skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure this list is particularly accurate. Many American companies are still most certainly alive and kicking (HP/HPE; Intel; Cisco; Motorola), and the Japanese ones manufacture plenty of other things besides just computer hardware.

Hitachi, for instance, sold its HGST hard drive business to WD, but it also makes a lot of heavy-industry and defence equipment, including tanks, APCs, rolling-stock, lifts, and construction equipment. Sony is by far the biggest manufacturer of CMOS sensors (almost every single smartphone uses a Sony sensor), and not even including its music, film, video game, camera, and smartphone divisions. Sure, they don’t make VAIO notebooks and Walkmans any more, but they almost certainly have a massive monopoly/duopoly over many of their other divisions.

It’s just survival of the fittest. You could’ve said the same thing about aeroplane companies throughout the ‘50s to ‘90s. Almost every other American company has been subsumed into Boeing or Lockheed-Martin; the same goes for many other British companies that are now BAE Systems, and European companies that are now Airbus.
https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md

"git summary" from git-extras works too
Everytime someone mentions OMF 2097, the intro song starts playing in my head. Good god was that game fantastic!
Obviously, the only way to actual test if it's the stripes or not is to test it on Beetlejuice.
> Well you would want your instruction set to be Turing complete

Okay, add one more instruction TURX, which executes a Turing machine.
Maybe an integration monkey. They have the most commits sometimes.
> What the heck even is "professional level" to you?

It'd involve a mismatch in expectations of communication or work; where some factors of getting the job done are more important to OP than to his colleagues.

e.g. maybe OP thinks tickets are very important, and his colleagues don't. Maybe OP thinks code quality is important; or taking the time to learn some new tool that would do the job better.
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the Level Lock Plus can be unlocked using one of the best iPhone or best Apple Watch devices even if you’ve forgotten your actual house key.
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What? Is that a typo, or can you only open it with the "best" iphone and apple watch? whatever they are.
How do i filter content then?
Is the source Rahul Ligma?
It's much more common to tag things on mastodon since there's no auto-discovery like on twitter. So broadening your timeline is usually a "search for a tag -> follow interesting people" loop.
Until you take away the farmland. Then the land in cities becomes worthless.
It’s a head scratcher for sure. I remember when my employer (large old tech company) laid off one of my coworkers, he or his manager contested it and he got re-hired a month later. Why he went back puzzles me, but he’s still there 6 years later
How do you find posts then? Follow everyone?
Like the ones in private kangaroo court, aka forced arbitration.
How is this better than ActivityPub? Mastodon already is a decentralized Twitter
"Public" to people who are allowed to access voter data. https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access...
A fool, or someone without many options.
lol! good joke!
i googled 'labor violence in the us' -- b/c i've read before that the history of anti-worker violence in the us is basically insane -- worse than any other industrialized nation.

so of course the first result that comes up is _union_ violence -- against the companies/authorities. :-D

https://www.google.com/search?q=history+of+labor+violence+in...

at least wikipedia is not biased in favor of the people who own the country.
Red Bull Music Academy was a real gem of an institution. Their contributions do a real service to the fostering of contemporary music. A real class act.

They were doing wonderful, loving, work and it was a shame to see them go back in 2019.
OTOH what’s the worst that could happen?

Always better to look for a job while employed

> How could you ever have faith in the company leadership?

Faith in Twitter leadership is off the table at this point - employed or unemployed
In the event of a layoff, severance pay and COBRA is your safety net.

Then, it's at-will employment. You can always be terminated with or without cause.
> terrible decision making at the top and too many yes-people

Remember way back when, when it was so important to keep founders in charge of their companies when they took investment, and even went public? That was the secret to success, VCs told us!
I don’t know how long it would take to figure out which half of a company to fire, but my guess is that it’s longer than one week.
A lone positive sign of a course correction amidst all the recent chaos and clearly terrible decisions. Of which the worst was Elon threatening advertisers who don't advertise on Twitter. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588676939463946241

Even granting the 50% target was the right amount, it was very hard for me to believe in a single week you could accurately select that 50% and transition key company knowledge to the people left.

Surprising for this particular comment to be my lowest rated comment on HN, hah.
This is just not a solid argument. Let's replace Twitter with the US government. Why should it be allowed to impose its own bias on billions of people worldwide?
Jack seems to think they grew too quickly but what would he know?

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1588913276980633600
I doubt it will take that long--it's not exactly rocket science.
I hope you are right because i cant stand the mess social networks are in. I really with we had something cool we can use for topics we like. I really really really dont care about politics. It’s all going down the drain anyway might as well make it enjoyable.
Having worked at (and presumably left) a company when it was a tiny fraction of its current size is probably a stronger signal that you don't know what it takes (in terms of headcount) to run a large company than a signal that you do.

Did Twitter require just that many people? Maybe, maybe not. But a 50% haircut with no meaningful basis in role/performance is an indicator that the layoffs were anything but appropriate.
Obviously the compromise is to use a linked list, but preallocate a contiguous block of memory to hold all your linked list nodes. Like an array of linked list nodes, each with a pointer to the array index of the next node.

Then you just need to double the size of that block of memory and copy all the nodes to the new block whenever it fills up.

Hmm, but you’d probably end up needing some kind of a list of free blocks of space within that array to deal with fragmentation… you’d need another linked list to store those blocks in.

If only there was some sort of system that could take care of all that allocation and freeing of memory for you?
The tool itself is infringing copyright. It possesses and reproduces copyrighted code without it's attribution. Full stop.

If I steal your television, it doesn't matter how much I get for it at the pawn shop.
I'm not sure it's so much "respecting the career", as the stereotype of the nerd with poor social skills is still strong enough to raise red flags for many.
Not all of course, and it probably depends a lot on how you interact with others before they learn what you do.
I can't say if that's fair or not, but it doesn't seem any less so than any of the other ways people choose partners or friends.
No, but we're destroying the planet that they live on, in the process of harvesting and consuming its resources. We've learned through our own experiences that a being whose intelligence and power transcends our own tends to be bad news for us, even if they don't exist.
git log --pretty=%ae | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
Or, given Twitter’s internal politics, he could model the org chart as a minimax tree and alpha-beta prune, giving a space complexity of only O(bd) :)
"On Blind, nobody knows you're a dog"
Is there anything wrong with moving the company headquarters to Texas? It's his company, he can do what he wants

he's never going to profit from it - That is a pretty bold statement, care to share how you reached this conclusion?
As it's apple, one would expect the most expensive of the expensive. And that's it, quality could be anything, most likely mediocre to bad.
Great! This server isn't for you then. Find another one.
You can't expect a platform to solve the pervasive society issue. I mean, I went for a walk and saw someone advertising a car -> doesn't mean world is the same garbage as twitter but 3d.

There's overlap between gaming and crypto and politics and identity. You can select specific people to follow from the #gaming results, so you concentrate on just what you want to see. Alternatively you can mute specific phrases to not see for example crypto. But don't expect people won't post about what they are interested in. People post for themselves and their interests, not for your enjoyment.
Adversity breeds strength.

Imagine learning to program with no access (or highly disrupted access) to google, stack overflow and github.

Where you have to download web pages for later use in case your internet is cut off.

Where random power outages can suddenly interrupt you many times a day.

Where using a vpn can be used against you in a criminal case.

I can imagine that anyone who perseveres through those kinds of obstacles to become a programmer would have some pretty tremendous grit and would build them into a great developer.
Well, looking at a few of the top instances, we once again have proof that the Internet is, in fact, for porn.
Not putting security pins in the core of a $330 dollar lock is dumb though. So it's a dumb lock.
You are smoking some good stuff if you think Meta is in "western media's" good books over the past few years. How often have Tik Tok execs been dragged in front of Congress?
The Technorati Generation
Don't underestimate the richest human on Earth.

He is being attacked now because he is making powerful people uncomfortable. He used to be rather popular before that.
Ask HN: So what’s the outcome of NIMBY discussions in your town?
Which camp do you belong to? Are your local leaders doing right by all parties involved?
Libraries and end user facing projects are beginning to support Mac's GPU.

Renting on cloud platforms is $$$. But sure, you can start by trying there. After the crypto crash, GPU prices have dropped a lot, too.

Also, building a rig with GPUs, and SSHing into it from a Macbook is pretty common.

And also, be aware of roadmaps. Eevry person is different, and their roadmaps should as well be. Make a roadmap through trial and error by trying out many sources. I told you what I think are the best.

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Forgot to mention my Kaggle Notebook [0] on Hugging Face API through which you can start generating text today using their pretrained models available for download.

[0]: https://www.kaggle.com/code/truthr/a-gentle-introduction-to-...
> it matters whether or not the users actually keep the supposedly infringing code

That's not how this works.

If I give you a blob of uniformly random bits and then give you a passphrase you can use with a tool to turn that into a Hollywood movie, and you do so, and then you delete it, that isn't not copyright infringement.
I absolutely don't mind, and please feel free to ask more questions if you have any.

This[0] is the one I have. It is explicitly listed as thunderbolt 4, but, unfortunately, i dont't know if it supports thunderbolt 3. My hunch is that it does, but something wont work perfectly. Most likely, the usb hub won't, and the refresh rate will drop from 72hz to 60hz. Which is imo not a big deal whatsoever, as the main functionality that I personally value is still there.

LG also seems to have a thunderbolt 3 ultrawide monitor[1] that is very similar, and I recommend checking that one out. Only heard good things about it, and it is pretty much the predecessor of the one I linked in the beginning.

0. https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-40wp95c-w

1. https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34WK95U-W-ultrawide-monito...
You're right that this is all mostly assumption.

I've not seen anything about what they working, or even a break down by department, job role etc.

The only thing was something like "10 managers for every developer", and who knows if that's true.

I'd love to see some stats, but doubt we ever will.

I'd also love to get some responses from the remaining high performing tech talent about their opinion of it all.
There was that guy who recently blew a whistle on the spread/blind-eye of bots and he seemed annoyed with the corporate culture.

On the other hand, every thread here and on social media is probably filled with upset people who have been laid off, hoping to swing public perception against New Twitter.

It's as clear as mud!
Level's response: "No, no: our bar is lower than that."
I've almost never been able to do it.

I do it to see where the limits are. I worked in games when the orignal (of this wave) VR stuff was being made. Many of the devs tried all sorts of stuff to see what made them nauseous so they DIDNT ship it. As a game dev you need to think about discomfort of your users. So seeing painful audio, flickers, buzzing, flashes, nausea, that's being player centric. But sometimes you do want to make people uncomfortable for a feeling and you need to know the range to take it to.

Just about everything we eat is because someone tried it and saw if it killed them or made them sick. We got diving tables because divers got the bends and we figured out what caused them and what the limits are. On an on in human history. I'm not putting myself in the same boat as test pilot or navy diver but plenty of people push the envelope to see where it is.
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It would be really nice if this was linked with contour data to produce realistic shaped hills.
Yeah randomly blocking high quality apps for no reason, while letting pure scams through does not qualify as scrutiny.
But but -- the New York Times had said this is just fine for over a year:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/picking-smart-deadbo...

Notice that they essentially rake (with the godawful demonstration of "picking") on what looks like a Level lock to then make the conclusion that AlL Locks are pickable because even an idiot that doesn't know the difference between picking and raking can do it.
First, Twitter is has huge and oversized importance. It’s vey big in both the tech and journalism worlds. There’s a reason celebrities are on it and tweets show up on the news and in articles.

Second, it’s Musk. He’s famous, a celebrity (of sorts), and VERY VERY rich. Not only does he have haters, people seem to love watching the successful fail. “I knew it. He’s not so great. I could have done better.”

And finally, it’s just 100% nuts. This is not how the business world works. He over bid on a company as a joke (?) after getting high (?) with the price being a weed joke. Then he tried to back out and got sued. Then at almost literally the last moment he went through with it and has almost DESTROYED the company in a week.

It’s a perfect storm of WTF-hate-drama about a world famous company and a publicity hound.
I'm being as kind as I can here:

It's one very large, very visible social network that had a very dramatic, drawn out, and absurd takeover executed by someone who is very eccentric.
LPL opened it via raking. That alone means there are no security pins. A serrated pin and a couple spool pins isn't expensive and is standard for locks that aren't budget or master locks.
"Apple fired 4,100 when Steve Jobs returned in 1997"

https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-fired-4-100-when-steve-jobs-...

This whole Twitter layoffs is so interesting. even DHH got something to say about it.
Thanks for that, it's what I had hoped for (but again, have not yet measured).

It seems to me it's a super-handy way of "modifying" a compiler-allocated array of structs. I'm sticking with it!
All good points. A short story by Franz Kafka, "Investigations of a Dog" kind of touches on the concept that the higher beings are invisible to us, and that we fabricate them in our own minds to explain our experience. In it, a dog notices that his fellow dogs engage in strange rituals, after which their food appears. And he wonders where the food is actually coming from. He experiences fleeting glimpses of soaring dog-like beings. If I'm recalling the story correctly, his friends don't want to hear about it, and ostracize him.

I have wondered if some of Kafka's writings belong in the science fiction genre.
Definitely sounds like a Larry Ellison move.

I guess the trick is instead of saying "no," say nothing so you can play dumb. "Must have been marked as spam."
This might make sense if they were still enrolled in the company email system, and there was some period where it had been communicated that there was some was some expectation that they'd make themselves available for contingencies.

If they're locked out of the company's email system and they'd been told 'this is your last working day,' and they didn't check their personal email/answer the phone ("whoops! must've gone to the spam folder!"), I don't think Twitter has a leg to stand on when it comes to forcing them to come back on the threat of lost severance. Their last contact with the company told them they didn't work there. It's pretty black and white.

Just all around sloppy lawyering on that separation notice, imho.
Honestly all I need is Java exceptions without checked exceptions nonsense. Just let me throw exception, collect entire stacktrace, let me catch exception whenever I want or dump stacktrace if nobody caught it and goroutine died. It's simple and it works. Investigate recent Java improvements with stacktrace logging (I think Spring Boot does that, basically it turns stack trace backwards as error cause often is on the last part of stacktrace) and implement as necessary.

I love golang as much as I hate its error handling. If not for it, I'd switch to it tomorrow. As it is now, I'd rather bend Java to be golang. Just because of error handling.

The only thing that I'd add to Java exceptions is to enrich the exception stacktrace with all serializable local variables on every level (including parameters). Yes, that's a lot of data and some smart approach should be taken to serialize it to string. Basically all "simple" local variables should be included to stacktrace. That'd be another level of error reporting.
Would have been nice to be able to follow tags instead of people.
People pay employees and contractors at social media companies to delve into others' accounts and messages all of the time. Some of them do it on their own without any outside influence, as well.
Musk replied to a tweet saying "investigation needed" with "yup", he didn't say "Yes, they sold verification."
Not much. He spent all of his time running Square, and there are only so many hours in the day, which is why Twitter was languishing on the vine until this bit of excitement happened.
At cloud-top level, temperature, pressure, and gravity are all close to Earth-normal, and breathing-air is buoyant.

Numerous materials can be extracted from the outside air, including oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and even some metals.

A day/night cycle is about 100 hours, depending on how close you are to a pole.

A nuclear reactor is as simple as a big fabric tube suspended vertically with a naked atomic pile hanging near the bottom, and a wind turbine turning in an opening at the top, the only moving part.

You need something non-solar because nights are long.

Alternatively, you can store energy with a weight on a cable attached to a generator. Play it out to discharge, winch it back up to charge.

Or maybe different layers of atmosphere circulate at different rates. If so, you can hang a wind turbine in the next layer below.
Any new insights here compared to other investors foaming at the mouth over the prospect of fb laying off folks?
I have a pile of 5 ATX power supplies of various vintages up to recent. They all had a -12 V supply. Three were 0.8 Amp. One was 0.3 Amp and one was 0.5 Amp.
This might affect unemployment eligibility since it would be a refusal of work.
If the company realizes it and admits it and you had people go to bat for you it makes sense to me to consider it.

But to just randomly throw away 3700 people and they beg (let’s say) 500 with “wait we didn’t mean it, come back” is on a different level.
The other thing to think about is a lot of these systems use kalman filters and sensor fusion, so stuff like a compass will cause drift. They jsut didn't design the software to think about movement. It could be conmpensated for.
Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia (3rd Edition)
Just tried fosstodon and the european commission has an account there?? Cant these political creeps stay the heck out of our daily lives? I dont want to see government propaganda creeping into foss, please! Even if its the eu - sets a precedent for others to follow. Keep politics out of all this.
That sounds like the laptop USB ground was not connected to the battery reference (and logic) ground. That's probably intentional but seems like it might cause problems with other USB uses from that laptop as well. I am assuming when power is plugged in the power ground is connected to the USB output ground, but I could be wrong there.

I have used my laptop on battery, with a USB-to-RS232 adapter, to control a telescope remotely and it worked fine IIRC.
Have you ever tried to follow anyone from an instance that your instance refused to federate with? I am wondering how big of a problem this is. Not that I have encountered it, mostly just see this as potential a drawback of Mastodon's approach to federation.
Jack seems to think (and say) whatever is good for jack. In this case to peddle his new social network
Hmm, too bad I never reformatted that into proper Markdown.
what's wrong with moving to Texas? a lot of tech companies is in Texas.
Just because some non-technical pricks refused to listen to the man who actually knew what the fuck he was on about.
can you post screenshots?
> You'll never know if somebody has lifted a bit of code in violation of a license anymore than you would be able to tell if somebody copy-pasted from stack overflow without attribution in any commercial application

It's obvious that you've never endured any sort of deep code analysis for license "problems" because then you would know that it is in fact comically easy to tell if someone did this. It happens all the time.

While some detections are false positives, this is in fact why such deep analysis is performed: because getting caught selling a commerical application you don't have the rights to sell can destroy value very rapidly. It halts mergers and acquisitions. It gets products pulled off shelves. It gets people fired.
I mean events of the last week alone are probably enough. But even in isolation this is just off the scale weird.
Because of the tax breaks.
'digital nomads' usually stay the whole allotted tourist visa stay, while injecting the local economy with cash the entire time, and not taking up any sort of social resources or government benefits.

anecdotal as an English teacher turned programmer who lived in CDMX 2014-2017 (before large influx of digital nomads and then waves of COVID tourists)

Just totally cringing watching my mexican dj friends in CDMX complain about all the gringo tourists ruining everything in cuauhtemoc/roma norte but then posting instagram stories " hey looking for booking in USA/Germany/etc for November or December, also subletting my apartment" (also posting it in English).. It's like living in a Beverly Hills mansion and getting angry at the rich Chinese tourists spending money on Rodeo drive for two weeks.
The foundations for E2EE were merged into Mastodon, there's a merged pull request for it elsewhere in this thread.
Honestly the part that seems madness to me is not the downsizing but how quickly.

If a company doubled in size overnight that would be a huge red flag. Same thing for shrinking. Sudden scale changes are really really hard to pull off.