skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting that you would rather wait for languages to provide robust sandboxing capabilities and not use available static/dynamic analysis tools (e.g., Packj [1]) to audit packages for malicious/risky indicators, particularly when we hear about new attacks on open-source package managers almost every week?

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj [Disclaimer: I built it]
Perhaps a little overstated. In the past, -0.1% growth was considered flat. We only got the “-0.1% is the same as -9%, technically speaking” arguments when they became politically convenient.

If US growth had rebounded from -0.1% to +0.1%, I suspect partisan hacks’ positions would instantly reverse and we’d have republicans telling us that a tenth a percent is not really growth, and democrats yelling that technically it’s no different than +9% so there’s no recession.
Mathias Wendell did a YouTube video on the efficiency of chest freezers. Good watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKnR1Uz3bg
> And the 3.84TB U.2 drives are mirrored and act as a "special" device (lol, literally what they are called) [4] to automatically store small blocks and ZFS metadata.

Man, even enterprise servers, sold directly to data centers, max out these devices at 64 gigabytes. Many are offered with a pair of 32GB SLC old-school SSDs (for the extra durability).

Using 3.84TB for this is an enormous waste unless you host half the GitHub yourself and have specified "all files under this or that size go to the special devices".

Better make a torrent or book or comics mirror or something on this pair of huge SSDs. I use a pair of 32GB extra-durable (SLC) USB pen drives for special/metadata on a fairly decent ZFS dataset (~9TB) and they have something like 4MB of taken space...
Most of the entertainment I have consumed in recent years has been made by amateurs that at most got donations. Besides, there can be subsidies. The current copyright law is already a subsidy, but it’s selling off the society’s natural rights instead of petty tax money.
Yeah, but SF is swamped with homeless ppl. Yay for all those devs earning a lot while living in dystopia.
If I can earn less but be confident that I won't go broke because of an unfortunate events. And that the system is humane, and tries to find a balance between capitalism and humanism, I'll take that any day.

US wealth is a joke.
> I always wondered what would have happened if I'd had any kind of dispute with them

NAL, but a contract requires a "meeting of the minds"[1]. You altering the contract without the other party knowing makes it invalid.

The process when modifying a contract is generally to have all parties initial next to each modification to indicate that they've read and agree with the change.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_the_minds
And the answer is if someone surveys the inside of an office, they'll report very high employment rates.

The world is large and diverse. To understand it, one has to look at statistics. Looking at people runs in to hard limits very quickly, because it is only possible to see people who are in the same place as the viewer.
Truly hope that we can use this as an opportunity to make something people want. Obviously we all use Facebook and Twitter because I guess that's all there is. I hope this create an experience vacuum for people on the web because virtual reality snooze offices and/or racially and class deriding ad driven posts that are 140 words are less is not what I thought the future would be.
Musk and friends compare Twitter to other tech companies and see that it's ratio of employees to revenue is lowest. He therefore thinks he must halve the number employees and/or increase revenue to get this ratio up.

From the chat log exhibits from the Twitter vs Musk case: https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#47

A VC (Jason Calacanis) does back of the envelope calculations:

Twitter revenue per employee: $5B rev / 8k employees = $625K rev per employee in 2021

Google revenue per employee: $257B rev2/ 135K employee2= $1.9M per employee in 2021

Apple revenue per employee: $365B rev / 154k employees= $2.37M per employee in fiscal 2021

Twitter revenue per employee if 3k instead of 8k: $5B rev/ 3k employees= $1.66m rev per employee in 2021 (more industry standard)

Elon: "Insane potential for improvement"
I think you'd need a senior SRE specifically at twitter to answer this. I know of a company that fired all of their developers and operations people a year ago and everything still works mostly. They contract out as needed.

I think the real issue is that without heavy content moderation it'll quickly get overrun with spam. A great example is to go find an abandoned subreddit and see what bad shape it's in.
Too many people are unreasonably attached to their jobs. If you work in a country/state that is "at will", you should take that seriously as if you could lose your source of income at any time.

That includes financial planning and money set aside for these types of events.
That’s true of Tesla, but if he didn’t found SpaceX I’m curious who you would credit with that
Advertising spend is material info and if your competitor's CEO now potentially has access to that that's legitimate cause for concern.

From what I understand, they are going to wait until it's clear how much of a conflict of interest him being CEO of Twitter (in terms of advertising) + Tesla is.
Yes and no. There is never a situation where electronic voting with no paper back up that must be stored and catalogued for a prescribed time via law is a good idea.

But a system that uses electronics to tabulate votes that can be verified via paper ballots that are stored long-term, securely? Why not?

Edit: Maybe I didn't describe this well. The person makes the vote on paper. The paper is counted by a machine (like the article is saying). The paper is stored securely and catalogued for later reference and audit. What is the problem there?
As someone who learns Common Lisp and speaks 2 slavic languages, I consider your statement as surprisingly legit.
As author of a popular User Agent parser - they are indeed a train wreck but they were at least a largely solved, managed and contained train wreck. The average person could just grab a library, pass it a single string and know what browser someone was using.

UA hints, SEC headers and all that stuff they’re pushing to “replace” it really just complicate the problem. Getting accurate data server side has been made a total pita.
Am I correct in understanding your argument that "so long as numbers keep going up, all will be fine"? Because there is a possibility that crypto never gains back the hype as late 2020, and Bitcoin never reaches the high of $69K ever again, in which case people who "bought and hold" at that time (including those who were encouraged to be "brave" by Matt Damon in a crypto.com ad) will never see (a portion of) their money again.
> What I'm really surprised about is the firings of pregnant women. In other countries, this is more strictly regulated.

I don't think it is forbidden to fire pregnant women, even in countries where it is strictly regulated. However, it is usually forbidden to fire women because they are pregnant. Here Twitter laid off half of their staff, and if they can show that they were "fair" (for example by firing only half of the pregnant women) they may get a pass.

But anyways, in countries where pregnant women are well protected, employees in general are also well protected and Musk wouldn't be able to do what he does now.
The point is OP thinks everywhere else will soon be exactly like Twitter.
I will certainly be downvoted for this, but I want to be honest so here it is anyway:

In all my programming years, 20+ years that is, I've met hundreds of programmers, and 95%+ of them handled imperative programming languages just fine, with very few actual bugs coming from each one.

Each time there is such a conversation, I have yet to see some actual concrete proof that functional programming provides a substantial increase in productivity over well-implemented imperative code.

In other words, I am still not convinced about the merits of functional programming over imperative programming. I want some real proof, not anecdotal evidence of the type 'we had a mess of code with C++, then we switched to Haskell and our code improved 150%".

Lots and lots of pieces of code that work flawlessly (or almost flawlessly) have been written in plain C, including the operating system that powers most of Earth (I.e. Unix-like operating systems, Windows etc).

So please allow me to be skeptical about the actual amount of advancement functional programming can offer. I just don't see it.
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Don't worry, your critique is fair and square, what you have to understand is that you probably piss a fair amount of people here already by virtue of your username alone! Cue takes on how "affinity scam" somehow doesn't apply & even more contrarian moaning re: crypto bad.
> The salaries here are lower because of this, but it's deceiving because the insurances are based on your salary.

Salaries in Europe are much lower even when all the salary and benefit related expenses (so called "gross 2" salary) are taken into account.
That's a generous interpretation. I think someone capable of negotiating themselves a new tech job at higher pay could only be asking this question rhetorically and not because they are incapable of answering it themselves.
> And then many many smaller platforms spring up

and they are successful by interoperating, until one becomes more popular than the others and turns proprietary. (I just want to get my prediction in also)
Elon Musk isn’t going to be kicked out of the country he’s settled down in if he loses his Twitter job. Elon Musk isn’t going to lose his healthcare, his livelihood, his means of housing and feeding himself, just as the winter holidays are about to begin in the United States.

Yes I think it’s immoral to put a person with a visa in a situation where they risk deportation unless they get hired just when hiring is slow, not just because of the job market but because other hiring managers are literally spending time with their family.
> It’s genuinely amazing and saddening how many people want to see Musk fail.

Musk and his various companies have openly sharted on laws, regulations and legal orders and agreements many, many times (e.g. his SEC squabbles which should have led to someone checking over his tweets prior to sending them out, COVID-19 rule ignorance, workplace safety regulations, ...), and he's been a general arsehole way too often as well (the "pedo diver" incident, one of his own kids distancing themselves which led to Musk twittering anti-trans shit, ...).

Of course people want to see that even the richest asshole on the planet is not fully immune from consequences for his actions.
An EU eng knows that if shit hits the fan, she can go back to Europe and have live well.
So why not earn some extra cash in the US.

An American doesn't have that privilege.
996 (72hr weeks) apparently works in China, so why wouldn't it be made to work here, especially if all the rich companies use the economic headwinds to collude and reduce compensation/QoL/perks?
Also a massive fraction of young US techies are Chinese immigrants -- are they as vulnerable to 996 in US or are they a select group who escaped it?

And can Musk and others staff up in China (if US and Chinese politics/government allows it)?
And this year (and all years here on out), Elon Musk in his brilliance added $1,300,000,000 to that loss, because he took on a $13,000,000,000 loan to buyout the company.

That's all I'm saying. The $1.3 billion/year in interest payments alone is a magnitude more loss than Twitter ever had before.
Twitter employees were treated nicely. Too nicely. And yet they were not productive. The only new features they introduced in 10 years were losses in excess of 200MM to 1bn+ and the banning/shadow banning of those who went against the group think, fun police, and thought-gestapo. Each staffer had 10 bosses and every department had a ton of waste.

Musk could never show up again after some changes, and the company would perform better than under the previous leadership.
> It’s genuinely amazing and saddening how many people want to see Musk fail.

People want to see bad behavior have bad consequences. Anything else would be amazing. And while this is by no means the lowest Musk has gone, it's definitely one of the times he has had most influence over a lot of people.

Musk has in just recent time been peddling some conspiracy theories, made some astonishing remarks re: the status of Crimea in Ukraine and so on. It's more than enough already to make me never want to see him succeed in controlling anything related to media (social or not).

> Auto companies cutting spending is just spite from competition which is understandable.

That could be part of it. But unless there is a clear sign that auto companies do this to a larger extent than other megacorps I'd put it down to just being defensive. Twitter under Musk has controversy and turmoil written all over it, And if I were a large company I'd want no part in it. It's so easy to shift ad money to other places.

I'm guessing advertisers will return once the storm settles. At that point, I also fully expect Musk to have gone full circle, realizing the only way to run Twitter was the old way. Whether it will survive that round trip is the question.
Same can be said in the reverse: "It is affecting me, so it does exist". Bias on both ends, qualitative data is often not reliable.

Last election: "If my social circle thinks we are going to win, then it is a given". Both share a pattern: a tech bubble (pun intended)

Some data (need more)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33453819
Sorry, but this isn't "organically". There is a lot of money being spent to produce viral content and there a lot of mobile phone farms to spread this content. "Organic" is just the last mile.
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Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I think a fair number of people think CEOs and entrepreneurs are immoral for acting in a self-serving, self-enriching manner, and a fair number of people think employees are immoral doing so.
This is the story of our industry. We are so lucky and don't even know it. I've been privileged to pull substantial salary and equity outcomes at various tech groups with "top tier" engineers who get away with murder because there are literally no stakes in the job performance. If you are approximately 'smart' and get a minimal amount of work done you can get away with murder. I've gotten junior engineers jobs in this industry, and when I check back in on some of them they are like yeah I work 1 hour a day and make well into six figures. And managers and bosses are terrified of asking for any outcomes lest they lose and have to try to rehire.
> tech was a bastion of "treat your employees right, and they will be productive"

Is/was it? The shortage of qualified engineers have made some employers extra careful/generous, to attract and keep them. Or some others to divert brains away from their own occupations which could have ended up competing with them.
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IMO the same reason people have celebrity-like adoration for Musk is the same reason people have gut antipathy for him: norm destruction. Our society runs on norms more than explicit rules or laws. Musk has made a career out of breaking these norms, some of which have been very positive, but which are quickly veering away from that. These are things that a person might be able to get away with (no effective enforcement against them) but which if everyone engaged in them, it'd be extremely harmful to society.

Norms that matter: Don't call rescue workers pedophiles for no reason. Don't impregnate your employee. Don't put software designated generously as beta in control of vehicles on public roads. Don't boisterously sign legal agreements, harass your business associates and thousands of innocent employees, and then strain the legal system in an attempt to undo your whoopsie. Don't lay people off in such a way designed to circumvent severance requirements. The list goes on and on.

There's not a lot of effective enforcement against these things but it's important that they don't become the norm. So insofar as I'm "cheering for him to fail," it's because I'd prefer that we don't have an entire generation of business leaders thinking this behavior is admirable. The marginal improvements he can make to Twitter nowhere near outbalance the harms he can inflict on our society's norms. Also, frankly, I'd prefer he focused on cars and rockets because we need his attention (and more) on those big problems and he's made great progress so far. The Twitter sidequest is an addiction gone awry.
A - I have access to quite a few *nix servers, where multiple login users and/or services with district UIDs are a thing.

B - Not sure how practical most of this is yet, but there's cool stuff around isolating individual programs even on single-user machines.

C - My desktop has a couple things that listen on the network, and it's nice that they only have access to specific things.
I hate to take this side, but I do wonder how it took 7500 people to run twitter. Scott Galloway made this point yesterday in his Prof G podcast. It’s not like they had to pipe data ultimately efficiently like a Netflix, for example. It’s more like a message routing service. Seems do-able with 200 people.
Income taxes (Federal + CA) seem to be roughly in the same ballpark as France based on [0]. A French income tax simulator is available at [1]. This is the "simplified" version. What matters is box 1AJ for salaried income.

For 100000 USD it's actually a bit higher than for 100000 EUR.

However, as another commenter said, income tax is not the full story - far from it. There are other taxes that you have to pay. Also, while social security comes out of your paycheck, it's considered taxable income in France for the purposes of the income tax. Also, social security is usually insufficient, so you usually have to pay for a separate insurance. Which, you guessed it, isn't deductible from taxes.

As far as a company's concerned, if the employee costs 100 EUR "fully loaded", they only get around 55-60 EUR in hand. Also, when comparing with the US, don't forget that VAT is at 20-25% depending on the country. And, at least in France, VAT is levied on some taxes (yup), like for example electricity and gas.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/income-tax-calculator/califor...

[1] https://simulateur-ir-ifi.impots.gouv.fr/calcul_impot/2022/s...
It's very common for recessions to be widely talked about before they happen. I first heard talk about the upcoming housing bubble burst in 2003, five years before the bubble actually burst.

"Economists have predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions" - Paul Samuelson
What if I saw military helicopters flying above and told others “war has broken out!” I see how you can say that’s not misinformation, but wild speculation. For me, it’s both.
Have employees taken license with being "treated right"?
Does it matter if the company is now private?
Anecdotally, all of the "trendy outdoors type" I see with expensive kitted-out vehicles are from California who blast into the wilderness as fast as possible to get back home before the weekend is over.
Are you saying that Debian is corporate and therefore Linux is rotten?
Any reasonable, mature company should have a Keep-the-lights-On playbook, especially after 2020…
Nope. Lawsuit filed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/twitter-s...
Gonna be weird when journalists have to start digging up stories rather than just reposting tweets.
I honestly expect we'll see an increase in errors propogating all the way to users within the next week. If the other half quit, I'd expect a hard downtime within a month
My claim was not that Musk was "good" in whatever way you conceptualize that. My claim was that Musk's main focuses are commercial ventures that are very targeted at combating the main existential risks facing humanity. This is exactly the kind of good that the OP was talking about.
Thanks for sharing your ex-space-x perspective. I too, am skeptical about any good coming from this.

I observe that Musk’s biggest wins is where he has used his enthusiasm and large cachet of celebrity capital to challenge the status quo. Tesla and SpaceX both embody elements of society that sci-fi has been dreaming since we were kids. Self landing rockets flying all the time! Electric robot cars that drive themselves! He challenges entrenched industries to do a thing that people wish they would do, but the bean counters say isn’t worth it. It least that’s how the fanciful narrative goes.

The problem with Twitter (or any social network/super app) is that it is not clear what that “go big, go beyond, dream big” trajectory is. For me personally, it’d be about open source, open walls, federation, and above all no fricking advertisement/surveillance economy. I don’t see how Musk’s acquisition here achieves that or any other “dream for the stars” aspiration one has for Twitter.
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I understand it enough to know that your comment sounds like a tweet
I do agree there's a lot of people in tech who don't work hard and the problem has only gotten worse recently. I personally appreciate a blue collar approach to development. Don't be arrogant, do what you say you will and make sure that you're putting in your 40-50 hours a week of work, not 20 hours of work and 20 hours of ping-pong and bullshitting. Above all, be a professional.

However, if you think for a second that you can replace US developers, building products for Americans with someone from Nigeria you are off your ass. The hardest part of software development isn't yolo-ing code into an IDE. It's collecting requirements, troubleshooting and translating that into both code and requirements docs for other teams.

This is hard for native english speakers and approaching impossible for offshore teams. It works reasonable well with teams in the Americas because the timezones are close and the culture/language barriers aren't as high.
Nobody is leaving Jane Street after 18 months - straight out of college, of their own accord.
The New York Times (et al) set the official narratives. Faceboot and its ilk shape the many counter reactions to it. Despite being comprised of multiple journalists, everyone basically thinks of NYT as a singular entity with its own reputation. On Faceboot, memes carry the social proof of your own personal relationships. And the most worrisome is that people know NYT's narratives are not their own thoughts, whereas people think the narratives they got from Faceboot are.
heh - you're obviously correct and now I'm kicking myself for forgetting the #1 difference.

FTT does not offer any sort of interest like Terra did. The benefits of holding are strictly discounted use of the FTX platform [0]

[0] https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052410392-FTT-Stak...
Can someone enlighten me why we need a full multipurpose computer that can run custom software just to increment one of two numbers? What's the secret sauce that means we can't run the whole election off of a cluster of 4000-series CMOS's on a breadboard mounted in a plexiglass case in the public somewhere?
Oh, my apologies! I'm not tuned properly to pick up irony about that on HN since I've read so many posts overlooking the real difference. Hopefully my comment will be useful as a starting point to someone who hasn't really looked into the issue before.
Given how Musk treats employees, I was wondering where the kind of sycophant ready to sacrifice their life at the altar of an uncaring billionaire actually existed.

Glad to know they exist