skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's done on the scale of whatever time frame the management think the risk exists. In this case, if management thinks that risk exists for months - still acceptable.

While unusual, if management needs to end the employment of staff but is precluded in doing so by law.... the only thing Twitter must do is provide normal compensation & benefits, nothing else. Under employment contracts, the employee must do whatever the employer deems acceptable (within legal limits, or leave under their own will.)
And it's especially common once somebody new takes over. And in this case, plenty of Twitter was openly hostile to Musk. That they're upset that they won't be retained to help him implement an agenda that they disapprove of is an entirely cynical ploy.

Sucks to lose your job because management changed to someone you can't live with, but it would also suck to work a job with management you can't live with.
True, but given that he's looking for $3 million a day in savings from servers and cloud services[1], I'm not wildly optimistic about how busy the remaining SREs are going to be. No matter how many of them there are.

There's always money in the AWS bill but that's a lot of money to expect to be able to find. And, um, this kind of thinking is one of the things Mudge was talking about.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-i...
As a coaching psychologist and a senior member of Shimmer team, I am ever so pleased to see you referring to the most validated bio-psychological model of personality traits. You are absolutely right that ADHD folk have a recognisable “signature” on a Big Five model, within the traditional and the modern interpretations of this theoretical perspective.

However, the Big Five model only talks about the most notable personality traits in statistical terms, whereas the lived experience of a person with ADHD is illuminated by the richness, variety and the amplitude of the rest of the personality traits which may be less statistically profound but critically important to a particular person and the way in which they relate to their ADHD.

While I can’t talk about the ADHD coaching overall, the “Shimmer model” is acutely attuned to the lived experience and phenomenology of each member we work with. And we always welcome critical and well-informed enquiries about what informs our approach. Thank you!
They talk about intensity, but I wonder if they considered what people might be doing--if the terrain gets rough my step rate is going to look pretty bad because I'm choosing where to put each step.

I also wonder about the pulse rate data that would have been captured along with the steps. I would say the majority of my steps are with my pack on my back and in the summer months with considerable elevation changes also.
Similarly my anecdata is how hard it is to find a car park in the allegedly in decline Wellington CBD and then how difficult it is to find a restaurant that isn't overflowing with happy diners and consequently incapable of accommodating us.
Thanks, that's certainly helpful anecdotal evidence.. yeah it seems like there should be an "AllNorm" implementation that covers all cases and is just fast. I was wondering because I'm currently looking at math_group_norm, which was ported from PyTorch/XLA and it results in a really weird decomposition that I'm astonished works at all. https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/master/aten/src/ATen...

I'm also wondering if the handcoded backward passes are actually "numerically correct", because e.g. epsilon doesn't appear in it at all. Someone worked out the gradients manually for BN here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180826123459/http://cthorey.gi...

You can clearly see epsilon appearing in the output. And of course there's the whole training vs. eval mode thing with BN which GN doesn't have.

In any case, thanks again.
You did it right, this was pretty much the information I was looking for. I know neither much about the American public, nor their right-wingers, nor Twitter.
> eliminated the entire data science team.

That was completely fake news indspired by a comedian calling himself "Rahul Ligma [Balls]"
The AI ignores enemy players running behind him. Because he can't see them.

I'd love to see the same method, but with audio inputs too.
Ceopilot?
Everyone on Hacker News is a bot.

Even you.

Even me.
Even if you don't think you need that much operations labor at scale (and I'm assuming you are drastically under-estimating Twitter's current scale), when you do a 50% layoff before you even know your exact bus factor and are assuming a 100x/1000x redundancy (somehow), what are the odds you lay off one of those "few" people that are critical to operations? How do you know you haven't thrown out the needles in that big of a haystack?
This gets said so often yet it doesn't necessarily align. Personal responsibility is pushed aggressively, too.

More often, ICs don't get all the information. It's not about having a clue as much as information asymmetry. All those meetings should imply as much, anyway.
"common good", aka socialism...

We already know where that path leads, thanks to countries like the former USSR and China. Do not want!
Elon Musk Wants Twitter Employees to Work 84 Hours a Week
Figure 9 looks dire: 95% of mortgage (by total value, not count) are going to have their rates adjusted in the next three years; 56% in the next year.

In the US, that'd definitely lead to a housing crisis worse than 2008. Is there something different about how houses are purchased in NZ?
I don't want to speak for the person above, but I've used it a bit. It's like Jupyter Notebook with an eye towards producing really nice looking documents. It's pretty easy to use, though they are still working on it and it may not be feature-complete yet.
This is definitely a service that needed to exist, so I'm really glad that someone finally did it. That being said, if you have ADHD or suspect you might have ADHD, I highly recommend seeing a medical professional to get diagnosed first before beginning any form of treatment.

ADHD is caused by poor functioning of the connections between neurons in certain areas of the brain that are responsible for impulse control and attention. You can't fight this functional deficit with willpower or coaching alone. Decades of research shows that ADHD is highly treatable with medication and there is almost no evidence that therapy or coaching is effective.

All this being said, I think that people with ADHD develop patterns of behaviour to cope with ADHD symptoms. Once medication has restored proper functioning in your brain, I think coaching and therapy definitely play a role in helping you learn new patterns of behaviour that are more appropriate in the context of a properly functioning brain.
I have mild nostalgia for my Amiga experience three decades ago.

Because the world is big and people are people, I imagine there is probably a company using Amigas for business.

But, I probably wouldn't want to work for someone that committed to a position that extreme relative to practical business considerations, though YMMV.

Good luck.
I second that "astronio" is pretty good.
Think this was just one factor...
> Is there anything non C-levels can do about it?

Labor unions and strikes.
Thank you for posting this. Moreover Google is a spyware company that holds users hostages for money. I wish Twitch can replace Youtube someday.
This is why you should hate your society and its values, not Musk.
Boards are the ones hiring the bad CEOs now. They're not equipped to tell the difference, even when they're not actively colluding to juice the short-term share prices so they can get out with a yachtload of money.
Fanfiction was the guilty pleasure that helped me unlock the internet
The unsafeness of the Tavistock clinic had nothing to do with puberty blockers - Tavi didn't prescribe[1] any puberty blockers to any child. And while the clinic provided by Tavistock is closing there will be many other clinics opening. Provision of gender affirming care to children is being expanded.

[1] This is the big problem with threads like these. You can just lie and no-one knows any different because there's so much disinformation being spread. You shouldn't spread disinformation, and you should feel bad about doing so.

The fact that you don't understand the basics (that Tavistock didn't do any prescribing) but you feel confident enough to comment is peak fucking HN. Bunch of dunning kruger cunts.
I pay for Feedly. The big feature I love is that it will generate anonymous email addresses for newsletters that show up as just another feed.
That sounds a bit like the SQuAD 2.0 challenge, but simpler.

In SQuAD 2.0 a model is given a question, and a passage of information. It has to select the start and end points of where the answer is contained in the passage.

Your problem is simpler in that there is no question - you just have to have a model that can identify the start and end positions that _you_ will select.
This also reminds me there are different dimensions to taste.

A developer can have both excellent taste and skill in code and lack one or both in its user interface. For instance, I'd personally say git seems to be amazingly successful and robust but that the UX could be much more consistent without sacrificing any power.

I fully expect there are other dimensions to this too for other overlapping domains in software engineering. Something like E.g:

- testing - does the test code work? (skill), is it making the most of opportunities for coverage and self-documentation (taste? Or a different kind of skill?)
- API design - can it do what's required? (skill), is it a sensible ABI too? (skill), can others understand it? (taste), is boilerplate minimal? (taste)
- documentation - is it correct and complete (skill) and understandable? (taste)
- code review - can you spot bugs and inconsistencies? (skill), are you giving feedback that allows incremental improvements without overwhelming? (taste)

I fully believe both skill and taste can be learned in all these areas but different thought processes will help in each.
Non C-levels can try to do something about it if and only if they have strong and safe relationships with other C-levels who would be in a position to influence the CEO on the issue.

That's not necessarily common, especially the larger the company gets.

Otherwise trying to do something about it can quickly turn into a "ok, clearly these two people can't work together, I as CEO don't really know this particular person, I do know this C-level person, I think the easiest thing to do here is to remove the one of them that I haven't been working closely with." And then something would only actually happen if, say, there's a pattern over multiple years of several VP Engs (or similar high-profile people) all having the same issues with the same C-level.
It is a very known exploit. Easily found with the stupid fuzz tests but even easier found with tests that tests all edge cases. You have to have a set of complete amateurs of coders to end up with this problem in production.
> or that he's just plain wrong. The greatest problem many have with Singal is that he is not following a prescribed narrative.

No, it really is as simple as him being plain wrong.
I don't see how his ventures could have made the progress they have with a business/finance/sales person calling the shots. Elon is adept at engineering; you can see it whenever he is interviewed and goes down rabbit holes about metallurgy, simulations, manufacturing, etc. The achievements of Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink and others would not have happened without thousands of correct evaluations of and decisions on technical matters, and Elon is the singularity around which all of that orbits.
I've been in preparation of board materials for Fortune 100 companies (primarily for the audit committee) and honestly that is not my experience.
I did not, I gave them away because I don't want $900 in burger king meals. I also think this is quite besides the point.
As an American I was struck by the graph of mortgages by fixed term length. I guess I've always heard that US home buyers are constantly benefiting from policies propping up 30 year fixed mortgages, and I knew that other places this wasn't the norm. But it's surprising to me that a majority of mortgage debt in NZ is fixed for less than 1 year. Even in years that don't see rapid interest rate changes, this must make it very hard to plan.
Wasn't Google Stadia's weird AI latency improvement system based off of something similar?
Is pointing out the current state of lisp trolling?
Huh? I have seen the opposite, a huge outpouring of vitriol towards him on every platform I’ve seen.
No, I'm also not following the latest Vercel news. It feels way too corporate.
Twitter is a cesspool so ruining what it is is a positive thing. It cannot get worse from here. At worst, it dies; at best, it returns to its former glory circa 2012. Both sound like wins to me.
> buggy well-intentioned, cooperative software that could have bugs

Ugh, that's what I get for not reading before clicking submit...
I disagree, I frequently see them used to express viewpoints that may cause people an issue at work. It's nice that Hacker News is a place where people can do that and still spark or engage with conversation on topics where they can't use their real name for whatever reason.

Especially given recent news that gives some people pause about using Twitter (too early to tell if there will be a real exodus or need for exodus from the platform). It's nice to have techy people to chat with on HN.
Are board members rewarded for digging in beyond what's provided to them?
I am confident in saying that your Redditsphere, like mine, is absolutely NOT representative of any general population. Hacker News is obviously even less so.

Log out of Twitter if you have one, find an Elon tweet, and start reading the tens of thousands of comments.

Bonus, if you have a well-curated account: log back in and read what comments automatically get pushed to the top. For me, it's a ton of accounts I follow being critical of Elon's takes on stuff.
HN could very well be the first victim of the "dead internet" theory. After all, the developers who write the bots probably hang out here and use this place as a benchmark for whether their bot can pass for real. HN may be entirely bots now, for all we know. ;)
Big Tech has always had a firing problem
There's no reason "legitimately sophisticated recommendation systems" can't offer RSS feeds.
Thanks for the recommendation!

From Eleven Magic Words Unlocked:

>Recall how plea deals are structured, and how the entire purpose of a suspended jail sentence is to dangle the anvil over someone’s head to “encourage” them to do the things they’re supposed to do.

I was in a relationship with a police officer for a while, and this is what she said about probation: "Fuck that, send me to fuckin jail." And she reiterated it a couple of different ways to make it perfectly clear she wasn't joking.

A lot of people who haven't experienced it think probation is "being let off easy". It's not. You have to show up for check-ins, and excuses aren't tolerated. You have to pay for this punishment out of your own pocket too. And any other things the court applies to you too. And if you fuck up, and fail to show, you go to jail. If your car breaks down on the way, you go to jail. Your pregnant wife gives birth on the way and you reroute to the hospital, you go to jail. It's basically setting you up to go to jail, but rather just having the threat of it hanging over your head. At least in jail it's hard to fuck up and you're not responsible for anything while there. Probation is putting you in charge of your own punishment and making you literally pay for it too.

To hear an actual, currently employed police officer say they'd prefer jail to probation is a far weightier than it first seems statement. A police officer, in jail. With inmates who'll probably find out that they're a cop and take out their understandable if not justified frustrations on them.

Would rather go to jail than face probation.

Remember this the next time someone says "they just got probation", I'll never forget it. It's a very stressful, and expensive anvil they've got over your head, and it might fall on you for things completely out of your control. You're not "free", you're not "out", you're sitting under a very real sword of Damocles.
Calling layoffs "trade secrets" is some real double-speak and overreach.

Sociologically it is interesting that we've hit the point where that can even be considered a point of debate.
Well, it's mostly not Twitter betting blamed for layoffs, it's Musk. Twitter provided those jobs, not Musk. Musk is doing the layoffs, not Twitter. So someone not responsible in the least for the creation of those jobs is ending them.

That is not to say the layoffs were not needed or justified (I don't know) but the asymmetry exists because it's an asymmetric situation.
Wow. Who besides Trump and Musk gets this treatment of "no reasonable person would believe what he says, yet what he says should be taken seriously"
I am outraged that the "English" option has the USA flag!

It should be the St. George's cross, or at the very least (and most practically) the Union Jack.
ISIS went on a genocidal rampage, and they were clear about this. Western forces supported their expansion.

The American invasion of Iraq, that was kicked off with a night of bombing destroying nearly everything, that was much more than anything Putin opened with
I don't agree at all with Putin's actions, but could you please explain how they are genocidal?

The Ukrainian treatment of ethnic Russians, the incessant shelling of civilians in the separatist regions, the widespread embrace of actually Nazi ideology, and the cutting off of freshwater supply to those areas seems a bit closer to genocidal to me. Just a bit.
Wow https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/tens...
no, you clearly don't understand Neural Network, basically it's a file containing artificial neurons and their connections
I'm not sure if it's the fact that I mentioned pursuing legal action in my most recent message but eBay has now reinstated my account. I have no problem with steps being taken to prevent fraud but the absurdity of this situation with no easy way to actually talk to those in charge of the decision made this ridiculously infuriating.
A huge set of easily accessible training data?
Then there's no valid contract, and you are not legally allowed to use the service. You retain the right to go to court, where you would find a judge unhappy with you for being a smartass.

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20150717729

This person secretly edited their post employment discrimination release agreement. In court, they got out of the agreement, but they were forced to pay back the consideration + interest.
If what you say is true then paying $44 Billion sounds like a huge mistake.
I had to split it because the sheer size of Indian audiences breaks all the metrics, and yet those videos would not be super relevant in the west as a very large percentage of the Indian educational youtube consists of various kinds of local exam/test preparation channels
The audit committee would be the one place you'd expect that not to happen.
Yea doesn't the NYTimes have a section pretty much devoted to retractions? I'll see them in their morning news letter and I think it's pretty common at most news organizations with integrity to understand that sometimes they'll get things wrong like we all do, and just be candid about it and post retractions where necessary.
With or without a golden parachute, nearly none of these people would ever have to work another day in their lives if they were willing to live a bit less extravagantly. (And we're not talking "beans and rice" here; we're talking, at worst, "only one fancy house, no yachts".)
It is possible to combine term-limits with a long share-vesting period in order to (potentially) reap the best of both strategies.
The "gigafactory" in Nevada—built, owned, and operated by Panasonic—is similar in size to other Panasonic battery factories in Japan and around the world.
Best way to invest $1,000 if you're in your 20's.
Software engineers: we’re engineers

Also software engineers: be sure not to fire Ned or else the whole bridge might collapse
> And so the grand experiment begins.

If Elon "pulls it off" and shows other tech company leadership boards "you can get by with 1k employees instead of 7k" (or whatever the final number ends up being), what does that mean for the future of tech jobs?
BothSides™ does this and it annoys me: taking credit for some previously legislated action, or gas price drop or whatever. It's disingenuous, distracting, and makes me think the government thinks I'm a moron.
The UK s similar.
it is a math that simulate neurons firing
For the vast majority of people, a Linode is just a virtual server that sits on a static IP like a fat toad.

This network helper just assigns that static IP instead of assuming DHCP will find it.

You could turn it off later I guess.
I have the original galaxy watch still. I use it almost without ever touching the screen. Two buttons and a crown/dial pretty much make it four buttons, and yeah, I don't have to touch the screen really.

I'm also not a very hardcore watch user, though.

I was sold on the GW because the OS (Tizen) was supposed to be the best one. Everyone hated the google OS, which then in GW4 I think they switched to.
no, those will be layed off first
Wikipedia has a nice summary of the various "lightweight markup languages", including a comparison of syntax, and how each one converts into HTML. [1]

As I wrote last week in a post that got flamed to pure carbon here on HN, the amount of man hours lost avoiding HTML is beyond comprehension. All of these languages are seriously flawed half-baked solutions to a problem that's already been solved.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language
Try loading an Elon tweet and just reading the replies.
Are you aware of how exponents work?
If you cared a lot about power efficiency, couldn't you simply use a hand-crank for a vertical carousel shelving system?
"The first thing most people get wrong is not realizing that moderation is a SIGNAL-TO-NOISE management problem"

Which your entire staff ignored when one user destroyed several LED businesses thanks to one user vote-manipulating everything, despite every one of those people coming to you with verifiable proof of vote-manipulation.

This Ex-CEO has zero room to be speaking about anything like this while they've not fixed the problems their ignorance directly-caused.
OP makes it sound as if Twitter were a good platform for public discourse - it’s not. It’s a cesspool of indignation, racism, faux wokeness (white-knighting to feel superior over others) etc.

If you don’t have a thick skin like Musk, you must self-censor yourself pretty heavily to avoid backlash and sometimes humiliation. Just liking a controversial tweet or following a problematic account can get you on the bad side of people.

I‘m not even sure I‘d consider Twitter worth saving.
It's a huge stretch to apply the same rights to companies. Companies are not people and do not automatically get the same rights individuals do.