skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This sort of thing is used all of the time to get rid of executives… you park the guy in gardening leave, gagged for 6-24 months. When the person gets replaced permanently, nobody remembers the old guy. The only option is to quit, but that has consequences.

Laws around this aren’t written for professional/management employees. The rules are designed to protect tradespeople who get laid off every winter, etc.

Most of these employees don’t have contracts, so if you refuse to return or don’t like the terms, you’re resigning. And what’s happening inside of the company is that the political networks will be smashed and rebuilt. People will be sucking up to the new overlords to be made junior overlords. There’s no rules around rehire and the market is soft, so you’ll probably see the new power players bring back people loyal to them.

This is why I always eyeroll
at “10x” HN posters who think they can negotiate with big companies. When the chips are down, you’re a peon, and however smart you are, there’s another guy.
I am an honest person. I would not steal an unlocked bike with zero chance of getting caught. Does that make me irrational in your world?
The evergreen conflict: opposing light rail or other transit expansion while complaining about commute times. Demanding freeway expansion but opposing building a new bridge across a major river if the plans for the bridge include light rail or dedicated transit space.
NewFronts was in May 2022.

So I think we can safely assume that since things have gotten nothing but worse for Twitter since that they didn't book those commitments. In fact we have seen a large exodus of those exact type of advertisers in recent days.

It really does look like Parag may have slipped Musk a poison pill.
> Twitter is 100x the engineering difficulty

Sorry, do you honestly think that Tweets are more complicated than real time video and voice?

At a certain point the difficulty of the problem you are solving far outweighs the difference in scale. And Discord's scale is nothing to sniff at, either.
This is what most of the working world has had to deal with in the middle class and below for decades. It’s only sticking out as new because it’s happening to highly paid tech workers.

I agree it’s bad, but there hasn’t been a lot of worker solidarity in tech so I don’t think anyone should be surprised that it can happen to us too
Oh this is very cool. I was thinking about game engines in this context, but couldn’t wrap my head around combining the OS and the engine. Browsers seemed much more accessible, but this project is kind if blowing my mind.

People ultimately need to be able to have choice. Their OS in their environment on their tech stack. I’m not sure how that happens, but open source operating system on an open source game engine seems like the right start.

Now we just need an open source headset…
Appropriate starting bargaining position here would be to demand a 100% raise. Most people typically get a 20% raise just by getting a new job.
Tesla Is in Deep Trouble
> breathing-air is buoyant

I'm really curious what the temperature, atmospheric makeup, and density is at different altitudes on Venus. I had no idea there could be a theoretically habitable altitude on it.
Why do you guys hate school so much?
They’ll still be technically employed for 3 more months so that law would seem to be satisfied.
bulk of the top replies on post this week seem to be pro-copilot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33457488

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33457933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33459343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33458943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33457737

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33486605
Who in their right mind opposes rail?

Build a comprehensive grid of light rail already, and everyone get on the damn thing, so I have an open freeway ahead of me!

Accessible light rail is the best thing that could happen to me, via everyone else taking it.
Thanks for the link; that was indeed worth a click.
I'm definitely sympathetic to this argument, AirBnb ruined housing markets. I'm curious how much of the demand actually comes from "digital nomads", though.
> good quality 1080p projector

Good idea on the road. And you could set up two projectors for two giant monitors. Although one projector and laptop should be enough for most needs.

Laser diode projectors in particular are bright and uniform enough to project onto a clean wall. There's also the option of short-throw or regular projector. Flicker-free and reliable. Turning your hotel room wall into a big screen makes sense.

I would definitely choose a portable projector over VR if I needed the equivalent of a large monitor on the road. The other thing is, you can have the screen on and do "normal life things" like read physical documents, gaze out the window, use your mobile phone, pace around the room, scratch your head, play with your hair as you think... and your screen remains stationary and separate.
"This Group": the New Pluralists
If edge devices includes my gamer PC then yes. For apps I'd recommend https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
Back in the day I had 3 blogs and at least 30 splogs meant to promote the blogs. I thought it was a hoot that the rat would index my splogs but not index my blogs.
That's wild. It's a different world.

That whole page is interesting to read.

Elon: I would like to understand the technical details of the Twitter codebase. This will help me calibrate the dumbness of my suggestions.

Parag: I wrote heavy duty software for 20 years

Parag: I used to be CTO and have been in our codebase for a long time.

Parag: So I can answer many many of your questions.

Elon: I interface way better with engineers who are able to do hardcore programming than with program managero/ MBA types of people.

...

Elon: Crypto spam on Twitter really needs to get crushed. It's a major blight on the user experience and they scam so many innocent people.

Bret: It sounds like we are confirming 7pm at a private residence near San Jose. Our assistants reached out to Jehn on logistics. Let me know if either of you have any concerns or want to move things around. Looking forward to our conversation.

Parag: Works for me. Excited to see you both in person!

Elon: Jehn had a baby and I decided to try having no assistant for a few months
Interesting! I'd visit.
UN Human Rights Chief Türk issues open letter to Twitter’s Elon Musk
OTOH what’s the worst that could happen?

Working more 80 hour weeks?
While such apps are a nice improvement, if you photograph the book pages in strong light the depth of field is increased such that the whole page is sharp despite being curved and at an angle. Also motion blur from holding the phone in your hand will be minimized. So it still works.
So you’re suggesting Elon abused these employees privately? Because I’m not seeing any public abuse, especially not at any identifiable group of employees. I have no idea what your comment is supposed to mean.
Our little town has built a 50 unit apartment/townhome complex near me, and replaced an old hotel with a senior living center (still under construction).

The only NIMBY activity I know of in the area was a small explosion trying to stop a rail yard from being built, but that fizzled out when the railroad politely explained that they're federally regulated. They did build a berm around it and use directional downlighting, and so far it hasn't seemed to be an issue.

Perhaps we're too poor to be really effective NIMBYs.
They’re very different scaling problems though. Discord only has to handle very small graphs and most of the data is never stored.
Where might I find out what locks are good?
Not all bad or abusive behaviour is illegal, it’s just immoral and looked down upon.
If you don't think it's a problem that land was stolen, then I'm sure you won't object to that land being stolen again from the current owner and used for it's highest society-wide agreed-upon purpose (not just the purpose that the current owner prefers)

This comment's type of thinking wants to have it both ways. In this mindset, the landowner gets to decide what to do with the land and to control it because they 'own' it. This ownership is because they are descendants (or paid them) of the first white people who took land from native peoples. This 'right' is sacrosanct, and the government (i.e. other people) have no right to tell them not to mountain-top-removal mine it, etc etc.

However, this sacrosanct ownership right is on very shaky ground, hence the hostility to questions about land use. If first-come first-serve counts, then native / indigenous folks should have the land. If people with power can take the land for other uses legitimately, then there's no reason why any particular landowner has sacred rights to their property - the government would be justified in taking the land to support buffalo habitat without ANY compensation, just as white settlers took native land by force without any compensation.

Ultimately, these folks want a simple, completely indefensible rule:
"Whoever was here first gets sacred property rights to this land... except if it was an indigenous person, we took it from them fair and square.
But that was OK because it was olden times, and so you can't be mad about it, and definitely you can't reverse that decision or take this land from us or even restrict what we can do with it, that would be theft!"
you need a ton of people to run an ad platform modern advertisers will actually use. and a ton of ad sales people to convince them to use it. twitter the product is pretty simple. twitter the business is not
Is Facebook lying about providing mass amounts of data to a hostile government?
Why do they use the non-british word 'sic' then?
Mastodon is "service", not "website". You can use dedicated client software.
I agree it should use a better core for that price, but the chances a burglar is going to rake your lock open instead of kicking in the door is pretty low.

Even in physical pentesting, lock picking is rarely used. There are usually much quicker and easier ways that exploit the various ways that doors and hardware can be installed incorrectly. A simple travelers hook is a much more useful tool than a lock pick set.
> private messages aren't always necessary, as long as the platform is crystal clear about this

When sending a DM on Mastodon, there is literally a message that pops up saying: "Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon."
You are not the average person. This is basically alien language to someone who isn’t tech savvy, which makes it a non starter.
It opened with bumping and also with raking. Those require zero skill, and open the lock in seconds.

It really wasn’t picked at all.

This is like step #2 in making a good lock after “require a key”.
Labor protections are weak in the united states.

It is still legal to hire child labor for agriculture. Approximately a quarter of food in the united states is picked using child labor.
Sure, why shouldn't they have?
Has Musk ever handled the operational aspects of the companies he claims to run? Does he really understand what it takes to make a company _work_?

For instance, my understanding of SpaceX is that he really should be seen as the initial financier of it to chase a crazy idea. Gwynne Shotwell is really the one in charge of day-to-day operations. It's just that Musk shows up for the fun bits and gets all the sound bites in.
It looks like every other brushed metal lock on the outside.
There would be little more troubling to the human rights industry than if ordinary people were allowed to express an opinion on the horrific mess it has made of Western Europe
I put it up on my own website, where it sat for a couple years until some researcher from the Slater Museum found it.
They’re lately begging for their customers to get broken in.

Lame excuse and doesn’t even mention the flimsy bolt.

Apple should remove them and sell bolt instead or something
Seated calf raises lower blood glucose
Centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate knowledge
Yes, that's just for the interest.
There's a similar term (it's not buy long sell short) and arbitrage is close, but the basic idea is you make a longterm commitment and turn around and resell it to short-term committers.

And it can work quite well until it doesn't.
The shine really started coming off when his ego was bruised because he had his team spend a week building a submersible to rescue those kids trapped in a cave, but it was not suited to the task. One of those rescuers was vocal about it and so Musk repeatedly called him a pedo.

Then there were the overt stock manipulation games he played. He could get away with them because he is stinking rich. Most other people who tried that would have been charged.

How many years has he been promising fully autonomous driving just as soon as they finish polishing the software?

Then there was the boring company. The flamethrowers. The flopped solar roofs project. The cyber truck. The 18 wheelers that were due years ago. The string of dalliances with young girls. The names he gave his children. His juvenile meme/twitter practices.

There were many of people who didn't like Musk long before he mentioned buying twitter.
I feel the same way. What if there’s a better way to use those transistors?

The semiconductor researchers spend a lot of effort to make ever-smaller transistors. What is a transistor? It’s a tiny switch.

The ML researchers meanwhile use the language of linear algebra to define mathematical transformations of real numbers with nice differentiability properties.

The chipmakers are then tasked with reconciling the two. So they use transistors to make gates. And gates to make adders. And adders to make integer multipliers. And integer multipliers to make floating point multipliers. And fp multipliers to implement matrix multiplication. And now you can run your cat diffuser model on those transistors.

But what is the chance that the configuration of transistors in a floating point multiplier is anywhere close to the most efficient transistor configuration for learning?

The only reason we’re using multiplication of real numbers is because the math people said so.
This cites NYT. Regarding 3700, they say

> four people with knowledge of the matter said
Not to defend this product, but what’s the threat model for a pick resistant lock? I assume, but don’t actually know, that my biggest risk is having my rear door window smashed and the door opened from inside while I am not home.

Lock picking (even raking or bumping) seems like the kind of thing that someone smart enough to figure out how to do is also smart enough not to engage in home burglary.

So unless your threat model is the three letter agencies entering and bugging your house, I assume other physical security upgrades should come first.
I was at Square from 2011 - 2017 and talked to Jack pretty often, including about how he managed his time. And his calendar was public.

When I was at Square and Jack was also working at Twitter, he split his days evenly across both companies.

At Square we were frustrated he wasn’t spending enough time on us.

I don’t know what it was like after mid 2017.
Think I found it, if you change the sort in astar.ts to just return 1 or -1 based on the comparison it behaves like A-star.

untraversedTiles.sort((a, b) => {
if (heuristicCost[a.row][a.col] < heuristicCost[b.row][b.col]) {
return-1;
}
return 1;
});
I have found the code folding in GoLand to make this basically a non issue (for me personally).

if err != nil {
return nil
}

becomes

if err != nil: err <up arrow>
> Does COND mean the jump is conditional, like JMPR EQ?

Yes. The better generic description would have been Branch with register + offset but the RISC-I specific language uses "Jump" for everything.
Another minimisation is people who make use of Facebook as an OAuth provider for third party things.

Your analysis seems pretty good to me though.
Serious question: from my perspective and experience either digital nomads are tourists or they're tax-dodging tourists.

If you make enough money to be subjected to any sort of complex tax law (the easiest example is some form of quarterly estimated payments for high-income earners) then you either:

- have a designated home for tax purposes, regardless of questionable haven-status

- are moving around frequently enough to avoid being encumbered by taxes

In either case... a tourist? Leaving aside the nomads who do have some permanent tax residency, regardless of whether or not it is questionable, do most of any nomads actually pay the same taxes that a local would in the places they visit?

I am aware of incentivized visas that waive taxes to attract workers, but they do not seem prevalent enough to correlate with the digital nomadic movement on the whole. Outside of one person I know who ended up staying in their destination for a very long time and effectively de-nomading, all the nomads I've met use literal tourist visas that prevent work, and about half of them are dodging taxes.
100% agree. This matches my actual usage of github copilot. All the drama around it seems to just be mostly for headlines to fuel the outrage machine.
Traditional custodians sign deal for $3B Square Kilometre Array telescope
My only complaint about go error handling is that they are not encoded as unions/sum types/variants/choice types (whatever you want to call them), so in practice this leaves us the chore of checking and passing zero values and nils everywhere.

Sugar for error handling is already a solved problem (.e.g: Rust, Swift, or Zig).

Go will be damned by the community's NIH syndrome.
Yup.. only takes one data leak
Oddly enough I have a GoldStar microwave oven I bought in the late 1980s and it still works perfectly. I use it almost daily.
> It’s a stand alone full system though

AFAIK, it will be possible to use SimulaVR either in standalone mode (with its own portable computer running everything) or in tethered mode (plugged into a normal computer which runs everything); there's even an option on the preorder page to get a version without the portable computer (it is my understanding that the portable computer is detachable, so the full version can be transformed into a tethered-only version simply by detaching it).
sort -nr
The Impossible Architecture of Étienne-Louis Boullée
wait you're trying to tell me a musk solution like his tunnels aren't scalable?
There's a github icon in the modal that pops up when you first use it. You can click the (?) button to see it again. Or here's the direct link https://github.com/eoin-barr/pathfinding-visualizer

(I'm not the author/OP but the code is pretty readable and it was really easy to get running with just `yarn; yarn dev`)
A VERY similar project was submitted to Awesome F/OSS, Upscayl:

https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

Wonder what the comparison is…
>Yes. This sort of thing is used all of the time to get rid of executives… you park the guy in gardening leave, gagged for 6-24 months. When the person gets replaced permanently, nobody remembers the old guy. The only option is to quit, but that has consequences.

Reminds of the Korean show 'Good Manager' where the company is trying to get the employee to quit rather than be fired, and keep making the work environment worse and worse in a comedic fashion, and he keeps finding ways to somehow get work down.
Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Hello stranger.

It has occurred to me that one of the crucial elements of the early internet was the feeling that there was somebody out there, _somewhere_ on the globe, that was actually responding to that particular thing you were putting out there. It was a special feeling, because it was a sense of connection. Just being online and being part of the few select communities that existed back then was a commitment, and I believe that's in part what made it feel special.

With all the world gaining access to the internet, I think we've gained a lot, but lost this sense of wonder: Since online interactions have now become commonplace to the point of para-social meaninglessness, any single post or message doesn't really feel all that _real_.

HN is still the closest thing I know to that primordial kind of internet, and so I'm putting this post out there. It might get buried instantly, or it might survive, and on the off chance that it does:

I encourage you to comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment, however niche it might be. It might let you find some likeminded people and maybe recapture a bit of the best aspects of the internet in those early days.

In any case, I sincerely wish you a great day, from one surprisingly-real-but-currently-text-based being to another :)
No, they're quite open about information sharing with the US.
no it very much isn't use without restriction - you must credit the the author and otherwise follow the licensee. I can't copy and republish code from the Nvidia driver leaks because those are copyrighted by Nvidia (unless I have permission from them). In the same way you cannot copy and republish code from a MIT project unless I have permission from them (via the MIT licensee).
Curious questions and of course don't answer if it's not safe: do you remit full local taxes? Are they equivalent to a native local worker? Are you paid or employed as a worker of where you are now, or where you're from?
Is it really an "exponential increase" ? That would be very bad.

I am not an expert but I've heard that LiFePO could be the better alternative for these micromobility vehicles.
You are right re solidarity, but thats because we didnt historically see such level of stupidity at such scale. Others layoff people too but in a professional manner. Instead Elon’s acting like a clown.

On the point of solidarity, i stopped using amazon when i learned about the abuse their warehouse workers are subjected to. Went from hundreds of £ a month in average to literally 0.
IANAL but severance isn't required by California law so I'd think that if their employment contract promises some, the situation completely depends on what else the contract has to say about conditions where it can be taken away. "Severance offers" in my experience are a new contract they throw at you at the end, they offer some cash and maybe benefits awhile and you have to make some new promises in return.
Twitter, when the wall came down
>Make available the original source code when you distribute any binaries based on the licensed work

You only have to make it available to people you distribute the binaries to. If people with the binaries don't want it or if they want to keep it to themselves they are free to do so.

The reasons why corpos contribute back to upstream projects have nothing to do with the license. Usually it is just to shift the maintenance costs to the upstream developers.
Agreed. There are plenty of monumentally stupid decisions being made (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588676939463946241) that we don't need to pile on unproven ones. Threatening your potential advertisers is even more stupid and I wouldn't have believed it if if it wasn't an Elon Tweet made in public.

Including the very thread IMO, firing and then saying WHOOPS.
I would take anything this guy says with a *huge* grain of salt, because when somebody tells you the kind of scumbag they are, you should believe them: https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1360999318480584704
I would not be surprised if they simply used some off the shelf example cad model of a lock when starting this business
There are two very different questions:

1. Could twitter have been built in such a way that it was a stable company with half as many people?

2. Could you chop X% of twitter off and have the remainder of the company want to and be able to restructure and self-repair into a stable company.

I think the answer to #1 is yes, but #2 is a complete mystery to me.

It's the difference between "Could a raspberry pi run linux?" and "Can I remove half material in my mac by weight of my mac and still have it run linux?"