skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
reporter's thread: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/15883356977855897...

>Employees in Twitter just got an email from their bosses saying layoffs are coming tomorrow.

>Those who are staying will get a note tomorrow in their work email. Those who are let go will get an email sent to their personal address.

>Slot machine-style layoffs.

>Some employees I'm hearing from at Twitter are desperate to get laid off and get severance. The work culture there is beyond toxic.

>Some are afraid to push back against Elon because they don't want to risk getting fired for cause — disagreeing with Elon — and losing severance.

…

>"At the end of this nightmare, I better get a cash prize," one told me.
Defining what a word means is linguistics, not philosophy.
TFA? The First Amendment?
Do people really pay for jira plugins? I've never seen this occur in the wild.
So much for that $8/mo rollout
I mean can you put a price on having a toilet in your van that can be flushed, and later discreetly emptied?
The floor denominated in dollars can still go to zero.

The utility of Bitcoin is its global payment network.
> as humans are generally capable of

Citation needed. I've never plagiarised on purpose, sure, but I've caught myself at least several dozen times well after the act.
It is time to apply jobs in New Zealand. Economy is strong, easy pathway to be permanent resident. Oh, and it is a beautiful country with super friendly people. https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-...
Free share link: https://wapo.st/3NwO5qR
Someone I know kept averaging down and put in everything that he had as the dotcom bubble was bursting.
Why not hired a licensed lawyer in your jurisdiction, ideally one with expertise in copyright law, and ask them? If there are licensed lawyers here, they know better than try to give you legal advice (a) for free, (b) anonymously, and (c) without knowing where you are, and anyone else is unqualified to answer your question.

You can't just wing this stuff, dude.
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Exactly. Layoffs are done in a way order to preserve the company given less resources.
It's impolite to assume on someone's behalf in public.

Could you explain how messaging in private is so hard to do if you have no problem making the comment in public...?

You seem to have a really hard time grasping that this entire comment thread we are part of wouldn't exist if OP had reached out about their concerns in private.
Looking at some other related commentary (not verified), apparently the Windows version might simply ignore TSO and hope for the best.
If a software systematically engages in copyright violation but only haphazardly corrects those violations, those haphazard correct aren't evidence the problem has vanished.
> and at any time they can forbid disabling Secure Boot in order to qualify for Windows.

If regulatory agencies were to let them get away with it - which is a very big “if”.
Is this really Musk doing ? So many compagnies are laying off these days it was probably in the work for a while
This is an oblique way of making a good point: with (some) bad gear, in order to get an acceptable photo you have to learn the essentials (light, shade, and contrast, composition, focus): whether you learn them formally, or by lots of trial and error.

It makes the learning curve steep, which can be offputting for a lot of people.

A polaroid is not a bad choice because the compose-shoot-view_results loop is about the right length of time, and the limited number of shots in a pack makes the "compose" step important straight away.

Having a knowledgeable but not dominating friend helps. "Try kneeling. What do you see?" "What about waiting for that cloud?" That kind of help.
> propagandists supply what's demanded.

Ask each person on the receiving end of propaganda if they are seeking to be lied to. The number that say yes is the amount of demand.
Thanks, I tried giving a TLDR to avoid the misinterpretation but I guess it didn't work as well as I hoped. I appreciate the defense. I just want to see productive conversations and not holy wars.
Except none of us are robots, or interchangeable parts of a machine. Being human is not a weakness.
Most of the time scrollbars should be designed away. Unless the experience is moving at an undetermined rate to fly past the desired content multiple times, there are better tools. Page keys, scroll wheels (and all of the synonymous gesture experiences), search, collapsing and expanding content, etc.

The bar seems to be more familiarity and less functionality to me.
That's just it: I don't think it was a mistake (if we're talking "censorship" about the laptop story).

The story is radioactive. The veracity of it means nothing -- just the phrase is now a talking point, a campaign slogan.

If my points are correct per the prior comment, what good does it serve the people to be amplified in a short attention span economy? Why shine light on dialog that sucks oxygen out of the room?

HN is not the place to come to blows over tribal politics, but I think that discussing policies, strategies, and other political hacking is worthy of being explored if there's willingness to examine the impacts that these actions have.
Hmm, that’s an interesting comparison. Using Intellij instead of Notepad doesn’t automatically produce good code, but it sure helps you write it.
I can't shake the irony of crypto having been created to secure individuals assets and being wildly insecure - having had 2B stolen just last year!
I'm game.

What terrible outcome will we see from a lack of copyright law?
I used to blog long ago and dropped it because the overhead got to be too distracting. I've become interested in again but haven't really been sure what's the right platform to do it with (static or otherwise, self-hosted or not, federated or both or not, and so forth and so on) and haven't been sure what things I'd write about.

With this last point, it's not that I don't have anything to write, it's picking what to write about. Boundaries and persona were always clear lines in the sand for me when I did it before, and at the moment I'm not sure where I want to draw them. It's a bit like deciding to write an ongoing book: on what topic? What part of my mind would I be putting to page?

Basically indecision paralysis.
Decentralization is not just a system developed to serve cryptocurrencies…

Why would you even mention cryptocurrencies? It set my scam alert off immediately. This is worse than starting a speech with, “Hitler may have done some bad things but…”. Also Jack Dorsey has got to be the least competent CEO they could have found. He destroyed Twitter so badly that they forced him out.
CBL-Mariner from Microsoft: the only linux distro to build on Ubuntu but work with RPM packages.
Do you think that will sit well with a potential future employer regardless?
Awesome to see CL listed here ... worked at computerliteracy.com which eventually became fatbrain.com. Good times!
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Depending on your monthly spend, you can get private pricing agreements for most AWS services. But I can't really get into numbers because I like being employed.
it's wild that Musk was trolled into paying $44B to destroy a perfectly viable company.
> Twitter said in the email that its offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended in order "to help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data."

Is this normal during mass layoffs?
So much for trying to cut infrastructure spending costs by November 7th too: https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-i...
Stack ranking by raw number of lines of code?

Hopefully it was scored like golf.

My last real coding job, i was in tough competition with another guy for the most lines of code removed...
I suspect the nonzero interest rates are making capital actuallly prioritize returns.

Therefore pie-in-the-sky projects not making money are scrapped.
I think you meant Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
> You could ship a Rack to every Region, State, Nation, Jurisdiction or Local ISP and Exchange and be done with it.

And when a single rack is down the whole region might be impacted negatively. The blast radius of such a setup would be huge!

As a CDN you really want to avoid this. Even for regular operations you need to be able to afford some servers going out of service for software update and other maintenance - without impacting availability, latency for users (the latter would happen if you route them to a complete different region), or infrastructure costs (which increase if you can't serve data from as close to the user as possible anymore, and have to pay for additional networking fees).

All major CDN providers have hundreds of regions (all with multiple hosts), and you can't really avoid the former. You could run less hosts per region, but whether 1 is the feasible will depend a lot on other parts of your system.
Similar to the Wikimedia Foundation, empire builders are running amok at Mozilla. Expanded mandates + expanded headcount = more clout.
Top talent would have already left by now. Others wait for severance (which may be pitiful in this case). I watched this long ago, and see it repeated.
So is the value proposition normally entertainment in these cases?
Raccoon Infostealer Disclosure
anyone can upload someone else's code to GitHub, not just people who can grant such permission.
> It lies in us.

As despicable as Facebook is, I wish someone there would just come out and say “have you looked at yourself in the mirror?”

It’s mindboggling to see them passively accept the questioning without mentioning that people are wolves and sheeples, and you don’t really need Facebook to join the two.

Platforms like Facebook only bring us closer but the rotten core is within us.
His determination to set his 44B on fire is commendable
This headline is starting to get old. Shit or get off the pot.
Well, no. Free Speech is an idea, far more expansive than the law as written in the US constitution, or many other countries and their respective law of the land/documents.

Free Speech does mean what you describe it not as. But there is no legal body to punish you for violating the principle. It is similar to 'primum non nocere', translated roughly to 'do no harm', extremely common in medicine and something you may see alongside the 'Hippocratic Oath'. You can be in violation of that principle or the oath at any time, some people even get fired for violating either as a pretext to malpractice. Some even argue that it is quite impossible to abide by this principle, and yet, it is something many people take on as responsibility everyday all across the globe.

I won't argue about websites and their rules, they have their own set of principles and violate plenty of others, sometimes they even violate their own principles. But Free Speech is not just the law and interactions one may have with their government.
Seems very unusual to suspend all employees badge access, given "Some employees have been ordered to work in the office every day of the week to meet the deadline" per this article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-i...
I would say it depends on how many get laid off
API monetization using an API Management and a billing provider
Not sure but... start a local computer club? or check the next biggest town over for computer clubs / hackerspaces?
The second option definitely only became available yesterday: https://twitter.com/whatsapp/status/1587941579050070016
Beware the Generative AI Driven Internet
Losing 200 million a year and mostly being not profitable is viable?

Edited to say "mostly" not profitable.
To be honest, my first thought was "of course the people who insist on /r/n would pick RPM". Then I realized I haven't used RPM since RedHat 6, and maybe it's gotten better in the last twenty years...

I've probably just gotten inured to apt, but do you say RPM is the least horrible because the interface is more logical/convenient, or just better at managing dependencies?
The friggin article :)
Non-Medium link:
https://www.andreilyskov.com/2022/beware-the-generative-ai-d...
I'm following the Twitter story with close interest, but even I don't think we need a submission for each micro-event individually.
We’ve had the tiny houses, shipping container homes, then the van life or schoolie (school bus as a home) trend, al of which were clever interpretations on what a home actually is.

I’m sure some enterprising YouTuber/lifestyle blogger could get us started on the private train car home era. I’m here for it.
Were they ever even profitable?
As Profits Soar, the Disneyland and Disney World Magic Is Dying
We're consulting the lawyers here:

https://www.saverilawfirm.com/our-cases/github-copilot-intel...

I'll let you know what they say.
Layoffs were always coming, whether Musk bought it or not.
Only the first option has always been around. Being able to completely hide your online status is brand new.
Ready to watch this stupid company burn to the ground, and take elon with it
I worked at a place that when the company did really well you get a bonus of two weeks paycheck. It some times could happen twice a year and nobody had to ask for it you will receive the news through a “thank you” email.

It was very motivating
prime-age employment available by state anywhere?
Public figures still have separate labels, I'm sure you'll have to have a credit card that matches your name on file (even if you choose to publicly remain anonymous). This is a much faster way to verify someone's identity than having people submit a photo ID and articles about them or written by them... Which was the previous requirement.

I do wish that public figures would have a different badge color or a fully filled in badge with other verified users having only a bordered badge etc. Frankly we don't really know what it will look like.
It's not just arcane it's a horrible idea from an infosec perspective. Thinking about all my wonderful developers having local trusted root CAs just sitting on their hard drives is making my blood pressure skyrocket.
"The U.S. government has officially started to explain some of the most infamous UFO encounters of the last decade, with China and weather balloons as top offenders."

Well, no need to read any further then.
"the fucking article"
No, having enough cash in the bank to continue on for another 10 years (as Twitter did) is viable. Viable is not "making profits".
I guess the company is $1B/year in the hole and they need to close that. Will they get there cutting 3k people and charging $8/verified? The math isn’t too crazy.

-> I made some shitty comments last night about this (firing lots of people) in another thread. I regret them because it was mean. It was meant to be cold in a business is business sort of way, yes, but they came off as mean after I read them again.
They certainly could do worse.
I think he's talking about Elon
SICP Interactive with built-in Scheme Interpreter
I bet MrBeast could pull off a "I paid a guy $100,000 to spend a month in a private train car" or something.
The unemployment rate was 3.5% months ago, there is a lag in government reporting. The rate can also vary greatly by industry, a laidoff software engineer is not going to be looking for McDonalds jobs.
it's funny how he got so much shit here a week ago, but now everything just started tanking, stripe layoffs, lyft layoffs etc etc

apparently he was into layoffs before it was cool
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1179/
Use a linter, personally pylint has helped me learn to write more "Pythonic" code. If you're using vscode, you can easily integrate it or any other python linter.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/lintin...

If you also want a linter for bash, check out shellcheck: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
This was the percursor to private jets.
The floor of dollars is the might of the US military. If you haven’t noticed it’s prettttty strong these days.
In the article you link it refers to Squid Game as "just one of the platform’s many titles" so that minutes-per-title estimate is probably super low since series are gonna be heavy hitters there compared to films.

It's probably larger than we'd guess (there's likely a lot of device-specific stupid codec profile crap that may cause extra copies too).

And - even more interestingly to me - it's not a stationary target. Gotta take mobile consumption into account too!
> wouldn’t you rather have them discuss and plan such things openly, so that police can easily apprehend them?

That’s not the threat here: the problem are the changes constantly promoting messages which stay on the legal side but encourage people to do things. People like the woman behind LibsOfTikTok are careful not to incriminate themselves but they know there are people who will hear what they say and act on it.

That’s why moderation can’t be individual: the people most susceptible to lies and propaganda are willingly seeking it out. That’s always been a problem but social media has made it orders of magnitude easier to discover.
I'm a huge fan of UKI - it's part of the underlying 'magic' of ZFSBootMenu (https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/). We ship a single EFI file that is a full Linux kernel, a semi-custom initramfs and an embedded command line. With that, we can fully support root-on-ZFS because we don't have to re-implement a complex filesystem in a bootloader ... like GRUB. Because we're not trying to re-implement ZFS (or any other modern/complex filesystem), we can ALWAYS be current. If a new version of ZFS is released, all we have to do is build a new EFI executable with that baked in to the embedded initramfs.

There are serious concerns with SecureBoot and being able to unlock your own bootloader - but UEFI itself is a nice universal base to target in 2022.
From “passwordless” to maybe 1Password, as a treat.
RPM is not an APT equivalent. It is a dpkg equivalent. The APT equivalent would be dnf/yum/apt-rpm.
We'll see what the OP says. Musk might fit better though, he may be already walking back his free speech position about Twitter, although the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. We will have to wait a while longer for that.
You can use Stable Diffusion on google colab[0] for free, and if you pay for the subscription you can generate several thousand images for $10 worth of credits, additionally you can opt to use a whole A100 40gig to make larger images, or spit out 512x512 at like 3 seconds per image for really rapid exploration. No reason to use midjourney at all, and in fact ethically it's better not to imo.

[0]https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...
Have you tried putting a 3rd party razor head on your Gillette razor handle?
This is a weird thought, but I think I stand a better chance of being able to learn to speak "bot" than I do of ever actually learning to write code, even though code is pretty much literally a type of "speaking 'bot.'"

I've tried a handful of times and just can't get past how unbearably tedious I find writing for loops, so I give up. It's like trying to read the whole Bible and getting bogged down in Leviticus. I'm sure it gets more interesting. I just can't push through that part!
Well, that's one very opinionated take.
Yes, it's still web-based, but the parent's point is that it uses the WebView2 that comes with Windows instead of maintaining and shipping a separate Electron instance. That ought to be a net positive in any case.
I dunno man, if I had a spare $300-$600k/year lying around I'd love to have this guy work for me even if he is a whiny smart aleck
The next version of Ubuntu after the purchase will contain MS Buntu, a female gnome in the shape of a paperclip who assists with all sorts of programming tasks - logging into hotmail, using copilot, signing up for github enterprise, and so forth.
> The focus on cameras is in part because shopping is easier than making pictures.

I feel like this is a trend in a lot of hobbies. People (myself included) find it really fun to deep dive into research and collecting things related to some hobby they supposedly find interesting. But the actual doing the hobby part is really just some scaffolding to enable that research and collecting.
But, the floor of profits for a company is not denominated in dollars. It is shit you put in your mouth and eat or a useful product like a refrigerator which you can put things which allow you to not die.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is some electricity, and arguably a waste of it.
Stripe set a high bar today in terms of severance, you can almost guarantee Twitter’s terms aren’t going to be as generous.
Didn't Twitter post like a billion in profits in 2019?
You cannot accidentally commit a felony - there has to be intent. What you are suggesting would substantially impede legitimate commerce (which by the way makes up the supermajority of all commerce) and would just result in actual fences coming up with fake documentation. As it stands now companies are basically expected to avoid deals where they see red flags around the provenance of the items. In neither indictment is the refinery mentioned as knowingly receiving the stolen metal powder. DG auto is basically the perfect target because they are a high level facilitator of stolen catalytic converters, they have connections to refineries, and unlike street level guys are probably hard to replace in the stolen catalytic converter supply chain. They even had a pricing app (https://dgauto.app) so prospective thieves would know which cars to target.
Like owing $1B/year in interest?
On the contrary, they’ve been adding new features which bring it closer to POSIX in capabilities - for example, various Windows 10 builds introduced Unix domain sockets, a pseudoterminal API, proper UTF-8 support, POSIX file delete semantics, etc. The pain of porting software from Linux/macOS to Windows has been reduced (significantly for some types of apps) and
here’s to hoping they reduce it even further.
How did that ycombinator application go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yogvgmK2L4g
I occasionally update my web log, however updates are rare because writing ends up taking a lot of time. You have to identify an interesting topic, research it to fill the gaps needed to describe it, create a writeup with associated figures/pictures, edit it, and then commit to publishing it. Yes, it's entirely possible to create lower effort content, but it's substantially less satisfying to me.
Here's a simple Python implementation:

https://code.activestate.com/recipes/576792-polar-to-rectang...
I don't think Robinhood had any choice there. Trades don't settle instantly. Robinhood needs to post collateral with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation while settlement is pending, and the required collateral goes up with volatility. During the "GameStop debacle" they had to raise billions of USD in additional capital for this purpose, so no wonder they had to hit the brakes.