skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and an even sadder fact is usually only ~ $2-4 dollars goes to the professor / author on a book that costs $100-300 dollars for a student to purchase.

A lot of times the person spent so much time and energy writing their book, this is a major motivator to mandate / force it's usage whenever possible.

One time my art teacher made us buy his book, but it was only $30 and was pretty good actually, and I still have it on my shelf today. However, such cases are the exception.
This seems to me to be a byproduct of the “hurry up and close the deal”. May not have had replacement leadership but felt the need to take out the executive team.
This is a pretty myopic stance that says everything is fine. It’s not. PR histories can be gigantic, interwoven, doesn’t tell you how and only sometimes tells you the why—-usually at a very fine grain of detail. Saying that you can “document it right” is like saying “code it well in the first place.” Much of the time there aren’t great comments or PRs, and what there is ends up assuming a huge amount of knowledge about the why/how. If you’re an outsider coming in, we should be able to do way better to help.
N social networks with M/N people each are not remotely the same as a single network with M people.
In principle, sure, but this submission and all the others I've seen is clearly in the "speculation and gossip" bucket. The only non-speculative information here, that Twitter offices are closed tomorrow, is moderately interesting at best and we can see upthread that nobody's really interested in talking about it except to feed tangential speculation.
Absolutely none of that is new, its all recycled from 2008, 2001 and prior cycles with minor tweaks for current conditions.
Fred Brooks has died
Think of it as negative goodwill. It is not objectively measured, in the same way that goodwill on balance sheets is not objectively measured.

But it’s a real thing. Qualitatively it is the impairment from people not wanting to do business with you. In Twitter’s case, that manifests as decreased advertiser demand, which results in lower ad prices.

And to the extent Twitter is losing MAU, that impacts ad inventory.
I can totally relate to having the condition, but I've never tried alcohol for treating it. When you do eventually get access to healthcare again (assuming you're addled by the failed US healthcare system like I am - healthcare being only accessible via employer provided health insurance...) see a psychiatrist about this and ask about social anxiety medication. Paxil was particularly effective for me at one point in time. It takes a few months to fully kick in but when it does, the effect doesn't really feel all that massive, you just kind of notice a sort of...ease that you may not have had before. May sound somewhat alien to you now, but I encourage you to give that a try as a more long-term solution than using alcohol. It's definitely a hell of a lot safer!

That said, I do NOT judge you for using a glass of wine to get you through a pinch in a tough time, and to hell with anyone who does. Use what you've got, get the job done. When you're through hell, THEN you can focus on the better long-term option. But for now, do what you gotta do.

That said, IF you have access to a licensed psychiatrist who can prescribe something, you could use goodrx.com as a temporary stand-in for insurance. I'm seeing prices for genric paxil (paroxetine) at 30 tabs of 40mg for about $22 bucks via CVS with GoodRX here in Texas right now, so it may be an option for you. That said, it does take time to kick in, and mixing with alcohol is ill-advised. Still, I do suggest this as your main option, but again, no judgement for doing what ya gotta do.

Good luck to you, regardless.
I'm fascinated by Vitamin D and it's effect on the immune system. Particularly the association between deficiency and increased risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease. We put together a tool that scrapes semantic scholar, summarizes and key word extracts and then maps keywords in relation to each other. We chose that topic as one of our sample dashboards.

https://summit.groundedai.company/vitamin-d/

One weird thing I noticed was that Vitamin D supplementation, while it improves outcomes in terms of cancer, does not seem to improve risk of cardiovascular disease. Maybe it's just that people who get sufficient Vitamin D from sunlight are more likely to get outdoors and exercise ;-) But it made me wonder if there's some additional benefit of sun exposure, some vitamin we haven't discovered yet.
Aren't there still massive gains on the table? I'm totally naive on this but I recall hearing about other materials, such as graphite iirc, that could achieve 100x CPU hz.
A century ahead of their time.

https://youtu.be/N4oNOZoIS0o

(Possibly nsfw)
The Saudi one is well-known - they're the second largest equity holder in the new org;

https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/158597522656711065...
You can grab static binary tarballs on https://pkgs.tailscale.com and then run tailscale in userspace mode: https://tailscale.com/kb/1112/userspace-networking/.
You're missing the point. The amount of the intervention should vary. There is a huge variation in response to varying levels of variation. This is just common knowledge in medicine.
Newer ferries run by BC Ferries (in British Columbia, Canada) are being set up as optionally-electric. Two will be in service where I live soon, replacing a slightly larger single ship today.

The new ones have diesel engines running a generator, for electric propulsion. Once the mainland infrastructure is in place, they can be upgraded to run as plug-in electrics. I had a tour on one recently. Where there is one bank of lithium cells along one wall today, the room has space for another three or so.

FWIW, these are short trips, ~10 minutes each way. Under diesel power, they've made their way from a shipyard in Romania to get to Canada.
Annie Ernaux turns memory into art
I think they're referring to this from The Ethics of Liberty:

> Applying our theory to parents and children, this means that a parent does not have the right to aggress against his children, but also that the parent should not have a legal obligation to feed, clothe, or educate his children, since such obligations would entail positive acts coerced upon the parent and depriving the parent of his rights. The parent therefore may not murder or mutilate his child, and the law properly outlaws a parent from doing so. But the parent should have the legal right not to feed the child, i.e., to allow it to die. The law, therefore, may not properly compel the parent to feed a child or to keep it alive. (Again, whether or not a parent has a moral rather than a legally enforceable obligation to keep his child alive is a completely separate question.)

It's a pretty extreme view. However, he points out that parents still have a moral obligation to feed their child, and goes on to argue that removing the legal obligation would actually make things better for children. I think his argument is that bad parents who don't want their child would be able to sell their child to a nice family, and anyone who cares so little for their child that they'd let them starve would probably rather just sell the child.

I'm not a libertarian myself, so I don't agree with this. I'm just summarizing.
If I give a friend a copy of a DRM‐free copyrighted ebook, delete all of my own copies, and he pays me, isn’t that equivalent?

It may be impractical to verify that all my copies are gone, but is there any reason it wouldn’t hold up under first sale doctrine?

Any 17 U.S.C. § 109(d) experts in the house?
Pascal was probably intended to mean "classic"/procedural Pascal and that's been out of use for ages even in academia (just like Scheme). One might as well call out Algol. Anything even remotely useful these days wouldn't clock in that far behind Java or C++ from 20 years ago as for "surface", or indeed behind the closely related Ada no one would dream to suggest either. I realize you were not referring to the keyword measure, and Python already demonstrates how useful that is, but for a rough guide:

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Reserved_words

That's clearly more than 30 something. It's a huge system in other respects, baroque, I guess somewhat like Common Lisp once compared to Scheme. Whether still useful debatable. Lua indeed and JavaScript is what comes to my mind. Or if you already like Python and it's just about "speed" that's what Nim is supposed to be all about. Besides hardly getting more performant I'd keep my fingers off dead technology (like Forth!) unless you're really into the history thing, exotica or the sheer mind-boggling, which is also cool but sadly rarely productive.
Can't do anything about billions of dollars worth of fraud, or 346 dead by corporate malfeasance...

But a library of Alexandria? Get the State Department on the line, we're going to Argentina.
> Elon would be crazy to think that anyone that did click is doing anything but trying to find another job while at work.

Haha, can someone tweet this at him so he sees it. He thinks he'll be getting dedicated loyal employees (let's deem them the Yes-clickers), but if he becomes aware of this flaw in his plan, he's going to treat them with paranoia and mistrust as well.

I really munch popcorn hope he twigs that soon.
I suspect this works at Tesla and SpaceX because working on rockets and EVs is intrinsically cool and motivating for nerds, in contrast to whatever kind of company Twitter is.

But I don’t understand why everyone is so dour. Either Musk figured out how to fix Twitter, or we no longer have to deal with Twitter. Win win.
That is true. But I'm not sure the fix was worth it. Those uninsurable people were often able to get government assistance, and there were charities that helped them.

No one is helping the ordinary personal with a high deductible - and don't forget the huge deterrent it is to seeking medical care.
You might be surprised. My first prescribing doctor emphasized that an appropriate dosage wouldn’t disrupt sleep and might even improve ability to get to sleep. He wasn’t right about several other things, but on this he was exactly right. So much so that early on I took a morning nap about an hour after meds kicked in because I couldn’t stay awake. Now with a higher dose I don’t get so lethargic, but I certainly could sleep when the meds are effective, more than I ever could during daytime before.
The other more targeted avenue is Benzodiazepines which are way more addictive.
Believe it or not, but digital cinema projection is done with jpeg 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema
If you are somewhat important at Twitter (part of keeping the lights on, not new features) you would do well to take the severance and look else where. If Elon comes knocking get a huge upfront non-refundable signing bonus and dictate 'softcore' terms for re-employment. Better if you can find out who else is being called back and then you can all sort of work together to get better terms (create a very high floor).
I don't think this is serious. Hotz's license plate is FUELON, and he runs comma.ai.
Presumably you'd build a coherent plan for what the future company would need, figure out which employees are best suited to get you there, and then make strategic layoffs to non-core services and teams outside of that scope. Or you could send a Google doc to every employee with two days notice saying "Click here to work yourself to death for uncertain reward" and then be surprised when hardly anyone agrees.
Who said they are contemplating it? They simply took their boss’ offer up, and it is the boss who is so paranoid about the reaction to his actions that is locking up the place. Musk and Musk alone caused this and is now getting people like you to somehow blame it on the employees.

Everyone who didn’t click the button has probably already moved on with life, unlike Musk, who I bet tries to back out of the promise of three months of severance.
To be honest, I didn't expect to be back here after only two days. Say again?
Me too. I'm not proud of that.

but it looks like somebody had their eyes on that issue

Expires: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 3:59:59 PM Pacific Standard Time
You need to drink ginger ale:)

Am I on HN or Shroomery?
People get layed off from companies all the time. Why is it the end of the world when it happens at Twitter?
You gotta do a lot of nice things before people will trust you or associate with you
Its still ground breaking work...
Hopefully that reminder never slipped pasta your attention.
So you're saying it's an apt comparison? Ha.
They removed the DRM‐free download option too.
It's wire width the finest wires doped positive or negative do the job. So a transistor is some 3d layered construct based on those wires
With Javascript Modules[1] on the browser, you can quickly build plain HTML, CSS, JS locally without the need for pre-compiling. Just import directly from unpkg[2] locally and start building!

In terms of references and learning resources, I always go to MDN or javascript.info

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
[2]: https://unpkg.com
He's definitely serious about it.
I have no firsthand knowledge, but from the screenshot alleged to be the email, it did look a lot like a phishing email.
Please don't call names on HN and especially please don't do psychiatric name-calling.

You may not owe billionaire CEOs who you feel are psychopathic better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure. I don't think tailscale does anything that's impossible through other means (cue comments about how anyone can recreate Dropbox with an FTP server, svn, and a fuse file system). IMO whats great about it is that it's easy to set up and is incredibly low maintenance (at least they way I use it).
Some people, especially those with darker skin living outside the tropics during winter months, find it impossible to maintain the recommended blood levels just by eating good food. While overdosing can be dangerous, that would take a pretty extreme amount of supplementation for most people.
My initial interpretation is that social debt is the antithesis of social capital and represents things like burning one's credibility, demonstrating untrustworthiness, losing respect, etc.

Some querying on the Internet shows people discussing social debt as a software engineering concept. In that context, it seems to be parallel to the idea of technical debt but revolves around the quality of the social dynamics of a team rather than the quality of the code.

In any case, it's definitionally not objectively measurable (and I'm not sure why that would be desirable), since it's about people's perceptions and subjective experiences with each other. One can, of course, subjectively measure it.
Not sure if troll or real but… “Twitter terminated my employment this afternoon. I was in charge of controlling Twitter office badge access.

Elon just phoned me to ask if I could return to assist them in regaining access to HQ after they disabled all badges and locked themselves out.”

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jLtFzhv
He could have backed out for only $1B--the dumbest and smartest $1B ever spent.
I remember an old webcomic (Ran from 2003-2007 IIRC) called Kid Radd, about retro video game characters who end up set free from their original games by getting uploaded to the internet. There's a major shopkeeper NPC character, "Itty Bitty" with a running gag where he's missing the lower half of his body because he's always been drawn behind a counter. He can become invisible by entering his "crouch" animation.

Metaverse without its expensive legs implemented is/was a whole world of Itty Bitties to me.
That was probably the cumulative. But they were also monitoring the blood levels.

Absolutely should not do anything like 50k per day. I found that 5k could help but if I did that every day it felt like maybe too much.
I guess there is no "right" way to do this.

I've been through a number of layoffs all the way from getting notice that my last day is 2 weeks from the announcement to 9 months. To be honest, the shorter period was better, at least for me.

When it's a long notice (say >2 months), you enter into this weird gray zone. You're neither unemployed nor employed with a long term job. All motivation disappears and you're just "waiting". Obviously you can use the time to find a new job, but there is only so much time you can devote to that.

It was far better to get notice a month or two in advance of pending layoffs (exactly who not disclosed), then get an announcement that your last day is in 2 weeks, but you'll get 60 days of pay, then your severence payout.

Felt like "ripping the bandaid off" was much preferable. At least you can get on with things at that point.
There is absolutely no way in hell those aren’t autorenewed. I think the answer is “quite a long time” actually. Eventually disk/machine rot in DCs will take over but it can take many months or more
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33534221
"This surely is the end of Crypto!" says increasingly nervous journalist...
Having read several self‐published Kindle Direct books that are incredibly deficient in the editing and typesetting departments (compared to earlier traditionally‐published works from the same authors), I find the fact rather obvious.
I was tested recently and my doctor said I had dangerously low Vitamin D. It was so low they were going to proscribe high dose supplements. I eat very healthy, mostly salads and a bit of dairy and fish here and there. I bet a lot of people didn't get enough sunlight during covid. Also people with darker skin need more sun exposure to get enough. (Among Black people in snowy climates something like 70% of the population have a Vitamin D deficiency)

If you take over-the counter supplements and follow the instructions you're unlikely to overdose.
There is just so much irony all over this, at every level and every side. It’s hilarious. Musk wanted to buy it, then tried to back away. The board tried to prevent the sale, then sued to make it happen. Employees loathed the idea of Musk being their boss, but also wanted his cash for their stock.

And as much good a pubic soapbox platform could have been for society, destroying the company seems to me to be the only appropriate karmic justice for all involved, including society because of what Twitter had become and had been used for politically.
I disagree with the people (not specifically or only you) who are focusing on things like how employees may feel about Elon, how they should feel, and how they feel about his statements about the future of Twitter.

It seems like a striking lack of empathy, based on my experience with - certainly not the same situation, much more gradual - but a company in decline where people are deciding whether to jump ship.

When a place is screwed up and mismanaged, anybody intelligent prepares as best they can. And you don't put any stock in what leadership says because they're running the place into the ground in the first place! This always results in repeatedly broken promises, even if not as dramatic as with Twitter.

Most importantly, you don't allow any emotion towards the company or upper management to come into play if you know what's good for you. Your responsibility is to yourself, your family, your friends, and any other individuals you may care about. Nothing is more important than a rational assessment of your options.

The whole cult of personality (believing or rejecting) is just irrelevant in a real situation, in my universe.

I won't guess at how many people will in fact take the deal, but I think psychologically he greased the skids by making it "opt out", while also making it very rational to leave now.

Several comments I've seen say they would not quit yet, as it makes sense to draw things out while finding another job.

I think that ignores that obviously you can't count on anything, so choosing to end the chaos asap seems attractive. And if you quit now, there might be safety in numbers. Better to be part of a mass layoff that you don't need to explain why you left.

I guess the key point I want to make is that people may be underestimating the value of ending one's association right now, because smart, rational people tend to dislike open ended uncertainty and know what they don't know.
Industrial Meat and Dairy Is Destroying the Planet
Punish them for their optimism through overwork and abuse.
To try to steel man a mass cut to headcount, and increased focus, note the feature complexity, and time between them, in this history up to 2017: https://blog.interactiveschools.com/blog/the-evolution-of-tw...

What feature set, between 2017 and now, justifies a doubling of headcount, since then?
> This is also the company that had a round 7 million on their excel sheet for a fund called TRUMPLOSE.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/11/15/analysis-ftxs-tr...

"For those looking for a shadowy tale that involves crypto in the halls of power in D.C., TRUMPLOSE is going to disappoint. It’s not a new world order talisman that shows FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried are complicit in laundering money to the Democratic party through Ukraine donations. Rather, it’s one part of FTX’s prediction market it ran during the 2020 U.S. election."
TL;DR: Meat isn't expensive enough yet. The strategy will be to turn poor people into vegetarians first.

Climate change science is the new religion apparently, and meat, in all its forms, ain't kosher no mo'.
Because Twitter employees are well compensated and can apparently just quit and be fine
God I hope it was as many engineers, designers, IT, and general employees as possible that said no. I mean, they get three months severance and get to give one of the biggest adult children in the world a piece of their mind by simply not clicking a button.
very thoughtful. just bought you some coffee!
Twitter was never perfectly fine. It has lost billions of dollars.
Sure but there are a lot of people that barely go outside these days. Suppose they are wearing a hat and long sleeves and walk 60 seconds to their car.

Even if you have nice big windows the UV doesn't pass through so inside regardless of where you are does next to nothing for you.
What magical unicorn of a place have you worked at that could survive multiple entire teams quitting at once? Do you think the induction manuals literally jump of the shelf and explain themselves to the new hires that there isn't an HR team to hire, a security team to grant their access and a department to welcome them?

This is like the flight crew being raptured. The plane is going to crash.
It's over 3 years, so would only be 18% of revenue, but that's still massive.