skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could. If the CEO is bringing undue attention to the company and being detrimental to its operations. But here it appears to have been 5 people at the center of this. I'm sure we could find 5 people at Google who would like to be vocal against the current CEO.

But there are quite a few CxOs who are vocal and people don't complain much about them, including Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Hastings, Chapek, Gates (though retired), Bloomberg, Forbes, etc.
I know most of HN wasn't even born when this happened, but from 1990 onwards, Jerry Sanders III, the then-CEO (& founder) of AMD created a similar schism in his company. A the time he was presiding over an industry that was seen as disrupter-AMD taking on villain-Intel.

Sanders always had a giant ego and a lust of showing off and thumping his chest. We all took this with an eyeroll, well, some of us did. At one point it was too much, had a bunch of internal promotional posters and flyers made depicting himself as a buff Indian Jones whipping Intel, while his playboy-bunny wife looked on longingly at her hero.

Many AMD employees literally saw him as a muscled hero savior and themselves as victims, like Rambo-Trump photoshops of today, or the sycophantic adulation of Musk worshipers. This lead to people picking sides: Sanders had so distracted his employees with his mouth and antics by creating a schism where some people were like "knock off the rich-guy BS", while others were like, "Go get 'em!". It created a lot of internal conflict. I was only there for a while, but it was amazing how you couldn't do your job without some image of Sanders as hero being shoved in your face by some fan employee.

I can relate to the SpaceX employees, having a mercurial asshat for a boss is tedious, even if the pay is great. But AMD was floundering technologically at that time, and it wasn't until Sanders FINALLY stepped down that AMD really took Intel to task: beating them to 1 GHz and 64-bit processing. I can only imagine the brain-drain due to his asshole behavior was the problem, but that's just my $0.01.
Amazing how harmful trashing educational and economic opportunities was for democracy. We could always get jobs with benefits and almost enough money for a house and family. They can’t.
There's some listed at https://www.citusdata.com/customers
He reminds me of Charlie Rose.
I don't get your last comment? Everything is going to move into gtk4 or move to other toolkits as gtk3 gets obsoleted, it's the way of the world.
The organizations that are worth working at don't have employees who have a reason to publicly criticize their leaders because their leaders effectively manage internal affairs internally.
Financial policy isn't going to solve the root problem: housing construction fell off a cliff after the 2008 housing crises. We have a supply problem. that's true for many areas in the economy, not just housing. Yet all the Fed can think to do is raise rates. All that's going to accomplish at the moment is transferring more wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy. Then again I'm becoming so jaded maybe that's all it was ever intended to do? Maybe they were just looking for a veneer of plausibility to justify the theft?
Just have to reply to recruiters saying you don't want to work for a company with forced attrition and they shut up.

They don't try to correct me and say they aren't doing it anymore, they just cease communication.

Makes you wonder why they still do such barbaric practices as forced attrition
ah the MacCharlie and the Amiga Sidecar, both horrendously overpriced for their respective markets. Though the Amiga peripheral arguably did a much better job owing to the host system's ability to both display color as well as multitask natively, so one could use both environments simultaneously. I believe even possible to exchange data between the two while both were rinning, due to the use of dual-port RAM on the Sidecar and some sort of simple driver running on both sides handled mutexes, locks and such.
Julian Assange's extradition to US approved by UK government
Maybe interesting: Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic (i.e. continental Europe), I haven't found a single comment on one of the bigger newspaper sites (usually filled by fans) that would defend SpaceX's position in this matter. The reputation is pretty much gone.

Update: In the largest newspaper forum of my country, there are now 2 posts out of 96, agreeing with SpaceX (but more on the basis that the employees' action was ill-advised).
Yeah, populism is quite a constant throughout history. People love having a savior and a hero, as demagogue as they might be.

I find it interesting how this populism takes shape in the tech industry. It manifests as companies pretending to be all about mission, community, changing the world, billionaires pretending to be pro-freedom, capitalists pretending to be anti-establishment...
I don't know why anyone wants to work for a company that acknowledges for attrition. No wonder they can't keep talent.
> These people need to get over themselves.

And how do you not apply this to Musk, who fired people after a bit of critique?
It's a matter of human resources, gtk3 is an extremely small team compared to its influence.
Some more reasons (as an erstwhile enterprise dev turned gamedev who has embraced visual coding):

1. Merging visual code is basically impossible in my experience.
2. Likewise for refactoring.
3. Likewise for finding all references, etc.

The above make visual code difficult to scale with larger teams or teams with lots of turn over.

1. Games often are released and that's it (though this has changed significantly) this puts less emphasis on maintenance.
2. In my experience there were way fewer non-technical people involved with the enterprise product. There were designers and PMs, but not so many. In contrast a game is extremely content heavy which means many artists, game designers, sound designers, etc. Visual coding empowers these people.
3. Non-game stuff often has very basic interactive elements/art. Like, you can get away with the system's UI toolkit. Games are the opposite, everything is bespoke because it all has to connect to the game's artistic vision. Visual tools such as shader graphs make this easier.
4. Iteration in games is essential. It's the engine that drives quality. Visual tools empower this. In my experience normal software iterates less or at least differently.
How about the government does its job instead of relying on private companies?

Make those fake clinics illegal.
Honestly, I suspect he's just trying to appease conservatives to make them more likely to buy EVs.

If that's the case, it's not a bad strategy. They're easy to manipulate into thinking you're on their side if you say the right soundbites. And they're the toughest group of consumers to get on the green tech train. Musk could be acting as a chameleon in an attempt to simply get some of them to accept the reality of climate change.
> text is the easiest and most readable/writable way

I love this part. What else could be more readable/writable than texts :)
I am amazed by so many who are defending Musk for his actions. I hope they would consider working for him in one of his companies & enjoy a life of subordinateship. Afterall Musk needs such workers - smart, hard working & yet someone who doesnt question him. I think dictator is the nearest term for it in the dictionary?
US does not pursue extraditions in most cases where a person facing federal charges is abroad. International extraditions are hardly routine (except within the EU with EAWs)

I live in the UK. There's been a federal indictment out for me for well over 10 years now, at some point there was an Interpol blue notice, but that's been gone for years now. There's never been any attempt to pursue extradition.
I'm just a supporter of equity. If your country have a FTA with another country, people from either country should be able to emigrate/immigrate between the two at will. If your country has a quota trade agreement with another country, you can do quotas as long as those respect a relationship with production quota.

I find France, UK and US comportements towards their colonies ('trade partners') unjust.
Make enterprise features open source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31770348 - June 2022 (56 comments)
Must is liberal himself. He's just not far left.
> but if it really came down to that I would just open up nautilus.

So, the downstairs toilet.
The SpaceX President claims that the fired employees repeatedly spammed a large number of employees during paid time[1].

> "Blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters
> and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day is not acceptable."

I appreciate their spirit, because I think Elon is being juvenile and distracting, but this seems cut-and-dry.

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/spacex-fired-emp...
> Unless they had received direct orders not to criticize Musk at all, internally or externally, they are not guilty of refusing to obey orders

Wouldn't it be ironic if a man who is "fighting to preserve free speech" fired employees for their speech he disagrees with? Oh, wait...
He’s the same old Elon, the pedo guy tweet and taking Tesla private at $420 are just as embarrassing if not more so , he’s just on the other side of the culture war divide now (I.e the Republican side) so he’s now considered shameful in many parts.
> Workers have very little power to fight back

Workers (especially the average HN reader) have incredible power to fight back… find a new job and switch companies. Lots a companies are hiring even with the macro economic issues.

From an employee perspective it’s insane to me that one would put so much energy into fighting their leadership rather than just leaving the company for a better one.
This has been my experience too, and it's very frustrating for those of us who have long held left-wing beliefs but are skeptical of these recent social trends. The obsessive focus on identity issues almost seems like a deliberate distraction from the larger societal concerns regarding the cost of living, housing, employment rights, environmental catastrophe, and similar.

I feel that social media companies are largely to blame here, with the impact of their efforts to increase engagement metrics at the expense of users' wellbeing. We all have a perpetually-available outrage machine in our pockets these days, encouraging us all to react with emotion rather than be considered and thoughtful.

Regarding your example of gender views, the other reason why this wouldn't have happened 10 years ago is that hardly anyone believed that stuff. JK Rowling's opinions would have been met with a shrug. But there has since been a concerted effort to capture the minds of the younger generations at an age where they're unlikely to see the inherent contradictions in this ideology.
I am personally thrilled to see a company stand up to cancel culture and political employee activism. The ridiculous non-work related distractions from employee on various political crusades we've been seeing at many companies like Google are one of the things ruining Silicon Valley. It's nice to see Elon not allowing it at his companies, and Coinbase in being another standout against this silliness.
ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Robotics and Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation
> Everyone has free speech rights. No exceptions.

Plenty of exceptions, to wit: not in the workplace, and certainly not using your employer's communications infrastructure, as was the case here.
I've read that 'tl' was similar to the welsh 'll' sound (a kind of hissy L sound, though not really, youtube will have some spoken examples) but when I've heard 'tl' spoken it usually sounds like a 'tl', as in 'little'.
> Are you saying that academia is "not the real world" ?

Universities are a unique creature where ideas and debate are the whole point, “more so than getting things done.” That’s also part of the “real world” in some sense, but it isn’t the world nearly all of us reside in. I would recommend any organization that wants to be successful outside of that unique context to not emulate the model of universities. That includes non profits and NGOs. Hierarchy exists almost universally in human organizations. That’s not an accident—it’s necessary for groups of humans working together to be effective.
To your point, comments in any internet community are not such indicators.
When I interviewed for Amazon, they had an online screen that was basically asking which employee should be fired based on the metrics in a table. I'm all for firing bad employees, productivity matters, but it does seem like the culture promotes looking for people to fire.
I always wondered about setting something up where only your side of the conversation is recorded.

You'd just need to repeat a lot of what they're saying so its obvious to somebody listening to one side of the conversation what happened but I feel like it'd get around any of these laws because every party is yourself.
> He doesnt pay from his pocket.

About 1/6 of the pay comes from his pocket, since he owns about that much of the company.

> He may be founder & CEO. But he is an employee as much as those five.

His main relationship to Tesla is as it's controlling owner, not an employee, though, yes, he's also an employee. That's pretty different from every other employee.
Leave the company?
> Hiring the right people to push the success of SpaceX and Tesla?

Probably this. Its not easy to do.

I think there is also something to be said about the singularity of vision Musk brought to these companies. Its easy to dismiss (and I haven't been a fan of him much since the whole Thailand incident) but its one of those annoying aspects that eludes the desire of developers' (i.e. the average reader of this site) desire to quantify everything.

It makes me think of the story of Steve Jobs after his return to Apple, where he called a meeting of team leads, made a quadrant on a white board with the edges labeled "desktop" and "portable" on the vertical, "consumer" and "professional" on the horizontal, and demanded the company only produce 1 product to fill each of the four squares, eliminating the rest.
Is that a blog of someone from Trolltech? Tell them their site doesn't support OS-managed dark theme switching.

— No, using custom CSS isn't "dark mode"
Inkscape is a good place to start.
I distinctively remember a massive influx of children in PokerStars VR in December 2020/January 2021. A lot of kids must have gotten a Quest 2 for Christmas.

But more to your point, yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about the existence of the Quest 2. On one hand, it brings the price of VR way down which potentially increases adoption, but on the other hand, the lack of GPU power means graphics are dumbed down, and the tracking on its controllers isn't as good as PCVR, so I worry it could also lead to its downfall as the experience is sub-par.
I'm aware of the origins of the phrase. "Who is it being applied to here and why" is what I'd like to know.
Related announcement: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2022/06/17/citus-11-goes-full...
Is there anyone asking for anything in a workplace that you wouldn't call a "woke culture warrior"? Using that kind of language marks you as pretty disingenuous to the argument.
With 'Angel food' cake covers to keep the platters clean...

I remember when I saw my fist DEC disk pack how slim they looked in comparison :-)
Well look at that, it is very similar
>The biggest problem with GNOME right now is Gtk3 and gtkfilechooserwidget.c. It is so spaghetti and so many things rely on it that no one at GNOME is willing to work on it for fear of breaking something.

I wonder, why can't they introduce something like gtkfilechooserwidget2.c leaving the original widget intact?
Agreed. The X Window system is pretty damn amazing, despite its warts. Now that you say that, I've anthropomorphized MWM into this old-timer, reflecting what kind of programs it has seen run in it over the years, and what it will see in 30+ more years.
Gen-X is middle management at these companies. That generation has never been a martyr for ANY cause - isn't Gen-X's whole "thing" that they're all nihilists and nothing matters etc etc?

People should be called out. Musk is always talking about upending established orders and questioning the status quo - guess he's more interested in loyalists.
Your company may make decisions that you don't agree with or are objectively stupid. There is a proper channel to voice your concerns. They may be ignored in which case you can leave if you feel strongly enough about it. This is what adults do.
And in many of those states, you can be fired for simply being gay or trans.

edit: Given how fast this post hit -4, I have to assume that these people are *OK* with being able to fire gay or trans people at a whim. That ain't cool, one bit.
How they didn't see that coming it's astonishing.
I thought about developing a simple Google Sheets add-on but I've been put off by Google verification process because of the scopes I use.
This is the sign of a extremely unhealthy place to work

> But attrition at Amazon’s facilities in the area grew from 128 percent in 2019 to 205 percent in 2020

I can see business papers talking about Amazon's failure in this space in the next 5 years.
Posting today on HN about Shottr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31773863
In the US it's approximately the same -- 3.2%.
So they're going to fire people to make up the cost of not being able to hire people? Maybe I'm not understanding you're comment.
I agree he interrupts his guests, and he admits as much on almost every podcast. I also agree that sometimes it detracts from the conversation and it is a net negative, but you must also recognize the times that his interruption fills in gaps, as well.
Well, sure, it's probably legal to fire them.

But it smacks of "one rule for me, one rule for thee" from Mr "free speech absolutist" Musk, right?
I have a CST trackball (well two actually, one for "work" and one for "home") and this thing is built like a tank. Expensive but worth it IMO.

https://twitter.com/__mharrison__/status/1515078064866091009
Me too. This is a jumbled stream of conscious style mess of information, even if the topic is interesting.
I think so? It's about linking advertising activity (keyed by third party advertising cookies) with analytics activity (keyed by first party analytics cookies)
We were one of the first Brex customers. Moved millions through them before deciding to move to another provider. They were always full of surprises, but not the good kind.

While they since fixed many of the quirks and improved the overall service significantly, their priorities were always misaligned with the ones of their customers. The cherry on the top for me was when they purchased a restaurant in SF instead of fixing glaring bugs.
There have been PRs made to fix this issue which have been rejected, because Gnome hate their users.
To a degree only. Some speech is generally considered offensive.
This kind of endeavor should be a common theme to all science, not just chemistry.
> If prices go down 10%, there is going to be a massive number of young people jumping into the market.

Prices were 10% lower before last year and were was this massive amount of young people then ? Waiting for a 10% drop too
Haven’t we already seen that the SEC thinks Musks personal tweets hold legal weight?
Polar bears that can survive without sea ice
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375913/alphabet-employee...

I don't have any complaints about my current organization, but whenever I feel something has transgressed my personal code of ethics I'm first very vocal about it internally and if necessary externally. I've only ever left companies voluntarily after this, and most have made efforts for me to stay. And it's not like I've been working at the most progressive companies ever.. maybe just don't work at a Musk company.
How is this cancel culture?
Right, in my case the "few thousands" was for a single fairly simple shape (diffusion curves are basically continious line/splines for each shape border, so a single horizontal spline over the screen would generate almost 2k or 4k seeds depending on type at 1080p ).

Real diffusion curve images would multiply that by an order or two at the least depending on complexity of the image (the algo I wrote as well as JFA might have a higher fixed number of iterations but it's fixed so the number of seeds don't matter).

Besides, GPU's have turned more and more general so even if there's optimizations for the triangle rendering the compute case will probably gain even more from more recent GPUs.

Optimizing for GPU's can be funny, and I wouldn't be surprised if the break-point on where the tri-fans are faster is higher than I expect, but at the same time unless it's a tile-based renderer I'm pretty sure there will be a break-point (also tilebased renderers can sometimes fall of performance cliffs in special cases).
I remember when they invested in Axie Infinity when it was still sub $5. they must have made bank when it shot up to $150. The token is now back at $13.
2009. Thats how "growth" came from last decade & half. People never realized that & majority will never. Stocks/Home prices will keep going up to infinity crowd thinks its a hoax.
Snipaste – Mac Screen Capture
When the beta containing Live Text was first released it was M1 only but by the time it was released, Intel support was included. A lot of people only remember the first impression.
No I don't sorry. My cousin is a philosophy professor there not in the veterinary section. But I could ask around.
+1 on the L-Trac. Also you can stick a billiard ball in it... https://twitter.com/__mharrison__/status/1515078064866091009
Citation please. I've seen no actual concrete evidence that Elon inherited any significant sum of money from an "emerald mine." This seems to be one of those internet myths which lives on in forums despite no credible evidence.
Can I write some code in Python or JS, compile to WASM
and run that in Go using Wasmer? Has anyone tried something similar?
> This is what adults do.

I am sure the people who wrote the letter are adults. You don't have to insult people you don't agree with.
Impact of Beer and Nonalcoholic Beer on Gut Microbiota: A Controlled Trial
> they're not protected against being fired

Of course they are. Concerted workplace activity to improve workplace conditions is protected under NLRB. It's literally the definition of protected activity.
> Criticize internally all you want

Tell that to James Damore.
Babcock and Wilcox have gotten out of the nuclear business.

What business have they gotten into? Thermal storage of grid energy with a > 50% round trip efficiency. It heats sand with a compact resistive heater, stores the sand in insulated silos, and recovers the energy by a Brayton cycle system with a really interesting and compact fluidized bed heat exchanger. Storage capacity is sized for 100 hours of operation. Not just overnight, but four days.

https://www.babcock.com/home/about/corporate/news/babcock-wi...

Westinghouse is also doing thermal grid storage now. Pumped TES can have a round trip efficiency > 60%.

https://www.energy-storage.news/nuclear-power-company-westin...
> If you're not on the board of directors, the way you register displeasure with your CEO is to leave the company.

We can easily do that. Most people can't. This disdainful attitude reeks of privilege.
It’s almost identical to some of the top comments!
GNOME has enjoyed the status of being basically usable, if not particularly good, throughout its history.

I still remember KDE going through what felt like years of being unusably broken during its clumsy transition from 3 to 4. That's a lot of the desktop Linux experience, really - everything constantly in flux, never quite usable. I don't blame anyone for this, it's hard to get stuff done without someone paying a team to do it, but it's really unfortunate.
Maybe, maybe not, but this level of vitriol is unmerited and makes HN worse.