skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article really conflates language and implementation. My reading is that "this mysterious link between Lisp and OOP" is that you can put values manipulated by a Lisp system in an inheritance tree, and put an eval() method on each.

And with the exception of 3-Lisp's infinite tower of interpreters, "modifying eval in the implementation" is not how anyone extends the language, because modifying the implementation is very much the least portable thing possible to do. The usual suspects for that are macros and fexprs, but the author refers to generic arithmetic, which would best be managed by some kind of dispatch or polymorphism in the language.

The part of threading is also a head-scratcher. The author claims that you cannot run bytecoded VMs with multiple concurrent threads without a lock, only seeming to suggest it is because CPython doesn't do that. One counter-example would be BEAM. And concurrent reads to immutable data structures are entirely harmless, so copying between threads is unnecessary.
In our case the RSUs all insta-vested and got paid out, then got replaced with nothing.
What turned out to be true?

The findings per the GOP Senate committee: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/grassley_johns...
Culture presents much harder problems than science when it comes to social media. Though I agree it’s not a stretch to think he can add Twitter to his successes.
I wish people would stop referring to these narcissistic a(*) who were born lucky as semi-gods.

Particularly on the eve of thousands losing their job and arguably having a hard time to find a new one in this market.
I've worked with a handful of botique recruitment firms that have < 10 employees. They can be really handy in a pinch.
Not to be confused with Ankiflow, where you bring your repetitive tasks together with timed repetition.
I don't try to trick them, but anytime I see one of those "fun quizzes" on Facebook, I always come up with a creative answer than involves working in a data mine, with old Jeb, who I met in '49.

I just want to warn people off the harvesting, while adding a bit of humor.
no more annoying than being called a bootlicker because you aren't a part of the jealous holier-than-thou hivemind
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 when the discussions were ongoing?

Seems like if large chunks of the employee base are talking smack on the possible new CEO, not even as a corporation but as an individual, they shouldn't be unduly surprised if the CEO decides to show them the door when he gets in since he can't be sure they won't be actively hostile.

And I know this is happening in such a way that they aren't just letting go of people that talked smack on musk, but still I don't know what supposed adults were thinking when they were s*t talking their new potential CEO.
Jesus you’re right, I never knew I was a socialist.
Yeah, I guess if you resonate with overly simplified or impractical ideas, then that's probably a bigger problem with the listener rather than the speaker.
Dow is 10% higher than pre-lockdowns Feb 2020 and I hear at least since 2017 that stocks are overvalued.
Well the current events says Engineers were asked to print code which applies to only relevant parties (ex, people who are expected to commit code). If you are QA testing and aren't expected to commit code then it should be obvious that you are not subjected to that rubric.
The current I-bond composite rate is 6.9%: https://treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/i-bonds/i-bonds-int... . (Usual one-year lockup for I bonds, plus a 3 month interest penalty for redemptions before 5 years, and there's a relatively low limit per person per year. Still.)
RH was a joke from the start. To invoke a no true scotsman, I know literally zero actual traders using the platform. Value investors like Schwab for it's customer service. Sometimes they prefer other firms (Fidelity). Day traders, etc almost universally use Interactive Brokers. Having done some profitable trading in my day I can tell you that IB's platform is arguably the best if your capitalization is less than 500,000 (at these capitalizations you can often find more bespoke brokers with even better access than IB, especially in futures). Their "pro" tier allows direct exchange access, and their API is complete (though antiquated). I'm not sure if they still do it but I distinctly remember them offering a FIX API if you wanted as well. IB's pro features do take some money. You have to pay for exchange access, and you pay per leg. But, as the saying goes, if you aren't paying you are the product (pfof).

RH made it's money through pfof and capturing COVID relief checks.Their brilliant corner in the market was a frontend app so easy to use that you wouldn't even think about the money you're losing. Since RH's release, most brokers offer similar (if not equal) platform usability and RH's lunch has been completely eaten. I would be surprised if it survived a few more years before either going under or being cannibalized by actual brokers.
It doesn't have to be that impractical, even today you could include wallet addresses, and a website for verification attached with the movies.

Or perhaps IMBD will include a wallet addresses on cast & crew pages.
We can be compassionate about the folks getting laid off while still realizing that the company was grossly inefficient and needed to restructure -- these are not contradictory feelings. For me personally, I have no idea what "technology and development pace" these layoffs even could effect, as I have seen no real change in the service in the past ~5 years I've used it.

Actually, I have noticed that in the last year or two they refuse to show me more than a tweet or two until trying to force me to log in.
My great grandfather was an executive with some Canadian railroad company and I remember hearing about how my dad would get rides in his grandfather's private car attached to trains going to and from boarding school.
What they are doing is not profitable, he is changing that.

what changes, if not these, would make Twitter profitable?
I mean he single handedly pulled the future forward in two different industries so far. Just because he is not "well adjusted" on twitter doesn't mean he cannot get shit done.
As everyone else you're living in a bubble. In your bubble people probably do hate Windows. Given HN origin in the Silicon Valley - where macOS and Linux are very popular - probably the majority of HN users also hate Windows.

But that doesn't say anything about the majority of the developers out there. From my experience Python and Ruby guys usually do use Linux and macOS, while .NET and Java devs run almost always Windows on their PCs and laptops.
It’s genuinely insane. I feel like I’m in the presence of a cult.
Its not luke hyperloop and the boring comosny were major failures and he was late for every deadline he has ever set.

Past performance does indicate future success. Nothing about this twitter story, from waving due dilligence, to trying to pull of a signed deal, to treatnent of employees, indicates competent management
To contrast, I set up a brand new email and slowly migrated my critical access to the new iCloud domain. Virtually all my other sign-up accounts are still routing to gmail, I just left that dumpster fire to burn and re-access only when needed.

My spam inbound rate has been non-existent.
> would they just let the company continue to perform mediocrely and continue to bloat its burn just for the sake of not laying off people?

Who's more important the workers or the company? I bet the answer to that question will align with people's views on the layoffs.
ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
How much did that cost?
Microsoft employs primary maintainers of the Linux kernel (gregkh) and systemd (Lennart Poettering), among other Linux contributors.

(correction: gregkh works for Linux Foundation, Sasha Levin works for MS).

Azure Sphere OS for embedded is based on the Linux kernel, https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/ossna19/91/Crossover_E...

There's also their NOS for merchant silicon whitebox networking, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/software...

> SONiC is an open source network operating system (NOS) based on Linux that runs on over 100 different switches from multiple vendors and ASICs.. members including Alibaba, Broadcom, Dell, Google, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA.. Microsoft founded SONiC.. as open source so the entire networking ecosystem would grow stronger. SONiC already runs on millions of ports in the networks of cloud scalers, enterprises, and fintechs.
The only thing worse than not having AI, is having all AI owned by a small group of people.
Exactly what "A-players" do you think want to be a part of this shitshow? This isn't building electric cars or rockets, where the cutting-edge engineering work might make up for having to work with someone like Musk. Trying to figure out how to monetize a shitty, declining social network is a whole other kind of problem, and not one that I'm sure justifies a chaotic, toxic workplace run by a notoriously unstable psychopath.

Anecdotal, but I spend a lot of time on a lot of tech forums, and the vastly prevailing opinion among the folks there is "I wouldn't work at Twitter right now for any amount of money."
Sure, but why use a Linux package manager when you can use pkgsrc instead?
The privilege is shooting rockets into space, not working for Musk. I hardly doubt anyone thinks it would worth it to get treated like shit _and_ work on Twitter, but I guess we'll see!
> He is Elon. Without him we wouldn't have rockets landing back.

The man is a moron. His engineers probably would've developed it anyway, just elsewhere.
I got quite excited when I heard about wslG and rushed to install it.

Never used it since. I did have the Linux version of dBeaver installed that way but there is little/no difference just running the native Windows install for that.

The only use I can really think of is doing cross-platform GUI development, but even then MS will say "hey look, native Linux windowing support in WSL" and also "Not yours, no linux version of MAUI for .NET"

Kind of a mixed message.
And Tesla is being sued for WARN Act violations, which mandates 60 days severance, but it remains to be seen if they can enforce it

> An employer who violates the WARN Act notice requirement is liable to each affected employee for an amount equal to back pay and benefits for the period of violation up to 60 days. An employer who fails to provide notice as required to a unit of local government is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $500 for each day of violation. The penalty may be avoided if the employer satisfies the liability to each affected employee within three weeks after the closing. In any suit, the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party a reasonable attorney’s fee as part of the costs. These are the only remedies that WARN provides.

That fine might not be large enough to discourage bad actors
Sounds like a success to me vs. the existing trajectory of a cumulative 16 years of being unprofitable.
Not referring to him as a semi god. Merely stating he has done what one would consider the realms of governments in the past. And one could only do that with a brash non rule following attitude. He went to Russia to buy an ICBM for God's sake. So if anyone can turn twitter around, it's him.
Discussed earlier today:

Mozilla launches venture fund to fuel responsible tech companies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33455383

(96 points, 101 comments)
Agree duplicati is quite immature.

I've looked around quite a bit too but did you actually use restic and duplicacy?

They've eaten my RAM quite heavily, it caused the machine to freeze up by exhausting the RAM on not that huge data sets and I've stopped using them a year or so ago.

I've come to the conclusion to use Borg and zfs as backup solutions (better to run multiple reliable independent implementations), latter being quite fast by knowing what got changed on each incremental backups as a file system itself unlike any other utilities that need to scan the entire datasets to figure out what got changed since last run.

You can run a 1GB memory instance and plug HDD (far cheaper) based block storage (such as on Vultr or AWS) for cheap zfs remote target. Ubuntu gets zfs running easily by simply installing zfsutils-linux package.

If you need large space, rsync.net gives you zfs target with $0.015/GB but with 4TB minimum commitment. Also good target for Borg at same price but with 100GB minimum yearly commitment. Hetzner storage box and BorgBase seem good for that too.
I, for one, would rather not be murdered on the Orient Express.
The maths don't even begin to work out there.

He just made Twitter take on $13bn of debt to finance his purchase, the company will owe around $1bn a year in interest payments that it didn't used to. The layoffs announced today probably won't even cover that extra interest.
Some of you might be interested in The Hacker Zephyr, a cross-country train hackathon with 42 teenagers from across the world.

We worked with Amtrak and an amazing team of train enthusiasts to get 3 vintage train cars on The California Zephyr’s route across the US. We started in Vermont and ended in Los Angeles, traveling 3,502 miles over 10 days.

Short documentary: https://youtu.be/2BID8_pGuqA

Planning documents and finances are open source at https://github.com/hackclub/the-hacker-zephyr
The notion that QUIC + HTTP/3 only benefits Google is often repeated here. Do we think that Google brainwashed or tricked Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, F5, Facebook, the browser makers (Apple, Mozilla / Firefox), the proxy makers (Envoy proxy and all of the companies building on them), Caddy, Traefix, NGINX (sort of), Apache etc.) and others who are supporting HTTP/3 and have written at length about its benefits (through a multi-year IETF process that they participated in)?
It is a large scale restructuring under new management. I'm sure the goal is to try to get this layoff phase done as quickly as possible to establish a new structure with the remaining employees.

I'm optimistic for Twitter's future. I thought it had stagnated long ago, but I'm intrigued now.
> going to be fucking rich

It is the year 316720, and the majority of intergallactic trade is in left-handed and right-handed sugar.
> publicly accessible private transportation

Uber for trains.

There, I said it.
> This is my "if I won the lottery" dream.

Could you explain a bit more about why you would want this? This seems strictly inferior to buying a box truck and converting it for "van life".
In wet-brains:

Interlacing isn't 4-way or 6-way, it's 10e3-way, and each interlaced connection has a weight that's nonlinearly time-dependant based on how long since last firing.

Every cyclic connection is potentially a self-sustaining oscillator.

None of these features are efficiently implemented in current silicon.

"Caution when comparing neural networks to brains" is underselling it. They're profoundly different kinds of network; nobody is building (or even publicly planning) silicon that has that kind of interconnect breadth.
he is going to change ut from unprofitable to disasterous. Have you seen the interest payment that must be serviced on that loan? The whole enterprise is dead, you just dont know it yet
I highly doubt Musk was personally involved with the firing of an individual contributor, sounds like typical HR risk minimization
> He went to Russia to buy an ICBM for God's sake. So if anyone can turn twitter around, it's him.

How is this not a mindless non sequitur. What the hell does trying to buy ICBMs have to do with “turning around twitter”.
Musk has said there’s too many managers. But people here think he’s firing talented engineers. It sounds like they are culling the many layers of management and flattening the company out.
We'll definitely try to do a better job explaining the permissions, thanks for pointing this out.

Unfortunately a fully functioning calendar is key to our product and we decided not to limit features at the moment. We'll consider a "lighter" approach in the future
> I mean he single handedly pulled the future forward in two different industries so far.

This is the single bizarrest and most literally inaccurate use of the phrase “single-handedly” I have ever seen.
Extremely misleading title: A review site measured slightly worse noise cancellation performance after a firmware update. Nothing is being "replaced" (with what?), as far as I can tell.

And is the source for this being due to patent lawsuits seriously a speculative Reddit comment?
> I guess we are finally getting an answer. We will get to see whether the layoffs effect the technology and the development pace, although a lot of the real information will leak out through rumors.

Except it won't take effect immediately. It's not like Twitter will only load 50% of the pages or it will be 2x slower the day the layoffs kick in.

I think the main hypothesis is that Twitter will have an S-curve decline.

Since so much work in a large org is communication, if they're able to do layoffs effectively and actually cut out the least productive people - 50% could take a while to have any visible external impacts.

That's my guess at least.

Sad for the people that lost good jobs, but I'm excited we get an opportunity to witness a massive cut like this and learn from it.
That was a hard red pill to swallow.
It's a new expression to me (in regular use, I had heard it before but not often) but it also works fine. I disagree that we need to get rid of it just because it's old fashioned.
Such a short-sighted view. The grand goal of FOSS was the abolition of copyright protection for code and and the end of proprietary software, was it not? Credit and acknowledgment doesn't even figure into it.

What is a ML model that has knowledge of huge swaths of humanity's code (eventually all of it) and can serve as an assistant to build any kind of software on demand if not a huge milestone on the road to the total software freedom envisioned by RMS and GNU? People will be able to build whatever software they want, easily and at any time, and whatever the code they finally wind up with will even feed back into making the ML model even better for the future. One could still build closed source software or harp about "credit" but why bother? The ML model would replicate anything with a modest bit of effort. It might not have been the path to end-user freedom that the early FOSS proponents imagined but, if it works, that's victory.
If you exclude oodle from your benchmarks?
Your first sentence is an ad hominem attack against the CEO. Your argument can be dismissed right there.
Nothing that is going on at Twitter is "normal"
It's almost impossible to get a decent software engineer who has a strong command of the English language and can articulate himself.

No, it's not.
Do we consider it reasonable that a mature service of 16 years is exposed to 'spectacular' failures when there's a traffic surge?
I didn't last until Verizon, but Yahoo!, for better or worse, was a lot of different products with a shared user database, adsystem, package repo, and mediocre corporate management.

If you were happy with your product, and corporate management wasn't involved, eh, it's fine. I might have stayed at YTravel longer if corporate meddling didn't get to me; although going to an actual small team rather than a small team in a big corp was a much better fit for me and it turned out really well.
My brother in Christ.
I think it's obvious that Elon Musk didn't single handedly pull the future forward. He cannot do this without his employees, especially since we know SpaceX is actually mostly ran by the COO Gwyne Shotwell.
Avalonia is a thing and looks bloody amazing across platforms, so maybe no MAUI is not that big a deal.
Yes that's true. They try to put private cars at the front or rear of a train, but sometimes they aren't able to. So you may have the public walking through as you eat dinner. Comes with the territory {shrug}.

Train crew (conductors) always have the right to walk through the car. If your train goes into Tampa Florida for example, the train has to reverse out of the station to a wye so it can turn around. If you are the end car, the conductor will be there watching for problems, manning the emergency brake, and communicating with the engineer on their radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wye_(rail)

The new trainsets that Amtrak just ordered from Siemens Mobility come with cab cars, so the crew can use that to control the train and not be out in the weather (and have full gauges, etc.) The cab cars are part economy seating so if your private car is on that train, you will probably end up sandwiched between the cab car and the rest of the train and have people walking through.
Does anyone in which fields these layoffs usually are? Probably mostly support/marketing right?
You're quoting from a section of the text where they are explicit in their responsibility to disprove that they use distancing language in a different section of the text.
Manu is well aware of all of this. Quoting his last paragraph:

> I am doing fine. I am very lucky: I have citizenship of another country with good health insurance, I have a green card, I am fine financially (that may have allowed me to speak up more than others). I don’t hold any grudges against people who were just doing their job when confronted with a naive and mildly idealistic troublemaker like me, and I loved my time at Twitter, especially my coworkers.
You're right, and this is in the guidelines. Swipes like these (even if they feel jovial by the writers) sap credibility from posts and civility from the threads.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law

Those markets used to be broken. They are often still broken until the law catches up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal

Turns out if a market isnt well regulated scammers will absolutely run amok. Look at any posting about Amazon here and how much of the comments are just saying it is just fraudulent garbage. When a expert actually does look at something, that's often what they find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508494

The big difference is that it's not illegal to spout whatever propoganda you want, and more than that, it sometimes even has government backing and I can't refute you. If you sell me a fucked up car it's obvious to me after a while, if you lie to me about what's going on in say, Ukraine politics, how can I know you are lying to me? I've barely even heard of the place before the war happened. I just have to take your word on why it's important we need to send these guys billions of aid as opposed to all the other countries currently being invaded.
Twitter runs their own data centers and hardware, so how can "improved auto-scaling" deliver a better COGS ratio?

They require enough computer with relatively static loads that going to the cloud probably makes little sense.
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It's the former. Just people to chat to.
In your case, gmail is the dumpster fire?
You talk about him like he split the atom. He bought into a good idea -- for his finances, that is -- by acquiring Tesla… big whoop!