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Tesla shareholder here - in my opinion it's greasy, but realistically I know that most of Tesla's marketing happens on Twitter and having the platform running smoothly is in my best interest.

I suspect that kind of influence-peddling is how a lot of platforms like Twitter got a lot of sweetheart deals up to now anyway, so it being in the open is more interesting than annoying. The worst part is that it probably opens Tesla up to more lawsuits from 'activist investors'.
Arrival time estimates are really difficult. I much prefer being able to see where the vehicle is on a map and make my own decisions, based upon my own experiences.

However, I played around with one provider (Availtec's) estimations for Birmingham, AL's bus system.

This looked at the GPS position of the vehicle to see when they actually arrived at a stop and back compared it to the running estimation time. As we can see, it isn't great.

https://blog.line72.net/2019/08/06/validating-availtecs-bus-...
In the eyes of everyone that knows you. Your peers don’t know you, they are just business relationships and cast a blind eye to who you are as a person. I’ve worked with many extraordinarily successful people and it’s hard to point to more than a few that are successful people outside their work.
I understand the why, but most of the why is mitigated by having someone present and watching you and escorting you out of the building, which is why I said have someone stand with me.

I've had the other done to me (and have even been the escort at a few other layoffs before) at several other companies, and it's never been an issue (I've unfortunately been present for many company layoffs, I have a bad track record of joining a company while they are growing and within about a year of joining, or nearly so, they start missing targets or lose major contracts and start laying people off).

Seen this happen to at least 100 people at this point. No scene. I don't doubt that someone theoretically could make a scene, but it's not common enough to warrant the insulting nature of the other.

Like I would never work for that company again, and was tempted to leave them a bad Glassdoor review as a result (much more permanent than a brief outburst in-office). But other companies I was laid off from that let me gather my things in person I would at least consider going back to at some point.

However, for Twitter, this is such a mass layoff I don't really blame them for not doing it in person (most of the ones I was present for were like 20 people at a time at most). Plus there was clearly going to be layoffs ahead of time, if I worked there I would have already brought most or all of my crap home so it wouldn't matter much anyway.
> Anyone want to make predictions about the state of Twitter in a few years?

what I hope is that it shrinks to about 1/20th its current size. And then many many smaller platforms spring up. I think one thing that makes social media hard to manage is the sheer scale. It's likely much easier to manage/moderate a smaller social network than a huge one. Also, it wouldn't be as dramatic to be kicked off a platform because then you'd just go somewhere else.

if not that, then i hope Musk moves it from the users being the product to the users being the customer. Charge $10 for 1,000 tweets but keep it free to read. Or maybe charge money for rate of tweets like $10 gets you 5 tweets a day. Make it cost money to engage. Twitter would probably shrink (which is good IMO) but also make more money ( which is good ) and make mobrule, massive information warfare etc cost actual money.
There's a third option: a mechanical ballot counter.

I know that human beings are fallible. That's why I wrote:

> I know that you can use enough cryptography and enough open sourcing to make [electronic machines] secure, but what might convince me wouldn't convince the 'village idiot'.

People are used to the failure modes of other humans. And they trust other humans in a way they don't trust machines.

This is similar to how juries still put a lot of stock in eye witnesses.
I’m not expecting my government (Mauritius) do do some meaningful change though.
They already did a similar thing in a small island: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2021/8/5/why-is-india...
I don't know if it is fair to say "well behind." There are certainly mssing features, such as CUDA and proper video encoding, but using an amd gpu on linux is a seamless experience. Using nvidia cards requires their proprietary driver, and it doesn't always work well.
Yes, and they're being pretty open about it by calling it a pause. They and the scalp taking outrage class get to strut around feeling victorious and in a few months when it's hip to hate some other target, the advertisers will quietly start buying ads again. Pretty much everyone understands the game now and that it's entirely about signaling and nothing else.
In the UK we go to a voting place. We get given a piece of paper. We walk to a little booth, we mark an X next to who we want, we put that piece of paper in a black box. Your name is crossed off on a piece of paper to say you've voted.

That black box gathers a few hundred votes over the course of the day. There are multiple people in the room with that black box throughout the day.

At the end of the day the number of people who have voted and the number of pieces of paper that have been used, are both counted to ensure they are the same.

The box is then sealed (with tamper tape) and transported to a central hall, usually in a car, but sometimes by ferry or helicopter depending on weather and location. Obviously this takes longer for rural areas than for urban areas.

When it arrives, it is unsealed in front of many witnesses, and the ballots emptied. They are counted (how many pieces of paper), and this number matches the above paperwork.

The ballots are then put into a pile in the middle of the room where all the candidates and their teams can see, and are counted by a team of however many (say a team of 20 for a district of 60k votes - tend to be local council workers being paid overtime). From the counts I've seen, 300-600 an hour is a reasonable speed. Those are bundled into bundles of 100 and put into piles on display.

Any ambiguous marking that the person counting or the people watching think is amigious is set aside (the famous "WANK/WANK/NOT WANK" case [0]), and the candidates and their agents get to see and agree on the paper.

Urban counts of districts with c. 70,000 voters tend to get the first ballot boxes about 10-15 minutes after polling closes and start counting. Some have large numbers counting in an aim to get the count done first (in an hour or so), others take longer, but the majority of districts are verified, counted, and recounted after about 6 hours. Some places have to wait for the aforementioned ferry etc so don't report to maybe 12 hours after.

I don't understand why you need machines to vote or machines to count. Breaking the system above by a few votes is probably possible with a small team of conspirators, but breaking it beyond that doesn't scale.

[0] https://www.joe.co.uk/politics/voter-writes-wnk-all-over-bal...
Thanks for this, will definitely work more on core skills
Not sure how this is relevant given that Twitter is not a “micro blogging service”
If you’re laid off you can get COBRA coverage which will keep you on your employers plan for up to six months. You have to cover the entire premium out of pocket though, and for a family of four that’s typically 2-3k/mo.
It's not a tiny detail. ‘VSCode proper’ includes integration with the extension marketplace that everyone expects to use, as well as exclusive access to proprietary, Microsoft-backed extensions which are widely used throughout the VSCode userbase for essential functionality.

Microsoft has arranged things so that actual open-source builds of VSCodium will always be lacking in comparison to their proprietary product.
It's a free market. He'll keep employees who adhere to this culture and those who think the pay is worth it. Others will go work somewhere else.
Can already be done for a few orders of magnitude cheaper (and with several orders of magnitude more bandwidth) with a cellular connection. The people who want to track you/your data aren't going to use satellites, they're going to use Verizon or T-Mobile or AT&T.
A lot of industries got hit pretty hard—travel, education, healthcare, non-profits, restaurants.
Electronic ballot-tallying machines are necessary to running accurate and speedy elections. As we saw in the Arizona fiasco with the "Cyber Ninjas," hand-counting ballots takes weeks, if not months. Additionally, hand-counting has an error margin of 1-2%. In a era where many races are within a point or two, hand-counting ballots will lead to the wrong person winning office.

We also have tons of checks in place to make sure the machines work. There are calibration runs where known stacks of votes are sent through the machines and confirmed at the end. The vote totals on the machines are checked against the number of people who voted. Post-election, election officials randomly choose machines, open them up in front of the public at preannounced times, and confirm that the ballots that have been locked inside the machine match the tally the machine produced.
I have no idea how you can claim to understand risk... then decline a guaranteed X months of pay for an uncertain number of months of pay that might even be less than X.

And the whole diatribe about dead end jobs, while packed full to the gills with angst, is just misunderstanding: usually dead end job means the job continues without upward mobility. Here it means you get terminated once things go from "bad" to "really bad" for your employer and you have no idea when.
And https://NN-512.com
This is a popular idea, but it's not just wrong, it's both systematically and personally dangerous. I am entitled to come to conclusions based on the partial information I have. If someone doesn't like those conclusions, it's on them to increase my access to information.

The alternative means that anyone and everyone can hide anything they like behind partial information, then declare any suspicions baseless and groundless based on their own hiding of information.

I speak only to this. Whether the linked article did a good job of their analysis I don't know. I'm just saying, the idea that people are not entitled to come to conclusions based on partial information is not valid. The conclusions come to should be hedged and made with the understanding that information is partial, but there is no obligation to not come to them. Otherwise you're obligating yourself to walk naked into almost any old scam you can imagine. This idea doesn't scale out into the real world where people happily abuse this.
Just curious, what caused the poor experience with Vultr?
Once Tesla starts advertising on Twitter, just you watch all those car companies will come right back.
If only the Chicago CTA api was close to reliable... It's well known for the ghost buses and disappearing trains. However we wouldn't probably need to call Apis, just refreshing their website would work as it's similar to OP's (or Google maps or any other using the apis).

The best solution here would be to secretly implant a RPI zero with gps into every bus
Cyberfunk ‘93 / lmk what you think
a concept album about automation, Detroit, and race in America
Random passersby is a really low bar. Many won't be able to place nations on a map or name the Speaker of the House either. Which is why throwing out U-6 as a "gotcha!" is so dangerous - somebody who doesn't know better might believe the government is trying to hide something.
Is there a version of this report somewhere without all the PR BS?
522368 excess deaths in the US in 2020 suggests otherwise.
Come on :D CVSS of 7.1, Complexity Low, Availability and Confidentiality High. sure...
Maybe like a timeshare. You can have this car reserved for November .
> Could it be mitigated by safer, modern tech?

Like... Coverity Scan?

In my experience, this bug looks like a classic example for something that Coverity should find.

And it looks like sudo is already on there: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/sudo

The last analysis was 2 weeks ago. I wonder if this CVE is among the outstanding memory corruption and illegal access defects (5 each).
Maybe Elon is still responsible for the loan but maybe Twitter is the collateral. If he fails to repay the loan, the bank seizes Twitter assets but Musk's personal wealth is untouched. Similar to how LLC's shield their owner from being financially responsible.
Ask HN: What’s it like to work at SpaceX?
Every few years I look at Scid, the chess app, and think about learning Tcl just to be able to add stuff to it but then life starts seeming very short.
I'm not a lawyer, but if you provide a platform that enables infringement that's different than if you provide a tool that could enable infringement.

Popcorn time vs. bittorrent.

And you are right the EULA could say "it's up to the end user to confirm you can use this code". But then how do you verify? That slows down "productivity" where copilot promises "speeding up" productivity.
American refrigerators have the freezer on top and the refrigerator section on the bottom. There are other configurations available, but freezer on top is the default and most efficient. Otherwise there are freezer bottom, freezer bottom with a drawer, side-by-side (this is probably the one you're referring to, and they don't seem to be very popular anymore in my experience), french door with freezer bottom, as well as custom shapes (counter depth, narrow, built-in, etc.). But a cheap basic fridge is always freezer top.
So what? XUL was a "technology that respect users" but was replaced because firefox needed to copy chrome.
UK researchers cure man who had Covid for 411 days
The keyboard shortcuts are here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/systemd-bo...
> They are largest trading broker in India.

Trading brokers don't need to make spam-filtering tools, CSAM filters, ads tools, handling huge video/image data, or handling a global audience.

I suspect most brokers's tech is way simpler than Twitter's.
Out of curiosity what is a new competitor going to offer that the existing well established ones like DigitaoOcean, Vultr, etc arent?
SpaceX does not seem to have a problem attracting talent and even poaching it from competitors.

The difference might be in the fact that Musk founded it and allegedly takes part in the recruitment process himself. Maybe he wants to do the same at Twitter. Turning an already existing company with an already existing company culture around is much more complicated, though.
> Spam actually passes the test of “allow any legal speech” with flying colors. Hell, the US Postal Service delivers spam to your mailbox.

We're not yet in I, Robot territory; bots don't get freedom of speech.
Precisely. Most places in Europe, you're able to find ways to fire individual tech workers with whatever notice period dictated by the contract terms. Mass layoffs of tech workers is quite rare.

Mass layoffs (or some kind of forced unpaid leave) is typically something that happens for blue collared jobs when there is a reduction of demand for their products.

The twitter case is different, though. Twitter was a hostile takeover (even in the end, it was the company that forced the transaction). The takeover was not done for economic reason (or that was what was claimed), but because the new owner wanted to radically change the values of the company.

For employees that base their personal identity on those old values, this makes them natural enemies of the new owner. When Musk carries the sink in, he is like an enemy warlord accepting the surrender of an enemy tribe.

After a short tally, the enemy warlord lets half the prisoners go, after disarming them (takes away access to accounts and buildings), while the other half are allowed to join his forces, if they desire to.

This is probably the way this had to go. Letting everyone keep their access to the infra would be crazy. Now the question that remains, is how much does he have to pay those that got fired.
very rarely indeed. but the fail whales did not hinder their growth, nor are they going to make people leave until there is an approved alternative
What is it then? That seems like the best description to me.
Hard to say, because we can only speculate on the true state of Alameda. Sam Bankman-Fried owns both Alameda and FTX and so while they’re separate entities, they are co-mingled in many ways.

Assuming FTX is a profitable enterprise (a big question in the current market) then any problems Alameda faces could be addressed by SBF leveraging FTX in some way to bail Alameda out… but it’s also plausible that FTX is dependent upon Alameda and that Alameda’s faltering could take down FTX.

My guess is that an Alameda implosion is unlikely because, as far as I can tell, they’re not engaging in fraudulent behaviour, just crypto hubris… and so, worst case, they have to scale back their activity… but if they are reliant on third-party capital, and the current economic trend continues… it seems plausible that could trigger major problems in the crypto world.
When talking about a real language like Latin, we say it's dead not when nobody speaks it, but when no one talks it natively.

To me a dead programming language is a language nobody uses to create new projects.
In the UK party candidates and guests are watching the count so would pick that up. It's very rare that the losing candidate plus all spoiled votes makes a difference in any case, and significant numbers of double voting would raise very interesting questions. They simply don't happen.
You should take a look at https://controlplane.com
It'd be pretty easy to create a "defi credit union" that's not a scam, it'd just be hard to cut thru all the noise. Give 3% to 5% yields on saving, lend at 8% to 12%. The problem is people see "230% yields" (which are scams) and wouldn't know your legit 5% yield is for real.
It's called COBRA and it's basically a system that allows you to keep paying for your insurance for a limited time after you lose your employment.

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/cobra

So, it's not really public healthcare at all, but as close to a literal safety net as you'll see here. The individual still needs to find a way to pay for it with no income.
Most states use paper ballots that are then run through electronic tallying machines. This process is completely auditable. This is how people lying about the 2020 election were able to do all of their sham audits in Arizona and Wisconsin.
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Eventually it will be written in javascript.
Which still makes sense, a lot.
A lot of skepticism and negativity here, with a focus on "open source means something to me, not the layman" as well as mentions of is that really helpful, is it auditable, etc. Valid concerns, but I guess my reaction is hopeful because hey there's at least one group of people who are trying to build something that is more transparent.

Maybe it's not perfect, but (at least to me) seems like a step in a good direction. Also for what it's worth the company making the tech has a product for auditing as well. Idk guess I'm feeling more optimistic this morning.
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I think OP is assuming things work the way US mortgages work, where you can walk away from the house. I think OP is labouring under a misapprehension here.
See dragonwriter's point above mine. Specific property rights are not necessary for capital to exist. Can you explain then why the nature of property rights was so different that ownership of it could not be consideres capital? Keep in mind that nobles could in fact sell their land at many points and places during medievil history.

Aditionaly, I made the case that one could say there is no capitalism. Could you explain, then, what capitalism is and why it would somehow only exist from the 18th century or later?
I've been through this a few times. It's very bumpy. Work flows will get interrupted and the remaining leadership will learn quickly to prioritize the bare minimum to keep the lights on. Some will fight the situation and they will also be leaving. The remaining individual contributors will feel stunned and dazed for a bit. Some people will be on edge and/or depressed for a while. I would expect in this case that Elon would bring in people that he trusts from his other businesses. Those people will feel awkward and uncomfortable. With time the remaining Twitter staff and the new employees will learn to get along, realizing they are all individual contributors and that this is not their fault. With time, things smooth out and the business evolves. The most bumpy parts are a result of the people that walked out the door with undocumented tribal knowledge.

I greatly over-simplified the answer but this topic is worthy of a book.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-11-03/how-much-s...

Employees have some protection in the terms of that merger agreement, which states that Musk must provide severance payments and benefits to employees terminated within one year of the acquisition that are “no less favorable” than those applicable before Musk took over.

Ramish Saqib, who worked as a software engineer at Twitter for a year, said he was given one week’s notice and 60 days of severance pay when he was laid off in July. Speaking on background, another former employee said the standard severance for large layoffs was 60 days with additional pay based on years of tenure.

If Musk doesn’t offer similar severance packages to employees laid off in the next year, they would have grounds to sue the company as intended third-party beneficiaries to the agreement, said Lloyd Greif, chief executive of Greif & Co., an investment bank that handles mergers and acquisitions.
> why aren't there any good people who do that to make their employees do great things for the world, and then put the profits to good use? (better use than Musk's "buy a $1M car and crash it immediately" style .)

You mean like the guy who's trying to address the main existential risks facing humanity right now? Last I checked, Musk created Tesla to counteract the existential risk of climate change, Neuralink to counteract the existential risk of AI, and SpaceX to counteract the existential risk of asteroids and other planet-killing catastrophes. Maybe that's why the people at his companies stay despite being pushed so hard?

He could definitely stand to be less of an ass, but I can at least recognize that Musk is actually doing the kind of good work that you're talking about.
I do not have the burden of proof.
That's beside the point if Europe's regulatory structure (among other reasons) made starting a business there less attractive anyway.
COBRA is OK in theory, but as you mentioned it is prohibitively expensive. During the gap between my last employer and current I opted to just take my chances for the month because the cost for even a single person was outrageous.

I think that you can retroactively apply it if you do end up needing the insurance, but you'll be on the hook for the cost of the entire time period until you elected it. I could be wrong though, every person I talked to told me different things and it's extremely confusing to navigate. It's a pretty terrible system all in all, IMO.
In almost 20 years with Linode, I've had nearly zero problems. Akamai buys them, and within months we have an outage. Not encouraging...

On the other hand, it's only hitting my personal website, and the customer I have on Linode seems unaffected, so that's nice at least.
It is the 2nd biggest retailer in our country - 90,000 people.

I am a professional adult not some immature kid that is gonna delete databases or servers - did not even lose my dev rights to our SAP systems or company email until the last day.

Maybe if you treat your employees like babies.