skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far the list is:

* Audi

* GM

* General Mills

* L'Oreal

* Pfizer

* Volkswagen

You then have Interpublic and WPP telling their clients to pause ads.

People really don't understand the power imbalance. Twitter desperately needs these advertisers but for these brands the ad spend is in low single digits and the possibility of harming their brand just simply isn't worth it.
That’s a good point and I agree. But it’s not like they detract from the other products. I think for open source foundations it’s not about average product value but overall value of the portfolio.

If these were business lines then of course it’s bad to have stinkers or abandoned products. But with Apache products it doesn’t cost them anything (or almost nothing) to keep them around and have amazing products (httpd, spark, lucene, etc) ad well.

I think the issue with Mozilla is that their browser has really floundered despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on development. That’s the problem they need to fix. It would be curious to see what Google’s spend is on Chromium and Chrome. I’d be surprised if they have 100 developers working on it.
> How can any small company or startup survive if they have to contend with those kinds of requirements?

That's why Twitter didn't start there.
Has musk publicly flouted the layoffs? Isn’t this all tech journalists reporting on it?

Sounds like he’s trying to cut to profitability to me… after spending 44 billions dollars.
I don't think that was the point that they are trying to make.

A lot of people hold the belief Healthcare in the US is bad because it callously refuses to spend money on people. This is not the case.

When you remember that those funds were largely deducted from someone's paycheck, it has a real impact on those workers and it's important not to dismiss all the hard work that did go into supplying those funds.

That's not to say that there are major structural issues with how Healthcare is regulated in the US, primarily related to how those funds are spent
> I recall that you can't invoke copyright law to selectively enforce it, copyright is only protected if the holder pursues every violation of it

IIRC, that is wrong. What you are describing is trademarks, not copyright.
WebGL Simulation of Paper Marbling
I also made the same quick calculation, opening the door ~20-30 times is equivalent to placing a bottle of milk in it, in terms of joules. (Milk has ~4x the mass, and ~6x the heat capacity in terms of mass.) Is that negligible? Well, depends on the usage, i guess, but the 10x efficiency from the article certainly can't come from it.

Maybe if you open the door, the moving air heats the things inside much faster?

edit: in a sister thread they state that the humidity of air plays a more significant role.
Twitter clearly wasn’t perfect, but it was a source of value to me as a user. I guess he’s just going to burn it all down.
What about that seemed sarcastic? It read as a practical solution to an unlikely problem.

Orbiting the sun seems like a pretty stellar solution to the whole "keep something close and visible but safe without maintenance" problem.

Plus, think of how exciting it would be for a future civilization to discover that an object orbiting the sun was not a lump of rock!
I can't help but feel like you're playing a character right now, the way you talk about it.
> So you can just retire after being fired?

Not in my country (in Europe). You get unemployment benefits for up to 2+ years that is a percentage of your salary up to a certain level, depending on your job history in the last 2-3 years. The maximum you can get is around $40k USD, which can be difficult because you probably have a mortgage and other expenses that were calibrated to a much higher salary.

You are also required to actively apply for jobs, and you may be required to take a job application course. I think you can even be assigned to a job interview if you delay. It is not intended as a "free" paid vacation. I think that even in some cases you are theoretically required to take any job anywhere in the country even if you have to move, but I haven't heard of anyone who had to do that. I assume they look at your social situation (family etc.)

Every 2 weeks you need to send in a form where you state that you have been actively looking for work and your financial situation is unchanged. If you forget to check some boxes, you lose all your money for the 2 weeks. Vacation is also regulated and you need to inform your local government and in some cases you will not receive money for the period. You are assumed to spend a full working week applying for jobs.

After 2 years you are placed into a different type of program where you don't get a fixed amount, but you get money according to what the local government decides you need. That means you would need to sell your big house and move to a cheaper appartement if you want to get any support. If you had any savings, you would probably have to spend them before getting any assistance.
>By train­ing their AI sys­tems on pub­lic GitHub repos­i­to­ries (though based on their pub­lic state­ments, pos­si­bly much more) we con­tend that the defen­dants have vio­lated the legal rights of a vast num­ber of cre­ators who posted code or other work under cer­tain open-source licenses on GitHub.

I don't know about the US laws in copyright so I can't comment on the legal documents but this website is not complaining that copilot is reproducing copyrighted content but it was trained on copyrighted content. I don't see how you can forbid someone or something to read and learn from something that is public (once again producing is another problem)
Human processing, not computation by chips.
Fair theoretical point.

Please do name one industry, niche or platform where copyright does actually prevent this from happening in any meaningful way today.
> Notably, the layoffs will be global and take place across geographies.

IDK where Twitter has the most employees outside of the US, but in most countries in Europe you absolutely cannot do mass layoffs this way and if you try, you're in for a world of pain.
A perfect example of how Swedes are completely pwned by Norwegians.

Swedes have Andrée and Vasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)

and Norway has Amundsen/Nansen and Fram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(ship)

Exactly how they died is still an unsolved mystery.

Had they been Norwegians I bet they would have survived (like Nansen).
Z-Library is still accessible via TOR. You may find and onion-URL in Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
Idk, tell managers to speak to their teams, have an online with everyone to explain the situation.

Literally anything that shows you remotely care about the situation is better than "You might or might not get an email in the next few days to let you know you're fired"

I know people who went though that and it's very dehumanising and stress inducing
Who determines the borders of a "region"? Can a few Tory-leaning families in an independent Scotland declare their neighborhood an exclave of the UK? Clearly there's still some kind of implicit requirement of geopolitical muscle.
People actually discriminate a lot more on accent than looks - which makes sense as an adaptive strategy, since accent is a much better signal of tribal association. And if one pays attention to accent it's pretty obvious who's an immigrant and who grew up locally.
Alright folks you heard it here first. jdub has assured us Twitter is going down!
What do you inspect on your recordings?
I like Gemini, and I am increasing my use of it. Its killer feature is that it's great at writing technical documentation, in my view. Gopher is more finicky, so Gemini is the way to go.

If I'm permitted a little plug: gemini://tozip.chickenkiller.com/ . I also run a gemini to gopher bridge, so the site can be assessed via the url gopher://tozip.chickenkiller.com/ Its works via a perl script I knocked together using inetd on FreeBSD. So if you like gemtext, but can't be bothered with the hassle of setting up security keys, then the bridge may be the way to go.

One idea for a cool project for Gemini that no-one seems to have done is a Twitter clone. What's interesting about it is that Gemini has the concept of an identity baked in, so you wouldn't need to register for an account to start posting.
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From week 5 into my employment he reports me to hr because he was unsatisfied with the quality of my work. Over the next few weeks he would proceed to make my life miserable and systematically use hr to give me a poor performance review eventually firing me for my attitude. It really sucks that I got fired because I really needed liked the job but I guess I can now say I’m a diehard vim user.

This is the key. I don't think he was fired for not using VS Studio. I think he was fired because his quality sucked or he was slow or he had a poor attitude or they had to make extra accommodations to him because he used a non team supported IDE. Or all of the above.

In later comments, he suggested that he had disagreements with his boss about how to do things and suggested that his boss was threatened by him. To me, it sounded like he did not get along with his boss and vim was not the core issue.

He posted it in /r/vim so all he is going to get is echo chamber of sympathy.
What free software offers the enterprise features of Windows? AFAIK not even Red Hat is anywhere close to the central management features of Windows domains. Samba on Linux/Mac is severely backwards and using it is pain.
Twitter does not have the luxury of being the Ma Bell monopoly.

If Twitter had a vice-grip on the social media market, we'd live in a different world... for better or for worse.
If you’re going to paraphrase Abelson at least credit him.

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
Twitter has destroyed public discourse. It has turned conversations into contents to be as short and as edgy as possible.

I’m sorry you don’t see that.
You'd want to select it special to be non-reactive, and even then limit or eliminate exposure to UV, oxygen, and temperature changes. Stone is also a changing material on this time scale and I think storage preference would largely be the same. I think one of the more salient differences is feature size; easier to make very small yet still legible images in metal than in stone.
The people in Gibraltar don't want to be Spanish. Forcing them could also be considered imperialism, no?

The Netherlands still has a few Carribbean islands situated next to Venezuela. You break it you buy it.
You think those failed because of corporate culture and not market fit?
Given the reaction of some employees prior to being acquired, I can only imagine what some would do when they are fired. It is probably best for Twitter that some of these employees are just cut off.
I can't offer any advice, but as an user, I urge for features not to be removed due to a lack of engagement, as was done for Firefox's "compact mode" for some time. I think they might have reversed that change.
In the context of what was happening in the market (the "short squeeze" that may or may not have ever happened), allowing sells but not buys clearly biased one position, could be seen as interference.
Attention Is All You Need (2017)
Elon is likely secretive Trump supporter. Over the years I noticed a lot of his thinking align with Trump. This take over is very expected when Twitter banned Trump. I was expecting something significant happening to twitter during Biden years. Lucky guess.
You should never have to halve your workforce.

What sort of situation would lead to you thinking on 1 day that you don’t need to fire anyone, and thinking on the next that you need to halve your company size? It’s just not practical.

In a situation where you think a certain product has to go completely, you will likely spin it off to someone else. Even if you don’t get paid for it.

Of course, maybe if leadership changes. But if you think a company is being run so poorly that you think it can actually get by at half the workforce, you would never buy that company in the first place.

Which is exactly why Musk didn’t want to buy Twitter. But he ran his mouth too soon and so was trapped into doing so at a premium to an already inflated stock price.
Like Knuth? He even has a book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484459.Things_a_Computer...
China Is Preparing a Plan to End Covid Flight Suspensions
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Show HN: Open-source transaction and event monitoring software
Jube is open-source transaction and event monitoring software. Jube implements real-time data wrangling, artificial intelligence, decision making and case management. Jube is particularly strong when implemented in fraud and abuse detection use cases.

The GitHub README gives a comprehensive overview, but feedback and questions are welcome.
This is why 8$ is a good idea - the bird will never be free when it can easily be blackmailed by advertisers.
I fear it. The same way, as entertaining Donald Trump has been, he sort of normalized bad behavior. People think it’s okay to act like that.

It sounds scary, but companies may find what Elon is doing palatable and find it to be a new normal.

Elon is doing it in the most abrasive way, but what Stripe and Lyft have been doing is roughly the same level of action. Elon simply refuses to put lipstick on the pig.

When you hire a team, you have some responsibility for their livelihood (it’s not just money, the contract between the two sides is one of earning a living, to literally survive in the world). They are not just your little StarCraft units that you suddenly point to go in some other direction.

It’s completely inhuman, and this is coming from someone that admires Elon’s achievements. I’m saddened.

And no, it’s not cool to romanticize the retort of “he has the guts to do what has to be done”. No I think not, there’s enough money in the world.

I pray we never become this. It’s like watching a family member fall into drugs, they have become a different person.
lol, what are you basing this comment on?
The American Association of Private Railcar Owners has a page on their website listing cars available for charter: https://www.aaprco.com/travel/cars-for-charter/
So my cereal company is getting involved in politics now?

I'm not Elon Musk fan, but he is pissing off a lot of people and institutions I don't care for.
Not the parent poster, but I would define "dead" as "not being used for starting new projects with intent for these projects to be used in practice".

If a language is being widely used in specific existing 'legacy' projects and for people learning it to get a job in their maintenance (e.g. COBOL?), then I'd say it's dead. If during the last five years every organization considering what language to use for their new production system (as opposed to someone's toy project or learning project) chose something else, then that language apparently has no valid niche remaining and is effectively dead, being chosen only due to legacy/compatibility reasons if the system was already started with it.

As the parent poster said - PHP4 sites exist in production and people work on PHP4 code maintaining them, and PHP4 is undeniably dead despite all that.

Also, I'm not sure whether I'd equate Clojure with Lisp - I'd treat it as a separate language/ecosystem evolved from Lisp as it was commonly understood; I'd consider Clojure activity as evidence that "Lisp may be dead but its descendents live on".
What makes them entitled to stay in the US without working in a "specialty occupation"?
Ok, what about the "orbital north" then? As in one of the two points on the surface intersected by a line that goes through the very center of Earth and is perpendicular to the Earth's orbital plane.

(Or maybe let's call it "normal north", since the line is along the normal vector of the orbital plane.)
I didn’t even think about this. Absolutely horrifying. A lot of hopes and dreams just got destroyed.
Announcing it ahead of time would've been a good start. "Do not come to the office on Friday" instead of "go back home".
Not sure if increasingly, and not sure at all that stripe won't be equally bad when they reach that scale. Paypal is not bad in my experience
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At the end of the day, the revealed preference is that many EU+CA developers move to the US for the salary, and extremely few US developers move to the EU. Draw your own conclusions.
I see this a lot.

I always want to correct people on it. But unfortunately it resides in a funky middle-ground between (a) corrections being welcome / helpful and (b) corrections seeming nit-picky / pedantic.

Similarly to misuses (according to classical grammar rules) of "who" vs. "whom".

Both grate on me, but there's no acceptable way to get others to change.
I think there is a fear TS will be deprecated in favour of a newer version of JS that supports what TS offers. I still remember back in ~2016 when a company I was working for was heavily invested in CoffeeScript. Granted, CoffeeScript was awesome and introduced some syntactic sugar (e.g., Class) that made the code easier to modularize and read. Nowadays JS brings almost all the nice things CoffeeScript was bringing to the table, so there is no need for CoffeeScript anymore. They are still working with CoffeeScript because refactoring the whole damn thing would cost a lot and they cannot justify it.

I think somthing similar may happen to TS.
They absolutely don't act any different and never will. Don't pretend they do.
I'm self taught and have teached many others. I highly recommend exercism.org over books, videos, or classes.
It's not about version control, it's a test to see how compliant you are.
Thanks for trying it out! :^)

As you can see it struggles with whitespace.
To be fair, systemd started when Poettering was at Red Hat. He was EEEing Linux even before he was at Microsoft :^)
The biggest problem with us Healthcare spending is how the money is allocated and spent. A lunch pin in the high cost is that the government has no concern for the cost to benefit of treatments and largely props up the price of the market. This is a bipartisan problem. If the government set reimbursement for treatments based on patient benefit, it would go a long way to reducing the cost in the US.
Using neovim + https://github.com/kassio/neoterm I have a similar, possibly simpler, workflow that doesn't require any other program (especially listening willy nilly with no authentication/authorization whatsoever) other than your normal SQL client running:

- I open a :Term window, in which I run the sql client (i.e. ":Texec sqlite\ foo.sqlite" or ":Texec mysql\ foo", etc)

- From there, I can run whatever SQL command normally.

If I'm then in another buffer, and assuming there's only one :Term open, I can:

- visually select something, and :TREPLSendSelection to have it sent to the terminal along with a newline, thus executed (i.e. type ".schema" on one line, V then :TREPLSendSelection, ENTER, done - it gets executed in the terminal and the output shown) or "vap" to select a full paragraph and :TREPLSendSelection to send it all, for multi-line queries

- alternatively, :TREPLSendLine to send the current line

- alternatively, :TREPLSendFile to send the whole file (useful when the whole file both undoes and does things, to easily recreate a database structure)

I've found those simple things ("just have a terminal", "send stuff to it") to be very powerful, without having additional tools which, moreover, listen willy nilly on the network.
>Twitter desperately needs these advertisers but for these brands the ad spend is in low single digits and the possibility of harming their brand just simply isn't worth it.

What percent of Twitter's revenue did these advertisers make up?
An article in The Atlantic about it recently too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/reclaim...
I wonder if these bots would respect robots.txt files for the ads?
I personally have always used bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion, thats the link I found on the b-ok.cc site
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586686935518498816

> There seem to be 10 people "managing" for every one person coding

Take this literally, not as as a ration. - each SWE in a product team has an EM, Dir Eng, VP Eng, PM, Director Product, VP Product, ...
Assuming you are somewhere in IT and earn above the average, you will be okay-ish.
People with lower incomes will benefit less.
But if you look at that receipt and consider inflation, the extreme rise in rent in Germany, etc and all of that over maybe 20-30 years from you ending your career. It becomes less.
There are adjustments for inflation, but still.

These high pension values are also quite sure to be unsustainable for the government, as the workforce shrinks quite dramatically and people still get older.

Generally, people are advised to put some money for retirement on the side, if they can.
If you are in a position to put some money aside probably try to do some research.
"Geldanlage für Faule" by Sina Groß is a very down to earth starting place.
60 day pay, sure, but No way would I lay off that many people and let them back in the building. Mob mentality is a bizarre thing. Imagine the emotional burden or hostility between the retained staff and the terminated staff?

I think I would’ve taken a “slowly thin the herd” approach, but may be ripping the Band-Aid off is more emotionally acceptable. Also, your best employees, the ones who also have the highest opportunity elsewhere, will leave rather than wait to find out if they pass the mysterious retention test.
"I suspected it had something to do with my involvement in a certain group named after a certain slavery abolitionist."

What's the group? I clicked on the link and it points to a podcast that's over 1.5 hours long.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiENddMVIPSlUubK4OeMQ3GW4...
To be fair software at space X is likely much less complex than Twitter’s stack.
Intersex people are living proof that it's not always a binary.
Speaking of text editors, I think one thing that hampers adoption of lisps is being a bit more beginner unfriendly, at least for most implementations. The developing environment is trickier to set up, and a common recommendation I often hear is to learn Emacs first, what is quite a upfront investment, while in, say, python, you can just launch IDLE and start working in a basic, but proper environment right away.
I would say less as that requires a bit more skill and risks being found upon code review. Acting in the heat of the moment seems far more expected. Although perhaps this situation points out up that “planning against all eventualities” is a good skill to have?
The blue cathedral is offended and retaliating.
Complaning is also important...
In the European places you never get fired. They just make sure you quit.