skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt they could have done it better, but all we know right now is the contents of the letter. What we don't know is how they went about soliciting signatures and so called surveys of employees (likely management won't release this detailed information either). The fired employees won't tell you what really happened...more than likely they will play the victims in this. The details may only come out once a lawsuit is filed.
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The chilling message has been sent. Assange has been confined without trial for various reasons for nearly ten years (minus the 6 months for the only crime he has been convicted of, bail violation).

This extradition should have been done long ago so that he could stand trial. Either he gets convicted and then we know that liberal democracy and a free press is dead in the US, or he gets exonerated and the civil suits that he will bring will send a chilling message to the suppressors of free speech.

My sincere hope is for the latter. I have held off on contributing to his defense fund because denying extradition because US prison food is shitty would just mean that the next journalist is kept quiet, and in many ways is far more chilling. Once he is extradited to the US and is set to stand trial, I hope each and every person on this thread helps ensure him the effective counsel he needs to send the once-in-a-generation reiteration of the message that a free press is essential to a free state.
Wow, I just read a rant on a site that hosts static websites, damn I miss that! Sounds like this person needs to snake his sewer line.
Visibiome has OTC and rx-only probiotics products, the latter of which is used to treat severe IBS and ulcerative colitis. Their OTC products are also very high potency and regularly recommended by doctors as well.

Also, nicer grocery stores typically have a refrigerated probiotics section, and those are typically good brands as well (Garden of Life is one). Generally, shelf stable probiotics are less potent and varied in cultures than ones requiring refrigeration.
Came here to say this. I feel like text autosummarization has been commoditized by now.
i think that everyone including the FF companies ultimately wants a wind down, its a finite resource after all. it's a matter of how long will that take, and how long will winding up other energy industries take, be it building out the infrastructure, limiting the environmental impact of that build out, or researching the future technologies that will make 100% clean energy feasible. any timelines need to be reasonable. maybe a 50 year plan is doable and in the mean time, there is no sense in kneecapping the world by limiting expansion
Well if you call 4month training "astronauts", those kind of training won't get anyone on the moon or on mars.

I think that's why they call them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_astronaut

To me it's more space tourism that anything else, there is a reason why it takes years to train astronauts.
Off-topic: Please don't take this the wrong way. What sorts of engineering does an engineer at Ritual do? From an outside perspective it's just a website selling healthcare products. Is there some sort of big data driven approach to developing the products?
Ah, yes- behold all of the comments in this thread that have no critiques of Musk other than $!

And incidentally, yes- many poor people despise the rich, just as most rich people despise the poor.

Mamy are the critiques of Musk here, nowhere did I read it was because he's hoarding money.

Edit to add- rich people change laws and construction to benefit them, they can displace and ruin the lives of the poor with a thought. They have all the power and most of the money. They live in gated communities far out of sight of the working class. They literally have an embarrassment of riches while people die around them. There is a very good reason the affluent only live amongst each other in fancy gated communities.

People don't hate the rich because they are rich, it's because of the impact they have on the lives of those without means.
a startingpoint for answers may be here: https://superuser.com/questions/944119/replace-gtk-file-dial...

there is an xdg-desktop-portal feature that allows this, or pretend that a different desktop is used by setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for the application, as well as KGtk which is a library that can be loaded with LD_PRELOAD.

either of these have to be applied per application though.
Musk is the one doing the distraction.
It seems certain features are restricted to third-party cookies: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection.... In practice though, moving from third-party to first-party is simply a way to reduce the probability that the spyware gets blocked by the user agent.
Left wingers overwhelmingly support immigration of poor people, from poor nations. They think these people would benefit the most out of immigrating to the US. They too, like the right wingers, despise white collar workers immigrating here, since that'd mean more competition for high paying jobs.

They know that recent immigrants from poorer countries, do not have the education and English language skills to break into white collar jobs, and will mostly work in low paying jobs for their whole career. The white collar immigrants can break into all these jobs, and that is something that they see as a danger.
Media companies not having money?

Hmm medical journals, it never crossed my mind
Can't HN be the one place on the internet that isn't sullied by obvious misspellings?

Fixed it. Just for you. -kiss-
Actually, about half of the political spectrum of the US believes (or steadfastly pretends to believe) that this is precisely what "free speech" means.

I guess they haven't processed the famous XKCD on this issue.
and suing big oil is exactly the opposite of the way to achieve this.

if you can successfully drive western oil companies out of business, all our oil will have to come from saudi, russia, venezuela, etc. countries where we have no ability to tax the profits of oil companies and redirect that money to something beneficial.
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From what I understand the way this is currently shaking out, is that it largely won't impact marketplace sites as credit cards can be used as a form of age verification. You might have to create an account and associate a credit card before you're able to browse which would be an awful user experience...

For other sites though, if the this passes into law I suspect it will have a much more intense cooling effect on the availability and access to sites. For the unpaid service sites I run, I'm certainly not going to pay for identity verification or allow that garbage on my sites. I'm much more likely to hide or disable any user generated content, or just serve a static page to users in the UK saying the site isn't available in your region.

They're really doubling down on removing themselves from the world community...
Plus a little thing called Tesla
> Is auto-liquidation a bad thing?

Not if you pretend everyone is an island and economies aren't interconnected.
Very much the same here. I had a Logitech thumb trackball that I used for a long time, but my thumb started to twitch uncontrollably and I had to drop it.

I was using it for CAD, so I used it quite a bit all day long, which may have something to do with it.

If your use case works with it, and you're not susceptible to this kind of RSI, thumb trackballs are great. I loved mine.
The device or one-time cost of registering a SIM?

Are there large chunks of the population that just use wifi-only phones?
Would your CEO behave like Musk and expect zero consequences and zero push-back from the the board, the public, and the employees?
Wait, this is exactly what Elon Musk himself does. Remember the whole "pedo guy" incident? And all of the Musk noise recently about being conservative and buying twitter?
Related, for C++: https://cpp-rust-assisted-migration.gitlab.io
I finished the article unclear whether or not the toilet story is a parable.
file-picker is a GUI tool whose language is visual instead of text. If ls must do text processing and formatting to output that colorful list, so too must file-picker do image processing to complete its function.
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Right, Linux might count, but what is the "Linux Corporation" with the 50,000,000 MAU? It's not "is the program used by that many people" it's "does the company or individual have that many users". That's also why the company needs a market cap of more than 550 billion.

So I guess it would hit Android and maybe FireOS Linuxes.
I thought Elon Musk was being hailed as the champion of "free speech?" Hmmm. Maybe not.

Regardless of what people say their actions always betray them. I have no idea why people idolize Elon Musk when he has repeatedly shown us what he is. Then again the same is true for Donald Trump. I honestly don't understand it.
Really "An Immutable Rope in Go". (Raised https://github.com/deadpixi/rope/issues/2.)
Free speech absolutists are rarely consistent about absolutism within their own fiefdoms.

As far as I can tell, the only intellectual consistency within that movement is that the people pushing it want to be allowed to say anything they want anywhere they want, without any consequences.
it's not a "sudden" change there's no "first chicken", no "first human", no "last ape", no "first human that mated with last ape" either

just gradual diverging changes , and then at some point one branch is different enough from other branch that we call them separate species

so the answer to your connundrum is explaining your kid this, not explainign that a human mated with an ape

(ELI5)
32bit PAE was supported since Windows XP and initially allowed for more than 4GB of RAM to be supported, but driver issues made Microsoft put a soft-cap in 4GB under this mode[0]. But Win7 32 bits with PAE would've surely been able to use all of those 4GB fine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension#Mic...
This is what doctors call "the honeymoon phase", and it can happen with various drugs and supplements.

If it stops working, and you can't reproduce it the second or third time, then it's probably better to give up and look for another solution.
There is no indication that the persons who drafted the letter were "incomplete and/or lazy", nor was that the pretext given by SpaceX management.
You don't have to follow Elon's Twitter.

However you do have to be in work channels, and this group of people sent the unsolicited letter in those channels.

And now we're all having to talk about the letter.
I subscribed to every car magazine back in the day, and I've always wondered about this.

I found the link in the article to interesting as well, even if it's basically just the same information (there's also a podcast). [0]

Though I'd like to learn more about the actual patterns employed, I also found from a quick search to be interesting, too. [1]

>Most BMW prototypes go through three camouflage levels. The first is the full fairing, in which hard shells are screwed on, other headlights are mounted and large parts of the car are covered with stickers. In the second stage, only distinctive features typical of the series are covered with foil, underneath are always the headlights and often the rear as well as lines on the side or the bonnet. The last stage is then the model ready for series production, which will later also be available from dealers. In principle, the 'propeller', the BMW emblem, remains hidden until the last moment. Because of this one detail, the almost undisguised car is considered an Erlkönig right up to the end.

[0] - https://www.bmw.com/en/automotive-life/prototype-cars.html

[1] - https://topgear-autoguide.com/category/traffic/erlkonig-camo...
But forums did have better moderation and actively prevented flame wars. Social media quite literally encourages flame wars on a societal/global scale.
This seems right to me, though I will observe that if you joined an Elon Musk company 5 years ago, then you were joining a company whose head presented a very different public persona than he does now. It's an understandable situation that some folks ended up loving a company but finding the CEO's 2022 public persona objectionable and diminishing of the company.

Given the choice between "just leave" or "state my concerns about the company I believed in", I might do the latter. What does one have to lose in that case?
What I'm saying is that I think the open letter's attack on Musk was also a simple personal grievance. The signatories don't like Musk, they're distracted and embarrassed by his Tweets, so they demand that the company denounce him. (The letter said more than that, but if broader systemic reforms were their primary goal, why include an inflammatory attack on one specific executive?)
I don’t think we should be building more SFH in BFE. We need to be building more high density in our cities. That would actually alleviate the pressure and increase quality of life while lowering tax burden for everyone.
The employees specifically criticized Musk as being a 'distraction' due to his recent antics, and now they're being fired for not 'staying focused'
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Disclaimer: I know someone who works there. These are meant for ocean deployment, right now I believe they mostly use them in locations with somewhat tempered wave conditions like atolls and bays. It's a floating grid structure that holds the panels a few feet above the water. I don't work there myself, for cost estimates,... you'd have to contact them.
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His actions show that he considers calling someone a child molester to be acceptable speech so it isn't too much to think that much more polite speech he would not have an issue with.
> Tesla has significantly higher margins per vehicle than all other major automakers, including Toyota.

I feel like this is because they charge BMW prices for less than Honda quality, especially with the Model 3. Maybe they can keep this up, but we’ll see. Tesla tech is certainly better than most if not all and is a huge selling point.
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Again, you’re simply wrong.

https://www.shacknews.com/article/128660/amazon-amzn-aws-rev...

17.78B in 2021, or $11k per employee.

That’s less than 10% of the per employee profit.

Amazon can increase wages without raising prices.
That’s an incredible stretch of the definition.

The other parties are other parties besides the buyer and seller.

> Moreover, even if you want to limit externalities to being completely third-party... sure: Pollution. More electrical generation capacity needed.

^this is an externality, everything else is just a poor understanding of the concept.
Conversely, could this not describe Musk's/SpaceX's response to this: complaining about a letter rather than working with them?

I don't think anyone has accused the letter writers of not getting their job done. So far it seems this is all about the boss having a thin skin.
I don't know what to tell you, every legal training I've ever had has said that capricious application of workplace policies and playing favorites is a good way to land oneself into an NLRB discussion. And that the NLRB, juries, and courts tend to bias towards workers.
and how do they plan on bringing all of them? There are 85,000 new H1B visas in a given year, and they cannot be used for warehouse workers. The work visas are mainly for white collar jobs, and the only way then can bring a ton of foreign workers is from Amazon offices overseas, via the L-1 work visa, and that is not that easy since they need to maintain headcount to support the use of Amazon services in those countries.
I think everyone probably needs some internet at home, but at this stage I think smartphones should be illegal or at least heavily taxed and regulated like alcohol.
Did you read the letter? No where does it tell musk to go fuck himself. That’s your characterization.

I read the letter, and thought it was reasonable. If it was my company, I would allow it. Been a founder several times, so that’s not just wild speculation. The only way to get your reading of it is if you have super thin skin and can’t take any criticism.
It struck me last time I was in US (I'm from UK) how few properties have solar panels on the roof. I wonder why that is? Cheaper energy? Roughly 1 in 30 homes have solar installed in the UK (https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/solar-panels/popularity-of-s...) though I can't lay my hands on stats for US.
I don't see why it is hypocritical.

I am pro free speech, but would never dream of using company resources to try to publicly embarrass my CEO. And certainly not when the issue at hand is not related to company performance.

> would be scared to go to mars with this guy.

Anyone who is against Musk will add this to their litany of complaints. Anyone who loves him will be baffled why this is a story ;)

As an aside, even negative publicity is publicity, and I imagine that this whole Twitter deal will lose Elon gobs of cash, but make his other companies more valuable. "Distancing themselves from Elon Musk", from a purely capitalist perspective, sounds like a bad bet.
The only criticism I have seen here of musk beside money is that hes right wing, not really a criticism.

Can you actually give an example of the criticism you claim to see or do you only have the claim?

Edit:

> I think people are just upset because he is rich

Thanks :)
Except... It is. There are a lot of contributions by KDE volunteers to Qt.
Even so, they're not protected against being fired -- circulating an internal letter criticizing leadership is, in a right to work state without existing workplace union agreements and outside of a whistleblower or other protected situation, enough to get you fired, though not fired for cause. Are the optics bad? Yes. Is it indicative that "free speech absolutist" Musk believes your right to speech ends where his feelings get hurt? Certainly! But there isn't much the employees can do other than claim unemployment and then bring their talents to a competitor.
You forgot DOGE
In SWE jobs, a lot of AWS teams are allowing remote, still not worth the ultra-crap culture.
Yes, my honest impression is that left-wing people generally (i.e., it's a very popular position on the left) wanted to lower the barrier for "asylum seekers" which implies admitting lots of people without respect to their educational background or skill (hence "mass immigration"). I didn't realize this was controversial (I thought everyone agreed that this is a popular position on the left). This also isn't a value judgment--a conservative might look at that and see unintended consequences (a burden on social services, wage suppression, etc) but a progressive might look at that and see nobility ("Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" etc).
Purchasing Verbatim purple bottom CDR blanks to copy original PSX games was my introduction to piracy. I was quite young. Those first gen Playstations with the port in the back were amazing easy to mod with the action replay or just the swap trick.

I also jumped on the XBMC and Xecutor modchip for the original Xbox when that came out. Another mind blowing time in computer gaming.
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I don’t hear anyone talking, let alone complaining, about Satya tweets, or Cook tweets, or Zuckerberg tweets, or any other CEO. I don’t hear people discussing publicity stunts performed by CEOs not named Elon Musk. I get that you’re trying to troll but you’re not trying hard enough.
I would not work for Amazon unless my life depended on it (and even then I would have to think twice) but I have to say (reluctantly) that as a customer, both retail and AWS, I absolutely love them. The power that Amazon is acquiring scares the hell out of me, but at the same time, when I need to buy some random thing, no one else even comes close in terms of convenience and reliability. Sometimes I will make an effort to buy direct from a vendor, but more often than not the experience is so horrible that I go right back to Amazon.
Requirements.

The hardest part of any software project is getting people to know what they want.

Nocode tools won't save you unless you build a Nocode tool that correctly assesses business requirements.
Is that why I get recruiter emails almost daily?
Don't be daft. The lawsuit that names SpaceX for billions in damages is a problem for SpaceX.
We all know what would actually happen in this situation. A bunch of angry Musk fans would claim that it's made up, the papers are fake, that they're a political hitjob etc followed by self-made investigators harassing her at every step. Or Musk would just hire another detective to follow her around and call her a pedophile as he seems to do whenever someone gets visible enough.

There is no level of evidence that would meet standards, and the reason why this became a 'political shitshow' was because Musk caught wind of the story ahead of time and as powerful people often do, tried to spin it into an us-vs-them story.
“Priced in” means that the full social cost is reflected in the price.

A window sticker is not “pricing in” the externality.
That wasn't from Elon....it was from Shotwell (SpaceX president).
I wouldn't take the statement at face value. Most laptops base on 11th-gen Core and later Intel CPUs use LPDDR4x, just like the M1. It's not rare at all. It is the reference design from Intel.
It's worth noting that this is such an old problem that traditional news-writing styles incorporate a solution: they require that the author cram the most important info into the first few sentences, then expand on it for the rest of the article.

I'm not sure how well it's followed these days, and I'm sure that few places other than very traditional news publishers enforce it at all. Old archival newspapers (think 19th and early 20th century) tend to be entirely in this style, though.
Which, in itself, is a damning statement.
Let's clarify definitions, shall we? Quoting from https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/working-conditions I find:

Working Conditions means the conditions under which the work of an employee is performed, including physical or psychological factors.

The things that that letter discusses affects the psychological factors of the work. Committing to making people feel included, defining what toxic behavior will not be accepted, and so on.

Your linked definition includes in working conditions, "...all existing circumstances affecting labor in the workplace." This fits with the definition that I gave - the behaviors that you have to put up with from coworkers affects labor in the workplace.
> Who cares about "karma" anyway?

Until you can't post in your favorite subreddit because it has a minimum threshold.
IBM has (had?) a quantum course? Was it a free online course? And if one wants to take it for curiosity and not expecting to use the skills (immediately although maybe in the future) would you recommend it?
I've owned TSLA stock for over a decade, and I believe in the company, but I find Musk increasingly distasteful. If I had sold the last time it was over $1,000... of course that's the silly wishful thinking we all do in a contraction/correction, but goddamn, I want him out of my life.

I've already sold some of it, just to assuage my conscience a little (as well as lock in some of my profits). The next good opportunity to get out, I will, regardless of my belief that the company could well be worth $2,000 a share. It's just not worth being associated with such a terrible human being.