skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience (I've build and sold 2 companies) there are 2 factors increasing headcount in larger organisations:

1. Layers of management and organizational dynamics push up the number of people. There is a correlation between the number a manager manages and his status in the company. The larger the team - the larger your budgets are - the more important you are. Internal goals (to rise in the organization) override external goals (sell and generate profits).
When owners are leaving the company or have already cashed out, their motivation to keep financial discipline is lowered and management quality decreases. Owners differ from the hired managers because they prioritize external goals (sales, profit, long-term company health) not their own personal employee goals.

2. There is a strange fallacy that when you get your VC capital you need to increase your headcount to be perceived as a "serious" company. If you are 10 people working remotely you won't be able to ask for the same valuation in your second or third round as a "looks like a big company" startup with an office and 100 employees. Investors would push (sometimes inadvertenly) founders to grow personel at higher rate, because investors sell the company to other investors. They package the company to exit, they don't care that much about sales and profitability except as a baseline numbers for the next round valuation. I've seen this several times.

The contrapoint is that Instagram had 13 people when it was sold to Facebook and Whatsapp had around 40 people.

Twitter has 7500 employees. There's got to be a lot of layers of management, processes that can be removed from the company.
For Elon, fixing cashflow now is more important that keeping everything working smoothly. It works smoothly to generate loss every quarter. It's easier to cut the losses than generate revenue. It makes perfect sense.
You may be interested in using Org [1], in conjunction with literate-lisp [2] (for Common Lisp) and literate-elisp [3] (for Emacs Lisp). Org provides various outlining commands (among other things), letting you view your program at different levels of granularity. literate-lisp/elisp advise the Lisp reader so the Org file can be loaded and/or compiled directly, without requiring tangling. Consequently, tools like xref will jump to the source block in your Org file, rather than the tangled source. I wrote a little hack/guide to extend this to errors raised in Emacs' compilation-mode. [4]

(Unfortunately, the package that lets each Org source block behave as though it was using the corresponding language's Emacs major mode - poly-org-mode - has a ton of bugs. It was part of why I stopped using literate programming entirely for later projects.)

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[3] https://github.com/jingtaozf/literate-elisp
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At previous places I’ve been at it seems like it’s easier for higher ups to just blanket fire people and then rehire the important ones once people in the know complain. Not super efficient but definitely faster and comical in a depressing way.
Turn on a TV. No news about a war? No war. Unless you think there is a deeper conspiracy to keeping a war secret.

There you go, some really simple sources of information to counter your misinformation.
I work for another (much smaller) crypto market maker.

Alameda imploding would definitely cause a lot of specific assets to nosedive in the short-term, and a lot of volatility, but I think it'd be impossible for it to destroy crypto (perhaps the Solana blockchain, since they're heavily invested, but even that seems like a stretch).

That volatility would also be a ton of opportunity (for other market makers).

Things that could conceivably destroy crypto are more along the lines of coordinated regulation from an influential, multinational group, like the entirety of the G7
The idea behind neuralink- the real one, not the publicly stated mission- was to make it possible to put elon in a robot body so he could fight the AI singularity.
It seems to be aimed at people who are running the beta iOS 16.2 which is expected to ship in December.
We already know what's happening at his other companies. You're very optimistic if you think this isn't a continuation of that.
Who do you think has more leverage to optimize for their personal outcome? The CEO or the average employee?

Why do you find it OK for the ones to have power to leverage it in order to get even more? Where do you think this will end up if allowed to continue longterm?
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Sorry to say this but comments on this thread are very disappointing and show a basic lack of empathy in HN crowd. I am obviously generalizing and I know most of you are not heartless souls.

FFS people, a huge number of people have lost their livelihoods, sense of belonging and might fall into financial hardships in current market conditions. Whatever you think of Elon or Twitter employees, its good to be grounded in suffering of fellow techies.
I share your skepticism, however, it would be more dangerous to try to make predictions.

Moreover, I think the worrying is a bit too much: AI isn't replacing any jobs really, mostly enabling.

For the most part, AI is 'improving things' - just as any other bit of software or R&D.

That the AI can do 'a bit better speech to text' aka 85% accuracy instead of the classical 72% is not going to change the world.

Almost all AI will make it's way into things incrementally, unnoticed. Things will just get a big smarter, safer, shinier.

There will be a small number of 'step functions' but likely not to put anyone out of work.

It's better to think of NN's as not even AI, it's a distraction. Imagine if we just called them 'adaptive algorithms' and didn't have the hype. What would we think about it? Without Elon Musk talking about Skynet killing us all?

There are maybe some bits of manual labour here and there that will mean maybe a narrow range of factory workers will be out of luck, but that will be temporary, and there will always be unskilled labour beyond the AI, if we need those kinds of jobs.
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The process reminds me of map-reduce: first you aggregate a bunch of small companies for economies of scale, then slice them the other way to separate out the similar functions. No idea if or how often it actually works out that way :-)
Link to the leaked list?
Just judging by the outcome rather than the intent. Has global warming been solved? More generously: is it on a trajectory to be solved?
Lobbying is "influencing power for your own advantage". This is the opposite, its submitting to a certain agenda, some of them clearly against their own interests.
To be clear, that's not the only choice, it's the path of least resistance and framed as the only choice.

The other choices are just more work.
What you’re witnessing on HN and elsewhere is politics masquerading as objective and ostensibly, a thoughtful discourse.

None of the articles on HN have much of good faith discussion. I just see it as “progressives are pissed because their platform of power is being seized”. A lot of that relied on platform censorship on places like Twitter.

Just now, the WhiteHouse account is being fact checked. That doesn’t sit well with progressives.

This isn't some conspiracy theory, we have the current Biden Administration working with Big Tech to censor speech. "Public health" is just a trope under far more insiduous political agenda for power: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...
The funny thing is, from what I noticed living in both countries, there might be more US companies hiring talent in Romania because of the big local talent pool willing to grind, low corporate taxes, lax regulations and bureaucracy, than they're hiring in Germany
due to the high taxes, strict labor laws and complex bureaucracy. When US companies want to move to EU they usually go for a low-tax, low-bureocracy country, like Netherlands, Luxembourg, or Ireland. I could be wrong, but that's my anecdote.

Dev immigration from Romania to Germany was big 10-20 years ago, but now, most Romanian devs these days, unless they get offers that go above six figures, aren't rushing to move to Germany as most take home dev wages have almost caught up, but the CoL and housing is way cheaper than in Germany. I think the push to remote work since the pandemic really convinced more US companies to double down on hiring remotely in Romania pushing wages up. I think it's similar in Poland.

From what I saw, they open a small office in Germany when they either want to tap some university/research institution or open a big office when they want to bring in (and low-ball) a lot of Indian/Turkish/non-EU devs who's goal is moving to the EU, as Germany is a popular immigration destination for non-EU devs rather than Romania or Eastern Europe which are less desirable immigration destinations (although that does seem to be changing slowly).
Except for the ones who are idiots who parrot GOP talking points?
I read somewhere that a leveraged buy out (which the twitter purchase is) where the company takes on a lot of debt, mainly succeed when they slash costs and new development and increase profits from existing revenue streams. Twitter is doing the cost slashing, but being a free speech social network will reduce the revenue from advertising, adding features will add to costs.

Maybe he has some magic bunny to pull out of the hat - but its very well hidden.
You ought to know by now that HN readers are experts on everything.
You just explained it, imagine if one of your competitors (Tesla) now knows how much you spend on Twitter, its like a strategy game but now they know your advertising budget. Also they want to see the boundaries between Tesla and Twitter, are you funding your competitors by just spending money on Twitter?
“Battery” is most often used with the meaning “Electric battery”, but it is a broader term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage: “A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery”
Unintended? My company did two rounds of layoffs already and this was a thing that was known from day 1. Literally the day after the the first rounds one of the questions in the town hall was about "how do we plan to retain the people who are left now that they're getting spammed by linkedin recruiters".

I think these days this is a known and intentional effect from upper management and they absolutely are accounting for another 5-10% of voluntary leavers post layoffs. Its free money from their POV, no severance.
U.S. job growth beats expectations in October, but cracks emerging
Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon and is losing its big bet on desalination
> We are watching Atlas Shrugged play out.

Atlas Shrugged my ass. There has never been a more effective government suckler than Elon Musk. Every business he's running exists entirely due to the largesse of the federal government. Except Twitter of course, and so far it's looking quite possible that he may end up incinerating his $44 billion dollar impulse purchase.
From your source:

> SpaceX has said it pays for about 70 percent of the services used by Ukraine, offering all the terminals in that country the best possible option, valued at USD 4,500 per month even though most have contracts signed only for the USD 500-per-month service option.
> Sure, as an interim step to making humanity interplanetary. Are you suggesting that he could find commercial success without taking those intermediate steps?

My point is that the rockets are the easiest part of settling Mars. We already had rockets, and scaling that up was never a huge unknown. The real problems with settling Mars are the things that Musk is spending nothing on - building safe self-sustaining habitats in extreme conditions. Until we have a 10000+ self-sustaining city underground in the Arctic, there is 0 reason to send more than a handful of people to Mars (like we did to the Moon). So, if you actually care about that, you should be investing in the Arctic city, not Mars.

> I suspect he also recognizes that America is a car culture and that that won't change anytime soon.

We can try to guess what he believes, or we can look at his actions and their results - and in the latter case, he has repeatedly spoken and acted against public transport (in most hyper-loop and Boring Company presentations at least).
Sorry, when I say backups, I mean paper voted created by the voter's own hand as the original vote, counted by machine, and held securely as a way to verify the vote if any of the candidates call the election into question.

There is no system in which electronically cast and electronically created backups are a good idea.
You can compile cryptsetup into the kernel? I didn't know that. Interesting. Have you a reference for that?

Or are you trying to say that you're booting without a initrd (which is said to be in general broken for decades).

Also the secure boot question remains.

I still don't get why complicate things in such way.

Imho nothing is simpler than copying a (signed) boot-image onto the (firmware manged) boot partition, and be done.
If someone says those words - that he helmed a company and pushed them to deliver re-usable rockets then ok. Saying he built that is an absurd fantasy.
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I have a question: why companies like Twitter need so many people? I'm sorry but it doesn't seem that hard to replicated Twitter functionality and scalability (with the right people on team). What are the engineers actually doing the whole day? Why do they need so many lines of code? All mysterious to me.
He bought Tesla before it had sold its first car. People try to use the fact that he didn't technically create Tesla as some gotcha that implies he bought his way into the car market.
Is SpaceX the most valuable privately held company in the world now?
Unless you buy low end chest freezers you get 1 or two layers of sliding shelves. To access lower items, you slide the shelves to the side.

If you were not blessed with sliding shelves, people typically uses bins or dividers
This unit stores 8MWh of energy with 100 tonnes of sand. Gravity is about 9.8m/s*2.

If you put the calculation into google "8MWh / 9.8m/s*2 / 100 tonnes", it tells you that you need lift those 100 tonnes 29.39km up, which is over 3 times the height of Everest. And the mechanics of the system are much more complicated, more expensive to build and maintain.

However, pumping water uphill is done in many places, and is more practical because a lake of water can easily weigh millions of tonnes. The problem is finding places with suitable hill top lakes.

Also, if you are using it for district heating output, storing it as heat is convenient.

There might scope to increase efficiency by using some sort of heat pump, but getting a heat pump to go up to 600°C is quite hard.
If you let the government get away with just simple counts they don't have to work as hard to fake an election. A time series can be compared with exit polling for example to highlight irregular patterns.
Yes, sorry, I wasn't directing the vile at you, that was just the first time I had seen a file from the OpenBSD kernel and was shocked at how aggressively opaque it was

And, to your point, if it was reverse engineered, that's more reason to comment, not less, because (a) memory is fleeting (b) if I wanted to contribute, I could read along about how Zen Master OpenBSD Reverser found those so I could go find more
> ... you can quickly be left holding the bag. This corrects eventually, but not usually within the span of days or even months. It can often take years to see things correct.

You're aware that especially bakeries have been raising prices very promptly all over the world.

True, price raises do have delays in some cases (rents) but generally for most common services and products that people buy in everyday life, if there's no cartel messing with prices, they will very consistently and without years of delays increase when inputs become more expensive.

> You still can't have inflation if the people don't have money.

This might be true for the more dispensible items in the basket but I'd say for real necessities it's mostly wrong. People who have little money will first shift their expenses from less necessary things to essentials. Even if people don't have more money, they will have to spend more on the things they continue buying. This is exactly what's happening right now, almost everywhere.

> A business can't magically charge more than someone is willing and able to pay.

Unless there are subsidies by the state that try to keep the businesses afloat. These are very pervasive.
I'm not talking about fewer issues in general, I'm talking about less of this issue: the issue that people are self-radicalizing by sorting into echo chambers where their priors are re-enforced instead of being compelled to hear someone else's worldview or a broadcaster-controlled consensus worldview.

Broadcaster-controlled consensus worldviews can be faulty. But we have not replaced those faults with the self-sorting of the listener, because listener worldviews are also faulty.
> Usually it is good idea to have special people good with visuals to make these artistic decisions.

The question is, how many people?
>I've been at Apple for 20 years now

Can you please fix CoreBluetooth? It desperately needs async-await APIs :)

Also a non-location-permissions-based bluetooth background wakeup mode would be amazing

While we're at it, not locking new Swift features behind iOS X would be incredible. WWDC each year is basically "here's all the stuff you can use in 3-4 years when you can up the min-spec iOS"
You have never heard of a board firing a CEO?
There are so few places anymore where you can't guess exactly what will be in the comments threads, and you go between feeling either frustrated or occasionally relieved to see someone who is open-minded. The few that popped up either seem to become echo chambers with their own biases, mysteriously disappear, or get flooded by organized campaigns to ruin the landscape.
Thanks y'all for the immediate slander and political replies. Anyways, the strategy is now clearly to burn twitter to the ground and diminish its influence since it isn't controlled anymore.
I'm not sure about this. Twitter operation expenses are $3B on $5B revenue. They'll have to cut significantly the operational expenses and some these will be engineers.
To be fair, I know from personal experience Fremont has gone down hard for hours before.
Was it only 18 months?

Wikipedia states: ...he returned there full-time after graduating [in 2014]. In September 2017, Bankman-Fried quit Jane Street...

Seems closer to 3 years, but it doesn't state whether he started there immediately after graduating or not.

What do you suggest are the reasons for his leaving?
> be pretty easy to create a "defi credit union" that's not a scam, it'd just be hard to cut thru all the noise. Give 3% to 5% yields on saving, lend at 8% to 12%

This is a bank. Running a bank is not easy.
It makes sense in context, where the author is asking the court if there is anything they could take another look at with the goal of prompting them to reconsider. He is not asking if they would like to do A or B, but rather if they would please consider doing A in order to then do B.
Well, how do you measure return?

People seem to think one of three things about Elon Musk:

A) Musk is a typical rich asshole who only loves money.
B) Musk is a typical power hungry asshole who loves power and money is a side effect.
C) Musk is a big nerd who thinks he can solve big problems better than other people, and power and money are side effects.

I believe he's type C (Hopeful Nerd). So for that type of person, his positive return is solving the problem. He thinks he can fix social media. He thinks social media is a big problem. He thinks humans need to fix social media or they are fucked, just like if they don't get off oil they are fucked, and just like if they can't leave Earth they are fucked. Fundamentally, he does think humans are worth saving.

I would bet that the vast majority of people that choose to work with Elon believe he is type C (Hopeful Nerd) and believe in humanity as well. That's why they put up with all of his flaws and toxicity - because they believe in the cause and know it's a broken eggs == omelet situation.
Doesn't make sense, there are thousands of interesting companies, each of them with their own culture.
We don't really have a plan to stop using fossil fuels for electricity generation so this is a bit overstated. Electric cars are good but it's not a complete solution.
I think the word you wanted was "tautological."
A lot has changed in 3 months.
> If you are anticipating human greed evaporating, then yes, crypto will go to zero.

Your assumption does not only rely on human greed but also on an upper limit on human creativity.

You are also making a (strong, imo) assumption that humans will not find a new and more creative outlet for their greed (aka pump and dump schemes) that is not crypto. Crypto is already associated in the public minds with many grifts and scams, and it may be much simpler at some point to create a new scheme rather than recycling old ones.
>Biden’s statement wasn’t wrong.

Bullshit. ". . . through President Biden’s leadership" is objectively false. It's through the CPI adjustment he had nothing to do with. Even if you leave that out it is intentionally misleading.

It's the sort of lie the media (rightfully) wouldn't let Trump get away with.
That depends on the terms of the loans. Can be recourse or non-recourse.
Those are the words, but here's the resulting context. The author is a public defender tasked with finding the best possible resolution to impossible cases.

In one case they uttered those 11 words after an unsuspectedly harsh sentence, followed by:

> “All right. Mr. Meskhout, I’ll go ahead and give him an opportunity. Since you have asked.”

> The judge then imposed two days in jail. Two days instead of one hundred and eighty.

It sounds like the words are legalize for "would you please reconsider?"

Defendants are streamed in every 5-10 minutes, so in this case, simply asking again was enough for the judge to agree and move on to the next case.
Assuming half the taxpaying households in the US did that -

80 million x $31.5 = approx $2.5 Billion a year.

Wow. That is something amazing - just goes to show how wasteful our society is.
Social justice (communism) killed upwards of 100 million last century, by famines, gulags, mass exterminations, etc. and ruined billions of more lives. Fascism killed about 50 million (WWII + Holocaust), give or take. Both are abhorrent, but social justice wins the "Worst Thing Ever" award.
A recent update nuked the battery life on mine. It went from 40 days to 10-15.
Are there any plans to have a vscode extension for the intellisense?
I remember seeing someone who had created a fridge which was actually in the kitchen counter, pressing a button caused the shelves of the fridge to rise up from inside of the fridge ideally leaving most of the cold air inside the now empty fridge. It was interesting if nothing else.