skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always found his harmolodic concepts interesting, if delivered unevenly. I feel like some of his proteges did a better job implementing the ideas that Ornette did sometimes (e.g. Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, or some of Jamaaladeen Tacumas stuff) but in general Ornette was brilliant and interesting.

True story digression: went to an Ornette concert with my Missus at the time, and a pair of friends. One of them disappears right before the show from a cigarette break. After the show we find her and ask where she went...she had run into Tom Waits out front, who bummed a light from her and as a reward asked if she wanted to sit with his family in their box seats. Who would say no to that offer?
This is such an insane worldview. Lots of things are technically possible but socially or legally discouraged. You could infringe copyright. You could steal. You could walk around naked. It's not whining to say that something is outside of social norms.
I don't think I get what you are referring to with malicious intent, but OpenAI has some "Safety best practices" [1] that don't seem bad. I'm also sure that they will improve over time.

[1] https://beta.openai.com/docs/usage-policies/safety-best-prac...
If you can't remain patient for 40 hours to learn HTML, I recommend NOT trying to become a developer. Patience is necessary for a developer, imo.
Not if you keep overbuilding for star and moonlight!
100% relative humidity is ~23 grams/m^3 at 25C

That is <6 grams if you sucked every molecule out of 0.25 m^3.

Air at 0 C still has about 5 grams/m^3, so the number would actually be lower.

50% RH at 25C to 100% RH at 0 would condense ~1.6 grams of water from the air .

To hit 10g you need 45+ grams per m^3, which would be 100% humidity at >37C (eg, the tropics)
Personally, I'd keep the software devs + QA. Most of them probably don't care so much about politics/culture and are hopefully motivated by doing a good job. Without dev+QA, there's no Twitter. So I would understand a total mgmt purge....
Yeah that’s about payroll, effectively. You revoke all access, and tell the employees their project is over. Pay salary until a termination date 60 days in the future.

The termination is still “no cause”. At least in CA.

And all duties are typically over on the day of the layoff notice. Turn in your badge, take your stuff off the premises, etc.
> It's not like anyone would be fooled into thinking this was real. What's the harm?

You are grossly overestimating the collective intelligence of people on the Internet and yes this also includes the "wittier" Lex Fridman audience.
You're talking about distribution cost and ignoring the cost in time (and lost opportunity to do something else) to the writers or musicians.

The price of a record was never just the cost of pressing the record. CDs cost pennies to burn; paper and digital printing by the late 20th century were extremely cheap. The wholesale and retail prices always included pay for the artist (along with a raft of agents and corporations along for the ride). Spotify itself imposes artificial costs to distributing music, in the form of limits, prohibiting downloads, subscriptions and advertising. They do this to make money for themselves, but also to pay the artists.

As you say, distribution is now essentially free from a technical standpoint. There's no philosophical difference between Spotify charging 100x what it costs them to stream a song, and a record company charging 20x what it cost to press a CD. Free distribution would mean zero money for artists. We started by talking about piracy. By definition, with piracy the artist gets nothing.

Since no one can sustain an artistic career and produce writing or music over a long period without some sort of income, this means either all artists will have to be from the wealthy classes, have other means of support, and simply want to make art as a hobby, or else there has to be a distribution channel with an imposed toll of some kind that ultimately funnels them payment for their work. Whether subscription-based, or charging per-device for copy protected media, that will never be a perfect system, will never be free of piracy, and will always appear to the end consumer as an arbitrary restriction on free information.

I don't think scarcity of paper has been the limiting factor on price since at least the 18th Century. Since there is no scarcity of electrons, I don't view scarcity as a useful paradigm. The prices of locked downloads are simply representing the actual cost and market value of the work, which should be the same whether on the paper or in the aether.
“Normal” is the equilibrium state of past optimization processes
"pre-presumes that doing something for the common good is always bad"

No, it refers to a state that is intrusive into personal choices.

"pre-presumes"?
For right, it is libs and anyone who treats transsexuals well. Or people who want abortion.

Or people who believe in democracy and voting lately.
No, not for the purposes of layoffs.
Theres no accountability above a certain level. In a stable business (am excluding new innovations), proving or disproving the performance of an entire org, let alone company, is extremely difficult. Individual contributors are much easier to judge, and thus live lives of sub-ordinance. Their inputs and outputs can be easily mapped. The trick of working, and thus living a nice life, is to rise to a level of plausible deniability, which begins ~3/4 levels of management up.

In Big Tech, most high level management was just there first. They started when that business unit started, and have been there for 20 years. An old stable business unit promoting a low level go getter way up the chain is basically unheard of
Generative AIs Narrow the Taste Gap
If anything, layoffs mean more housing should be built, not less. Increase the supply and prices will fall.
Musk essentially was the A series, which led to him becoming the chairman and majority owner of the 7 month old company, which at that point just had a handful of guys. He ended up dismissing the original founders of the company before production began on their first product.

Their impact on the Roadster is debatable. Their impact on Tesla, as a whole, is effectively zero.
Jason Snell: "Apple historians only do stuff like this because Apple has no sense of its own history."

https://twitter.com/jsnell/status/1588601907928436740
I think the implication was that they asked everyone to print the code out and then, realizing that nobody actually would be able to evaluate the code, asked everyone to shred the printouts lest they go into a dumpster where the code could be stolen.
Amiga games coming to Evercade retro systems next year
That happens at every company. I've been working in the tech industry for 25 years at 8 different companies. You lay off people and then the best engineers start looking for a new job and leaving 2-3 months afterward.
They would really only take it down if Russian media was on there and they complained in Russian court. That’s why rutracker got in trouble. No local victim = no crime according to Russia and in practice most countries actually. Problem is libgen has lots of Russian stuff.
'Online' applies to both 'live' and 'do business' in the sentence above.

Their mission is to make online activities safe.
I quite enjoyed the creativity that went into setting up this physical world bot to respond to Trump tweets.
https://twitter.com/burnedyourtweet
Is there any value to these? like its a cool tech demo, but they are mostly saying non sense.
I think that Christina Angeli tweet was voluntarily deleted, according to https://twitter.com/CA_CrissyAngel/status/158834782975154995....
Avian flu: our food chain is in crisis
> The idea that he can strategize and effect change at the fine-grained level of emergent phenomena like a picture of an internal comms channel is bonkers, conspiracy theory stuff.

You're right, but Elon himself is pushing this narrative. Remember when he pretended he was going to personally review the code of a bunch of Twitter engineers? There's also the Twitter blue pricing exchange and a number of other topics he's trying to appear deeply involved in the details for.
Altogether, it took more like seven or eight minutes, but because it was decently-written and had some legitimate educational and entertainment value, I'll settle for a partial refund.
I would say slow is a charitable characterization of US antitrust enforcement, just because I consistently see these huge mergers go through that the Justice department or FTC should have prevented in the first place. We had that case against Microsoft but it was a very long time ago and basically had no effect.

If Justice approves Adobe-Figma you can be sure our antitrust teeth are gone.
My North American in-laws live in a household of two and have three stand-alone freezers. Plus a kitchen refridgerator that's so big that you could call it a walk-in fridge.
Too late to edit original post, but thanks for the correction. It had the stink of an exploitive company behind it, and not Lyft, but I just wasn't sure and kind of assumed that Lyft wouldn't allow it (and perhaps they don't, but no one reports it).
"sudo" asks you for your individual password. "su root" asks you for a single root password
The Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers made some handy lists for people who need Z-Library alternatives!

https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2022-0010-0024
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2022-0010-0015
I think a lot of people viewed Twitter as poorly-monetized and -managed as product and business, but generally competitive as a technical organization.
I don’t see where I’ve conflated anything, nor do I understand your attempt to show where I have. “Biological sex” is redundant; sex is a biological classification. There isn’t any other kind.
Due to some dubious claims this feels like racist propaganda to me, but it's probably just ignorance about renewable energy.

China having the worlds biggest offshore wind sector was notably absent from their discussion of where China's renewable energy was sourced from.
Just for some context, Twitter has around $4.5B in revenue per year. Clearly, you can't cut all spending. It looks like the "cost of revenue" is around half that ($2B) and you probably can't cut that. Do you cut sales and marketing? Well, then your revenue probably ends up declining. Do you cut R&D? Well, eventually others are going to eat your lunch. You have $1.6B in R&D costs and $1.2B in sales and marketing and $700M in admin costs (like Human Resources).

As you note, it's really hard to cut deep enough to cover $1B in interest payments without cutting stuff that ends up hurting your revenue. As Twitter cuts their R&D, they're leaving themselves open to missing out on the future. Should Twitter have continued to invest in Vine? Well, the benefit of hindsight says "yes" given TikTok's success. As much as everyone is making fun of Meta's metaverse plans, it's certainly possible it'll be important in the future. We really just don't know. I remember everyone saying the iPhone was a silly toy and people would want to keep their Blackberries and Windows Mobile devices with keyboards. We can literally see the future and say, "nah, that'll never happen."

If Musk cuts engineering too much, does the service just become mediocre?

As you say, it's hard to cut deep enough to come up with $1B.
Buy a Porsche, rent it out on one of the luxury car rental apps, pay the monthly note with profit from the rentals.

Form a company, get a big loan, buy a bunch of luxury cars ... profit??

After you buy it, you don't just get to use it the way you want to all the time.
Being prepared for getting fired (in the sense of having a financial cushion) is one thing.

What I’m seeing here, however is a discrepancy between saying that working hard and burning brightly for your employer is meaningful and fulfilling and something to strive towards (as seen in the threads around expectations at Twitter of working 12h days and meeting tight deadlines) and on the other hand the expectation to dispassionately deal with being fired.

That just doesn’t go together. It‘s just a weird perspective. Those views don’t seem to be consistent with each other.

If your work is meaningful to you then psychologically being fired can have a devastating impact. You can’t be at the same time emotionally invested in your workplace and also not affected by being fired.

I know that HN is not one person, but that’s the perspective I’m perceiving.
I'm pretty sure it's Hobbes who is acting in bad faith. Most of his links are to things that don't support his claims. For example, he'll claim that puberty blockers are completely reversible, but link to an NHS site that says some long term effects are unknown[1], and though GIDS claims the physical effects are reversible, GIDS was shut down due safety issues.[2]

Hobbes also accused Jesse of recruiting detransitioners from a transphobic website[3][4], but the site in question only allows females to join, so Jesse couldn't have used that site to find the people he interviewed for his article.

Lastly, Hobbes blocks his opponents, then screenshots their tweets and argues against them. This makes it much harder for his targets to respond to him and correct the record. It really seems like he doesn't care about what's true, just what he can get others to believe.

1. https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/15820931910080921...

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220728150640/https://www.theti...

3. https://archive.ph/cl9U8

4. https://kyschevers.medium.com/telling-the-whole-story-a-clos...
Random idea- has any corporation operated with something akin to term limits?
> we still have a justice system, if someone forces you to vote a certain way, report it.

While it's true that law enforcement has a role to play here, if you're being paid, you probably aren't going to report on yourself.

> individual votes have almost no value on their own

That's probably true in a national election, but it might not be true in e.g. a mayoral race.
I'd say not anymore, average microcontroller used in IoT got fat enough, nowadays even smaller chips come with AES acceleration too.

I'm frankly surprised some proper standard didn't pop up already, I guess closing the users in your own ecosystem as fast as possible is priority in the industry.

Good 80-90% of devices could be just "an MQTT connection + a bit of code to pair it up initially and feed server data" + a bunch of templates for how typical services should present themselves (so a light will just work with any compatible "control center"). Then just sell user subscription to your cloudy cloud IFTTT clone or a separate box to put in house that does the same job.
You're right, I misremembered some detail about Java packaging on Alpine. There's an Alpine-based Docker image I've set up to build for a Java application at work where I have to manually pull down some binary that I expected to be packaged, but I don't recall all of the details.

As for the substance of your reply:

> Zypper and dnf still use RPM BTW.

Yes, this is what I said. Zypper and dnf are high level package management tools comparable to Pacman. RPM is not.

> stable packages (meaning up-to-date)

That's not at all what the word 'stable' means, but

> Arch Linux and Alpine maintains significantly more [up to date packages] than other DEB and RPM-based distros

This is also false. Look at the numbers: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/newest

Debian Unstable has > 18k up-to-date packages. Fedora Rawhide has > 14k. openSUSE Tumbleweed has > 9k. Arch has fewer than 9k up-to-date packages.

Arch has fewer up-to-date packages than any of the most prominent RPM-based or DEB-based rolling release distros. It does have a larger percentage of its (relatively very small) total package collection at the latest versions from upstream: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/pnewest

On that front, the difference between Arch and Alpine is greater than, e.g., the difference between Alpine and openSUSE. Debian Unstable about matches up with the AUR on that metric.

Not to mention that Nixpkgs, whose tooling is pretty much the polar opposite of Pacman's KISS philosophy, has more packages than Arch and the AUR combined and has more packages which are up-to-date than both combined.

I am sure that the simplicity of the PKGBUILD format has been important in the personal journeys of many package maintainers for Arch Linux. But the notion that this means that Arch has attracted so many maintainers that is capable of keeping a greater number of packages up-to-date is absolutely unsupported by the facts. The further claim that this (fictional) superiority reflects fundamental technical virtues in its package management system that make it a better base for enterprise Linux distros than something like Fedora or Debian or openSUSE is a huge leap and a non-sequitur.
We aren't employees on HN, just temporarily embarrassed founders.
Wasn't the downfall of Betamax that the tapes were limited to 1 hour (which Sony thought was fine since that was the unit of commercial videotapes) and most people wanted to record sporting events that took longer than an hour?
Mozilla Foundation launches ethical venture capital fund
Laid off often means that the position is being eliminated.

I will draw attention to https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2012-title20-vol3/pd... which defines a mass layoff:

> (c) Mass layoff. (1) The term "mass layoff" means a reduction in force which first, is not the result of a plant closing, and second, results in an employment loss at the single site of employment during any 30-day period for: (i) At least 33 percent of the active employees excluding part-time employees, and (ii) At least 50 employees, excluding part-time employees.

There is no difference of "for cause" or "not for cause" in the wording of the WARN act. There may be a difference in the contract (not removing a comic may be construed as "for cause") but if that employee was let go in the the frame of a reduction in force, they are likely covered by the WARN act too... of course, ask a lawyer.

In particular, employers with a bit more pragmatic/cautious legal department will avoid firing people for cause in the 30 day window where a layoff happens to avoid the possibility that the fired employee falls into the same category as those who are covered by the WARN act.
They do, it is the only reason very large companies survive: they live on economy of scale and die of corporate ice age (get large, bureaucratic, slow until freezing). Scale and inertia.
The free market favors wealthy influence over grassroots discourse. Everything always centers around money and power imbalance.
I really resonate with this and I just signed up for the month intro package!

It seems like a small price to pay if it works! My therapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/CBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS)) always says that the key to ADD/ADHD is to have structure, and this looks like shimmer could fit that prescription!

Chris, I am in your knowledge learning section of the app and your videos are not able to be played on Android because they are stuttering. I think maybe your server is getting hit too hard? I finally got through the welcome video in the app but it did stutter a bit.
Still doesn't explain why they are holding $5.8B FTT
CEO is the easiest to measure, because you just pass through how the company as a whole is performing against it's goals.
I'm not a huge Musk fan, mostly because of his political ramblings and especially revolving around Ukraine; but I find the sudden hatred of him pretty odd. Mass layoffs happen all the time, Square just announced a 14% cut yesterday. In terms of Twitter's current moderation nothing has really changed on the platform, I'm an avid user and have seen no difference.

It's not really just Musk, it feels like there is a turn on any social media platform that doesn't do wide arrays of censorship that lean whatever way you're inclined to agree with (this includes conservatives hating TikTok.) Musk has said he wants a free-speech platform but has never claimed it would have no moderation. There was a piece somewhere about a rise in the use of the N word, but there was no follow up showing if those accounts were banned. Seems like an important part of the story.

Honestly some of this feels like a hit job. I've not found anyone that can point to something inherently wrong with the new vision of Twitter that isn't based in some crazy hyperbole not in tune with reality. Twitter has been horribly run for ages, someone trying to revive it isn't bad.

When I use a platform, unless the person is a literal Nazi or Communist, I don't care what their political beliefs are. I care about the product. I think that is being lost on people where now everything revolves around politics. It's kind of sad, especially when we all basically agree on 90% of things and policy.

We used to complain about data silos and filter bubbles...and now people just leave platforms because leadership may not share their political views? How is that good? I think the media itself has fed into this because they have always hated social media (for better or worse) for making them no longer the first source of news when print was already dying.
RStudio is now Posit
And as you rise, your pay increases along with other benefits (time off, "business lunches"/conferences/golfing with vendors, etc). The furthest you are from doing actual "grunt work", the better off you are it seems.
The Author's Guild shadow library list, if you need Z-Library alternatives
The way I read the article, they're actually collecting vulnerability information. So they check a site with Version X running on it, and detect the vuln; then they later see Version Y, without the vuln, and update their vulnerability database.

Nothing in the article suggests that they contact site-owners (I haven't re-read the article, so might be wrong).

I'm not sure why you think it's a potential violation of CFAA to connect to a public server and probe it. There's no suggestion of unauthorized access; that would involve exploiting vulnerabilities they find, and that would be unauthorized access.
Awesome! Thank you for going through whatever red tape was required :)

To be clear, my description of the language as "informal and personal" was not meant as a criticism - I love it. It's just so different from the fake-enthusiastic professionalism that is usually mandatory from corporate-branded projects like this. Hats off to you!
Disney: "Hey FBI, this server is pirating us, plz 2 takedown tyvm"
This is proper advance notice as long as he pays for 60+ days of employment. There is no law that requires employers to let you do whatever you want with access to company resources for 60 days.
> When you buy a company

Elon didn't even read the contract that bought the company. He spent the last 6 months in court trying to get out of the contract, not realizing it was ironclad.
> The problem is finding places with suitable hill top lakes.

And a similar capacity lake at the bottom of the station to hold the water that you are going to pump up to the top.
True, they have a DNS resolver, but they also have Chrome. And the Certificate Transparency list. Google Analytics. And so on…
> Corporate communication is corporate property and fully accessible as it pertains to investigations of corporate wrong-doing.

I guess it depends on your definition of corporate wrong-doing. If Elon just looked for all posts that include his name and he's firing everyone who was critical of him, that might stretch the definition for most people. That could even cross over into creepy big-brother like oversight and might dissuade people from working at Elon led companies (or maybe attracts people who want him searching their private messages for references to him).