skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They said that given you are hired, there is no correlation between job performance and your interview score, not that there is no correlation between someone's interview score and how that person will perform. It's analogous to saying people who scored 1600 on their SAT perform no better than those who scored 1500, not that SAT scores are unrelated to performance.
> towards sitting on the falcon 9 and launching to LEO.

That would still leave them with many thousands of redundant employees. Falcon 9 is done and the production is dropping due to reusability. Recently, they had a 3rd re-flight of the same core, which, coupled with the slowdown of the global launch market, means that in the next years they will need to produce a third to a half of the number of cores they used in 2017. The same for Merlin engines.

They basically fulfilled their mission and drastically reduced the cost of getting into orbit - which for the space industry is dominated by labor costs. Without a greatly increased demand, they can't justify keeping those people around.

And they can't roll all the Falcon production workforce towards BFR, Raptor and Starlink since those are still strongly R&D dominated projects and the skill set is incompatible. At the same time, they have hundreds of engineering positions open for those projects.
>What's less cruel?

ANYTHING is better than telling the entire company "go home and compulsively refresh your email all weekend to see if you get to come to work Monday"
Really? I'm not sure if this is bait or not, but 64b time_t extends the epoch over 200 billion years into the future. I figure we'll handle it in Linux 7.0 or 8.0 at the earliest :P
Mainly microtransactions. The bitcoin fee can be high and might not make sense if you want to give someone say 10 cents for every article you read.
I'm not sure this is a coherent plan, since it doesn't talk about how privacy rules get enforced for services. Who vets the services? If a fun game that you let have access to your "personal data pod" and it turns out to be Cambridge Analytica and just copies everything it sees into its own database, how is that an improvement over Facebook apps?

Choosing between service providers is no more meaningful for privacy than asking Windows users to download arbitrary apps. If smart phones are any more secure than desktops, it's because Apple and Google are constantly improving OS-level security and policing their app stores for malware.

Of course app stores have well-known flaws. But if we want to do better than that, someone has to figure out a better way to choose good rules and enforce the rules better.
Photobak is really close, but Google's API apparently has several issues making it not a true solution. IIRC you can't download the original uploaded bytes, and you can't get the original EXIF data.
> If a mud-collection operation transported lots of abyssal mud to the surface and then dispersed it into the water column, it would affect pelagic life in that location, but not coral

First of all, you are forgetting that all corals are pelagic species.

The "too deep to worry about" and "don't interact with anything we interact with" is also wrong both as concept and also as fact.

Lophelia reefs are the coral reefs of temperate areas. Can be found between 30 and 3000 m deep.

Until relatively recent times, we didn't even knew that we have coral reefs in UK, Norway or Canada. Still we don't know a lot about this places, but coral reefs are among the most rich ecosystems in the planet supporting an astonishing amount of biodiversity. As any other reef we know that they provide refuge for a (still poorly know, but probably very high) number of crustaceans, other invertebrates and fishes. It seems that Is an important refuge for sharks for example. Sharks play a role in keeping healthy marine ecosystems.

Next Cape Cañaveral growths a similar (much shallower) cold reef in a relatively narrow band that was the first marine area closed for research in USA. The Oculina Bank area of particular concern. Many fisheries depend on the Oculina reef. Their damage was directly linked with the demise of Florida's grouper fisheries for example.

We are also also slowly understanding how complex are soft bottom ecosystems. Much more complex that we previously though. Under the silt there are the equivalent of fields of grasses and shrubs but carved on negative space.

Is not just sand, is also 4000 years old antipatharians, is really smart predators that hold the key to made robots coated in one of the most resistent bio-matherials known in the planet. One that is able to stand high pressures, but that is also light, and that can also generate ultra-fast movements enduring well the mechanical damage

In silt bottoms we can found animals able to literally make the water boil around them. They can raise the temperature of a tiny amount of water to around 4000 degrees C. And they can do it in less than a second. Not, I'm not joking.

And there is also the "too deep to worry about" and "don't interact with us" small Aequorea, that blew our minds and changed forever how we, humans, do modern biosanitary research in the entire planet.

Lots and lots and lots of valuable things for humans.
Cool. I think I have some use for this.
Thinking about the Librem 5, why is it so expensive?
There have been a few news stories and articles recently of people walking around some Shenzhen market putting together phones from components very cheaply. How hard would it be to put together a "Linux phone" that was only $200 instead of the $700 for the Librem 5.
Yes. At least it was last summer.
They probably realized that they'll still get GDPR requests from EU citizens living abroad, so the block was fairly pointless.
I wonder why there's a need for any perfect hash for a case like this. If you only have a few hundred options, you can simply generate code that will look like:

switch (c[0]) {
case 'c':
switch (c[1]) {
case 'a':
switch (c[2]) {
case 'c':
...
}
...
}
break;
...

case 'f':
...

}

You can even make it optimal, require the fewest number of single-byte comparisons. Like if you know c[0]=='c' and c[3]=='i', then the only possible answer (of a Postgre keyword) is "chain".
both of those cases are permitted, ZipCar explicitly rents spaces which are marked as theirs. I'm also not sure they use public parking lots, I've only encountered them in private lots and garages.
That is FAR less cruel, and more in line with how most companies handle a genuine redundancy.

My response above was to do with the fact that employees who were NOT terminated were also subjected to the psychological trauma of spending the weekend guessing whether they had a job come Monday. Not the best way to keep morale high.
What about the point to point BFR/Starship launches? That could potentially compete with any long haul airline route which would have a huge growth potential. Admittedly it probably requires a different kind of staff.
It’s not really a comparable situation. US states compete for resources within a national economy. South Korea is a national economy. And California and Kansas differ in many ways other than tax rates. California’s high state taxes are a mechanism for monetizing California’s other economic advantages to fund their state government, while lower state taxes in states like Kansas are a mechanism for attempting to compensate for their other economic disadvantages.

The mistake is in focusing obsessively on any one variable rather than addressing the entire system. California is definitely economically worse off in some ways than alternate-universe-low-tax California, but in exchange they have more tax revenue and hence potentially better schools and highways. It’s all tradeoffs and matters of degree. Confiscatory 90%+ income tax rates were not sustainable after the immediate postwar era, and might have even been a bad idea at the time, but it doesn’t make sense to overreact to that mistake when it’s long been fixed and there are more obvious bottlenecks.
A business has no responsibility to financially support an ex-employee. If it does so, it's a gift, not something that should be expected.
The EU should introduce some Digital Consumer Rights to put a stop to these arbitrary black holes you can get into with internet giants.

Would surely be a positive measure?
ESA ISS Virtual Tour is also great.
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/virtual-tour-iss/
Thanks, i really can’t believe this had to be spelled out. Btw what they did find correlating with job performance was candidate’s GPA =)
We have an old VHS camcorder my father bought in the mid '80s. It still works, but the timestamp overlay can't be set to display a year beyond 1999.
I imagine it's possible that dehumanizing layoffs like this will put SpaceX at a competitive disadvantage, its lunch eventually getting eaten by companies who do care enough about their employees to interact with them in person regarding the business of the company and their place in it, good or bad. This would come out in increased efficiencies due to no surprise-axed-or-not email always threatening to land in their inboxes.
Personally I would prefer to be fired by email versus an 1 on 1 face to face meeting. The financial support and other helpful tools seem like an orthogonal issue.
Since it's hard for you to find out about this:

Maybe you could start a website to coordinate/connect programmers with places/projects/institutions/organizations that want them. I don't know if such a thing exists, but that would be very cool.
>spend even more time/money on better ship equipment

How is that not pay to win.
I'm struggling to see your problem. Are you saying that the EU should have more power over constituent member countries?
The 1x1 scenario still involves calling the laid off employees into meetings in sequence while everyone else stresses out wondering if they are next. Layoffs are brutal no matter what you do.
Are we just going to completely ignore the 17 year reign of Jeff Immelt? GE Capital gained enough prominence to destroy the company under his reign. Jeff was the one that acquired one of the nations largest subprime lenders in 2004, primed perfectly to maximize losses in 2008.
80 certs have been expired. Let's assume that certs are registered evenly across the year. We're 22 days into the shutdown, which is about 6% of the year. So if that's accurate, then there are about 1300 .gov sites. That seems reasonable. My guess is that more certs are renewed at the beginning of the year, but I don't have data one way or the other.
that's true, but during & after their layoffs a couple years back they imposed a 'not mandatory but strongly encouraged' 20% overtime.
What do you think goes through people's head as their managers walk to them "can we talk" during a staff reduction exercise?

Have you ever sit across an HR person saying all the right things and putting an as empathic as possible face on, and telling you "it's not you, it's us"?

Personally I'd prefer the email, as long as, I have a contact to talk to for the next steps.
And employees have no responsibility to stay at a company that treats ex-employees like shit. Actions like these are a great way to demoralize your workforce and entice higher-level employees to jump ship.
There have been plenty of satellite price flexibility studies that show there is a marked lag between supply and demand.

This is because high launch costs demand extraordinary levels of design and Q&A: there may never be a second chance. Unfortunately, these supply chains have flexibility baked out for some time, perhaps predating the Apollo era.

Lowered launch costs and increased launch opportunities offer increasing failure tolerance to an increasing number of projects which can now afford second chances and backup plans. However, these corporate cultures take time to adapt, they've been built around single-shot opportunities for decades.

TLDR: satellite markets are anything but nimble at this point, due to historical reasons. This will change, given time.
AKA the first 10 minutes of the movie Margin Call.
The difference is that a country isn't a person with its own wants that it's presumably satisfying with its purchase. When a country pays interest, it is effectively transferring money from its taxpayers to its bondholders. Very often, the bondholders are other parts of the government (28% of US government debt), private citizens (32%), or the Federal Reserve (11.2%). If the U.S. government has less money with which to purchase goods and services, it just means the private sector has more money with which to purchase goods and services, which in many cases is what you want.

There was some concern about China being a large holder of U.S. treasuries a decade or so ago, but that concern has abated as China has unpegged their currency and unwound some of their treasury holdings, and because the debt is denominated in U.S. dollars and so the U.S. government could always inflate it away to nothing if China tried anything funky. The "bad consequences" of the U.S. <=> China current-account deficit have largely already come home to roost - that's what's fueling the rise in real estate prices bought by Chinese investors which is making homes unaffordable for Americans in west coast states.

The household analogy would be an adult child who pays rent to live in their parents' basement, which the parent may either spend on the child or plans to return to them via inheritance when the parent dies. Sure, you're spending money, and sure, it means that you have less money for spending on other things. However, it just means that other people closely associated with you spend that money instead, and if they don't, it comes back to you anyway.
Persistent, powerful people who want to push their moral imperatives on others have avenues other than payment processors. I think we need more decentralization than this.
Maybe it's doing double duty to sniff out exfiltrators.
It's not quite the same, but Georgists consider land, in general, and not entirely without reason, as a special case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
I was in a cancer treatment waiting room just the other day. A pharma rep came in with lunch and a bunch of other freebies for the office staff. He didn't sit around waiting.
To me this type of thing is the biggest indicator that Ethereum is the right path going forward.

Because their programming language builds in support for systems like this with smart contracts. And also Ethereum is tackling scaling and microtransactions head on with major upgrades to their core.
Wait til you learn about cars!

People literally leave them all around the city, for hours or even days at a time. Completely unencumbered as well, and taking up prime public space that could be used by the public in so many other ways. You just need a jack and a tow truck, you can go around collecting as many as you want and keep them. They've been abandoned after all, because someone has walked away from them.

(Obviously sarcasm, but as a non-car-owner I get a kick out of people freaking out about these scooters taking up public space. Meanwhile every street in the city is full of cars with one person in them and has two lanes of free or heavily subsidized parking. It's clearly a massively less efficient use of public space, and no one ever talks about that).
Concrete example of “changing the paradigm” in economic history might be transitioning from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy. Even if you get literally all the details wrong, just doing something like that in the first place can lead to massive improvements, at least until you catch up and run into the constraints of getting the details wrong. (Example: the Soviet Union).
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I've been laid off face to face, it sucks. How is SpaceX supposed to lay off 600 people in 1 on 1 meetings and what significant difference does that even make?

We don't know the content of the all hands, they could have outlined the support plan there.
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Are parked cars also abandoned then?

I'm not so sure scooters with GPS tracking and contractors looking for them would be considered abandoned in the eyes of the law, even if they have been left in an unpermitted location.
Do a charge back and experience it yourself...you can’t just “use a different card”
> Google, the data analytics company, openly admits that there is no correlation between interviewing and job performance

Google never said this. It would be pretty dumb thing to say because otherwise they could save $$$ by just rolling the dice on application.
Do you realise that you've described early-stage startups?
Security could be an advantage for a variety of online services. When selecting an online service, I'm starting to use U2F 2FA support as a way to narrow the list of services to consider, so making a decision is easier. Few domain name registrars offer U2F from what I can tell.
Why? People are hired by email all of the time. Full time positions are more transactional now than ever before. There is no real loyalty either way.
Some of us don't believe that online payment systems need concern themselves with that. Especially if preventing money laundering basically means having no online privacy.
Too bad the remaining 90% will continue to live off the US taxpayer and enjoy government largesse for the foreseeable future.
Layoff by email is like breakup via text message.

The end result is the same and either way it sucks but certainly doing it in face to face seems to generally be considered more personal and perhaps less cowardly.
That need not just be charity on SpaceX's part. The circumstances of the layoff sounds like it would trigger the WARN act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini.... If so, 60 days notice is a legal requirement, not beneficence on SpaceX's part.
Do you realise that you've argued that nobody should choose to work at an early-stage startup?

Your salary is below market rate, but not when you include variable pay, in startups, and in my proposal.
> updating the clock for daylight savings time

That feature is unlikely to work well, tzdata is updated multiple times a year.
Everything in Picasa was migrated into Google Photos, including all the albums.
Thanks for sharing this! I wasn't aware of this term and it's very relevant to another topic I often discuss. It'll be very useful to me. :}
I wonder if you could just collect them and bring them to the sheriff since they are blocking a public right-of-way, etc.
Yes. Nobody except founders should work at an early stage startup. Anyone else is likely throwing their time away at below market rate. Remember, most startups fail. You're advocating for treating the job as a lottery ticket. Might as well make market rate and invest in companies where you have better information.
Except keeping people around for two weeks longer allows people to say goodbye to their coworkers and people they might've worked with for years. It allows them to impart their knowledge to anyone else that might need it, document things that need documenting and more importantly: It means the company treats you like an actual human being.

Acting like people are just gonna sit around and mope is not only highly disingenuous but is also a good way to fuck over the people having to fill in the knowledge gaps.
What's to stop a service from having a pod that stores user's data in a mutated form? (Forgive me for the basic question).
Yeah, I actually pretty much agree, I was more responding to the point that nobody made a decision for it to be this way, and that is intelligence. I actually think that it was something that was intentially planned for purely margin reasons.
I just started the process of moving from gmail to an email on a custom domain through https://www.migadu.com/en/index.html. The setup process was pretty painfree and they provide very detailed setup instructions.

I haven't set my gmail to forward to the new email yet. I've spent the last month or so unsubscribing from a lot of email newsletters. Once I get the mail volume down even further, I'll setup gmail to autoforward and then give out my new email to those who need it.

I haven't yet found a Google Calendar substitute but that's lower priority right now.
And some certificates with long life are already post-2038

https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCsc455...
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I can pretty much guarantee you’ll only get that in the US.
Can confirm, Lumi is an awesome company run by solid founders.
AFAIK newer Macs with a T2 security chip block OSs other than macOS and Windows 10 [0] (at least on the internal drive).

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-T2...
> Seriously, having lower salary does not make people care more.

It does, when coupled with variable pay they could lose if their project doesn't work out.

> There are plenty of lazy people who don't care who are not paid maximum possible.

And those lazy people will then find jobs at other big companies, where they don't have to work hard and still make more, more appealing.
I was sure able to write them.

I was never able to write a complete SOAP response, and I don't think I was once able to predict one without running first (parsing after the fact is easier, that I can do).
>"It's interesting to see contrasting articles on taxes & growth. There's this article about how South Korea raised taxes in a bid to grow faster and failed, but there are also plenty of articles about how Kansas's attempt to lower taxes in a bid to grow faster also failed [1], as well as predictions that California's high taxes would hamper growth (which hasn't really happened yet)."

Should this be surprising? I thought that was pretty much what the laffer curve was about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
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A much better object oriented language than C++. I was not fond of its syntax but liked its uniform treatment of a number of different abstract mechanisms via “patterns”.
> I expected to have to deal with that as well. As this article shows, you don't.

Because x86 has to be compatible with 80286 and 80386 forever.

If special flushing instructions were suddenly needed for self-modifying code to work right, all that ancient MS-DOS and Windows code would break.
In many jurisdictions, such a responsibility does exist as mandated by law.
I think you and eli are both right. Neither Gab not Voat are likely to succeed, because of network effects.

The only way a new social network is likely to succeed is if it is part of a federation of social networks that communicate using protocols such as ActivityPub, making one big network where the whole exceeds the sum of thew parts.
"Fire by email" isn't a bad option for layoffs in the double digit percentage as long as the delay between notification and sending the emails is low. Meeting 1 on 1 only works in non targeted low scale layoffs, anywhere else and it just creates hysteria.

Also fire by email doesn't mean there isn't a definitive exit path or no financial support. The article itself states the email claimed a minimum of 8 weeks of pay for those laid off.

Also it's 90/10 not 50/50. If you were firing 50% of your workforce there is no avoiding a "brutal" psychological toll for the remaining.
That's only necessary if the service is subject to US jurisdiction, directly or indirectly.

No service that's subject to any nation's jurisdiction could be considered truly "censorship-free". Because, you know, said nation could censor it.
Were the sacrificial lambs at least told in secret that they were 'hired in order to be laid off' at the next round? I hope they were not just given rote tasks, but allowed to explore their skills while they are in limbo so that they can train-up or look for jobs... Nah that's just wishful thinking.