skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this.... replaces the use of DHCP with a static file rewriter on boot, OK, why is this recommended in general, should we expect DHCP to have ongoing issues that their "network helper" would not ?
Why isn't the US doing this?
that's what I said, "enable"
> But the real pressure for cost cutting and the layoffs is that Musk purchased Twitter via a leveraged buyout

You think that if he paid completely up front he wouldn't care about cutting costs? Why? The pressure would still be there -- it would just be in the form of pressure to recoup his investment
Great idea! Thanks for the advice!

Do you know of any famous HR conferences in the US?
Interesting perspective on the binge and purge, definitely agree that the older model of entertainment makes a lot more sense (hence why these other streaming sites are reverting to it). I read about the tyranny of spend on content creation a while ago, and relates to that point of Netflix's need to keep making stuff to stay relevant. Some other great nuggets in there
i used to work on rockets and now i work in software, so i think i'm pretty qualified to say that you have no idea what you're talking about.
I'd agree with you generally, but I think in the spirit of this very specific discussion we're on, downvoting any comments that goes against the status quo seems disingenuous. It's like those unpopular opinion questions on reddit. Someone actually posts one and they are downvoted.
Most of Musk's net worth is held in stock. You can sell stock, but then you have to pay taxes and relinquish ownership rights that those stocks grant.

So he might have had to sell ~$20B in stock to pay that extra $13B.
Were they, though? Or would Twitter have employed the standard Big Tech response, which is to immediately terminate anyone who does the barest amount of serious organizing?
While this is a nice project, it's basically just simple web scraping. I was hoping for something a bit more interesting, like decoding the radio signals for the bus stop displays[0] and using that data. If it's available from an API it of course makes more sense to use that though.

[0] https://www.windytan.com/2013/11/decoding-radio-controlled-b...
It is worth noting that Windham New Hampshire had a case of actual vote miscounting in the 2020 election- though not the presidential election- and the miscounts did not change the results. The Democrat who lost the race is the one who requested the recount (and the recount favored the Republican candidates who won).

See https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-hampshire-voting...

https://www.concordmonitor.com/voting-machines-nh-new-hampsh...

The news of this has of course been buried under all of the false claims of voter fraud from the 2020 presidential election.

So it is not surprising that New Hampshire would be looking at a new approach to voting machine technology.
There are libraries like tensorflow and PyTorch that allow the user to define their neural net in simple, readable Python code, and they internally "compile" and optimize your neural net to run on GPUs and such.

Tinygrad is like a very, very lean PyTorch with a different philosophy -- it intends to keep the codebase and API surface very very small and focus most of its energy on optimizing the way the output neural net runs on physical hardware.

The author, George Hotz, has observed in the last few years that neural net performance is hindered by lack of optimization here, particularly around memory accesses.
I have not observed what you describe. But what I can tell about crypto topics (not only on HN) is that a quality of discussion use to be low while the amount of such discussion is very high. That remains me one of the most famous mathematical meme about Fermat's Great Theorem. There were a lot of people with no math education who use to desire to prove the theorem. And there are too much of people who use to tell something about crypto while have no ability to tell anything wise. What about throwaway accounts, I am sure this is not a problem at all. Just set your "showdead" option for yes and you will see how much of job is doing here invisibly.
Having been adjacent to the world of finance during the height of the Drexel/Milken/KKR leveraged-buyout craze of the 80s, I seem to remember that what ushered in the end of the excesses was a series of major failures where companies were taken private and saddled with huge debts, but attempts to sell off the parts and retain a profitable core that could then be taken public again or sold for a huge windfall began to fail.

This buyout may be headed in the same direction, and if it is, I conjecture it will have serious negative repercussions for Musk personally and his other companies. Everyone insists he's playing 5D chess with his moves, but a lot of his success depends upon the strength of his "reality distortion field."

In a very real way, he is successful because people think he's successful. A small failure here and a merger with another company there are merely blips. But a major failure that can be reasonably attributed to his "drinking his own kool-aid"[1] will undermine his ability to move markets or sell products on the sheer strength of Musk being Musk.

[1]: Yes I am aware of the origin of the phrase.
It is not! What is uncalled for is telling someone with a serious health condition that is NOT changed by some exercise that it would be.
You know, you're right about the ID verification - I didn't really think that through. You don't want your ID encoded with the ballot in a way that they can be associated.
> due primarily to badly managed nationalized health and social care.

i’m not so sure this is because of socialized medicine considering how often american hospitals run into capacity issues and the general state of wreckage that is US health care—which by the way is a significant amount the most expensive per citizen in the world.
His net worth is tied to Tesla, he would have to post his stock as collateral. If he fails to make good on the interest payments they can take it out of his equity. If tesla stocks drop dramatically, there could be a margin call that could put Twitter in a precarious situation.
It's Captain Picard "Make it so" leadership at Twitter from now on.
Going into a sector with lots of incentives is good business. It's not like he lobbied congress for those subsidies and they were tailored so that basically only he could qualify. Everyone had access to all of those subsidies, Musk was a nobody before Tesla and SpaceX.

Why didn't Ford and Boeing, companies with a much better footing than Musk, simply move into those sectors (EVs and re-usable rockets, respectively) and mop up all those subsidies for themselves?
> wouldn't that damage his reputation as a credible CEO?

Elon Musk? A credible CEO?

And here I was thinking shitposting wasn't allowed on HN.
Stack Overflow CEO on how it became the most popular programming site
This is insane. We don't live in a meritocracy. The idea that someone only gets to that level of wealth and business ownership because they make good decisions or understand the laws or requirements isn't something you can demonstrate with any consistency. Deciding to simply trust that he is correct because of his status is a dangerous game to play.
Who is giving out these massive, high-risk loans?
Your disagreement and feelings about how copyright and the law should work are valid, they have very little to do with how copyright is addressed judicially in the United States
Maybe, but if we're headed into a recession you can expect large cuts to advertising budgets
> Here we go again. The onsite crowd demanding that their coworkers fill in their socialisation and emotional voids. I hope employers understand that quite a few want back to office so they can slack and cheap chat with coworkers, maybe play petty politics a bit too.

The fact my post would get a response like this really makes skeptical of this whole WFH trend. Normal people don't write stuff like you did. What you wrote is so dismissive of others feelings and thoughts... it's just wildly inappropriate. It's like somebody who is trying to force an agenda.

It feels quite a lot like the kind of responses somebody might get when they pointed out issues with societies covid mitigations. You'd get the same dismissive, nasty tone.

Live and let live, eh? This shit is just bizarre.
My mistake, I read you comment erroneously. Sorry.
This looks really interesting! As a senior software engineer it looks much cleaner and simple than what I worked with, PMed you on LinkedIn with some questions :)
> Today Associated Press, FRONTLINE and SITU Research release “Crime Scene: Bucha,” a 15-minute video investigating alleged Russian atrocities committed in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine.[0,1,2]

Read AP article:[3] (NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS. Article contain graphic content.)

[0] https://twitter.com/AP/status/1588534530486333441

[1] https://twitter.com/frontlinepbs/status/1588565248511991808

[2] https://twitter.com/situ_research/status/1588248919561367552

[3] https://apnews.com/article/bucha-ukraine-war-cleansing-inves...
so what is the role of publishers and marketers and whole dinosaur industry that should die already.

i've had a proposal. From a $100 physical book, an author makes say 5%. That is all their work as the original work and remuneration they get so if we move to digital, how about the author double or triple that to say $15. add another $5 for delivery and the same book now costs me $20 and the author gets "more" money, something they actually want and what i want, to consume the content created and support the author and be easy on the wallet.
this would probably kill the paper book model overnight but i really don't have concerns about the poor publishers and printers who would go out of job
https://lite.ip2location.com/united-kingdom-of-great-britain...
Seems like a big win for the general public: a company responsible for a toxic cesspool goes under while one of the most obnoxious billionaires gets their ego checked.

Sucks for the employees that are collateral damage though.
So did Elon look up every private message in company chat that had the word Elon in it? Then he's sharing some of the juicy ones on twitter?
What was Twitter last week? What was Twitter when they banned a sitting president of the United States?

It's only now political because Elon owns it?
Probably breaking their own ‘Computer Misuse Act’ in the process though.
It isn't more than 33% as efficient as a fork, but honestly you don't need to shovel that often. There's usually a spoon as well, which is the undisputed champion of scooping.
It doesn't usually happen that fast, but that's pretty normal too, isn't it? Typically the buyer cuts the quality of the business down to the bone and stops all investment in the future of the business and tries to extract as much profit as they can from the brand name recognition and existing infrastructure before the company goes bankrupt. Then they sell off the remaining assets for scrap. It's like a controlled demolition.

If Elon follows this model, all updates to the site will stop and the amount of advertising and other forms of money extraction from users will skyrocket, and then as the site bleeds out users he'll eventually sell the IP and any other assets before having the firm declare bankruptcy so that he doesn't have to pay back the loans.
That's fair. I'm definitely not super interested in a fitness oriented device, so I'm probably chafing against a UI that wasn't built for me.

To me, I hated that everything was so huge on the display, leading to very low information density. I always enjoyed how the pebble could show a decently long text message on the display at once, when the font was set to small.

I also feel like, outside of the fitness functions, the menus are too deep/branching. Pebble got it right, in that the menus tended to be shallow, if a little long at times.
Ask HN: What is the electric car equivalent of a loud gas-powered car?
That is, for someone who likes their gas-powered car really loud, what sort of electric-car might appeal to them?
Is the argument here that capital should have been more supportive and nurturing? Imagine if the OG labor movement had been such hothouse flowers.
No, I don't use the API (or twitter at all, for that matter). I was just reacting to your statement:

> There is not snapshotting of data - it's simply a URL that renders at request - an HTML iframe.

"Simply a URL", the resource to which it refers being rendered in an iframe, could easily be a snapshot - as it is on other sites. Hence to me this read like a non sequitur.
At risk of ruining a great spiel, I’d assume it boils down to “it’s amazingly foolhardy to target the candidate pool of people who have already done what you’re trying to do, when there’s a much larger pool of people who haven’t already done that thing but are readily capable of doing it”.

Tech skills and domain knowledge are transferable and learnable. So if you’re targeting hires, maybe aim for people who excel in non-transferable skills and then just teach them (or pay them to learn) the domain skills.

There’s also the side benefit that if you hire a person and ask them to repeat something they’ve done before, you still need to figure out a growth path for them. But if you hire a person and ask them to do a new-to-them thing, you have the bones of a growth path baked in.
3 minutes of monitoring? That's enough to declare the issue over?
I'm curious if this (lawsuits) has happened before.
That's not obvious to me, no. What I'd imagine is something like this being escalated, and that there would be reasonable cases to be made either way; that all internal information should be removed on principle, and that removing this tweet would harm the company without improving it's security posture. Twitter has historically been pretty reluctant to remove tweets, so I wouldn't be surprised if, under normal circumstances, they ended up keeping it up. But I wouldn't be surprised the other way either.

But closing our eyes to the optics of the situation would be a mistake. These are not normal circumstances by a long shot. Given the turmoil Twitter is going through and the heavy handed approach the new management is employing, it seems likely to me that very little work is being done through the normal channels (who's to say there's even someone on the other side of that channel?), while much is being done by direct instruction from the new management.
Copyright should not protect ideas, only expression. The ideas contained in copyrighted works are fair use for AI to train on, even if you don't like it.
The dude ran around saying he is a founder of Tesla which is provably false. He is no stranger to making things up to craft the image he needs.
You suggest you don't even know if it's necessary to cut staff, but if you had bought Twitter, currently losing money for 3 years in a row, what would you do to turn the ship around more "respectfully?"

I think most people who are whinging about this -- especially here, on this forum -- are people who wouldn't think twice, if this were happening at any other big "Web 2.0" company. And, in fact, they'd probably cheer on the "decisive" and "courageous" leadership. I think they just don't like Musk, and don't like that he's bought Twitter, because they believe the narrative -- as I've seen many people suggest -- that it's going to somehow veer hard right, and become 4chan 2.0.
Root access can be more insidious, like adding a crypto miner in the background or some other kind of virus masquerading as a system process. Your data would still be there, just silently being exfiltrated, along with your keystrokes/passwords.
I've seen fridges like this before. I think it's more expensive?
The best thing I've found for serving long pasta is the "pasta claw", a sort of deep spoon with fingers around the rim.
Ukraine Issues Crimean Bridge Strike Stamp on Russia’s Unity Day
> BMW X3 is a small SUV and I think it is rated for 750 kg unbraked and 2,400 kg braked (up to 12% slope) total trailer weight

Good context here!

Our truck has a listed towing capacity of 12,500# - 5,670 kg.

My dad and I are driving ~90mi tomorrow each way to pick up an inline bale trailer he just bought. We checked hay prices in that area, and they're cheaper than what we can buy locally - enough cheaper that we bought eight bales to bring back with us. Each bale is ~1,200# (+/- ~200#), for a combined load weight of 9,600#. The trailer weighs 2,700#, so we'll be towing ~12,300#. The truck itself is another ~7,000#, and by the time you figure in fuel and occupants, we'll have a GCWR of right at 20,000#.

In short, tomorrow I'll be driving that truck and responsible for TEN TONS going down the road.

The BMW X3 would have to make four trips hauling two bales each: 2,400 kg = 5,290#; the trailer weighs 2,700#, two bales weigh 2,400#, leaving only 190# of excess capacity. Even then, there's no way I'd be comfortable driving an X3 with that much weigh, that distance - and that's not even considering that the trailer is a gooseneck.

I think of the truck as ~1/4 of a semi tractor. We can haul most things ourselves, more cheaply and with less environmental impact than hiring a professional hauler.
I've also been with them nearly twenty years (!?!), and they definitely have had problems throughout that entire time. perhaps the difference was that you'd get caker@ and co on IRC explaining what was up.
I'll just remind everyone that Twitter's management team sued Elon to make this happen. They had full knowledge of the details of the offer and its financing.
Also you weren't wrong about Tesla. Elon did basically create Tesla (as well as Straubel). Quick summary:

Originally "Tesla" the brand, was started by Martin and Marc, but all they had was a brand and a vision but no physical product nor prototype.

At around the same time, Elon wanted to build an electric car based off the tzero by AC Propulsion. He was introduced to Martin and Marc who had a similar vision, and basically Elon invested money into Tesla Motors.

It wasn't until Elon put in money, that the first prototype was built (the tesla roadster). Arguably, if Elon didn't join the team and bring on Straubel, Tesla wouldn't be what it is today. Likely wouldn't even have a launched consumer product. Even Elon was the one that managed to get the trademark "Tesla Motors" which wasn't even owned by Martin or Marc originally.

Lengthy source: https://youtu.be/AeeeEDSekG8?t=900

Granted it's out of Elon's mouth but there's tons of other sources that corroborates with that story.

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MikKu6Juhok

source: https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/the-short-...

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqPsdlQDOYQ

source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/27/with-jb-straubel-departure-t...
"The way employees were treated was beyond disgraceful."

Sorry I may have missed this in the article–was it something beyond being laid off? Being laid off sucks (it's happened to me) but it's a normal part of business operations.
Looks like Twitter will get sold off at a huge loss in a couple years.

Is there anything like old twitter out there? Twitter with an open API during the Arab Spring was kind of an amazing time. I guess really it's all about TikTok at this point for that sort of thing.
In addition to not wanting to preach to the choir, I think there is legitimately a swathe of FoxNews watchers who maybe felt let down by Trump and some other conservatives failing to fulfil their populist promises and continuation of giving more breaks to the rich than the working class. Bernie can probably reach these viewers with his pro worker messaging, whereas most mainstream dems can't. Hopefully this translates to moving these voters to vote for candidates speaking to these same points, especially in primary campaigns.

People complain that "both parties are the same". This is mostly overstated, but it is very true when it comes to neo-liberalism and pro-captial. I think Bernie is trying to reach out to the swing voters who are sick of that.
I liked the morning paper, and hope it becomes active again in the future. I learned a lot from reading the mails every day on the train.
> In short, this buyout turned Twitter from a $200-million lost-per-year company into a $1500-million to $2200-million lost-per-year company (pending anyone's better estimate).

I wish I was this good at business.
The calculator dudes stayed with HP for some reason and were phased out recently, probably due to old age and retirement, in favour of crap produced by the only calculator manufacturer on the planet: Kinpo.

I think the only old school folk left are working in the bowels of Keysight and any semiconductor companies Agilent spawned off.
Make an appointment for yourself at the end of the day everyday where you look at your calendar the next day. It's OK to do the same in the morning but if you do it the day before you can take account of anything anomalous that may affect your commute.

I have a

https://g.factoryoutletstore.com/cat/95975/garmin-vivoactive...

and I use alarms and timers all the time as an organizing tool. (Like I always brew tea for the exact right time) Alarms I put in manually rise above the cacophony of computer and smartphone notifications which are 10% relevant at best.
We will have to pay only on commissions, do you think that we will be able to find an experienced sales professional willing to work only on commissions?
I am in the stage below higher education (equivalent to SAT's), meaning most pupils don't have jobs or have only been in work for a few months (A National insurance number is given at 16 and is needed to enter work), we have 3 / 4 subjects on average and 2 books per subject which is about £420 in total, however the UK is pretty facilitating to low income households and provides them with grants to afford the costs, we do have a school library meaning we can take out books, but we have to return them within a short window of time and we cannot write on them which makes them redundant for some subjects.

Am a pretentious whiner?, Yes. Will I keep on pirating textbooks? Yes
Thank you! I was having a very frustrating time trying to parse the titular sentence, after all that build up.

Username checks out by the way.
> We use Stack together with Nix to pin all dependencies. That works very well.

Could you elaborate on the path you took here? Sounds interesting
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/tesla-inc/lobbying?id=D0000...

Tesla did lobby, quite a bit. They've also been angry about the subsidies that require cars to be union made.
I think OP needs to provide some evidence for the no severance accusation.
I have a similar problem and just doing various stretching exercises daily with my arms paid off within a few weeks and made a huge difference in my quality of life.
I wouldn’t say that these are exceptions or that they’re meaningless. EU and US antitrusts are just very slow, but we’ve already seen examples how antitrust authorities in other countries change the situation (see South Korea vs Apple, but there are more). These cases usually affect rules in a single country, but they contribute to the big ones (EU and US) too.
There is the WARN act which is a federal law. But that only applies to larger companies and mass layoffs.
I'll take the lack of any evidence as you _can't_ substantiate that?
Hanlon's razor except s/stupidity/corporate policy/g.
For some values of "perfectly profitable":

Year Net profit / loss ($mm)
2012 -79
2013 -645
2014 -577
2015 -521
2016 -456
2017 -108
2018 1206
2019 1466
2020 -1136
2021 -221
People try and get out of deals all the time. It's a normal part of business.

Edit: I take it many of you haven't been a part of a company that gets an offer that falls apart later, tried to buy/sell property, etc etc. Deals fall apart constantly, trying to get out of a deal isn't indicative of anything meaningful in and of itself. The only really unusual thing that happened in the Twitter deal was Twitter forcing the consummation.