skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The floor value of EVERY company is $0, but what is your point in saying that?

You can be mad that people paid $$$ for Beanie Babies but that does mean that there value is nothing.
Teaching Git to others (e.g. company-internal workshops). You learn so much from teaching, and also from questions others ask, helping you discover your unknown knows and unknown unknowns.
Browsing nightmare. Why does the image gets covered as soon as I focus on it?
A lot of powerful dark money people want their money back. I don't think SBF is long for this world.
Specifically, this happened in 1893: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order
denial of service can exploit some memory leaks i imagine
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
Nudity? Yes. Pornography? No.
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It
https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN
I would love to see Tech Journalist Sentiment vs Tech Company M&A to see who got it right more often. I distinctly remember tech journalists lambasting Facebook for spending so much money on Instagram.

That said Google should bring back Google Labs. They are tarnishing their main brand by cancelling so many projects. Tell people anything that graduates to the main Google brand gets at least a 10-year support cycle.
Reminds me of SQL on Rails.

https://youtu.be/0_PK1eDQyVg

I still crack up about this. Context is that in the early days of Rails, they did a lot of screencast showing how easy it was to create a blog and tons of code was generated for you making seem like with just a few commands you could create anything.
So in this situation you're imagining a great engineer, who's been getting paid a twitter level salary and has good perf reviews and good code (one would think, to avoid the chopping block thus far) couldn't take 3 months salary and get another job in that time?

I find that difficult to believe. But, like I said, you better have a darn good reason when you're explaining having twitter 2023 in your resume. If that is a good reason, cool. I'm betting the default will be you buy into Elon's lord of the flies type management style and shitposting, and you thought you were smarter than all your co-workers are you're glad to see them gone. Add in some sympathy for the nazis that were banned from twitter, and I see a pretty toxic looking mix. Not a good co-worker.
I'm not saying I'm doing it, but intentionally unclear/ambiguous wording/communication leaves space for blame, so you can always be blamed for understanding something wrong way, if shit happens.

Plus also world ain't black and white, so I don't like giving answers/statements you can't backpedal from, politicians are known for this speak.
I hated the fact that you had to get 9/10 through the book to find out how it derived its name. The number 7 appears right at the start, but it's a misdirection.
I've been extremely satisfied with Android Automotive OS. So much so that the next family car replacement will probably shift to Volvo or some other OEM who is using AAOS for their infotainment system. One could argue AAOS isn't an entirely "new" product, but I vastly prefer it to running Android Auto off of a tethered phone.
I am hyper cognizant of that as a manager. I have to teach my new people not to fear me, because a lot of working class people come from industries where your boss is NOT your friend.
Wayland is not equivalent to X Server technically, X usually refers to the Xorg implementation whereas Wayland is a protocol with multiple implementations, i.e. by KDE, GNOME, Sway etc.

My experience with Wayland has been very solid within the last year or so I've been on it exclusively but it's definitely implementation dependent. You're right you shouldn't have to know about these things and I certainly get the sense that's the goal. I mean one disadvantage of a system being developed in the open is that things aren't necessarily 'released' as such when 'ready'. They're in the open for people to adopt/or not, many times still rapidly evolving.

I value this approach but it's certainly not for everyone.

> It should be a tool, not a lifestyle or ideology.

That's...a very subjective statement? I think free software definitely has its place as an ideology if you will, if people want to live by it and are willing to put with the downsides why not? Some people are in it to preserve general purpose computing for the next generation let's say. I see that as completely valid since nobody forces you to use their output.

But given how expensive the Apple ecosystem is, I would certainly not expect things like having to know that poll() will not work correctly after an update[1], if it's indeed just a tool.

Plenty of regular people have to get at least somewhat familiar with the Windows Registry for example.

Point is, in this industry these sorts of things happen and so you do end up having to know about certain internal inner workings of the system you're working on one way or another. It's obviously more of a case on a system developed in the open but not exclusively.

1 - https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/11/poll-on-mac-10-12-is-...
Do you really think you can layoff just the bottom 50%?
Being fired isn't failing.
It also reminds me of this scene[1] in Amadeus where the king criticizes Mozart for having too many notes.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_eqxh-Qok
What is "success"? What does it mean to gain the whole world but lose your soul?

Look, Twitter was over-hired, no doubt about it. I have no clue how you would need as many engineers as they had. That said, Twitter did/does have hard problems. People joke about how simple Twitter is but it's just not. The ability to search across all tweets alone in realtime is a massive undertaking at their scale. Even with that they had more employees than they problem needed. My issue with how Elon has managed this is more about how ham-fisted these multiple rounds of layoffs/firings are coupled with how inconsistent he is. Just 18 hours ago they said not to come in till Monday and then with only a few hours notice you need to be in the building with a list of achievements and screenshots (!?) of your code.

I've produced a lot of code over the last 6 months, I'd want more than a couple hours (including traveling) to put together a "portfolio" of sorts. Though has I worked at Twitter I'd have taken the layoff yesterday rather than continue to be jerked around by this... jerk.

To me it matters less if Twitter survives this and more about what that means for the employees that are left. Are they going to see any of the "success" if they turn it around? As it stands they have been asked to work longer hours/weekends but their salaries aren't changing (that we know of). The company isn't public and I've yet to hear of any sort of profit-share/equity/etc that's being given out to those who are going to stay. Also Twitter succeeding != Twitter being a good place to work at. Currently the only person that benefits from Twitter succeeding is Elon. I can't imagine putting my life on hold to enrich a billionaire, especially since Twitter itself isn't a noble cause, no matter what some people deluded themselves into thinking.

I'm not anti-hard-work, I'm anti-hard-work if I'm not going to get something in return which as of now Twitter/Elon has not outlined any rewards other than "being part of Twitter 2.0".
My best work is architecture, design, and domain modeling. You can't see that on a page of code.
The seasons are strongely related to the tilt of the earth in regards to the sun (and not the elliptical orbit). I wonder if that "timing" gets in trouble , even with our super stable but not quite, orbit around the sun.
Interesting. 100% of buys were from two directors, Tobias Lutke of Shopify and Fred Ehrsam, former cofounder. 100% of sells have been management.
that has me laughing, so very "just after Halloween".
> you don't build a spaceflight / rocket company in a vacuum

Sure, you don't build it in a vacuum (I'll see myself out)
Sadly, Blue Origin is also a dystopian meat grinder... who don't seem to be all that good at launching rockets either.
That depends entirely on the status of the stack when the code freeze happened.

If it was unstable, then I'd want several bottles of whisky on hand, because I'd have to work around the stinky pile of dung I'd been left with.

Given reports of debug and dev builds in production just before everything was frozen, I'd probably want to start stocking up on whisky.
No it's not. I went there four years ago the average was 1000-2000 yen for the bare minimum at a small shop for below average food. Stop trying to make japan sound like a fantasy world, it isn't.
> Madoff

First, the Madoff Ponzi was an order of magnitude larger than FTX; large enough to actually matter to important institutions. Second, Madoff could be trusted not to name names and understood that no one really wanted him to and he would, therefore, not be asked to do so. Thus, he could be safely prosecuted. The chuckleheads of FTX are not made of the same material; no one knows what species of insects are under those rocks and no one wants to know.

And I didn't say anything about "Dems". According to this money got beamed to (R)s as well:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ftx-founder-sam-bankman...
Sure, my point was that communication is hard. I'm not saying it's necessarily OP's mistake.
Almost sounds like it's a spite thing.

"You made me go through with the deal, now I'll destroy your toy after torturing it."
The critical question is whether they'll have to leap forward or fall backward. We simply cannot abide stealing an hour of sleep from our cyborg/transhuman descendants. We'd never live it down.
Are you sure of that? Who saved the French and German banks after '08?
There are southern European countries right now paying the same energy costs as northerners, even though they weren't reliant on the same sources. Not saying to feel sorry, but if Europe has to thrive, it must work together.

People who are constantly blaming southern Europeans for their troubles are like those anti immigrants types, yikes.
Though he never loved the shovel.
Are you suggesting that an ethnic culture group is responsible for policy you oppose?
It can absolutely make things faster. If your program is running on data that exists in the kernel you don't need to copy it over to userland/ perform expensive context switching.
Do we have any real evidence of this or just what Elon tweets? Not sarcastic - I've just only seen his tweets saying that I don't believe the things he says.
You might be surprised. It's really complicated. Based on my experience with companies such as twitter, they are so finicky about not doing stuff like this.

It's not just altruism or for employee moral. It's clear some of the companies are simply deciding to not rock the boat by firing people. This can be more legally complicated than it seems.

Anyway, I'm not really saying one way or another, but it seems to follow that if others are taking measures, there might be good reasons for them. I would be surprised if the Elon / twitter don't get sued by this; multiple times.
*more unassisted elderly.
Including Elon?
I think you misunderstand me. Somebody halfway through life isn't just sitting around waiting to die. But if there are ADHD indications and no obvious suffering or underperformance, it is clearly a condition that has been lived with. How valuable is the treatment at that point? There's quite a range between "meh, if it hasn't been a problem then it's probably not going to move the needle" and "it is lifechanging, you don't know what you're missing.". Sibling reply suggested the latter certainly _can_ happen. It seems like a number of posters in this thread have personal experience/wisdom to share.
You accidentally stumbled across what everyone else has been complaining about this entire time... he fired 3,700 people in a couple of weeks!

He was asking them to print our their code and show it to a team of his engineers, that didn't exactly leave time for in-depth discussions about non-code impact.

His entire mantra has been code-is-king and claiming people's non-code work was cruft from over-engineering, so it's not exactly like he'd accept that excuse anyways.
Totally agree. But I think you would agree that a good engineer (with lots of exceptions for architects, tech lead managers, etc) should be able to look at their git history and find some nice chunks of code besides just adding comments or cleaning up imports/includes.
> 2012 - Google Drive

The Linux version is lagging a tad: https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go...
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried cashed out $300M during funding spree
Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. In my case, I can’t think of any conversations I had on Twitter. 95% of my posts were just links to my Instagram posts (that I have also deleted). But everything is still on Flickr/Pixabay.
How do you buy Google search?
If the state won't follow through on it' guarantees in this case why would you assume they will on others, that guarantee is why investors are willing to take lower rates on those bonds in the first place.
Yikes, blast from the past... been there, witnessed some of this fiasco.

Hi to Patrick if you're reading this and to all other members of the students' Unix working group at the University of Siegen (https://www.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de)!
> most salient lines of code

I wonder what that's supposed to mean?

Hm... I could screenshot a single character and say: "I chose this character because if it's removed, the no one can log into twitter, and the whole system stops working.

Or maybe I'd show a line of code that initiates advertiser charges, and say: "without this line of code we'd just be giving away as space, and we would lose most our revenue!

But actually, I'd probably try to find a fiendishly complex snarl of logic (yeah, I sometimes do those, on my bad days) to befuddle the poor fella with.
In my experience, things like code formatting and style were really predictive of the person’s contributions to a team.

I’m not saying he’s making a strategically wise move. But there are potentially another 100,000 developers in this industry who are in meaningful jeopardy over their jobs, because they are truly bad at it.
> The only reason Musk is getting away with any of this

Is he though? There are reports of very few people left, and I suspect many of those are stuck on h1bs, rather than there by allegiance to the new mad king.
And if you turned off all the electricity in the world a lot of companies would go bankrupt. What's the point? It's not going to happen.
Actually Google didn't create YouTube. They bought it in 2006, 18 months after it was born. To be fair they grew it fairly well.
You're not going to just be able to write code into ucm (unison code manager) because it's not a repl. You'll need some sort of text editor to actually write the code it will then add to the codebase.

https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/quickstart/

If this quick start tutorial doesn't work for you then there's a bug on unison's end.
Another one: https://cohost.org/rc/welcome
That's already done now. People in Academia have excellent grades, and they like what they do. How would peers know about their ability to do novel research, not having done any themselves?
Is novel research worth doing?

It depends on why you are doing it, I suppose. The framing of the piece seems to have a lot of baked in assumptions that likely make sense if your goal is, I guess, successful career in academia.

That's not the driving force behind all research. Research pursued for other reasons may get little to no press but may be successful for the metrics/goals that drove the decision.
HandBrake: Encoding Performance
I dunno what’s up with these Ask HNs which are utterly transparent humblebrags but in this case, chances are what you think is clear communication lacks a lot of context and nuance, and despite obviously feeling superior to them, you’re missing or ignoring important information that people want you to possess.
Here in Iowa we only buy corn in season. Picked the same day, on the husk for $6/dozen. I won't even touch the packaged stuff you sometimes see off season, and given how rarely I see if I don't think many others will either. In season the farmer delivers half her corn to the grocery store and sells the other half from the back of her (happens to be a girl where I live, other places it was a man) truck on the side of the road.
Time is not off by about 3/4 of a day, calendar is. And hardly many people care about planet's position relative to the Sun (on the orbit) — I mean, they can, if it is important for they occult rituals or something, but probably they learned to work with it over the centuries already.

Earth's rotation relative to the Sun is whole another deal.
> more of a subreddit type experience than a Twitter type experience?

IMHO no. Very much like Twitter, only with the discovery features nudged towards the "local community and its reach" (and thus very different between a 20 people instance and a 20k people instance)
Forms of lights and our capture of it creates our “vision”.
The longer the distance it took the light to travel from the objects to our telescope, the more time it takes. By the time it is finally captured, we are watching an outdated light!

An outdated galaxy.

I hope that’s what you meant.
Flutter also comes to mind
Definitely not true of every site on the web. I tried searching for mentions of hackernews (a relatively large forum, and also vc backed, not independent) on the nytimes website. One result https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/magazine/the-3-10-13-issu...

Most media sources aren't embedded in small forums.
Why should a private company not be allowed to lay off staff that they don't need or want?

If the government cares so much about workers, why don't they take care of them themselves, like with a guaranteed job or training program, instead of forcing other individuals to do so?
Indeed; the converse would be to add (or remove) micro-leapseconds in order to keep accurate time. That way it would happen so often that the code would get tested and we'd have working implementations (maybe we could fix the traditional Apple issues with leap years at the same time).
Meh, looks like a bunch of regulatory capture by existing auto-dealerships.
I mean it sounds like he wants it to be a messaging service that functions as a payment service, and possibly also loans money (according to that Q&A session).

I have no idea what his vision for the company actually is, it just sounds like his mantra is "anything is on the table at this point, but we need to make money fast".
You can do that by interrupting and asking them questions. The place to teach them is not by trying to backdoor what you think is important into the answer to some other question that they are asking. They will feel like you're being deceptive, because you are.
> ...is like expecting to win the lottery twice.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/10/28/delawa...

LOL
> I still cannot understand what investors were thinking and doing.

Dumb money (like pension funds) was just following "smart money" like Sequoia. Smart money was investing based on his political, media, and regulatory connections and not the financials. They'll say different publicly, but I doubt anyone really cared if the books were cooked and it was all a house of cards, as long as they stood a good chance of getting out before it crumbled. VC's have been riding crypto pump and dump schemes for years now.
Zoom's audio + video quality is so much better than Google Meet that I almost feel like companies that use it are getting paid by Google to use it? I have no other explanation.
Doesn't seem like a big deal as there's still alcohol available in other places.

I think it's dispiriting that this is the issue that appears more important to fans over the circumstances of the bid win (bribery) or the human rights issues with the host country. Should the fans care? Well even at a shallow surface level yeah: I'm not a football fan but even I recognise that America or Australia, also in the bidding, being hosts would have been awesome by comparison.
He did specify. He asked for most salient. Salient means "most noticeable or important."

He hasn't played any mind games. He's asked for exactly what he wants.
If that was the case, why isn't the same thing happening to Carmax and Vroom and the other Carvana-style used-car dealers?

Used car prices are falling and I assume it would hurt all of them, but it seems to be hurting Carvana more than the others.
Beyond not performing at all (and thus not making any money), there isn't much she can do.

TM owns the whole supply chain. Venues, tickets, marketing, labels... every thing.
Linux itself doesn't have a stable ABI, afaik.
Funny, I'm on the other end. I don't know a single person with Fubo or DirectTV and only a few with Hulu for live TV. Pretty much everyone I know has YTTV.

According to this link, YTTV passed Hulu Live to become the largest player in the space in mid 2022 https://nscreenmedia.com/why-youtube-tv-is-the-number-1-vmvp...
I'm no biomedical guy and an just an ignorant schlub, but I remember hearing similar arguments from Shkreli, that he wasn't making Daraprim inaccessible to the poor due to things like copays and he was only stiffing the big insurers, and the reason there was so much anger at him was that these big players manipulated the public into doing their bidding.

I call bullshit on such arguments honestly, the costs of such schemes do get passed onto the consumers and general public. At the very least such schemes raise insurance prices. I feel this sense of getting pissed on and being told that it's raining. It reminds one of the broader issues of administrative overhead and lack of price discovery in the American healthcare system.
I have had to make a conscious effort to remember this with Indian colleagues.
They don't use cargo.
No rules.
The Pixel is a success to me. Terrific phone without the obscene price gouging of Apple.
It’s a concept in a conversation like this, but deliberately misused in marketing.

Perdue sells raw, butchered chicken breasts by the pound with 5% water as “minimally processed”, for example.
He'd probably do something just wildly violating labor laws.
Something tells me this story won't end with "I hope."
It's not so strange - a lot of our natural experience of the universe is within 3 orders of magnitude of the base units we use. Those are very commonly referenced and as such have common prefixes.
Interesting. Do you know if anything like this has been built internally at tech cos?
_Parker Conrad has entered the chat._

Just kidding, he didn't spend a day in prison.

Just a bunch of settlements for shit like this:

> In the fall of 2015, Zenefits came under scrutiny for allegedly failing to comply with state health insurance regulations; the company was subject to an investigation by the website BuzzFeed. On 8 February 2016, Conrad resigned from Zenefits after it was discovered the company used unlicensed brokers to sell health insurance in multiple states. In the aftermath of the investigation, Conrad's replacement as CEO, former COO David O. Sacks—who was cleared of wrongdoing in the same investigation—announced that the valuation of the company would be halved and investors' positions "trued up" in an effort at rectification, while 10% of employees accepted an offer of a two-month separation package.

Now he's the head of Rippling and in full golden child mode.
So like a CRDT for time
Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197
The FTC is a BFD. Compliance with it is baked into Twitter processes and has been for a long time. This idea that developers at Twitter don’t understand the requirements and consequences and have been thrown to the mercy of the wolves recently needs to die.
Great point! I forgot about that.
Yoel Roth publicly stood by Musk after the takeover, but resigned shortly after. He was in this November 9th Twitter Space with Musk: https://twitter.com/robinw/status/1590403084513333249

And though you might expect an anti-Musk tirade, it's actually quite a thoughtful essay.