skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not suggesting he orchestrated a conspiracy, or even personally ordered that this tweet be removed, who knows, it's more likely someone else on his team, but the new management sure does seem to be able to change the day to day activities, given that they've laid many people off and eliminated the entire data science team. Why wouldn't they be able to say, remove this specific tweet, or perhaps, investigate this tweet for violations of our policy? That's not a conspiracy, that's what a company is; management is able to give instructions to the people who carry out the work.
It is the same. You put up your 20% down payment and the bank puts up the other 80%.

If you walk away, you lose your investment, but you aren't on the hook for the money that the bank put up.

It would affect your credit rating (and for musk there would be a similar reputational hit) but neither of you need to pay back the bank.
"nanny state" is a purposefully skewed statement that pre-presumes that doing something for the common good is always bad. It's a lazy way of not making an argument.

Why is scanning web servers for vulnerabilities bad?
The core problem of using Reddit as hosting is that Reddit's site-global social gamification mechanisms incentivize things — posting jokes, hearsay, etc — that a "serious" community (e.g. /r/AskHistorians/) explicitly wants to disincentivize. With no ability for a subreddit community to opt out of these gamification mechanisms. So your moderation efforts are always fighting against the direction the system wants to push things.

Hosting a community on Reddit, is like having a shortest-path route between two buildings that cuts through a grassy field, and then sticking a sign up saying "keep off the grass" and writing tickets for anyone seen on the grass. Rather than being able to either pave the shortest-route path, or rearrange the buildings so that the route between them doesn't go through the field.

There's also no ability to enable any kind of "moderated mode" on a subreddit where only subscribers may post, or where posts/comments (of new users, recent subscribers, etc) must go through a moderation queue. So you're always getting drive-by posts from users who don't know where they are or what the rules are, nor are they going to stick around long enough to care to learn them. The classic "I just found this on /r/all" comment.

(You can make a subreddit invite-only, but then people can't even see posts/comments from the subreddit if they're not logged in — i.e. the subreddit is no longer a public website — which is rarely desired.)
No, he doesn’t. Twitter is formally owned by X Holdings, an LLC Musk set up. In the eyes of the law, Elon Musk and X Holdings are two separate entities, where one can file for bankruptcy and the other may not.

He’ll be liable only if he personally guaranteed the loans, but the details say otherwise.
That’s one of the LBO playbooks, but it’s not the only method. In this case, Musk believes he can trim the fat and make Twitter profitable. But if advertisers flee and he thinks he can rely on verified payments alone, everyone on HN who signals interest for a social network they pay for will get to see how viable such a business model truly is.

CircleCI is a recent example of this PE play.
In other news like in the ones from Saxony at some point there were so many deaths that the crematoriums ran too hot as they had to burn dead people non-stop.
Article just like these were the norm for some months in 2020.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/dunkle-...

That one field hospital didn't see a single COVID-19 patient could have a lot of reasons for example, patients went to another one.

From my experience, people around me who got COVID suffered and/or died. Others had mild symptoms. You are either lucky or your were not. :(
Twitter's revenue in 2021 was $5 billion [1], with a claimed 217 active user count. That's $25/user/year. $8/month -> $96/year, so each new subscriber is immediately worth about four subscribers under the old plan, plus that plan doesn't cancel all ads.

If they can cut costs and give people reasons to subscribe, it might work, but if I were the investor being pitched I would certainly have very pointy questions about their conversion rate. Personally I'd amp it to a straight $9.99 and cut all the ads for a subscriber, and the primary focus of my engineering over the next year would be trying to figure out how to incentivize subscriptions, preferably with new useful things not locking away too many existing features behind walls.

Still, I'd love to see one of these social networks succeed on a model where their users pay them money, instead of their subscribers. The incentives are just too perverse when the money comes from ads.

[1]: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-f...
I guess then based on your narrow minded moral stance of what "civilized" means, Switzerland would be uncivilized. So would be Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

Your definition of "civilized" just means a socialist state.
It is mind blowing how such unprofitable companies got away for so many years.
VC and startup incubators nowadays only want to hear about profitability, but they have poured $$$$ into unprofitable businesses for the last decade ad so. And created billionaires out of thing air.

I hope we cam go back to a more sane financial/investing world.
>Is it though?
>Those outside of the US who subscribe to this ideal seem heavily influenced by US culture in my experience. I'm not aware of non-US sources of the idea.

Individual rights of expression predate the US and are part of a collection of ideals in a long tradition that finally exploded in the Enlightenment in Western Europe. Don't forget how much of a grip the Church had on suppressing books and ideas, including meting out punishment.

The erasing of the history of freedom of speech including, within the US, forgetting the facts within the 20th century where it was primarily conservatives who advocated for suppression and censorship, is a very awful misreading of a general principle, especially by, today, people who identify as left.

Freedom of speech is an ideal intended to protect unpopular opinions. It's an individual right in the sense that the individual may be at odds with others, and just because it is a minority view it should not be suppressed.

Today the Zeitgeist is saying: freedom of speech is a silly American concept, and it's just to defend people on the hard right who should be deplatormed.

False, and false.
I don't think that will happen with Linode (but I certainly could be wrong). When Rackspace bought Slicehost, people didn't really know what the future was going to look like. At this point, we've seen AWS/GCP/Azure and Akamai wants to have their own "run your apps with us" system.

Unlike when Rackspace bought Slicehost, Linode probably isn't even the leader in its niche. That's probably DigitalOcean. Akamai probably figured out which of the two it could buy and DigitalOcean probably would have cost $4+ billion while Linode only cost $900 million. When Rackspace bought Slicehost, there were really two alternatives: Linode and AWS. AWS came with a lot of complexity and Linode was small.

If you're looking for a new Linode to pop up, you don't have to wait. Vultr, DigitalOcean, and tons more already exist and have for years. It's not 2010 where you don't have loads of options in this space. Go with Hetzner or OVH Cloud and get really cheap prices (I've found Hetzner Cloud to be really nice). There are so many places that will give you a VPS today. Heck, AWS will give you a Linode-like experience with Lightsail, right?

That's why I think Akamai wants to use Linode as a way to build something that will let them start getting into the AWS/GCP/Azure space. It's somewhat where Linode was already heading, albeit slowly. Linode started offering hosted Kubernetes, object storage, block storage, hosted databases, and load balancers. How long before they might have added a queuing system, an app-runner so you don't even need to think about boxes/load balancers, etc.

For the low price of $900M, they could jump-start that process at Akamai. Rackspace thought that the future was their high-touch, high-cost, managed services. Akamai probably wants to use Linode to get into the AWS space and with a separate brand, they can do it without as much risk to their mainline business. There are too many alternatives for Akamai to be deluded enough to think they can just ruin Linode and not like that $900M on fire. That wasn't the case when Rackspace bought Slicehost.
Yeah as a reference - I do a lot of this type of planning for non-equity employees and our number is 37% right now (site costs + US payroll taxes & benefits + hardware + incidentals).
They are treated like disposable trash, tossed into the wind by a capricious ultra-rich jerk who bought the company on a whim. The consequences of that poorly thought out “decision” meant the purchase had to be a leveraged buyout which necessitated heavy cost cutting.

How is this not disgraceful? This not “normal business operations”, this is peoples lives being torn apart while the ultra rich play games with their livelihoods.
The scroll bar is a surprisingly large component. It's bigger than any button. It's bigger than most text boxes. And most of the time, you're not looking at it.

That's why designers don't like it. It's just an unbalanced use of pixels. It's visual clutter.

Unfortunately, none of the alternatives are great, either. The thin ones are hard to use when you do want them. Making them appear and disappear is distracting. Some applications make use of the space (letters in a long alphabetical list suggesting where to scroll, error indicators in an editor), but it's nonstandard and not always applicable.

So designers keep looking for better alternatives. Ideally, you do away with scrolling, but that's not always feasible.
Can you imagine complaining about being fired from a company after publicly declaring that you were abandoning its product and that you preferred their competitor's product?

IYKYK.
My favorite is when like PBS tweets out the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July, and right-wing nutjobs accuse it of being un-American.
Who is going to own Twitter when this whole mess falls apart?
> The answer nestling in Vatajankoski power plant, 270 km (168 miles) north-west of Finland's capital, Helsinki, is remarkably simple, abundant and cheap: sand.

Wait, I thought there was a sand shortage?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/sand-crisis-loo...

I guess there are different types of sand though?
Indeed; it doesn't feel as though it be in the interest of the website which is why support is dropping.

Youtube wants people to subscribe, which I don't do, I simply add the RSS feed of channels I want to be updated about which is probably not what either Youtube or those channels want given how much they are begging me to subscribe all the time.
Yes, but business schools wouldn't get as many donations from their alumni if they started publishing research saying that most of what executive management does is at best pointless.
Lol, show me your source on how many households have re-usable forks
It is interesting to note that these Twitter employees were served "non-working notice"; not fired, not laid-off.

This only means that Twitter, Inc. is on the hook for at most 60 days worth of backpay wages (notably in the strictest labor law state, California).
> What's interesting are the conditions that led to it happening to these people, both inside and outside Twitter.

Which, in your estimation, are?...
Difficult to say, as I did not measure anything. From the code I've written I get the "feeling" that it is more compact compared to plain lua, reducing (my) cognitive load.

Fennel transpiles to lua, it doesn't give more capabilities, I would say. The concept of productivity (and capability) is anyway confounded by so many factors, making the choice of programming language negligible (unless you pick one of the extremes, such as Brainfuck, of course).
Wow. The greatest LBO player of all time Carl Icahn said he would have done the Twitter Acquisition but did not want to have to compete with Musk, who was the obvious best man for the job.
It's a classic generic tangent in that you went from the specific topic (US worker productivity) to the larger set of repetitive controversial themes (e.g. guns) that people tend to get sucked into. We try to avoid those (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) because of the repetition and because the threads usually turn nastier and dumber. People don't really talk with each other—they just repeat pre-existing opinions.

The other aspect is that if you make statements about a country that are both general and pejorative ("The US is a sick country"), that's nationalistic flamebait.
That's exactly what this system, and the majority of electronic voting systems used in the US for the last decade, provides.
> Person with severe adhd and disposable income here: Nope. This is too much

Even for people with disposable income, a rate like this should trigger some cursory research on your insurance provider's website. Common tech company insurance plans might very likely come out much cheaper than this when multiple sessions are considered across a year and deductibles are taken into account.

And you get to choose your provider and know their qualifications as a mental health professional. Telehealth is commonly available, too.

Don't let the high price of any of these cash-only services discourage anyone from seeking therapy. If you have insurance, always check that first and do the math.
I don't think employee salaries would be included in infra costs. Except maybe the employees that work directly on maintaining the infrastructure.
From the article here it looks like people will stay on payroll until early 2023. They won't work but have to abide by Twitter's internal agreements.

Does anyone know if part of these agreements includes not seeking other employment (a typical clause these days)?
How often do you check your unauthenticated ESP and /boot for malware? Only when you suspect malware is already there? If so, it's too late. Locking them down as suggested helps to prevent the issue altogether. Yes, firmware should not be trusted, but reducing attack surfaces is a good thing.

As far as your last point, the vast majority of people aren't competent computer owners or users. They don't know what to do on a technical level with malware in their boot process.
I created an MVP for digital nomads split accommodation costs
With the increasing numbers of digital nomads, the most popular destinations are increasing in prices and decreasing in good accommodation availability.
To solve this, I decided to create a board for DN to find others and split accommodation and logistics costs.
I would love having some feedback on the idea, and any idea for further iterations
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The people responsible for company direction decisions like that are the ones who will be profiting most from this, though. They're the C-Suites who were likely to have the most stock, have severance packages (which they'll certainly sue for and get).
And i fully respect that and i think your option to work on site should be granted. Also i appreciate you focusing on your preference and not seeking to fill in voids with other people. To be fair i do like reading and working from home allows me to do it more often. If there is a book i need i simply order it and have it delivered to my door - more time saved for reading. But that is what _i_ prefer and this debate should be focused around what individuals want and expect from all this without impacting others. Naturally all of this should be beneficial to employers as well because you know work is not charity. But an employer benefits from your being more productive at home or at the office then it should allow for whatever maximises their investment in you.
I agree with the sentiment, but I've seen wildfire fighters doing just that. They burn a fuel-free barrier in the path of a fire, it's a standard practice. A driptorch is the usual tool but flamethrowers work too.
The effect exercise has on me is wanting to eat better, sleep better etc and it gives me more energy.

All of these things help with my ADHD and I'm much more affected by symptoms when my body is not in shape. Not sure why that other commenter insists on being so offended.
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Interesting idea using Houdini, although I think browser support isn't really good enough yet to justify this.
It was Branson's (maybe?),

"If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline."
As a YouTube addict, this is one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Thank you!
COMAC Explained: China's Boeing
AFAIK any would do, you can add a kit like :

https://www.sound-booster.com/en/sets/electric-vehicle.html
The audit strategy for precinct tabulators such as these is not to audit the machines but the actual ballots, which are retained. Upon suspicion (usually this requires a court order, details vary a lot by state) the original ballots, which are retained after the machines tabulate them, can be hand-counted or more practically recounted by independent machines.

Every conceivable election method is vulnerable to some type of fraud, and hand-counting leads to relatively very high unintentional error rates. Post-election audit sampling is a typical practice in many states and should be in all.
Thanks for posting this - I was curious about the severance package.

I'd consider three months' pay borderline "generous". I see two weeks' as the baseline, and anything over six weeks as "good".

My understanding of the WARN Act is that it requires 60 days "notice". It sounds like Twitter is giving 90 days notice along 90 days of mandatory PTO, effective immediately.

Having been laid off relatively recently (~2 years ago) and actively involved in hiring today, I expect that's not going to be long enough to seamlessly move to a new position, but it should be enough time and money to cut things back and weather the transition without dipping into savings - assuming you have savings, of course.
Well yeah, he offered to buy Twitter at above stock price, then the stock prices crashed a whole bunch and that’s even before last week when Meta, Snapchat, Amazon got destroyed.

They sold Twitter at the perfect overvalued moment, for more than it was overvalued at. They’d be idiots not to do their best to close the deal.

It’s like if you sell a house last year at sky high prices, you shake on it with someone offering you a million more than the house is worth and the house is leveled by Godzilla in the meantime.
> or preclude states from setting their own laws restricting rights.

1A on its own does not do this, but AIUI a subsequent amendment (I think one of the reconstruction amendments?) has been interpreted to apply the restrictions in the constitution to state governments as well.
Yeah, I've cancelled all my subscriptions on YouTube and use a browser extension that hides recommendations and ads. I follow a lot of channels and there comes a point where I had to do something since I was missing videos constantly. When I want to watch YouTube I don't go to Youtube.com but open my RSS reader that links me directly to the videos.
Brilliant! If you ever need help with this, I would love to pitch in. It reminds me of the olden days of social media.

For users who don't know how to self host, and can't stomach the (very reasonable for ad-free social media) $5/mo... have you considered a cloud-hosted option with a sidebar of KTLO ads? Or maybe a "family plan" cloud instance where multiple friends could share a single cloud instance (sharded per person) to save money on the hosted option?
Pincer-type serving utensils are common and useful. Salad bars use them. They seldom make it to the table, though.
Not me, I'm rooting for this guy to develop a little humility.
Yes, I'm sure they're just scanning for vulnerabilities ...
But it is a solved problem. You can use machines to mark paper ballots, and to quickly tabulate them. This is the best of all worlds: the results are auditable, the user can confirm their ballot was recorded properly, and the election officials can quickly count the ballots.
And if you're looking to move off of the Twitter app, NNW has a built-in tool to ingest Twitter timelines and searches (you still need to sign in to use Twitter's API).
The Roadster was released in 2008. Barely any money was spent on lobbying until after the Model S was already released (2012), the Powerwall announced (2015) and the Model X was released (2015). That's also post-IPO (2010).

Tesla was already a successful, innovative electric car company before it started lobbying like a regular car company.

All of the risk that paid off (what makes a businessman a good businessman) was done in the early days when he invested 6.5 million that he turned into billions.
An absolutely non-finance-guy here.

Why does Twitter owe money to the banks, that was used to actually buy Twitter?

Anyone here who can explain this to me?

I would love to know the magic behind this. The next thing I will do is going to the Porsche dealer, finance a car and happily watch the monthly rate beeing paid from the dealer's account.
Phones break and they get lost.

Sure but I bet most phones don't break or get lost within two years, or even within four years.
Your math doesn't add up here.
From the article:

> "The company uses cheap, low-quality sand that's been rejected by builders instead of high quality river-sand which is used in vast quantities for construction, leading to a global shortage."
So is this basically "you aren't technically fired. But do not show up and do not work."

How does that affect other employment? Does this mean you can't go get another job until Feb 2, otherwise you have to quit (and receive no more severance)?

And just to double check: if I was laid off "normally" tomorrow and got some severance package, that package still comes by way even if I got a new job on Monday? For this hypothetical let's place us in California.
> Those outside of the US who subscribe to this ideal seem heavily influenced by US culture in my experience. I'm not aware of non-US sources of the idea.

No, not at all. There are plenty of countries who go to greater lengths to protect their individual rights without the US even registering as a suggested influence. Most countries which managed to transition away from authoritarian oppressive regimes did grew political antibodies to ensure the right to freely express your ideas without being subjected to persecution as it happened in the not so distant past.