skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience the concept of a 30-year fixed mortgage is uniquely (or close to it) American. Certainly in NZ anything beyond a two-year fix is rare.
The Old Twitter Is Gone (Friends Forever)
> Either he consulted a terrible lawyer or none at all.

I disagree.

He got bit by lawsuits over a previous mass layoff at Tesla. The lawyers who filed this lawsuit were the same lawyers involved in the previous one. Links pointing to the previous case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33469900

I think that Musk learned from that, and reading the email employees received today, I think the lawsuit will be thrown out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/read-blunt-email-telling-twi...

On first sight, the mass layoffs appear to violate both California & Federal WARN Act notifications.

After reading the email, it appears that they are getting 3 months of "gardening leave" instead paychecks getting cut off at end of day.

> An employer who violates WARN provisions is liable to each employee for an amount equal to back pay and benefits for the period of the violation, up to 60 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...

Europe has different labor laws. I know enough about them to know that I don't know enough to have an opinion on what might happen over there.
You can also check the url. `.ai` subdomains are a pretty good indicator of the content you are about to consume.
I'd be careful about that tweet. It is clear that Tesla competitors (GM, VW) stop funding Musk, but aside from that most big advertisers likely have longer running contracts, so immediate impact is unlikely. By such a statement Musk can however argue that the RIFs are "required"
> reflects a process that’s analogous to biological adaptation and the evolution of new species. Like living organisms, he says, corporations are constantly adapting to changes in their environment. > corporate speciation

Complete and utter word salad bullshit - there is no metaphorical similarity between biological evolution and business “evolution”. Biological evolution is the most procreation of the least unfit. And evolution works at the individual gene level: the only incentive for a gene is to reproduce (selfish genes), and an organism is just a blob of genes.

This misuse of the words of biology means that most people misunderstand biology, because they use the wrong metaphors in reverse to try and help them understand, based on human systems that have very little to do with biological evolution. Admittedly most clichés don’t help with understanding either (“survival of the fittest” is not the point but merely auxiliary to reproduction; the Darwin Award would only be able to be awarded to people or children before they reproduce, not older people after they already reproduced).

In this case they are talking about an organisation modifying itself to the organisation’s environment. That would be like you deciding a mechanical arm would be useful, so just growing one. There is no intent in biological evolution, a cell doesn’t split because each half will fit their environment better - duhh.
I think the split around that is that people like me didn’t see his appeal as wanting peace. Russia was de-facto allowed to annex huge swathes of Ukrainian territory in 2014 - what did we learn from that?

To me, Musks calls are equivalent to saying “ok, now freeze the frontline until Russia has had time to rearm and rebuild for the next push”.

We tried the “peace” proposal Elon put forth in 2014, thousands of young Ukrainians and Russians are now dead as a result.
This mentions Bibliogram, but in fact it's been discontinued since Instagram has been actively breaking it for quite some time. Another app, Barinsta, died after its author was served a C&D letter.
> It also actively prevents heat from transferring into the sand

So it's slower to charge. And the charge speed is presumably adjustable by circulating more air (or moving it through faster). It's unclear whether this is a problem for its intended application. It may charge fast enough.

> and stores far less heat than the sand itself.

That would only be relevant if you were comparing an equal volume. The same mass of clay and sand should store roughly the same amount of energy, it's just that the sand one would be bigger to accommodate more air. And being bigger isn't even a drawback here, since bigger means proportionally less surface area to volume that you're losing heat through.

> That's why in residential mass storage, ...

"Residential" could imply that you don't want a giant sand silo in the middle of some housing units, so I agree there. You would need to put this somewhere that size doesn't matter much.
Agree. Been using it for a while now after.
Twitter is a beast. I think it would be a mistake to evaluate what it "stands for" based on some edge case of who/what/why behind a single tweet. Consider the fact that most execs at the top of this thing we call capitalism, are routinely caught in ethical dilemmas. Even the individuals you have decided are on your "side" morally, are forced to occasionally compromise their ethics in the short term, to achieve a longer term goal that is far more complex than people are giving credit here when they use terms like free speech so casually.
Congrats on your success!

That makes sense re: discussion boards. Moderation is a tough problem. Years ago I worked at a regional newspaper and had to deal with the comment section on news articles, total mess. They eventually shut them down.

How did you get started, anything come before Gnod?

How do you plan to monetize illubots? Could see a use for that as an api for e.g. "generate collection of random but similar avatars"
Elon did not want or advocate for peace, he wants and advocates for Russian victory.
Was going to ask the same. I’ve used vultr for years and found them rock solid, and have had good support when needed.

They also just opened a DC in Melbourne.
So if you own a small business and one of your accounts makes up 40% of your business. And the owner tweeted one controversial tweet, your going to cancel the account and not do business with them. 100% no and no one would. It's entirely out of fear adidas did it plain and simple. People who don't want his shoes don't have to buy them but i can guarantee one tweet wouldn't have affected his sales at all. Which proves the people canceling aren't the ones who buy his product anyways. That's the point.
See also markdoc.dev for instances where some commonality with Markdown is desired or required.

Markdoc—> ast —> renderable tree —> HTML or React

> we are seriously considering the possibility of drafting a specification for the JSON representation of Markdoc's Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) in order to facilitate interoperability between Markdoc tools
So when you said, “I know many families” you actually meant “here is my anecdotal experience?”
There's no realistic basis for a lawsuit. However that won't stop journalists from using language like "faces" lawsuit which means literally nothing has happened but we're going to speculate to generate clickbait.
Looking back on history should give us clarity for today. The genocides that I know of were not the same as military invasions.

And in light of past civil wars, what is the best solution for neighboring nation? I am fairly certain every country has taken land this way, so maybe we should give Texas and California back to Mexico?

Russia is NOT in the right, but Russia's actions don't change how we should be pushing for peace.

Where have all the hippies gone?
you are clearly doesn't understand how machine learning works, if machine learning ok copyrighted data becomes illegal then most of our infrastructures will be down because most of it uses machine learning, the first that will affect many people is probably google search
Putin won't stop though, the war with the Georgians in 2008, 2014 Ukraine invasion and now this Ukraine war. Is it really peace when one side calls for peace?

Don't forget WW2, when Nazi Germany under Hitler annexed Czechslovakia in 1938, invaded and split up Poland in 1939 and all the Great Powers did not do anything due to either appeasement or isolationism. We need to learn from history, expansionist dictators do not stop and conceding to them only leads to further war and likely world war.
The lawyers filing this lawsuit were the same lawyers in the previous lawsuit over WARN Act violations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33469900
correct. fortunately, the sales person from the security vendor, the media, and the public officials are aware of this constraint.
"There's a sucker minted every ten minutes."

~ P.T. Nakamoto
This assumes everyone knows who Lex Fridman is. It seems reasonable to me that deepfake interviews be labeled as such.
Doesn't seem likely considering Musk's intent to push a ton of new experimental features within a week. https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1588304086792667136
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...:

“He […] had completely rewritten the region engine using a simpler, more general algorithm which, after some tweaking, made region operations almost six times faster. As a by-product, the rewrite also saved around 2,000 lines of code.

He was just putting the finishing touches on the optimization when it was time to fill out the management form for the first time. When he got to the lines of code part, he thought about it for a second, and then wrote in the number: -2000“
While reading the discussion about aegis the day before, I was thinking that it would be nice to handle tokens from my terminal. Well, here we go.
I covered the bottom of mine with ice blocks. (I filled empty milk cartons with ice.) Very useful to put in a cooler; and even more useful to give out to friends during power outages.

The ice blocks push all the food up to the top of the chest freezer, and it helps remind us not to overfill it.
What I get from this whole experience is big tech employees, likely on a wage x^2 their national average, are able to communicate more widely to the world about their disenfranchisement about being unemployed than others made unemployed who are not.

Slightly ironic that they're employed by social networks. Said tongue in cheek because these are people with livelihoods and looking after families.

There are others that are concerned with big tech in general and its role that have been marginalised in mainstream news. Is there actually any pioneer in these companies that thinks social media on a global scale can work for good, apart from Elon Musk, apparently?

The whole centralisation of the net was a problem in the first place.
So nobody should pay for anything? I pirate tons of stuff and still pay for things that I think are worthy of my payment
We switched to Odroid XU-4s for this reason.
Show HN: 980k USA restaurants and grocery stores search via Zipcode
> falling house prices

Good?
I keep HN in its own category and not a part of my normal unreads. So i have to go and see out HN threads and not have them clutter up the main feed. But still able to go through them.
Here's a more likely explanation: luck + first mover got them to a position, and their current strategy risks a downfall by a competitor in the long run.

Once in power, it is in fact really easy to stay in power.
Regarding the Facebook algorithmic feed.

It kind of was the end of that platform and the beginning of a new one.
One likely much more profitable and also much more destructive to liberal democracy.

(Liberal as in the real, proper sense, not the newer slightly illiberal liberals)
Lets Declare a Pandemic Amnesty
I've been a daily user of Twitter since 2011. I mostly use it to keep up with the entertainment industry/Hollywood as I live in Los Angeles and that's where the sausage in this town is made (which when HN talks about Twitter, I think on the whole completely forgets about that huge contingent of Twitter), so not really into the whole politics/tech sphere there (that's what HN is for). Most people in that sphere don't really _want_ to care one way or the other who runs Twitter.

And yet from a technical perspective, I've already noticed broken links. Duplicate tweets being posted. False notifications... the cracks are already showing and its one day in. Others have too.

This has a cascading effect that people who previously do not necessarily care on the whole about who runs Twitter are now seeing the app simply not work how did yesterday, and attributing it to the new management.
The common misunderstanding of the word `factoid` to mean "a small fact" is itself a factoid.
I’m very ignorant when it comes to AI but I’d like to have a machine watch me select some sub strings out of different sequences of text and have it find what is the pattern behind all the choices I make. Is there something like that I can train?
This isn’t even that extreme. Malicious people can be highly successful. The founder doesn’t even sound deliberately malicious necessarily. There is a lot of room to be successful between “brilliant and well meaning” and “unable to deliver value or persuade others you do so”.
Is that Elon publicly accusing one of his own execs, who still works at Twiqtter, of fraud?

I can only imagine how much collateral the banks demanded to fund Musk's boondoggle.
Nim explained in 100 seconds [video]
LoRaWAN on the Helium network could be a lot cheaper than a cell network, but coverage is spotty.
You are just arguing methods, I am arguing absolutes. I have no idea what the best way to achieve peace on an international scale, so my argument is pure because I don't pretend to know.
No. I'm not assuming that.

You asked what was stopping someone (who wasn't fired but who wanted to leave) from just quitting.

Now, kenjackson's statement is kind of generalizing from self a bit. He believes he'd want to leave in that situation and believes that most people share his ideals in this case.

And while it's probably not the case, it's also not the case that the number is zero.

There are valid reasons to stay in an undesirable situation until you can line up something better.
Fair, I agree. For SV startups though, "working day and night" seems to be a fairly common scenario, not specific to these past few months.
Normally I'd agree, but... Have you seen today's status ? https://status.upcloud.com/ 6 hour downtime and no updates
I’ve noticed a trend on YT. If someone’s going to criticize Tesla or Elon they don’t outright say the name. They say “that other big EV company” or similar. That’s about as good a demonstration of censoring dissent as can get.
I get the interest in Richard Feynman, but why lex?
RStudio the company changes name. RStudio the IDE will remain named as such (for time being at least).
Clickbait. I was fooled by the title and would have listened.

Dan, if there is a way to demote deepfake fiction, a way that doesn't cause other problems, that would be great.
Past threads on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31790593 (14 comments): from 4 months ago with my initial prototype

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29605429 (32 comments): the project I get the HN annotations from

And on reader modes in general:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28286493 (357 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30864311 (102 comments)
I'm not commenting if they're wrong in this case in particular, but Macrobusiness's business model is sensational/doomer headlines funnelling into their private newsletter.

They may look prescient if you read the last years publications, but they well and truly live up to the joke "Economists have predicted nine of the last five recessions."
He did not claim that bots were a surprise -- in fact, getting rid of bots was the premise of his offer in the first place. His issue with the bots was that he thought there was evidence that there were far more bots than claimed and Twitter was dodging his requests for info. There are some plausible arguments that even outside due diligence that bot problem would be meaningful, like that it's a materially adverse change.

But that's all beside the point. These kind of antics happen all the time in the business world. The buyer threatens to back out, the seller takes them to court, they settle. LVMH & Tiffany comes to mind as a very recent example: it wasn't a due diligence argument there, either.
They can, but only if you have an actual contract to that effect.

It's possible that if you're in an at-will employment state they could fire you for cause and claim that working for another company violates something, but I think that would be legally a bit dicey.
They just posted the job numbers for October and it was +100k, blew through the roof. All this doom and gloom is to push the central banks to calm down and stop raising the rates.
This is getting significantly better and fast - largely due to RPis being unavailable for 2 years and growing (and won't get better anytime soon). Odroid's ecosystem is quite a bit better these days. I highly recommend getting an XU-4 from Ameridroid or HardKernel themselves (my last order arrived within 10 days from South Korea to the west coast with zero customers issues) for a fraction of the RPi 4 MSRP cost (much less what it actually costs now) and tinker.
Try less hard and care less intensely. You are doing as much as you can under the current conditions and it says nothing about how "good" you are. You may simply be faced with too much at this point, and you might need to make some tough decisions.

Have you considered transferring at least some of your crypto assets into precious metals? Might be an alternative to banks in the interim, and many exchanges take crypto payments. That way you don't have to worry so much about the potential of losing literally everything.

If what you are doing really is that lucrative, maybe this is a sign you should hire someone to take over your duties.
I'm currently rebuilding my personal website with it and I'm really impressed. As with most RStudio products I've encountered over the years, I find it is intuitive, well documented, and quite powerful. I also think RStudio has played an important role in making the R community quite pleasant and inclusive.
There is zero evidence for literally anything you're saying and your accusations are completely baseless.
I post my list of subscriptions to my blog in OPML format: https://github.com/nathan-contino/nathan-contino.github.io/b... (github link, so you can preview it).

If you like bicycles and simple tech stuff, you might enjoy.
Normally I’d agree with you, it’s exactly his MO and it works - BUT- the 50% job cuts and massive revenue issues they’re rumored to already face is actually news on it’s own. His fluff about changes are just outrage marketing.
> I listened to the whole thing and I found it very convincing.

Eh? "Lex Fridman's" voice is shaky as fuck in the first 30 seconds and apparently he can't pronounce science now? - it says sci-in. (It continues to be flawed - he sounds sick when he says UC Berkeley).
If I heard this knowing it was really him I would be concerned he was having a stroke.

His voice is defective enough that it is actually irritating to listen to.

Also, the opening monologue doesn't sound much like Feynman's style - he was known for being irreverent, flippant, intense and maybe even occasionally dismissive - but not this aggressive - certainly in a sitdown interview he agreed to. Also hard to believe he would fuck up the word "interviewee".

He wants to "walk"? and listen?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA

This would only fool someone that has never heard Feynman speak for an appreciable period - but then you might as well get a decent impersonator.
And really the content doesn't hold up to even basic critical listening scrutiny.

> They mostly don't say nonsense.

Oh god dude, most of the material is false and easily verified as false from basic sources. It's mostly nonsense.

EDIT: Ok listening to segment between 3:30 and 4:30 I know I'm being trolled.
Focus on building relationships with people and mentoring them. Identify future potential cofounders.

Invest in other areas of your life.
No, I don't. Every contract has two parties. Elon did not want to go through with the contract, the other party forced them to abide by the agreement (Twitter's shareholders, which funnily enough, many of Twitter's employees are counted among).

Everyone knew what selling twitter to elon meant for the employees and the company. There were rumors of mass layoffs weeks ago. It was forced through still anyway.

So in addition to Elon, everyone that cashed out of twitter is responsible for what's happening to the company now and all the employees that allowed the company to become fat and bloated are responsible too.
> fatigued by algorithmic nonsense

Let's not participate in the corruption of the word "algorithm" here on HN, too. We wouldn't tolerate people saying "integral" when they mean "derivative", so we shouldn't tolerate this, either. We can afford to abstain from this sort of quick-and-easy but sloppy use of language as a shorthand for generic memetic outrage.
Not legally. They would have to prove that they were being targeted and fired for being pregnant.

Laying off half the company is pretty strong evidence you aren't targeting based on protected class.
I agree about the ownership side. If I was an employee I'd have started job hunting the moment he started making comments about buying.

The employees do have power, they could refuse to work en-masse and he can find out how hard or easy it is to hire a completely new crew. But I'm guessing there's too much internal strife and disagreement for that to happen.

Plus I have to agree with his assessment - there's not that much to twitter really, it's hardly a massively complicated and sprawling software product. They have too many people. Some of those complaining about being let go have... titles that don't make that much sense for the kind of businsess twitter is. I hate seeing people lose their job. Companies should be a bit more circumspect in their hiring.
From Hadley's video blurb, the ringer is when he states "things just work" in the R environment vis-à-vis python (where he tactfully yet implicitly acknowledges the shitshow that is the python library/package/environment management).

Kudos to the R community and supporters for providing a great and useful platform!
>As I understand brigading, it involves calls from outside for people to come in, which I don't think it happening here at all.

Here's 3 pretty good definitions, so you can understand me better.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading

Basically, the anti-elon crowd is manipulating the discussion on HN through mass downvoting and flagging of anyone they disagree with. The goal is to leave the appearance everyone hates Musk.

In terms of the 'outside or off HN" organization, there is a separate word for that but I can't remember it. Something to do with 'raiding' but this doesn't matter.
I'm a software engineer, left my job 18 months ago to make my startup solo.

Reflecting on all the learnings I had during the journey, the hardest part was the context switching. I've been experiencing coding, user interviews, demos, business development, making marketing materials, posting online and engaging with posts, thinking about the next step, expanding my network, sales follow ups, support, learning about the market.

All these things happen during the day, so it is really hard to focus on one thing.

The other parts, mostly the first time founder's mistakes. Focusing on building instead of marketing and channels. This is however about to change as I learned the hard way from my mistakes.
No, it's not. Essentializing incompetence, implying that he's incompetent at everything, that's foolish. But the supposition that he's incapable of being incompetent at Twitter because of his successes elsewhere has already been disproven.