skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reals. The fact that C toolchains have never even offered a bullet-proof bounds-checked (no UB) mode, no matter what the slowdown, boggles the mind. For something like sudo, literally running 100x slower would not be an issue. Its highest priority should be security.
Or the intern is pretty good :)
I heard everyone there recently got legs. Sounds like a great way to get around.
It is because he clearly is the villain of the month according to the entire media.

But looking at Twitter, this company was chronically losing money in the hundreds of millions and it seems that he knows that a headcount of 7500+, with extremely high operational costs nearing the billions is quite unsustainable as they doubled headcount very quickly recently.

Either way, the layoffs were going to happen regardless of the Twitter deal, which I don't care, since this is business as usual. I mostly critique Musks plans for FSD, since that is more concerning to the safety of drivers on the road than these layoffs at Twitter.

I guarantee that Twitter would already be run to the ground much quicker if it stayed as it is and adding more headcount. Now, with this reduction, they can save on costs, make more money and bring back Vine.
An article that sums it up well for me is "Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk" in Current Affairs (2021) https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/surely-we-can-do-bett...
> I can promise you that working journalists derive zero value, social status, or self-esteem from this.

indeed it is the other way around, Twitter derived a lot of prestige by essentially pursuing "endorsements" by having their checkmarks accepted by prominent journalists with big audience. Twitter does not control the narrative, except from very fringe issues in which they go with the flow of journalists to keep them on their side. The MSM still controls the narrative and of course they dont depend on checkmarks
Layoff was probably 50% accounting for another chunk of people leaving soon after, so that staff reduction will be 60-70% in total.

Also, I don’t think the majority of people even work on core products.. for example, did you know Twitter implemented their own OnlyFans competitor? It never launched afaik

Step 1 is to trim as much as possible and consolidate core functionality…

Step 2 is back to profitability.

I understand that, let’s see if it works
It likely doesn't. We have a relatively small (European-sized) fridge that, according to EU energy label, should consume 183kWh a year or 0.5kWh a day. I was surprised when the real consumption I measured during normal use, set at 2.5°C, was almost twice that. Even never-opened measurement over a weekend showed slightly more, trough within measurement error.
I interpreted "machine" as "unburdened with empathy."
Only 3 years ago Twitter had 5000 employees. They now have 8000 in 2022. That's a massive headcount growth for a company whose stock price declined significantly since then.
It doesn’t take being horrible and exploitative to build amazing things - it takes that kind of to make insane amounts of money building amazing things.
Personally, I turned my opinion on him when he tweeted about having approvals from major cities for Hyperloop tracks and then the mayor of one of those cities tweeted that they had never spoken to him.

It's clear he's willing to lie and manipulate on a mass scale (and we let him). He's either immature, evil, or something in between.
The reverse question is far more interesting:

Why is Elon Musk assumed to be admirable given the true nature of his "accomplishments?" It is quite true that he's been around and a part of many good and big things, Tesla, SpaceX, etc -- but there's increasing evidence that his "contribution" hasn't been much besides being born rich and following hobbies.

That's not inherently bad, of course. It's no ones fault that they were born rich, and it's great if you can leverage that to do good things.

But the facade is coming off of Musk, and he appears to be shifting from "hey cool science things" to being greedy for straight up power -- which is an absurdly predictable path. This sort of thing happens all the time in history.
I don't read the news, so I'm a bit ignorant on these matters, but mind providing some references for some of these remarks? I'm also genuinely curious as to the sentiment and would like to be informed on the matter.
Yeah, but you know people will be given a severance package if they sign those rights away.

That’s the quid pro quo here.
Sadly, I think you are right, and actually rent seeking is the best term to describe the general attitude of many established university professors.
Companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, and even PayPal are public utilities at this point, and we need better accountability from them. If there's one piece of legislation I think the US needs, it's to make these monstrous, global, faceless, tech companies use a tiny portion of their mind-boggling profits to staff a proper help desk that can actually FIX these kinds of problems. Make the data public, and if the user-satisfaction rate isn't high-enough, stiff (actual!) penalties start being applied until it gets there.

I know this won't be popular here, but I stand by it.
In London? They're usually quite accurate - used to be tracked by roadside beacons so had less resolution but now it's all GPS I think.

Of course sudden traffic, letting an elderly passenger get etc will mean that the countdown won't be the same to the second. But that's going to be the same if you used roadside cameras too.

Generally it should be seen as more of an estimate based on how long the last bus took to arrive from the same point rather than an exact prediction but it's usually useably accurate in my experience.
My Newark node was down for over six hours, this is how I fixed it. Uptime on the VPS had been over a year before this (don't remember why it was rebooted a year ago). Like others here said, I did not greet the news of Akamai buying them with joy, and things like this starting seem to bare my initial impressions out.
The functor hierarchy implemented in Rust thanks to GAT
I think what would help with that is that we start not contrasting Bosch with tech, given that Bosch is a technology company in the most literal sense of that term. A lot of tolerance for these mistreatments comes from the mistaken illusion that 'tech' somehow requires people to act like megalomaniacs. A fair amount of car parts in Musk's very own car company come from Bosch
LoRa's much lower energy, maybe? I can see cell networks if it's plugged in. Or maybe cell radios are cheap enough that you could put one in and fire it up once a day to squirt out data on how to better sell your kids sugary cereals...
Or; y’know, the majority of people here just don’t approve of his behaviour…

Also; downvoting expires pretty quickly. This isn’t Reddit, you can’t just go back and downvote every comment someone wrote. :/
HN is centered around Silicon Valley where the stereotype politics are extreme liberal [1]
Musk is a technocrat more in favour of free-market capitalism and a streak of social conservatism. [2]

Hence the friction.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/silicon-valley...
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Because they're nothing in the world worse than social justice, except for health care, not tolerating racism, and opposing fascism.
Part of that is that google has a team (or four) working on that model and responding to new spamming modes.

If development stops and the model is fixed bad actors can find the gaps given enough time
that's already a good experience, it is how you survived, pragmatically and you even profit from it, just afterwards
I clearly made at least one substantial point addressing at least one topic in my prior comment.
They don't need to substitute all advertisers, just activist ones wanting to influence Twitter policies.
Lmao you must really hate progress. Clearly anything risky is not worth doing and tough problems can’t be solved
There is not much difference. This is just one way to structure that. Basically, this is like a mortgage, where if Twitter goes bust, the bank takes a loss. But if Twitter just falls in value compared to the purchase price, the bank gets their money back. For Musk (and potential other owners), this means he doesn't have to offer any other collateral than Twitter for that loan.
Enough Musk spam.
> He arguably created that market.

He didn't, he started the company at a time where governments all over the word started to really (depending on the country, obviously) kick companies butts for not innovating. There where electric cars before he started his company. Now, you could argue that he made it popular with the people, but I argue that the market penetration, especially during the early years, hasn't been sufficient for that.

Musk also didn't invent space travel. You may have a point with neuralink, but I have yet to see a successful product come from that so if he is to create that market I'll give him that.

He's really good at making his opinions heard though. Other companies don't have a relatively unfiltered channel like this, so it's easy to see how his viewpoints stick out.
If anyone has a lead on which new cars don't call home lmk
In an ideal world, we'd see municipalities, schools, and community services like fire/police move to an open platform like Mastodon.

In reality... they'll probably move to TikTok because "that's what the kids use these days".
He's got an emerald in his mouth when he was born. Not sure if he ever had it.
It's not mind-reading if you look at someone's actions and words then speculate about what their motivations and future decisions will look like - that's just deductive reasoning.
6. Statistically there's number of data points and there's also weight.

3. Yeah people do that but then the vibe of "language" is gone, just a linter.

5. No jobs.

4. That's why it's not a good idea to coerce dynamic type lang, it barely ends well.

1. Same as 3.

2. Yes
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Doesn't the A in ADSL stand for asymmetric?
For me personally, I don’t like single point of failures. It’s less about not like Musk personally and more about “no single person or institution” should have that kind of power for an extended period of time. It dehumanizes us when we don’t need to work with others. As I look around the world today, and it’s headliner problems, they all trace to single people/institutions staying in their realm of power/influence too long. Musk has become such a person to me.
They could, but it would be to the detriment of their core business - engagement. Facebook doesn't want to fragment into million different servers the way that (for instance) Discord does, even though that is how a lot of their users might prefer.

Twitter has it even worse - their whole schtick is a huge chattering town hall. Advertisers and brands want this, users increasingly don't.

I tried to express this in a blog post[0] but the gist is that in their quest for engagement the big social media networks have evolved down a path that is not as attractive to users. The environment (the internet using population) is changing but the big social networks cannot change to meet new needs without ditching the things that make them money.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2022/11/social_media_is_not_dying%2C_yet...
The problem with dating (both in person and in apps) is that you have this period of bullshit during early interactions. It's worse with dating apps, since you can have old/fake/not representative pictures (as opposed to being overly made up in a dark environment) and it's easier to spin a web of lies when you're not being interrogated face to face. Dating apps are also too much work, it'd be nice if they were fun.

My ideal dating app would just let me record short video questions/statements with a filter that makes them somewhat homogenous (no duck face/angle play, background replaced with something generic, etc), then let other people respond with their own similar videos, and an algorithm would order responses based on my past swiping history. This would make it sort of like a tiktok-esque video chat app for single people. If the video questions/responses were ephemeral That would eliminate a lot of the fakeness as well, unless you wanted to get made up for glamour videos every day.
It is incredible to look at these companies and see the staggering amount of losses and costs they have, plus the headcount.

There could be entire departments dedicated to figuring out whether or not the "like" and "retweet" buttons should have rounded corners or not, that sort of thing.

At some point, reality has to hit and apparently, Musk is the one who's going to bring it.

Is it being done in a shocking way to those who haven't been through this with other companies? Maybe. But how else is this company going to actually ever become profitable?
... and Intel wonders why sales are down.
Your post focuses on his technical achievements.

Have you considered his social capital though?

- made various transphobic, fat shaming, and otherwise derogatory remarks against people

- spreads conspiracy theories

- accused rescuers of being pedos

- plays around with other people’s livelihoods like they don’t matter

- he’s been accused of sexual harassment

- he allies himself with other problematic people like Joe Rogan

- he routinely flouts local ordinances, especially around health care

- constantly tries to make it appear as if he’s being benevolent but either does nothing on onerous terms (cave rescue submarine, world hunger pledge), comes up drastically short (ventilator support) or renegs as soon as it’s slightly inconvenient (starlink)

- supports Russia invading and taking land. (Yes he donated starlink to Ukraine, but also overcharged both the US government and the people of Ukraine)

Then let’s look at the technical side, which provide other areas of criticism:

- solar roofs are incredibly behind schedule for many people who’ve signed on

- Tesla routinely fails to ship vehicles on schedule that he’ll still constantly hype up

- Tesla use full self driving as a sales term but are routinely behind schedule on things for years

- Tesla keep cutting parts from their vehicles reducing functionality , while raising prices

There’s a lot of fodder to dislike about him. Maybe people can dismiss one or the other, but they add up and have been adding up at an increasingly large rate recently.

Also I know this will likely result in a lot of sea-lioning responses. I won’t respond to any non-good faith discussion.
This should be a reasonable position to take. There's means and motivation present. The threat model should be taken seriously.
It's good that both sides are held to account. I just hope this is being applied evenly.
"Seen this happen to at least 100 people at this point. No scene."

As a counterpoint, I have seen a scene happening. Nothing violent, but lots of yelling and expletives in front of a lot of coworkers.

Having someone stand by this person when they got fired couldn't have prevented that.
50% of yoursalary is not a simple safety net and is extremely excessive for well-paid software engineers of the sort being laid off at e.g. Twitter.

I support a modest minimum income provided by the government, but 50% of salary indefinitely is insane, it only makes sense if everyone is low paid.
This belligerently screams "entitled". Maybe you should read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I once read a quote (possibly on here) "just because someone has done important things doesn't make them a nice person". For example, Wikileaks was a societal benefit, but it's possible Julian Assange is a rapist.

Tesla has dragged the car industry into electric. Space X has made access to space infinitely more affordable and to some extent got progress in space back on track after a big lull. These are good things.

As a person though, he seems quite out of touch with what the majority of humans on this planet experience. Also more outlets for "free speech" being under the control of the incredibly wealth (see Washington Post as well) is a very bad thing. They already wield too much power and influence enabling them to hold onto incredible wealth while people go hungry, and the need less not more.
Twitter ain't going to collapse even if many left, it's a business. Profitable, and can hire quick

They might slow down but not stop operating
Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests by creating software that did the expected results only during an audit. Doing the same for voting software would be much easier.

There's no way for a computer to completely prove it has the right software for a job.
It's not only HN, it's many people "out there" bashing him. The problem is that people can't seem to have a nuanced view. He has done some shitty things, but he also has done some objectively impressive and useful things. He is a weirdo, but it doesn't seem like he is an evil person.

We all can use some more nuance in our discussions (here's my blog post on this topic from a few days ago: https://canolcer.com/post/we-need-more-nuance/). And here's a great article about "Grey Thinking" by Farnam Street: https://fs.blog/value-grey-thinking/
Mine in Dallas became inaccessible around 7:20am PT and came back around 7:50am.
A decentralized system can still die if nobody wants to use it anymore. If prices continue to fall as a result of more and more flywheels and ponzi schemes coming to light, and more and more people keep losing their shirts as a result of companies getting hacked/going backrupt/etc., then we may start seeing negative feedback loops as more and more people give up and leave.

Arguably this has already started happening.
I (mostly) liked him before the twitter saga. Not anymore. I liked him because he was working on serious technology that was going to make us better. But this twitter adventure is a real problem. Twitter is his spruce goose. His purchase of the company was totally ego driven. He's now laying off half the workforce (3700 people), which will likely severly effect around 10,000 people. Families will be deported from the country, people will lose their health insurance, some will miss their mortgages or rent payments. And here's the kicker. Despite doing all that, the company still won't be profitable as he performed a leveraged buyout. Twitter now has to take on 12B in debt, roughly half of its 2019 market cap. In all likelihood this debt load will be way too high for twitter and the company will go bankrupt.
Excuse the digression.

The proof is not in the pudding, but in the eating thereof. Thus: "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". In other words, someone having eaten the pudding, presumably without much ill effects, validates that the pudding was of a-OK quality.

Thank you.
I see your point, makes sense.
Hmm...

You might be right.

Your comment is but a minute or two old, and it's already downvoted. On the other hand, there are already several other - quite immature - comments critical of Musk, not downvoted.
An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax (2013)
A "Sad!" wouldn't look out of place at the end of this.
>He does not have a desire to make humanity a multi-planet species. He just wants an escape pod from the burning Earth.

These are not mutually exclusive things. The primary reason cited for the desire to become multi-planetary is to use other planets as a escape hatch in case something happens. And they are incentived to escape themselves and leave others here to rot. It's much more efficient than trying to save one planet from armageddon every time.
And yet there's reason to believe that that the unloading of those 10% of Tesla shares was to cover a looming $15 billion tax bill. And he would have done so anyway.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/elon-musk-faces-a-15-billion...

That not withstanding though, what genuine act of philanthropy requires conducting a Twitter poll to ask strangers if you should donate to charity?
A point that is getting missed is that nobody knows what the liabilities are. At one extreme, if the liabilities are all cash, alameda is in a dire place. At the other, if the liabilities are just the tokens on their balance sheet, there's nothing particularly interesting.

Any statement a bout their insolvency is a statement about their liabilities, which is just speculation.
"Back up your data?" Why would you back up company data to your personal storage? That sounds like huge legal trouble
Let's see if this ages like wine or ages like milk.
In a few years, if not sooner, Twitter will be right there with Tesla/SpaceX in terms of resume cachet. Everyone will see their culture has been transformed to one of rigor and performance. The "A" players will surface and they will do more with half the staff (or less even) than they ever did with 7500 people... and it will be noteworthy. Musk will be in the mix heavy for about 6 months. He'll make executive hires that work for him and then will wander back over to SpaceX as they get closer to Starship getting off the ground.

People will be flipping out the whole time and a few Twitter competitors will rise, which will be great. Each Twitter alike will take on its own culture and the bubbles will now be network wide, much like they are with big press outlets like Fox and NYT. But Twitter will be the big daddy that all the journalists are on and if you want to broadcast something it will be the best place.
I started to dislike him after "the pedofile tweet". That kind of behaviour points to dark narcissistic personality traits.

Apart from that, where to start? He has pressured his employees to work under the risk of contracting covid in the early phases of the pandemic, and now as the latest thing he comes off as a Russia apologist, if not outright sympathiser of their war against Ukraine. Musk has an uncanny ability to fall lower with regards to moral standards when you didn't think it possible.
We need some modern version of Ashford v. Thornton to abolish forced arbitration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_v_Thornton
there is a leaked list with 3578 people that's roughly 50%.
> Look at early WhatsApp until they were aquired.

Look at what they didn't do, which was make any revenue, or support any customers, or moderate any content.
The people that stayed at least have a job, but they likely have to pick up the slack for all those that left.
That's not the point. If one cites 'yeah it's because women are responding accordingly', they are ignorant to the fact women are A; not responding in accordance to the idea 'don't trust strangers', B; much safer than before and C; independent individuals capable of making their own decisions.

Whether the statistics would be lower if women trusted strangers less doesn't matter. It's what they choose, despite being educated on the matter since youth, and having plenty of options available in general.
In my area (suburbs) the only women's profiles I saw in Hinge that were programmers were in Standouts - which basically means they are unmatchable. You can try, but you will fail.
US adds 261,000 jobs in continued sign of robust labour market
One important caveat when implementing this manually (as opposed to using a temporal DBMS) is foreign-key constraints, which have to be emulated with check constraints, and not all DBMSs support cross-table check constraints.

Furthermore, even with such constraints in place, I believe it can still happen that concurrent modifications of parent and child rows may result in an inconsistent state, because the reads e.g. on the child table for the constraint triggered by an update/insert on the parent table may see an outdated state that is in the process of being updated by a concurrent transaction on the child table, and vice versa.

It is very difficult, if not impossible, to implement airtight constraint checks for bitemporal data across tables if the DBMS doesn’t have native support for temporal tables.