skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s full email that Twitter has sent to its employees:

Team,

In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday. We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward.

Given the nature of our distributed workforce and our desire to inform impacted individuals as quickly as possible, communications for this process will take place via email. By 9AM PST on Friday Nov. 4th, everyone will receive an individual email with the subject line: Your Role at Twitter. Please check your email, including your spam folder.

If your employment is not impacted, you will receive a notification via your Twitter email.

If your employment is impacted, you will receive a notification with next steps via your personal email.

If you do not receive an email from twitter-hr@ by 5PM PST on Friday Nov. 4th, please email xxxxxxxx.

To help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended. If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home.

We acknowledge this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through, whether or not you are impacted. Thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.

We are grateful for your contributions to Twitter and for your patience as we move through this process.

Thank you.

Twitter
6 months ago I would have agreed but it seems like the landscape has changed radically since then.
Not sure. I think we should increase the sample size to include Boring Company and Hyperloop.
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It was a rumor. I think it didn't happen because of the WARN act. Even if happened before Nov 1 he would still need to pay the vest.
I think this might actually help, thanks!

Maybe my problem was that when I write `(< a b)` I unconsciously read `< a`, which is where the confusion begins when I don’t explicitly think about the order. But the skiing guy helps to make it clear und easy to imagine what is going on (especially when I keep in mind that the operator is variadic in Clojure) and hopefully this will replace my “autocomplete error” in the long run.
> "Used today in production" does not mean that it's not dead.

I guess you need to define "dead".

I have to agree with others here that Lisp is not dead for the simple reason that Emacs is not dead. Emacs has a thriving community of developers who code and use Lisp almost everyday to solve problems.

Org-mode alone has a large number of users from all walks of life, from writers to event organizers and Lisp code is written for Org-mode everyday.

There are high-profile well known companies that use Clojure for processing high volume of transactions. They are in all probability writing Clojure code everyday that is going to production everyday.

What exactly is your definition of "dead"?

P.S. You have also completely misrepresented my earlier comment in your comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464215 so I am not entirely sure if you are arguing here in good faith or if you have an axe to grind.
No. "Maximum income" is different from "maximum income per hour".

One implies income at the cost of free time. The other maximizes free time spent while having sufficient money.
By paying them for the 60 days notice period from the day you notify them, that's how.
Just write. You are young and it will help you self reflect. I wish I wrote down why BlackBerry would be better than Apple.
1998: "On August 4th the University's JANET connection was upgraded to a 34 Mbps ATM link."

- or, in modern terms, a domestic ADSL line.
Product owners and legal departments are not accountable for unethical features or behaviors is a big point.
What content are we viewing? If a movie, I can't tell the difference between 4k and a higher resolution. If I'm looking at a desktop UI, I can easily tell the difference.

I think around 27"/8k (326 ppi) is where I really couldn't tell. 4k laptops are already at this density.
Such legislative knee-jerkery is counterproductive and unnecessary.

Whether having the heat rejecting coils indoors or outdoors is most energy efficient depends on the local climate. It is a very straightforward calculation based on building heating and cooling requirements over a given year and doing such calculation (really more of consulting a table of pre-crunched numbers) is SOP in commercial refrigeration.

I assure you nobody with a commercial refrigeration need is pissing away thousands of dollars a year in energy by choosing the non-optimal equipment for their situation. Basically there is already a big "tax" on "doing it wrong".
You don’t have to settle for this shit.

The unemployment rate is still very low and we are going into a demographic crunch where all the boomers are leaving the workforce.

You sound like you don’t have a better idea or calling. Does nothing interest you?

Go build new skills, find a side project in the direction of your higher goal and work on that.

I went years being underutilized. Then I learned to get a life and create some side activities to channel my creative energy. I run two newsletters, an annual summit and a YouTube channel. I use those to constantly meet people and keep learning.

Participate.

Why stop interviewing? These people (your job) don’t give a crap about you. This is just the floor. Your basic needs are met. Now find a company that meets the rest of your needs.

I quit my underutilized boring tech job to do a startup. I work all the god damned time and have several jobs.

I would not go back.

All we have in life is time. After four years of bad managers and bad environments I just no longer cared. I ripped the bandaid off.
Correct, to drive the train you’d need to have an engineer qualified on the railroad.
Class action suit filed https://twitter.com/lmanul/status/1588440640534167552
I guess it could always be on by default, but the browser can offer a privacy-focused user experience. For example, the first time a website asks for these hints the browser could prompt the user to give permission to share that information. Similar to iOS privacy information pills
And unfortunely with the same amount of commercial support as Lisp languages.
Grammarly is a big one I think.
But this is not a burger joint where you have to scale your number of employees as your number of customers increases.
Man that's fucking tedious. Thing I like about in-person meetings, which is the only way I've ever ended up in a relationship with someone, is that I don't have to be a fucking salesman and can just be me.
I loved this article. Sometimes we assume that as the price of copper and cobalt rise, that more supplies will come online and help drive down the cost. That is certainly true in the long run, but there are serious challenges in the short run due to the interplay of politics, governance, mining, infrastructure, and logistics.
The funny thing, it's a +5000 persons company. If this Software Developer is instrumental for the company, you'd think he'd be worth $40/employee. So there are developers, just companies not willing to pay them enough (even though we established that it's not really that high).

I was mentioning small companies in my previous post (think 4-6 devs and maybe a dozen other employees). $100k/yerar can sometimes make it or break it. Tech developers remain inaccessible for these companies making them disadvantaged in this market.

This might explain the crazy seed rounds the eco-system has been going through in the last few years. $3 million seems be the bare minimum for any startup looking to do something technical now.
By the way, if liquid slugging is caught before the motor burns out (some motors have an overload disconnect), then you can normally switch around the start capacitor onto the run wiring and vice versa to run the motor backwards. Running it backwards for a second can release the liquid and 'fix' the fridge.
I have a love/hate relationship with it.

Every couple of years, I spend a month or two writing almost exclusively in TCL for personal projects.

Its the same with Perl. And expect scripts...
"less civilized countries" the arrogance, and you are the one asking for empathy?
I am assuming this is a hint at how large the layoff will be. If are getting rid of 5-10% of your workforce, no issue with using the office but if you are axing some number greater...lets say 25%, it sounds like a security nightmare.
Because despite you thinking they are horrific companies many other people don't.

Billions of people love and use Meta products every day and their tech stack is one of the world's best with technical challenges almost no other company faces.

Palantir also has many parts of their business that benefit society e.g. combating human trafficking etc.
> if this is for privacy reasons, but you can circumvent it by requesting client hints, then won't that end up an always-on default anyway that nobody benefits from in practice?

The goal is to switch from sending high-entropy information by default to sending it only when explicitly requested by a site. This has several advantages as you try to reduce fingerprinting, but the big one is that it's visible which sites are using which information. Today any server could be using any part of the UA.
General Mills, Audi pause Twitter ads, will evaluate site
Twitter was a mixed bag, but it was genuinely useful for news, niche interests, and helping under served issues and communities get more prominence. It's where the kind of open source intelligence that helped to expose Russia trying to cover up its role in the MH17 shoot down emerged, coalesced, and achieved prominence, as one example.

I worry much of that will be lost without having a natural new home with the same reach and impact.

Musk might be good at building and running engineering companies, but Twitter is not that. The social aspect is far more important than the underlying technology, and Musk and his advisors are terrible at that. I don't see any way out of this that leaves Twitter better.
Well, I don't think it's a DCMA issue, but it does very much depend on the licence you have chosen. That's what the licence is for, to allow people to use the code that you have copyright of, and to define what they are / are not allowed to do with it.
Yes this is what I meant.

10 years ago I bought an expensive tumble drier with a heap pump in order to be nice to the environment. After a few years there was an issue with it and I called a repairman. He vented the refrigerant and refilled it as part of his repair.

My calculation said it was an equivalent emission of about 1300kg CO2. Environmental impact immediately went negative.

This will be an issue when everyone is heating their house with heat pumps. They are amazing, but you have to follow the rules when repairing and scrapping them.
Normally I skim these write-ups and then move on, but something about this time finds me exhausted. Enough already. I was a huge proponent of XML and back in the day I would also evangelize its capabilities, its malleability. "What a great language for defining data structures that isn't tied to any physical storage requirements." Regex and enum restrictions on attribute values? Okay cool. Substitution groups? Woah. But then y'all started saying "I can't read this" and "angle brackets are too expensive" and suddenly the XML wave just receded back into automotive and logistics, and the world stopped complaining.

I think it is time to accept that the world doesn't need Lisp. It might be your passion. It might just click with your way of thinking. That's all great, but it is still an existential crisis and you need to deal with it. The world is humming along just as well without esperanto and if it completely disappeared from monthly meetups, the world wouldn't notice.

Trust me, I have been to the brink of destruction and waking up the next day is hard, but I have lived it and I know: it is possible to leave behind those things that you think define your being, your identity. You will not fade away completely. Instead, you will find that your existence can have meaning in other forms.

Oh I see you brought a chess board to a basketball game. Okay cool, but just set that down and let's see if we can still have fun with this other game.
>But we German’s have no sense of humor so I’ve heard.

That's how Germans are perceived but having met Germans I know that's totally not the case.
Actually not. A lot of people have a freezer, but one set to "fridge mode" (temperature greater 0 degrees celsius)? I have a chest fridge that I use like this, but I searched a while to find one which has a thermostat supporting temperatures above 0 degrees celsius. Most of them only support freezing, and you have to construct some custom temperature-controlled power on/off mechanism (I actually did that with my old device which could only freeze) to use it as a fridge.
Either you or I, and I suspect you, have misunderstood the film's intention if you think that we the viewer are meant to agree with any of the options used by Clooney's character's company, that they were the humane option.

Humane would be telling the person who works for you that you can no longer employ them, not hiring some stranger to come and tell them.
There was an article posed on HN not long ago (I am unable to find the link), where some business tried to sue Paypal for stealing them money (yes literally) and Paypal were giving them the run around claiming that this or that jurisdiction had no authority to sue them, maybe somebody can find the link, basically paypal claimed they couldn't be sued in any country.

In the EU paypal is deemed a bank I believe thus must abide by the same rules as regular ones. That's not the case in US.
I think it was a rhetorical question of sorts.
In the US (EnergyGuide) and Canada (EnerGuide) refrigerators are rated for expected energy consumption by the federal government. I've recently gone down the rabbit hole of new fridges (and am about to do so again) so this is all pretty fresh in my mind. In my case I was shopping for a fridge/freezer with about 19 cubic feet (or around 0.56 cubic meters) capacity – a rather average size, if a bit towards the small size in North America. The failed LG was rated at 387 kWh/year and its non-LG replacement was rated at 374–420 (depending on the specific build revision). So yeah about 10x tracks.

At its core a refrigerator is a big insulated box with a heat pump and a heater. Manufacturers have optimized the living daylights out of these things. Big manufacturers (LG, Whirlpool, GE) have tried at various points to roll out more and more efficient compressors going back to the 80s. And they've all had a horrible time of it. There's not as much room for optimization with the heater, but most manufacturers have moved towards electronically controlled heaters that can run on demand instead of on a timer – works well until a thermistor fails. Samsung also tried to "optimize" the defrost heater by shrinking it (my impression is LG is that just as guilty of this) and you'll find plenty of complaints about problems with the evaporators icing up.

Anyhow, out here, at least, smaller fridge/freezers including chest freezers are so-called manual defrost units and do not have a power hungry heater. If I had to guess I'd say the big difference consumption is due more towards running a giant heater in the back (a.k.a. auto defrost) than the overall size.
That's even worse then - at least if the owner of a chest freezer forgets about something at the bottom layer, it's not going to become hazardous. With a fridge on the other hand, most things have a very finite lifespan before they become mouldy etc.
The compactness is more to be expected in mid- to large-size software. Where one uses macros to develop internal domain specific languages, etc. Long ago I was at a talk where a project manager reported that their slightly over 100 people Lisp team could compete with a roughly 1000 people C++ team, both developing a similar product (an enterprise network switch).
Bambi has a very distinctive look. If you put a dozen tiny deer pendants in front of me I could pick out which ones were Disney's Bambi and which weren't.
> How come he's been in charge at reddit all these years and never looked at it through the lens of "consent"?

That would be two years (2012-14).
One downside to storing these images on the (FAT) EFI System Partition is it is not possible to make it part of a software RAID device, so if the device the ESP is on dies suddenly, the boot fails AND it can take quite some time and effort to recover even if you're technically familiar with the boot process since there are no standardised procedures for duplicating the ESP or its content.

A second issue is that since FAT doesn't have permissions any user ID on the system can potentially mount, read, and possibly write to the ESP.

A separate (possibly encrypted) /boot/ file-system can be hosted on a RAID device or even loaded over the network.

With a 'regular' boot process (UEFI > ESP boot-loader core > LUKS unlock > /boot/ boot-loader 2nd stage > /boot/ kernel+initrd > root-fs) the only thing lost is the boot-loader core, which can quickly be switched for a USB boot, set options appropriately to find and use /boot/, and for the boot process to use alternate RAID device(s) and continue with a degraded boot.

On UEFI most distros now do not use os-prober to populate GRUB's own menu with other bootable OSes (GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=yes) since it expects those OSes to have added themselves to the UEFI boot menu.

As for replacing the default boot entry, this is caused by efibootmgr not GRUB. GRUB calls efibootmgr with "--create|-c" which adds a new BOOTNUM and puts it at the head of the list.

GRUB could be taught a new option that then does several efibootmgr operations: parsing text output of "efibootmgr" to get current boot order, --delete-bootorder then --bootorder A,B,C,OS to ensure OS is added last.

That is obviously fragile so best approach would be to teach efibootmgr a new option --create-append|-C that adds the new entry to the end of BootOrder and then simply teach GRUB a new variable GRUB_UEFI_BOOTORDER_FIRST=yes|no to use efibootmgr --create-append.
As a european though, it is absolutely crazy to see you can do this on a day by day basis.
Here you would have at least 1 month, more likely 3 month, prior notice to just being kicked out and having your accounts closed. You would also have to state a business reason for people who are employed as fixed staff.
This gives people time to react to these kinds of things.

Edit: Sorry, this refers to a comment further below:
Also, comparing this to the pandemic is kinda crazy, isn't it?
It's one thing to have a global scale event effecting the lives of billions and another of just buying a company for way tooo much because you wanted to make a dumb joke about smoking weed.

America truely is a heartless, dystopian society...
> But nobody would objectively claim that Cobold is not dead

As long as production legacy systems exist in Cobol which people actively maintain, you can't objectively say it's dead. You are either confused about what 'objectively' means, or what 'dead' means

That said, Cobol is not alive in the same sense that Lisp is alive. There are certainly new interesting Lisp projects being developed today :)
Whether they were populated or not before Europeans arrived is irrelevant in this case and in general.

Every place on Earth was not populated. At one point they became populated, people made their homes there, different entities emerged. That's what happened there as well.
Here I was thinking Dwight Garfield.
> Total liabilities: $8 billion, of which $7.4 billion is “loans,”

$7.4 billion's worth of fools. What a large market!
I agree with the humidity argument, although even if you 10x the energy loss opening the fridge is still relatively small contribution to total energy use unless you open your fridge tens of times per day. It's nowhere close to what the article claims.

The defrost thing I guess depends on the fridge. Mine has two coils and the one in the 5 C non-freezer section generally stays above the freezing point when the compressor is not running. It does does not have a resistive heater.
Sure, my point was that "past behavior" barely matters. Compensation, social status and work expectation is what makes people go for or avoid companies. If Google didn't pay as much, fewer people would bother jumping through hoops. If Apple had an oil-industry level social status, Californians would think twice about working there (or they'd get a cover job to use when talking to neighbors and friends).

How they fire people means very little, because very few people in tech think of themselves as the ones being fired in the near future (most likely also why few people in tech are into unions, they don't feel as replaceable as factory workers).
Think about this the next time you read a New York Times article on some other bad industry: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
tl;dr The parenthesized NPN (aka s-expressions) turns novices off to
Lisp but in fact facilitates side-effect-free, syntax-free versatility.
The long-winded code snippets author uses are terrible.
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Sure. I haven't seen the actual legal complaint, so I don't know if it's just a publicity stunt, or if they actually have evidence that Musk is planning to not pay out the extra wages that he's (presumably) required to.
When I got started with the web 15 years ago, it was advised everywhere not to rely on user agent strings and rely on feature detection instead, and that using the user agent string should be a last resort solution.

Today, we are still seeing issues "solved" by switching one's user agents. And here we are reading Akamai whining about user agents getting unreliable. And we are talking unreliable at the minor version and specific platform version level.

It's not like we weren't warned ahead of time.

I'm sure problems will be sorted by proper http headers, data in handshakes or other things. And they should. Nobody should have to read user agent strings to optimize things, because things should also be optimized for a new, unknown user agent that would support these optimizations.
But in here, the company has deep debt only because of overpriced leveraged buyout. And the layoff have popcorn qualities because they are rage driven. The debt twitter had originally was much smaller. The scale of layoff that had to happen would be much smaller. It is also fair to guess they would be deal with more tact and more fairness then done now (no I dont believe Musk team is able to actually tell bad and good performers apart).

Twitter has some profits last year first time. I am not saying it was perfect company. But the deep deep financial trouble it is in now is because of leveraged buyout motivated by politics (stick it to ennemies) and ego.
I have a large American-style fridge/freezer. I measured the power consumption, and it came out as an average of 70W, or 1.68kWh/day. For the size of fridge, this isn't bad. However, I was slightly surprised to see that this was more than our use of electricity for all cooking activities - that is, oven, kettle, microwave, slow cooker, toaster. I have a gas hob - if this were not the case, I suppose it would be the other way around.

But still, that one fridge was a very significant portion of the total house electricity use.