skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word "startup" should not serve as a general-purpose "get out of responsibility free" card.

The level of organization and internal controls a company needs is a function of what it’s doing and, to a lesser extent, how big it is. The age of the company is not a factor.

Financial exchanges, in particular, have particularly strict fiduciary obligations that come into effect the day they start operations.
Windows sandbox overhead is quite low. I've played several games using it and the performance hit is in the low single digits, typically 2-5% in my experience.

It's complicated but IMO virtualization seems to have less opportunities to fail vs a sandbox in terms of isolation.
> Twitter can communicate to people directly

But they're not, which is why this information is being reported by the media. And the media has questions which Twitter hasn't addressed, and those questions are going unanswered because Twitter no longer employs the people that answer those questions.

Moreover, the "media middlemen" that you're describing are also looking at this from the perspective of the Twitter employees (and former employees). Do you really expect Twitter (the nebulous entity which communicates directly to people, as you imply) to reflect accurately on what their employees have to say? Of course not. If it was up to Twitter, none of this would be reported on and the public would be no wiser. These journalists are reporting information that wouldn't be reported otherwise; they _obviously_ add value beyond being middlemen, because there seems to be nobody to be a middleman _for_.
100% agree. Once the dust settles my prediction is productivity will also soar.
Issue that I see that it might be that workforce losses are not uniform. But there might be a few critical teams entirely lost. And what ever they are doing might be mission critical.

Now chance of such teams having fully out is anyone's guess.
What they don't tell you is that geothermal is not a growth industry because nobody sees any way to make it, or anything that needs a steam turbine to operate, competitive with wind and solar. If it were made competitive today, it would not be, anymore, tomorrow. Steam turbines are mature tech, so costs are not plummeting.
I find this obsession with 1 or 4 people obscene while millions are ignored. We invaded Libya and left behind a failed state where millions live amid violent gangs, but we spent more ink about 4 Americans in Benghazi than the millions who were affected by our policies. It's almost like we don't care.

Why do people write far more about Khashoggi, rather than the millions in Yemen?

That should be more than enough reason to not deal with Saudi government. We have sanctioned Russia and its government so much, but not a single one on Saudis. We have called Putin a dictator who falsifies elections and kills people. And yet MBS is not even elected. We don't say "unelected dictator" who "oppresses his own people" or "bombs his enemies".

The situation in Saudi-Yemen is similar in many respects to Russia-Ukraine. In response to a foreign government (USA in Ukraine, Iran in Yemen) encouraging a revolution that overthrew friendlier rulers in the country, they carried on a war with them for years, with no end in sight.

The difference is Saudi Arabia has blockaded Yemen for years, leading to the world's largest preventable humanitarian crisis. Russia did nothing of the sort with Ukraine, they didn't blockade it, in fact they let NATO weapons keep pouring over the border from Poland.

This year, the UN warned of an "outright catastrophe" in Yemen, as millions are facing hunger. Ukraine has lots arable land while Yemen did not.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113852

But far from sanctioning them, or even spending 1% of the outrage that it does on Russia, the USA instead sends them the very weapons they use to bomb civilians!

This year, investigators showed that the USA supported the majority of airstrikes on Yemenite civilians!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

To quote:

While Russia’s bombings of a maternity hospital and other civilian targets in Ukraine have drawn widespread public indignation as war crimes, thousands of similar strikes have taken place against Yemeni civilians. The indiscriminate bombings have become a hallmark of the Yemen war, drawing international scrutiny of the countries participating in the air campaign, and those arming them, including the United States. U.S. support for the Saudi war effort, which has been criticized by human rights groups and some in Congress, began during the Obama administration and has continued in fits and starts for seven years.
Counterargument: none of these work if the page is edit-protected. There you just have to trust that the admins with edit access are acting in good faith. From my experience, they usually do, though.
> the belief that you can somehow wish debt away in in-line with MMT

The belief that you can wish debt away is rooted in the Keynesianism/Reaganomics of the past five decades. MMT basically just accepts the realpolitik that the enormous handouts to the financial industry will never be stopped, and says that we might as well use some of the new money deliberately. From my economically conservative Austrian perspective, at least MMT appears intellectually honest. MMT also corrects/shortens the feedback path from monetary creation to price inflation, rather than relying on the roundabout feedback path that has created this ever-growing asset bubble.
> I haven't seen any indicators of Twitter failing besides 2FA failures;

If you ignore everything we are hearing about mass employee exodus and critical teams having no engineers left.

> Why do you guys hate Elon with your guts with such an intense passion?

To put it bluntly, because he is an asshole.

I honestly don’t know how anyone likes him after he called a cave diver who helped save a bunch of children a pedo just because he said that Musks proposed submarine rescue wouldn’t work.

His ego is immense and he lacks the emotional maturity to not lash out at people when he is wrong.

On top of all that he is a billionaire, which is an inherently immoral thing to be IMO.

A good person cannot amass that much wealth and not give away 99% of it to help people who need it.
> No, in the very literal sense that Bytedance has a board of directors, and on that board is a CCP member who has the real final say on everything the company does. When you are a business in China, you defacto work for the government.

Would you say the same thing if they employed CIA and NSA people in executive positions, and had ex-generals and ex-spooks on the board?
I had the same thought, but as noahtallen pointed out there's been two on the front page in the last 24 hours, including one with over a thousand points.

I'd be interested to hear dang explain how the ranking mechanics are at work in these posts, but I hunch it may simply be because there's not actually much there to engage community interest for very long. The downspiral has been very rapid but it's essentially just been one headline after another. There's only so much speculation to be made about how and why this is happening and only so many jokes to crack about it. And if the discussions are mostly cruft I wouldn't be surprised if they're being downranked.

I look forward to seeing some in depth post-mortems and discussions about them here when the dust has settled, but for now it feels more like we're standing around a bonfire and nodding at one another.
I'm not sure I can adequately express how I feel about morally exploiting animals (because that's what it is: beef cattle exist to be slaughtered and their bodies exploited, that is their entire purpose and why they exist) to someone who at least appears to be vegan.

Similarly, as a hunter what I consider "respectful" you appear to consider "deluded." Arguing over that seems like arguing over religion and isn't something I'm interested in doing today. Have a great Friday!
Which would make him perfect CEO material too.
The problem with such frameworks is that they depend on JavaScript, which was not meant as a systems software language. JavaScript is simply the wrong tool for the job. What would help would be a state-ful GUI markup language so JS doesn't have to reinvent most of the GUI wheel.

Missing GUI widgets: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/otixwo/comment...
The FTX business model was to initiate regulatory capture, spend a flood of money on the usual DC insiders to make all competitors DeFi illegal in the USA, then they just happen to soak up all the profits.

It would have worked out fine if they had just held it together until after they hired the US Gov to put all their competitors out of business. They would have been too big to fail and these smaller numbers could all be swept under the rug by larger numbers. Well, startups lose money until they make money of course.

One of the guys who's company was about to get shut down by the legislation FTX was purchasing, decided to out FTX's questionable balance sheet (if he's taking us out, then we're taking him out first...), and the rest is history.

If you pay the right people, the us government strongly supports anticompetitive policies. That side of the story was going to be very profitable.
Carvana to cut 1,500 jobs as online auto dealer’s troubles mount
>Sorry, it doesn't work like this.

Except that personal choices are what affects the market which drives change despite stagnant government decision making.
Hauk, an open source real time location tracker.
Nextcloud
And of course a pihole...
The number of active servers increased by 300 in the same timespan, so the influx was spread out a bit. The strain on the bigger servers has been a little rough, but it should level out.
>Twitter can communicate to people directly

Who is Twitter?
I run everything on a single computer powered by docker. Every self-hosted project has a dedicated docker-compose.yaml startup file. The services that run:

- Navidrome
- PhotoPrism
- Shiori
- Paperless-ngx
- Callibre-Web
- Audiobookshelf
- Jellyfin
- Syncthing

Also previous discussion:
Ask HN: What do you self-host? [2019] via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21235957
Doesn't mean there is no stock. The stock isn't publicly traded, which makes it harder to sell, but Twitter has a bunch of shareholders (Saudi Prince and Jack Dorsey are known ones) and could give out shares to employees.
My ability to get broccoli in November in North Dakota is quite remarkable?

Oh, it is remarkable, but this is an honest question, do you really care?

I mean, I could get fresh tomatoes year round, but they're garbage outside of summer. When we buy things in season, they tend to be cheaper and taste better. Right now in my area, apples are plentiful and cheap! I really wish my supermarket would do some curation of products and only put the best stuff out for sale. I honestly don't care that I wouldn't be able to buy any (expensive, bland) fresh tomatoes right now. That's why we have cans...
I'd take that bet. 1BTC?
> The idea that an employer should keep people that don't like him or her is insane.

It's not insane. Only keeping people that kiss your ass is how you get echo chambers and lose touch with reality.
Redmine, gitolite, gotify, a few web servers, a few scrapers.
I remember reading a tweet saying never to use the .is ccTLD. The proper one has always been:

https://archive.ph/

&&

https://archive.today/

Not sure of the reason why .IS is not recommended, probably something to do with geo-political baggage.
Hilarious and grim are two words I never imagined side by side, so just for this, I think it was worth it :)

Jokes aside, it speaks to the need that many of our users have with regards to having agency in case of death, as opposed to productivity.

Glad it caught your interest. Hope you give it a try.
What's interesting in this whole Khashoggi case is not the US response or lack of response. Any other crime committed by the US and KSA will make Khashoggi murder a joke in comparison.
What irritates me is that KSA committed and still commit genocide in Yemen since at least 2015 (this is only one place), people are being starved, and no one feel the "ethical burden" to take any action or ask their "free world" leader to take any action or stop helping and leading that war. Yet the sensitive liberals are mad because of Mr. Khashoggi murder, they have the nerve the mention the "ethics" even when they're trying to invoke the geo-political argument (Yes MBS is bad but not as Bad as X while X changes every few years, today it's Putin).
The hard and brutal truth is that if you ever voted in US for Trump or Obama or Biden or Bush Or almost any President in the past 50 years, you have more ethical burden than simply worrying about the lack of response against MBS.
In my opinion Elon miscalculated the type of people at Twitter. These aren’t people like the ones in Tesla or SpaceX where there is some sort of idealization of Elon. The number of fan boys he has at Twitter must be super low. None of the Twitter employees signed up to work for him, it’s pretty obvious from the public tweets that most of the staff has posted that they don’t have much respect for him. On top of that, as others have mentioned, Twitter as a product doesn’t comprare to SpaceX and Tesla and just saying “we’re gonna build Twitter 2.0 the bestest thing ever!” Isn’t particularly motivating enough to give up your work-life balance. Elon came in to a place that already has a culture established… and the people that are there that know how much they’re worth don’t really feel the need to put up with his bullying “my way or the high way”. Props to the people at Twitter for sticking to their beliefs. I think Elon also miscalculated the importance of work from home. I assume a lot of the engineers have the “millennial” mentality of “I work not live, I don’t live to work”.
Similar. The best reimbursement system I’ve worked with was for a company that just automatically approved everything under a few thousand dollars (never states a hard threshold) based on individual professional judgement to spend funds to advance company goals. And they audited every purchase ever made when you went for partner.

It was both liberating and terrifying to have that much freedom. The audits weren’t widely available so it’s hard to know how effective this was, but it was pretty rare to hear about people not making partner because of it and they were super thorough about every charge, frequently asking for detail.
I happened to archive something about an hour ago, saw the “2748* in queue” message for a couple of seconds and then it started archiving the page.

tl;dr - queue position is meaningless if you don’t know the throughput

*not the exact number - it was in the 2700s, but that’s all I recall
A lot of people, not nearly all of whom are technical users, which pretty clearly goes against the narrative that Mastodon is too difficult to use. Although to be fair a lot of people are also complaining about it, but the lesson here seems to be that people are more willing to put up with complexity and inconvenience than they're given credit for.

That it's still a minority of Twitter users doesn't make it a failure for Mastodon. This isn't a zero-sum game.
Jack Herer doesn't really seem like the man I aspire to be.

Sorry to disappoint, but I also don't have Aspergers.
Foundry VTT. It is a very nice rpg virtual table.
> "Those are the cases that produce the outrage, and understandably," Ricks said. "We want to do our part and work with payers in the system to provide copay assistance. We’re open to feedback [on improving communications],” he said. “We’ve done tons of things, but it obviously hasn’t penetrated the clutter. We’re obviously not the only insulin company. But the tropes go on."

Cool. "We're sorry there are hoops to jump through, we'll do our best to clearly mark where we've placed the stepladders".

Okay, so like, to give this CEO a little credit, it sounds like nobody is paying these prices (at least if they know how to play the game). The issue here is that prices are completely fake, the consumers are supposed to never know the MSRP, and anyone who does is getting caught in the middle of a stupid pricing game between insurers, Medicare, and providers.

So I can see why, from their perspective, they see it as a "communications" issue.
Thank you for this! I needed to cheer up today, so this was perfect timing.

Have a nice weekend!
Your career growth is bounded by the weaknesses of your idols. Being blind to those weaknesses limits your growth potential tremendously.
Let's look at one of the suggested alternatives this blog post endorses.

First one on the list, "Wikispooks". Interestingly, Wikipedia does not have an article on Wikispooks, but Wikispooks does have an article about Wikipedia!

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikipedia

It seems to be headlined with with subpages for their concerns about Wikipedia. Let's see:

Wikipedia/Hasbara | Systematic gatekeeping for Jewish interest on Wikipedia

Oh dear.
Proof of reserves is worthless without proof of outstanding liabilities.

And the only way you're going to provide the latter is through something called an audit.
Maybe you should just read the NPR article.
I was thinking the same thing with regards to security. If anyone wanted to attack Twitter, there probably won't come a better time than right now. I suspect there's a ton of disgruntled employees with some leftover access, and I doubt anyone has any idea who is responsible for patching servers and services at the moment.
Almost as short sighted a take as Musk's views on free speech
> I have to conclude that it's being upvoted here because people enjoy eating red meat and want to continue to do so

Similarly, "wine/coffee/beer/marijuana/chocolate/etc is good for you" type studies tend to be upvoted because people like evidence that helps rationalize their habits and vices.
Tell me you have never worked in a large enterprise without telling me that you haven't. Elon seems completely out of his depth in handling Twitter. And so does many people endorsing him. For them, Twitter is a glorified website.
Maintaining services that no one knows anything about, management afraid to let anyone touch anything because no one understands what may break. Everyone griping about the systems they don't know, wanting to re-implement from scratch but not having the time to do so.

Sounds like a blast.
Just to be clear, the child was just an example of someone who could theoretically experience 'cruel' treatment from the current version of stable diffusion. I'm absolutely not recommending people let their children use the model unsupervised. It doesn't have to be a parenting problem, though.

The same could be said (for example) of a random mother trying to get inspiration for a 'my little pony' birthday cake for their child, and being presented with the 'other' kind of image unintentionally, without their consent. I think they would be justifiably upset in that situation.

If we were to imagine someone attempting to put stable diffusion into some future consumer product, I think they would have to be concerned about these kinds of scenarios. Therefore, the scientists are trying to figure out how to accomplish the filtering.

FWIW, I don't think a model could be made that actively prevented people from using their own NSFW training data. The only difference in the future will be that the public models won't be able to do it 'for free' with no modifications needed. You'll have to train your own model, or wait for someone else to train one.
I know someone who attempts this type of communication and it's incredibly ineffective, at least in the way they do it. The problem is when the focus is trying to make Y be true, and when X+Y are more complex. The person I have in mind loses track of X being false, asks if X is true then y must be true, gets a yes, then gets frustrated when it's repeated that X is not true.

Because the focus isn't on communicating. The focus is trying to make the discussion a logic puzzle.
Fair enough, though Clapping Music is AFAIR the exception that proves the rule.
I know it's fun to hate on XML, but as compared to inventing a new pseudo-text-pseudo-binary format, its parsing mechanics are well understood

I'm not claiming all of PDF's woes are related to its encoding, but it's not zero, either. Start from the fact that XML documents have XML Schema allowing one to formally specify what can and cannot appear where. The PDF specification is a bunch of English which makes for shitty constraint boundaries
Well, for some specialized bankruptcy debt according to that page. But I have done venture debt (e.g. from someone like WTI or SVB) and never had legal bills as high as they talk about there. Then again they talk about $75MM in debt; the most debt I've taken on was about $25MM and it has always been cheaper than any equity financing.

In general I don't like to get creative on this stuff -- I leave that to the actual execution of the business.
"Free trade agreement" is a propaganda term for "trade agreement." It doesn't have a separate definition.
There's a collective of thought police massaging a lot of the content to convey a certain narrative and it's all done under the veil of "transparent community-driven moderation".

I wouldn't be surprised if much of this effort is done by the megacorps you claim aren't involved.
Strangely enough, on-chain defi has no issues with insiders secretly siphoning off funds for their own trading.
That's been my theory about Musk and SBF for a while. Both the behaviors and the physical tics that accompany it.
No, I agree with you that it's a waste of time, and it can also come across as unprofessional. Is it really common advice for job seekers? (I don't think I've seen this advice anywhere)
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You find what instance your friends are on and sign up there, same as any website? I did it last week and it was trivial.
It's a crucible. Those that remain are clearly his (visa-restricted are unclear).
Another win for the EMH , I guess. It shows that the initial price action is not so irrational after all.
> Fact checks are biased against conservative views.

This is literally that old joke that "reality has a liberal bias" right? I do agree.
Why is broadcasting the high order bit? I personally don't want to scream my message to thousands of people. I want a high signal:noise two way dialogue with a small group of people who know what they are talking about.