skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Twilio had 7,867 employees as of Dec. 31, 2021.

Every single layoff story stupefies me. Confuses. Flabbergasts.

What are these companies doing with so many people? What are they doing? Like, what are their day-to-day tasks?

My employer has more people but we build nuclear reactors and spacecraft. Our revenue per employee is nearly double Twilio's and is low for a "tech" firm due to the extremely high capital costs and labor-intensive nature of our work.

Nearly 8,000 people (surely, 8,000 with contractors) to build an SMS and VOIP marketing spam, sorry, ahem, communications, platform?

Are they all in marketing or customer support?

It is incomprehensible.
Yes, the distribution package is built with `cargo deb`, which automatically makes a suitable binary package. It doesn't need Rust in production. Rust's standard library is compiled into the executable. Its size is negligible, especially with link-time-optimizations.
As a sysadmin I always feel maybe a bit callous when I read the:

> We have four priorities for reaching profitability and leading in customer engagement: Investing in our platform reliability and trust, increasing the profitability of messaging...

TLDR: "We're keeping all the sysadmins and firing all the developers who don't turn the crank on revenue".

My whole career is about pushing the DevOps kool-aide for reliability and cohesion and velocity and blah blah blah. What are devops skills really good for for developers? Job security.
Surely that depends on exactly how much it has changed and how much variation is usually present. If a metric that has been 5 +/- 1 for years suddenly reads 500 after a new release, it might be worth looking into.
This reads as meta-contrarianism (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9kcTNWopvXFncXgPy/intellectu...).

The obvious position is that people can believe whatever they want. The contrarian position is that religion is bad. The meta-contrarian take is that religion is good. It seems the way that you are comparing arguments here is based on the subtleness of the effect rather than its magnitude.
I don't think there was one when Spotify went down a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603574
Ehe I've yet another perception, I remember eclipse was what everyone used in my circles back then, mostly because it was the ide used for university courses.

Then forte died of acquisition, forte for Java bombed and NetBeans took over some interesting "4gen" features, so like given a table he would go and create the whole crud in swing on top. For a while it seemed to grow strongly but then eclipse opening up rcp fagocitated all thick client projects and NetBeans was left to dry.

It was almost 20yr ago so the time line is fuzzy, but this is how I recall it.
I mean, yeah, honestly it's not a reasonable expectation with consumer accounts to be able to transfer large amounts of money same-day and then be able to withdraw them immediately.

Established businesses can do that because it's routine and not prone to fraud. Consumers can't simply because so many red flags for fraud risk get raised.

Yes you can transfer your money to whoever you want, but it's also always going to take up to 24-48 hours to do, and up to 2 weeks to be able to cash out. It's fraud protection, and while it may be annoying, it's also understandable, and just something you need to be able to plan ahead for. Money isn't instantaneous except in small amounts, and this is by design.
Shareholders pay attention to how well a CEO steers a company over time and their outlook on whether it is the right person to lead the company. At least, that’s the theory, and they (shareholders) have that incentive given it is their investment at stake.
One of my reasons against getting an iOS device is that I won't be able to block YouTube ads.
That's really interesting. In the UK you can cross reference with the National Library of Scotland maps[1] which allows you to overlay quite a few different maps of an area over different time periods.

[1] London Kings Cross area with large rail yard to the north. By changing the transparency you can see things like ST Martins College and the new Coal Drops Yard development. The new British Library is also built over Somers Town Goods Depot.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=51.53529&lon=-0...
For these kinds of established markets, you basically have to be 5x+ better or 5x+ cheaper. Then it's fine if the product is effectively the same.
Seems like a language thing—I'd distinguish the initial "design" from the iterative "engineering". Of course, you could describe the latter as design, too, but it's an ambiguous word (like most words). The people taken by this clickbait aren't going to care which word is used.
Pony's a great language, but the implementation is badly managed. I.e. it's failed to gain adoption due to bad execution.
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Correction: they can host files. Most creators host their files somewhere else (e.g. youtube, dropbox, github, etc). You don't have to upload anything to Patreon.
Thank you, I made a GPT-3-generated podcast (https://deepdreams.stavros.io) and noticed a big drop in text quality with text-davinci-002. I thought it was me, but it's great that you confirm it.
"standard practice" ≠ forge-proof. That's the most absurd thing I've read today.
I think the implication is that Jeffrey Epstein made available to his "friends" the services of under-age girls that were sex-trafficed. Is there concrete evidence that Bill Gates had relations with these girls? No.

However, if he did then I would say that is worse than bundling two bits of software together, yes.

If he didn't then, your view could be correct however I note that it is unlikely he was completely unaware of what was happening.
> people can barely afford housing

Your scheduling is off. Right now we're attacking Biden for falling housing prices. We'll have to wait until prices start rising again to attack Biden for rising housing prices.
You are conflating "possibility of violence" with actual violence. Speech alone, in the format of threats and harassment and vague but menacing comments, already imply the possibility of violence.

The notion that Jews should just ignore threats and wait to be victims of actual violence is ridiculous.

And turning back to the digital realm, speech alone can be harmful. You can read many accounts from victims and researchers to know that digital ethnic cleaning can be achieved from a keyboard. The choice platforms face is whether to keep Nazis or the people they are working to drive off the platforms. From your comments, I get that you think they should prefer the Nazis, but I hope you can at least understand why platforms don't find that a good plan, either morally or financially.
>I wonder what race they deliberately targeted for these layoffs, with language like that.

What if, the meaning of “anti-racist” layoffs, is to fire all races equally?
> but really took off over the last few years with "step sibling" porn.

Even one of the Mortys in R&M made a wish that "inc*st porn have more a mainstream appeal." My partner both winced at that and said to each other, "Did he just say what I think he said?" So maybe I'm just too old and traditional (despite being queer)?
Oh look - he took full responsibility too! phew, that was close, guys!
Okay and the point here is that this wasn’t a college project thrown together in 5 days this was a military grade design outputted over a weekend.
Things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Funny that the site forces to be view on a desktop.
I kept trying to think of meaningful usage of this many layers of abstraction, and I can't find a use in my head where the three-deep decomposition adds value.

Knowing that the stuff you measure is often not the actual stuff you care about is an advanced bit of cognitive development, but does this level of formalism really help?
> A new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) study finds that hundreds of coal power plant sites across the country could be converted to nuclear power plant sites.

Not obvious from the headline.
I don't think this is why Google puts out mediocre products, FWIW. I think it's more that when something turns out after 6 months to be a bad idea, everyone's incentives are to spending another 12-18 months launching (or "landing") it so they can get promoted (and then change teams). Failing responsibly after 6 months isn't rewarded. (From what I'm told, Meta is better about this.)
The post mentions tokio, but I would be curious to see if it uses tower or something similar in house. For our product (caido.io) we also built a custom HTTP parser so if you open source the tool it could be nice to split the parsing in its own crate so we have an alternative to hyper that can understand malformed requests.
> multiple decades now

About half a century, in fact. There aren't many people still alive who can remember a time what it wasn't.
That is a very proxy-ish 'taking responsibility' that might never materialise though
As a Latino, I too am growing tired of the way some leadership and HR departments in tech callously, carelessly push and promote these diversity initiatives in a way that creates resentment. Combating racial bias is a sensitive topic. You'd have to be living under a rock to not know that. And yet companies continue to make statements like this without the tact it deserves.

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt, and say that they really were trying to fight inequity in the system. Instead of saying something like "Historically layoffs in tech have disproportionately affected minorities, pregnant women, and older employees. Here's a link to a study showing that data. With these layoffs we ensured that no group was affected unfairly", they just throw out the term anti-racist, and let the audience draw their own conclusions.

Because at the end of the day, making sure their layoffs don't unfairly target X or Y disadvantaged group--or really any group--is just doing the right thing. Why brag about the fact that your HR policies are not systemically flawed? It's as if you came home to your partner and proudly stated that on your drive back home you did NOT run over any elders or toddlers with your car. You're expected to do that. If anything taking credit makes people wonder.

In this case, it comes across as virtue signaling by Twilio's leadership. The same desire to curry favor when laying off people that makes CEOs tell their employees how hard the decision was for him or her. Trying to pat yourself in the back while announcing layoffs seems wildly tone-deaf to me. And at the expense of the groups they're allegedly trying to protect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837250
The source is available in several GitHub repos including at least one which claims to have updated the code to compile on modern systems.
Can we learn from German chimney sweeps?
And a white man in the wrong neighborhood isn't viewed with suspicion?
Doesn't apple own an ad network? You can't even restrict which apps are allowed to use the internet in the first place, which is a gaping security hole in the context of protecting you from the apps you have on your phone. They aren't exactly pro-privacy.
Mac. It's not an OS thing. And no, it's not a virus scanner or something silly like that. I've seen the behavior replicated on lots of machines; including laptops belonging to other people that claimed it was my setup that was the problem. You set it up right, you get about 2-3 orders of magnitude difference in performance between Intellij and Eclipse. It's just that people get used to it and actually seem to think five seconds is pretty fast. Trust me, I've heard all the excuses over the years. When you've seen 50ms, 5 seconds is an eternity.
Do you support the YouTubers you watch through the alternative channels then?
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> Though with a three week delay that's probably not what's happening here.

If a deposit is fraud, the banks are accountable to reverse it when discovered (inside applicable statutes of limitations for financial fraud), and you as account holder agreed to that when you signed up. Only rarely do banks on the ends have to eat the amount instead of one of the account holders.

No money given to you incorrectly through a bank is yours (unless your lawyers are better with more staying power than theirs, because in practice, contracts are basically irrelevant when litigated with sufficient will and skill).
good. unless we have proof it doesn't induce demand we should purge that kind of degeneracy from the internet where possible. the concerns around erotic plasticity are more than enough to warrant that and brains don't care if someone puts "*she's 150 yrs old btw" in fine print.

regardless it sounds like you're more salty about thus than interested in the article? or maybe i'm reading you wrong.
> the Mozilla position on...

Where does Mozilla's revenue come from? Are they an impartial 3rd party?
There's a difference between certain segments of society being racist and making racism your official company policy.
Death spiral = short lived

MLMs make billions, but they are still MLMs.
I keep hearing about falling housing prices but rent prices have only been increasing.
Just sent you a note.
Scale-to-Zero Minecraft Server with Terraform and Fly Machines
AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cnijfilter-ip1800series
(Arch uses PKGBUILDs, which are roughly bash shell scripts: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD)

If you read https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=cnijf..., you should be able to compile the 32-bit driver yourself and try and port stuff from there, but note that only parts of the driver are GPL2 and some are proprietary, and it's not entirely obvious which is which (though, from the looks of it, the prebuilt libraries are proprietary and everything with Makefile.am and autogen.sh is GPL2)
What does it matter? It's their job to run the business. If they decide they want 50% less staff, its their right and responsibility to make that change. If they realized they hired too many people, or hired too many incompetent people they can let them go. It has nothing to do with their salary or comp if their workforce isn't getting the job done or meeting the bottom line of the business. You as an employee can also leave at anytime. If the company is public (or even private with a strong board) if there is no faith in the CxO team they will be changed out.
>the crime is (certain) financial transactions.

So who is the counterparty then? The other random guy(s) who deposited the ETH you end up with?

Using the venmo analogy, it would be the actual venmo corporate computers EXECUTING the tornado cash program.

It seems a little odd to me here to not hold the people executing the transaction program accountable if it's on the sanction list explicitly noting TORNADO CASH is OFAC sanctioned. Remember those nodes running the ethereum virtual machine are validating and computing the transaction, and thus the entire foundation of ethereum would be guilty per your assessment, no?
> and nonmale candidates

This is hilarious in the context of white-collar work, considering that women absolutely dominate college degree issuance, and have for quite some time now.
Privacy of the system that has a centralized, open ledger as a primary feature? The only thing private about these systems is who owns any particular address. But once an address is pinned down to an entity, the entire history of that address is an open book.
Why is diversity hiring fine then? Can't see the difference
There's a nice tutorial, Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 hours [0] for writing a lisp interpreter in Haskell

[0] https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_4...
Text is easier for screen readers to read, easier for search engines to parse, easier for control-F to find, easier to copy and paste. Text is a better format for text, and this allows for companies to embed their logotype design as text with a specific font as opposed to incentivizing them to use an image.
They're alive and well in Northern Europe at least. I'd say a majority of contracting work is done through them since they somehow get exclusivity deals with big clients like H&M, Scania, SAAB and the like. They charge around 5-15% (almost always 10% though) of every invoice.

Before you balk at the number, consider that during my almost 5 years as a solo contractor I've spent _zero_ hours doing sales. None. When I want a new assignment I send one email and within a week or two I have a 6 month contract.
If the money from the loan is actually paid out to you, then it’s not too surprising that you need to give it back.
Maybe it's easier to add it to Gutenprint? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

It supports Pixma ip2000, so maybe it's not a huge change.

This describes how to add a new printer:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/reference-html/c199.html
If the CV joint can handle peeling out it can handle brake torque. The link between tire and ground is basically always the weak point.
Grab a copy of Linux Device Drivers by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman:

https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

Don't mind the document's age, the principles have largely remained unchanged. Besides, it's probably a better fit since you're targeting a device from 2007

I understand this may be kind of non-specific to what you were expecting, but it's the most rewarding way of achieving what you want and coming up much faster with a driver for an obscure device next time.
Creeping back up? Don’t see it here. https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts
What were the startup times like without AOT and how large/complex was your prototype?
Looks like a mind tree. Can it do proper graphs?
Whistleblower: China, India had agents working for Twitter
We are talking about platforms where the ads themselves caused users to leave. This is not what happened with Tumblr and it is not a good faith view to say so.
I wish there was a list. There's actually several companies that have announced layoffs over the past couple months.
I've been playing a lot of Vault of the Void, which is honestly mostly a mouse-only game on the Deck, but being able to map a few key keyboard shortcuts to the plethora of buttons makes it feel effectively the same.

Honestly, its more that it feels like a new input type entirely in a class of its own. I find I use it a lot to mix and match gamepad controls with keyboard shortcuts and mouse click-drag, sometimes all within the same game.

Noita has gamepad controls, but a lot of the interface works a lot better with mouse+keyboard. Deck lets me use gamepad controls for when my character is interacting with the environment, and use mouse+keyboard controls when I open my inventory. This wouldn't be realistic on another device, because the environment/world continues in the background even while you have your inventory open, so you need to be able to switch immediately from inventory management back to world-interaction.

Most games are like this: they rely heavily on one input, but being able to make use of the other inputs simultaneously gives you a ton of options.

The one class of game that I really enjoy but haven't tried yet is heavily-keyboard-focused games like some traditional roguelikes. Some, like Brogue, have a small enough control set that it would be pretty easy to map all the main keys, and supplement with mouse input for eg inventory selection. Many require more keys and don't allow mouse input, however. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead has something like FIFO keyboard shortcut for inventory items, and uses a-z plus several symbols; that would be pretty painful on Deck. I haven't played that in years though, so maybe would be better today. I've been seriously meaning to try Cogmind or Caves of Qud on the Deck, though.
We can blame RMS for inspiring business to react to him with Open Source, but he started Free Software.
All the 3 are immediate implications of that statement.

The belief that individuals were affected due to their race, etc will almost certainly be pervasive because the upper management claimed that it's what happened. And that will be despite the fact that upper management is almost certainly not competent enough to decide on the competence of the people they are laying off (they never are).
This is not going to be a pretty thread. Hopefully we can keep this civil and maybe move the conversation forward, as this could be a big tipping point in the landscape wrt DEI.
A month ago a man in Lebanon did the same and was considered a national hero:

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/16/1117658776/lebanon-bank-hosta...

(also mentioned in OP's article, but some people don't or can't read the article)
I wonder what their internal stats look like. Both my wife and I like watching films on a laptop while curled up in bed. I know my daughter watches on her laptop in her room when she wants to watch something alone. But we might be the only three.
On Engineering Management
Yes, "every day" and "everyday" have not-quite-the-same meaning.
Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=write+yourself+a+scheme
will they consent to this implant? doesn't seem likely. and if not are you really so sure about the ehics of forced medical procedures? seems wrong to me.
Is 7.5% still the maximum after reallocation?
true or not, those statements would create that perception.
Oh I misread your original post, sorry about that.

So your belief is that affirmative action in college admissions is the defining factor in race inequality, even though the vast majority of the structural disadvantages happen much younger?

Remember that this is the American society that upon integration decided over and over again they'd rather fill public pools with cement than have them shared between white and black children.

You don't believe those same barriers carried over to housing and schools? You just ignore the data and massive, persistent wealth gaps?
I believe they mean spokes as opposed to "wheels with other spokes", i.e. leaves vs trees.

The best dependency trees are as short and wide as possible. It means fewer changes with each upgrade, fewer chances of conflicts between them, and generally more-parallel compilation and better build caching.

Which is true in every language, but every community seems to need to relearn it from scratch.
Dodge K-cars were well known and succesful. They were also utter shit. Plenty of FOSS projects are of low quality but get adopted because they fulfil a need. Some dont age well. Some have poor docs. Some have insufferable interfaces. It's ok to call them shit. All code is shit anyway. Its just the smell ratio that varies.
I agree just stating that governments won’t be worse because of this.
I absolutely do not endorse the Trump Republicans' crazytown.

But if you can't see that there's a lot of authoritarianism on the left as well, you are part of the problem. At the moment, there's much more of a threat from the right - an authoritarianism that's a much bigger part of the party's officeholders, voters, and party apparatus. At the moment. So don't sleep on the Democrats' potential for authoritarianism. It's there, even if latent. Worse, it may become more active, because "We have to fight off Trump! He's a threat to the existence of our democracy!" So they feel they have license to do anything necessary to win...

(But the voters may not see it that way, or more precisely may not feel it that way. You vote twice every four years, but you go out of your house most days. Restrictions on what you can do, who you can meet with, and whether you have to mask felt more intrusive to many people than restrictions on voting rights. Or so I suspect.)
Google sent me 3 Nest Wi-Fi’s when one broke and I called their support. They just kept coming over and over
>>even then I don't think they would anticipated it.

It is in their 8-K filing to the SEC, how could it not be anticipated that would be public?

>Although it might read like something else

because the way you are using "Anti-Racism" is not the same as what the wider public know to be the "Anti-Racism" popularized by Ibram Kendi which is much more than just "not racist" or not biased as you claim here