skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> His team of outside advisors has spent the last week determining which engineers to keep based on their contributions to Twitter’s codebase, according to employees involved in the discussion [from the verge article]

That's a striking difference to the stripe layoffs discussed earlier today, and the experiences many others shared there.
I agree that Garmin watches are not good general purpose smart watches for most people, but their UX is actually perfect for their intended users. Once you develop the muscle memory, it's possible to perform many functions without being able to see the screen. This is necessary when it's cold and layers are covering the screen. I have cold weather running shirts which have sleeves that mostly cover your hands, and can press the buttons on my Fenix 6 easily through the fabric and do whatever I need to do without stopping to pull my sleeve up (which is awkward since those shirts have thumb holes).
Add some desks and computers, and you've got a mobile office.

Employees can hop in/out on stations to start/end their shifts.

/s
This is not nearly as clever a response as it sounds. It's moving the goalposts.

I don't produce anything where Linux's relationship to the application is as something that lives inside the build (unlike the types of third-party NPM dependencies we're talking about here) and I have a suspicion that there isn't any Linux inside the artifacts that your build step produces, either.

If that's not the case for you, then yeah, I'll bite the bullet. You absolutely can either: (a) include that source code in your repo or (b) stop building things like that. If you find that going with the former option isn't easy, then that's because it never was—whether you're checking in all the source code or not.
There’s actually a trick where you don’t have to use Godaddy. I don’t know why they don’t open this up to users who want it. All you have to do is find the DNS challenge in the query param that’s passed to Godaddy. After that there’s no real persistent connection. Have been using a custom domain on the family plan for over a year this way, with my domain on Namecheap.
yeah it's hard for me to wrap my head around this. I'm very well paid and have a lot of money in the bank but grew up poor so the moment i'm unemployed all i can think of is the wolves will be at the door any minute. A break or like the sabbaticals people take because of "burn out" seem like an unacceptable risk to livelihood. Again, i think it just comes from growing up poor but if i'm not working i get really really scared that i'm two steps away from living in a shelter no matter how much is in savings/investments.
> My main takeaway is that no one has been able define freedom successfully

“Freedom” is always “freedom to X”. The real debate is about the X, not how to define the word “freedom” itself, which is comparatively trivial, and doesn’t have much bearing on the X part.
Why were there still thousands of engineers working at Yahoo! years after they'd done anything even slightly interesting, at the moment they got bought by a fading regional telephone company?
Wow laying off a large chunk of an unprofitable company is lex luthor evil? Guess the bar for super villain has become substantially lower.
Dumb question - but for those that remain, now that they no longer have RSUs / ESPP / etc, would you expect their salaries to be made commensurate to what their comp was before? How is this usually handled for companies that go from public (and where a large part of comp is stock) to private?
I don't know the American market, but they are screaming for qualified developers in Europe and Asia where I work. I have been around long enough to know that if you are a good developer there will always be work for you. Especially if you are not super specialized and open to working with people.
Nevertheless it does add to all the hiring freezes and layoffs we are seeing from other large companies (including, as you mentioned, Stripe).
Is there an OSS implementation?
According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/2884200 map and dictionary are just terms for the same data structure concept. On the other hand: there exist other backings for this data structure than hashing the key, such as binary trees (for example red-black trees or AVL trees).
Honestly this comes across as a fairly disingenuous take from yishan given how moderation has actually played out on Reddit.

Reddit was able to scale by handing off moderation to the communities themselves and to the unpaid volunteers who wanted to moderate them. In general, I think it is obvious to any casual observer that those volunteers don't see moderation in the same way (or with the same goals) as the platform. For example, many (most?) moderators on Reddit absolutely do ban people not because they are starting flame wars or spamming but because said users aren't toeing the party line. A huge number of subreddits are created specifically for that purpose – "this community has X opinion about Y and if you don't like that you can GTFO".

However even if you ignore the unpaid volunteers moderating subreddits and focus only on the "Admins" that were specifically chosen by Reddit, you can see that the only priority was not increasing the signal-to-noise ratio, including during yishan's tenure. In most cases when a community is banned it is not because the signal-to-noise ratio is too high but because that community has received too much of the negative PR in the press that yishan referred to. Sure, the claim is still "we're trying to maintain the integrity of the platform as a whole and are banning communities for brigading, etc", but you can see based on which communities are banned that this is clearly not the whole story.
They have several for sale linked from the article page, for instance a 1989 diner car which I think would have everything you'd need for an office, add a bed, food, bathroom, nice big windows.
> and thereby appear to be passively endorsing the behavior).

This “passive endorsing” is a great social construct! It allows anybody to go after TMobile for passively endorsing all the lies I said to pretty women over the phone.
“In 2022, there were around 1.63 million software developers and software quality assurance (QA) workers employed in the United States.”.

I doubt its the tech layoffs that did it. Maybe the cost of leaving exploding led to less disposable income meaning less people willing to gamble. Also why risk your money when everything seems to be going under?
use grammerly
>Imagine owning a social network that is a first class citizen to a global satellite network

I guess the zeitgeist really did decide Net Neutrality is a bad thing. Like imagine a telecom owning a social network?

Ok I imagined it and I hate it.
> > Ubuntu is the developer distro after all

> I'd have assumed Arch and friends.

I'm a huge Arch (and NixOS) user. But one of the things that I think is difficult about Arch in an enterprise is that by design it is difficult to standardize enterprise tooling around. Ubuntu, on the other hand, has a bunch of defaults that can be more reliably be predicted for in an enterprise.

I'm a security engineer and I've thought long and hard about why enterprise applications often lack Linux support -- it would be difficult to have something that works across the board (there are so many choices of desktop environments, notification daemons, network subsystems, etc.). If I were to write enterprise applications that targeted Linux I would probably target the default config of the current LTS release of Ubuntu (Gnome as the desktop environment, etc.).

I feel like Ubuntu is the desktop developer environment for the enterprise that is forward enough to support desktop Linux.
You may be disappointed
Oh the collusion happened. Good thing we live in a country with a court system and laws on perjury and discovery et cetera. I cannot wait to testify under oath. This should be exciting!
Many big tech companies, especially in the social space, are extremely bloated. They could literally have 10x more employees and everyone would still find something meaningless to work on. On the other hand they could have had far fewer employees and the company would have delivered better results and built a better product. A lean, focused engineering culture will do wonders to a company like Twitter.
It's not a good look to wish for people to lose their jobs.
From https://railcardeals.com/

How Much Does a New Railcar Cost to Buy?
The cost of a train car varies depending on the type of car and its features.
For example, a passenger train car may cost more than a freight train car. The
cost also depends on the train car’s brand, model, and year. On average, a
train car costs between $100,000 and $200,000.

How Much Does it Cost to Buy an Old Railroad Car?
If you’re interested in purchasing an old rail car, there are a few things you
need to know. First, it’s essential to know how much money you’re willing to
spend. Rail cars can vary significantly in price, depending on their age,
condition, and amenities. For example, an older car might cost less than
$5,000, while a newer model with more features could cost upwards of $50,000.
Ok, you're subscriber number one then. Anyone else? I'm completely serious. Private Varnish (ie: private railcars) have always been something I love. It would be a hoot to live in one with my fam for a year (if I can convince them).
That’s the whole point, no one is supposed to control it. Ugh, I sound silly, but here’s the Batman quote:

Not the hero we want, but the hero we deserve.

Yes, reverse the bans and connect this shit to Starlink and tell governments “I got no clue where those damn satellites are, can’t help ya, Trump’s tweeting from somewhere in Somalia with a VPN”.
That would be insanely impressive
Wouldn't even need to pay me to do it. The only thing stopping me is a lack of a private train car and presumably the significant expense of running it :(
I think that lenses matter quite a bit. Not that you can't get great photos with a bad lens, but having a wide range of focal lengths and apertures to play around with opens up a lot of creative possibilities.

I would also say that the lenses on smartphones are still a big limitation - although becoming less so with every generation as manufactures continue to cram in larger aperture lenses, bigger sensors, and multiple cameras for wide-angle and telephoto shots. "Portrait mode" for simulating larger apertures also continues to improve with each generation to the point where I think it is now at least worth giving it a try, even if it doesn't always produce usable results.
Depends. Not everyone needs leet code programmers.
I don't think you should diminish the great work of Lex Luther by associating Musk with him. Musk is not a genius, he just got rich with first mover advantage in Online banking (paypal) and disrupting a lazy industry (Cars but electric!).

The real measure of Musk will be seeing how well this all goes. If he's really is smart, this may work. But by all accounts we're seeing what taking 44 billion dollars and setting it on fire looks like.
Anyone got real numbers for the debt?

Grade CCC bonds are well above 16% these days, and the amount of debt is $13 Billion. This very well could be $2 Billion/year interest payments.

I remember reading rumors of ~10% since the debt was signed in April 2020 and rumored to be 50% fixed and 50% adjustable. But I never actually found the real information or confirmation.

I think it's safe to say that the interest payment is somewhere between $1 and $2 billion, but there is also principal that needs to be paid back, right?

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That's not counting whatever debt Elon did to get his $33 Billion portion of the bill. I'm just looking at Twitters debt they now owe Morgan Stanley (and a few other banks) as part of the $13 Billion leveraged buyout portion of this company purchase.
It's twitter. The service suffering is actually a desirable feature.
Is it? In general at every place I've worked the vast majority of the work has come from launching & supporting new products. Existing infra does not really break that often, so if we just want Twitter as it is, that should be doable by 1/10th of the people. I'm not picking just on Twitter -- I feel this is the case broadly. Maintenance of a system that doesn't change is fairly straightforward as compared to innovation.
The thing is, if I host an instance, pay for the server, maintain it, I don't want my content to be found on some aggregated home page of all instances.

Same with Mastodon.

Then my options are docker or ansible?
Why yunohost if I want to build from source? What is that even?

Is there a demo? I can't find one.
Yes, in Elm or Lisp this would be problematic.

In this syntax though it isn't. Anything between brackets like this:

[foo bar baz]

that does not contain any nested brackets is a simple tree which contains "foo bar baz" as its sole value (called a suffix).

In this syntax whitespace is not a separator.

So you can store a single piece of text in such a simple tree.

Now if you want to have 3 pieces of text you do this:

[foo][bar][baz]

3 simple trees together -- they are subtrees of a top-level tree.

If you want to have 3 of these you do this:

[[foo][bar][baz]]
[[foo][bar][baz]]
[[foo][bar][baz]]

The linebreaks don't change the tree structure, they are inserted purely for readability.

There are no implicit commas or anything.

Each subtree is also potentially a name-value pair. If you insert names before the opening brackets:

[x [foo] y [bar] z [baz]]

You have 3 pairs.

The names themselves are also pieces of text (whitespace is not a separator), so you can have names like:

[my x [foo] your y [bar] their z [baz]]

Still 3 pairs.

Now to turn trees like this into something useful, for example XML/SVG, you'd do a little bit of processing on them, e.g. you could transform the names like so:

my x [foo] your y [bar] their z [baz]

into:

<myX>foo</myX><yourY>bar</yourY><theirZ>bar</theirZ>

in this manner you could transform:

svg [x=[0px] y=[0px] view box=[0 0 21 21] path [
fill=[#FFF] stroke=[#146AFF] stroke width=[2] d=[M11.1,1.4l2.4,...]
]]

into:

<svg x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 21 21"><path
fill="#FFF" stroke="#146AFF" strokeWidth="2" d="M11.1,1.4l2.4,..."
></path></svg>

Notice that here I used a convention where names which end with "=" become XML attributes, whereas names which don't become children.

I have used the same convention here (except I don't bother with transforming names with spaces into camelCase): https://github.com/jevko/specifications/blob/master/easyjevk... to generate this HTML file: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jevko/spec...

Now I intend to write specifications that codify conventions like this into different formats based on this fundamental syntax of square brackets.

It can be useful for all kinds of things. Its advantage is extreme simplicity and flexibility.

BTW, for clarity I have to say that the format that I used here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32995047 does a bit more transformations -- it actually sometimes treats whitespace as a separator (e.g. in `svg width[391]` space is a separator). That allows for extreme conciseness, but is not necessary and introduces complexity.
California law requires 60 days notice or 60 days pay, so I'd assume that's what they'll be getting.
I think correcting for lens distortion is the main thing that wasn't already mentioned in the article. Regular cameras can't do that, but the iPhone knows exactly what lens is being used and can take advantage of that.
Money. Cant have Azure without a lot of Linux
By played through, do you mean you got to the top corner of the universes? Did you get also all of the artifacts or complete all of the universes? (I’m not sure what counts as played through.) I did maybe a dozen universes and got a handful of artifacts before I bailed and deleted the game.
I've actually been looking into refurbishing a newer railcar and kitting it out much more like a home. There's a lot you can do and equipment like older Metra gallery cars along with more recent commuter cars are an excellent starting point.
>Today, we’re excited to announce we’ve started to roll out Communities on WhatsApp globally and this will be available to everyone over the next few months.

Does anyone else find these soft-launches irritating? Give us a date?
Exactly, I have on several occasions seen them stationed in Union Station in Chicago for as long as a week.
Just buy VOO
My other point of reference is rubygems, which is strictly worse and has lots of weird pollution issues.
I don't think this is really about the money at all. To me, it looks like this is about consent.
The Verge review of the Surface Pro 9 did mention that x86 software is not just laggy, but also crashes.

>My frustration with this computer wasn’t a workload thing. It didn’t start out fast and gradually slow down as I opened more things and started more processes. It was peppered with glitches and freezes from start to finish.

I’d have only Slack open, and switching between channels would still take almost three seconds (yes, I timed it on my phone). Spotify, also with nothing in the background, would take 11 seconds to open, then be frozen for another four seconds before I could finally press play. When I typed in Chrome, I often saw significant lag, which led to all kinds of typos (because my words weren’t coming out until well after I’d written them). I’d try to watch YouTube videos, and the video would freeze while the audio continued. I’d use the Surface Pen to annotate a PDF, and my strokes would either be frustratingly late or not show up at all. I’d try to open Lightroom, and it would freeze multiple times and then crash.

https://www.theverge.com/23421326/microsoft-surface-pro-9-ar...
Not to date myself too much but the course was taught in Eiffel :). On top of the theory, and on top of the practical details, there was also the fun of learning an obscure quirky programming language you were unlikely to ever use again.

I loved it all and had a great time. Lots of people really did not.

> So, if you forgot such a “detail”…

Sure, very true in the short term. Next semester though? That code doesn’t matter and most people don’t have flawless long term memory.
Didn't realize the Saudis were such big shareholders -- apparently now second only to Musk in total percentage of ownership https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/tech/murphy-saudi-musk-twitte...)
Valuations of these kinds of companies rarely make sense. I'm guessing most investors own iPhones.

Alphabet and Apple are companies of actually comparable size by revenue, number of employees, profitability, and diversification.

Meta is a small company compared to any of them, is not very diversified and constantly at risk of ending like many social network companies before it.

Amazon absolutely dwarfs all of them by revenue, number of employees, how successfully it diversified, and how fast these metrics are growing (roughly doubling every two years).

If you want to truly appreciate how much of a meme these valuations are, look at Tesla's valuation being ten times that of VW, yet being smaller by an order of magnitude. The market must be expecting this to reverse for the valuation to make any sense.
Future profits of a public company can't go to zero? Bankruptcy is a thing, after all.

How much are Pan Am, Enron, Lehman Brothers worth today?
But how many of these job openings are actually going to pan out? I've seen zombie job postings open for almost a year now.
I find these kind of comments fascinating, with the juxtaposition of the late 90s OS wars from the Linux side and the complete pivot to aaS and meet people where they are from Microsoft.

Be as watchful as you want, be aware that the enemy isn’t coming though.
If I worked at twitter I'd unionize with the remaining employees.
Not surprising, given it was a classic Elon lie that he admitted existed to serve a different agenda. Elon doesn't care about people, Elon cares about Elon.

https://twitter.com/alexdemling/status/1557221632837505025
This is weird, wouldn't this give those who think they are likely to be laid off time to to do damage, or plant a dead-employee switch? Obviously it's illegal but usually, don't companies announce layoffs only as soon as they've laid the people off and revoked their access?
Certain sugar substitutes are laxatives. I had some DELICIOUS sugar free gummy worms from a cracker barrel that gave me the worst shits for a few hours. I only ate like 10-15 of them.
Because Amazon was spending on R and D. AWS came as a result of that. Amazon's core business was known to overspend(still do) just for customer's satisfaction, and it was very clear Amazon could turn into profit any day they want. Same is not the case for Twitter.
Note that it says if you're let go, the email will come to your personal email. I assume because your access to corporate email will already be revoked.
move to a company which actually makes money, preferably doing something anti-cyclical. For example, whatever company conned Musk into thinking that they can assess the value of engineers immediately based on git contributions is probably going to have a great business, first going into companies and selling them the software that lets them do that. Then later when it turns out they fired the wrong people they can sell consultants to replace them. Then later when it turns out the consultants can't take over the systems well enough without the fired engineers they will be able to sell reduction services yet again.

It will take four years and several big bankruptcies before people catch on that they are being conned. By that time there will be other companies coming up that you can jump ship to.
The end user agreement also says you must have the authority to grant these epic rights to GitHub, i.e. you cannot upload someone else's code. They could probably absolve themselves from responsibility due to your having committed wire fraud in this case. But, alas, IANAL.
Calm down. Demand is super strong, even right now. It's almost impossible to get a decent software engineer who has a strong command of the English language and can articulate himself.

Most developers hitting the market with CVs are bootcamp generated and they don't have the slightest idea (and neither the interest) of what they are doing. They'll disappear as soon as the money does.

Unless you have a family and live in the Bay Area, you should always be able to move to a low cost of living and wait for the recession. It'd cost much less than $30k/year to spend a year in Kuala Lumpur with all your food delivered.
OK, so Microsoft copy pasted the Chromium codebase, made some minor changes, built it, then include that build with Windows.

How is that any better than the current situation? Its actually worse, since now that version will get old quite fast, unless Microsoft decides to also do forced updates like Google does.
'Hide' takes one click :)
> if we just want Twitter as it is

Musk explicitly doesn't want that though, because he needs Twitter to earn a lot more money than it currently does.