skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are being gaslighted that there's an epidemic of quiet quitting when quiet quitting has been defined as "not staying on unpaid overtime". We're being told that remote work is killing America because inner city office rental properties have lost value. In the end however its just a way to manufacture consent for the inevitable layoffs that will soon hit the economy. The Federal Reserve stated explicitly that they will stop inflation by increasing unemployment because there are no other levers left.
>What we don’t need is a bunch of people wondering why we’re being less productive in the workplace as if the answer weren’t right in front of them.

Honestly, all of the 'productivity is down' and 'quiet quitting' PR spin articles from everyone from Fox to CNN to NPR have made me realize that either the people who have wealth and control media are completely disconnected from my reality, or, are absolute sociopaths.

Legitimately, everyone in my life is exhausted. They're exhausted by covid, inflation, war, politics, violence, whatever it is. They're exhausted. It's all too much, and it's all running together.

I believe we are on the edge of a massive social upheaval. No idea what will happen or what will set it off, but I do believe that.
I think you're giving Musk too much credit by classifying this as not "treating employees nicely" - he's mismanaging things in every way possible. The individual treatment of employees is such a small subset of it (e.g. Bezos also mistreats employees but seems much more grounded & competent than Musk).

My real curiosity from the whole affair is gauging the actual impact a CEO can have on a company's success / failure. No doubt Twitter's had issues as a product for a long time, long before Musk came along. Whatever direction the company goes next, will be be due to or despite Musk's input.
This is what I like about the machine I vote on in Texas. You vote on the machine then it prints the ballot for you. You walk your ballot to a scanner and feed it in where it tells you it successfully read your ballot.
That sounds like a flaw in the embedding technology — surely the display name should be whatever it was when the tweet was created?
To Current Business Owners, How Safe Is Your Business?
Don't confuse heat capacity with conductivity.

And the air is blown through pipes in the sand, which means you need something which will easily surround the pipes.

Solid materials would suffer from thermal expansion problems (like cracking), while liquids evaporate so sand seem to be a reasonable choice.

For their application the conductivity does not really matter and the cheap reject sand was chosen because it has the best mass to price ratio.

It is heated to 600°C so it would be not the best idea to use clay with straw ;)
Github does allow (some amount of) GH Actions for free, as does Gitlab.
Basically, if you're salaried (Full-time employee) and an executive gets a hair and decides to pivot, then layoffs'll happen. Basically, it's your employer looking at financial prospects and going "We no longer have need of your services."

It is generally coupled with a severance package, which if taken delays your eligibility to avail yourself of your State's unemployment benefits. Many states are at will employment. It is customary to give two weeks notice, but not strictly required.

The U.S. can be a fickle beast.
That's only an issue if you distrust a particular news source more than you distrust Twitter itself.

Now that Twitter is owned by a known bully (I don't use that word lightly), only the crappiest newspapers would fit that standard.
Require (by law) that the actual machines be available for potential inspection for X weeks/months after each election. If there is suspicion of fraud/issues, inspection happens on the machines that have been stored since the election. Since the machines are offline the entire time (by design it seems), manipulation doesn't seem that easy, granted the machines are stored in a secure location in the meantime.
>1 year: Initially, we'll see improvements. Dead weight is cut, along with some live branches, but we see improvements. More free and open speech, I believe he will follow through on that. Fringe groups have a louder voice and can find people to join their causes, leading to further polarization of politics across the globe, and especially in the US.

Twitter has no real impact on polarization on politics especially in the US.
The problems of the US are first past the post elections, the broken 19th century style primaries, people literally not having enough money to take a day off to vote and/or being too burnt out daily to give a shit about politics.

The result is the extremes get a very very loud voice since they are the only ones with nothing better to do. Twitter suddenly being more "free and open" means the extremes get an even louder voice.

Your average person making up most of the population just wants to kick back and relax from the daily grind. Not go argue on twitter.
Yes. Underperformance is a decent indicator. Number of PRs is not a great one, but it can be somewhat correlated with eng velocity/productivity. Twitter will probably end up using a combination of metrics like that.

They will hopefully also talk to EMs, but at this scale might choose not to. It's going to be an ugly process but I doubt it's going to be a random one. They clearly understand that it's in their interest to retain the most skilled and performant employees.

Also, don't want to sound too cynical, but I would guess that it's actually not that hard to evaluate eng performance with all the data companies are collecting during WFH. I am sure Twitter requires using a VPN, so digging into that data would yield quite a revealing and precise performance metric. The only reason this approach is not widespread is ethical, not technological.
You wrote: <<In the 2000 crash it was still fairly easy to find a job if you could code.>>

Personal anecdata: I lived in Silicon Valley in this era. It was awful. That was absolutely not true. I spent two years sorting papers for ~12 USD per hour ("temp worker"). Eventually, I gave up on SV and moved to New York City. I found a very good job in less than two months.
I should clarify my question "why" is specifically about conflating votes with timestamps. I have more general concerns about voting machines, but those have been raised elsewhere in the comments many times by other commenters.
There are privately held companies that has 100B+ revenue per year.

Cargill to Ikea
The browser engine is exactly why I don't want to use Safari.
Let’s see!

The Terms of Service:

https://twitter.com/content/twitter-com/legal/en/tos

states “You may use the Services only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable laws, rules and regulations”, and links to the Twitter Rules and Policies:

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies

Following the link to the “Hateful Conduct Policy”:

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...

Which states:

> We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.

In the Wayback machine, it looks like that direct language was added in an update between October 19 and October 28 of 2018, about four years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181028023901/https://help.twit...

The older version had this, which reasonably encompasses that behavior, though doesn’t name it specifically:

> repeated and/or or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone.
> in violation of the first amendment

I've never seen this. I have seen people point out that Twitter isn't promoting freedom of speech and the somebody else conflating that with the first amendment of the U.S. constitution though.
So looking at other siblings comments in this subthread, sounds like Elon is a genius, rigor in future Twitter, high calibre talent blah blah blah.

Even if that may end up being true that suggests Twitter today is full of mediocre/subpar employees. Were Parag and other execs just rewarded for bringing Twitter to a sacrifice at the altar? Dang indeed!
> a distributed system like Twitter

how is it distributed?
Interesting bit from a linked article:

"With the launch of Blokada v6 last June, Blokada successfully dodged this bullet as Blokada no longer requires a local VPN. Blokada v6 uses Cloud filtering instead; this method does not break Google policies and also provides certain advantages 850 over local VPN filtering since it won’t impact battery life, device speed, or network speed."

Surely this is only a temporary workaround as Google slowly brings this frog to a boil, right?
“Google is determined to enforce their policy”

Is this is surprise? I understand why people don’t like this but anyone think they made a new rule and weren’t going to enforce it?
Among people I know at Twitter who got laid off, they have 60 days of notice during which they don't need to work but still get paid + severance commensurate with their tenure (30+ days). All of them think this whole process is an absolute fucking shitshow and the company is going to swirl the toilet bowl, but I don't think any feel as though their legal rights were violated.
This thread reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper
Wasn't WhatsApp on track to be cash flow positive?

I know I at least was shouting at them to take my money: it was the perfect HN product, reasonably priced, technically superior and with no ads or tracking.

And yes, I paid as well.
Wave Motion wins $1.3M to work on jet-gun launcher for U.S. Navy
Awesome!

And it looks like Kennedy has indexed my gemlog, so that's pretty neat.

gemini://dungeonhack.net

How does Kennedy work? I thought Gemini was read-only.
I have no idea what the point seems to be, of course it's just anecdata but as a German, every single person I know who went medical school (if you want to call it that way) wanted to become a doctor and all the others went to study whatever they wanted to do.

Never heard of this weird claim and also in my experience no one here gives a damn at what university you studied, usually it's a simple checkbox "finished degree?" and only if you are fresh out of university, not 10 years later.

I'm also not talking about CS here, there I had most of my offers without ever being asked if I had a degree.
You're reading news sources where you think it's a serious threat that the journalists might fake a tweet? Why would you care about what any site with that low of a reputation has to say?
It should be illegal to buy a company with money you borrow against the value of that company. When your primary financial goal is servicing debt over building long term value - the incentives become completely misaligned.
I guess I'm mostly surprised they were allowed to persist for so long, with Google being a major provider of those ads. Fortunately there's F-Droid :)
HE DIDNT FUCKING START THOSE THINGS.

Jesus christ the dick riding on HN is insane.
Is anyone else getting a whole bunch of certificate errors?
Apart from the inefficiency and inaccessibility.
I think a more appropriate biological analogy is HP evolved into Agilent and defecated Compaq and a crap CEO into a new business and this article is standing around the pile clapping its hands.

Source: ex HP/Agilent.
Yeah, and then there are those that make it and stay. I doubt you hear from them. Anyone still at SpaceX/Tesla feel free to pipe in.
That is also the time period when they started showing a profit.
Actual code of tinygrad is less than 5k lines. There is also 1600 lines of tests and around 2k lines of example models. And I didn't count unfinished support for geohot's own unfinished neural network accelerator(verilog for that accelerator sits in repo too), which is abandoned.
He talks about sort of observing the pain, and doing breathing exercises, which I guess sometimes I would do to, maybe it is some way to isolate the pain from other senses, then when you feel it, you can sort of categorize those senses away as noise, and zone it out.

I remember practicing this once when I was teenager as an exercise. I read this in some book about becoming a ninja, (I don’t remember the title now). I went outside in the winter barefooted and stood still in the snow and as it started to make my feet hurt I just kept allowing myself to feel the pain completely and while doing a breathing exercise. After that I could run outside in the snow barefooted without feeling it so much, impressing my friends, lol. It probably wasn’t a great idea, given the risk of frostbite, but it seems similar to one of the methods of allowing yourself to feel it, instead of the cognitive dissidence.
So most of the republicans I run into are extremely frank about the way the country ought to be run. When I was younger it was the same way with democrats.
I believe pumping water up a mountain is the only economical energy storage battery based on current economics. Lifting heavy weights requires such a big facility that it won't beat other simpler means. I think pumped hydro is something like 70-80% efficient, which is really good.

I believe sodium ion batteries (CATL alleges mass production of 160 wh/kg) will be the killer app battery of grid storage that doesn't have pumped hydro as a geographic possibility, although that's probably 5 years out. A 160 wh/kg sodium ion battery (which should have superior cell-to-pack density than nickel/cobalt chemistries similar to LFP chemistry) can power a standard range model 3.
It is quite common for some kinds of politics (you can deduce which ones) to create an enemy of the common people from thin air, and use it to justify your actions.
If possible, try to get some distance from the particulars and do some emotional introspection.

I am not recommending psychedelics or plant medicines, however mentioning that they have helped many achieve levels of introspection into their own hardware and software to allow a more honest refactor of one’s main user interface to reality (our mind and body).
There is no WARN act violation if the employee receives 60 days of severance and some consideration for vesting. Is there any evidence that didn’t happen?
Sidekiq 7.0: Embedding
Hospitals were not taking people in willy nilly (because they were running out of beds). I wasn't in the UK, but in my area they were telling people only to come to the hospital if they were having trouble breathing. Have you ever had a cold that made it difficult for you to breathe and put you in danger of suffocating? Is that the sort of thing you just shrug off in your mind? When I was a child I had what I would consider a severe cold every year (due to a deviated septum); I coughed out some impressive phlegm gobs, but never had any shortness of breath.

You're accusing other people of being paranoid, while wildly downplaying the severity of COVID. Every reaction must seem like a paranoid overreaction from the perspective that it's "just a cold," but the cold does not have a 1% mortality rate (as we were seeing at the time).

I remain baffled by how some people will look at someone fighting for their life on a respirator and say, "wow, what a weak, entitled person, coming to the hospital for life saving care when they could recover from sheer force of will in the privacy of their own home."
There's this cool project using z3 (and racket) for formalizing CSS rendering [1] I never came around to lift for anything. Maybe someone else interested in leading the web out of the dark ages and give W3C's CSS WG an idea what we expect from them will.

[1]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius
It seems like most of the layoffs are in trust, comms, creative, policy, wellness and those supporting these functions.

If the rumours of 50% downsizing are correct these functions were way bigger than I expected.
I think you mean the remaining people leetcode?
WhatsApp is not 'vastly more innovative', and they solved different kinds of problems.

Twitter is a 'universe of 100M connected people'.

WhatsApp mostly connected single entities together.

So, for example, 'real time search' and 'relevant updates'.

Imagine taking a firehose of 100M people's random thoughts, putting that into an index, making it instantly searchable. Now pull up the most relevant thoughts from those 100M to each and every other 100M user.

Now moderate all of it in really subtle ways, whereupon most of the 'negative activity' is tantamount to spam or annoying behaviour, and not anything we might normally consider 'abuse'.

That's an incredibly different challenge and that's only two small artifacts of what they are doing.

Twitter is not rocket science, but it's not trivial either.

Also consider that R&D is usually maybe on 20% of overhead - yes - it takes 'all those other jobs and expenses' to run a company.

Some of these statements are a bit glib.
> Then why did NASA never create cost-effective reusable launch vehicles?

Because NASA was usually about pushing the limits of science and engineering, not making money on space launches. Also, it has often been severely mismanaged.

> I'm not sure how this refutes the claim that this is one of his ultimate goals. He's not going to invest in the kind of research you describe until it's necessary or will plausibly create a return. He has to keep a business focus to continue funding these efforts because governments have been seriously falling short.

You're the one claiming SpaceX was created to address an existential crisis. I'm telling you SpaceX is not bringing us any closer to being an interplanetary species, and if Musk cared about this goal, he wouldn't have invested in SpaceX to begin with.

>OK, I still don't see why that's problem. Public mass transit is not going to save the planet on its own. Personal transport is something like only 20% of global emissions. EVs can get that down to below 5%, and public transit might make another single digit difference over that. It's just not a big change.

No, they can't. Replacing all ICEs with EVs would basically require doubling the electricity grid in the USA for example, and that is simply not a realistic possibility - especially given that the grid is already far too dirty and we need to replace a huge amount of it with green tech to reach CO2 emissions goals even without the extra pressure from EVs.

So, the realistic goal is to significantly expand the much much more efficient public transport (trains, buses, trams, metro) to significantly reduce the amount of cars (which will also do wonders for reducing congestion), and convert just the remaining cars to EVs, at a rate that can be supported by the grid while also shutting down existing coal, oil and gas power production.
> "freedom of speech" (I know that the first amendment

Freedom of speech is different than the first amendment. The first amendment prohibits the government from limiting freedom of speech, but the concept itself is more general than the law.
> Freedom of speech is an ideal that applies to all people and all spaces

Is it though?

Those outside of the US who subscribe to this ideal seem heavily influenced by US culture in my experience. I'm not aware of non-US sources of the idea.

Add to that I've never really seen anyone espouse this ideal that actually understood (or could articulate) what "free speech" even means...

Certainly in the context of Musk's campaign, neither he nor most of his followers are genuine in their support for "free speech". Musk in particular has been a staunch supporter of censorship in practice, and has only paid lip service to free speech for clicks.
Something related somehow, from 13 years ago, to fit an image in the (then) 140 characters on Twitter: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770
Interesting that the conversation then turns into using Return-To-Office as a strategy for voluntary departures ("20%").
Everything Musk does in the public sphere is a performance. He's putting on a show, and the show is always crafted according to whatever he thinks will sway the public in the direction he wants them to go.
In the US, at least, a recession happening is possible but not backed up by actual economic trends: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/economy/recession-inflation-e...
The problems do look the same. Why don't they share a common enforcement agency? Because they deal with two types of entities (government vs corporation) that operate machines with vastly different use cases with vastly different threat models. A casino's threat model for its slot machine supply chain is completely different than the threat model for voting machine integrity.

Boiling the problem down to the integrity of the hardware and software throws out the nuance of how and why exploitation might occur (and who is doing the exploiting), which has huge implications for how you make regulations and do enforcement.
PDSA/PDCA are applied outside of combat (if we're comparing it to OODA) with training, exercise, and study. Learn what the aircraft can do and develop a new maneuver, practice the maneuver until it becomes automatic, then in combat with the OODA loop (tightened by training and practice) you apply the maneuver when it's appropriate to overcome your opponent.

PDSA/PDCA can improve the OODA loop because it can inform how you train, but the OODA loop is not PDSA/PDCA.
The first thing I would think if I was brought into court like that would be: why are we even here? What is the purpose of this exercise? So three individuals can do some bizarre ritual dance of logic, rhetoric, and blind willful emotion, and the conclusion of this dance decides a man's life? A family's life?

A rational person might judge the situation and see that, yes, it's not fair for this man to commit a crime that could put other's lives at stake. But that he also has a family to care for, and that we might solve the problem by simply taking away his right to drive, as well as simultaneously giving him the support he needs (transportation so he doesn't need to drive and get DUIs, as well as psychological support). But that's not what we give him. We either give him a slap on the wrist, or deport him.

We all know that there has to be a better way, but as far as I can tell, nothing is being done about it. It's like with software design. We just have these shitty tools, that have to work in these shitty ways, and we all know there must be a better way, but inertia and cargo cult and incumbency keeps us stuck in a rut. If there is progress, it's unacceptably slow and disorganized.
What you say has an element of truth, but you have to consider time spans.

That is, I've borrowed money on my credit card. The interest rate could go up next month. But I've also borrowed money in the form of the fixed-rate mortgage on my house, and the interest rate isn't going up until I take out a new mortgage to buy a different house.

The federal government borrows money in a bunch of time spans, from 3-month notes to 30-year bonds. The 30-year bonds are sensitive to what people think the interest rates are going to do over the next 30 years, not to what the interest rates do this month.
This is exactly it. Terminated technically means, no longer receiving compensation or benefits.

If Musk is basically saying “stop working” and we will pay you for the next 60 days (and even beyond), then this is completely legal as long as they are not restricted from seeking other employment during this “notice period”

Edit: IANAL
This would sort itself out if browser implementations followed the standard and allowed us to set the user-agent ourselves.

Personally I would then set it to 1, 2 or 3 and have my server handle those cases.

Right now then ONLY user-agent code I have running is this:

navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Android') == -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Other') == -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('SamsungBrowser') == -1

Good job Samsung/Google!