skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that using non-native tooling might conflict with the native tooling which presumably still exists and is managing some non-trivial portion of the system (at the very least, the base installation, but probably a bunch of other packages as well), so whether or not that conflicts with an external package manager is likely to vary by distro.
Been a while since I finished but I wouldn't call it engineering, based on these (maybe) arbitrary criteria:

- you're mostly only doing the slightly? easier math courses
- zero physics and the signal processing stuff I'd rate "kinda basic"
- you're not allowed to call yourself an "engineer" unless your university has built your program that way, in former times it would be "Diplom-Informatiker" vs "Diplom-Ingenieur" (I am the former).

I am not a huge fan of the last point, but it's a fact, so I'll put it here. One of my more specific gripes is that this is still arbitrary. I'm not completely sold that my uni education was brilliant, but I've seen people who are allowed to call themselves engineers know and do, and it comes down to the same knowledge (or worse) but they had like one semester of hardware stuff (out of 9-10 semesters).

Also any code of ethics is usually completely absent, or maybe they actually did change that for some unis now.

Also another caveat, they mostly got rid of the old "Diploma" systems and for the last 8-12 years most people graduate as BSc and MSc, so whenever the topic comes to it I'll say "it's about equivalent to a MSc in CS" because it was supposed to be 9-10 semesters in total, with some sort of cut in the middle, that did not directly correlate to a BSc, but was a 2y part.
Yep your experience is (sadly) not even remotely unusual, and Cognitect have repeatedly demonstrated that they don’t care about this issue (which will come back to bite them as the community stagnates).

The “best” advice I have for Clojure beginners is to follow this guide: https://calva.io/get-started-with-clojure/, which will ultimately land you in a solid VSCode-based IDE environment for Clojure.

That’s not how I personally like to approach a new language mind you (REPL from the command line plz), but I’ve pretty much given up trying to get Clojure beginners started there as there are just too many moving parts that can go wrong, and unjustifiable frictions.
> it’s seeking a range of relief, including compensatory damages (including wages owed), as well as declaratory relief, pre- and post-judgment interest, plus other attorneys’ fees and costs.

So, the penalty is paying workers the wages they would have been paid anyway under proper notice, plus interest? So for basically ~5-8% more Musk gets to terminate everyone today instead of in 60 days.
Maybe he hired a bunch of bot accounts to star it; then when the accounts were banned the stars were removed? ^_^
Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy
They can. Are they?

Last I knew there was talk of calling these "for cause" terminations to try to get around severance and such, but I have no idea if this is true. Is there any knowledge out there about what kind of severance is being offered?
This looks more like a dealer book than a classic MM. If they’re long $5.8bn and short $5.79bn, their net position is fine. That said, they’d be carrying major counterparty risk.
Smart journalists screen capture the tweet and post it as a photo.
A witness can ensure that envelops go in a box, and then they get them out from it. Box are verifiable.

But how could a witness verify a software and a voting machine?
People who post to drama sites routinely take screenshots of tweets and posts from other sites because it's an easy way to have permanence even in the face of hostile moderation. This will just extend to normal journalists now.
Different application and price point. This doesn't operate at a high enough temperature to make generating electricity back from it feasible, so it's only good for heating. But, you can build big and cheap for seasonal scale storage, and it can be underground with a secondary land use on the surface.
A deep dive into Spanner’s query optimizer
SpaceX and Tesla have no 'resume cachet'. They are widely known in engineering circles as hiring huge numbers of entry level or just barely above entry level engineers, exploiting their interest in technology to work them like rented mules until they burn out, and then discarding them. It's not a negative having worked at one of these places necessarily but unless the next employer is looking for an engineer with soul burned out of them it's not a positive either.
Isn't the grunt work of moderation mostly outsourced today anyway, meaning those employees aren't on Twitter's books?
Time to write sudo alternative in rust
Non disparage clauses are usually non-enforceable in normal employment contracts once fired, hence why they have those separation agreements.

But separation agreements need to be signed by both parties, they can't fire you and immediately say "btw no talking bad about us".
Ahh yes, "People decided they don't want to give me money. Freedom of speech is under attack!"

Ridiculous.
+1! But this is still a net positive. Multiple forms of validation and open sourcing the software running on these machines are both components of a "defense in depth" strategy.
Except that the financing he used to buy Twitter require him to double net revenue immediately[0]. It's not clear he can cut expenses by more than 50% without negatively impacting revenue.

And that's before a massive drop[1] coming from how badly he's handled the acquisition, as well as his personal reputation.

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/technology/elon-musk-twit...

1. https://nypost.com/2022/11/04/elon-musk-says-twitter-has-see...
To me, it's different in a very important way. The financial sector is central to the economy in a way that the tech companies aren't. 2008 felt like the world might end (I was literally 24 hours away from withdrawing all my money into physical cash). 2023 may be a lot of people out of jobs, but it won't be systemically threatening in the same way... unless banks have been as stupid as they were in 2003-2006.
Darn, well it was worth a shot! If you happen to know people who might work in those areas feel free to pass along the request :)
The stunning thing is that he didn't consult a proper lawyer that would have told him how to avoid the lawsuit.
1. Yes.

2. Affirmative action is not racism.
Investment banks also face the problem of employees holding disproportionate power but they have a somewhat different solution than tech companies - keep the harsh working conditions and pay top performers huge bonuses.

If you're a fan of Matt Levine, "the modern investment bank is a socialist paradise run for the benefit of its workers."

It's common for a top trader to make more than the CEO at major banks. You'll see this on occasion at tech companies but generally pay is far flatter and so they come up with other ways to entice staff.
How many of those patients actually needed to be at the hospital, never mind in a bed once there? How many actually needed to be transported to hospital by ambulance?

How many were at the hospital purely out of an abundance of media-stoked and politician-stoked fear, and would have recovered just fine had they stayed home and waited it out like they would have for any other cold?

We know that there was massive overreaction and unjustifiable paranoia exhibited by many people and organizations to pretty much all aspects of this situation, and this went on for over two years in some cases.

It's not unreasonable to expect the same irrationality to have affected the medical community and the decisions they were making.

Even before mid-2020, it was clear to any rational observer that the situation was severely overblown, and there was a lot of completely nonsensical behaviour taking place for no good reason at all.

The main reason this foolishness went on for years was because of the overt censorship and demonization we saw of those who were merely taking a rational look at the situation and expressing how irrationally others were behaving.
Both. Foundations allow HNW individuals to pass on large portfolios to descendants while also providing PR, Comms, and Political benefits to the family. (Note to Self - flesh out w/ source).
It would be nice if revenue and employee count were completely independent. Heck, you could fire everyone except one person and have an incredibly high ratio! (Don’t fire that last person or else you’ll get a divide by zero error.)

Interestingly, he’s already tweeting out complaints about a massive drop in revenue. His theory is that this is caused not by his erratic behavior, but instead by activists who hate free speech: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880?s=46...
Yes, regulation is often pushed to protect the peasants from the aristocrats, to protect workers from the capitalists but by far not always: Regulation is also pushed to manifest the power of the powerful ... which means there are also freedoms for the weak to protect.

It is a centuries long battle to find the balance in always changing times.
I recognize my comment was dismissive, because I agree with my sibling comment here. I felt this is so obviously a sham and didn't expect it to be controversial. Do you take issue with the point made or just the tone? Nobody on this thread seems to have explained what exactly makes this not a sham, for anyone even a little bit informed about the world it's obvious that inflation isn't due primarily to corporate profiteering even if that is happening. Do you expect this hearing will help to combat inflation in any meaningful way?
It looks to now have been removed. Update: it's back. You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
We already have super-apps. They're called "Android" and "iOS".
Sudo has two protective jobs. One is to completely prevent people from elevating if they aren't in sudoers. The second is a best-effort attempt at preventing people from blowing their own foot off, by running most commands without privileges.

If you are in sudoers and you are compromised, then there are like a million ways of getting root for a malicious program. They could override your sudo, override your terminal, override your shell, override your de, even override say "cat" so that instead of exiting when it is done, it starts a shell that mitms all your commands and waits for a sudo one.
Twitter is not 'SpaceX' in every way.

It's 'social' and 'media' which are completely different operating environments.

Twitter is long, long established as another company.

The 'user base' of Twitter is entirely different kind of customer.

He has no 'big government subsidies' to rely on, aka neither Tesla nor Space X would exist without major budgetary support from Big Gov.

I suggest Twitter under Elon may be more profitable. Or different in some other way as well, but I'll give it only 25% chance it becomes like you're suggesting.
AFAIK they haven't changed content management policy yet. This is application of the current rules/process.
I don’t know what to tell you man. Support for LGB rights, abortion, and immigration are all popular in the US. If you exclude rural baby boomers, a demographic no advertiser cares about (except My Pillow and emergency meal prep companies), all of those things are very popular.
The relevant financial representations have always been about the mDAU numbers. It's Musk who is trying to pretend that the "5% of mDAU may be spam account" really meant "5% of all accounts are spam accounts."

Mudge isn't saying that Twitter's statements about mDAU are wrong; he's saying that he thinks it's a bad metric, because mDAU ignores the effect of fake accounts. Even if Mudge is correct in his assessment that mDAU is a bad metric, it does not sustain any allegations of fraud.
Oh, yeah, there's definitely a scale to it. A twitter customer service employee is paid much less than a software engineer... though even the latter isn't going to have been at "will never need more money in their life" levels, particularly given the American social safety net or lack thereof.

That said, I do find that people are fairly loyal to a company that treats them well.
"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is where you lose yours."
When to use a Lambda function, and when not?
The Rust Book is the best introduction I think. Then, Rust for Rustaceans[1] might be the best intermediate to advanced rust book I've ever seen.

Don't forget to practice and work on real projects, the concepts take a little bit to get used to, and just reading about it is not enough.

[1]: https://nostarch.com/rust-rustaceans
The quote doesn't state that AV1 uses rANS, it states that it uses a variant of ANS. JPEG XL uses rANS.
> Most linodes have fixed IPs.

We run some Windows instances, which were DHCP out of laziness. <facepalm> [edit: It's a PITA to fire up a Windows instance on Linode. Once working, switching out of DHCP is near the bottom of the todo list.]
Tesla got hit for the same thing recently- probably he knew and just didn't care.
There's a lot to be said for the value of commodity hardware: you almost certainly can't prove that purpose-built hardware has or hasn't been tampered with by the manufacturer. With commodity hardware, the risk that the manufacturer anticipated your use case (voting machines) and implanted a backdoor that can affect their functions is extremely small.
Singal isn't a bigot. It's not the service to trans people that many people seem to think it is to call anyone who documents unflattering dimensions of trans politics a bigot. Colin Wright, mentioned in the article, could more reasonably be called a bigot, though having his Paypal account terminated on that basis wouldn't be just.

But this really shouldn't be about Singal or Wright. I, a trans woman, had a fine evening out with the actual author of the piece, Yassine Meskhout, back in April along with a few other folks, and I'm quite sure he isn't bigoted against trans people.
Yes, but it is probably (one of) the first times it was done so blatantly in Twitter's own interest.
Elon is the type of person where action and words tell a very different story. In that way, it's expected. It's still ironic as hell, given his words.
The biggest problem with DL is its inherent inability to effectively generalize. Without generalization, edge cases are an insurmountable problem, something that the autonomous vehicle industry found out the hard way after wasting more than $100 billion by betting on DL.
So you're for this voting system then? Your messages reads like you're against the system mentioned in the submission, but it seems like the system is actually doing it via paper, just like how you want it?

The trial described in the article:

> On November 8, VotingWorks machines will be used in a real election in real time. New Hampshire is the second state to use the open-source machines after Mississippi first did so in 2019. Some 3,000 voters will run their paper ballots through the new machines, and then, to ensure nothing went awry, those same votes will be hand counted in a public session in Concord, N.H.

It seems to involve paper ballots, as far as I can understand it.

And this is how the authors of the voting system describes it themselves: https://www.voting.works/voting-system
It's starting to feel like Musk is playing this political game to me.

Pretending he is championing the little guy, that he/twitter/everyone is somehow being repressed and they/he is fighting against it. His recent tweet on how 'activists' are the cause of twitters recent revenue drop for example.

Even with the blue check marks, he is framing it as it being open to all and the little guy taking the power back, all you have to do is pay him $8 a month for it. Viva la revolution indeed!

It feels like social engineering to me and the same game that has been played very successfully in division politics.
Hmm this poses an interesting theory. We know that part of the motivation of Obama's "Learn to Code" initiative and the coding bootcamps was to increase the supply of developers. Now that there is supposedly a recession coming it might be the case that in the end it will end up tilting the scales back in the developers court. The reason being that not 100% of the bootcampers are in it fore the love of the job but only for the money. We will see people dropping out of the market and once it recovers we might be back in a situation where there were too few devs.
He was fired
> I don't understand why you need machines to vote or machines to count. Breaking the system above by a few votes is probably possible with a small team of conspirators, but breaking it beyond that doesn't scale.

Exactly. Replacing a system that is guaranteed to work with an another system that is guaranteed to not work is foolish.
> people often reference "First Amendment" in situations that have nothing to do with government censorship

At least on HN, I’ve never seen this, except as a totem.
Sure, but a screenshot of a tweet is trivial to fake.
You are assuming both: that there was in fact 60 days notice (how!?) and that there is in fact a severance package. Yet, why would you not be openly communicative of this if you intend to give it?

So how is it legal nonsense if the lawsuit has good faith reasons to believe that neither of your assumptions hold?
Isn't that the point of the subscription? People that don't pay will be buried and you won't see them.
Dunning-Kruger isn't real or Reading citations is easier than most people think
> One of the most popular and most intuitive ways to evaluate an NGO is to judge how much of their spending is on their programme of works (or "mission") and how much is on other things, like administration and fundraising. If you give money to a charity for feeding people in the third world you hope that most of the money you give them goes on food - and not, for example, on company cars for head office staff.

This is popular because it seems simple. Take one number and judge an entire organization by it. Don’t even look at growth or impact.

> Mozilla looks bad when considered in this light. Fully 30% of all expenditure goes on administration.

This whole reference is very simplistic, especially since it’s closer to the beginning of the article. It would’ve made sense after explaining more about what’s happened with Firefox on features, what it has offered to standards, etc.

I’m not happy with Firefox losing market share or with the layoffs that happened. Monetization by Mozilla Corporation is nowhere close to what Google pays it to be a preferred default search engine, and not addressing that is a huge issue.

What I don’t agree with is starting the article with a few basic points and going on a tangent on sites like Charity Navigator, which focus on providing easy lists based on one simple number like administrative expenses. I stopped reading the article after these paragraphs.
Next year digital markets act will go in full power in EU. Google will have to allow alternative app stores on Google Play.

Right now Google does not allow alternative app stores like F-Droid (FOSS), Steam etc. on Google Play.

The important part is that it will be user-friendly install, instead of preinstalled app or hacky dev-like experience.
Seems to float around 0.005s (using "time sudo -k" to avoid timing user input), so yeah, x3000 = 15 seconds. Very noticeable.

Or even the x100 from (G)GP, that's a half second. Sometimes spiking to a full second.
Isn't that where you talk about codecs and such?
I might be underestimating how hard it is to scale microblogging. I most certainly am.

But have you looked at the scale of what Telegram provides both in width and at scale?

Certainly there are celebrities with more followers on Twitter than the largest Telegram channels, but Telegram scales surprisingly far, and I haven't seen it struggle more than once or twice since the start.
Just curious which state was that where they had to give severance? I'm in a US state that does not require anything after termination.
> If an employee's layoff is inevitable, it is much nicer for that is be part of a mass layoff like this,

you mean an illegal one?

I suggest you try it.

Look the issue is this, Musk is creating a climate where it is expected that people effectively sleep at the office. Do you have a family? well you don't anymore.

and through all of this pain, shit stirring and general "disruption", there is no strategic leadership, or clear headed product leadership. Unless you count "pay to spam/harass" & scaring away your advertising partners as a product strategy.

Layoffs are not a strategy, they are a side effect.
10g of water condensation isn't extreme. It's about typical for moderate temperatures, like the 25°C of the OP's example. On the tropics you will have much more than that.

But 10g of water freezing is extreme. There are mechanisms on the fridge to avoid the water freezing.
1. They are understood to be classic MM [source?]

2. Balance sheet shows they are not classic MM

3. Counterparty is FTX

4. ...
> Also, I'm really curious about teams that do reviews after merge. I heard some places do it but I never really got a good understanding of the pros&cons

I can imagine it works for larger features that need a more thorough, formal review. I'm personally only familiar with code reviews on smaller changes (from trivial fixes to whole features, but often limited to <1000 LOC). The danger of only reviewing small parts of a larger whole is that you miss things in the larger whole.

But for that, you can do both; small code reviews from a 'task' branch into a 'feature' branch, then a big code review before merging into the main branch. The smaller reviews should catch the more trival or obvious issues.
"HN: Who wants to be hired?" is going to be wild next month
I didn't know that was my "if I won the lottery" dream, until I read this comment. Seems so cool.
I made a similar thing in London as well: https://twitter.com/ageitgey/status/1383381051154726920

The TfL API is really pretty good - no need to scape pages.
Anecdotal, but I also just landed a job starting on November 7th that will be making the most I have made in any given role, close to $200K with base and bonus here in the US. I know people and companies are getting spooked right now, but if you can find the right niche there are plenty of profitable companies hiring out there. It took me a week from notification that my contract in the last role was not being renewed to finding this new gig, and is also the shortest job search I will have been on.
The in-office requirement seems like clearly constructive dismissal given this:

"2-day a week office requirement = 20% voluntary departures" "Day-0...sharpen your blades boys!"

https://fortune.com/2022/10/06/elon-musk-jason-calacanis-ret...

An office requirement because you think it helps the culture is one thing; an office requirement simply because you know the attrition it will cause so you "sharpen your blades"/salivate over the prospect is very different. Twitter encouraged employees to move out of state far away from offices, etc.
Being private has no effect on WARN requirements.
I remain constantly surprised that people on Hacker News of all places can be so wrong in their underestimations of how technically challenging a company's problem space is.

Building and maintaining a distributed system like Twitter is far from easy, as any one of the talks their engineers have given and papers they've written should tell you.

Let's at least base this discussion on realistic and reasonable determinations of the company and its operations.
Well I guess I'm finally installing F-Droid.
PhotoGuard: Defending Against Diffusion-Based Image Manipulation