skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it invalid to criticize any policy ever that a company imposes on its employees?
WSJ has another article with more information on that:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-poured-money-int...

"Silicon Valley Poured Money Into FTX, With Few Strings Attached"

"A marquee roster of investors from Silicon Valley and Wall Street swarmed FTX. They invested nearly $2 billion with few strings attached and no oversight on the cryptocurrency exchange’s board, promoting it as a safe bet."

Anyhow, The board of directors consisted of SBF until the summer of 2021. Then 2 "independent" directors were added, 1 was an FTX executive, the other was a lawyer in Antigua
It's automated, like most DCO/DCP tools they are primarily done for the American market and lack "sensible" defaults for other markets.
Maybe Musk just likes explosions. Rockets, batteries, Twitter...
This should help: https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...
Seeing as you're a gun apologist (#99), am I correct interpreting this as approval?
Yeah everyone is going to sit around at restaurants and stand in lines reading NPR and the Atlantic on their mobile phone,maybe a little HN to spice it up. Netcraft confirms.
There's always an "everyone blocks me and no one likes me" fear in hosting your own instance, and yes you will run the risk of preemptive blocks if people don't like how your instance looks.

The particular combo here, though, is "lurker only instance" that also spams follow requests. If you don't spam follow requests and are selective about who you follow (like a human rather than a bot), you have less risk of this specific paranoia. Lurkers are fine to many Mastodon users. Lurkers spamming following requests are a concern.
Most companies already realized remote working doesn't work out. Hard to admit but it is the truth.
Nevermind that in a partial remote scenario, like anywhere from 20-80% of the staff are wfh on any given day.
Link to video for anyone who didn't see it yet (like me): https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1585395267552960512
Yes, I cannot wait for the chance to take my own company's legal liability onto my own shoulders so I can prove how faithful I am to my new leader!!
You can now no longer reorg or have people move jobs without physically moving to someplace else around the world.
I spent less than a dollar one day to automate solving some stupid government website form that i was scraping data from. I have no experience in that but it was pretty easy and captchas are close to worthless for any bad actor with even half a brain
It's not like your income is scaled to the housing costs though. I just checked craigslist for Los angeles and Columbus, Ohio. 1 bedroom average in LA is $2000 and change, Columbus its $1000. For a year in the average 1 bedroom, you are only paying $12k more or so for the unit in LA. Other costs are about the same, the same MSRP for consumer goods, about the same grocery bill (certain food is honestly very cheap in LA due to its year round availability), about the same $10 pints of beers and $12 entrees at your typical late 20s and up drinking/eating establishment.

Most engineer salaries however are substantially higher on the west coast than in the midwest, much higher than a $12k pay bump that would have covered the difference in housing costs for average 1 bedrooms between these markets.

I don't think its so much that engineers on the west coast pay a lot more in cost of living and therefore have to get a higher salary to put food on the table the same as they do out east. I think its simply that engineers who happen to be on the west coast are tapped into an excellent network of job opportunities and tend to be highly trained, and for companies to get at this network for its talent themselves, they need to pay these inflated west coast rates to get into the door. This is just what the prices of this market have come to be, and they must have gotten to such a point through other factors than the paltry in comparison difference in cost of living.
That is a looong shot! The responsibility for my passwords is mine and sole mine!
Other thing is being negligent with password security, and a breach leading to damage of property of life... but forgetting a password is not a crime! never.
> so why shouldn't we go back to the old normal?

Because we like the new normal.
That's because it's actually not-so-distant history (e.g.: Microsoft)
It is my understanding that Twitter has been extremely friendly towards remote work.

Switching that up from one day to the next is just inhuman cruelty without empathy. I’m not even taking any kind of legal perspective, just a purely ethical one. The disruption to employee’s lives can be enormous.

I’m so happy to live in a country where this would be quite illegal to do.
Look at the inflation measurements for fuel oil. It swings wildly. In September prices went down. In October prices went up.

If "more money makes each dollar worth less" was the story then we'd see all goods inflate at similar rates. Perhaps it'd be delayed from the money printing but we'd still see this consistency across industries.

But we don't.
not everyone has the luxury to work remote. for the average person in the area of your 200k house how easy is it to afford with a normal wage?
It is dangerous to extrapolate from one case (or even a few notable cases in recent years) that venture funds have "little oversight" over portfolio companies. These are the exceptions rather than the rule.

Obviously, some boards are better than others at oversight, but the complete absence of a functioning board, as was the case at FTX, is definitely very, very unusual.
Bugs happen in iOS too.

> all you need to do is find a pixel 4 or older and you’re golden

Its worse, it works on most Android phones without the latest security patch, not just Google phones.
Don’t hold your breath.

Newman, Karpelès and others are alive and free.
Interesting strategic window: You can't innovate and software engineer using 1950s style "butts in seats". Maybe this is a signal twitter isn't going to innovate, develop, and maybe even operate, internally, at least going forward.

You need code for a new feature? Buy a startup that already wrote it. You need to keep something running? Contract out instead of employees.

Very few companies have a full time plumber or carpenter or electrician on staff (except for obvious obscure exceptions of course). He might be planning bigger changes than people seem to think.

What fundamentally does twitter do? Sell ads by moving data around using enormous first mover advantage of account numbers. And that needs a huge employee count why exactly? I am not asking that it did, or it did in the early days of the technology, or what the competitors do.

All industries, after the heavy employment phase, move into a value extraction phase. He seems to be betting on the heavy employment phase being over for tweeting. Honestly the only question is timing, is he just right or too early?

Maybe tweeting is now like railroads or heavy industry, no longer employs entire neighborhoods or even cities. Maybe SV is about to become the new Detroit.
Staff cuts mean there are fewer people left to do the same amount of work. Nobody likes that.

Staff cuts can target high earners (so better programmers) as easily as they can target worse programmers.
Of important note-- open source doesn't necessarily mean free. You can still require paid licenses for eg; commercial use but still provide the source code/allow modification.
> SEC often asserts jurisdiction over anything where American domiciled investors have suffered a large loss. That bar will definitely be met here

Thankfully for Sam, US investors are banned from FTX and must use FTX.US which so far has not been linked to any of this.

So its going to be very hard to show US investor harm given that they are all banned from using it by US law.
Asciidoc is not in any way a dsl to generate markdown. Being far more expressive than markdown would obviously prevent that.
pending his own money to pay the employee

If you're claiming his paying them out-of-pocket, can you provide a citation?
But if they are sold to people who then rent it out, instead of selling it as a home, it has reduced the stock of housing. The game being played is to try and force as much of the US as possible to be renters instead of owners.
Note that this statement, while semantically true, is highly misleading:
"Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act in 1914 because it was unhappy with the enforcement of the Sherman Act, the original antitrust statute."
In truth, the laws were harsher vs anticompetitive conduct before the Sherman Act was passed, with a history going back hundreds of years (in England) under the rubrick "Restraint of Trade." This was common law, not statute law.

The Sherman Act was the first statute, true, but its main function was to kneecap common law penalties by limiting penalty amounts. President Harrison was sincere about limiting monopolies, according to his writings, at least, but it's not at all clear that sly John Sherman (brother of railroad president and General William Tecumsah Sherman), was.
I think you have it backwards. This is how you accomplish a 75% reduction while only having to lay off (and pay severance for) 50%! Musk again playing 4d chess.
Some rules are not allowed.

Not allowing remote work is still allowed, but I don’t think it’s far away from being socially unacceptable. Being legally unacceptable is just one step beyond that.
I love these extremely boring articles with zero pictures or videos.
I’d love a stupidly happy looking car such as the Microlino: https://microlino-car.com/en/microlino Driving is ruined for my by aggressive looking huge cars.
just look any country that has ever lifted its people out of poverty. a very recent one is south korea go look at real estate there
What you are describing is more akin to what GitHub Copilot already does. It is really good at taking a description and a function signature and producing a solution. Paired with a solid test suite it can definitely speed up development in my experience.
How about ground flax seeds?
Or aquafaba?

They work in other contexts as egg substitutes…
https://twitter.com/HNeumannMEP/status/1590715700012011522?c...
just today "Hannah Neumann" German parliamentarian to EU has talked about this.

The title is misleading, but its true that the fascists want to execute some so called leaders on fake charges like "Waging war with god"[0] or "Corruption on Earth"[1]. As one of the recent sentences you can look at [2],[3]. This is not unprecedented unfortunately, and one of their tactic to maintain/restore the fear they project to the society to keep the power.

[0] حکم محاربه
[1] حکم فساد فی الارض

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirabah#Iran

[2] https://twitter.com/drninaansary/status/1590525645590667264
> Kurdish rapper #SamanYasin accused of "enmity against God" for supporting protests against the regime in #Iran has been sentenced to death by Judge Salavati known as the "Judge of Death." Salavati has been sanctioned by the U.S. & EU for human rights violations.

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63559971
The two big oceans on either side of us helped quite a bit. Not being an easy target of your enemies might matter more than any given policy.
Do you have any examples? Would be interested to read sone
Still waiting for Elon to reveal the killer feature that he wants to upgrade Twitter with. He did have a plan right? The checkmark thing is just a temporary screw up right? Elon acting like he is having public meltdowns is just a gimmick to get more engagement on Twitter right?
I'm running out of copium here
I assume the larger portion of what's "untenable" is "short commutes"; spending multiple hours of unpaid personal time in a car per day just driving to and from work so that you can have the place you sleep be affordable is a huge downside of a lot of in-person jobs that used to be taken as more of a default pre-pandemic, before so many places showed "yeah we could let you work from home but we just don't want to".

The downsides of an open floor plan can be at least partially countered by headphones, but there's much less that you can do on an individual level to make up for having that much of your personal time locked up in pure transit.
Ask HN: What's education apps you'd want and ready to pay for this?
Hello mates! I am looking for ideas for new education products certain on mobiles.

I'll be glad to hear you proposals!)
The rapper/producer Deko has been doing some very interesting stuff with adding vocaloid synth characters to rap/hyperpop music. He has two vocaloid "characters", Lil Yammeii and Lil Hard Drive. Most vocaloid rap I listen to is terrible but this stuff is super well produced. He'll even do things like add breathing noises to the vocaloid tracks, which improves the sound a lot. https://youtu.be/usRDtHjYKzU

He also has some funny parodical bits he does, like rapping about having a lot of money/jewels/etc and then the vocaloid characters rap about having a lot of RAM.
Cultures that are creative and innovative in general are good at rewarding such behaviour. I kind of realise in a way I've only ever works in shared leadership situations as experts needed to contribute and be motivated to contribute to developing innovative products and work. Only through collaboration and generating their own motivation could I deliver and thus get promoted. However, I would say some who were more power orientated shot up faster at times, only to eventually fizzle out in the long run.
A few more:

>This site taught me everything I need to know about covid-19:

>fakepandemic.com/

====

>Here's the truth about black people in America:

>whathastrumpdoneforblacks.com/

====

>Here's the truth about abortion:

>abortionfacts.com/
So, he fires thousands of them while hob-knobbing with other billionaires on the other side of the country.

And his first company-wide communication is rescinding previous WFH policies without much reason.

What an absolute knob.

Edit to add... He demanded a company-wide all-hands on one hours notice, then appeared 15 minute late. I hope every employee worth their salary walks, Twitter implodes, and Musk loses much of his fortune and all of his cachet. What a narcissistic asshole.
If the matters can go to that violence, you have bigger problems that somebody playing candy crash with your phone...
Wait, so you have an employee that can get all their work done using 20% of their working hours and then spend the rest of their day ensuring they don't burn out and you want to become adversarial to that employee?

Because clearly they are getting stuff done if they can post that video and not get fired. Otherwise, you have a low performer slacking off which is its own, completely separate issue from the video itself.

It's like that quote from The Office where Michael says Jim is a lazy worker because it takes Jim 20 minutes to complete a project that would take Michael hours to complete. Seems like you're saying you want your least efficient employees and can't be bothered to understand the working habits of your most efficient employees.

Or maybe, just maybe, using time as a sole metric isn't the best way to evaluate employee effectiveness or efficiency.
Yeah exactly. That's why you can't really do it with a language model like GPT-3, you have to bake into the architecture the concept of a "link" as a first-class object.
Nobody understands crypto from a financial perspective. That's why all the big crypto companies keep dying in new and interesting ways.
Probably. But you might not want to work at a place where this is at the whim of a manager. Or where your non rock star colleagues are treated like shit.
Longer form content like books and video essays have lots of room for ample citations and demonstrations.
Fediblock just re-centralizes blacklisting to the (opaque) maintainers of that list, which defeats much of the point of federation
Since they are dismissing the Lock Screen _type_ (SIM, PUK, Pin) and not the instance, a logical example for where this might go wrong is if you have dual SIM. Then again, worst case you dismiss the incorrect SIM Lock Screen. That will not give you full unlock and also the ‘wrong’ SIM will still not work
Also, apologies for responding to you twice with the same thing. I think I mixed something up and didn't intend to do that
I'd be fascinated to read these published things if anyone can point to them!
No, you have it backwards. If you wanted 75% reduction while only having to lay off 50%, you make the unpopular decision _first_, and then the lay offs.
I honestly think the government prefers it. Both app stores are American, and fewer people to call when they need a favor done.
Simple.

It is always can you trust the other party.

And that's the basis of society, government and money.
do one thing, and do it with a file handle.
As someone who worked at Kroger ~10 years ago, even then credit cards were probably only 60-70% of payments. A lot of cash and checks. The loyalty programs had their start when it wasn’t quite so easy to track purely via payment. Also helps to connect a person with a definite address to mail brochures/coupons to, and to link accounts when someone changes credit card numbers, etc.
Not a Mastodon user, but I'd imagine most admins follow common sense.

If your server only has a handful of accounts that obviously correspond to you and your friends, I don't see why anyone would have a problem with that.

On the other hand, if the server has 100s of accounts, each of which follows a large number of people off-server - yet somehow no one follows anyone else on the server and no one ever talks a single word, that would probably raise some suspicion.
>signal commitments to (1) digital transformation and (2) diversity & inclusion

Just another victim of the ongoing cultural revolution we are living through.
Do they? You're the first one I've seen who has equated those two things.
Yeah, sure. Because society and culture does not change and evolve. It's standing still like its 1905 when predatory capitalism was all the rage and people was still angry for loosing all their literal slaves.
At this scale those are not just his "own" money otherwise we are going to have another Nero and Caligula moments again in the future.
The individual home flipper working out of their own money is going to only choose projects that look very favorable. The corporation is going to hire a manager and that manager will probably be told to close a certain amount of deal flow and will feel pressured to close deals that aren't very profitable and not have such a financial incentive to keep the deals profitable.

The corporations trained an AI on data that showed a strong upward trend in selling prices. The result is the AI predicted that most flips would be profitable and thus almost always said "buy."

This worked until the housing market slowed down, the upward trend in selling prices slowed (and reversed in some cases), and the AI predictions of profitability became wrong.
Not necessarily...

https://www.engadget.com/an-apple-machine-learning-director-...

And in this specific case, Elon's pride may make him see everyone as replaceable.
Maybe now people will be able to cross the street without their phones in front of their faces.
Beats the animated GIF memes that cause seizures
> Just this week, some random person decided to start indexing every post on the mastodon network. The backlash to this was incredible. A lot of servers blocked this instance, and the guy got banned within hours of announcing his indexer.

Kinda puzzled by this. Who's out there posting to the open Fediverse with no expectation that their posts are going to be seen, indexed, and possibly archived? It's like publishing a web page and expecting that search engines won't index it.

Just like with other services, you should expect that anything you post to the Fediverse will be there forever, tucked away in databases, indexed by search engines, and outlive you. Even more so, since editing or deleting Fediverse posts is more like a polite request than an actual command; some servers ignore such requests even if your home server complied.

That people are getting upset at this idea gives further credence to the idea that these newcomers really have no idea what they're joining up to and are just hoping that "Mastodon" matches the ideal Twitter replacement they have in their heads with little to no understanding of the reality of its workings.
"I don't like this standard" is not the same as "there is no standard".
Musk: “revenue per employee (1 remaining) has gone through the roof!”
Doesn’t seem like a full unlock, see the next paragraph: “After accepting my finger, it got stuck on a weird “Pixel is starting…” message, and stayed there until I rebooted it again.”
that sounds wild!
I cant think of a way they wouldve broken your 2fa...

Any way to make sure there is no compromise of your system in general? Is fb the only account that got taken over?

Your current steps seem very sensible to me.
I recommend to safe your credentials in a safe store e.g. bitwarden.

If they have a fb exploit there is nothing you can do, but i think that would be a bigger story.
> At least early in the pandemic, US healthcare providers weren't routinely aspirating.

... What? Here in Germany, that's like one of the basic things that people who deal with needles on anything alive learn.
Living in a city is unpayable, roads are congested at peak hours, the environmental damage from commuting, etc
> - The Boring company goals may be a pipe dream (har har) but the intent is there to provide hyper transportation, akin to 50s trashy comic ideals.

It's worth noting that what they're pushing is not tunneling technology but a particular mass transit system that is essentially a repackaging of personal rapid transit (PRT). Although, unlike the PRT system constructed 50 years ago and every other PRT system built since, Musk's version requires human drivers (as it relies on unmodified Tesla vehicles which are not self-driving).
Not a snarky question : what about having data and config in yml, and some high level tool like ansible or terraform and the occasional bash?

You loop and branch in ansible/terraform

I hate that setup but also I have a hard time thinking of something else
Twitter's C-level privacy, compliance, and security management resigned today (yesterday maybe?). Twitter is currently under two FTC consent decrees. Probably unrelated to anticompetitive practices, but interesting timing.
That's a 415 area code number, and because Jenny has lived in Marin County the entire time (since 1981) she has never suffered an area code change like many in the Bay Area have over the years. ;)
The danger isn't fediverse defederating with Google, it's Google defederating with the fediverse.

Look at what happened to jabber/gtalk...
It feels like remote work is a distraction here.. it's more like Musk realizes he bought a company that was in a lot more trouble than anyone out in the public can understand and he's scrambling for anything.

Everyone is all worried about what this means for remote work at other companies when it might not mean anything at all since the other companies don't have the same circumstances as Twitter.

Also we're all defensive cause we're attached to remote work.
I think his plan was to buy Twitter so Trump's twitter account would be reinstated. Guess Elon is now going to have to buy truth social and make it part of twitter to get his way.
This is interesting! I wonder how different the results are from just indexing the contents of the page and semantically searching them (vs. trying to predict the next link). Have you tried anything like that?
I think it could only possibly work if "subscriptions" were not directly to twitter, but to other twitter subscribers. Premium follows to content creators, charities, individual journalists, or politicians. Where you get some "club only" content and interaction. And Twitter takes a piece off the top
the market values of big tech growth companies with no dividends did, to some extent.
Seems like blaming the economy/stock market can make for a good cover if nobody looks too hard.