skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lesson here is that he is not exempt from the consequences of his statements. And good! Hopefully he learns a lesson. When someone has such a gigantic platform in which to influence the lives of so many people, he absolutely should be humble and thoughtful about what he says. If it takes a $44 billion dollar lesson to teach him that, then oh well.
I bet there’s two things that cause this:

1) those who quit in solidarity, because they don’t like where things are going

2) those who are saddled with the work of those who were laid off / quit and burn out, causing them to quit (which can snowball to others remaining).
This is an interesting dichotomy to me. I've been married and not dating for a while now, but back in the 2000-2007 era, I was pretty active on the sites available back then. It was great in the really early days. I was able to meet multiple reasonably well-known television actresses since I lived in LA and the overall pool was still small enough. I didn't even have to contact them. They found me!

I always took the approach you're advocating. Get off the site as quickly as possible, ideally only one message, and then meet in person. I didn't see much point in getting to know someone only to find there's no physical chemistry. That worked well in terms of just getting dates. At least back then, plenty of women felt the same way and weren't as overwhelmed by sheer numbers or as cautious, especially at that younger age, being I was still in my early 20s.

It's ironic, though, because I did meet my wife on OkCupid (granting she's my third wife, and I met the other two in school), but not in this way. They used to have social features in the pre-Match Group days, including the ability to post a personal journal and follow other people's journals. Before they also introduced discussion forums, this resulted in online communities of people who all followed each other, talking about basic issues of romance, but not necessarily actually dating since this was spread all over the country and even other countries, not local. At the time, I still lived in LA and my now wife lived in New York, so we "knew" other and talked plenty, but never had any plans to meet. I didn't meet her until years later when we both happened to move to Dallas independently. So assuming you're in to win it and not just to hit it, the only real "success" I ever had online dating was someone I didn't meet until six years after our first message exchange. Most of the people I immediately met never went past three dates.
>what to do if you want to be able to boot the same system via both BIOS and UEFI.

UEFI is simply supposed to find an EFI folder containing boot files, on a FAT32 partition.

A proper UEFI firmware will find the EFI folder regardless of whether the layout is for MBR or if it is GPT.

So you just use conventional MBR layout, format with FAT32 and throw on a (carefully crafted) EFI folder.

This is how Windows live (startup) media is normally done, so you can boot to either type and install Windows to the PC. On recent Windows versions the install.wim file has crept up in size beyond what FAT32 will support, so NTFS is needed for them.

Linux live distros do real well booting from FAT32 using Syslinux (ntfs is also an advanced option), just like the monolithic ISO's do using Isolinux. But to install the distro on the HDD I want an additional EXTx partition to hold the Linux, and still boot to it from the FAT32 boot volume.
I do believe audits and observers would catch that pretty quick.
Choosing to ignore your own experience whilst the news doesn’t match seems more disingenuous.

I’ve been reading about this cost of living crisis and recession since 2021, and still waiting for it to bite despite the media’s best efforts to kill confidence.
The recession(s) are fucking different demographics in different ways.

One thing that's certainly happening in London is that there's hundreds of entry-level candidates fighting for only a handful of openings.

The industry has generally become more risk-averse. Hiring less experienced people is now extra risky, as it is a bet that they'll generate some value for the company before moving on for a higher salary elsewhere. Hiring juniors is a great long-term move, especially in a 0% rates landscape and when VC funding is plentiful but if you only have 12 months cash it's pretty hopeful.

This budget is now being used to hire safer, more predictable hires: seniors (know what you're getting into) and contractors (can cut them with 28 days notice or even less, no employment contract to complicate things)
This list doesn't come close to being a place where "private companies own every method of articulating your views".

I believe you want to force a large company to accept an advertisement on any topic whatsoever, at a "reasonable price", and that that there should be no First Amendment right of free association which allows them to deny that advertisement.

If not, do you want to force them to post that same information at no cost?
Sudo must be the program with the largest number of buffer overflows I’ve heard about. That news is repeating itself ever since I remember.

Maybe a good time to plug doas, a simpler alternative to sudo from OpenBSD folks[1], developed partly due to security fears about sudo. It’s also been ported to Linux and is available in e.g. Alpine and Debian.

[1]: <https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/doas>
> ..array-out-of-bounds error that can result in a heap-based buffer over-read...

This was already a solved problem in NEWP, JOVIAL and PL/I, no need for modern tech, only not to insist in using broken by design one.
This is why I love working in embedded. Our clients would never complain about these kinds of reasonable restrictions. There are tons of limits like this in our machines, which nobody notices but make my life much easier.

I guess things are different in the Linux/PC software world.
Yea I miss youth. I'm in my 30s and all nighters are not the same anymore :(. When I was young I'd do 2-3 in a week and with a four hour nap I would recover.

Now after those I lay down and I can't get up for a couple hours with all this aching in my limbs lol.
I don't think the author gets it, either. I think that's the point. A small miracle happened.
Note also that government employees are subject to greater control of their speech than ordinary citizens.
> I wonder if and how this is exploitable.

Would be at worst a memory read past the inputted password, which wouldn't be super useful outside of a leak for another vulnerability but even that seems unlikely.
Aside from COBRA, a life changing event (such as losing your job) allows you to get insurance through healthcare.gov outside of the open enrollment period.
I interviewed for this team and the interview experience was so, so bad. The manager was extremely rude, and I was treated poorly in general.

I don't like Tesla, but Elon having trouble with this team in particular is no surprise.

The ethical AI folks who wrote the fairseq library at Microsoft have done more for AI Ethics and fairness than every single one of twitters AI ethics and responsibility folks.
I don't know the answer, but there's a famous lost camera owned by a team that perished on Everest before Hillary/Norgay successfully climbed it. It's possible that the camera contains proof of an earlier first ascent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory#Reaching_the_su...

Kodak has published instructions for how to protect the camera and develop the film, if it's ever found: https://web.archive.org/web/20130303001517/http://www.veloci...
You're saying the quiet part loud. Conservative support for Musk's takeover was never about the freedom of speech, it's about controlling the platform and silencing dissent. Parler, Gab et al aren't about free speech, they blatantly censor anything to their left. Contrast that to the years of handwringing over trump's repeated policy violations before he was finally banned for using the platform to stage a coup attempt. You accuse twitter of being toxic and intolerant but look at your own writing here, it's nothing but intolerance.
That is the craziest proposition that I have heard today. The author posited a hypothesis based on whatever public information they could gather. Either Alameda comes out to refute it, or they don't (they haven't yet, as far as I know), in which case people can draw their own conclusion. The fact that SBF, one of the most outspoken mouthpieces of the crypto boom, has chosen to remain silent, provides some circumstantial evidence at best. But this is not a court of law, it's investigative journalism, which I think is the part you're missing.
How do you know they didn’t? Are there any specific cases you can point to so anyone else can decide whether to agree with your assessment of how warranted it was? Speaking of which, why is this blame directed at Twitter employees rather than the managers setting the policies? Why are they also to blame for unspecified “other platforms and services” where they presumably are not in policy-making positions?
The wallstreet equivalent would be Blackrock being insolvent

Most laypeople haven't heard of blackrock either
New York to LA is almost 5 times that length. So your "at most an hour or so" can feasibly snowball to 6+ hours.
Isn't that why we have subdomains?
Ask HN: When doctor diagnostics will be replaced by AI and open tools?
Will we still need prescriptions or will the medications just be synthesized at home?
> Can we just be super clear that we are talking about former slaves here.

Most of the population are descended from people who arrived subsequent to the abolition of slavery. And any former slaves died 150 years ago
I understand that layoffs suck. But it's not different at any other company.

Just because it is Twitter, tech, and Elon, we can make a big deal out of it and public outcry, insult the CEO etc.

But when it's any other large company being taken over, needing to pivot, and laying off 30-50% of staff... people are much more understanding.

What I'm really surprised about is the firings of pregnant women. In other countries, this is more strictly regulated.
i think 7000 is too high as well but don't forget, in a business, the technology part is maybe 10% of the overall effort. There's a lot that goes into running a business beyond the tech.
Not to stray into conspiracy theory territory, but if inflation is a massive issue, bringing it down by smashing confidence through the media would be a very effective way to do it.

It explains why few people are seeing a downturn with their own eyes in spite of what the media is telling us.
> You're saying a 20 year-old tech interested uni student who is checking out the site for the first time has precisely the same context and knowledge as someone who's been writing in lisp for the last 30 years?

No, but the trolls do. They know about the state of the language and hijack every Lisp related thread with this question just to troll. These are the majority. You don't happen to read many Lisp HN threads in detail do you?
In which case the recession is over, since we just finished a quarter of positive GDP growth.

Or maybe one metric is insufficient to judge an entire economy.
Look at early WhatsApp until they were aquired.

Vastly more innovative and scaled crazy fast without fail whales or anything.

Or look to Telegram today. Delivering a vastly more complex product with a fraction of the company size it seems.
Yeah but we have strict labour laws, none of this for cause or work at will nonsense.
Loans are money. Collaterals can be "minted DAI", whatever it is, or anything else that a fool can be convinced is valuable: that is the opportunity for Ponzi schemes.
It's wise to be prepared for this scenario for the reasons you mention, but in 20-30 years a lot can obviously change; either a change to the way the pensions are funded (this already started happening to a small extent) or a sudden influx of qualified (!) migrants.

I wouldn't bet on any of it happening, but predicting the future is always hard.
Yes, that's the section I read. None of it supports a claim that bot numbers were fabricated.

The first and biggest problem is that the paragraph is talking about the total number of spam bots on Twitter, while the number that Twitter represented to Musk was the percentage of false/spam accounts as a percentage of mDAU. These are two different metrics and cannot be directly compared. Even if the paragraph directly accused Twitter of falsifying and/or fabricating the total number of spam bots on Twitter, it would have no relevance towards the merger since Twitter made no representations of the total number of spam bots on Twitter to Musk.

The second problem is that nothing in that paragraph implies fabrication - it's basically complaining that Twitter isn't paying attention to a metric Mudge thinks should be measured. "We don't know the answer and aren't interested in finding out" is not the same thing as "We don't know the answer and made something up instead".

The third problem is that Musk's own analysis failed to hint at fabrication as well - even if Mudge directly accused Twitter of fabrication, his claim was contradicted by other evidence.
This happened to me. The Greisinger Museum is basically a rich person showing off their hobby.

https://www.greisinger.museum/

I found it extremely interesting. Not because of the Tolkien lore but because it gave me a sneak peek into how someone really rich is living.
It'll probably stick for however long it takes for Musk to publish a history of someone's paid-video purchases in response to a mean tweet.

Not sure what problem a cryptocurrency would solve in this case.
I've heard that there are some fridges available now with variable-rate compressors that can run continuously, resulting in much lower noise levels without the noticeable cycling.
That's not the problem. I can't speak for the USA however this perspective is from the UK.

At the height of covid cases, hospitals were nearing their capacity, some did and had to declare major incidents rerouting patients to other nearby hospitals which were also nearing their capacity...

Even if the death toll from covid would have been ZERO for every infected person, assuming they were able to get a hospital bed, without lockdowns reducing the transmission, we would have ran out of hospital beds. Ambulances would have been sat outside the hospitals unable to unload their patient's. At this stage all elective/emergency surgery would have stopped. The 999 operators would have been swamped which wouldn't matter anyway because there is nothing they can do as all the ambulances are stuck. Imagine calling for an ambulance after a car crash, or for a family member after a household accident, not only do you not get one but the hospital wont accept a patient if you drop them off.

Elon is no doubt highly intelligent, he would have known this.. He also would have known that if he kicked up enough of a fuss, and sent his own employees in, this would have little effect on the overall hospital bed status and he could avoid fines by threatening to take his business elsewhere or just pay them and still make a profit by having the factory open.
Do you think tech employees have ever been treated too good? This is the reality for a lot of working adults.

Elon Musk would probably suck as a middle manager for the reasons you state. And probably as the big boss too.

I believe his opinions are correct. But I wouldn't necessarily want to work for him. He is a machine.
if you do a lay off naturally attrition also increased after. Simple instability emotion. So, yes, Hiring is always a thing after any mass lay off. Does that add jobs to the market? no.
You'd think a little bit of forethought would cause you to have done that at any point in the last few weeks since this shit-show started, just in case.
And yet you haven't sent me any emails, hatware. My door is always open, why not practice what you preach rather than be repeatedly harsh and make a scene over existing community norms? Crowley subsequently disclosed the affiliation, we're good.

Maybe you're newer here; It's a courteous social more of the HN community to be actively transparent about potential conflicts of interest.

I'm actually a fan of Crowley, he's got quite a brain.

Best wishes, MD
I think Apple (esp successful as it was under Jobs) and Amazon (known to put its employees in the wringer) have already made that point. China is going to make that point louder over the decade to come (eg TikTok is successful here, a lot of it on the backs of people working "996" over in China).

Luckily we'll still have Oracle as a counterexample...

Tech companies that treat their employees right might put a veneer of strategy to it in order to make it palatable to shareholders ("we're not wasting your money, we're retaining critical talent"), but I think the real reason that some CEOs and company cultures value treating people right is just for the sake of it, not because of ulterior motives. I guess, as the boss, it's kind of nice to work at a place where people don't hate your guts bc they think you're a psychopathic monster. Being nice to employees is a value that's easier to sustain when there's massive profitability growth but it is not necessarily done in pursuit of profit itself.
> Hopefully it destroys him, too.

Hoping that other people will be destroyed, is pretty dark...
Then stop being employees. Jesus Christ, you people take those massive salaried yet act like little children throwing tantrums because you fear your boss may not coddle you as much.
I don't think most people care about the things you mention. I even know people who don't mind the ads.
Will we be in a recession on November 9th?
>1. The entire Coindesk article lacks meaningful substance. For instance, we have zero idea about what those $7.4 billion of “loans” are. It’s really irresponsible to say that they’re insolvent. If you believe, so, you are applying no more rigor to your understanding of the space than the idiots who say HODL YOLO HFSP. If the liabilities are collateralized by assets on their balance sheet, then the financial risk is not to Alameda but the lender!

Doesn't take a genius to figure out why a hedge fund needs 7B in loans. They aren't a tech giant expanding in a new direction or acquiring competitors. It's pretty clear why a hedge fund needs a massive cash infusion. Also interesting that they collateralize the loans with Tokens majority owned by Alameda and FTX so it's unlikely were they forced to liquidate to pay off their loans that they could get any where near the quoted value of the tokens.
These are people that have many job opportunities and chose to work at the poison factory.
> This is why 8$ is a good idea - the bird will never be free when it can easily be blackmailed by advertisers.

They’d need something like 20% of what Musk claims is their fake, bot-inflated mDAU—far more than existing blue checks, Blue subscribers, and “heavy tweeters” combined—subscribed at $8 to substitute for advertisers.
And there's already at least one jerk following the tag so they can copy/paste the same hateful comments at everyone who's laid off. There are people who make Twitter bad, but it's not the employees.
I think there are some "simple" fixes that would go a long way to improving the healthcare system.

The easiest is basing Medicare spending on patient benefit in terms off quality adjusted life years.

I think it is a common misunderstanding that European countries maintain lower costs via price caps. In actuality, most don't limit the sale price, but control how much they are willing to pay for a drug, device, or procedure. This means that a product has to be substantially better to command a substantially higher price. More treatment with slightly worse products means much more benefit overall. Similarly, it puts some downward pressure on the price of new products because they have to compete with cheaper but less effective ones.
I thought Tesla is not doing advertising. Has that changed?
Please explain further what this means and how it helps.
They'll figure something out, but my money is on quick fixes will run rampant and tech debt will grow.

When they need someone to fill a specific role, they will no doubt go to the nearest consultancy and spend 5x as much on temporarily filling the role.

Or... rehire the same roles on a lower salary.
This particular tiny-floppy-bootloader project is a fork from the "main" tiny-linux-bootloader:

https://github.com/owenson/tiny-linux-bootloader

BUT intended for a floppy (which has NOT a MBR, nor any partition), the description of the original, makes sense (as it is aimed to a partitioned device and optional filesystems can exist in the partitioned space after the kernel+initrd), in this fork, the Author maintains parts of the original description that make no sense on a floppy (which again is NOT partitioned and has NOT a MBR), hence it is confusing.

BTW in a 1.44 or 1.722 floppy - even if partitioned - there won't be much space left after the kernel + initrd anyway.
I don't see the connection between "private companies own every method of articulating your views" and the civil rights movement.

What you describe seems more true of the labor movement, and especially company towns.
Yes, you'd still be entirely free to articulate your views in the privacy of your own bathroom, so I suppose it's technically true private companies don't control every way of articulating your views.
I don't know why people work for Tesla/SpaceX. I can take a guess though - there are only a handful of companies that work in space related field and only a few companies that make electric cars. So it is somewhat understandable, if one really wants to work at these places.

Twitter is different - there are other big companies that provide as much tech challenges or more (whether they are better/worse than Twitter is another question). Twitter employees have many more options (relatively speaking) than SpaceX employees
In the UK all ballots are hand counted, and the counting is done within a day.

I would expect that the amount of time it takes to tally a paper election is related to how many people you have counting.
VSCode Keyboard Proficiency
writing is exhausting
Olive oil lamps. That solves that, then. Mostly.

Tomb robbers maybe mostly didn't spend enough time inside to accumulate much soot? More-thorough British tomb robbers maybe used oil lamps.
The Gap Between Deep Learning and Human Cognitive Abilities
It's going to become 4chan-lite.

There's just too much risk in investing into a platform that will allow anyone to post unmoderated content that corporations just want out of Twitter altogether.
I kind of figured this was part of the goal at Twitter. 75% of staff was the number that was originally floated, so maybe the thinking here is that after a brutal layoff round, another quarter will say “fuck it” and leave.
The value of benefits packages in the US is often around 40% of the salary. For example, health insurance, social security, 401k matching contributions, stock options, etc.
Certificate-based authentication with Yubikeys for Microsoft Services
I could be wrong, but isn't it flat-out illegal for a company to refuse to remove/delete your account on your request? I'm pretty sure GDPR, at least, requires this explicitly.
Boffins rekindle one-time program cryptographic concept
I would think that FF lost a lot of users to brave and similar alternatives because they have the same target demographic.

Execs probably earn so much because of their connections, but I fail to see how this would improve adaptation. Mozilla is in a difficult position although I never believed in star management. A manager that isn't an idiot is important, but... Overall management pay is vastly exaggerated to a degree of severe perversion of course. But here Mozilla is sadly not a special case.

I believe FF would be a good solution even for corporate environments, but it would be very hard to advertise it to IT in a Windows landscape that can just use the new Edge.