skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the email reported by the BBC[1] they'll be paid until Feb 2nd, so that's more like 90 days. Other severance details not yet known, but as I understand it what's happening today is that they're being given notice, but their formal "employment" doesn't end until the notice period is over.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-63511430
They were supposed to get paid on Tuesday.
No, its problem is that it's self-hosted. That automatically limits who will use it. And there are a million servers to choose from. Twitter, on the other hand, has a single sign up page and no difficult decisions and zero technical knowledge required.
> However, with insurance I've usually paid $25-40/session out of pocket.

This is what insured people need to keep in mind.

Always look up the actual cost estimation through your insurer's website first. It's not uncommon for health insurance at tech companies to have therapy options that come out to $20-30/session. Worth checking first!

Also, note that the service offered here is explicitly "coaching" and not "therapy" as you'd receive from licensed therapists through your insurance.
> How does that affect other employment?

You should tell your new employer what's going on - they'll almost certainly run a background check and see it. But absent some specific odd situation, they aren't going to care.

> if I was laid off "normally" tomorrow and got some severance package, that package still comes by way even if I got a new job on Monday?

Technically, this would be subject to whatever terms your former employer wrote into the severance terms. But again, absent a weird situation, they don't care, they're just trying to get rid of you.
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This is good: https://limnology.co/es/creators/UCjtUS7-SZTi6pXjUbzGHQCg

It would be cool to be able to find similar channels in other languages, but I can see how that would be challenging.
I'll fight you
I don’t know if copy right protection is the same as penetration testing.
> I didn't claim that they were not innovative, I claimed that they were not revolutionary - that is a big difference.

Sure, but I'm not sure why SpaceX has to be revolutionary in that sense. It was revolutionary in the sense of taking space launches private. Or am I wrong in thinking SpaceX was the first company to successfully commercialize space launch, and the first company to successfully dock a commercially financed and owned vehicle with the ISS?

> We have taken our first baby steps into space a few decades ago, and none of what SpaceX is currently doing is bringing us to any place new

So what? You can't build a skyscraper without the right foundation. SpaceX is still building the foundations for routine space flight. Again, this seems like you complaining that you don't yet have a penthouse when they're still pouring the concrete foundation.

> If Musk cared about climate change and it weren't just an afterthought, there are more important businesses he could have gotten into (such as green power generation directly).

Firstly, the incumbents are too large in that industry to compete with. He was a millionaire when he started Tesla, and you wanted him to focus on building wind turbines or solar cells to compete with huge multinationals like Siemens? Come on. Electric vehicles was completely underserved market by contrast, a clear business opportunity that also serves similar ends.

Secondly, nobody is so altruistic that they'd work as hard as Musk does on something that they weren't passionate about, even if it were good for humanity. Musk clearly likes cars. Humanity arguably needs electric cars. Musk combined a passion for cars with humanity's need. This is what progress under capitalism looks like.

To say he should work slavishly on something he's not passionate about for the betterment of humanity is setting up an ethical bar that nobody would clear. The people who do work on non-profits are passionate about that.
Example of how much you'd have to "overbuild". Look at example temperature and incoming solar radiation around january - february. Graphs 1 and 3 [1]. And that's for Vantaa in the far south of Finland :)

[1] https://research.tuni.fi/uploads/2019/05/0a103135-p086568.pn...
That's a fair criticism of me using a lazy shorthand, but it really is quite difficult to capture the level of vitriol against Musk. It's at a level I've never seen against anyone in my lifetime. People certain express strong hatred towards him than, say, Putin or Xi.
The debt deal had at least 3 different tranches. I can't find details on how all the $13 Billion is structured (reminder: what I posted above is my best estimate. I'm hoping I was gonna get someone who knew these details better...)

I know that at least $3 Billion is fully unsecured (!!), no collateral involved at all. I forget what the other $10 Billion was like right now though. So its complicated.

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Elon Musk was responsible for the $33 Billion. $44 Billion buyout + some debt (I guess Twitter had $2 Billion preexisting debt?) == $46 Billion total buyout, structured as $13 Billion from Morgan Stanley + other banks, and $33 Billion from Elon Musk.

However Elon Musk raised "his end" of the $33 Billion is yet another mystery. He probably sold TSLA shares, or took a loan using TSLA stock as collateral. But this is independent of the $13 Billion I was talking about earlier.
Because Twitter was bought by X Holdings. Which lend the money and is now in debt, but also owns Twitter. And Musk owns X Holdings.
> Blender would die, is what.

You know, I don’t think it would? If autodesk depended on blender, and the core of autodesk was blender, I think autodesk would throw gobs of money at making sure blender flourished. They’d probably try and hire lots of blender devs too - just to get them to work on core blender features so they could make autodesk better.

There’s plenty of examples of this happening in the wild. Is FreeBSD dead because macos is built on top of a lot of its code? Is redis dead because of redislabs’ proprietary offerings? No.

Is SQLite hurt by all the projects built on top of it? No. The opposite - it’s strengthened by being used.
Blockada 5's VPN runs entirely on the phone. No problems with battery usage.

Using their DNS with Blockada 6? No thank you.

I'm saving the APK and I will sideload it for as long as it will work. The problem is the maintenance of the blacklist. Anyway, a lot of people are interested in blocking ads, a solution will be found.

Is already there an open source app equivalent to Blockada?
Why is your onboarding questionnaire so complex? Is it a regulatory requirement? The "what are the symptoms?" page in particular is absolutely humongous. I felt visceral aversion at looking at that massive list but managed to push through and click Procrastination and Staying on Task only to be rewarded by an extra page.
Ask HN: Is there a spreadsheet of Twitter employee resumes?
I have seen before spreadsheets going around during layoffs to connect both smart people suddenly unemployed and people looking to hire.

I'm wondering if one is making it's way around the internet today?
I mean... They could at least ty to contact the operator.
It's called "the corporate veil". That's the whole reason corporations were invented. He isn't personally liable.
It's worth noting that Tesla was founded 19 years ago. People often change quite a bit in that time. Look at Musk's recent behavior.
Turkey also does the same. You get vulnerability reports.
That's a textbook sanctionable offense. Lawyers don't get to bring prophylactic frivolous claims.
Essentially, the Twitter board was snookered once Musk made a serious offer and the market tanked making the premium >100%.
> The Flatpak means it's currently the only alternative Minecraft launcher that works on the Steam Deck and Fedora Silverblue without needing to use `pacman` or `rpm-ostree`.

ATLauncher exists as another feature-packed Minecraft launcher available on Flatpak.

https://github.com/ATLauncher/ATLauncher
Thanks. So there very likely is not any sort of "weird loophole problem" here.
A good explanation of the incorporation doctrine, with citations: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine
Whats stopping you from resigning right now?
I love how you very confidently threw something out with literally zero rhyme or reason and now when someone challenges you, you have the gall to ask for a source. This is the asynchronous amount of effort it takes to deal with the ignorant

Banks have financed the buyout through 13 billion dollars of debt financing. There's also billions raised by others with Musk financing about 27 billion in his own cash that he raised by selling Tesla stock[0]

[0] https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/story/elon-musks-...
In my experience small mom and pop businesses are no more trustworthy than giant companies.
> What should isMobile return?

There was an joke (real story maybe) about soldiers being allowed to carry up to 25kg of gear, and therefore a device weighting 104kg supposed to be carried by 4 people was deemed not to be portable.
I think the catch with this study is that BMI is different from muscle mass and fat mass.

Higher BMI can simply mean more athletic.

I wish we could tell!
Anyone who has worked with Chinese companies operating within China can tell you that very similar laws were enacted a year ago. The CCP has a law that any vulnerabilities made aware to private companies need to be disclosed to the federal government. This was done in the name of "national security". IMO, this seems to be a more veiled version of that same mindset.

http://www.cac.gov.cn/2021-07/13/c_1627761607640342.htm
https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/is-china-looking-...
I don't think wheat is a good candidate. But also, that article is about an art installation and it doesn't appear to be using narrow band light emission as the light color directly over the plants looks rather natural.
Most people wouldn't consider a 2500 mile move for a job a "fairly easy" thing to do.
I'm creating an encyclopedia based on Wikipedia, Wikidata, YouTube and many other sources of information. For each of the millions of topics in a language-wiki, the software renders a "topic card" with thematic sections, each containing links to other content. Link: https://conze.pt
Some weaknesses of the computer system intrusion/house intrusion analogy:

* It is pretty obvious to the user if their door is locked, so they don't need pentesters to help them figure it out.

* Houses aren't under attack from the entire planet at all times.

* It not that uncommon to have circumstances arranged such that if someone does barge into your house, you know about it.

If the local government wanted to do something that is closer to to what's going on here -- maybe go door to door offering a security assessment for non-obvious stuff -- that might be a well-received service.
I'm making the point that there's no a priori reason why that work has to be independent. No other feature has such a special status.
Yeah, total comp is the number the business cares about in this situation. Salary is only a part of that.

> a lot of that is probably stock options which now must be paid in cash

I won't say that's not a big deal, but it's a one-time cost. Paying $500k today to save $300k / year is an excellent move for Twitter - assuming, of course, that Musk is correct in his estimation that the employees cut were not contributing to the company's revenue.
I work in embedded/systems software and worked in aerospace, have been in hiring committees in the Bay Area for years. While what you say about how Tesla churns Jr. engineers, SpaceX is not much like that. Also they both carry significant 'resume cachet', and I hired both in projects ran by "ex Tesla" and also ran by "Tesla haters" and making a career in SpaceX and in Tesla do signal that you are pretty serious about your performance as an engineer.

I don't like Musk, I don't like Tesla, I don't like (most of) what SpaceX does. But as a professional I can't agree with your Reddit-AntiWork-MuskIsEvil portrayal of those companies. It's just not true.
There is: doas

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Doas
Obviously you can.
Nah, it is about making investor numbers go up.

HP split off its test equipment business because it was steady supply of profit. It wasn't growing so it had to fuck off to separate company (then that test company split into making EE test equipment and "other" test/lab equipment).

All to perpetuate the myth of eternal growth
In the U.S. for security purposes - you definitely cut off email access before actual termination. Employee actions are unpredictable, and poses a legal & liability risk to the company.

Not a lawyer, but employees are only required email access for all if company policy say they must. Usually the policies say access can be removed at any time for any purpose the company management desires, because they are, after all, the managements systems to operate and provide.
Well people don't seem to get it, so I guess you're right.

As others have pointed out, Elon has already been involved with WARN lawsuits from former Tesla employees. He surely understands that the law exists, and what Twitter's obligations are under it. So what else could result in this apparent indifference, which so many other people see, and care about so deeply? Ergo, he must not care about the legal implications of how he is going about these layoffs. Hence, he must be ready to just pay the fines.

But, sure, expecting people to connect those dots must be more appropriate for other social media platforms.
Under English, you have both "diy" and "do it yourself", as well as "english" and "learn english".
Competent leadership can hold back the tide for a while, but eventually you get incompetent leadership and things go to hell. This is why good democracies only permit authoritarian/oligarchic dictatorships in corporate form, there's no decades of civil war when a bad CEO runs a company into the ground.
For Android I prefer Press (com.twentyfivesquares.press), a
discontinued app I asked the creators to open the source code for a few years ago. Got ignored. Probably the only app known to me to categorize starred/read-later entries. Well, a couple of bugs (rare caching issues) and supporting already-dead services are not a big issue even after many years, however kind of reversing and modding it to make it support Inoreader or ttRSS would make me finally get rid of Feedly (seems still to support the original Google Reader API?) whose both web version and the app are you-know-what.
Bummer, I did not even realize it had been over a year since their last, until you point it out. I also hope for a return.
No I agree, that's exactly what I mean. You might still have to pay them, but if you don't want them to actually 'do work' for you that's fine. (It's your prerogative to have ever let them access any of that stuff to begin with, could've changed at any point during employment even if they still had a job.)
> What if the site operators are unresponsive or cannot be contacted?

This seems like only a minor problem. If people are unresponsive, then oh well, they tried to tell you you're hacked. If the site owner cannot be determined, they can email your ISP. This seems to work well for "one of your customers is torrenting movies", and since every ISP is known by definition (thanks, IP addresses), it should be fairly straightforward to get that message to the actual customer. (Send it with the invoice; if the customer doesn't pay invoices, then it's easy to resolve the hacked site. You were shutting them off anyway.)
Apparently I write like Cory Doctorow. I am fine with that. But you could take any non-fiction prose and have one answer. Need more evidence that they also looked at Michael Lewis, Malcom Gladwell, etc.
The broader concept of "free speech" is not a legal one, and so is a lot "mushier" and more nuanced. "There should be no negative consequences of any kind for anything anyone ever says" is obviously way too strong. I think "free speech" is more like: "there's value in hearing ideas that are new, different, or that we actively disagree with, and we shouldn't discourage people from expressing ideas like that".
I would be surprised if this was the result of active scanning. It's more likely the FBI received a report from someone, and just forwarded it along.
I wasn't intending to claim that there were no interruptions at all to in-person learning in private schools, but rather, that for much of the pandemic private schools were open and public schools were closed. My dad and his wife had to switch my half-sister to private school, so she could attend in person. I have never seen a kid so happy to go to school...
You can, you can go to a bank and ask for a loan for an ice cream truck to start a business. It will help a lot if you already have money and just want to finance it.

They'll give the loan to a new company you create and that company will be responsible for paying it back.

A buyout is just an extension of that.
Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team
Level.fyi suggests much higher than 97k
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/twitter/salaries

Although level.fyi is probably biased to high earners who post their salaries and has less data for non-engineers.
> if 25% of active Twitter users subscribe to the plan at $8/mo, they'll double their revenue.

I doubt 25% of active users average > 1 tweet per month. Twitter follows power laws. My guestimate is on any given day, <10% author a tweet, <20% comment. The rest of the actives just read, like and retweet. The latter groups have little to benefit from subscribing
He has not done this with his other large businesses. He has in fact done the opposite, raising them from nothing to hugely successful companies that are also great for humanity. I'm no fanboy - I just call them like I see them.

You'll probably mention a few side-projects of his that haven't done much - but he hasn't flown them into the ground either. They're just interesting experiments.
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Appreciate the thought & explanation here. This is definitely an issue and I'd love to explain a bit more about our thought process here (because we definitely don't want to take advantage, instead seek to raise awareness/ educate!)

I definitely agree ADHD therapy can be hugely beneficial but most of our members have cited it as next to impossible to find a therapist (within their insurance / state / etc) who is even ADHD-informed, let alone practices ADHD-specialized therapy. Unfortunately, I've also gone through this process and found the same.

We in no way aim to replace therapy or put ourselves against therapy. Many of our members are also in therapy (for OCD, anxiety, depression, other things) and we are more than supportive of that. For many of them, their therapists are the ones who recommended them to coaching, and how they found us.

And lastly, yes. If you're looking for therapy, we're definitely not the place to go. We try to make that super clear on our website and in all of our communications (we have many drip campaigns, campaigns, Instagram posts, etc. trying to help raise awareness and shed light on the differences between therapy and coaching for ADHD). Additionally, anyone who comes through our flow (get an email) are given the option to speak with me directly before joining and I can answer any question they have / help them even if the answer is not Shimmer.
> Why not Lisp?

If you want to persuade people to use Lisp, "why not?" isn't very persuasive. If you don't have a concrete reason why, and I'm not already using it, I'm going to continue not using it.

> I never understood why would people need any other programming/query/markup language syntaxes in the first place.

Because Lisp syntax doesn't fit the way everyone's brain works. If it fits yours, that's great. If it doesn't fit mine, well, you may not understand why I want something else, but it's crystal clear to me. Going broader than you and me, it's my perception that most people find Lisp syntax non-intuitive. That's why people need other programming language syntaxes.

But, if you're going to extend it to markup languages, I will give you this. Once you have seen S-expressions, XML looks disgusting.
Did everyone forget how app.net [0] who's claim to fame was "paid twitter" flopped spectacularly while not even being done during a major recession?

Nobody is going to pay a monthly fee for a checkmark, I feel like I must be missing something because intelligent people are looking at this plan as if it's sensible while it sounds absolutely ludicrous to me.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/app-net-the-ambitious-proj...
Hey, me too. Was a frequent poster around the turn of the century, left around 2007, but was considering going back. It seems like Jessamyn West now runs it, which is nice. In its day, it was the smartest and most interesting discussion forum I've been a member of: I still measure everything else against it.
"Valuable data can be kept for three days, and metadata for 30 days. One leaked document states that all metadata is usually kept: 'we pull in everything we see'."

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/why-taking-government-court-mass-...
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If you're a developer of an open source package or library, how are you (or plan on) monetizing it?
Sponsors/donations
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Everything's illegal under the CFAA. It's an old bad overreaching law that should be repealed. The government rarely prosecutes itself though, so that's no reason why. Unfortunately, the culture in the US is such that the populace would freak out if the government tried to do such a thing, never mind practical surmountable issues.
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It's named Keysight now lmao. It split again into "the stuff to do electronics with" (Keysight) and "everything else" (Agilent)
JSON Feed is a thing, not many websites that support RSS support it however.
They rely on sand to provide some insulation, alongside whatever they use in the walls of the containers. They heat the centre of the sand higher than the outside.
We don't have to debate that though to agree that it demonstrates it's clearly not illegal.
If I may white knight for one of the most powerful men in history for a moment: It's entirely possible that Bezos and his wife just drifted apart over the decades and separated amicably. And half of that fortune was always Mackenzie's from the start, that's how marriage works in the USA.
I didn't mean to suggest that it would necessarily be possible today - I doubt twitter keeps a full history of username changes, for example, and they'd probably need to introduce more restrictions around changing them if they were to do so. That can all be part of the 'flaws' in the embedding technology I referred to.
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Hmm I was just trying to make the post a little more interesting by including extra details, making it more personal I guess. I'm far from the world greatest writer.
Of course he does. But he tends to just do shit and let his lawyers figure it out later. Speculating from his past behavior, he almost certainly just fired everybody and his lawyers were like "yeah, you can't just do that, you have to do x, y, and z as well". At least this time, it seems that he's going to actually listen to his lawyers and pay out the garden leave.