skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah right. This assumes no politics. Reality, and yes, I've been a consultant for too long is that first the consultants, temps, ... go. These are the best and the worst workers.

Then whoever is up for a promotion gets fired. Because, well I'm not sure. Somewhere between threatening the boss' job and jealousy. This causes a number of not-layed-off people to also leave (just read the comments in this thread to see a few people that will do that). Whatever hope your company ever had of good morale is gone and will never return. Everyone hates each other from this point forward, and hierarchy is determined purely on ability to fire and pay.

Then the consultants get rehired for 20% higher pay, the worst workers first. Then the temps for 10% less, because work isn't getting done, and management finds out once again they never knew what the company is actually doing, that everyone used layoffs for their personal gain, and it's created an accelerating disaster. None of this fixes the problems, whether it's customer service or team morale, that the layoffs created, at best they slow the downward slide.

And I guarantee that it'll turn out to be a lot more expensive than never doing the layoff in the first place.
> Hate is something we only recently started accusing others of.

Because hate was normalized before, just like child abuse, spousal abuse, and any number of other terrible things that we call out by name now.

Just because we didn't have a general word for what inspired lynchings doesn't mean it didn't exist.
Yes he became the worlds richest man by luck.

Incredible. The man isn’t smart. Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink were just luck. And he was lucky with PayPal.

No, Musk is only a genius if he does it with a fourth, fifth, or sixth business. Perhaps then he’ll graduate from lucky to fortunate.
I wish Elon could somehow buy TikTok and then fly that straight into the ground.
That reminds me of this (open smart watch with a js scripting engine): https://shop.espruino.com/banglejs2

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino
Then why comment as if you know anything about it? I can see normal people doing that, but this is HN
I've worked in Fortune 50 and in the Gov. Both are equally unproductive. Swaths of people doing nothing all day. Stagnancy is remarkable.

Also, makes it incredibly easy to climb the ranks and get rewarded for it. Whenever there is malaise in workplace, I work twice as hard. Build tools for others, solve their problems, uplift folks and motivate them. What good is it to sit around sadly wasting away your life with a resentful attitude. It's not fun and these people make things worse for others that are around them. By far the worst is working in the Gov. Not only people slack off, but they don't even try to hide it. Openly and shamelessly. It's not my type of an environment at all.

I wanna build shit with cool people and live a fulfilling life.
You're alright with me :-) Glad we don't have a carousel.
I think the comparison being made is why restrict yourself to a rail line when you can buy a huge bus with a driver and private chef and have them drive you anywhere you want.
The difference is Steve Jobs at least knew a thing or two about running a tech company whereas Musk had social media engineers print out code to show his car company engineers.
I live the RV life. Before this I camped in a rooftop tent mounted to my truck. The woods are among the least dangerous places you can go. But also, shocking as this is, you can take your truck or van to dense urban areas if you desire. There is little need for "customer support" when you are driving your own vehicle. Occasionally you get repair problems but mechanics are readily available in even small towns. Van life is not that dramatic.
That maybe takes care of debt servicing, but what about growth? Business exist to grow shareholder value (public or private). Elon needs to solve that puzzle.
The Microsoft suite' integration is something we want to work on real soon.

We didn't do it so far because our main problem was product-market fit, and increasing the addressable market was secondary.

I agree with everything you said, and thanks for the suggestions!
Amtrak does this for free - check out the Writer's Residency Program
I don't see how this is "hyper-optimized". Doesn't seen to be an attempt to optimize anything. It's just a new genre of blogging. A long-form, modern version of ads people ran in the classified section a hundred years ago.

I think there should be an XML schema for these docs ;) Make it machine readable. Then we can talk about optimization.
Surely there is better way to store important documents than Google Photos. That Google is able to identify the type of document that is uploaded to Google Photos is even more terrifying.
That's awesome. I'm tired of how Android and iPhones seem to keep getting shittier and haven't ruled out reverting back to an old PalmOS device.
It takes a few clicks and entering a password to enable backups. Restore also worked fine the one time I needed it. They can go to Google Drive just fine, Syncthing is only so I have the backups going to my NAS instead.

As to ringing, it seems that the six people with six different phones (mostly Pixels, one iPhone) in my circle mean that it isn't good luck on my part...

It's end to end by default vs Telegram which is well known to be end to end maybeish if it's explicitly setup, for private chats only. WhatsApp is WhatsApp. Maybe it's a low bar, but Signal beats those others pretty easily. And refusing to use Signal over those two due to lack of a security audit is a bit absurd... All you're getting from Telegram and WhatsApp is "trust us bro" as well.

It's not an excuse. But considering it IS transparent for many users, me included.... Not everyone is having the issues you are.
Purchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe's shitty app, you can't share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow.

I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!
Yes, of course. Stress and Fear are the cornerstones of responsible leadership. You can say that this is intentional, but it just means he is an asshole.
> Windows deployment isn’t bloated, it just has a ton of actual functionality that real users want and that doesn't come for free

A base Windows installation takes up a lot of space mainly because of Microsoft's compatibility commitments and the implementation strategy it uses to maintain them, and to some extent the way libraries are typically distributed. Neither OS features, nor hardware compatibility, nor the selection of included applications has much to do with that. Microsoft delivers some real value through their compatibility commitment, but it's a different thing than functionality.

> The UX for the admin is also super nice, with tons of online articles and communities with people who are willing to help you do what you’re trying to do

This is frankly a stunning claim. From local configuration being the hodgepodge of many generations of GUIs to the incompleteness to the painful slowness of completing a task through visual imitation to the fundamental hostility automation to the slowness and incompleteness of PowerShell to the absolutely anarchic nature of software management on the platform, administering Windows machines is a cumbersome, manual mess.

> communities with people who are willing to help you do what you’re trying to do, as opposed to tell you why what you want is bad.

This is an illusion afforded to those who come to both operating systems with Windows-centric expectations. In this very forum, you can find Windows users who respond to posters who complain about defects that come up with Microsoft's official Windows port of OpenSSH by telling them they never should have tried to use rsync to transfer files between Windows machines.

With any operating system, there will always be people who respond to questions involving solutions that are at odds with the paradigm, strengths, or cuatoms of the operating system with advice to re-think the problem. (And sometimes, they'll be right!)
Twitter informs staff layoffs are set to begin
> Who's more important the workers or the company?

The workers all lose when the company goes bust.
> 99% of crypto projects are scams, frauds, and/or designed to fail.

So why haven't the regulators done a total and complete 100% ban of all of crypto then?

That is no different to 99% of startups failing in the 1990s dotcom bubble then and in both cases, regulations will significantly reduce all of that for it to be accepted.

The fact is, these crypto projects aren't going away. Only some of them will survive and continue to exist after regulations.
Your original comment made it sound like businesses shouldn't layoff people because they were people who had real lives. After reading this follow-up, I realized you have no issues with layoffs, but you actually just had an issue with how they were laid off. Basically, same outcome, but with more grace.
Does he have people coding through the weekend to get new features done who might unknowingly already be listed as getting fired on Monday?
> So someone correct me if I'm wrong but didn't many Twitter employees start talking about how horrible Elon was and how they didn't want to work for him

I think it's worth introspecting on where you got this impression and what "many Twitter employees" means. It seems to me there are many powerful people who want you to have this impression but that doesn't mean it's true. Twitter had thousands of employees and I'd bet a strong majority of them are not ideologues in the way you imagine. Just people who work 9-5 and value job security.
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/
They don't want people distributing unofficial builds that claim to be Signal due to the risk of supply chain attacks against users.
I don't that's really generally true. If it seems like the company is a "sinking ship", then yes, people who can see the writing on the wall and have food opportunities elsewhere will often leave quickly.

But in this case, nobody is worried about Stripe's long term trajectory or viability. I doubt the best and most employable people are leaving Stripe.
I use it for running the automated browser tests with my frontend stuff at work. The code is in WSL, and running Cypress or whatever with browsers in Windows with code in WSL seemed to not work. But install Chrome/Firefox in WSL, and it works great with WSLg. Chrome on Linux also attaches to the debugger in VSCode, which doesn’t attach to the Windows version of Edge.
> Lot's of twitter employees will suffer

This is the only part of this I am speaking to because the rest is exactly what is happening. Musk messed up and now a whole lot of people are put in a terrible situation going right into the holiday season. It's unconscionable for one of the richest people in the world to behave this way.
I haven't seen him for a while. But I love the author's, Derek Lowe, work. His posts on Things I won't work with were some of the most entertaining science writing I have read. e.g. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
Oh wow. that's awful. Anyone have the actual IPs? that's what matters if the servers and IP addresses aren't seized.
> Turns out this guy who consistently beat all odds

Where is the Hyperloop? Since he announced it China has build 3 thousand miles of high speed rail.

How many cars travelled through boring company tonnels?

How many years ago was Full Self Driving meant to be released?

> doesn't behave in upstanding ways

He was sued for sexual harrasment, unfair dismissal, dangerous working conditions, defamation, reneging on signed contract, by SEC for lying to investors, and countless others.

If an average person broke this many laws, their life would be ruined.
I sense this kind of divide even within myself, and I think it's a little unfortunate.

Reveling in music you love is great! And enthusing over interesting hifi equipment is great!

Do what you love, if you have that luxury, but why be dismissive of related hobbies?
If 50m people pay the 8 dollar a month fee that’s another decent chunk of change.

Will be interesting to see how all these rapid fire changes play out over the next few years.

I’m not sure the path to growth for Twitter depends on a lot of net new development. More so better monetization of the existing platform, which can largely be done via small tweaks here and there
Sure if you are a FAANG, hot startup with funding or offering $300k/year. But if you are a regular company with a normal budget, you are left with nothing.

And I understand this is the market. I'm just pointing is that it's not as near bad as the previous poster has claimed.
They don't need to repeat it every paragraph just to satisfy the cynics. It's a single piece of writing. They owned it.
bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion still up on TOR. fuck them i aint paying for my textbooks. never had a book bill higher than $50 and not about to start now.
Except if Musk succeeds in ultimately destroying Twitter he's holding a $44 billion bag. Kind of overshadows making a couple of years of modest profits.

You'd think he'd be more circumspect about how he handles this $44 billion asset which he does not yet fully understand during his first week on the job, but I guess that's not his style.
While there might not be damages in the literal sense to the owners of the scraped repos, MS is making money from Copilot subscriptions, so what they're doing is closer to selling bootleg copies of a film than giving away pirated copies.
By vs. YC
I would assume it’s absolute value of + and - per PR because otherwise jeez.
I didn't see any discussion of shadow moderation, so here's my 2c. It's wrong, let's get rid of it:

https://cantsayanything.win/2022-10-transparent-moderation/
Thats what they said about Tesla and SpaceX.
The best thing you can do is write OSS and not care who uses it or for what purpose. The more people writing truly free and open software the better. In my mind that is the ultimate end goal of OSS.
I’m having a hard time believing that a large number of people are doing nothing but slacking off at these companies. When people say their tech company has a “chill” culture normally they mean they don’t have to work overtime or during the weekends. Or they don’t get super stressed about hard deadlines. Not that they work 30 minutes a day. I worked for 2 big tech companies that have the “chill” culture label and never met somebody that was literally doing nothing or didn’t have a project assigned. I’m sure there are exceptions but that’s it. It’s not like in the TV show where they go and hang in the roof all day.
I agree with your points and I’m a fan of Meta, and I have skin in the game because I believe in the new company direction. However, I can’t ignore public sentiment. The Quest 2 is a revolutionary product that was nearly ignored just because it came from Facebook. Meta will do better once someone like Sony or more likely Apple convinces everyone that the metaverse is great.
If you're a big tech and even considered using duplicati, you should look around more.
Infer kind of does this, it has multiple frontends and provides linting capabilities

https://fbinfer.com
My timeline has been full of cryptic messages from Twitter employees for the last hour. It doesn't look good. These people are some of the best engineers I've gotten to know.
yes, you can complain that artificially low prices snuff out competitors and long run lead to a less competitive market
Maybe not, if it is smarter then us...
I just wanted to say that I've been experiencing the same issue, I'm not sure if it's packet loss or just high latency spikes but I notice it while playing a game (in my case the game is Old School Runescape). I've tried switching ISP but that didn't really fix the problem, I get latency problems using both ethernet (via powerline adapter) and WiFi. I think the next thing to try would be to switch to a different router/modem (I'm currently using the ISP provided one). If you ever figure out your problem let me know what your solution was.

Others that play the same game don't seem to experience the lag spikes as badly as I do, but I'm not sure whether they just get routed differently or if the problem is in my house or close to my house :(
A more accurate title would have "reducing its workforce" in place of "layoffs". The email does not use that term, which has a different meaning, and different implications.
She's actually great.
The best thing you can do is to stay out of the way. Microsoft will hire very talented lawyers who will craft a strategy designed to maximize the odds of winning.

You have no chance to increase those odds; but it’s possible you could reduce them.
Those are good ideas. The solution I was thinking of would be to do replication of the most popular content to both nodes.
In an effort to prevent blacklisting of domains (oftentimes by internet providers at the DNS-level in accordance with legal procedures), Z-Library uses a homepage at a memorable domain. The homepage does not contain any infringing content, but instead lists many working mirror domains for different regions. These domains can be switched and do not need to be as memorable. For instance, some include numbers.

Nice try, I guess :/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
It says seized, however, this is the first time I've seen a .lat TLD. I wonder if this is Latin America or Latvia

edit: found it! cool!

> .lat is an Internet generic top-level domain (gTLD) for Latin American communities and users wherever they may reside.
They have been for a while. https://blog.1password.com/introducing-secrets-automation/

https://1password.com/developers/
Cracked me up the other day when Ubuntu in WSL2 told me that I needed to install Firefox via Snap if I wanted to use it, but Snap doesn’t work in WSL2 because systemd isn’t being used.
New Zealand gets the unfortunate legacy of having to share the "zero COVID" mantra with a small group of fellow partners like China (which the NZ PM promoted harder than any other leader via speaker circuits). But otherwise I don't know much about NZ to critique.
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It's swapping one bubble for another. From the recent tweets it looks like Musk has a clear vision he wants implemented and isn't really looking to add a lot of diverse opinions to his thought process. He has more FU money than anyone else alive (even if Twitter goes to 0), so I'm pretty sure he'll turn it into whatever new bubble he wants.
This explanation would also indicate why we had less of this issue in the pre-Internet era of broadcast media.

Broadcast is centralizing the conversation, and to maximize viewership / listenership they are encouraged to talk about a broad variety of things... But they're the ones doing the talking.

Apart from choosing to tune into specialized shows, there's less self-sorting possible when the channels and content are finite. You can't easily just tune into the stories you want to hear on the six o'clock news; someone else is deciding relevance and the topics chosen to be relevant are seen by everyone.

But either introduce bidirectional communication or the modern cable dynamic of a thousand channels, and that homogenization goes away.
At least there is still tor.
loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd .onion

Update:

The z-library wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library) lists the following zlib onion domain which doesn't require a login:

zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion
Neither the companies, nor the economy is to blame for this. It's the politicians and the people who voted them who wants it this way...
> I'm excited we get an opportunity to witness a massive cut like this and learn from it.

We've seen a lot of these, what do you plan to learn from this specific one?
Openstory: Creating the social and interest graph of Web3
Feel free to open issues on GitHub if you would like to recommend parsers! Also, the latest version of jc supports parsing of /proc files, which may also help.
Just so. Some big Grinch energy coming from one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
Stripe is a competitive company with not great WLB from reviews, maybe he enjoys a fast-paced busy environment. He gets paid for it. If people at Stripe don't like that culture they can very easily leave and get a more relaxed job.
It made my day that this still happens, and that it exists.. so very cool.
I was alluding to the fact that the Twitter execs deserve a great deal of the blame. There are many guilty parties in this story. Elon is just one.

The Twitter executives have been up to shenanigans for quite some time it seems. That is imo, the actual main reason this deal has been so messy.
I agree with both, but I also think most people would benefit from refraining from going overboard (buying lightest most expensive bike components rather than losing a little weight) in any case, it's not like those grams are going to propel you to win whatever prize against professionals.
My original comment in this thread never contested that. There's worthy conjecture of the provenance of same, but that's a different discussion.

What was found to be true was that Hunter Biden was open to profiting from his association with his father (among other distasteful things).

What has not been found to be true (read the report and tell me otherwise), and that is that Joe Biden himself was corrupt and sold favors. If you cite the "10% for the big guy" quote, you also have to acknowledge that it was ready to be offered, but never shown to be accepted.

Don't you find it odd that will all the investigation that happened by his political enemies that Joe Biden was never charged with anything? Do you think that they would pounce on any opportunity to do so?

But it's been shown by people such as yourself that actual guilt doesn't matter -- just the accusation is good enough.

Also note that I offer no defense to Hunter because what he did was sleazy. I also note that those obsessed with the affaire d'laptop don't care about the corruption of his predecessor and family (specifically his son in law), which was far more vast in scope and in venality.

I am against corruption regardless of which party engages in it. Would you say the same is true for you, and if so, demonstrate that in some way?
This seems unbelievably expensive. How is this funded?
None of that was in the linked article.
Some stocks, yes.

Things like DASH which have high sales multiples relative to what a realistic margin is for them long term. Or software stocks like NET that are still over 10x sales, without a sufficiently commensurate growth rate to justify it.

A company with a 20x PE implies a 5% yield this year. I can get 5% on a AAA bond effectively risk free, or 4.5% on a treasury absolutely risk free. There is close to 0 fundamental justification for a lot of tech stocks still.

CMG with 50 PE implies a 2% yield. Why? What logic is there to justify this? You can invent some story about 20 years from now, or I can take a guaranteed return that’s many times higher today.

Some stocks are very fairly valued though, valuations are all over the place right now and not consistent within sectors. Should Apple really have twice the valuation multiple as Google? Not in my opinion
Spooky Action Potentials at a Distance: Ephaptic Coupling
That's probably a billion in recurring expense of the worst kind.
Debt can be satisfied with an equity issuance in the future post restructure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.lat

What is interesting is that this does not appear to be a Verisign operated domain. The operator appears to be based entirely outside the US. I wonder how difficult it was to seize the domain.
Nope. It's about a fairness. Until Microsoft/Google/Apple/BigCorp all release their software/designs/maps, count me in favor of copyright for the small guy. And I'm someone who especially hates copyright/patents.
What the correct url?
Considering the state of the cameras I wouldn't be surprised if the film was at least partially exposed to light when they removed it from the ice.