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I see the moral point pretty much exclusively brought up against CEOs, managers etc, and virtually never against employees. Your (then ex-) boss might be angry that you've leaving because you've gotten a better offer, but barely anyone else will judge you (very rare cases exist, I'm sure, but they're rare).

Everyone is optimizing their personal outcome, be it the CEO firing people, people quitting their jobs to work elsewhere, people quitting their jobs to live off of benefits, people having children early, or having children late, it's what we all do: look out for what's best for us.

I find that totally okay, but I prefer to be honest about it, and don't pretend that it's not perfectly normal, or that people aren't doing it.
Regarding your point number 2, I've been having this debate over on Twitter (ha) about how much those who remain are saddled with extra work. I've been through a few layoffs in my career, though none as large as this one, and what usually happened was those of us who remained ended up with less work. That is because the ones who were let go were almost always low performers whose work usually needed a lot of review and redesign by the more competent ones, which was more work than just doing the whole thing over from the beginning. In some cases when it did cause a large burden to the remaining employees the project left behind by the laid off ones was left to die. And that often was the right answer since the low performers had so often been shuttled to projects that weren't very valuable to begin with. With no visibility into the Twitter case I don't know if there is much of the same effect that I experienced, although I am reading a lot of opinions on HN and elsewhere that some of the groups that have been decimated should have been killed off long ago.
Obviously, we only have a small part of your story. It looks like You took on too much. Lots of people do that. That's part of how you grow, but recognizing it is the main point.

Make task lists of the big picture (not just "To Do Lists") , so you can start to chart what is really being accomplished. Pretend you are explaining it to a a 10 year old.

I moved to the South Pacific and took over a complexed chemical engineering situation that was very hard to make progress on. I started to make it make sense "to a 10 year old" and then my sense of accomplishment really grew.

" Getting Government Permits to get small samples. Should take 90 days. We are on day 160. "

You begin to realize all the action that you are doing...even if it hasn't fully translated to acomplished tasks. That really helps.

Also, block your time and unplug. Like tackle one problem from 9am-11:30am then take an hour long walk in the park.

That will also help.

That's my 2 cents and it worked for me.
Valid or not you do hit upon something I'm genuinely curious about. What do developers for something like twitter even do?

Twitter does one very specific thing, and it doesn't look like it has changed its goal much over the past 10 years, so what is it they're trying to develop so rapidly they need hundreds (thousands?) of developers.
Why don't they make chest fridge/freezers with a carousel built in that lets you cycle baskets up and around; coupled with a glass ceiling/door you could see what's inside and bring it up before you open it!
An 11-min video on channel Undecided with Matt Ferrell about this tech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ZrM-IZlTE
More importantly the US has far more inequality.

Developers are already very well off no matter what country they live in, and I'd wager that "normal" people in the US are not far wealthier than people in Nordic countries for instance.
Egusi is still common in West African cuisines. My town near DC has several west African restaurants, and many of them have an egusi stew on the menu. I really like it.

(DC is really well known for its Ethiopian restaurants, which are also excellent. And completely, utterly different from west African cuisine.)
Wow! I wasn't expecting this at all. Thanks for the cozy hug of death :) Also, thanks for posting the archive link! I'll try to make it more resilient for the future.
The article and comments here talk about "money in the account". This confuses me as my use of Paypal is to send and receive money. The money is in my bank account - a "burner" account as I use it for Internet stuff and never have more cash there than is necessary for whatever transaction I'm doing. I never thought of Paypal as a bank where I can park funds.
> causing genuine inflation

There's something obfuscatory about calling this inflation instead of what it fundamentally is: scarcity. I get that inflation means a price rise, but inflation is (or should be) fundamentally about monetary policy (devaluing money) rather than supply and demand.
This is the part that concerns me as well. WFH was a fluke of sorts and the timing allowed a lot of workforce to maintain rather adamant pose. My company's management is already using all the 'key' words in meetings like 'in person collaboration' and so on suggesting they are planning an RTO.

They just don't seem to dare to do it yet, because they poached a whole lot of people from companies that did RTO. This would like leave a bad impression.
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I have this book, "Steve Jobs and The Next Big Thing." It was written when Steve Jobs was running Next Computers and struggling. It was all about what a terrible manager he was, how he had bad ideas, etc. It is actually a good book and I like to keep it in mind.

We tend to hero worship really successful people we admire. The trouble is that all humans are flawed. Worse, when people get very successful they lose the people around them that can call them on their bs. I am sure I have a bunch of dumb, poorly thought out opinions in my head. If everything I thought was broadcast before someone could point out the flaws in what I was saying I would sound callous, foolish, maybe even dangerous. Some people are very accomplished but no one is smart about all things all the time.
I was cautiously optimistic that he might approach the spread of disinformation through social media as an engineering problem until I read his leaked text messages.
Bear in mind that tech can decouple from other industries. It's possible you have a recession, say, in Banking while Fintech is growing like crazy (because it has a much smaller starting base).
It changes from one industry to the next, some are counter-cyclical. When everything goes down, those go up.

Portable jobs, such as software, tend to remain in high-demand, because even if some companies are struggling, others are flourishing.

Niche-tied jobs have it harder, since they cannot jump industry so readily.
I see the username, but I still want to ask... how would your ideal company deal with a situation where all employees want to run the business in the ground?
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> The issue we all have here is this: if Musk is successful then treating employees nicely will fall out of fashion.

It's never been in fashion on the whole. Tech is little privileged bubble in the work world with little exposure to what happens outside of it.
Can it though? If the audit is called for after the election how do we determine the code that the auditor is inspecting is what was run on election day?

It's still a black box on election day - it's just got detailed instructions written on it claiming that's what is inside.
Amusingly, I am trying to log in to the dashboard to reboot my nodes, but it requires a verification code which was sent to my email, which is hosted on Linode.
Looking at these tweets, employees look like they had good relations with each others.

I wonder if Musk will not get more than he wanted. That is: ex-employees finding jobs elsewhere, and calling the rest of their team that is still working for Twitter, i.e. poaching.

If Musk messes up with Twitter enough to make both employees and users want to leave, I totally expect another company to take advantage of this opportunity to create a competitor. My bet is on Facebook: they are good at social networking (better than Google at least), they have what it takes to kickstart the network, and the are in need for growth (the metaverse is ambitious, but not exactly a success right now).
Why does the Daily Planet feel so negatively about Lex Luthor?
Add data center management, scaling, developer tools, reporting, advertiser portals, stats aggregation, ad bidding, etc.

7500 people is 750 teams of ten. It's really a rather moderate engineering organization for a problem of their scale.
So in exchange for software engineering salaries that are 8-10 thousand american dollars lower per month at least. you get a fraction of a much lower salary in unemployment benefits?
It's a very apt phrase. Young people whose only experience of professional life has been in the "summer", e.g. the good times, and have no conception of what it's like to find employment in the proverbial winter.

ZIRP has created an entire generation with absolutely no clue about the very existence of, let alone the harshness of, cycles.
Rewriting the horrors of mental health representation in games
"It's much more efficient than trying to save one planet from armageddon every time."

It's actually not. If we can't figure out how to live here, we aren't going to figure out how to live in a less hospitable environment.
Let's hope that's what happens to Twitter!
I don't get all this antipathy towards what Musk is doing. It's an established maxim of the venerated Warren Buffet that the very first thing you need to do after buying a company is clean house, and get rid of the people who put it in the shape that made it buyable to begin with, starting, and especially, at the top.
Apparently it's illegal and ByteDance (TikTok's parent company) stopped doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system#ByteDa...

I think you'd have to provide a lot more research to "996 (72hr weeks) apparently works in China". What type of companies, what type of jobs, ubiquity etc.
4th Circuit Takes Wrecking Ball to Zeran and Section 230
No it doesn't. Scroll to the very next page, and especially read paragraphs 15 and 16.
Is a paper-vote a reference to literally marking a piece of paper, or a human counting said piece of paper? Sorry if that's a dumb question, just want to make sure I follow. It seems like this tech works with marking a piece of paper that is then read by a machine. I suppose if the paper is kept, perhaps it's nice from the point of view of the election-handling-folks to automate the counting process, but be able to audit the paper ballots?
He's too erratic for his position at the public company he runs and others he's part of. He tends to run away from technical confrontations. He seeks attention, most often in childish ways. He runs business based on hype, guerrilla marketing and raising consumer expectations, not necessarily on technological breakthroughs (although they do exist).
Some people think he's an asshole or he's fraudulent and practices market manipulation (that's either subjective or a legal matter).
Twitter has around 190m daily active users. You're going to struggle to run something like that with an engineering team of 20-30 people (although WhatsApp did exactly that for many years), sure.

But I don't see why an company and an application of that size couldn't be run by a company of, say, 1500 people, instead of 7000. 250 engineering staff, 250 doing moderation/support, 800 doing sales & account management and 100 in management and 100 doing sundry tasks.
Gotta work harder to make those shareholders more money
Thanks for sharing! I wanted to do the same, went to school for it, but it seemed like my passion would be exploited and I opted to design traditional software instead. So far so good! Care to share your libraries?
In Germany we have this propaganda word "Raubkopie" for pirated copies translating to "rob copy", like a copy that was acquired through robbing, i.e. through use of force.

It is quite ironic considering who really ab/uses the legal monopoly of force to rob others of their copies.
"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!"

Musk is a sad, spiteful man, with more money than sense. Of course money can make things happen, but Musk isn't his engineers. He's a bad, bad man who is worshiped by legions of equally bad nerds who just go around making everyone's day worse.

More than that, he sells a story of an imaginary way to get out of the spiral of collapse created by many men, just like him, who came before him. He sells false hope, a road-side prophet. This false hope he sells has convinced enough people to effectively derail any possibility of fundamental societal change that would enable the population at large to live relatively comfortable lives.

If we just keep consuming, eventually we can consume on Mars!

Infinite growth is physically impossible, yet the world we live in keeps charging forward assuming infinite growth is mandatory and will never go away.

It's impossible to work towards stability when the only thing that keeps society running is a lie built on a jenga foundation.

Musk is simply the annoying talking statue that represents all of that, and he's really. Fucking. Annoying.
Building more cars (basically racing cars that rub tires to dust 2-4x as fast) to save the planet? Sounds like quite the roundabout way to do so. I suspect he just likes driving fast cars?

Digging tunnels and conceptualizing hyperloops instead of improving public transport and bikes? IMO he‘s just afraid of public transport and hates traffic jams.

Ok, so maybe he needed to become the richest person in the world before tackling the really big issues? Yeah, not sure whether distracting himself with the Twitter acquisition is the best way of addressing climate change or even preserving survival of the human race long term.

I think that, like Jobs, he’s mainly scratching his own itches. And paints himself as the world‘s savior in the process.
Yea so far they are mostly accurate but there have been one or two occasiones with minor delays. I didn't know they used to have roadside beacons :| How did those work?
Musk's personal account on Twitter is and was the Marketing Department for Tesla.

They don't have to start advertising, because they have never had to buy ads, people are willing to talk about them for free, and a lot of that discourse was due to Musk's tweets.
The only reason musk gets so much hate is because he uses twitter without a PR.

Give him a PR team and people would still be going on about him like in 2016.
The 3AC saga wasn't because crypto collateralisation turned out to be bogus, it was just that lenders gave them un/undercollateralized loans. Their downbringing was taking cash liabilities, on leverage (the un/ndercollateralized part), and using that to make risky bets. They took a ton of leverage to bet that the GBTC/BTC spread would close (but it widened, a friend of mine called this killing them over a year in advance), iirc positions in stETH/ETH spreads, illiquid (but very profitable...) vc investments, as well as just going long crypto.
> Less moderation to the point of not taking actions against content which is criminal, i.e. threatening violence?

Yes, obviously. Because Musk sure isn't pushing for more of this oversight.
Twitter faces a class action lawsuit over mass employee layoffs with proper
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> My neighbours' relative wealth has exactly no impact on my material or psychic comfort.

It does, though. First, people get unhappy when others have it better. Greed, jealousy, envy, you're not going to cure it. Second, the accumulated wealth of all those neighbours has a significant impact on the economy.
Europe has dedicated infrastructure for intercity trains used by people who need to get there on time. The US does not (outside the NEC).

Can you imagine a TGV or ICE stopping to hook up a private car?
Class-action lawsuit filed against MSFT's GitHub Copilot for software piracy
Except in the real world if people are actually putting their money down based on what those conclusions might be, you have to jump to something.

And the right thing to do is to jump to the most likely one based on the information available to you (adjusted for the consequences if you're wrong).

In this case, the most likely conclusion appears to be based on the info presented that it may be insolvent, and further, acting as if it is insolvent means you lose on limited upside if you're wrong, but avoid significant downside if you're right.

If Alameda is not a fan of this conclusion and if it's gaining traction in the community they can refute whatever might be wrong in the analysis and if nothing is wrong, provide the additional missing information that will correct the conclusion.

This is what CEOs and CFOs for public companies do everyday. Present their company's thesis to the public and refute analysts' theses where they think they're either wrong and/or don't have sufficient information. Why do you think they take so much time out of their schedules to do interviews on Bloomberg, CNBC, etc.

Alameda doesn't need to go down that route, but that doesn't mean independent analysis with conclusions based on incomplete information is a faulty process.
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You didn't notice the use of statistics?
I assume tesla could attract talent at those salaries due to the stock prospects. Wonder if that's the case nowadays.
For the longest time, I disliked him because he allowed a myth to be created about him being the inventor of technologies, when in reality he's the CEO, the guy who employs the people who invent things and build them for him. I don't recall him ever actually saying "I single-handedly invented the Tesla and the Falcon rocket", but I never saw him take even a minute to credit the people who actually did that work, either. Maybe he did once, and I didn't catch it, but I've seen enough interviews where he didn't go out of his way to correct the public image of him as Tony Stark.

Now, I dislike him because I recognize in him the showman who makes a lot of claims that are exciting, but don't pan out. The massive delays in Tesla production, the complete failure of full self driving, the more or less completely nonexistent brain-computer interface he was going to sell, and on and on. For a while, I thought of him as an audacious and exciting douchebag who might, despite being personally distasteful, end up making great things and pushing humanity forward. Now, I still hold out hope, but I suspect that he may be just another asshole with money.
He sought out the drama so if he's capable he should've predicted it and been fine with it because he has ways to resolve it, something like that.
They sent me an email inviting me to Quora Monetization which is odd because I've posted no more than 5 answers to Quora if that after making the mistake of registering on Quora.

Made me think of this Groucho Marx quote: "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
These are overtones caused by beat frequencies. The difference between 2 frequencies will create an beat frequency and at times it can create a cascade of aligned overtones that ring.

Does anyone know specifically of violin works that specifically manipulate these upper emergent overtones?
Anki is a flashcard program that claims to help learn/memorize information using spaced repetition. I believe the previous comment is a joke based on the similarity of the names of the two pieces of software [Aki(flow)/Anki] and the fact that both of them deal with repetition.
This is a real problem! I remember Peter Oborne resigning from the Telegraph over failing to cover HSBC because they were an advertiser. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/17/peter-oborne-t...

The reverse is quite clear in how various Gulf states like Qatar buy lots of advertising for the state as a whole .. with the unspoken assumption that their poor human rights record won't be mentioned as much.
The job market for engineers is still incredibly competitive.
Why are they always a bad idea in your view? I'd imagine that they're quite nice from the point of view of those who run elections and actually have to count them. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
You probably want a record of votes with times and not just a simple counter.
I have this same question!
Seems like more and more outages are happening every day...tsk tsk

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I think understanding the difference between a poorly considered plan and real progress is very important. Elon seems to demonstrate repeatedly (even if he has a mythos otherwise) he does not think multiple detailed steps ahead as illustrated by several failures like Boring company.
Children with gender dysphoria are 400% more likely to be diagnosed with autism
Actually studies are that people who specialized in Eg. Looming fabrics never found equivalent jobs. They literally lost their livelihoods and never regained that quality of life. I would be supremely worried if a permanent underclass of people whose specialties are automated away and there are no equivalent quality jobs for them.
> audit of the code

The OP is talking about the inability to audit the code actually running at the time of voting. You can audit the code in the repo all you like but if the hardware of the voting machine is compromised, or the code you audit is modified or replaced sometime before execution, or there is other malicious code running on the machine interfering with the voting then your audit is useless.
Right but the people who bring in the money (advertising sales) probably got axed because they don’t write code.