skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By a huge margin the two biggest Linux clients of Drive are Android and ChromeOS. "Actually linux" is literally 5+ orders of magnitude smaller. Google maintains and updates 99.999% of Linux drive clients every month.
They don't need to offer severance, but they do (in many cases) have to offer a minimum 60 days notice of lay off. The initial wave of layoffs offered at least 60 days severance in lieu of notice. How this "love it or leave it" ploy works I'm not sure, but since there is severance, it probably doesn't matter.

The question now is, with no one in payroll department, will people laid off with a promised amount of severance pay ever see it?
What is the right way to remove 75% of staff? What selection criteria do you pick (the type of employee you want to keep), and what heuristics will strongly select for the criteria you chose? For example, metrics that measure productivity or actions that filter for loyalty. A metric could be hours of internal meetings per week!

Can anyone comment on a successful downsizing they were involved in?

The scary part about Twitter, is that the selection pressures seem to be mostly for fealty to Elon, or selecting for people that hate the new environment but cannot leave (medical insurance, financial risk, H1B, fear of applying for new job, etcetera).
Phone data traffic is proxied or NATted for qos and other purposes, even with IPv6.

It works better outbound than the old model though. I use iSH to get a Linux shell and with a mini Bluetooth keyboard I work on some hobby projects on the train from my iPhone.
My fund was also a market maker at FTX. We signed two contracts that modified the typical agreement with the venue. One of them stipulated that we had less access to leverage than normal (i.e. we could be liquidated earlier than we otherwise would be, but these terms were vague and apparently never had any effect) and enabled parallel risk checks on our account. The other was a line of credit from the venue which would allow us not to be liquidated when we otherwise would be in exchange for interest when the LOC was preventing liquidation. Our actual use of the LOC was entirely as collateral for open orders, so we never paid any interest on it.

It is not normal to allow market makers to take on arbitrarily large risk or arbitrarily large negative balances.
Google Podcasts is pretty good, and definitely more recent than the ones you listed.
Management selling is pretty typical. You'd have to dig into Coinbase specifically, but if a big part of your pay is stock/options, you will generally constantly sell a portion of that. Obviously, a big spike in management sales can be a red flag.
First time I hear about it, looks like a US-local service.
Do you ever watch political debates? The answers to many questions there are totally nonsensical. So probably the same reason is just “politics”.
Unless your goal was to be unemployed, I think it is.

It's not like he was laid off or the company floundered afterwards, they fired him because they thought he was incompetent and then the company was acquired for $1.5 billion like 1.5 years later.

Of course, he still netted like $175 million or something from his stock so I don't think he cares much that he failed.

If only all failure was so lucrative.
You've made a very good point. All new software/systems I build will use TAI64. As an industry we should just push this move ourselves
Holy shit, yea that's a good point.
Elon could get a dream team to rebuild the fundamentals, and switch over to a maintenance team later.

Often done in the game dev world.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655544
Interesting point. Just like a skater pulling their arms in, snow melting and running to lower ground would make the earth spin faster (and let's add in the extra erosion). Sea levels are rising though (due to both thermal expansion and runoff).

Be interesting to estimate the size of the various effects (no doubt I've missed plenty of others) but is it really true that a change in sign of the acceleration of Earth's angular velocity is down to climate change?
The ones I'm thinking of were variations on "send these emails after my death is somehow confirmed"
I'm confused by your response. If NASA is to be believed, he was not particularly zealous in following the policy. You propose that any government official of pre say 1980 should not be referenced because of this?
I guess my experience with work conversations is different from yours. I wouldn’t characterize them as political. As far as “positioning” goes, you’re always positioning yourself in one way or other, in any kind of conversation, similar to how one can’t not communicate.
This is completely anecdotal but there's been a couple of times during COVID when I was stuck at a light next to a Caravana truck on it's way to drop off a car and I noticed what appeared to be non-trivial issues underneath the car.

I just don't get how people can buy a used car without seeing it or sending over a professional to look at it first.
> ban folks like AOC and Elizabeth Warren

If he does, look for the exact same people who defended Twitter bans a year ago to suddenly become "free speech absolutists" (for a while...)
The part I found most interesting is that due to the lack of a dedicated customer support function at FB, there has sprung up a cottage industry of account problem fixers who, for a fee, will use their internal Meta connections to get your account reset if you get locked out.
Can I ask with what visa did you go to the US? L1?
Now that we have 10, will the next set just repeat? E.g. kiloquettagrams, megaquettameters
Maybe he should get Stephen Colbert's second-by-second day planner.
Only available on the latest iphone
Conceptually, I think floating solar could be more efficient, but it strikes me as having significantly higher installation and operational expenses vs ground. If you have nowhere else to install, sure, but I’m long odds that this is cost effective vs more panels installed (more cheaply) on the shore.
Another one: https://micro.blog/discover
Imagining the recruiter algorithms seeing Twitter employment contiguous from 2021 through 2023 and going... hmmm.....
Yes. It does. Op is correct. A leap second specifically is an adjustment because “how many seconds since 1970” changes because the earth’s rotation isn’t constant speed. UTC tone definitely changes. If it didn’t then you wouldn’t hear anything about it and it would just be transparently folded into your time zone database.
What I heard it now they think galaxies started forming pretty early after the big bang.
Yeah you are right, when a leap second is introduced it becomes 23:59:60 (monotonic) in utc, while with unix-time a normal way to handle it is to repeat 23:59:59 twice (non-monotonic).
Isn't that the one made by the occupy democrats twitter? They don't seem super trustworthy.
> influence of these media stories

The influences are from Elon's actions and tweets as well as leaks from insiders. Media conspiracy theories are not relevant here.
The real question from this example is: why are you creating two http requests in the same scope before using them?

I've been writing Go cloud stuff for the better part of a decade and "req" for a request has never been ambiguous because I go ahead and send the request and process the response before sending another one, at which point I can just reassign the variable and let the first one fall out of scope.
I agree with the first two sentences, but not sure how you think buying a browser or OS would be cheaper. Facebook tried hard and could not do it with a way bigger war chest. Google spent significant money into Android and Chrome (I have worked for both so not impartial).

The thing is with both OS and browser is that they are really long term efforts and I am not sure if Elon could pull that of anymore. For sure Elon from 10 years ago could, but not sure if he has the patience anymore. Same with Zuck, I don't think he has the patience for what he is trying to achieve.
When longtermism meets leap seconds.
Hypothetically, if a market maker had the ability to create lots of little accounts, trade as those accounts, let some go negative, and continue to do this, some very positive expected value strategies should be available based on allowing some accounts to go negative, keeping the average profit only slightly negative over time, and walking away from the negative balances.

Making money on average requires actual competence. Creating a large profit variance with a small expected loss is much more straightforward and is normally a losing proposition.
Of course they do. But government bodies and other institutional bodies incarnated these standards organizations in order to better coordinate with one another, and decided and committed to defering to them a long time ago. Russia is a sovereign state, they can make any decision they want to, but they decided and agreed at some point to defer to this organization for a reason.
They're just doing this so Twitter won't break, aren't they?
That's why you pick the best five from each year and print them in a small acid-free paper book.

You keep the gigantic digital repository as long as feasible (I burn to M-Discs), but for accessibility and long-term, pick your favorites in a way we have good reason to think can last for hundreds of years.
"...and looks like he's on the cusp of running a company that's been around for over a decade into the ground in the next few weeks."

What do you base that on? There's no evidence to point the company is going downhill or improving at the moment. You seem to be basing this on a personal hatred for Elon and nothing else.
> If Tiktok the app is performing surveillance, ban surveillance by apps. All of them.

No way in hell this will happen, just saying
I wouldn't give him credit for doing all this intentionally. Elon being incredibly impulsive seems to explain everything pretty parsimoniously.
Extreme Heat Will Change Us
I'm a bit confused here. What was James Webb's role here that makes his name cause such pain for you?

As far as I know, the name was kept because no evidence of involvement in the Lavender Scare was found.

Do you have specific issues with the report this decision was based on?:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_hi...
Bad managers will make sure that they themselves stand out at promotion time, using whatever metric they're measured with.

Good managers help their direct reports, helping them succeed and stand out at promotion time.

Guess which will usually get the promotion?
The "whole teams doing nothing" is a giant canard. Any large organization will have groups that can't remain 100% busy 100% of the time. Projects go from development to maintenance and the teams don't necessarily jump immediately to the next project or take time planning the next project while doing relatively light maintenance work on the just released project.

Even at Apple which runs very lean engineering teams, verging on understaffed, would have times of year where most engineers were doing nothing. After an OS released in the fall there would be a month or two of planning sessions for the next OS' features. It would be a lot of meetings of middle management with little input from ICs. After the new year work would begin in earnest but from October-December most engineers were spinning their wheels or doing relatively light work chasing down bug fixes for point releases for the recently released OSes.

The idea that any team is going to put in a constant 40+ hours of typing code is farcical. Time needs to be taken to actually plan out projects even if you're doing some seat of the pants Agile bullshit. Putting everyone on a death march schedule for something as ultimately irrelevant as Twitter is just burning people out for no reason. There's no upside for Twitter's engineers to burn out. Unless they're being offered equity or bonuses or something their new "hardcore" schedule is all sacrifice and no reward.
When I was shopping for a used car in late Summer 2020, Carvana was priced 10-20% above traditional dealerships in the area for same make/model/trim/year/mileage. The traditional dealership process sucks so some people will pay the premium for a better experience, but as everyone's financial calculus has changed recently it may be that the number of customers who want to pay for that experience is receding.
Seems like Google's version of AWS Aurora?
If you have read anything at all about encryption written since 1997 (probably before, that is when I first started reading) you already knew that.
Training's only prohibitively expensive for normal people today, and the dollar cost per compute operation is still decreasing fairly rapidly.
Thank you for the thoughtful and informative reply, sincerely.
If you get fired after clicking Yes but then refusing to do the work, would you still get the severance? I am thinking not?

What is mentioned too little as well; what is the upside of clicking yes? Is this a trophy? I am not American and trophies mean nothing at all to me even though i have a few: i like things i can use irl. So if click yes, is this going to do anything outside making Musk richer?
I find it interesting that Carvana's CEO is the son of DriveTime's CEO.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2017/12/18/how-an-e...

edit: space
If you want to debate, define spoiled, we can start from there.
You are incorrect. His Dad is on the record and directly quoted in various interviews.
I don't believe so.

Imagine you're new to Go and you haven't mentally mapped all of these abbreviations. What would you rather read, `r` or `reader`?
> How is that 'partially irreversible' ... a bunch of companies paused ad-buys for this quarter or maybe even next year. If Twitter becomes viable next year, you think advertisers wouldn't come back, this year, or next, or year after that?

Any lost money is irrevocably lost. If I skipped on advertising in 2023 because I think Musk is an asshat, and then change my mind in 2024, I'm not going to double my budget to compensate. The money I didn't spend on Twitter in 2023 was spent on something else, and for Twitter was lost forever.
> Except for market demands of smaller phones

So thats why iPhones ate getting bigger?
Show HN: At a Glance ESM Support for NPM Packages
We've rolled out a feature for openbase.com that we think is a DX game changer for Node devs. Since the emergence of ECMA Script modules, it's been a continuous guessing game as to what kind of exports a package has. That's never really been discoverable without using a site like unpkg, or installing the package and inspecting package.json. Openbase now displays the ES Module support level (e.g. type of exports) on all of their package pages.

We added this feature because our devs are some of the folks continually caught off guard by installing an NPM dependency only to find out it's ESM-only. If that's you too, or if the type of exports matter for your project, check out the package on Openbase first.

https://openbase.com

A few screenshots:

- https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/76371/202783702-eca2c168-bb67-440d-aafc-41905563dd46.png

- https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/76371/202783704-2b87d49d-dfb7-48a5-b355-d5e37b3e5a80.png

- https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/76371/202783706-601d9957-2820-4bb1-aa99-d2abcebf51f8.png
Is there any reason to naively interpret his view of free speech as "anyone can say anything at any time"?
Memory leaks are bad, but they can't break type safety. Buffer overflows and use-after-free are categorically more dangerous.
This is true, it is not liquid, but some basic googling shows me that he donated $6 billion in stock and sold $10-12 billion so far in 2022.

I commend him for donating $6 billion, that is an objectively good thing, but what the hell is he going to do with $10 billion in cash? He can live a life of lavish luxury with 1% of that.
Changes to a system can come in many ways, e.g. we had a noticeable increase in our db size because of a new customer data, what was ok. before wasn't after. Of course it's different for twitter.
And what about security? Update to libraries, dependencies...?
Yeah exactly. What the original commentor is hoping for is a reset to a previous point in time. Which would be nice in many of ways they've outlined, but isn't possible. Imagine if a large corrupted and bloated city could simply not be large, corrupted, or bloated.

In real life we've seen when such a city loses people or revenue, the trauma of the pullback is devastating and the bloat and corruption do not simply go away. Detroit, 1970s NYC after the suburban flight, and the people clinging to shrinking regions of Japan come to mind.

As our countries have a population pullback wealth will shrink, corners will be cut, innovation will slow, and likely more coal than ever will be burned.
To contextualize this given the parent commenter's question:

-- About 50% of US corn production goes toward animal feed (and another 30% goes to ethanol). Slightly out of date source, but recent figures show this has only moved a few percentage points. [1]

-- Over 70% of US soybean production goes toward animal feed. [2]

-- I wasn't able to find something similar about wheat, but I would guess nearly all of it is human consumption.

Given this, it's safe to say that a large portion of these grain subsidies are linked to meat, although to get a better idea of the distribution, we would need to see a further breakdown by category (corn, soybeans, wheat).

[1] https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten...
[2] https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten...
Apple has its own better Rust now

Swift:

- Servers

- OS

- Apps with a wonderful SwiftUI framework

- C++ Interop

- Ownership model

- Crossplatform
Cool! That's what we need! TWO Twitters!! One wasn't useless enough. How about we take all that time and energy and build a few fission plants.
Twitter still seems to work as well as ever, so it's too early to claim Musk fucked up the product. And far too early to claim he won't introduce a better product.
Launch - or acquire?

I'm sure there's a list somewhere of what's actually homegrown and what's bene bough (youtube, streetview, doubleclick, ?).
They had a little too much fun with this headline
It is a solvable problem: eliminate your algorithm.

Facebook and Twitter both grew very popular without an algorithm. Then they chased the almighty engagement metrics.
Yes, precisely my point: Even the best are not nearly good enough. Because "the competent enough C programmer" is a myth.
Why not just call it + then? it would include everything... or call it the group of sexually active people..... such non-sense... maybe because some don't like to be called people and would rather be called things? or they?
Networking is, in my experience, the best way to earn business. Most contracts go through referral channels because there is a chain of trust.

I see marketing as a long-term investment. It takes time to establish a position in the market where others see you as a trusted authority. It helps to have a niche and to develop a unique point of view.

One way to build trust is to find a place where your customer hangs out and post helpful content there regularly. Also, think about what signals your customer might consider when evaluating a contractor. An open source project with many stars, followers on your social media accounts, qualified testimonials, a blog with quality content, etc.

Your best results will come from combining networking with a solid online presence.
Are you telling me that a Ronnagram isn't a message from Ron, delivered by Western Union? And for stuff like the mass of the earth, why not 6e27 kg or whatever it is, instead of these weird incantations? Ugh.
This is not pointlessly-spent energy! It is part of the job of software engineering, in much the same way as fixing compiler errors and debugging is part of the job of software engineering. Your work isn't done just because you have a program that makes sense to you.

Think about technical discussions as a thing that you need to spend extended amounts of time and energy on - probably more than programming, once you get senior enough as an individual contributor.

(So, yes, I think it's a lack of skill, largely because of a lack of recognition that it's a skill worth developing. I can't say whether the "blame" is yours or theirs, but it is highly likely that everyone has a lot of room to get better at it.)
Maybe Streisand Effect?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
That was my impression too, so I was surprised to read that they are kinda' giving it away by allowing it to be subsumed by Matter. The casting support in Matter will be a mandatory part of the related profile.

But, whatever the explanation, I think this is a good thing.
I didn't get a vote. Did you?
Most developers use their mouse quite often.
I think that it is fair to say Go considers error handling to be signal, not noise.

This position has obviously prompted a philosophical war and not everyone agrees, but the two statements are consistent under Go's philosophy.
This article says close to nothing at all. It's just a statement about the industry.
Same goes in reverse. The govt/debtors should connect with ex-employees/investors and get them to try and gossip, commiserate, provide black-hat advice, etc with existing employees in DMs and proxy any discoveries to the govt/debtors in exchange for a "consulting fee".
> The way I remember Earth's approximate mass is

For me, it's: Earth is a blue marble - in "Mega-view" (Mm zoomed to mm) - with a diameter of a baker's dozen Megameters. The volume of a ball is one half of its enclosing box, so that's ~(1E7)^3 or 1E21 m^3. Earth is rock (3 Mg/m^3) and iron (8 Mg/m^3) and averages 5 Mg/m^3. Or just bracket it - water,lead,gold is ~ 1,10,20 Mg/m^3). Giving an Earth mass of 5E24 kg. Actual value 6E24 kg. Brackets of water and lead give 1E24 to 11E24 kg.

> a great way of drilling in these tidbits

For me it's: Arm-sized, hand-sized, fingernail-sized, and "tiny"-sized, are 1000, 100, 10, and 1 mm. Zooming these by 1000^n gives scale-model "views". Mega-view with planet balls, kilo-view with cities in your palm, meter-view with buildings in hand, micro-view with red blood cell M&M's (yum), nano-view with virus balls (chewy shell, stringy inside), pico-view with H2O bumpy basketballs, femto-view with nuclei marbles. It's easier to remember how big things are, once they're toy-sized, and you've handled and played with them.

Just something I crafted years back. Resulting videos didn't seem to user test well. I was set to dust it off, doing rapid iterative development over gorilla street usability testing... in Spring 2020. Ah well.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/unstablediffusion

This subreddit was banned due to a violation of Reddit's rules against non-consensual intimate media.

Interesting. Why "non-consensual"? Does it mean Stable Diffusion generated porn of people who actually exist?
My point was about suffering + killing of the animal. What happens after was irrelevant. 'pink slime' was irrelevant, and 'disrespectful' was a absurd term. But they move attention from the issue of suffering + killing.

FTR once you killed an animal it makes no sense not to use it fully so I agree with you - but that wasn't my point, had nothing to do with it.
The inspiration was actually a tool called SnipIt that we used extensively at Alphabet. I really wanted that same tool outside the company, but with additional features (organization and comments) that SnipIt never had.

We used SnipIt all day long -- especially for screenshotting graphs, capturing bugs, and building presentations.

Of course, the weird thing is that inside Alphabet, everything was public across the company by default. This obviously doesn't work in a public product, so I'm curious to see if some kind of "default group sharing" setting ends up being needed, since everything is private by default now.