skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect, it doesn't really go both ways.

> Employees get to quit at a moments notice

Most employees have to work in order to make an income. To assume that it's at all common for employees to just jump ship and leave a mess behind is inaccurate

> leaving the company scrambling to find a replacement at potentially great costs

And to this point, most employees are redundant. Other employees can pick up the slack. A well managed organization usually doesn't let the bus factor get too high. And if an org isn't well managed, it's not fair to blame employees for wanting to leave

> I choose to care about my employer and my employer chooses to care about me. I could make a lot more money at a company that does not care, but I value that relationship more than money. Everyone should have the choice.

I think this is closer to the mark. Employment is first a legal agreement, but also a social agreement. And this is the social agreement that Musk is destroying through his game of chicken with Twitter. He doesn't get a pass because "it goes both ways"
The employees who lawyered up before seeing any official termination documentation are probably on the hook for any legal fees incurred so far. Now that it appears that an appropriate work suspension and notice of termination date (essentially severance) was granted, its likely that there wont be many offers from lawyers to act on contingency fees.
Do people want to hire the engineers fired from Twitter? I’m sure many are probably very competent and motivated and with great ambition, but perhaps Twitter’s engineering and innovation hasn’t been very impressive lately.
Someone types in your new server/domain, like "ijustmadethissite.com", or "newlocation.existingsite.com"

For their computer to resolve this domain name, it's going to call out to a DNS server, of which Google hosts a major one. It can be assumed that they log these names, and can then use that as a "notification" for a site coming up.
No I am saying the lawyers are suing for something that has already occurred. Specifically not giving the proper advance notice as required by law.
There's a reason this is a class action lawsuit.
Yes, it's legal. Twitter can always sue the person that tweeted it to have them remove it, let a judge decide.
Yup. I misread.
Just to confirm, you are talking about L1 and L3 caches, right?
I have some doubts. For example, if they are just outputting the scan results from some tool with a high false positive rate, how is that helpful? It's a waste of time and money for the government. Bug bounty programs have the same issue that probably most bugs found are trash results from a scanning tool.

On the other hand, a custom built tool that tries to find the most serious known vulnerabilities with a low false positive rate would probably be a good thing for the government to run.
I've always wanted to train a CS:GO AI/bot but am terrified of VAC bans.
I'm sorry I don't meet your expected level of professionalism on a random internet forum. Rest assured I have filed a deviation report to my manager.
This is alright, I like the category breakdown, it makes browsing great, but its still subject to what _youtube_ considers good content. Which just results in the top content being short-form videos which provide quick-facts, not something I can actually learn with. Not necessarily a bad thing for different categories or if that is what you're seeking in the category but a consequential factor for someone seeking something outside the advertiser-friendly, profit maximizing algorithms.

I just love things the variety of things that fall outside the google-ads algos its so easy to silo our "content" from platforms like this. I browse marginalia [0] just to spice it up and see what else there is out there.

[0] https://search.marginalia.nu/
China has a vast vast oversupply of software engineers.

In order to make 996 work in the US, there would need to be a pretty big oversupply of talent (and a lower standard of living) to make people desperate enough to give up their entire lives to their work. Unfortunately, I think we may be getting close to that about now or at least heading down that path.
Corporate communication is corporate property and fully accessible as it pertains to investigations of corporate wrong-doing. You can be certain Twitter's new legal team is looking at everything. The issue is whether the persons in question were communicating in the capacity of working for Twitter. It's very clear that they were, and it wouldn't be at all surprising if the clown show at Twitter did all manner of unethical things in conflicting with Musk.
A grim day. As a tech worker, my solidarity is entirely with the employees of Twitter.

The irony is that Twitter, more than any other social platform, helped create the aura around Elon, Tesla in particular. In some sense, Twitter was quintessential to what Elon is today.

For him to now
- make a bid for twitter
- back out of it in futile
- acquire it, lay off execs
- lay off half the force

Is surreal. If this had been anyone apart from Elon, they would have been ostracized.

I am saddened, but also a bit terrified since I see strong parallels between Elon, and... Other such figures. But Elon now owns a social media platform that "informs" upwards of a 500million users a month.
I get it that this is about profit. But to be fair, you have to factor in the valuation of the company to see if something was gained or lost in all those years.
The shareholders voted.
If companies do something I don't like I'm not gonna buy their shit. I am not violating free speech by choosing not to buy their shit. There is no right for a business to have my dollars.

And... that's really what it comes down to. Billionaires wanting to keep their profits.

As far as going after a person personally, I don't agree with that, but that's usually not how this plays out. Some idiot says something stupid, then advertisers stop advertising, because they know people like me actually give a shit about this stuff and I can make do without random piece of shit #726 cluttering my house.
> But is it what you're calling "legal" speech to disclose confidential info? If so, is it not just like they issued themselves a takedown notice and immediately executed on it?

I think there are a lot of things that are legal that may cause civil penalties. E.g. there's no law banning the dissemination of screenshots of Twitter's internal Slack (so the screenshot is legal speech), but Twitter may have grounds to sue the leaker for breach of a private contract.
My science fiction stories got Asimov and Clarke. My fantasy stories got Tolkien. It is kind of suspicious.
I don't think that "encapsulation" thing will hold much water, pun intended. The bacteria have to be exposed to the external water, so that barrier is necessarily quite thin. Also quite permeable, so there may very well be detritus from dead bacteria leaking, including DNA molecules.

That's a risk which has to be evaluated. Some people don't want to take any risk of artificial genes getting spread into the environment, some will even use this to make up the conspiracy theories for the next pandemic. More plausibly, many of these genetically modified bacteria contain certain antibiotical resistance genes that can get passed on to other bacteria.
Private servers? FF/DM?
Inside Twitter, I don't have enough context to say much in detail. I will say that 7.5k employees seems very high given their product offerings, and that the existence of things like an "ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability Team" at least lend credence to the idea that many of those people weren't contributing directly to the company's revenue.

Outside of Twitter: the purchase was high profile and novel, made by a popular figure whose star seems to still be on the rise. There was drama around it for months, and we still don't really know if Musk really meant to buy it. Musk's personality alone is interesting. Then there are the responses of people approximately split down party lines in the US, the various communities that use Twitter heavily today, advertisers, and high-profile people who have run afoul of Twitter in the past.

Finally - and perhaps most impactful of all, though it's not been extensively discussed here - there is the possible impact this will have on US politics. Exactly how much of Trump's popularity ~2015-2020 was due to his tweets? Will his account be reinstated? If so, will he use it? Will he resume using it the way he did before, or will he feel less encumbered by Twitter's policies and be even more bombastic/inflammatory? How will that impact the 2024 presidential election?

From where I sit, I have no idea where things will end up. Any outcome from "Musk loses tens of billions of dollars as Twitter ceases operation" to "Elon Musk sends his congratulations to President Trump from his home at the SpaceX lunar outpost after his election to a second term".

If you don't find such a range of possibilities interesting, I don't know what to tell you :)
I find it hilarious that a bit lower down, someone is discussing https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email to do the opposite of this.
Right, but your argument used "all" and you've provided half of one example. You have to do it for every system. Again, I'm not sure why you universally qualified your argument. You're attempting to prove a universal with existentials.
IMO, a more complex grammar allows for better descriptions. The only real type of grammar simpler than CFG is a regular expression. That's pretty limited, although (the older part of) CSS doesn't need more than that. But as soon as you want a nested construction, hierarchy or simply nested parentheses, you need a CFG. If it's difficult to configure, the problem is the (configuration) language, not the power of its grammar.

And there are excellent parser generators out there. You don't have to fear introducing bugs via them.
I've been in the crypto-sphere for a bit, a majority of projects are scams.

I personally believe in the large projects, and few niche ones.

My buy and hold coins are BTC, ETH, Monero (XMR), MATIC (ETH L2), and Sol. Monero is the truest "crypto-currency" in my view, and I believe there should be a digital cash equivalent if we're moving to a digital world.

ETH has smart contracts and lots of companies are using ETH L2s like Matic to run smart contracts (Instagram is using Matic for NFTs).

Solana looks like a promising ETH alternative, the risk for Sol is that it's tied up to SBF/Alameda, but their chain is very fast (albeit it goes down too frequently, still in beta though)

Please do not take a stranger's advice and do your own research on projects before investing, and don't invest more than you can afford to lose.

I prefer bear markets for crypto, it acts like a forest fire and clears the grift away.
Actually it just takes XML as an input format, but depending on your XML you need to provide a class that defines how to typeset each tag. For Docbook SILE has an example class with about 40% of the possible tags defined to something sensible. If you want to typeset Docbook you'd need to round that out to cover your use case. To date it is only supplied as an example of how to process XML.
AUTOMATIC1111: There is no requirement to make this software legally usable
See also Joey Hess's low energy fridge: http://joeyh.name/offgrid/fridge/

Joey's known for the Debian installer and git-annex, among other things.
They can sell those bonds at any time, really.
He had 0.06% of the company and cashes out less than thirty millions on the sale.

(Wrong number of shares and wrong calculation before: He had 0.002% of the company and cashes out less than ten million on the sale.)
Stop Using QtWebKit
I think you misunderstand.

I'm reading that the UK government is spying on us, and their retrospective plausible excuse is that they are scanning web servers for, erm, vulnerabilities.

No, I don't think that the government is here to help. It allows itself only to maintain force, that it then uses to forcibly extract wealth from its herd, er, sorry citizens.
The table is wrong.

If you click the link to the actual SEC filing, it says otherwise. Alwaleed put stock, not cash towards the purchase and will "retain an equity investment in Twitter following completion of the Merger"

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922...
Many of the channels are stale, latest video from one or more years ago.
There is at least one extreme data point that says you can do an incredible amount with very few people: WhatsApp (~30 engineers @ 500M daily users)

At that point WhatsApp had first class clients for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia and Web + a server backend that scaled to 2B+ daily users.

This doesn't happen by accident. WhatsApp founders created an environment where this could happen:

- focusing on a few things (saying no a lot)

- everyone on the team is highly capable

- a work environment that allows people to focus on work (minimal meetings, good long term planning, fixing root causes vs constant firefighting...)
I mean we don't know anything about the internals of their relationship, and "hitting the news cycle is" I guess just some arbitrary hassle from their point of view. We could suppose that they grew distant, they basically separated, he started a new relationship/affair, and then they formalized the divorce.

Regardless, their money was realistically getting split anyway, so the decision of when to start the affair probably didn't cost him anything.
Home mortgage (for first house) is only somewhat non recourse in 12 states, and even then, some of those do not let you just walk away (like Washington):

https://www.financialsamurai.com/non-recourse-states-walk-aw...

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/rpt/2010-R-0327.htm

>It is difficult to classify states as strictly recourse or non-recourse. Almost all states allow deficiency judgments under certain conditions, for certain types of property or foreclosure proceedings. However, many states restrict not only the conditions under which deficiency judgments are allowed but the maximum recovery for the creditors.

>he hasn't personally guaranteed them.

Source? I imagine the terms of the loans for the Twitter purchase are not publicly available.
Is a bunch of heart emojis confidential information? If so, lol.
How could you possibly know that? Sure maybe none of the people who worked at Tesla died from COVID, but what about their families? What about every single person in public they interacted with? There is no way to know how many people, if any, they spread the virus to, who then died, and whether they got the virus at work.

But we do know that states with more lockdowns had lower excess deaths. So in the aggregate we know that lockdowns saved lives.
That's specious. One is based on a chain of events. The other is based on the absence of a chain of events. Your anecdote and George Burns are of a kind: I did something and nothing bad happened. You've implied that you've proven a negative.

Mine is "I stopped doing something and something good happened (3x)". I did a lot of single variable experiments on myself during that phase of my life. I didn't stop soda and start exercising. I was too 'lazy' for that, but it was more informative.

Anecdotes are lousy for public policy but they're great for research grants. Except for accidental discoveries, most medical advances come from looking at clusters of people or animals or microbes that don't behave the way you thought they would. Those are anecdotes, and the cause-effect variety are much easier to spot.
Wow! My town has a 2 mile walk boundary before they will bus you and I live in the U.S. Midwest where winters can be brutal!

As a result many kids ride their bikes to school. In my neighborhood elementary school kids and middle school kids are crossing 4 lane roads to get to school. The elementary school has a stoplight, so that helps, but the middle school does not. I'm amazed no one has ever been hurt!
+1 I support this on Patreon. A nifty open source tool that you can self host if you like, but I’ve run into no issues with the hosted one
You can still do that. Just "electric battery car" was not a novel idea in 2003.

Jobs was viewed as the idea guy when he went back to apple, and it wouldn't have been really different if that was his first time there instead of returning.
You're correct, and I got ahead of myself. I got it right(er) in a sub-comment later.

Economists expect a certain number of people to be looking for jobs and not finding them because they don't match what their local market needs. It's friction. If the rate dips too low, it suggests that employers are digging too deeply to find anybody, probably by raising salaries, and risks unbalancing the rest of the economy.
Idea is great but there is a lot of overlap between the tags, e.g. there are six pages of tags for Chinese but half of them are all variants on the same tech topics (e.g. there is a separate tag for 苹果、手机、电脑、and "apple watch").
Upgrade gets recommended so much and it amazes me. It's the most basic version of a movie with that premise with extremely straightforward plot and acting. There's little difference between watching that and Jackie Chan's The Tuxedo (2002) or really a bunch of other movies. Now, I generally get liking a polished simple movie but recommending it as something special at the level of Ex Machina and Bladerunner is bizzare to me.
Heya, nice to meet you!

Gnod is still my main project. Combined, the Gnod projects for music, movies and literature are used by about half a million users a month now. I just closed the discussion boards because they caused so much work.

Other projects are Product Chart, which is a new type of product discovery tool, and illubots, which is an illustration agency where all illustrators are neural networks.
It also might explain the S in IoT.
It will be interesting to see how they approach these layoffs in countries like the UK or most of the EU, where you can't just fire people for no reason.

I have seen some reports of Twitter employees in the UK being told they've been laid off, but that's simply not legal in te UK.

For a company the size of Twitter, a process must be followed:

https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/consultation

The company can be forced to reinstate the employee if the company has been found to have ignored the law.

Delaying the layoff until January doesn't remove the legal obligations Twitter has.
Yeah, you can find it here [1]. Just click every second result.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.linkedin.com%2Fin...
Fixes and Flaws in Ventura 13.0
Was it theirs to sell
Not sure about the main site, but AskMetaFilter still has a high level of discussion content. I find myself checking it every so often.
Mozilla Corp (the company that does most of the dev work) isn't a non-profit, although given their relationship with Mozilla Foundation (which is a non profit) maybe it's not a big distinction.
It's possible that the judge already was considering changing their ruling (or was "on the fence" about it), but the question gave them a way to explain it (rather than saying "I changed my mind").
https://www.google.com/search?q=shareholder+lawsuit+buyout+r...
There's always cross OS performance tests like this one

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-eo2021/2
That's all well and true, but it's an expected downside which you'd see with any software which needs to be properly configured to run. If a user doesn't know they should take this seriously by ensuring that a tool which potentially grants root privileges is correctly configured, that shouldn't stop others who know better.
Keep learning new skills/tech so you can advance + making more $$.

Learn to code... Python, bash for Linux, Or Powershell on Windows side for example.
There's usually at least one person who's willing to say the quiet part out loud in situations like this. Though, I imagine they'll complain about it on Twitter rather than trying to make a federal case out of it.
Show HN: Cloud Video APIs and Player SDKs
It also actively prevents heat from transferring into the sand, and stores far less heat than the sand itself. If you really want mass heated to 600C to be stretched as long as possible, you need as little air in the mass as possible. That's why in residential mass storage, the preference goes in order of:

- rock / gravel mix (lowest preference unless portability is a requirement)

- clay / cob mix (super fine particles, little to no air)

- water

where water is held separately from the heat source and some form of heat exchanger is used. Aside from the mess caused by leaks, accidental pressurization turns water thermal mass storage into a bit of a bomb (much like a vastly oversized pressure cooker) so it's really only used in outdoor wood-fired boilers. Also, the temp is usually capped at 180F, so nowhere near what these guys are getting.
You need to do it in a way that does not make the remaining core hugely dysfunctional. And it would be miracle if Musk could.

And trolling does not help either. The sink thing was trolling and between that and layouts, the remaining people will be dysfunctional for quite a long time.
We can go pretty deep in the weeds in a thread that is AFAIK flagged and dead.

> Saying Singal "obviously" operates in good faith is an exaggeration.

From what I've heard and read of Jesse's, he seems to take great pains to be honest and fair. He seems to me to obviously be operating in good faith. Or as I would expect a curious, thoughtful journalist to act. But, yes, you and others may come to other conclusions.

And, unfortunately, my experiences re: Hobbes's journalism have not been as glowing. They've frankly been disappointing. Hobbes seems to lack the very compassion and empathy Singal seems to obviously have. Hobbes tends to paint what seem to me to be good-faith disagreements as grand moral violations.

But I may need to see more and maybe I'm mistaken?

> Singal likes to move the goalposts and accuse people of being "irresponsible" for making straightforwardly true claims

I think you need to be more specific re: this claim. Unsurprisingly, a link to all the subtweets someone has made about Jesse Singal isn't very helpful.
So nothing; nothing actually happened, and so now we must invent moral outrage to sustain the hate cycle.

Aren’t you exhausted by all of this? Why continue to participate in the flywheel when you can otherwise simply reap the myriad benefits that come with a more connected society?

It just seems like some folks prefer constantly being upset…
They can call it inflation, but it is not.
Right, but that's my point. I deleted the terms (contract). So what contract applies? There was clearly no meeting of minds on this. So, for example, I would speculate that I could not have been bound to arbitration in the event of a dispute. Usually the Ts&Cs also contain verbiage about how and when amendments to the terms must be accepted, hence I wonder if subsequent changes would automatically be binding without further notice (over simplified, but you know what I mean) in the way that they normally are.

I don't think it's as clear-cut as all that, though in practice I wouldn't much want to trust my weight to that rather flimsy hypothesis. I'd love to hear a real legal opinion on this though, just for shits & giggles.
It is really human to over value intentions at the cost of the outcome. Even our legal system does this to a pretty large extent. However when looking and trying to grasp the amazing amount of share stupidity the rich folks do, we have to ask: „how does this much stupidity yield so high rewards?“

IMO it is way more damning to us as a society that people can be this stupid and still become so insanely rich, then if someone had an evil masterplan to manipulate others into making them more and more.

But at the end of the day, this concern is dwarfed by the fact that in either case we let them get away with it and ultimately reward them with insane wealth. This is the true damning of our society that these people are given all this wealth and power in the first place, and after the fact, honestly they can do whatever they like. And what they do isn’t pretty at all.