skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw personally some of these happening; while not working for HP, I was working with HP and GE and around the same time my employer divested part of the business. The reason, in all cases? the companies had very different business divisions that had almost nothing in common, there were no synergies or economies of scale and even sharing some stuff like HR made no sense when they tent to treat people in mass, in a way that works for most, but can hurt really bad some (I am one of these cases, well known in my company).

If the HP printer division has nothing to do with the enterprise service division, keeping it together brings nothing. The GE aviation has nothing to do with medical or manufacturing. Moving people from one division to another is rare because the skills are not easy to transfer, there are major differences in standards and processes, legal constraints and specifications.

In our case the 2 divisions that were divested are more successful now; our management tried to treat them like the rest of the business and this hurt a lot, they were different. The management of each division was not good enough (expertise, trust, etc) to operate independently, but under our umbrella was worse than alone. We sold them to other companies that are specialized in these areas, everyone is happier.
Looks cool, how is it curated? Manually or with an algorithm?
Yeah, the speed is surprising, usually you get 6 months to 2 years of close to business as usual before the cost cutting starts.
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Class protection doesn't mean you cant fire minorities and pregnant women.

It means you can't fire people for being minorities and pregnant.
Actually a good number of us DIY folks do buy these new. We can do a conversion, live in it a couple years and then flip it when we're ready to do another build for nice profit. I bought a brand new AWD transit two years back and cut two 14" vent holes in the roof on day 2 of ownership. The used market is just wild enough to make buying new make sense, and clean ownership history makes resale easier. There are lots of people doing what I do.
The creator of Pandoc is creating a markup language worth looking at: https://djot.net/
You can walk away when you declare bankruptcy. Lot of people in 2008 just did that
> Musk’s decision to buy the company

A more accurate version might be "Musk's inability to get out of a bad decision to buy the company".

None of this surprises me. For all of Elon's recent bravado about "free speech", he is a capitalist first and foremost. When it became clear he couldn't get out of it, I predicted he'd just follow the private equity playbook: cut costs, fold or sell-off non-core assets, saddle the company with complicated debt and then sell it off while claiming victory.

He'll probably retain all the power with a Silicon Valley share structure.

None of this is surprising.
Sure, but if you also had a spoon and knife then the fork is really just trying to compete with the knife at cutting and the spoon at scooping. It loses both of those competitions and is relegated to being a poker. The fork is a jack of all trades and a master of none.
It's not like a mortgage. When you own a company, the debt of the company are not your debts unless you pledge your own assets as collateral.
And yet, your point is completely pointless. I can easily go find another bank. By design, they're fungible. PayPal's position and "reputation" puts them in a league of their own when it comes to accepting online payments. I don't even know of something that has the same mindshare. Venmo? Owned by PayPal, in yet another CLASSIC American monopolistic cannibalization, engineered to explicitly deny my ability to USE SOMEONE ELSE. Seriously, I don't know of any others besides Apple Pay. Does Ebay work with that? My point is that your options are limited, like the power company, water, or sewer.
Funny, how a Series A investor in someone else' pre-existing company got people to think that he was the "ideas guy".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%...
Wood is only more sustainable than metal if the wooden utensil is multiple-use.
Maybe you could use it as an autocomplete to make an actual support person able to handle more queries simultaneously? Idk.
I've played KG for over a year IRL. Run number 18, over 19k in game years.

I want to get back in but a lot has changed and I'm struggling to recall all the details to be able to pick it back up and what I should focus on. Any tips?
1. In a lot of cases you can "just walk away". These are so-called "non-recourse loans". Some states (12) only permit non-recourse loans for residential real-estate.

2. If you own a company and the company goes bankrupt with bonds (loans) outstanding, the recourse is that the bondholders (lenders) get control of the company before the shareholders (you) get anything. (This is analogous to the mortgage situation above: the mortgage lender gets the house, become an REO [real-estate owned] on the bank balance sheet.)
You might not quite be optimizing for energy conservation if you have to live in a big, fully detached house for stuff like this, and commute to the city.
This is 100% false.

Source: I know many families with kids in various private schools in SF, and not one of them had uninterrupted in-person learning throughout the pandemic.

That said, SF public schools were slower to reopen to in-person learning than private schools, which seems to me to have mostly been due to pushback by the SFUSD teacher’s union (who, imvho, responded to this crisis poorly).
> doc: Yeah, there's something going around.
> me: So I just have "something".
> doc: Yeah.

Back in the bad old days in 2019 this was the normal diagnosis you'd get for almost any respiratory virus. They'd tell you "it's viral and there really isn't much you can do besides rest it out".

What changed is we now have cheap "accurate" tests for exactly one specific flavor of virus that people are encouraged to take any time they get even an incredibly minor illness (or sometimes even no symptoms at all!)

Makes me wonder what would happen if you went to a doctors office and they'd test you for every single virus known to man. Lord knows the things you'd probably test positive for. People would never leave the house again!
It's not better or worse, it was just first. I guess having schemas in standard rather than some kind of addon like for JSON is a benefit but not really that relevant, schema doesn't help all that much if you make bad RSS stream anyway.
Well he could file for bankruptcy.. but I doubt he'd ever get another loan again.
Come on, wtf? Your computer can literally emulate another architecture in real time and you think sudo 100x slower would be humanly sensible? Computers literally wait eons for human inputs in the majority of times.

I assume you actually think that sudo takes the time it does, but you just likely entered your password wrong and are made to wait deliberately through a sleep. Are we really that bad at ball parking code execution times?!
not fire but lay off. There's a difference, you can still be fired at any time but laying people off is different. The company is terminating their employment through no fault of the employee. That's a contract violation basically and so the terms are different.
Did they have any choice, given the massive payday it represented for shareholders?
While you're right that it's unlikely, I think you're half right and half not.

Half right: Cash comp is unlikely to be that high, and that's the GP's point. They could only very optimistically cut payroll to cover $1-2 billion.

Half wrong: Cash comp isn't the whole story, you have to use total comp as equity the acquisition of Twitter also included employee equity plans, so as they vest the company will owe employees a cash value. I'm not sure if Twitter RSUs are dollar denominated (fixed cost, $X/quarter) or share denominated (e.g.: Y shares/quarter). The latter will be more costly because Musk paid a premium.

Half again as wrong: total comp is not the all-in cost of an FTE. Benefits and other associated costs, I don't know enough about payroll to even begin to estimate that.
In my personal experience the quality of discussion is awful on both boards. It’s genuinely worse than Reddit, which was a low bar.
I can't speak for why someone else thinks this, and I certainly cannot read his mind, so this is just a general comment about buying something with cash or equity versus debt.

If you buy with debt, you have to pay every month (or year, or whatever). So obviously you have to either have deep pockets to pay out of pocket, or generate more cash flow, and you have to do it NOW, because the debt must be serviced now.

If you buy with cash and/or equity, you take on an opportunity cost, but you can afford to make longer-term investments, and you can afford to take your time with cost-cutting or other measures.

The pressure to recoup your investment is certainly there, but the urgency to generate cash-flow in the short term is not.

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All that being said, if Musk doesn't think Twitter investing in initiatives that will take a while to pay off, but he does think it needs short-term moves like firing everyone in sight and putting Trump back on the platform and getting rid of pesky "activists" who think "freedom of speech" includes telling advertisers that they face boycotts...

Well then, debt is clearly the winning move.
I was one of those suckers though I kept it mostly to myself (& dont own tesla stock or a tesla). I still do feel Musk's contribution in accelerating EV adoption is invaluable and help markets get over a 'internal combustion local minima'. Also he didn't have to use his pile of money to land rockets and make space launch cheap so I give him credit for that. BUT thats where it ends for me, IMO we need a barely winning, underdog Elon much more than this flamboyant, impulsive, A*h0le billioniare.

what I worry about now is that musk fanbois are willing to bend the rules (in peacetime not covid panic or early days of EVs) for him will set a horrible pressident for workers in general.
You can't be serious? If you can't grok it in 5-10 minutes then normal people, i.e. the vast majority of people using Twitter, are never going to use it. It doesn't take extensive analysis to realize Mastodon is a hot mess as an alternative to Twitter - and that's okay. Mastodon was never intended to be an alternative to Twitter. That also means don't expect the masses to adopt Mastodon.

I see the masses moving to Reddit. It'll be interesting to see their new registrations over the next couple of months.
If you sum all of this, that's -1071 for those like me that were curious.
Saying Singal "obviously" operates in good faith is an exaggeration. Michael Hobbes on Twitter has a few threads regarding Singal where he shows how Singal likes to move the goalposts and accuse people of being "irresponsible" for making straightforwardly true claims (even ones that are supported by his own evidence). [ https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3ARottenInDenmark%20jesse&... ]
Stating a goal of ending bi-partisan politics and following through on enacting that goal all in public in a very documented way isn't a conspiracy. There is a direct connection between the dysfunction in politics today and the explicit and public actions taken by conservatives to make it this way.
This is such a great way to look at this. I'm sad that the employees will lose their jobs but the fact that so much money is being invested in this and going to Mars but we can't stop kids from being killed during school, feed kids lunch if they are starving, or make any real impact on climate change should awaken us to the fact that we've been increasingly played since the 60's.
Same. As someone well off with inattentive type ADHD, 99$ is money I wouldn't mind throwing away for a shot at getting better with the daily issues I face. And then if it works progressing to something more expensive is also not a problem.

In my case the issue is that despite having a growth mindset for learning pretty much anything, in the case of ADHD stuff I've been trying for so long to fix myself that it feels like I'll never be able to. And that trying out this service and making efforts would be more draining than living with the symptoms is.

I realise that's not true so I could force myself to do it, it's just what I feel.

Going to go talk with an ADHD specialized psychologist this month and will see if a service like this can be extra help perhaps.
Now there's a sentence I never thought I would read.
Maybe it has something to do with the Nord Stream pipeline, maybe it doesn't
Show me the creative system so you don't have to remove what's in at the front of a vertical fridge shelf to get to 2013 vintage jar of mayonnaise at the back.
UK Government also scans all internet traffic and save's it 3 days.
How about Mastodon/Pleroma?
I think people opposing Copilot are overly reactive, saying they fight for open source but actively trying to stop "Opener Source". Because Copilot is that - even more open than open source. So open that even open source people are angry. It learns skills and then makes them available to everyone. "How dare AI make its home on our open source lawn? Get off our lawn!"
> I like the site but it seems overpriced - a good therapist is cheaper and can do the same thing.

These ADHD coaching services come up a lot, and this is the general advice I give out:

Always start with your insurance options first. Many people are surprised to learn that they can get therapy (for ADHD or otherwise) for as little as $10-20 per session through their normal health insurance. Telehealth has been normalized, too, so it's likely you can do it from home.

Always check insurance first to evaluate costs. Consider how deductibles play out through the course of the year, too. This coaching service is a lot to pay out of pocket relative to what many people in tech would expect to pay with insurance involved.
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Of course, if Twitter collapses, he'll still lose all the cash that he did put into the buyout.
The employees are not innocent. If you do such a bad job that you attract the ire of a huge portion of users and a billionaire willing risk it big to buy out the company to correct the ship then maybe it is time for some self reflection.
> is it worth making it a priority

It will follow by itself once space mining kicks off.
Scanning web sites hosted in the UK. Scanning the web server implies their software is running on the server OS.
Re: Comma AI. This is what it tells me about my run-of-the-mill Toyota:

> openpilot upgrades your Toyota Highlander Hybrid with automated lane centering at all speeds, and adaptive cruise control that automatically resumes from a stop.

Both are annoying artificial limitations Toyota put presumably to avoid abuse by inattentive drivers.

I mean it can't change lanes. What does it do exactly?
Word on the grapevine is saying that Google is doing similar. One of the "perk" of being a well-known DNS resolver (8.8.8.8) is getting an early notification whenever a server goes "online" on the internet.
Precisely.

(I did not actually mean to suggest that Musk needed to follow the original LBO strategies, I was just saying that the end of the 80s LBO frenzy happened when those strategies begun to fail with massive LBOs. It's 35 years later. Musk will invent new strategies to win or fail.)
That assumes that sudo the executable taking longer would linearly increase the time when in fact your OS loaded the exe into memory, created a process, allocated memory and let it go. A significant amount of time was just that, nothing related to the program’s job.
Pretty sure that's not how it works for individual accounts.
Scanning only needs to know the potential ips, not the active ones.

And you might be interested in the ip space of all UK entities.

If you put it this way then the problem becomes way easier. Just check public ip databases for AS and technical contact.
> I recently started using RSS again (self-hosted with miniflux). One difficulty I have is that these kinds of RSS feeds in OP are way too high-volume for me. But it can be hard to find good blogs or RSS feeds without relying on Twitter to find them

Filter them. For example I have Tested youtube channel on feed but put a filter on titles that gets most of the content Adam Savage makes (as I kinda don't care about anything else they do).

Also, splitting into groups helps a lot, just putting "low volume but I want to see everything" stuff away from "just basically a news feed of on average mildly interesting stuff" hels
Alice is a trading firm. Alice borrows $1 billion, Alice then uses $1 billion to go out and buy $1 billion of assets. To become insolvent, the value of Alice's assets has to fall below the value of her liabilities. Otherwise, Alice can simply liquidate her assets to repay her debts.

The only way this can happen is if the value of Alice's assets falls below the cost basis in which she purchased those assets (plus some relatively minor short-term secured interested rate). For a trading firm engaged in mark-to-market accounting that condition represents a loss in the income statement. This isn't strange voodoo, this is just simple accounting identities.
I don't think he ever drank his own Kool-aid. He wasn't planning on actually actually finalizing the purchase, it was most likely just done so he could dump some overvalued Tesla stock. He did try to back out after he made these trades after all. The only reason he finally accepted the deal was because he was forced to by the court.
financing table at the end says otherwise: https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#47
Good point, but as a counterbalancing force, those people still benefit from the economy-wide productivity increase in the long run. An entry-level unskilled worker has a much higher standard of living today than a skilled tradesman of the 19th century.
They would have definitely been sued by shareholders if they didn’t.
My issue isn't that. its that every Clojure project I've seen has always been at Java Shops, where eventually some java dev decides it too hard/ doesn't have the time to learn Clojure, and it just gets rewritten in Java. I've seen this happen with a few Scala projects as well.
I think it's similar to small construction companies using their staff during the winter to work on the owner's new rental properties.

They can easily scale it up or down depending on how other projects/priorities are going and how many people don't have tasks to do. All of the deadlines and KPIs are internal and they don't expose themselves to lawsuits or financial penalties when they have to delay something.

In the case of spacex, it's even more beneficial because they need to launch rockets anyway for testing. Sending them to space empty is a wasted opportunity.
Oh yeah, that's what I meant, thanks.

Obligatory Mitch Hedberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHopAo_Ohy0
Do you really think the richest person in the world still has to make personal guarantees on business loans lmao?
Except he did get away with it. My wife works in Medicare compliance for a large insurer and under Trump, every single communication they received from Medicare about an initiative literally included the language "Through the leadership of President Trump, ..."
Great idea. Bookmarked. Thanks for building and sharing it.
> “Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,” he said in a tweet. “Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”

On average, if their advertising brings in profit they'll continue it. So this might be temporary.

If it is socially driven, two things come to mind:
1: They may just not like being associated with Musk. Now that Twitter is Musk, they're tied to him.
2: We're moving to an economy that is more obviously based on social group approvals/behaviors. Shunning and ostracising by some groups ("libs"/"SJWs", apparently) and support by other groups (MAGA, Qs) for one company or another feels a bit different than preferences by social classes or geographies.

Maybe this has been played out in past generations, for example how the temperance or abolition movements went. But those were about classes of behavior, not specific companies. Maybe the fact that we only have 1 Twitter in mind, not 10 different short message services, clouds my thinking there.
I thought that required asserts that could be stripped. Does Twitter have any assets in that category? Compute doesn't retain value, user retention is fickle, and there exists open source clones of the service.
This is exactly how I wish YouTube allowed me to browse for videos! Great resource. Does anyone on HN have additional resources that allow for content discovery?
Good to know where my tax money is going
He's proven that you can do pretty much anything if wealthy enough and face almost no consequences.
There is no way the average salary of all the employees cut would be $300k. I'd be surprised if the average was higher than $100k.

At least one source I found says the average salary of Twitter employees is $97k. (US only total compensation is closer to $300k with an average of $270k. But a lot of that is probably stock options which now must be paid in cash).

So I would imagine the total savings are closer to $250m compared to when Twitter was public but maybe a lot more in savings vs what Twitter would have bled considering the stock options portion of the compensation would have had to have been cash.
This argument comes up over and over in this debate, and it seems like the result of some misunderstanding. You’re certainly allowed to react in a way that’s punitive as long as it’s a legal action, you won’t be violating the law, and I don’t think anyone claims otherwise, but you’ll be violating the cultural norms of free speech by engaging in repression. If you generally believe in the freedom of speech as a principle, you believe that people who you disagree with should be able to say their piece, without your feeling the need to retaliate, because you know that that’s what’s necessary to maintain a culture of free speech and open, honest discourse. But when you try to punish or retaliate for someone airing a view you disagree with, you’re going past civil discourse into actions intended to harm them financially, emotionally, or otherwise. And that’s frankly harmful to democracy.

If they say they hate your family directly to you, sure, don’t eat there. But most speech that people disagree with and try to retaliate against the speaker isn’t on that level - it’s bits of speech taken out of context, indirect expressions of opinion like donations to candidates, etc. People are being manipulated by professional propagandists, and they’re following along enthusiastically. It’s polarizing the country, and it’s actively harmful to the stability of the democracy.
> (...) not being able to apply consequences to speech is itself curtailing your speech,(...)

No, not really.

Your right to speech isn't infringed if someone does not share your personal opinion. You're always able to express your mind about how profoundly you disagree or how wrong you feel everyone around you is.

What you cannot do is go around strong-arming people to shut up or stop expressing ideas you don't share. That is not a way to protect your right to free speech. That's just fascism 101.
To be frank, twitter hasn't changed in 10 years.

So in this hypothetical, the people building the future of the company have achieved nothing during this time and should absolutely be removed or replaced.
Way back in the early 2000s the FBI contacted a company I was working for to inform us that someone was hosting Disney movies on our servers. So something like this is at least sort of happening.