skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly, the rumor about layoffs ahead of vesting said he was going to do it before Nov 1st. That part at least, seems to have just been a rumor.
I’ve tried a few of these, and right now betteruptime gets my money :-)
I've been to the railway museum a lot (my son is a train nut), and in my experience it's just a regular train, not a historic one.
> I am looking for useful projects that do something useful for users who can't give a damn what language the project is written in.

the note taking app I use is a fairly popular clojurescript project, first thing that came to mind. https://github.com/logseq/logseq

In general Clojure is pretty popular in particular on the backend. Nubank is I think primarily using Clojure, but Walmart, Atlassian and a bunch of other big companies do to.
I don't know what it's called or if it's commonly available but I saw a video of a fridge where the shelves are metal racks that can be raised up out of the fridge, so they are easily accessible. The air itself mostly stays in the fridge.
Check the datasheet for the fridge compressor. Some models are designed to run in two orientations. If you're very lucky, the other orientation for your compressor will be 'on its back'.

If you run the compressor in an orientation it isn't designed for, the motor will get 'liquid slugging', which is unrecoverable - you'll need to buy a new fridge.
I hope so. I posted for the sake of people who (like past me) took the "don't tell yourself a story" advice too far. Turns out if possible, you want to root cause your issues before dismissing. :)
Out of curiosity what do you think is a reasonable number?
Disagree. It's like someone posting an article about how amazing horse hair toothbrushes are and someone else comes along and points out why the world has largely moved on.

The usability issues with chest freezers are real and it's quite likely that a big portion of the energy savings is because the chest freezers in question don't do auto defrost. Plenty of people really don't want to deal with regularly emptying everything out to let all the ice buildup melt.
That's not a good strategy either if users notice you're doing it, because they just won't use the app. There's better ones:

- attract new users; there's new 20 year olds every day.

- move into related niches, like finding friends, where it actually is fine to keep using the app after you meet someone. (Or polycules.)

- move into cheating, mistresses etc, where people will secretly keep using it and not tell anyone.

I think IAC/Match does try the evil way, but that only works as long as you can keep buying out new dating apps. It's not like there's a moat.
Cyber and information security: have we all gone mad? [pdf]
The point was the OS, that is what let you run workstation software of the time.

Being able to add a lot (for the time) of RAM was important too, your A310 doesn't seem to be able to have 16MB.

EDIT: This is a thread about UNIX.
Why don't you ask them and tell us instead of speculating? ;)

There are specific reasons depending on the project context.
Scientific method has so many pen names: OODA loop, Deming cycle…
The amount of work it takes to decode an image is incredibly tiny by today's standards: https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash/blob/master/C/decode.c
> layoffs were being mentioned before Musk

does that mean anything? (especially "mention" seems to carry no predictive value here.) were layoffs mentioned for years and nothing happened? were they put on hold because the ex-CEO wanted Musk to take the blame?
How much food is needed for an ant a year?
I'm not going to say scheduling is better or worse on different platforms, but it is clearly different.

When I tried to port the (at that time) new, open-source version of .NET Core to FreeBSD, one of the things which I simply couldn't fix in the .NET framework code itself was threading. For one, I had to (for some reason, don't remember now) use non-posix threading-functions to make it compile. But even with that in place, things weren't behaving as expected.

I mean... Threading worked, but .NET had a fairly big test-suite which was very opinionated about what sort of behaviour and performance characteristics different kind of threading-scenarios and threading-primitives should have.

On FreeBSD I was forced to extend time-outs and outright disable some tests to make the build pass.
That email went out to all employees, not just the ones that were laid off.
I have a chest freezer in the garage.

It’s great, it costs very little to run.

But it’s a beast to organize.

For a while we had piles of loose frozen things, which eventually got all mixed up, so we had no idea what was hiding in there.

Now I have some plastic crates stacked inside - but the bottom level is a mystery bc nobody’s ever wants to lift out a 20lb crate to see what lies beneath.
The price per read (most people don't re-read most books they buy... if they even read them through once) is dramatically lower even for ebooks which have separate licensing. In the case of printed books, because the right of first sale keeps primary and wholesale markets roughly in line between readers buying retail and libraries buying retail, the price per read is even lower... propped up only due to the incidental problem of books wearing out on average after 10-20 loan-outs. If people took better care of physical library books, the price per read would approach zero.

Perhaps more importantly, the cost of books in libraries is not assigned based on the number of books checked out or read. It tends to be people in lower and lower-middle economic classes who use libraries more, even while they pay less than the per-capita average cost to keep those libraries running and their shelves stocked.

Libraries are communist entities. Even worse than that, from a capitalist perspective, although checking out books requires you to be connected with the tax base or funding source for the library, you can generally go to any public or academic library and read books on-site even if you're from another country or planet and aren't entitled to check anything out.
It is new. Was just released in September.

https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/whatsapp-bring...
Are you saying musk’s role in SpaceX and Tesla is as an investor? That seems so disingenuous that it’s impossible not to conclude this post is purely emotional.

If you hate Musk, fine, but please just stick to the facts and articulate why you hate him.

I don’t understand why there is so much emotion around Musk. He has done good things and bad things. He has done incredible, near possible things. He works ridiculously hard. He’s rich. He has said and posted things he shouldn’t. I don’t feel that I am in a position to say he is a terrible person. I don’t even know the guy. I wouldn’t want to live in a world without SpaceX and Tesla. I am genuinely fascinated by this hatred.

I’ve tried to compile a list of why people might hate him:

- posted a conspiracy theory on Twitter (which he did then delete)

- childishly insulted a diver

- is a shameless self promoter

- fires staff brutally

- makes huge and sometimes
unreasonable demands on his workforce

- disagreed with covid policy, partly on the argument that the fatality rate is low and there’s not much you can really do about it

Ok, these are bad. But he’s hated as if he is the new Hitler. I don’t get it. I’d really appreciate it if someone could rationally explain why Elon is deserving of such great hatred.
If you want to envisage such a future for a dystopian novel or something like that, just imagine this wild fantasy:

1. Imagine a world where all the major online spaces - twitter, reddit, facebook, tumblr, HN, tiktok, instagram, youtube, twitch, slack, and discord and so on are privately owned. As are skype, zoom and google meet. Imagine a world where you can't even send e-mails if private companies don't like your 'sender reputation'.

2. Then imagine a world where all Radio and TV channels, newspapers and billboards are owned by private corporations. Maybe they're even owned by a tiny number of corporations, with specific political leanings.

3. Then fantasise that universities and similar venues for public speaking are a law unto themselves, and are within their rights to choose who they invite to speak.

4. Imagine a world of rising land values and increasing urbanisation, where only the absolute richest people could hold an event of any scale on land they own themselves.

5. Then imagine a world where public squares and parks in cities increasingly in private ownership. Perhaps city hall is sold to an investment firm who lease it back to the city. As it's private land, private security can move anyone on for 'unacceptable behaviour'.

6. There's still a risk some free speech would happen on public roads - we probably can't transfer those to private companies. We'll have to use the state's power here and arrest them - but don't worry, it's not a free speech issue. They were, uh, obstructing ambulance traffic. Or we could just make it legal for motorists to drive into people and let nature take it's course.

Thank goodness such an absurd fiction could never happen in real life :)
Is this library the way to go when I have the following needs?
1. Login to SaaS via website and later use an access token to authorize against a graphql api?
2. Login programmatically so an access token can be retrieved and used for REST queries.
3. Does (2) work if the client is a pure oauth2 client (not an oidc client)?
4. Is the library recommended in a tenant based SaaS (like MS Azure)?
I have seen multiple people making decision of "this place pays more, but the environment looks toxic" or "this place pays more, but the business seems borderline unethical" and taking lower offer. I think that is why famous toxic places had to have very high salaries - cause the people were not interested otherwise.
No it's not. This is Facebook PR.
There's also laws like that in the US, and in most places. However, it seems this is being overlooked because it's not really for the purpose of creating a monopoly, as everyone is doing this, as it's actually just to get consumers' feet in the door to the ecosystem/platform.
Which is exactly the EEE technique, “patented” by Microsoft: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...

If GitHub, VS code, an MS Linux, and perhaps somehow LinkedIn, prove to be a joint front to EEE the F/OSS community, what can I say...

Seems somewhat unlikely though, given the number of allowances that must be made for that to hold true.
If someone's signing into a mobile app, quite a good backup option for magic links is to show a QR code containing the current URL, on the callback URL.

Assuming you're using universal app links, if they open it on a device with the app installed, it'll go straight there. If not, it'll show the QR code and the user can just scan that with their default camera app on the device they're trying to use.
Article claims the chest fridge is 10-20x more efficient, how does that work?
https://graphmetrix.com
Nah you need at least 40mpx to be a pro /s
Yeah, that's why they all avoid working at Apple, Google etc because those companies illegally conspired to keep their salaries down.
> I couldn't see many massive wins over my go-to Python.

A massive win over Python I get is performance! The performance of SBCL or another good implementation beats Python hands down. And I don't have to lose anything to gain that performance. The syntax is much cleaner and more enjoyable than Python. Quicklisp provides a wide variety of packages that I can use to build software. So it has the advantages of Python and superior performance.
Why does it warm your heart?
> It isn't one of their core competencies though.

Putting the "what will our users think" question in an ethical framing is not obviously (to me) going to benefit users. (Especially when modern fashionable ethics centers around utilitarian normative ethics, but that's besides the point.)
Are we reading the same thread? I see tons of comments here criticizing Stripe for this layoff.
Easily fakeable and abusers still use bad ones. The bar is barely above the floor.
All very solvable problems. Short people can get a stand, people with disabilities can get something appropriate too(depending on the disability).

For cleaning, you can have paper at the bottom and just remove the paper when something messy happens.

To see what's inside and to store items hard to stack you can put basic wire shelves inside it.
Well it's less pejorative than "white tech bros" which encompasses an even broader range of cultural variations.
Am I the only one who found the physical unit of kWh/day really confusing?

If there's anyone else like me who prefers Watts, this equates to an average power consumption of slightly over 4W (100watt*h over 24 hours).
Twitter to employees today: 'If in office or on your way, please return home'
> in the US and less civilized countries

Going to have a hard time finding some goodwill when you refer to other countries as "less civilized". A tad hypocritical.
> I wonder if we'll go the way of Japan, where virtual girlfriends and virtual social lives are increasingly seen as a better option then real life relationships.

That's overstated. Japanese people weren't into relationships because their economy was bad, which made them not marriage material. (They still had sex though, just not relationships.)

It's improved a little; you don't hear so much about hopeless otaku anymore and the birth rate has gone up slightly.
Yeah, the Warn Act doesn’t require you let them work for 60 days. If it’s triggered, it just means you have to pay them for 60 days. It is very common to not let them work, particularly when concerned about sabotage.
In a recent Tweet reply, Elon says that there are 10 people managing for 1 person coding.

Based on my experience in a 2nd tier SV company I believe this to be true
It is still never nice to lose your job, especially if you have a mortgage matching based on your 200K salary.
Musk is capricious, cruel, and clueless in general.
There's definitely ways for them to save money. I heard a rumour some time ago that after Twitter switched to the free/open source Graal JVM JIT compiler it saved them quite a bit of CPU time. Then they did the calculations to see how much they'd save if they licensed Graal Enterprise which is better at optimizing, and it was supposedly well worth it even when taking the licensing costs into account. No lockin, because it's just compiler optimizations.

But, they said no. They decided they'd rather spend more on hardware and pay interns to work on the open source version than pay for a better compiler, because, open source.

That seemed like a very clear and objective example of where they preferred to spend money on increased headcount vs what was maybe the most cost-efficient business decision. I wonder how many more examples like there are lurking in the corners.
People in wheelchairs, children and shorter people are also unable to reach the upper areas of vertical fridges.

So what should we do - ban vertical fridges? Ban vertical fridges higher than the size of a small child?
Many will be fine, there also may be many who will not. Not everyone makes that much at twitter, not everyone is in a role that is competitive right now. The ones who make the least are the ones who will suffer the most. Stop being callous.
Sure, that's solid policy, but I'm not sure it really addresses the "tribal knowledge" issue per se.

I mean, I'd like to think that fixing reliability issues increases knowledge, but decades on multithreaded codebases littered with "sleep(0); // just in case" point in a different direction.

All I've found to work so far is a deliberate attempt to shift to more active knowledge sharing. I was hoping to learn a few new tricks from OP, but "reliability freezes" are not it, based on my experience.
> But if you do that, it's not safe!

static_cast does narrowing foor the case mentioned. reinterpret_cast would just reinterpret the same bit pattern as another type.

Whether it is equivalent or not is another story. For example, casting a float to an int will narrow but also will convert the internal format.

You can catch some overflow by {} initialization.
> Like, just con Elon Musk out of his billions, why hasn't anyone done that yet if it is so easy to trick humans?

Like getting him to spend $44 billion for Twitter?

(An ex of mine is convinced that Musk is a con artist, but she's also a literal card carrying anarcho-communist; I'm not that cynical about Musk).

Even at a lower level, I had my bank[0] call up and tell me there was too much money in my account and they'd really recommend a wealth management consultation to avoid me being scammed, and that wasn't even £100k.

That said, I was thinking mainly of street cons — shell games, possibly even shoplifting and pickpocketing — as the previous discussion was about optical illusions. Business level scams are about a broader category of cognitive bias, and I'd say almost all gambling is that type of thing, likewise bitcoin, dulce et decorum est, and populist politics.

[0] or at least they said they were, but I said no before getting to the point where asking for proof the call wasn't itself a scam would've been useful
I turned $15,000 into $1.2M during the pandemic
This article format is very pleasant to read I think!
I guess Datomic is the most mature system, which uses a persistent in-memory index structure, mapped to a common on-disk storage system.

That said, nowadays it should probably be possible to store the persistent data structure in a log-structured file for instance and to make use of fast random-reads of enterprise PCIe SSDs without the indirection of another data store / index to traverse for each index page.
I’m talking about actual, legit bots. Facebook, Instagram, all those search engine crawlers. Those follow all kinds of links, including ads, and then go and annoy us and the advertisers by counting as "fake traffic".

Google is/was (we wrote our own simplified adserver, only using AdManager for the agencies that require it, so I’m not sure how much things changed in the last two years) not only happy letting those through, they even send their own, it was so bad that we redirected all links through our site where we filtered all Google IP ranges (because, of course, whatever they used did not have a proper bot UA) that we could find to block them and stop sending 1000s of fake visits to the advertiser every day.
My GP has extra qualifications hanging on the wall for things like minor surgery, ear syringing, that kind of thing. Others near me would mention things like asthma treatment on the website. Beyond that kind of stuff you're not really dealing with General Practice anymore.

Genetics and psychology in particular seem way too specialised for a GP to be able to offer in any serious way. It's their job (for better or for worse) to refer you to the specialists once you need/want something outside of what a GP generally offers.
Which is a large reason why people in Europe are so much poorer than US, and not getting any richer either over time (in contrast to the US).

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/xgoouz/americans_ha...
That’s not the point. Dignity and respect. Going in a different direction? Fine. Make cuts. But, no one deserves to be treated as disposable playthings. Zero communication and unreasonable demands create anxiety. Contrast this to stripe. I fail to see how one’s income determines the respect they should receive.
Flowering carrots
Given that Twitter the company owes $12bn to Morgan Stanley, that will be a serious problem for them.
Twitter’s cultural significance is almost net negative. It has been a vehicle for divisiveness and culture wars and not only a vehicle but a self driving one if you catch my drift.
I just don’t understand that. It is very common to give the layoff notice on the date of termination and to then pay them for 60 days. That complies with the Warn Act. I’m not a California lawyer, it that must be true there too. There’s no way they’d make you bring in hostile workers.
Store what? The BlurHash ?
Are you perhaps implying programming languages are chosen on technical merits?
https://www.cultofmac.com/448147/today-apple-history-michael...

October 6, 1997: Michael Dell makes an infamously bleak appraisal of Apple’s fortunes. Asked what he would do with the struggling company, the founder of Dell Inc. says he would “shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
Recompilation Avoidance in Rules_Haskell
Does that mean if anyone posted my open source project to GitHub, I can fill a DCMA takedown request regardless of the license I chose?
With appliances kWh/day is useful since you count costs in kWh
> They're not 'forcing' you to do anything, they're offering to pay you to do it.

And if you refuse to work you are not 'forced' to become homeless and have no healthcare?
The personal financial security shouldn't be provided by corporations, is your problem, so you should be the one who solve it, if you want financial security just make sure you are highly employable at any point.

Most people fired from Twitter will find a new job without problem and if they can't, is their problem, not mine.
My apologies, it might have been more accurate to say "in the US and similarly uncivilized countries".
We made such chest fridge from an old freezer, and have been using it for almost a year now. The floor space it takes isn't that concerning, as it doubles as a counter top. It really is very efficient.

The only problem we have is humidity. With everyday use, a lot of condensed water gets stuck inside, the humidity goes near 100 % and the moulds really like that.

We tried many things, including making a drain hole inside, but nothing helped. We "solved" it with putting 1 kg of adsorbent (silica gel) on the bottom. It lasts about two months between regenerations, so it is quite usable this way.
Op is saying that making healthcare dependent on employment is the mark of an uncivilized country. It's not a blanket dismissal of other countries.
The ruling class before capitalism was not capitalist — the nature of property rights in land was very different under feudalism than it is under capitalism.
Well, the thing is you can easily calculate your energy expense or your battery storage, given its calculated in watts/hour.
That probably very much depends how often you open it. If you open the vertical fridge often then the difference might be larger. Vertical fridges in supermarkets are a crime IMHO.
You need ethics as soon as you start dealing with privileged access to public’s data.
It's okay to feel bad for people who lose their jobs. But business cycles are important for a healthy economy. Unsustainable ventures need to die or be pruned at some point if you want to generate lasting prosperity. Whether this specific instance actually serves to create a more productive and more dynamic company remains to be seen, and it sucks for the people affected, but if they're skilled and useful – as every person should always strive to be – they'll be fine.

It sounds heartless, but it's the reality.
I dont think it would make you sharp. It would train you for ugly politics, back stabbing and general chaos. But it would not train you for good performance. You can actually hide incompetence very well in chaotic companies if you can talk well and take others credit. And competence without political clout gets punished (because it is easy).

Being sharp as in the positive performance terms requires sharp leadership and decision making. It means leadership that actually knows what is going on and that requires trust. That is not the same as rage layoff after you impulse bought company you dont want while trolling on social medias.
pretty standard in german households
What shaming? A candidate likely to job-hop is just less valuable.