skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truth Social, one of the biggest private Twitter competitors with 4 million users (although obviously not appealing to Muskfugees because it’s essentially a playground for Trump and his supporters), is literally just a Mastodon instance with federation removed. It’s already happening
I guess you're right, you need 10,000 JS engineers to change a light bulb.
Satire is not believable; this was. So whatever it was it was poorly done. Unless you were already familiar with the dude you would have no idea he was joking. He even put THIS IS REAL in front of the image.
The Red scare left a lasting cultural imprint. Ask any socalist what they think socialism is and compare it to what an American[1] thinks socialism is. Note the differences.

1. obvsly a non-socialist American
I think the author means that they wrote a markdown document, which then was transformed (by a CI/CD pipeline, for example) to the html you see when you inspect the source.

I like your "Serve markdown, transform through a client-side script" approach though, so upvoting nonetheless.
I take it her last name isn't the Ellison right? If so, that could be a hint.
Remote work has changed a lot, but construction in the places where the big tech companies are headquarters is highly constrained. It’s not like they all could immediately triple the size of their campuses again. Tech companies did build large new campuses at enormous cost, but mostly development crowded out other development. Everyone is bidding for the same land and labor.

Reasonably, one company could give everyone an office but there’s no way everyone could do it at once.
> As such, it also measures the income earned from that production, or the total amount spent on final goods and services (less imports).

It's my understanding that the "income" interpretation refers to tax income, because each transaction is taxed.

Take a look at your quote. It says it's also the "total amount spent on final goods and services". If you buy bread for 1€ and ham for 1€ and sell ham sandwiches for 6€, no one had income of 8€. At most, the state charged VAT on your 2€ purchases and 6€ sales.
Really? Sunglasses before control over the 100s of Millions of devices the vast majority of people use for hours every day?
Things are going good. The Chief Information Security Officer, the Chief Privacy Officer and the Chief Compliance Officer are all gone for good, along with half of the employees, basically everyone needed to keep things running. It is a remote-first company, but everyone is ordered to work from the office.

Update: Twitter's Head of Trust and Safety and Head of Ad Sales are also gone.

Meanwhile Elon Musk is running around haphazardly trying to monetize the entire platform, sacrificing verification for no reason and replacing it with a paid tier. Other platforms like Youtube offer to verify you for authenticity when you reach a certain number of subscribers, which doesn't have to do anything with also having a paid tier. The difference is that Youtube Premium pays content creators, not charges them like Twitter Blue. Sure, content creators will pay to be featured, but there aren't that many of them.
Could you elaborate on what conclusion we're meant to draw by this being Musk's personality? It doesn't inform whether what is doing is good or bad, megalomaniacal or not, etc. The list of people doing things that are "just their personality" include Gandhi, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Mother Teresa, MLK, and Hitler.
There are fully-decentalized exchanges which have to have much less counterparty risk (because anyone could take the other side of your deal, so you don't want to trust them). As a simple example, imagine a contract which I send 1 ETH to, and if you send it 1000 USDC it'll send you the ETH. The big counterparty risk with that system is that the price of ETH will skyrocket and someone else will call the contract to make the trade before I can cancel it, but that kind of thing is hard to avoid in any system.
TikTok?

TikTok is a behemoth and it really kicked off during the COVID lockdown when people had nothing better to do. It's the latest, and best optimized, social media algo dopamine hit. (I sometimes regret downloading it but it's too late now :P )

Unless it's straight up banned, it'll take over for the other platforms.
Ah, I was specifically talking about Sonic Fiber, which is 1Gbps (but apparently exists in a 10Gbps variant for businesses as well). Too bad it does not service all of SF so far.
So many people finance solar, or lease to installers growing with investment money, that pullbacks this year and next are inevitable as rates rise. State and federal incentives don’t bring projects into the range of discretionary cash on hand for typical homeowners.
> Do people on HN actually travel with this enabled on their iphone?

I have nothing to hide, but I travel with a secondary phone that I wipe before crossing international borders, to which I’ll happily give law enforcement access.
Is it legal to defraud people in other countries from the US? I can't imagine that it is.
Unless one is a game developer, otherwise using the NDK is an exercise in masochism.

In any case, Intel devices used to have ARM emulators, and Android on ChromeOS still does it.

https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/device-support#arm-t...
isn't that just his problem now?
Egg whites have only been used for centuries in French cuisine as a method for clarifying liquids.
It doesn't seem like he really cares about the place though
If half of the army hates you and is trying to make you lose, yeah.
Twitter employees are in the top 1%. They're not poor factory workers. They also own the means of production; a computer.
but what does the compute look like? and could you use other signals besides the words on the page?
SBF tried to throw Ellison under the bus in his latest tweet storm saying that he was shutting the fund down and that her tweets (some of which appear to have been either straight lies or attempts to manipulate the market) weren't approved by him.

I would suspect that both of them get into legal trouble.

Btw, I would say generally: quant investing isn't a scam, Jane Street make most of their money from ETF AP...that isn't complex, most of the high capacity strategies are quite simple (index replication being one, stat arb being another). The more complex HFT strategies tend to be (at their root) about detecting when someone is moving the market: for example, XYZ fund gets new money from investors, they deploy that into stocks, and HFT is about detecting that and calculating whether that is going to move the market (and XYZ fund now deploys various execution algos to stop HFT funds detecting that they have a huge order that will move the market).

There is nothing wrong with this work and, contrary to what people think, it is valuable. If you look at what it cost to invest capital even ten years ago, it was expensive. As in: $10-20 for a single trade. That has gone down to pennies, and created trillions of value. Saying they are all scammers because one guy is a scammer is not really a valid criticism.
I worked at a place that did this in 2009.

The problem with this method is that many people DID relocate to keep their jobs. And then were layed off two months later.

Imagine uplifting your life for your job, and then being told you need to find a new job anyway.
This is such a total hit piece with all the right bingo hot words and themes: Brexit, "Island mentality", "Not European", "Sun has set on Britannia", "Pirate roots" (?) to name a few. Total poisonous bile.
Twitter Executives Robin Wheeler, Yoel Roth Are Departing
How, exactly, does this work? Forgetting your phone's password potentially becomes a life sentence.

In the US, a defendant was held in contempt of court. Eventually the courts decided that 18 months is the maximum incarceration period to try and force someone to give up a password [1]. Which still does seem pretty chilling: forgetting your password can land you a year and a half in prison.

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-...
I've been looking for a self-hosted implementation of this for quite a while.
Agreed.

I wouldn’t want to work for Twitter w/o remote work, but I don’t think he’s stupid.
It’s not over, the higher court just send it back to the lower one. But still, I find it concerning.

If you happen to read French the appeal court publish a good technical summary.

https://www.courdecassation.fr/toutes-les-actualites/2022/11...

Par conséquent, en l’espèce, la décision de la cour d’appel est cassée et une autre cour d’appel est désignée pour rejuger l’affaire.
WOW. This is fantastic. Works for me in desktop Safari!

My only recommendation would be to use more broken HTML, but that would probably be a pain to maintain.
Exactly - like the OP you replied to - Slope are trying to hire a Head of engineering for a salary that competent mid/senior level engineers should be easily getting. It's no tech industry, and the work is less fun
Getting rid of remote work is an excellent way to chase away your best employees while retaining people with nowhere to go.
Fine, but please stop making it illegal for those of us who do want walkability
> . The solution that causes the least voter dissatisfaction is to lower the standards

I believe there is no such consensus in UK, you are just trying to rationalise incompetent governance and ideology.

Last prime minister's best thoughts on Brexit was a 10 minute rant about cheese. Wether honest or corrupt, good or evil, how does a person of such modest ability come to top office? Trully the land of opportunity!

https://youtu.be/UFNRUuBARM4
Goodness me. Got pointers for me to read? Thanks.
I wonder if there is some sort of tax strategy Musk can implement if Twitter goes under? Might be more valuable dead than alive to him.
> […] these companies wouldn't have succeeding pushing their product.

Supply- versus demand-side problems.
Why would it be any different from his other companies? I wouldn't apply, but if some people are willing to work at Tesla, surely some are also willing to work at Musk-Twitter?
No civil asset forfeiture: cop pulls a drug dealer over, the drug dealer bribes the cop and is on his way.

With civil asset forfeiture: cop pulls a drug dealer over, the drug dealer offers to bribe the cop, the cop laughs and takes all his stuff anyway, books him, and the police department buys a martini machine.

Kind of a weak case, but that was the best steelman I could think of.
Sequoia marked their $150M investment into FTX down to $0 in a letter to LPs[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/sequoia/status/1590522718650499073/photo...
<i>: The Idiomatic Text element
I made a half-joke here on HN a few months ago that Musk was buying
Twitter just to destroy it for the lols.

Maybe everyone's wasting their time with rational economic analysis,
trying to figure out a pretty simple guy with an obscene pile of
fuck-you money and an axe to grind.
Where most average internet users never left aol and advanced users had a webpage?

We live in an environment where most users don't leave the safety of facebook/twitter/instgram/reddit. Advanced users are running darkweb sites and doing a number of things the average person isn't.

The world hasn't changed much. Are you seeking out and supporting the unusual or are you waiting for it to come to facebook/instagram first to tell you about it?
> I'm trying to think of a rebrand that I truly hated and that led to actual decline in something.

I'm not claiming that a bad rebrand spells doom for the entity (though I guess there are probably examples of that)—only that I can think of few rebrands where the new brand _made me more positively disposed towards the entity in question_.

And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one; consider this list of brand U-turns: https://www.yourprojector.com/rebranding-u-turns/

The last one is particularly hilarious, because I attended the University of Waterloo in the late 1990s when they rebranded from a crest even older than the one shown as "original". In fact, that older crest looked just like the "final" crest. I'm glad they've finally brought it back; pity it took more than a decade to rectify the error.

> Reminds me of that parody pepsi logo document. (At least, I think it was a parody?)

No, I'm pretty sure that was actually real. At least if it was a parody, even CBS fell for it: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesig...
In the same vein, look at how Plenty of Fish has a huge customer base, and runs on very skimpy hardware. Back in 2006 it had 45M visitors a month, served up over 1B page views a month, all running off three database servers and two load balanced webservers. Guess how many employees? One, Markus Frind[1].

1. http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture

Of course things have changed, money will do that.
Swiperjs
Good advice. As a Lisp developer, I have used Swift and it seems like a nicely designed language, very good tooling on macOS/iPadOS and OK on Linux. Go, Rust, and others are also good.

Off topic, but I thought it sad how once 9/11 happened with the side-tracked war on terrorism, the NSA and FBI apparently (from my private citizen perspective) stopped doing much of the previous great work on public support for computer security, going after international computer crime cartels, etc. As a US taxpayer, I would like to see them prioritize that type of work.
Raspberry Pi CEO Talks Pi Inventory, Next-Gen Boards
They are providing safety and liquidity, your statement is laughable, honestly.

The safety is personal — no one can rob your home when you're gone and steal the money under your mattress because it's not under there, it's in a bank.

And in regards to liquidity, if you can tell me the exact day, time, and amount you tried to pull out of a consumer bank (large household bank names) and instead of getting cash in hand the bank told you "sorry, we spent your money on loans, we don't have any to give you", I'd love to see it.

Bonus points if then the FDIC didn't cover it.

Banks provide both safety and liquidity at the consumer level. It would also be a really bad idea to continue to encourage everyone to pull money out of banks and hold it in cash — both economically and personally. People largely benefit from banks existing, that's, well, why they exist!
Are you concerned with the privacy implications of uploading every detail of your life to a cloud server?
Agreed.

If you look at the Biggest Loser Study, their metabolism was horrible afterwards. They all ballooned back up. Wish they would have published thyroid test results, as I suspect the participants had wonky thyroids.

There’s some diet drug which does ramp the mitochondria up, but it works so well, people cook themselves, and now it’s illegal.

I expect I’ll be on Mounjaro either continuously, or for a month or two per year, every year for the rest of my life.

With Mounjaro, you can effectively fast for an entire day without much issue. Which reminds me, I haven’t had lunch.

However, I expect my metabolism is going down as I remain on Mounjaro, and when I stop, expect I’ll also rocket back up.
I'm not sure a huge tech recession is exactly proof.
Here's CA's stance, and consider that CA is probably going to be the most protective state in the US when it comes to these things. Other states with decent labor protection mostly copied our laws.

https://workplacerightslaw.com/library/retaliation/construct...

My take:

The TL;DR is that it's just equivalent to getting fired. If you can prove you got shuffled out the door via constructive dismissal for reasons it's illegal to fire people for, then it's illegal. If at-will would've applied anyway, it's just a jerk move. Mostly it means you still get unemployment and can still sue for wrongful termination, even though you technically resigned.

What I suspect might be more of an issue, at least in CA, is that our at-will law has a "good faith" clause that basically implies you can't fire someone for a reason that would broadly be considered unethical in the context of an employer-employee business relationship. The classic example is canning someone just before they get their commissions purely to save yourself of the cost of paying them. My guess is that's one reason why Facebook, for example, is giving all their employees the mid-November vest even if they got fired first.

Constructively dismissing someone out the door probably takes away a lot of argument that you were acting in good faith.

If they promised these people that they could work remote and they invested in property then get forced to move, I actually wonder if it could open up the company to promissory estoppel (i.e., I had a financial loss based on a reasonable promise you broke, and now I want to recover).

The times I've heard about that cause in the past were exactly for situations where you moved for a job, then the job was rescinded. At the very least, that angle probably wouldn't look great in court during a wrongful termination suit.

(IANAL either, but since I work in CA I try to stay reasonably informed of the laws that affect me.)
Not your keys, not your Bitcoin. Move it to a Ledger hardware wallet (or other hardware wallet) and keep a secure copy of your seed phrase somewhere so you can restore your wallet in the event your Ledger fails, is lost, etc.[0] It's also a good idea to use a passphrase (memorized and/or stored separately from your seed phrase) so someone can't easily access your wallet if they find your seed phrase.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=crypto+seed+storage
I wonder though if microsoft settles but is allowed to continue doesn't that create some kind of moat around their product?
The smartest man in the world can still make mistakes.
Actual happiness was not the point. In the Navy, the CO doesn't have to care about employee happiness, anyways, while Musk sort of does. 'Happiness' was a rhetorical device I used there.
Twitter head of safety and trust Yoel Roth is leaving the company
To be fair, he owns most of the place
Tech workers are the new factory workers. I’m unsure why you’re advocating so hard for tolerating abuse from the extremely wealthy (cult of personality?), but that is your right. Abuse need not be tolerated when labor regulations provide you leverage against it.
FWIW they teach 1 in MBA schools, if MBAs are doing 2 it's despite their education, not because of it.

Also most top tier MBA programs are an excuse to get wildly drunk basically daily and make a bunch of powerful friends, so it's very possible most people who go don't learn a damn thing.
They do mention that explicitly. But that further confuse me then.

The circumstances seems to be “we Know you conducted illegal trade on that phone”
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Same as you, e-commerce store, along with other mostly web projects, quite a bit of real-time and long running requests. I also use Gevent extensively (I prefer it to asyncio).

We use Gevent or Asyncio in a small number of routes that either have long running requests, SSE in our case, or have a very large number of rear facing io requests we can parallelise (a few back office screens and processes).

The complexity that asyncio would add to the the code for the 95% of routs that don't need it would add a lot of unnecessary overhead to development.

My point is, I don't believe it adds any value 95% of the time, but does, sometimes significantly, 5% of the time. I think it's better to only use it where it's really needed and stick to old fashioned, none concurrent, code everywhere else.
just have her move on. banking would be more stable, apparently pays more. she wouldn't get the 75k match in your scenario thats what a 50% raise using your numbers? Company is probably hard limited to say 3%-10% max raise by HR policies.

If she did get the raise they know she's been looking so she'd be the first to be cut in the future anyway.
Wow, a great quote. It left out child labor as well but I guess you have to keep it concise.
That makes 5 high level managers/execs in 24 hours.
Probably a good time to mention the original mission statement of Bitcoin was to custody your own money without counterparty risk. Time and time again we have seen altcoin ponzis and exchanges collapse under the weight of their fractional reserve. What is still working? Bitcoin.

Greed in this space causes people to act with a more short term view for quick profits while ignoring fundamentals. Over and over again.
Success is not really a measure of intelligence. I actually think Elon is likely quite intelligent but a lot of success is determined by luck, ambition and attitude rather than pure intelligence. I definitely do not think Donald Trump is very intelligent, but he has undoubtedly been very successful.
As always, the country known for its human rights (or so they advertise themselves as), is gonna get reprimanded by the european court for not respecting the human rights.

Good job France.
The couple people I knew with remote work in their contracts actually want to be let go at this point, wasn't saying it was a gotcha — but they'll need to renegotiate or be terminated.
Stable Diffusion and Dall-E 2 seem to have created a watershed moment!
Let's not pretend his goal was to sell more cars; that's ridiculous.

But to your point, he's always seemed to have this philosophy that climate mitigation doesn't have to be a compromise. In his vision of the future we do all the things we do now and more, but we do them better.
Sort of, but only the kind that didn't obey Elon's hastily drafted "rule" that require clear labeling of parody accounts.

Some (hilarious) examples of what I mean can be seen here: https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1590593334216916992

These are amusing to look at, but for Twitter to be taken seriously long term this can't keep happening. Musk's $8 Twitter Blue change is what unleashed this chaos in the first place.
Thanks, I did figure this out eventually, I’m just frustrated that it took me watching the video and scrolling through the landing page for a while until I got it.

“Software that sings for you” is a great explanation, which should have been right there at the top of the landing page instead of that endless stream of buzzwords.
How can companies not check app size increase before submitting it.
The comparison is apt, but you can ignore the federated timeline if your instance is what you came for. From what I understand though, the on-instance caching could be problematic if there is a sudden massive increase in user numbers (and people from your instance start following them)
>Like going after Amazon for their union stance

why the fuck not? It helps the american people vs helping a company
I have been buying flights for 20 years and not once has that crossed my mind.

It goes:

Number of stops -> arrival/departure time -> layover time -> cost.

I also feel like I only ever have 1 nonstop flight option, maybe 2. Maybe the biggest airports have sufficiently redundant flights, but even then, surely most people know points are worth 1% at most, and in my experience, flight prices differ by hundreds.

I would be confused if I learned people were buying flights based on points/miles. I assume the miles/points are mainly utilized by very frequent travelers, or people using credit card rewards.
I will chuckle if government contractors start advertising "Made with Rust!" in FCW/NextGov.
I made this comment to a friend recently that I don't think enough people are considering that he might actually be mad enough to have spent $44B to destroy a toxic business.
I’ve been told many times that Twitter is a private company and can do whatever it wants.

Or does that only apply to the Red team?
While I dislike the way Google has managed the whole Android Java story, the way they have doubled down on a managed environment for computing is great.

Certainly not the first, yet it shows how it can look like when everyone is committed to make it happen, unlike what WinDev did during Longhorn project.
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