skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Person with severe adhd and disposable income here: Nope. This is too much. Especially if you're not offering psychiatric services (e.g., no meds).

Thanks for pointing this out, we know it's still not in reach for most people. We're trying our best to get it as low as possible and are working on alternate routes, especially for those with the financial need. Right now we have our financial aid application, and we're working on something a bit bigger that will disproportionately impact communities of need

> I can appreciate celebrating october being adhd awareness month in november.

Haha, yes, we're a few days late. The month we're observing is Oct12-Nov12

> I also want to call out that there's no regulation around adhd coaching. More or less anyone can do it with out qualifications. You'll notice that there's no mention of insurance being accepted. I say this because it's a ripe area for taking advantage of people. In the absence of regulation, extra scrutiny is warranted.

Agree on extra scrutiny. The area of ADHD coaching has been unregulated and quality is definitely variable (really great coaches costing $2,000+/mo. and other new coaches marketing their services without much training etc). I have a separate comment down / up there somewhere on insurance. We're standing on the shoulder of giants by putting together psychoeducation that is science-backed and pooling resources & knowledge to help guide with what has worked for ADHD brains. We're working towards some loftier goals right now as well including an Academy-like offering...

> That's a sneaky 'or' there -- What're the statistics around the coaches qualifications?

Our coaches fall in 1 of 2 categories:
(1) Coaching or MH professional credentials (ICF, Therapists, Psychiatrists) or
(2) Masters-level or equivalent of psychology- or ADHD- related field along with extensive hours of client-facing facilitation & coaching work.
100% of our coaches fall into 1 of the above 2 categories.

> No linkage to their qualifications

Dr. Anil Chacko: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/anil-chacko

Xenia Angevin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xenia-angevin/
Dr. Amin Azzam: https://meded.ucsf.edu/people/amin-azzam
This. I get that prices in many metros are still too high for your average earner, but I don’t understand how people can compare the price of housing in LA to a place like Indianapolis.
That is such an overestimation of the reach and influence of the Twitter platform. People buy Teslas because they're awesome cars. People find out about Tesla because everyone and their brother has one. It started slow, you knew a guy who knew a guy, but they preached its praises. It slowly snowballed. They're to the point now, where you can't not find out about them. Twitter IMHO played a deminimus role in that. Normal people in the normal world aren't obsessing over Elon's tweets, or even reading about them.

Literally no one I know with Teslas (and it's many many) even using Twitter.

Furthermore, there are many other high-profile companies that are extremely well known that simply opt not to advertise. Look at Costco. There's no Twitter mouthpiece and no advertising yet everyone either shops there or knows about it, but doesn't shop there.
Interesting. If I had to pick one utensil to eat with in a domestic setting (of the typical Western three) it would be a fork.

In a more general or survival setting I’d choose a knife.
> a bigger problem is data affinity

For future, please write about how typical cloud customers can design for better data affinity.

Or is it just handled by the provider?

FWIW, at a prev gig, knowing nothing about nothing, I finally persuaded our team to colocate a Redis process on each of our EC2 instances (along side the http servers). Quick & dirty solution to meet our PHBs silly P99 requirements (for a bog standard ecommerce site).

Apologies for belated, noob question.
Is this a parody? "Developer finds new tool -> is amazed -> thinks this is the future of X -> turns out it's not very useful outside one or two cases"
If my comment makes you think that I support this rule in any way, maybe I should’ve explicitly stated that I do not.

What I am saying is that the title is misleading as it tries to represent an old rule as if it is something new.
I just took a quick glance at the specs, and sure... running an lcd and parsing some text from the web seems totally doable, and in contrast to RPi (3, 4...), you can actually buy picos :)
The market segment I work in (tangible goods, not software) is highly subject to discretionary spend by consumers. The slowdown is already on the radar and everybody in the game is readying up for things to slow down a lot more. All business has felt like an engine revving 9k non-stop for the last two years, and from the moment it started happening nobody thought it was sustainable. It feels like we need this, but it's going to suck.
I have never in my life thought that Musk would champion the little guy. If anything, Musk will run the little guy over 5 times in the quest for interplanetary domination.
I do not have that impression at all. Twitter was made more relevant by Trump's presidency but you'd have to show me revenue numbers that somehow he saved it.
Everything sucks at first. That doesn't make it disruptive or good or gives you any information as to how it will work in the future.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081

The US has far more guns and far more gun violence than anywhere else in the developed world, by huge margins.

Personal ownership of guns does not make individuals safer. Indeed, it's quite the opposite when you look at the data.

Your anecdote is not data.
Starlink's total bandwidth is about the same as a small regional ISP. There is no way it will ever "control the world's internet".

Starlink will serve many places where terrestrial wired or wireless access doesn't make sense, including oceans, very rural areas, uninhabited areas, airplanes, rockets, etc. It will never be able to serve 1% of a high density city. It will never control anything on the scale of the world's internet. This is an absurd conspiracy theory.
I haven't been doing Lisp in a looong time. But in other languages, I do find it annoying that my own code has to abide by certain rules that the implementers of the language do not have.

For example, most languages have "if" statements, but I can't define my own "unless" statement. I have to make do with "if not". In Lisp, it's pretty trivial to make an "unless" that works just like "if" does (except for the negation, of course).

In practice, I'm working on a pretty large Java code base right now, and if I have the need to pass around a value that is evaluated "later", then I have to pass around a lambda expression, and the syntax makes it very clear that there is a lambda expression here. For example, if I want to pass a boolean and a number and I want to make sure that the number isn't computed unless the boolean is true, then I have to write, in Java:

someMethod(b, () -> a + 5);

Here, "b" would be the boolean, and "() -> a + 5" is the lambda expression that allows "someMethod" to avoid evaluating it in the first place.

In Lisp, I can pass a lambda, too:

(someFunction b (lambda () (+ a 5))

But I can also define a macro, so that I can call it like this:

(someMacro b (+ a 5))

Much less ceremony. It does, of course, however, require that you know that this is a macro and that it has special evaluation rules. If you need someFunction/someMacro often in your code base, then it makes sense to go for the macro, and your fellow devs will learn how it works. But if there are just one or two spots in the code base, it might be better to go with someFunc and the lambda because then it will be obvious how it works.

I've basically resigned myself to passing around lambdas all over the place, but it doesn't make me happy.
There were still some newspapers left in 2006. By 2022 they are all basically dead.

Also standards of journalism integrity were bad then but they are abysmal now. Very few journalists actually investigate stories, most just re print press release.
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Also, with sufficient experience, you can actually eat chicken wings, and many other foods with chopsticks.

The only case in which chopsticks don’t work so well is where food is slippery.
> The other type of inflation happens when prices go up because the amount of supply drops

If you have to spend more on X, that means you have less to spend on Y. Because of the Law of Supply&Demand, the reduced demand for Y results in a corresponding drop in the price of Y.

That's why it's not inflation.
Suckers are born every sec. I had many arguments with Musk rats with no success.
Sounds like a lovely family.
Right - but it looks like an exception not the standard way: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nonrecoursedebt.asp Would you expect the Alameda loans to be non-recourse?
I wasn't aware of the 60 days in CA. Link? Thanks!
how was this nationalistic or a flame war? The article is about US worker productivity, how can I not comment about the US?
You guys have never worked at a major social media platform and it shows. It takes around that many engineering staff just to run a passable advertising platform. There are so many technical nuances that you cannot even imagine.
Actually they work great, so long as everyone shares in the sacrificing.
I think these pincers are textured to provide grip
Isn’t it what economists would call a 4x increase in productivity? Isn’t fall in productivity mean that you now need more people to do same job?
What is pi? (and while we're at it, what's e?)
I wonder if disposable pincers made from cheap wood are viable? Obviously, they would have a more complex shape than chopsticks, making them a bit more expensive. But maybe still cheap enough that the economics could work out if somebody figures out the marketing.
Federal and California WARN acts require advance notification for mass layoffs. It's still "at will", but more regulations come into play if a lot of people lose their jobs.
Still working for me.
The alternative is for HN to be dominated by clickbait, which would make for a completely different site.

The title editing system (software and mods) works well except when it doesn't. The cases where it works well are priced in—they aren't noticeable and everyone takes them for granted. The cases where it doesn't work do get noticed, and often amplified. It's understandable! but skewed. If you weight the pros of a system at 0% and the cons at 100%, it ends up looking inexplicably terrible.

Incidentally, the fix for the OP is not to add the magic number back—it's to rewrite the title so it's not clickbait to begin with. That's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" (I've done that now.)
When companies plan to make a portion of a company redundant they typically need to annouce their intentions in advance, depending on the country. As is the case of this lawsuit.

This is different to an employee being let go. This isn't a bunch of people being fired, this is retrenchment due to reorganization.
How do you feel about Musks 100M X prize for atmospheric carbon removal?
I guess not needing an insulated tank (that can crack if the power runs out) makes things much cheaper. And the higher the operational temperature, the less difference it makes if you use a complex phase change design or a simple bunch of cheap sand.

But I doubt 600°C is enough to make sand win.
> Therefore, any number they give is wrong.

This is an incorrect conclusion to draw. Twitter states that they estimate that a certain percentage of a subset of users is spam/false accounts. That they don't know the percentage of spam/false accounts outside of that subset of users has no bearing on the accuracy of their statement regarding their chosen subset.

As a greatly reduced example, I can say that neither the @elonmusk nor the @chancery_daily accounts are spam accounts. I have no idea how many accounts Twitter has, let alone how many of those are spam accounts, but that lack of knowledge does not affect the accuracy of my first statement.
I ain't your buddy, friend.
I don't know how to make it work with in person ID verification. They could just give you a faked UUID. I'd put it on the ballots when they're generated, so it was just as untraceable as the ballot itself.

My assumptions are that 1) individual votes have almost no value on their own, so coercion or vote selling should be limited by low appeal, and 2) we still have a justice system, if someone forces you to vote a certain way, report it. Buying any significant number of votes would be exceedingly difficult to keep secret. Especially given how little compensation could be offered for them.
> Adam Smith and David Ricardo both believed in the labor theory of value.

Everybody makes misteaks.
This isn't a "tech company" thing - PayPal is no different from any bank in this regard. Banks close accounts for seemingly no reason (or silly reasons) with no recourse literally all the time.
"At the height of covid cases, hospitals were nearing their capacity"

Hospitals in the UK go near or exceed their capacity in any flu season, it happened many times before 2020 and is due primarily to badly managed nationalized health and social care where supply/demand aren't joined up. This doesn't mean anything was wrong with Elon's position.
I think I am not the only one that thinks that software nowadays has become bloated. Whenever you want to download an app into your phone, do you check how much storage it takes? I do! It is not possible to check the amount of CPU and GPU an app takes, but just by looking at the storage you can sort of guess. However, it takes time to find the app that matches my criteria of low resource usage.

Putting a word to what I am looking for is great because it means it opens the possibility to build a community driven list of software and electronic devices that follow those principles instead of manually trying to find each one of those.

Permacomputing can be summarized in 3 concepts: Frugal Computing, Salvage Computing and Collapse Computing. I've took the information from this website: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html

Frugal Computing: "Utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible."

Salvage Computing: "Utilizing only already available computational resources, to be limited by that which is already produced."

Collapse Computing: "Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production or network infrastructure"

I have been trying to start a community of users that are interested in those concepts. But I did not know how to easily describe those principles in a single word, but now I know: Permacomputing!
Can confirm, but has a 20MB (per book) limit.
I did not know that YouTube offers RSS feeds for their channels. I can see a lot of good use cases for that information.
California is at-will. And it still requires 60 days notice for a mass-layoff, thorough a separate act, because it's a special case that's covered by a separate law.

> “an employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or termination at a covered establishment unless, 60 days before the order takes effect, the employer gives written notice of the order”

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Cal-WARNAct.html
I was a huge fan of RSS for a long time but stopped using it. I found that when I added in multiple feeds of my interests, My feed was littered with the same stories and sometimes even the same content. Also, much of the content had the same ads that were on the sites. So at that point, it was easier to just visit the sites with an ad blocker on.
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It's also been 2 full days since one of the people in the suit received their termination information though so I would bet they know what Twitter's plan was for at least their termination. If not why didn't they have the info?
pb7 is probably correct here, as they are in many things. Elon probably knows what he's doing, you don't get to that level of businessmen without making all the right decisions.
I never used Twitter, but did read a little of this thread for kicks.

There are several posts from different users that are identical, like:

"Musk spent $44 Billion on Twitter. The World's population is 8 billion. He could have given each person $5 billion and still have money leftover. I feel like a cheque for $5 billion would be life changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on Twitter"

It seems pretty stupid that a platform allows an identical post. Don't need much AI to prevent that. Who wants to read the same posts over and over?
That's a good question - the term "web" is vague. Are we talking about the internet or are we talking about the HTTP protocol and HTML markup? Those two technologies have very different histories.
In London the TfL API includes access to their live CCTV traffic cameras. I think you now have to register but it should still be there.
Do you really think he made such a call based on a hunch and not on the actual IFR data ?
Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web
I run an HR department, albeit not for one as large as twitter. I have done layoffs. I always consulted a lawyer and it never triggered lawsuits. There are layoffs all the time at large companies that don't trigger lawsuits.

Either he consulted a terrible lawyer or none at all.
this is about to veer offtopic but do you think FOX would actually publish the same article written by a more mainstream Democrat like HRC ? probably not
I live in the UK, don't make nowhere near 200k nor do I know anyone who makes that amount (across all levels).
Present an example.
There's an alternative explanation for corporate splitting, which also covers merging, and, as a bonus, corporate name changes, reorganizations, and logo updates:

It gives the Board and CEO something to do.

Think of it: Company MediumGuy buys OtherMediumGuy, creating BigGuy and issues press releases proclaiming "this will create great synergies and economies of scale!"

Then 10 years later, BigGuy splits into MediumGuy and OtherMediumGuy, and issues another release, "This will enable management to focus on the unique opportunities and diverse customer bases that MediumGuy and OtherMediumGuy now face!"

Ideally, the CEO doing the split is not the same as the one who did the merge, so he doesn't have to face awkward questions about his reasoning 10 years ago.
These are basically training chopsticks. If you find yourself using them a lot, you'll find it easier and more satisfying to use actual chopsticks. Chopsticks are cheap, easy to clean, versatile, able to be made from materials like bamboo, and more elegant than pincers. You can't make rudimentary scissors out of pincers, and those points look too narrow to hold anything heavy. The only problem with chopsticks is that they're harder to use, but if you use them regularly you'll be able to pick up heavy items using polished metal chopsticks in no time.

https://marcosticks.org/best-learning-chopsticks/
At this point I don’t believe that public discussion can change anything. Antitrust can, though, and in my opinion it would be better if the discussion was steered that way.
In a way, I agree. Twitter's moving into an era where they have way fewer people but also huge pressure to release a bunch of changes on nightmarishly short schedules. I guarantee there's some senior tech lead who's just been handed a "make $8/month blue checkmarks happen, you have two weeks" assignment.

In an environment like that, "rock stars" who can knock out projects in short order are going to see their careers skyrocket. But the trick is, they're going to pull this off by taking every shortcut they can. Code reviews are out, refactoring is out, performance and scalability concerns are out, etc. They will successfully launch the thing and then flee to the next glorious launch opportunity.

This will work very, very well for a while. The thing about taking on a lot of debt is that it allows you to accomplish big things in short order. But the debt will be hidden, and over a year or two, they will start to find that suddenly getting projects done is becoming nearly impossible, even compared to the pre-Musk days. And things will slowly fall apart.

It might be that all of the technical debt they're about to take on will have been worth it. Debt's a tool, and maybe making big changes to adjust their company's heading is worth it. And maybe to Musk, it's VERY worth it, because technical debt doesn't show up on financial ledgers, and he probably wants the company to look as solvent as possible.

But I wouldn't want to be a software engineer there in a year.
> You don’t just axe off half a company staff with little to no notice, severance.

Do you have a source for the "no severance" part?

I've not seen any information at all out there about the conditions under which Twitter employers are being terminated; only the process of informing them of their status.
Agreed. If there is room for N baskets on your rails you put N-1 baskets in each layer except the bottom where you can use N.

In practice you keep “the gap” over the part of the floor with the greatest cooling capacity and put your quick turnover “inserted warm” items on the bottom layer there. They cool fastest and are easy to get to.
If it had anything that's PI under GDPR for example like names
Completely broken for like 2 weeks now. Such weird stuff showing up. Repetitive videos, weird Indian stuff. Young girls asking if they are fat. It’s creepy.
It's not particularly ironic if you just set as your prior that he is being dishonest, unless there is clear third-party proof otherwise.
From what I hear from my personal connections at Twitter. They will be given 60 days pay so he is circumventing that California law.
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>Forks allow scooping!

Forks are awful at scooping! They're about as effective at scooping as a butter knife. Everything just falls off the sides. I admit the pincers also stink at scooping, but I just hate forks.
I don't think that's how constructive dismissal works (I am a former lawyer, but not an employment law specialist). I believe it is based on objective factors, not subjective intent or awareness of the likely outcome.

If an employer says "you have to come back into the office 2x weekly" that is different from "you have to commute to our new office, located 60 miles away". The latter would be constructive dismissal because it is new, unexpected, and a material challenge for many employees. Ditto if they removed half the bathrooms, didn't provide enough office space for the workers, cut the parking lot in half, etc.

But asking employees to resume doing something that they were willing to do when they first joined the company (assuming they joined pre-pandemic) would be difficult to characterize as constructive dismissal.
Elon Musk's Twitter begins laying off employees across the company
As an aside, people forget how scifi France was and, to a certain extent, still is. Jules Verne was French. Paris is/was "the city of lights" because the French were early adopters of electricity. Descartes, Lavoisier, Fourier... Even the Maginot line was a high-tech approach to national defense, and the French were willing to give it a shot. I'm actually surprised that France hasn't done much, much more to foster high-tech startups. Imagine if they made some reasonable Paris suburb a free economic zone!
SF is the second densest city in America outside of NYC.
I can recommend using the “hack” app to read HN on the phone. Voting is done by swiping, so it’s much easier to avoid unintended downvotes.

(edit: I don’t know if it’s available on android, though. I’m an iphone user myself.)