skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is obviously the right thing to do: with the massive decline in the number of users lots of us are predicting you don't need as much infrastructure spending.
Thank you, I'll see if I can actually force myself to do it this time.
Robinhood is perfectly trustworthy with your money. This is a completely nonsensical smear.
The housing market might turn the world into Snowpiercer:

It takes place aboard the Snowpiercer train as it travels a globe-encircling track, carrying the last remnants of humanity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer
It looks like their average reported pay is $273k
I don't know why comments are so against these layoffs. Twitter is known for having a "chill" work environment and I have heard many stories of people just slacking off and doing other things while getting paid. I would actually like to see Twitter's team and culture rebuilt regardless of who bought it.
What jira plug-ins do people pay for?
> Thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.

Ha.
Someone coming from a 350k fang job is not going to work for “35-70k” would you?
> You don't see Vanguard or Fidelity losing a third of their userbase in a year.

I can't read the article, but you define "monthly active users" as a user exiting the platform i.e. pulling their money out?!

Originally, I had assumed it was "users who don't open the app/website" but expectation difference caused me to look it up:

> Robinhood defines a monthly active user as a "unique user who makes a debit card transaction, or who transitions between two different screens on a mobile device or loads a page in a web browser while logged into their account, at any point during the relevant month. A user need not satisfy these conditions on a recurring monthly basis or have a Funded Account to be included in MAU." [0]

I have a Vanguard, I haven't opened it in a month. By the above MAU definition, Vanguard lost me too.

Again, this _alone_ doesn't tell us that RH is doing poorly vs other Retail Brokers. They could be, but not enough info.

My take is - most people don't want to see their ultra red portfolio and are just not opening the app.

[0] https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/05/09/robinhood-losing-m...
> How can you identify this systematically (vs it being just your opinion), but not identify hate speech?

What I think distinguishes malice is the prosecution example. Where if someone makes an argument about you personally, and they are unable to abstract the idea from you personally as an individual, that is acting with malintent toward you.

Antagonizing someone personally by trying to scandalize them in the eyes of others (performatively, as though in front of a judge or jury, or public opinion) is not discourse, it's just persecution and animus. The modern internet version in the form of, "hey everybody, this person is an X!" is probably malice in its more pure form, with a spectrum of dilutions that are variations of, "surely you aren't tainting yourself with this taboo!" after that. It's a purity game, but really a proxy for the 'deadly sin' of wrath and the secular concept of animus. In this sense, it's something that with reflection we recognize ourselves as capable of and learn to moderate it within ourselves.

Hate is something we only recently started accusing others of. I do think it's part of a substitute, secular, belief that persuades people they cannot ever be good, so instead we can repent of our recieved worthlessness by giving up our moral agency and becoming _anti-bad_, all while accepting poor treatment and even demanding it for others because the people we have animus for are also equally bad. The only hope is that by redemption through criticism, some are less worthless than others, but that's the upside. It's like a profoundly false religion whose core tenant is that you believe in the universality of hate, and then be against it. Things are shaped by the forces they oppose, and I think indexing on hate has had the effect of moralizing malice. When we start with the premise that we are all interchangeable group elements without moral agency, and we must redeem ourselves by becoming above criticism, that is a system of slavery with the reins in the hands of the most zealous critics - who happen to be other living people, and not a relationship with a self or an ideal. This whole cycle is based on this _anti-bad_ negative definition that mostly seems to moralize malice in its followers. Back in the day they had to call them sins because they felt good, but really weren't.

Anyway this isn't your outgroup either, it's us. In terms of detecting it, I think ML is just on the cusp of doing it as well or better than most people and that's the future of forum moderation. This question of whether we can observe intent is going to be a big one. It's a huge topic.
Idiotic sealioning having nothing to do with AI and neural nets.
"If you do not receive an email from twitter-hr@ by 5PM PST on Friday Nov. 4th, please email peoplequestions@twitter.com"

Reminds me of that AOL employee that kept their badge for 6 months after they were laid off and kept eating at the cafeteria (or something along those lines)
> I guess the company is $1B/year in the hole

you mean: the company now owes $1 billion a year in interest on the debt used to finance the leveraged buyout. musk paid too much and now has to loot the company to afford it
Only if it gets rid of bots
I thought about that sort of thing too, but eq returns equal-or-not-equal, so it could apply the same short-circuit

Simpler example: if two lists don't have the same length you know they're unequal without looking at the items. But you could early-terminate eq the same way and actually benefit both eq and ne
> the people most susceptible to lies and propaganda are willingly seeking it out. That’s always been a problem but social media has made it orders of magnitude easier to discover.

What are you basically saying is: democracy (which is impossible without free speech) is not able to work after social media is invented and deployed, because some people are susceptible to lies and propaganda. I kinda doubt the truth of such a radical statement. Democracy is not an ideal thing, but look what happens with alternatives - when some wise men decide what is better for those susceptible (and all others too).
This is nice but the insistence on monthly subscription is a deal breaker. Offer a local mode for a one time payment and you’ll get 10x the customers
Are you talking about /r/AusFinance?

Edit: From your comment history you sound like an Aussie, so I reckon you are.

Dude's been suspended from reddit now - as in by the admins. The moderation on /r/AusFinance itself is simultaneously extreme and very hands-off. It's basically AutoModerator set to kill (no naughty words, minimum karma requirements, minimum comment length, auto-deletes posts that have a few reports, likely with no human confirmation). Has a lot of false positives and yet allows very disruptive behaviour to carry on just fine. Not ideal but presumably the way it is because it's a growing sub and the moderators are unpaid volunteers that lack time.

I'm pretty happy with it now that you-know-who isn't around. But he'll be back as soon as reddit's presumably IP-based suspension-evasion-detection's time limit runs out.
…and then immediately get broken up.

I have always found it funny that Microsoft provides a free service to the Linux community which makes them significantly safer, and for their trouble they get no end of shade from that community.
Singapore fintech boss says stablecoins might beat CDBCs
Bigco software engineering has been quite chill / slack-off for some time. Rude awakening for a lot of devs if they have been resting on their laurels.
It’s unusual for a new owner to lay off 50% of a company at once
I don't think that would happen.
How did you calculate this?
Weird question but can’t you not eat sweet at all? What’s wrong about just not using sugar or any sweeteners?
And did they hold a couple more years? Or for some reason they sold at bottom after averaging down?
This happens every decade or so. Don't live beyond your means and you will be OK, even if you get laid off.
No. You would have to be a maniac to use MSSQL on Linux in production. It’s so expensive anyway that the Windows Server licenses pale in comparison.

This kind of thinking is the equivalent of putting no-name retread tyres on an F1 car. Like okay, it’ll function, technically. It will save money. Is it a good idea?
They have a big pile of cash, and at their current burn rate, they'll last for a long time. They have huge margins and their loss is from fixed cost R&D. They're receiving positive net deposits from a relatively young customer base and the total assets they have under management is growing.

To add some numbers: they're burning $175/quarter, which includes severance payouts from their recent layoff, on $6954 of assets, which includes a $6187 pile of cash. So that's 8.8 years of runway if they didn't cut costs or grow revenue further.

And their product also has a ton of room to improve -- once it gets IRAs, that would remove the main reason its more boring customers find other brokers.
Honest question: Why would anyone willingly stay at Twitter? He seems extremely employee unfriendly, and it’s not like working at Twitter is some noble cause. Why wouldn’t you immediately go work somewhere else, assuming you’re reasonably employable?
No, it is not. Marketing is about making you want to buy something, and appeals to your materialism. Raising awareness is about making you Aware that something is happening, and appeals to your altruism. There is a heck of a lot more of the former, and the latter doesn't actually make you want to perform any specific action (if it results in action at all, frequently, the action is just sharing it again).
Assuming revenue stays the same, that would bring them close to profitability as long as you don't consider the loans Elon took out on the company's balance sheet.

If you do, they would still be massively unprofitable.
$370 million would have made the difference to make 2021 profitable. But now Twitter owns some of the debt incurred to purchase Twitter, adding to their expenses
>I mean how do you expect problems to be pointed out and addressed?

Apparently, at Twitter, you don't.
How much does a railcar cost?
okay, I'll bite: who asked for this?!
Yeah but they're probably only say that with respect to slogans that speak to ideas they disagree with but are totally fine with simplified slogans for ideas they agree with.
I've heard this a lot, but I wonder how often we mean it.

Realistically, the level of effort I'm going to put forward to defend some person on the internet's right to make a particular comment is limited approximately to "writing a comment myself."

Defending to the death? As in risking my life? Maybe if someone's violently asserting a right to regulate what everyone says, or even some particular group says, if I don't think they can defend themselves. But one person under non-violent threat? I'll surprise myself if I make it off the couch.
That isPrime function does not even cut at sqrt(n). Asking for the state of the art isPrime function is too much, but the sqrt trick is the very first step and it's free. (IIRC, the faster version uses i*i<n)
Because you'll get severance if they fire you.
Because Windows is super easy for the vast majority of people to use and desktop Linux isn’t.

Windows deployment isn’t bloated, it just has a ton of actual functionality that real users want and that doesn’t come for free. The UX for the admin is also super nice, with tons of online articles and communities with people who are willing to help you do what you’re trying to do, as opposed to tell you why what you want is bad.
Because you're not going to know who the 'slackers' are in the first week or so of owning a company and actions like these are a great way to ensure that your company doesn't get rebuilt.

Despite how many Musk reply guys seem to exist, most of them aren't engineers and even fewer of them are dumb enough to work for a Musk-owned Twitter where you get to be overworked and underpaid.
From some of the other comments here seems like it’s more like about 160 people with 100 watches each…
SQL Server has been able to do that on Windows for about a decade now. Just grant the “Lock pages in memory” privilege to the service account and it’ll do it automatically if the server has 16 GB of memory or more.

I use it as a free 15% go-faster button in my consulting gigs.
Time to rebrand as 0Password?
> However there is some content that its existence on the platform makes me less likely to use the platform even if I never see it.

> ...

> /r/jailbait is one of the early examples that comes to mind. It hosted risqué, but apparently legal photos of underage girls. Reddit couldn't just tell people "Don't visit those subreddits if you don't want to see that content". Most people found the content objectionable enough to want it removed completely. Its mere existence made normal users less likely to use Reddit despite users needing to go out of their way to see that objectionable content.

Are there metrics showing that reddit usage decreased because of subreddits like that? It's possible that most normal users who aren't actively searching for such content may not even be aware of that subreddit's existence and the number that are aware of it and who would choose not to use reddit is not signficant enough to affect overall usage patterns.

On the usenet side, Andrew Cuomo (back when he was the attorney general of New York) made a deal with a number of large ISPs in terms of dealing with CP getting posted to usenet. It's almost certain that those who were just using usenet for their discussions were not searching for CP on usenet, so their usage patterns would not have been affected.

But what did affect it was ISPs dropping usenet service, which lead to people no longer posting and groups dying off because no one was posting. This isn't something that would happen to reddit unless all major ISPs started blocking access to it.
Is it that simple? I doubt it. The man owns Starlink. Imagine that for a second. Imagine owning a social network that is a first class citizen to a global satellite network that no government can ever censor.

He could be pivoting the company into something astonishing.
These layoffs are because someone bought the company and saddled it with enough debt that it’ll take a billion dollars per year to pay the interest.

This is nothing like Stripe’s 14% layoffs from elsewhere on the HN homepage.
> Microsoft and Qualcomm had or have an agreement with some degree of exclusivity

People keep referencing an agreement between Microsoft and Qualcomm without either company ever acknowledging that such an agreement exists.

According to Ian Cutriss (formerly of Anandtech), his contact at Qualcomm told him that there is no such exclusivity agreement.

>I spoke with Qualcomm about this exclusivity deal - they said there isn't one. Simply put, they put engineers, $$$, and time with Microsoft to optimizing Windows on Arm for Qualcomm. Anyone else would have to do their own specific optimizations and work with Microsoft to do that, but no-one has.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WgG2sGEhzo&lc=Ugy6-vcYxzP1B...
not possible in gmail. It'd have to be done on the intermediary forwarding server.
Haha "including your spam folder"? These guys are using gsuite email, why would official internal emails be in spam? Are they planning to have some 3rd-party layoff contractor send the mails from Bulgaria or something?
GNUnet 0.18.0 Released
Lyft to lay off 13 percent of its workforce as economic outlook darkens
there are literally thousands of years of artwork that fall under public domain, the idea that the dataset isn't big enough to make good images without copyright infringement and attribution laundering is frankly laughable.
Not really. If that’s what you got out of the comment you replied to, you may want to read it again because you definitely misinterpreted its point.
Do you mean how to make friends online that you will then meet in person? Or just people to hang out with online? If it's the latter then usually you want to do it via some shared interest.
How could you judge what it can become before it has became? Seems premature to leave if I was an employee not getting laid off. It really depends though, if I was an employee there then I would know who was lacking and who was performing, so it would be easier to judge the merit of the layoff.
The way this entire thing has been run is a f*cking disgrace. Yes they have a business to run. Yes they need to do what they need to do to keep things healthy on that end, but these are PEOPLE we are talking about here. They have lives and families. The amount of contempt I have for Musk over the way he is treating them is unbounded. We used to think this guy was Bruce Wayne. Turns out he's Lex Luthor.
Let's build a better one that people control.
Too many people, too fast. There's no way these are going to be sensible, surgical layoffs. The service is definitely going to suffer.
Private cars have been a thing for a LONG time. This isn’t a new service
Here's how you can terraform Venus.

1. put a sunshade at the Lagrange point between Venus and Sun. Dim the light coming from the Sun

2. wait for the planet to cool enough until the carbon dioxide (which forms about 97% of the Venusian atmosphere) freezes and falls to the ground. The combination of 30 times less gas in the atmosphere (the remaining gas will be mainly N2) and a lower temperature will lower the ambient pressure to about 1 atm (the pressure on Earth).

3. send some sort of parabolic mirror to one of the icy asteroids like 24 Themis or 65 Cybele. Concentrate the sunlight into a beam that will make a part of the asteroid boil and outgas. That will provide thrust. You can guide the asteroid whichever way you want. Move it to an orbit that will intersect Venus. Slam it into Venus. Now you have the water that you need. Currently Venus is extraordinarily dry, but if you bring water from the asteroid belt, you have a shot.

4. Build greenhouses. Plant trees. In the greenhouses provide artificial light, water and CO2, and let the trees thrive (you need a bit of oxygen to get them going, but after that they'll make more than they'll consume; you'll also need fertilizer, but you have plenty of N2 and now H2 as well; you need other elements like potassium and phosphorus, but in much lower quantities; you will probably be able to mine them locally).

5. The trees will sequester the carbon. They'll also produce oxygen. After a when you have enough oxygen in the atmosphere, you can fold a part of the sunshade and let the temperature go up. The unsequestered CO2 will gassify. Now you'll have an atmosphere with nitrogen, oxygen, CO2 and some water vapors, just like on Earth. Probably much more CO2. But you can control the temperature with the sunshade, so you are not too worried about climate change.

6. Sell tickets to colonists. Profit.
Many of these people are going to be unemployable in standard "Churn out CRUD 24/7" jobs.
I've mostly stopped using free services wherever feasible. You get what you pay for.

The only free thing I really don't wanna give up is Google Photos. It's really convenient to just search "health insurance card" and the picture of my card pops up. Likewise for "apple pie", "sunset", "statue", etc.
Almost everyone has learned some amount of English by reading copyrighted books.
Definitely, platforms optimize for ads. But these things are actually not concerning ad display/engagement. On the contrary, these UX improvements would increase my engagement, and thus ad engagement.
The man bought the company using Saudi cash. It is much, much more likely that he's going the other way on censorship.

Of course, astonishment might still be appropriate.
I have seen investment banks disable all logins for a whole division or trading floor, invite the people they aren’t firing to an all hands / town hall meeting to tell them as much, then announce to everyone else on the floor that they no longer have a job and will be escorted out of the building with any belongings they choose to collect within 30 minutes.

I’m not sure how normal it is, but it doesn’t objectively seem like there’s anything wrong with it.
Maybe solo dev of niche product is a better alley for some?
Amazon went 14 years before posting a profit. Not that I think Twitter was necessarily investing revenue correctly, but a business can go pretty far even in the red.
As I read your post I recall having come to much of the same conclusions (also have a similar non traditional/institutional history - over 20yrs writing/building stuff).

I went as far as to enroll in an interview prep course to try and “freshen” up for an attempt to move from my current role/comp to a faang.

The trainer was an ex google guy who had done a ton of interviews over the years so I took the opportunity to ask him… why?

Why is the knowledge of how to implement an esoteric algorithm that I would almost never have a need to use for the job/role relevant. Why is memorization of these implementations so critical?
I get why it’s useful to understand the high level ideas/approaches but why do we need to be able to recite their implementations like the gospel?

After much prodding he admitted that it ultimately boils down to the companies using these practices trying to find an “unbiased” means of measuring a candidate. People tend to be terrible judges of character so having some standard questions and expected solutions gives the company at least some hope of providing a way to interview and hire at scale and reduce bias (slightly).

I get it now, there are (were?) so many applicants and so many interviewers that they had no time (or confidence) to try and get to know the applicants and their specific skills or what values they could add. They basically decided to punt and choose people who take the time to learn the gospel - these folks would either end up being good developers/engineers or more commonly getting put on review and fired - but they showed they had the capable to learn whatever might be needed.

I get it, I do, ultimately decided that I’m too old for the politics of the process (and that’s kinda by design) and I’d be better served ghosting comps that require this sort of thing going forward.

- just a grey bearded dev
When I started my career 10y ago, even then it was understood that after getting in, you've got 10-15y to go before you start running out of desirability. Search "why aren't there any 20y+ devs", it's not a new phenomenon.

Something happens, idk what, after 10-15y. Either people made so much money that they retired, or they all become managers, or idk?

Personally I'm still doing fine but I can see the 15y horizon coming, and I'm glad I saved money like a madman. I've got options, hope you plan as such.
I think it is fair to say that left to its own devices (that is, pretend the last year of disruption and then this hadn't happened), Twitter could have become profitable enough to muddle on.

Everyone knew they had too many employees, and that big money-making possibilities... don't seem to be there, due to the nature of the niche they've carved. But they had a lot of money in the bank, so they didn't need to make any sudden movements. Sensible downsizing and incremental improvement of the bottom line, and, yeah, that's a viable business.

It may not be super exciting, but if you want exciting, head south on 101, Meta is about 40 minutes out depending on time of day.
They have the best recurring investment tool

Can anyone name a better one?
I have heard nothing but exceptionally good things from top performers for him. So maybe it's not so black and white after all.
No better feeling than sending up a PR and seeing the red number big than the green one
Fair point. Agreed on the surgical layoffs. I assumed that Twitter's culture was rotting very deeply already since they haven't made much progress for a long time.