 2 doesn't really like it when you inject html strings outside of it's lifecycle, if you want the resultant DOM nodes to be angularized).

All three ways have worked well. Personally, I like this last way the most, but owing to the vagaries of angular template compilation it is difficult (or impossible) to really abstract it into a standalone library (because the top level template needs to reference any possible custom components that are local to your app, such as an atmention thing that pulls in an avatar image from some profile data or whatever)).

Anyway, I use quill, and have used it since we'll before 1.0 days. At the time, it was the only game in town for emitting Deltas that could be wired into an OT engine, and it still works really well in my concurrent rich text editor for an internal cms/forum.
1% is a hell of a lot of percent for a company of 30000.
"Where is the over-regulation I keep hearing about?"

It's baked into the cake, as grandalf noted. More regulations benefit larger players, who can afford the parasitic staff of lawyers, accountants, and other compliance people to deal with it.

While the big guys don't like regulation, as such, as long as the regulation is applied evenly across the board it doesn't really affect them that much (they just raise prices). It does do a wizard job of discouraging upstart competition, though.
Parent edited post. It said before "amongthem were pro union workers"
You're weirdly inferring two things that I didn't come close to saying.

Again, while I don't know him personally, I hold in great regard people that do and am simply relaying what they've told me, which is that whatever the nature of the change happened, be it personality or intellect or interests or whatever, it set him on a different path and likely robbed all of us of whatever the fruits of his previous path would have borne.
That said, prosemirror also looks pretty rad, and I will also be checking that out eventually also. I feel like there's room for both in the world.
The whiteboard thing is different. Candidates of all backgrounds can practice that and thus make it less effective as a tool to filter out bad applicants. But diversity quotas, for example, are harder to game because most people can't change much about themselves to meet diversity criteria. So instead you are presumably talking about people who use their background to get an advantage in the hiring process and end up in roles a role for which they are not competent. But this is also fuzzy, because if the company is seeking diversity, why shouldn't people apply and let the company decide if their skills are sufficient? How are they "gaming" something by showing up and being hired? That's a failing of the company, not the candidate.
So if dead weight often is attributable to wrong job (rather than utter incompetence) isn't job redistribution.assignment a more or less manageable issue when you have 33 thousand emps?
Company's don't get to decide. It is written in law. Check the WARN act, but the key threshold seems to be 500 workers at a single facility.

As an employer, getting rid of your worst 1% of workers once a year is just housekeeping.
TIL.

ETA: this is getting downvoted; I have enough karma that I don't care about being downvoted but for the record, I am sincere that Today I Learned.
I found that number surprising, although I also know very little about what it takes to manufacture things. Any idea what the employee breakdown looks like in terms of profession and area of focus (since they have solar city too)?
How about you just mine or work whenever you want for currency, and then pay for access with currency?
Just edited my response above.
Your response is mostly reasonable and your parent sounds overdramatic. However the github thread looks quite bad for you.
Nope.. https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBJavaScriptEna...
It's important to keep in mind that Tesla (like Walmart, Whole Foods, and Amazon) has been targeted by big labor for infiltration and union formation [1] [2]

This is not necessarily because working conditions make workers feel that they would prefer the tradeoffs of unionization, but simply because Tesla is much more competitive without its workforce unionized, and so labor groups that are entrenched in legacy car manufacturing wish to prevent Tesla from accelerating those companies' decline.

In many states labor unions have significant power granted by favorable laws that far exceed the market power they derive simply from organizing labor and leveling the playing field a bit. [3] [4]

So while I strongly support organized labor in abstract [5], it's difficult to blame Tesla for wishing to make its workforce less vulnerable to attack from big labor. Like many interest groups, big labor is mostly concerned with its own survival [6] and growth, and is not really about the workers at all.

For example, when Borders Books employees went on strike, it was the big labor groups that sponsored ruffians to join the employees on the picket line and make the strike much more aggressive. Similarly, whenever you see an inflatable rat alongside striking workers, chances are that rat was brought in by big labor to help dramatize the strike effort. [7] They also help name and shame fellow employees who aren't enthusiastic about the union to exert social pressure to make it form.

1. https://groundswell.org/whole-foods-employees-move-to-unioni...

2. http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Union-Organizers-Targ...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_labor_law

4. http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-charged-uaw-employees-s...

5. While labor laws came to exist for good reason and helped improve living standards quite a bit, they went too far and tried to address too many issues via labor laws. Many things that are given to workers via labor laws should be given to all citizens, whether employed or not. Labor laws should not create an incentive for firms to eliminate unions, and should not act to correct social inequality. If such measure are needed they should happen via other laws.

6. https://www.unionfacts.com/employee/Air_Line_Pilots/TIMOTHY/...

7. http://mentalfloss.com/article/28466/story-behind-giant-infl...
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Good point. I think what you're hinting at is good if all or the vast majority of people are on board. In my experience this is not generally the case. People usually climb up the authority ladder not because they are emphatic toward others, or because they compromise on their choices to help the team, but because they solve technical problems and deliver product to customers, often while cutting corners and making executive decisions in the code base. More junior and newer people are at the whim of these more senior people, regardless of whatever egregious technical decisions they like to make.

The microservice approach has its own problems but hints toward a direction where teams are small and autonomous, with ground-up freedom on the architecture of their little service and free from draconian oversight. I'm not an advocate of microservices, but it's an approach that hints at something different.
I don't know. Why do people still write from-scratch OS's in C when there's a perfectly good Linux? Why does musl exist?
I am fond of telling people that I have danced on six continents and that I'm actually a horrible dancer. That doesn't stop me from dancing, however. I will get out on the floor, in the middle of a circle in the desert, around a fire in a field, etc... I just get out there and wiggle with the music.

I don't even care if I can't dance. I care that I try and I care that I enjoy it. So, I've poorly danced on your continent, quite probably. Life is short, so I dance with passion and not with skill.
Wait wait wait, are you telling me that unions sometimes use their funds to support strikes?
It's sneaky because it's taken out of context.

Yes, pro-union people were targeted. This may or may not be statistically significant. And what is "pro-union?"

If they have 30k employees, and 3% of them are pro-union, and they laid off 1% - what are the odds that some of the folks laid off are pro-union but weren't targeted?

What what are the odds that someone that wasn't targeted assumes they were?

I have no idea what the facts are, but blind assertions like those in the article are foolish.

Imagine reading an article about you that says "Some neighbors felt he was holding more guns than needed and enough ammunition to kill dozens of people." Or they said that your Internet service provider had noticed large bandwidth which is consistent with someone watching perverted pornography.

These are baseless assertions - and therefore shallow.
> We certainly don’t argue that the particular choice of six subsystems here is the perfect one for measuring decentralization; we just wanted to gather some data to show what this kind of calculation would look like. We do argue that the maximum Gini coefficient metric starts to point in the right direction of identifying possible decentralization bottlenecks.

It seems the article is mostly to reframe the discussion.

I haven't even seen bad versions of these measures compiled before. Debating the choice of bucketing strategy (and other such) is a massive improvement.
So far it's only deployed on piracy sites, so, dog eat dog
I don't know how associating cryptocurrency with malware in the minds of millions of people is a good thing. It reinforces the idea that this is a medium of exchange used by criminals.
Really?

I don't agree. Average CXO position lasts 3-5 years...

https://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2017/31713/the-average...

Lots of fat trimmed all around.

Kalanick, etc...
Open source does not imply the definition of free as defined by GNU / the Free Software Foundation. I explicitly said it was not "free" in terms of the GNU definition. You are agreeing with me here.

Also, I used OpenGL in my example because the parent post used DirectX. I also agree with you that they don't need to start from scratch, despite what you said, I did not imply they did. I was simply replying directly to the parent reference to DirectX.
An orphan drug is by definition a drug with no generics on the market.
So according to your response they don't die from a doctor refusing to provide care as much as they die from fear of bankruptcy? Aren't they poor? So isn't it safe to assume they don't have tons of assets to lose when bankruptcy actually happens? (Also it doesn't even really work that way https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-17/the-myth-...)
Ut would be the latter. I look forward to seeing this, thanks.
Maturity? Gets out of the way? Advanced documentation/learning material? Wealth of prior work solutions to common patterns? It's not so hard to guess what any developer's productivity is hinged on.
Unique algorithms not produced by anyone before or products that are first of their kind world-wide and in demand. Won't be more specific as I don't want to get doxxed for some of my future posts.
> Actual markets don't work that way.

Isn't that exactly what's happening in slower motion with the incredible price hikes in many drugs such as insulin? And you assume that the neighborhood can sustain two emergency rooms - a second competitor isn't going to arise if the setup costs are high and the competitor can't undercut and survive the competition phase. This is exactly why there aren't multiple competitors to residential ISPs, because after the risk and costs are factored in setting up overcapacity for a market isn't a good investment.

Further if you look at the drug markets, sufficient cost and time barriers exist and allow even makers of generic drugs (with no patent monopolies) to charge inhuman rates for drugs. And generally investors are not going to back efforts to fund a head-to-head competitive slugfest when the market of users for a given drug is basically of fixed size. Again building overcapacity is generally avoided in these markets because of the high entry barriers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/business/lannett-drug-pri...
Ruffians! Heavens!
Android cash register systems are gaining popularity
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Notch's (the creator of Minecraft) entries into Ludum Dare, a 48-hour video game development competition [1]. I only looked briefly on Twitch and his entry for #22 [2] was the only one I could find--nonetheless, it's really insightful seeing him work.

[1] http://ludumdare.com/compo/author/notch/

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/videos/38122415
You basically report the data to your own servers and then relay whatever subset you like to google using their “measurement protocol”: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Perhaps you should show some gratitude to the Americans who paid for the invention of all the drugs you enjoy.

And maybe work on your country's persecution of homosexuals and aboriginals before you get on your high horse and point it at America.
But his anti-corruption campaign really looked like an anti-corruption campaign. I understand that they can be used as power tools but what are the elements to believe this is the case presently?
A large set of small loosely-connected groups is an alternative. Groups can communicate with other groups on a need basis. This might be a pipe dream. Some would argue that the emergence of an uber-group that every other group must subordinate to is imminent.
I filed a bug about that too, feel free to vote for it :) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389864
If it's not "sneaky", it's at least lazy. "Some believe they were targeted"... Who? Why?

If I said "Some believe we didn't land on the moon", that would be a true statement. But, it's also a way at hinting that we may have really not landed on the moon without offering any evidence or even citing specific people who believe that.
"Trimming fat" is a funny euphemism for sending people into unemployment.
Healthcare often isn't billable in consistent units. Someone goes in for surgery, and they get opened up, despite pre-imaging, there are complex things that can go wrong and instead of a 1 hr 10k effort, you need to put in a 6 hours 100k effort? how is that billed? are you going to require statistics of probabily of going wrong too? By the time you get all these 'consistent billing units' figured out for all the multitude of ever changing procedures wouldnt have been cheaper just to have covered reasonable costs instead of maintaining a multi-way cost/trust verification excercise?
Paid Tesla actors are gaming the comments.

Hacker News is influential. Votes can easily be gamed. Fake accounts are easy to make and hard to track.

Noise is added to mix good info with misinformation to confuse and frustrate people sifting through comments trying to make sense of things.

These people will make weaker arguments against Tesla's actions so those arguments can be easily discredited. People making stronger arguments against Tesla will be clumped with them.

Trolling increases noise and frustration. It makes people not want to read or post adversarial comments.

Denigrate, dismiss, discredit.

Sort comments by old.

One of the top 3 upvoted comment is usually gamed, because it makes the most lucid argument (it was pre-written; look at timestamp) and is seen as the most solid piece of info amid the noise.
Medicaid is single payer in each jurisdiction. You can't effectively shop for a different Medicaid provider.
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"Housekeeping" is a funny euphemism for sending hundreds of people into unemployment.
And with those conditions economic growth and stability of society seems much lower than the more civilized alternatives...
Welcome to adulthood. This is how it looks like for many grown up people for whom social duties are a chore and who prefer career, time alone and early sleep.
You have to sell your garage and everything else before you qualify for free meds.
I don't think he was asking for advice. Ha.
To your points, being honest is important, being sensitive and not rubbing something hurtful in is also important. Some times you can share your excitement, sometimes you need to share your feelings without your excitement.

I've been married for 14 years.
Could we get a citation for, like, any of this?
Duplicate of (more active) thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15470314
Not all people add value to an organization, and they might stop adding value too. Unfortunately, it's not possible to know this for sure prior to hiring, so the only realistic way to maintain the organization is with constant pruning.
Of all the automobile companies in America, Tesla workers need to unionize the most. And what better way to demonstrate that than by Tesla firing hundreds of workers and replacing them like cogs in a machine.
Speaking of P-Lisp: https://goo.gl/mUezFv

(I particularly like: "I strongly encourage you not to actually use this to learn Lisp!" :-)
It's a unique writing style but I'm not sure they were insinuating that all females are interested in spending his money, only that he had no interest in those who were. It is topical, if a bit abrasive.
It's sneaky because it suggests that people were targeted because they were pro-union, without going so far as to make a claim of fact (which would open them to libel claims).
I feel like people who "strongly support organized labor" don't write like this about organized labor ("infiltration and union formation"?). Its _workforce_ is not "vulnerable to attack" from big labor, its bottom line is, and to the benefit of its workers. That's how unions work.
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Their severance is a little better in average though....
Ah, neat. I wasn't sure if you meant world class as something of your creation or something which you'd enjoyed.
> significant power granted by favorable laws that far exceed the market power they derive simply from organizing labor

That is the whole point of unions, yes.

Union membership/power has been steadily decreasing over the past 50 years. To me, it seems disingenuous to refer to "big labor" as if they're some sort of powerhouse given the way that corporate interests have been chipping away at them.

Also, not that I have any proof that they are, but firing employees for being pro-union is illegal.
Like it or not, US companies don't have any obligation to be a social safety net for their worst performing employees.
Hire enthusiasm, fire incompetence. Luxurious growth tactic.
I don't see how you can possibly construe Kalanick's firing as a result of 'trimming the fat'. He generated controversies for years and he was finally taken out in the face of massive public backlash.
Skipping theory (and liberal arts) is certainly going to get you prepared for an entry level programming job. It's not going to get you prepared for most interviews, though.

I like to think I'm a decent engineer; I have a BS in Computer Engineering, but I use very little from most of the classes I took to get that. Actually, my most in demand skills seem to be systems level debugging, which wasn't discussed in any courses; it's something I've learned on the job, because it was never in any of my courses. Some of the courses don't get used often, but it is nice to have seen topics, so if they come up, I know it's something that's been studied, and I just have to find it again. A straight-up occupational training in programming is going to leave you without a lot of that, unfortunately.
It just blocks urls by pattern. That's easily subverted.
Is that just an enormous tuple?
What exactly is this "big labor" fantasy?
haha

As long as you enjoy doing it, it does not matter what your skill level is :)

I don't really enjoy the experience so far but it might come with a bit more skill.
A bunch of materials engineers are high-fiving themselves.
Wondering what the ratio is between Tesla HQ functions, Tesla Manufacturing, Tesla charging infrastructure servicing, Solar City HQ, and Solar City installation/maintenance/servicing.
Honestly, if you are wondering "why I'm spending time with these people", you should find a different group of people.

People you are excited to share with, see and spend time with.

Good groups of people are hard to find, but make a big difference.