skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, the context here is that Elon is firing lots of people who are apparently not productive despite being in their position for years.

You are making it sound like Elon is the type of person who always pesters people and attempts to micromanage them to squeeze every ounce of "productivity" juice he can get out of the forcefully.

But obviously if that was his style, Tesla and SpaceX would never take off.

> The most important thing that good leadership brings is clear direction and high standards.

Isn't that exactly what he brings? And isn't that what's bringing him under fire in this HN thread? People acting all horrofied because he's actually enforcing the high standards that you say he should have.
Warranty in the EU says it should last at least 2 years.

But it typically lasts 10 before it needs repairs (neighbors replaced the compressor).
1) Thanks for the interesting ideas exchange.

2) you force me to be more precise. you are right. Biometrics are not immutable. However, you as a user have only a certain amount of control over their mutability. Can't change the nose you have, can you? A passoword's mutability is more in the control of the user, I'd argue.

3 ) I'm not worried about my personal profile picture and personal data. I am worried about society as a whole (including corporations etc.). Modern social media and corporate tools like slack increasingly "pressure" / "massage" people into uploading a real photo of your face. If face ID is to become a standard, I guess that's something that should be taken into consideration? Don't you think so?

4 ) If face ID is the "front door", does breaching the "front door" not make whole systems vulnerable, as credentials for other, more "secure" forms of authentication are hidden behind that "front door"?

5 ) Is handing over the "intelligence" to detect a valid / invalid credential to AI such a good idea?

6) Food for thought. I had to load a Chinese app on my phone for a business trip. It required face recognition, and required me to blink during face identification, presumably to fend off the "putting a picture in front of the camera" attack vector. Assuming they do not implement security mechanisms for nothing, because it costs money to do so, must I now conclude that standard face ID without blinking is insecure?

I'm just asking questions to which I don't have all the answers here. I remain unconvinced, but I wouldn't be offended if someone proved me wrong.
>When the things you think are banworthy get banned then you are fine with it, yes

You make it sound like I'd just said something is "fine" because it's to my taste - no matter how bad it might be otherwise. I think the snark is a little misplaced, though, as one could say exactly the same if they proposed an (objectively) good or perfect or best-compromise solution.

So what matters is whether it's actually that: a good solution. Not whether it's to the taste of the person proposing it (which, any solution would always be). So at best the snark above is based on a truism/tautology.

>A large number of people complaining about "censorship" do not think that using slurs or even calling people slurs is banworthy. So you'll run into that problem.

Here's the thing: I'm not sure it's that big of a number of people. I'm also pretty sure "a number of people" also think spam, cp, violent threats are not banworthy, but I don't think it's "a large number" either.

Which is why I think banning slurs, spam, and other such things is OK, and doesn't have to do with freedom of speech - you can still express the same ideas, even the most unpopular and controversial ones, without slurs, spam, cp, and so on.

>We already see people complaining about bans "based on the type of content."

Some people will complain about anything and everything - I'm sure that some are even against the invention of fire or in favor of farting in elevators. Satisfying everyone can't ever be the measure of a good proposal.

The best solution is about a good compromise that doesn't hurt the core issue of free speech, and not only doesn't stiffle, but even helps discussion (e.g. you can't have free speech if you get death threats for it, as people will be afraid to speak - so banning "violent threats" content makes sense. Similarly, you can't have free speech if the forum is filled with advertising spam and penis enlargement and "get rich quick ads". So banning spam will help the discussion, not stiffle it).
Crows able to understand the concept of recursion
Australia newspapers are reporting [1] that local staff have been locked out of their accounts.

They were responsible for local marketing and news curation.

[1] https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/musk-starts-mas...
Ask HN: What knowledge management tool do you use in small teams?
We're a small penetration testing company and sharing, structuring and accessing knowledge is a hassle. I'm trying various knowledge management tools for our small team (<10 people).

I've read good things about notion, obsidian and joplin.

What (technical) knowledge management tools is HN using for individuals and teams?
Interesting. Lidl and Aldi in Poland (at least the ones nearby) have doorless fridges.
I basically calculated "active tokens at any time", "acceptable probability of collision" and "keyspace bits" and decided on length based on that.

Wordlists are a good solution too, as you say.
also see

https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/who/
Folks from Twitter and other companies!
I know that layoffs are brutal. We are primarily at tech-winter.
At the same time, we, Wise (formerly TransferWise) - actively looking for engineers, product managers, and engineering managers, designers.
Many roles are open, and we are growing quite a lot!
We have a product our customers love, and we care about our employees a lot!
We are pretty good financially and have a clear vision of which one we are executing.
If you are interested - you can browse the list of open roles here: https://grnh.se/1f3d39a91us and apply for them. You can write me directly, and I will try to answer anything as much as possible.
NASA has 18k permanent employees which I thought was surprisingly low. https://www.nasa.gov/about/index.html
Can't say if rawtherapee achieves this goal, but the purpose of photo developing software is to make small, common edits to large amounts of photos. To aid in selecting between and retouching dozens if not hundreds of photos from a shoot. The goal of krita/Photoshop is to do detailed editing on one image at a time. That's why you'd use something like this.

I should try rawtherapee to see if it's good and fast enough at that.
Games aren't even allowed to use the word "hobbit" without paying royalties. I'm sure you completely ignore what you're talking about.
Not natively, though some have heavily abused search selectors for form input: https://github.com/michael-lazar/flask-gopher/blob/master/de...

For sending data a Gopher server would need to be paired with an FTP server.
It's really to keep people from talking about details and exchanging contacts last-minute.
Spain briefly closes part of airspace as Chinese rocket debris flies over
Tech workers brace for wintertime layoff surge
Did you read the article, or at least the quote that the parent offered? This isn't about Twitter changing work site expectations/status. It's about blocking physical access for employees who were expected to show up at the office, without prior notice or any change in contract terms -- i.e. without their work site actually having formally changed.

This isn't even dystopian, it's just a management clusterfuck. Whoever thought this is the right way to handle this kind of a situation should be the first to go in these layoffs. Wow.
Do you mean Indian or Indian looking? Can you generally tell which of them were American citizens vs. immigrants? If not, can you see the pretentiousness in your statement?
> How is that dystopian?

You could generate all the electricity needed for the next 20 generations by harvesting the energy generated by the eyes rolling of people who live in countries with workers rights who just read that comment
Let's wait for the severance package, I hope they do something similar to Stripe.
Not quite the "Towers of Hanoi" recursion I expect most people anticipated but still very interesting.
It's not even close to being global -

https://explorer.helium.com/

Ignoring exactly how effective a crypto it has been or will be.
I once put the word "complaint" on the top of a letter to a UK bank who had made a mistake on a statement. It made all the difference. What had previously been dismissed as unimportant was addressed and they sent me £100 compensation.

Just taking that first step towards the Financial Ombudsman was enough.
FWIW, I had a successful arbitration process this year via the German Insurance Ombudsman after my bike was stolen and the insurance didn't want to pay. The process took a few months, but was pretty easy overall and I got my money back :-) (In the end, the insurance paid just to avoid further hassle.)

Regarding PayPal: I've always avoided getting an account with them, because I generally don't like online services having access to my bank account. Two weeks ago, though, I was forced to create an account with them to pay a conference fee - just to have the PayPal account locked literally the minute it was created. I have no idea why, I didn't get any further information, and no useful response from customer service. So I guess I will remain a non-PayPal customer...
What does it mean to be sharp in this context?
That's assuming the only way to fund the creation of something is to sell copies after the fact. And assuming that people only create for monetary compensation.

There have been creative endeavous before copyright and there would be creative endeavours after copyright. Perhaps even more since people are free to remix and share without restrictions.
Well, if you are going to mention alternative syntaxes, another possibility may be Wisp: https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/
Happening by accident is one thing, selling a product based on it happening is a different thing.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics expands to India and takes over TechnoYantra to grow in Asia, An open architecture for hardware acceleration in robotics and ROS 2 - ROSCon 2022, Chinese firms may be allowed in high-tech electronics in JV with Indian companies
No, because stock buybacks are not free. Someone has to be willing to sell their stock to the company. It can be thought of as the owners willing to hold paying the owners willing to sell.
Sounds just like Canada. Prices doubled during Covid and were already stupid high before that.

Plenty of people bought in during Covid, at the peak, at 1.X variable rates that are now north of 4% and rising.

Lots of Reddit posts from people asking “why is my pay off period 89 years now?”

It’s going to be interesting.
> Which company is going to have an easier time hiring after the dust settles and they have a growth stage again?

The one with the better offer, taking a possible layoff payout into account. The comp ranges can be so drastically different between companies that a possibly generous layoff (that is no means guaranteed if Stripe has to do this when circumstances are more dire) is negligible financially.
Ideally the society where the companies operate in should provide the safety rails, thus allowing the company to do whatever it legally can to maximize profits.

But that wouldn't be the crony capitalism that we're stuck with now. Also, things have been moving too fast for a long time, making it nearly impossible for governments to keep up.
Ouch, well that wasn't very nice, sorry to hear that. Since you mentioned using a Leap card a few years ago I'm guessing you were in Dublin. I live in Cork, we're much friendlier down here! How have you found your experiences since?

My partner is from the East Midlands and of course her accent is quite different, but on a couple of occasions my partner has gotten an angry scowl from some random old man, usually in some small-town pub.

I thought anti-English sentiment had gone the way of the dodo — when I was a kid it was more common — but I guess it's still hanging on in places :(
The list of companies is taken from https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ which is slightly more up to date.

For libraries, your link lists projects hosted on their Gitlab, so I'd refer to this one: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl
Didn't all recommendations engines move to two-towers like models? I remember that it "solved" the freshness problem (ie when adding a new item to your catalog how do you recommend it to users if there are no ratings/interactions). Of course as long as you have a good model that creates items embeddings.

Regarding time series, don't everyone moved to attention based models?

Not challenging your answer, just curious. I work mostly with Graph NNs and quite a bit out of touch with the rest of the field.
I just read "Eleven Magic Words" and I'm entirely baffled.

Also what a writer, wow.
No they dont have managers or a separte QA team. 30 is their entire tech team which handles everything.

They are largest broker so others might be sales, legal, marketting, hr guys
Rising political opposition and talk of government intervention in companies like Facebook and Twitter is very much a threat to the future stability and ROI of said companies. Fewer and fewer people buy the argument that "The Algorithm" just does what it does and isn't influenced by its builder.

As political discourse and more elections are swayed by rage-bait and disinformation pumped into voters retinas by these platforms, the political risks to these platforms and their bottom line will increase (and become wildly unpredictable).

ML ethics and accountability is beneficial to both society and to any company which has an interest in self-preservation.
or, hear me out, chest fridges
Unless you're a Ferengi, then it's okay!
Twitter is the most interesting on the internet, by far. If the discourse quality sucks, you're following the wrong accounts.
The Great Pandemic Baby Bump
Somehow it is seen valuable enough that Erlang, Java and .NET developers enjoy similar tooling in production, just not with the same depth as Lisp and Smalltalk.
For the employee(s) being laid off, yes. I've never heard of a company closing their offices entirely during a layoff round.

(That doesn't mean it hasn't happened!)
If the layoff of this team elicits anger from the “you’re the problem” crowd then Musk is doing something right.
When demand goes down (in this case due to rising rates)

Rates are rising because of inflation. Inflation is rising because people are spending.

Why are people spending all at once? It could be because of the pandemic restrictions lifting, but also because of mass psychology ("OMG! everything is getting more expensive! I must buy while I can").

If people resisted the bandwagon effect, and bought when stuff is cheap, while saving when stuff is expensive, they'd be much better off.

"The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets." - Baron Rothschild
> About that other kind of convenience, shouldn't a chest fridge be long and shallow to have everything reachable from the opening without having to lift stuff and dig?

There's a tradeoff between interior volume and convenience. And since most people who want convenience get a vertical model, I think interior volume wins a lot of the time. Someone who buys 1/2 of a cow, or takes home a deer just needs to freeze the whole thing. They don't necessarily need convenient access to all of the contents.
I love Gopher, it's a nice, extremely light protocol with none of the added BS I hate about the web. The only people who use it these days are a particular type of person, the type that I generally enjoy reading the thoughts and work of.

I actually setup a new service on Gopher recently, a lightweight Google News reader[1] and it works better than I could have really hoped.

[1] http://muezza.ca/projects/gophernews/
If most of the team are actually 0.1s then a 1 will seem like a x10.

Anyway, I've worked with plenty of people who can get stuff done, and I've been able to get stuff done myself sometimes. However, it's all relative and if I'd been at Xerox Parc in the 70s I'd have been a 0.001 for sure.
In the past such a thing wouldn't have been possible because of the need to keep up day-to-day operations. Now companies can just decide if you should work from home or from the office as they please. And home office was initially promoted as giving more flexibility to the employees - looks like the companies are now exploiting this flexibility to their advantage while restricting the employee's flexibility (x mandatory office days etc.).
There are major usability issues with chest fridges.

* People in wheelchairs.

* Children and shorter people.

* Cleaning is hard if there are messes or spills.

* You can't see what's in a chest fridge very easily which is a problem if there is more than one person in the household.

* Shelves are really useful when you have things that can't be stacked on top of one another
PGP encryption is problematic, and Tutanota is not using it. Therefore, adding Thunderbird support is challenging.

There are around 15 people working in Tutanota, and without Electron they really can’t provide it for every platform.
You are correct, the good old BIOS was not pretty, but it worked and was simple enough one could understand it and its common failure modes. All the complexity we keep piling up is going to come back and bite us eventually.

I was just speaking of LILO vs grub, though. (I heard that grub is not pretty internally, but as a mere user, it has not given me trouble.)
Can't edit kernel parameters from the firmware's own boot selector though can you. Or see it on an external monitor (at least on the laptop I'm using right now, which normally lives hidden out of sight attached to a dock).

My recollection was that GRUB when in graphical mode looks readable. Maybe I'm misremembering. The systemd-boot menu was definitely far too small and there was bug that was basically closed with "it's the firmware's job to give us a usable text output protocol".

Effectively, as shitty as the legacy PC-BIOS boot protocol was, it did at least allow open source software to jump in early and work around the gaping deficiencies in the vendor's firmware. UEFI has effectively replaced all that with a proprietary boot process. The vendor is now in complete control; want a usable text console, or to access the firmware via an external monitor? Vendor doesn't give a shit. Want to access the boot loader via the serial console? Oh you must be an enterprise, let me direct you to our sales staff who won't give you the time of day unless you've got £thousands to drop into their pocket.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to replace GRUB with systemd-boot, but these are very real impediments to me ever doing so.
Microsoft mulls cheap PCs supported by ads, subs
I went to visit a team at Twitter that seemed to have very little to do with their core business. They'd bought some company that my company was using (can't even remember, Fabric or some crash profiling thing?) and I got invited to see their fancy building on Market Street.

But my sense was there were many peripheral teams that your average Twitter user would never notice if Twitter were to cut them.
There is a lot to dislike about industrial animal agg. But it's non-industrial meat sources that keep producing pandemics and need to be cut off...
I find that problem kind of rare these days. Everybody knows about it.
That comparison is however completely irrelevant to Twitter.

It may seem to ignorant people that a space program is more advanced than "just a website" but actually running these kind of websites is extremely complex. Especially when you're needing to compete with Facebook and Google at serving ads in a relevant and effective way.

It is really interesting reading through their infrastructure challenges alone:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
They are not a "weird" company -- they are a piece-of-shit company
For me, if I were at beginning of my career I would have definitely joined Twitter. Because I have to work harder, compete harder, learn faster just to save my job. I think that sort of culture would make you sharp than others in your field very early in your career.

Then when you go and work at company like stripe, its easy.
do you really need any tools? a few web pages can work wonders. fiddling with tools is a distraction.
> without prior notice or any change in contract terms

Pretty sure it's within their contractual rights to deny people access to the office for any reason or no reason at all? Did you put a contractual clause in about the right to office access when you signed?

> This isn't even dystopian

Well yeah my comment agrees.
I'm using a Logitech G604 at work, I have 15 buttons of keyboard shortcuts on it.
Yes but in this case they're specifically referring to free speech in a legal context.
I've been using this for a long time now and I didn't know if what a zshism because it felt so simple to use and Unixy, TIL too, thanks!
no thank you.

Who do they think the market is, poor kids?

non-US-based kids? Like africa?

I have the impression that major companies are attempting to gamifying africa for profit in a long game.
> The issue with the water analogy is that the "water" that the men receive is from the same source as for women therefore is just as salty.

Well, the other issue is that being lost at sea is much better than being lost in a waterless desert. You can't drink the seawater, but you don't die of thirst while you're lost at sea.
Then we should definitely never use them. Honestly, this line of reasoning really grates my gears. Yeah a tiny portion of people can't use them, so nobody should use them, I shouldn't put one in my house, etc.

If that's not what you're stating, then what _are_ you stating? I don't get it.
That's their point, they're looking for a GP that does not do homeopathy (though very confusingly said).
While the compressor just below the fridge is heating the store?
Well, they did a “lockout go away” back in the 90’s when my company died. Fear of ‘rm -rf’ or some other act of digital vandalism or theft. Doesn’t say much about the business I guess,
Kind of, if tomorrow someone comes up with funky zombie trees with the same O() characteristics, or even better, they can ship them on their C++ standard library.

And then some clever C++ developers that have code that depends on rb tree's behaviours, would cry that their cheese was moved and their code doesn't work as before, even though nothing prevented funky zombie trees to be shipped instead.
At most workplaces you are interrupted dozens of times per day and have big time blocks of stuff that prevents focus. Where do you work?
Tcl feels like a bastard child of Lisp and shell, and is beautiful in its own unique and quirky way. I'm not surprised at all that someone would find it lovable ;)
Enron was breaking the law, there’s a difference.

I consider much of the practices of social media companies designing for dopamine hits to be unethical, but it had been very lucrative for shareholders for more than a decade. It’s still lucrative but shareholders are taking it on the chin for other macro reasons.
Before this list, people said "Sure CL is used in production, there's Google and uh… Autocad". Now, we collect companies that we hear about. Nothing "official" nor exhaustive, of course. You can still complain, but not for the same reason ;)

BTW this one is the list they are based on: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/

See also

https://lisp-lang.org/success/

http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/index.html