skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking for homeopathy on their websites. If they did any extra certification or such I decline as non credible. Happy to accept any consultation that ends with "let's wait, nothing we can do right now" versus prescribing me something cool sounding but ultimately 100% sugar.
They're not 'forcing' you to do anything, they're offering to pay you to do it.

Unless you think every time I buy some bread from my baker I'm stealing it from him?
That's Ok. I wouldn't mind viewing a catalogue in a lo-fi read-only browser, then sending my order by e-mail using a dedicated e-mail client app.
Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs are starting
"Flat earther" is an accurate representation of their beliefs; it doesn't say whether those beliefs reflect reality or not. "Sex realist", however, implies that this Colin person's beliefs correspond to reality, while his opponent's beliefs do not. Imagine if flat earthers started going around calling themselves "geological realists" -- anyone who then used that term would pretty clearly identify themselves as aligned with them.

Everyone on both sides of this debate would claim to be a "sex realist". I'm not at all familiar with Colin's views, but "trans denier" or "biological determinist" might be more neutral terms.
I assume that he measured the power consumption himself. You can find a lot of cheap devices that you can plug between your wall socket and the device. They are not usable for measurement at low power. If you try to measure something in the 0 - 1 W range, most just show 0, others even show something like 30 W.
Hence the solution of relying on matchmakers in one’s network, such as parents, friends, cousins, aunts/uncles, grandparents, colleague, etc.

They will somewhat know the dating candidate, and they will have skin in the game via their reputation to present somewhat viable options so it is not as high of a chance of rejection.

However, this depends on having access to vast (good) networks, either directly or indirectly.
What significantly else? These seems to be many reasons why people dont use Lisp.
Yeah, I think they only have banking licence in Lithuania, so EU only.
What a contrast in leadership when you compare the way Twitter is doing this (rumor is right before bonus/stock vesting and cold impersonal email) and how Stripe is conducting their layoffs (empathy, 14 weeks severance, bonus payouts, etc.)

Which company is going to have an easier time hiring after the dust settles and they have a growth stage again?
> Not really, distributions do not check every piece of code that is packaged and distributed.

Check out the processes involved in getting software accepted by a distribution:

https://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/fixing-a-bug.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

It looks a lot like they are auditing what gets included very tightly. On the other hand, Flathub is all about convenience, and while I get where they're coming from, they've already shot themselves in the foot when it comes to credibility by allowing third parties to package binaries. If the sandboxes that flatpaks run in were really impenetrable, that'd matter much less, but they're not.
It’s a silly law.

They won’t do share buybacks and then distribute earnings via distributions or some other mechanism.

It’s really odd law I’m guessing is just a populist move to get votes.

There is nothing that makes stock buy backs any worse than other methods of distributing earnings. They could just pay out dividends directly instead.

I have no idea what the intent of the law is other than “someone doesn’t like stock buy backs”.
“What’s the ROI on ethics and accountability?” might be a question to ask former Enron shareholders.
Didn’t he take out $13billion in debt?
Why would anyone subject themselves to such humiliation? (Well, a fat paycheck is probably an answer). It feels more like a weeding-out process, if I were a giant jerkoff billionaire, I would know anyone who submits to this bullshit will submit to further humiliation...
Check out the Q&A section on that site:

Q2: It's impossible to go to the other end of the galaxy, live there for a few days, and come back in 10 days, even at the speed of light. How do you explain your trip?

A: Michel told me that his journey was made using what he called "trans-substantiation". The main part of the galactic journey does not take place in space-time, but outside it.

You can only leave space-time (or return to it) at a sufficient distance from the nearest star, otherwise you will explode.
If you know it's controversial, we now know "not one that would generally be considered offensive for others to mention" was, at best, being disingenuous. Is there anything else?
I don't see the purpose of this condescending comment, you could have explained why and provide knowledge for the person posting the initial statement.
whichever pays more
> you can release a year's worth of global warming in about 20 seconds

What does this mean? I know you’re not saying that it leaks that much refrigerant over a year normally.
There was somethink like that, Geek Code:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code
Not sure how lean do they run their stuff - I'd assume at least lean-ish, considering they have (had?) a lot of good engineering talent working on it. Asking for a large reduction while at the same time culling staff seems like wishful thinking.
Spacex also makes less revenue than Twitter with their higher headcount.
I honestly hope this forces twitter to crash and burn. I feel sorry for those who would lose their jobs. That said, twitter is utter garbage and is nothing but a place for people to complain
> There is this list https://common-lisp.net/lisp-companies

If you have so few that you can maintain a list, it kinda proves OP's point.

Also as an addendum to his point, what about projects being written in the last decade or two?

Emacs is cool, but it was created in 1976...
> half the size

This made me think. I would kind of expect the energy consumption of a fridge to be related to the surface area of the cooled volume rather than the volume itself. It's not necessary to spend any energy cooling air that is already surrounded by equally cold air.

Assuming all fridges are cubes, doubling the volume of the fridge will increase the surface area by a factor of 2^{2/3} = 59%. This will also be true if the fridge has any rectangular dimensions and you double the volume by scaling it up evenly in all three dimensions.

Things are more complicated if you scale the dimensions of the fridge unevenly.
I had a testicular torsion. There was a bleed after the surgery, and I had a haematoma there for months that made the region incredibly painful during that whole time, I could not walk properly etc. The torsion itself wasn't a picnic either.

This was a while ago now, and it's interesting to see what sticks in my mind. In fact the part that was most traumatic in hindsight was getting a catheter inserted after the surgery. This was by any metric not the most painful part of what I experienced, but the context under which I had it done - scared that something was broken, alone, highly fearful - led to me being in a flat panic, very stressed, and this caused that experience in particular to encode as traumatic. I worry about how I will cope the next time I need one, it seems an inevitability one day.

One thing I try and practice is the Buddhist teaching: suffering does not come from pain, but from attachment to it. My personal experience seems to reinforce that.

You can uncross your legs now, sorry.
Have you decided upon a minimum entropy level for the low digit tokens that prevents brute force attacks being feasible? I think easy to type in is something you can do with longer tokens, so long as it's readable as a sentence. "1676226" is harder to type in than "TotallyAgreeableCatPants" for example.
If you buy a new one, how long will it last?
What?

If anything, this is more akin to the baker calling their employees to say "you'll be baking from home today, I'm firing a lot of people today and need to protect the bakery."
Including in KDP. There's a tickbox for whether you want DRM or not. Personally I'd never add DRM to mine because it's so trivial to strip anyway and just an inconvenience.
No, I was talking about how western powers exploited and exacerbated the controversy and pain in those countries... and by western powers I am talking about the CIA mainly... [The state department]

Source, multiple family members in the state department in the past....

for reference from head of the state department at the time:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/19/flashback...

Get it?
French here, many supermarkets have vertical, doorless fridges. So if they are banned, either these supermarkets are breaking the law, or it is not yet effective.

I am talking about fridges for milk, cheese, etc... that are round 5C. I don't remember seeing vertical, doorless sub-zero freezers. In fact nowadays, even the horizontal freezers usually have doors.
This is normal for almost all (all?) large corps; they don't have to tell you why the account was terminated/blocked so it could be anything; something you said online (about them / founders etc), something you paid they don't agree with, just ROI vs TCO for your spending habits etc etc. They don't have to tell you and 'suspicious activities' is an easy one: adsense/adwords uses it as well. They use 'if we would tell you what it is exactly and how we measure it, it will allow evil actors to use that against us'.
I had an old fridge, I thought I'd keep it in the garage and keep some beer in it for when people came over. Finally got rid of it recently - going by my electricity bill it was costing me nearly a $100 a quarter to keep a carton of beer cold :-D.
good point goodpoint
Very interesting post! Do you have any sources what is the true packet loss % on different real world Internet connections?
What irritates me (also friends) is relatives opening it and standing their thinking about the food, keeping it open for a minute or more without actual activity.

I wonder if transparent door would be a gain here, with worse thermal insulation but allowing to locate things and contemplate before opening the door and allowing the cold to escape to the floor.
Yeah, but lots of the debt is actually on company's books - as is the case with LBOs. This is yet another case of barbarians at the gate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate) - corporate raider running a company into the ground.
Western Europeans are rapidly gaining on Americans but it's funny to see how much in denial they are about it even though it's impossible to miss when leaving the house.
I've only ever had standup fridges, but long ago I had a free-standing one, whereas the past decades it's been integrated fridges, and I notice those integrated fridges are just terrible; way more ice accumulation in the freezer section, and the fridge running more and more loudly. And this is a top brand, A+ energy rated fridge. I suspect that because of the way they're integrated into the kitchen, they have a much harder time getting rid of their heat. And maybe the door doesn't close quite as reliably?

I suspect the big problem with chest freezers/fridges for most homes is their shape. People want a flat counter on everything that they can leave stuff on, while still being able to access the fridge, so a fridge opening from the top isn't going to fit anywhere. But I've been thinking: how about a chest fridge that slides out? That way it can disappear underneath cupboards or counters, while you can still access them without having to clean up your counter top.
I typically store it in the DB along with the image ID (or URL). It's being displayed even before network request to the actual image has started. Works like a charm on slow networks.
we'll find out soon if Twitter really need 7500 employees. (IMO, i just don't see how and why you needs that many people to run Twitter)
And who enforces that?
The Eureka moment for me was when I realized that I can express LET in terms of LAMBDA. And why stop there? I can express DEFUN in terms of LAMBDA too. All of the code is just LAMBDAs and LAMBDAs. That's when it really clicked for me!
IMHO the Lisp community is a bit more closed than those of other programming languages. They have their own pages and blogs presenting projects. Anyway, for commercial, proprietary usage, there is the following list of companies:

https://common-lisp.net/lisp-companies

There is also a list of projects:

https://common-lisp.net/phub

But I doubt this is very up-to-date.
im confused, homeopathy has been shown to be hocus pocus has it not?
Why do you think it's bullshit and why do you think it's humiliation?

Aren't all employees, in all companies on this planet, submitting to some form of dominance in exchange for money?
The 1906A at Oxford in the early 1970s was one of the first computers I used, I was 16 or 17 years old and at school in Oxford. I'm sure this was partly responsible for my subsequent computing career.
Ooooh, I see. TIL, thanks!

So, what kinds of things would actually go wrong? "Bits of proprietary software yelling at each other in non-standard-ese"? Crazy scripting fixing frequent human mistakes? Or...?

I'm very fascinated with this sort of thing given it's treated like such an impermeable brick wall.
Just for fun, a Hanko is the name of the stamp that Japanese citizens used to authorize documents and prove their identity on documents. Cool project name and cool logo!
What do people on HN use for Authentication?

I've gotten quite used to Firebase + Firebase authentication for some side-projects. Now I'm interested in some other cloud hosting providers (Supabase + Render) and one of the key things making me want to keep using Firebase is that I'd have to learn a new auth system.
How to these tools compare to something like Gephi?
The sound of 1000 leetcode warriors printing out 2 pages of tumbleweed, sobbing over their multifunction copiers, then rushing home to record a YT video of why they left their faang dream job
Feel for the workers being laid off and those that remain. I've been in teams that got decimated and the aftermath is rough. Although it's just a job, you can't help forming a bond with those that you work together with.

Hope that those looking for new challenge find it and those that remain can grow into new things without doing the work of 3 people.
Currently JIT in wasm is incomplete. That is a wasm program cannot modify itself (it would need to create new modules and ask the host to load them with a shared memory)

So compiling JS to wasm would probably be limited to the performance of interpreting JS on native
"Angry people brandish their fists against the incoming revolution" is also a good title.
Nah, people do remember what companies do and many avoid shitty companies. I work in HR, and on macro scale this is clearly visible. Some of our clients have a hard time filling roles despite paying competitively or even generously. Sure, for some people thats not an issue, but it is a thing, and it gets more visible with engineering roles, for some reason.
Those Smalltalk and Lisp programmers are again at tweaking their running instances in production.

Couldn't they just let it crash and relaunch a new ship as is the best practice these days?
Maxima, the CAS system
I seriously doubt Twitter will have a growth stage again
People might choose based on their preferences:

You want stability? Join stripe

You want to be sharp? Join Twitter
> From a cynical business POV it's in a dating app's best interest to not let you find a relationship and keep you spending money/watching ads.

https://teddit.net/r/LokiList/comments/s0a0w6/why_i_made_lok...
It seems more like a modified version of jpg compression which also uses DCT.

Why not just downsample the original image to 10x10 jpg and encode it as base64 so it can be directly used in an <img> without blocking your main JS thread to decode the image? Apply css blur if you like the soft gradient effect.
Falklands is a clear example of the entire population wanting to keep the status quo[0], there's no movement to change that on the island - no groups campaigning for it etc. There's no "both sides" to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereig...

Gibraltar was the same, but then brexit came, so not sure if that has swung opinion but I don't think. In 2002 87% of the total registered to vote voted to remain the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gibraltar_sovereignty_ref...

Catalonia probably wants independence (40% voted for it in 2017), and should have a decent referendum and debate with independence as an option, the travesty of the referendum just shows how undemocratic Spain is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Catalan_independence_refe...

New Caledonia on the other hand wants to retain the status quo, although not much. Maybe in 30 years time that will have changed, and there's certainly both valid sides of the conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_New_Caledonian_independen...
Not stable ones.
> What?

They aren't 'forcing' you to do something - they're offering you money in return for doing it. If you don't like the money they're offering you don't have to accept the deal.

"Really dystopian that they're offering me $300k a year + benefits to be able to ask me to work in one of two locations" doesn't really work does it?

"Really dystopian that I can walk up to a baker and force him to give me a loaf of bread by offering him the agreed price in money."
I might be a bit idealistic here but I like the notion of respect. Disabling badges, laptops and email addresses of your employees with no direct communication isn't very respectful in my book.

Regular companies do meetings, shady companies send a pre recorded video to their employees, and then you have Musk, just logging you off. I guess he missed the part were "transhumanism" still contains "humanism"
But presumably any escaping cold air is just cooling the store which would have been cooled anyways?
Folks from Stipe and other companies!
I know that layoffs are brutal. We are primarily at tech-winter.

At the same time, we, Wise (formerly TransferWise) - actively looking for engineers, product managers, and engineering managers, designers.
Many roles are open, and we are growing quite a lot!
We have a product our customers love, and we care about our employees a lot!
We are pretty good financially and have a clear vision of which one we are executing.
If you are interested - you can browse the list of open roles here: https://grnh.se/1f3d39a91us and apply for them.
You can write me directly, and I will try to answer anything as much as possible.
Don't take seriously any feedback you get from an interview. Unless you already trust someone involved in the process.
That just sounds like your product owners and legal department have outsourced one of their core competencies to another department, perhaps to reduce their own accountability.
Everywhere I worked access to systems was revoked before people received their termination communication from HR. This is standard practice in industry to prevent last minute IP theft, or destructive revenge actions at an emotional time.
I've never attempted to change the layout substantially except for using different document classes. I just hand off the manuscript at some point to professional editors and type setters at an academic publisher and they do their thing. It still beats everything else as an authoring tool and source for professionals to start working from.
Are there no laws about minimum notice or severance pay?

I’m glad Australia has decent laws to protect workers. It’ll be interesting to see if Australian Twitter staff who are locked out of their accounts have been laid off and what happens next.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/tools-and-resources/fact-sheets/...
funny, every time i see a pycon talk about metaprogramming, i can only think "nothing that CLOS couldn't do since forever" :)

as other said, python got a lot from lisp so of course it looks underwhelming

but the lisp history and culture is still worth a lot (and there's more to mainstream lisp than is usually shown, people did context oriented programming prototypes, aop, interface passing ideas. As always lisp evolves)
If the containers become old tech and docker poses itself as the new "wasm delivery and registry platform" it is a net win for them.

The only risk is if splitting the effort damages them in both fields...
I meant generally as in, most people, who don't take an active interest in this topic.

I know it's controversial to those who do. But I think that in itself is worth challenging.

I mean, in the comment at the top of this thread, we have someone who became extremely offended at even the mere mention of someone with an opposing viewpoint to their own. In an article that isn't even about that topic. Does that seem a reasonable reaction?
What are you talking about? The announcement says people should leave the offices. How is that dystopian?
Do you have any source for that or are you an armchair statistician ?
People also underestimate what it takes to keep advertisers happy. It might take a whole team just to manage one big account, and that account will cover the cost of the staff. With Elon threatening to fire half the company, it's no wonder brands are pulling out/pausing with no way to know who will be handling their accounts. A General Mills or Audi wants to keep working with the people it's come to trust over the years, not wonder if this new CEO is going to hand them off to some intern who just graduated with a major in advertising.
The FOS seems effective to consumers because it levies a £750 charge to the financial institution for each case it investigates. It is often cheaper to do whatever the customer wants, whether or not the complaint is justified.

The financial institutions at the receiving end of FOS decisions don't necessarily regard it as effective. Claims management companies, for instance, can flood banks with very many dubious claims, with the FOS as effectively the enforcer.
The movie In Bruges comes to mind, the scene at the tower between Colin Farrell and the American tourists.

(... also a bar in SF where I was on the smaller end of males with 1.9m and 102kg)
But even that approach does not work for very long. With regulators tightening the laws everywhere, and eying bans on fully automated decision making in some industries (e.g. mine - in HR), you either staff those internal ethics teams with intelligent, well connected lawyers, or you get truly nasty surprises and jeopardize the brand itself -- and lose $$$.
Hell I don't like what Elon does most of the times but you have to admit he did built successful companies from ground up in fields no one was even looking into.

Twitter might succeed or it might fail but Twitter in its current form both as a company and social media paltform was bad.
maybe we don't know yet. Musk might be able to pull a Dell with Twitter.

Dell went private loaded with debts then add more debts by buying EMC and now Dell is public again.
The venn diagram intersection between Nazis and TERFs is shockingly high. Just look at who is constantly pushing anti-Trans narratives - it's Evangelicals and the wider GQP. Only a very negligible part of the tankie Left is also pushing that kind of crap.
The important thing for Americans to understand is that Paypal is not a bank.

You can have an "account" and hold money in it and it may function similar to one, but it has none of the federally mandated legal protections of being a bank.

Some much more recent Fintech startups such as Chime are legally underpinned by something that is an FDIC regulated bank.
Imagine what the company would be "worth" if it did everything it does but with only three and a half employees. Company culture is a cost center.
Then github should make sure that people only upload stuff they are copyright owner of… which it has never done, warned about or tried to enforce.