skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech "treated employees right" because for awhile software engineers had a "monopoly on skill". If you rewind to around 2008 and earlier there really were more getting work done, building real things jobs out there than people who could do it. There were a lot of startups that hand a hard time getting people to just build the initial CRUD apps to start their business.

Startups and smart companies realized that if you couldn't compete on pay you could compete on how you treated employees. In the years leading up to the start of the current boom the pay differential between big companies and startups was't as vast as it is now.

Then industry started pushing hard to create more software engineers from the traditional path of increased undergrad comp sci enrollments to the development and expansion of the bootcamp industry. Then the money started to go up and more and more people started rushing into the industry for the money. When I started in tech ~2005 almost every software person I knew got into the field because they loved to write code and build things, when I talk to recent software engineers almost all of them answer that compensation is their main driver today.

Now anyone hiring today (or let's say 3 months prior to today) will claim that it's still really hard to find good devs. However the amount of work being done that is essential and productive has dramatically decreased. Head counts have been expanding because money was flowing and managers need more people under them to get promoted (this logic flows even to the CEO level).

But now this long, long tech bubble is starting to burst and we'll companies across the board start asking "how much of this work is really necessary? how can we become profitable?" and we'll realize as an industry that we are way over indexed on software engineers.

This is exactly what happened during the dotcom era, I guess most people are just too young to remember. Anyone who could use a computer got hired to work in tech, paid ridiculous for the time, there were tons of people enrolling in EE and CS, a huge number of software engineers. The the bubble burst and a lot of the engineers disappeared, CS enrollments dropped radically, salaries went way down, and the only people left in the industry were people who just really like writing code and building things.
SpaceX is going somewhere. Twitter is going nowhere.

This is a political play.

Musk may be a competent engineer, but he's used to being Emperor. He's completely out of his depth with culture and politics. So he's unprepared for the brutal muck-racking, humiliation, and character assassination that underpin political power games.

The "You can have free speech for just $8/month" accidental branding is already such a bad look. I don't see that he has the instincts, talent, or experience to even understand why - never mind to do better.
> In the U.S. television series Monk, the title character (Adrian Monk) usually uses this method with the words "here's what happened".

You hear a lot of Developer Dénouements in the coding business, in person and in pull requests. The common phrase that captures my attention in his context is often "It turns out that ...". Whatever comes after that is usually interesting.
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It's a small step in the right direction.
We won't automatically have UBI, we'll have to fight for every part of it, just like historical working class movements.
You don't think it's a reasonable assumption that the largest consumer brands on the planet are likely to be among the largest ad spenders on an ad network?
There are a lot of people here very clearly articulating the issues they have with Musk - usually related to some bad tweets, but also more serious things like the sexual harassment - so there's no need to speculate that it's in any way related to his political leaning. Besides, it was only recently that he declared himself to be a supporter of the GOP, long after the tide of public opinion started to turn on him (and even perhaps because of it)
This looks great but wish it had an audio out so you can pipe it into effects and other things instead of just the speaker, though it wouldn't be too difficult to add them. It's also the perfect size to fit on a guitar pedalboard.
regional grocery store chain did a huge IT layoff, it was terribly orchestrated. I knew a bunch of people there. They all left. IIRC their web store went from 50-ish devs to a single intern (this was 9 months ago-ish). Somehow it is still online, it boggles my mind.
> It's one of the smallest social networks and Twitter as Twitter, i.e. the one big open forum with politicians, journalists scientists etc _is_ it's competitive advantage. So I don't know how you get from Twitter to X when almost every other social media does the things X would do better than Twitter.

Being the elites' gathering place is indeed its biggest advantage, and the fact that consumers can get public visibility on issues they're facing helps companies with their public image. There are many times where I or friends have posted about issues after exhausting the standard support channels, and quickly cut through the bureaucratic red tape and got our problem solved. I think that's a monetizable angle.

I think something similar would apply to other elites as well. Politicians can get direct feedback from constituents, music artists get direct feedback from fans (see the recent Lizzo "spaz" thing), and so on. However, in the current climate, elites are getting skewed feedback, so "more free speech" could actually help, if it's done right.
You’re right, everyone should just completely uproot their lives for the hell of it and start completely untested startups with no safety net whenever their boss cracks down, instead of justify complaining about his insanity
All thanks to Google keeping Mozilla on eternal life support and accounting for more than 80% of their revenue. The CEO is also suggested they wouldn't solely rely on Google's money 14 years ago. [0] Here we are today still bending over to Google's spyware demands for having them as the default search engine on Firefox.

Mozilla are essentially irrelevant and are a complete embarrassment to their mission statement on privacy that even Brave seems to be a better alternative to Firefox for this.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...
Not sure why you are downvoted this is in the ballpark (I would say a bit lower though)
Someone who owes you a debt is useful. A journalist who is shining light on things you'd prefer to keep hidden is not useful at all.
> Tech was a bastion of "treat your employees right, and they'll be productive". Musk is not a proponent of that. He is a micromanaging, capricious, easily distracted, arrogant and vindictive CEO.

Layoffs aren’t the same as mistreatment. It matters more how he treats the employees who stick around and the new ones he brings in
Fennel can also be used to write games in the TIC-80 fantasy console (an open source project similar to PICO-8).
Because then you'll have another vulnerability created by too long passwords.
See, statements like this are just unhelpful. It isn’t a “left” vs “right” issue. The issue is an influx of racism, anti-semitism, violent threats and much much more.

Saying it’s OK because the “far left” said whatever they wanted (what are they even saying that’s so toxic?) is asinine.
If every twitter employee collapsed and died right now how long would twitter actually still work for?
The constitutional "freedom of the press" allows all citizens to use machinery to mass produce their written messages for distribution to others; the initial realization of such a machine being the printing press.

So the freedom of speech doesn't belong to the bots but to the citizens who control them.
His company X.com was acquired by PayPal.
This service is high latency at present and only supports sending uplink data a half-dozen times per day when satellites are overhead. It would likely not be suitable for this application.
Because no one has the same definition of what "great" is, and right when you start making money others will hate you and consider your vision bad (cf. Other comments replying to you)
I think Reddit is an outlier because they offload a lot of their moderation to volunteers.
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Curious when you formed your opinion on the JVM. It's been under active development for 28 years.
Another related concept - have a chest freezer and cycle through frozen 2 or 3 litre soft drink bottles full of glycol that you put in a small/med well insulated cooler you use as a "day fridge".

Most people keep way more than they should or need in a fridge, and often best to go straight to freezer to avoid wastage if you are not right on to eating leftovers.

So this does not save energy because you don't run a fridge, you use extra in the freezer for the glycol bottles bthan if you just used it as a freezer, but your fridge is now small with a top lid instead of front doors, and you can heavily insulate a cooler very easily to make it super efficient.

"Fridges use more energy than any other single appliance in a typical Australian home." - https://hipages.com.au/article/energy_efficient_fridges_and_...

Then there is milk, butter, veges etc that easily fit in 65l cooler for most families.
The crazy part is taking the huge salary then demanding your employer take on some social justice cause that they have been neutral on or actually already accommodating on.
You cannot complain something is misinformation without offering information to counter it. That never works, will never work. The only reason an article like this, speculative or not, has wind to it's sails because crypto is not regulated like equity and companies like Alameda does not have to publish regular financial reports that classic market participants moving billions of "dollars" have to publish.
1. Use `noEmit` if you don't want to use the transpiler -- You can also use babel.

2. Use a modern target, my transpiled code is 1:1.

3. You can use JSDoc type annotations, I use this for some projects.

4. TS works well in functional code bases. If you prefer JavaScript's dynamics, expect pain.

5. You can also use Flow.

6. Your sample size is 3
Weirdly, I'm OP, and I disagree. Fundamentally, without them, you get more situations like what's going on with Stable Diffusion and Copilot (and perhaps Spotify and Google before them) -- the people who own the machinery end up owning and controlling EVERYTHING, and the creator gets nothing.

There's no actual "free market" in the way you're thinking of. Thumbs will always be on scales.
There are a lot of very wealthy people in Seattle from being employed at Amazon.
It really depends on how you use it. Just based on your attitude it's clear you're engaging with bad stuff and then blaming that on the greater experience of the app/network as a whole. If you follow a bunch of politics stuff (which is inherently inflammatory) or seek out arguments with people you know you disagree with, yeah, you're not going to have a good time.

You can only follow bible quotes and motivation accounts and not once encounter any "toxic" behavior. It's 100% up to the user. Ignoring that is just ignoring reality (which like I said earlier in the thread, most people need to take responsibility for, but won't).
If Twitter can be so easily blackmailed by advertisers, what do we think about traditional media, where Pfizer is often the biggest advertiser?

Sorry if I am being dangerous/spreading misinformation, just asking the question
> I think it'll be fine. You don't need 7000 people to run a micro blogging service. It's really that simple.

When you're generating and distributing and moderating multiple TB of tweets in real time every day to billions of people and also feeding other corporations parts of that data... maybe you do.
Half of the bots are already fired they are looking for a new place :^)
Yes, having to always explicitly specify all the fine grained capabilities a process might need is a pain, too.
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Twitter's loss in 2020 was over $1,100,000,000. In the last 10 years, twitter has lost almost $4,000,000,000, posting profits in only two years (2018,2019).

Twitters losses in 2021 were over 221MM, and 250MM to 700MM between 2013 and 2017.

So the myth that Twitter was a healthy company is only promulgated by agenda driven opinions, not factual ones.
No, Alameda/SBF does. And they haven't said anything about it. People are free to draw their conclusions from that.
We'd need to also see the money (income/revenue/profit) of these companies, and then see the ratio of employees to money. Musk saw that list and noticed that Twitter had the lowest ratio.

To get the ratio metric up, they have to increase income or reduce employees.

This rationale, given by Musk (and I imagine VC friends) is all outlined in the discovery documents of the twitter vs musk legal case.

edits, i dug it out and made it a top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467305
> I greatly over-simplified the answer but this topic is worthy of a book.

Is it tho? In any company small and large once ownership of high level management changes hiccups can happen.
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You're not alone. A lot of native English speakers get it wrong too. And the other way round as well...

"Will you borrow me ten quid?"

"No. But I'll lend you it"
I'm glad to see New Hampshire still has paper ballots doing this. Pure electronic voting (IMHO) should be banned. Either you should fill out a ballot that a computer can verify or use a touchscreen that produces a paper (filled-in) ballot.

As for open source, I don't think it matters. I mean, even if the software is open soruce, how do you know what the machine is running? Are you going to build it yourself and verify hashes? Can you?

Don't get me wrong: open source for something like this is a good idea. Experts should be able to verify this. It just won't stop claims of election fraud because those largely aren't based on a lack of transparency but rather political expeidency.
Because they don't make as much money that way. History has repeatedly shown us that asking companies to voluntarily forgo profit-earning opportunities does not work. Companies exist to make money and this why regulators like the FDIC exist, to ensure that financial institutions are liquid enough when things go south.

This is simply not something that financial institutions are capable of doing themselves.
Similarly related, no longer being able to tell iPad OS and macOS apart server side was a major blow for us.

We have essentially “continue this in the app” buttons whose existence and how they passed state (iOS vs Android) was determined server side. We rewrote that all to happen client side because you can check “is it a Mac?” && “does it have multi-touch support?” And know it’s an iPad - at least until they build a touchscreen Mac.
>Any source for this data other than telegram PR?

You may go by Google Play Store installations. With about ~1.5 billion installs that's about a third to a quarter of WhatsApp installations. WhatsApp claims about two billion active users, so that seems about right.
Classic free market fallacy. It's only a free market if there are other options available. Those in power control the options available and low regulation free markets enable them align at the lowest common denominator.
Yes, exactly. Canada still does manually counting federally. It works. Ironically, it doesn't stop the complaint about bad voting machines, but that's because people get their news from the states. There are no voting machines, no way for software to fudge the numbers just enough for someone's decided candidate to win.

Is it more of an effort than trusting a machine is working correctly? Yes, absolutely, but this is the literal fundamental foundation of democracy we are talking about - let's put in a bit of effort.
And if one thing’s clear, it’s that even if we aren’t in a recession now, they will absolutely keep raising rates until we are.

Unlike the 2008 recession that was a result is mismanagement in the financial sector, this recession is very much an intentional act of monetary policy.
> AI doesn’t operate like that

Wrong. Various regularization schemes are used in AI models which essentially introduce “flaws” and noise into the process. The flaws are more optimal than what the brain does, but they are there.
Sort of - X.com merged with Confinity (who supposedly had some good payments processing system) and became PayPal.
This is totally false, and compares package managers in incomparable categories (pacman's counterparts in the RPM-based package management world are Zypper and dnf, not rpm).

Arch Linux itself has very few packages— ~10k, around half of what you find Fedora, an RPM-based distro. The DEB packaging format and tools related to it are way more convoluted, and still Debian has several times as many packages as Arch and many, many more maintainers than Arch does.

The only area where the Arch community sees more contributors for packages is the AUR, where contributors are decidedly not maintainers, package quality is low, and packages are not stable. (And users face this in addition to the whole basic integration problem with source-based packages and packages installed via binary repos, of which only the latter is ever considered by pacman's dep solver during upgrades.)

Users like pacman because it's fast. It's not nearly robust enough for use at serious scale. Cutting corners is how it gets that speed.

Alpine's apk is just another lightweight cousin of dpkg that incorporates some higher-level dependency resolution in a barebones way, like ipkg and opkg, like are used on embedded systems or OpenWRT or whatever. It's not some maintainer magnet which has multiplied the (pretty tiny) Alpine repos (which don't even include, for example, a JVM).
Or it could be that the idea that it could actually work that way was just wrong. The creators of bitcoin adopted the delusions of goldbugs, tried to replicate it in a digital form. Adapting 19th century ideas about money to 21st century technology, and expected it to work.
Saw a leaked video yesterday from a meeting that Elon wants to basically copy WeChat and become the "everything app" in America. He also laughed at the engineers when they told him that "edit is incredibly complex". Couple that with mass layoffs/restructuring. This saga is gonna be interesting to say the least.
Biden’s statement wasn’t wrong. The fact check just provided a statement stating that the reason social security payments were the highest they’ve ever been is because they are automatically tied to CPI.

It’s weird to editorialize fact checks. If Biden said the payments were the highest ever, but the payments were actually lower, then sure add a fact check and provide the real number.

It’s honestly an example of how much of a mess Elon is stepping in with this venture.
Have you considered for a second that sending people to an irradiated hell hole planet where conditions are worse than earth even with 1000 years of climate change isnt the idea it’s cracked up to be?
> TS has a powerful Generics syntax that cannot be duplicated in a code comment.

This is false though, but admittedly not documented well.
Go ahead, send your commits to the Linux kernel then.
The argument amounts to might makes right. You're stronger than your neighbor? Just forcibly resettle some of your citizens there and give them an interest in your success.

The principle of self determination worked very nicely when there were pre-existing contested territories as a way to extinguish claims. But it must not be allowed to create competing claims or else it will do vastly more harm than it has so far eliminated. This is why it's generally not recognised. This is why Crimea and Catalonia's claims of UDI were disregarded. This is why Scotland is seeking independence through internal negotiation.

What harm are you trying to heal with self-determination? Or is it just some ideological commitment to the idea no matter how much suffering comes from it?
He hasn't made a self driving car, but I think this applies here:

https://xkcd.com/1425/
“Huuuuge temptations” is the answer. At that level, the temptation is too much to bear except enforced by an external hand.

That’s why there are regulations against playing with customer’s deposits in the traditional banking sector, or else greed will make banking executives do similar things as the crypto companies.
Aren’t WhatsApp and telegram messaging services rather than microblogging services?

The difference between a messaging app and a microblogging app is basically the difference between an O(n) problem and an O(n^2) problem.

If you don’t think that adds some complexity, you’re kidding yourself.
Voting machines are always a bad idea. There are issues of trust and security that can never be solved. So trying to open-wash this dangerous way of voting is at best just as bad as closed machines and at worst an angle to make people think its a safe and good idea.
Sounds like Enron, turned out great for them too.
Looking at the charter options, this could be an interesting american cabaret and folk music festival venue concept. Two or three nights via train, accoustic sets by performers, maybe configure couple of performance cars into the train then split performances over different cars at different times, so you can catch them in one of the cars and it spreads the audience over the train. Night stops in places with motels or camping to handle sleeping arrangements.

Just found some routes through the rockies, from moab to denver: https://www.rockymountaineer.com/routes_destinations , but a southwest one would be amazing.

Economics are running a cruise, but over land on a train, with some camping and motel options to scale it. Hmm...