skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree the notion is noble, I believe it’s simpler to assume he incorrectly saw value in owning the town hall, and allowed his own hubris to suppress any of his own doubts.

I genuinely don’t believe this was originally about free speech. I think he noted that as a compelling argument for owning the cheapest social media network.

If this was truly about free speech, I’d imagine there’s more effective ways of doing so. He could have funded journalism programs. He could have been established decentralized communication platforms that can’t be tampered with. None of those require betting the farm, and all of those directly promote free dialogue.
I see your point, but personally I never liked following fixed beliefs if in the long run I could benefit from dropping them. As an example, that's why I also learned Dvorak (which was much more painful than re-learning F-keys).
Eh, closure is just anested function. Just like a function can have access to global/static vars, a closure can also have access to vars in its parent scope. They are like global vars to it
I just came back to North America after 18 months in Australia. Ketchup compared to Tomato Sauce is a wild difference!
Memristors seem the same ‘always close by’ thing next to graphene, nuclear fusion, universal cancer medicine and definitely much better batteries.

Is any real happening that we can buy soon with memristors? I liked their properties a lot since I first heard about them some 15 years ago and I believed they were closed because it was HP talking about it. 15 years…
Successful people stand up for themselves, otherwise they will get taken of in life and business. You don’t want to be unstable, hysterical or sue over nothing but you want to stand up for your self in a consistent and thoughtful way.

Of course you don’t want people standing up to you if you are trying to screw them over, but it that is just your self interest.
> I think that the risk of Sun really taking the OS franchise away from us is much lower than the risk that they cheapen the entire business.

Spot on.
Well as you say, those opinions are likely not held by most others, and you are not wrong about not sharing on social media.

I don't agree with your opinions, quite opposed in fact, and generally if you find that sort of thing attractive in IRL it usually means there is some amount of compensating for something else going on which could be any number of reasons, which we don't need to get into (as that would be unhelpful), its something that generally and helpfully is something to talk through with a qualified professional.

Everyone is entitled to their own evolving opinions as that is a fundamental requirement for intelligent critical thought, and necessary for growth. So long as it does not harm others.

Rather than go into a long diatribe on the dangers of surveillance. I'll just say, you are not wrong.

There is a concerted multi-industry effort to reduce agency, eliminate accountability, and increase corruption under the "We just won't tell them and stonewall" strategy.

What you don't realize is most content online is junk, its not even people. Its orchestrated bots and its a subversive propaganda echo chamber designed with one true purpose; an efficient many to one communication system to interfere with legitimate activities, and cause polarization through the use of psychological blindspots which everyone has.

You may find Cialdini's Influence an interesting read if you are wanting to know more about those blindspots. Once you know their structures, its much simpler to alert on them, when they are being used on you.

One clear sign of propaganda is the use of those blindspots, and that is often coupled with fallacial arguments, or flawed logic; Ethics philosophy courses cover those.
Javabeans give me nightmares too
Brave vs. Chrome
>The client is an arsehole.

But it's not like Elon is writing the legal wording on the offer itself, and it was terrible in a specifically legal way. You would almost have to tell your lawyer: "Write me an offer to buy Twitter. But I don't want the standard boring offer other people use. Be sure to go out of your way and waive standard protections. Just burn the bridge behind me so I'm totally stuck here if things go sideways."

And then weeks later he's on podcasts complaining that there's too many bots on Twitter and it's not fair the bridge is burnt. Dude, you went out of your way to do that.

At the time he must had some rational.
Now maybe Creative can give EMU and Ensoniq trademarks back to their creators.
Can't charge your truck if the local hookup is buried under 5 feet of snow.
Most of the money does go to employees who sue their employers forrongful termination and similar. Do you have evidence to the contrary or are you just knee jerk defending Elon?
the Rivian EDV is very quiet ;)
They say Elon would cut the throat of one of the people. Then it's two apples for two people.
Perhaps more likely, the people in HR and legal who weren't laid off and haven't quit yet are overworked and can't keep up with how many people were laid off. Although, with what is happening with Twitter, who can say.
I think Go is more verbose than Java
There is no scrutiny. It’s some random comment then a bunch of people jump in and fill in the blanks with whatever comes to mind.
Yep this is what I meant to acknowledge. Whatever other UX complaints I might have, it’s consistent and predictable and that’s a lot of why I don’t have a problem overlooking my gripes.
I don't like it when people focus on grammar too much but "I am worry..."?
You might be able to see some way on which Musk’s Twitter purchase had virtue, but there is still the objective fact that he bought the company as part of a pre-trial settlement agreement to avoid a Delaware court case. It’s hard to spin that as anything other than hugely damaging to his business reputation.
RIP. I spent countless hours talking to that damn parrot.
Rossum is still doing synths and recently re-issued a SP2100, at $6000 a pop though... Hopefully he can get his brand name back.

I think it was Ensoniq who were ex Commodore employees responsible for the Sid chip on the C64.
> Sometimes decent people have good reasons for working for bad execs.

Yep. Don’t forget immigration, that can be a big reason to stay. There was this famous pic of Elon with the some of the remaining Twitter staff and let’s just say they looked quite international. Obviously SV is multicultural and you shouldn’t assume individual traits from appearance, but, for a group it’s somewhat reasonable to assume a fair amount of H1B hostages with a huge incentive to stay, especially in the current economic climate.

Speaking as a former H1B holder.
I'm not defending Twitter but it sounds like this person may still be getting paid (due to WARN), just hadn't got severance letter.
Yup! There are a few caveats, but for the most part it'd be compatible.

https://planetscale.com/docs/reference/mysql-compatibility
> Similarly, I'd look very carefully at anybody who stayed at Twitter well into the Musk era.

Maybe the people without H1Bs. The H1Bs are in a tough spot.
For Russian Troops, Cellphone Use Is a Persistent, Lethal Danger
Omly need to get one truck going: The pump truck.
Colloquially? I don't think so.
Not sure what you're asking here. Anybody holding public shares
(whether vested or purchased on the market) at the time the deal closed got $54.20, with the public share price converging on that price in the days/hours leading up to close (with a fluctuating discount due to the perceived risk of the deal not closing.) The market value was not $20 at the time of the close, that would be ridiculous. You might think the "true value" of the shares should have been closer to $20, but people knowing any shares they held would very likely be bought for $54.20 moved the market toward that price.

This wasn't a situation anybody needed any kind of special hookups to "get in on"

As for accelerated vesting: No. Outstanding employee grants converted to a cash vesting schedule. This effectively locked in the equity grants at $54.20, eliminating all upside and downside for employees. Elon moved aggressively to fire as many of these people as possible, in part because he probably felt they weren't worth that much money. This conversion to cash vesting changed nothing about the vesting timeline.

The only people who were supposed to get a big pile of money after close were top execs (Parag, Ned, Vijaya, etc) with golden parachutes, but Elon tried to claim those people all deserved to be fired for cause in the first hours of his ownership in order to avoid paying the golden parachutes. I'm sure they'll fight it out in court and get their money eventually. Matt Levine wrote about this at length in Money Stuff.
As an example of an opposite situation that proves your point:

I started classical music lessons very early as a kid. I was one of those weird kids that ended up liking classical music anyways, but I also had a deep love for movie soundtracks. My parents encouraged me to play anything I liked. Which I did -- movie soundtracks. They'd go around bragging to other parents how their little kid learned these soundtracks by ear too.

I still play to this day, and have branched out into many different genres. Them being supportive for the idea that this is an expression of myself, and praising my efforts, really cemented playing musical instruments as a core part of my identity.

Not a parent yet, but I hope I can pass along this chain of positivity to my own in the future.
> it seems like it could make it easy for people to do competitive operating systems.

Wow. Losing sleep becasue progress might actually happen in the operating systems space. How very '90s Microsoft.
As someone who has been sued and settled this didn’t affect anything, I still raised money, gained business partners and grew the business. Business disputes happen.

In many ways suing or getting sued in business is like losing your virginity. It seems like a big deal before it happens the first time but then anfterward it isn’t a big deal and just stuff that happens.

I feel you are spreading FUD to protect one of the richest guys in the world and telling little people who have been abused here to just take it.
And that’s for an app that is actually trivial.
It's not quite fair to compare project day rates vs straight salary but I know one Lead/Principal control system engineer who worked on FPSOs. Pre-2014, he was making 90k a month when he was offshore. His offshore day rate was significantly higher than his onshore rate.

Lots of travelling to and from manufacturers doing factory acceptance tests for equipment packages that go on the ships. You then live near the shipyard (Korea, Singapore, Brazil, Vietnam, etc.) while the FPSO is being built. You then leave with the ship and start commissioning everything.

All of the other guys I know on offshore rigs don't make as much as the example above but they'd be over 200-300k out of Houston or elsewhere on the gulf coast.
Ask HN: How do you make your new year resolutions work?
Especially for learning.
I've looked over the "works non-supportive of the NLP tenets and the tenets-derived hypotheses" and, well, in the words of Inigo Montoya, "I do not think it means what you think it means."

Basically, in the mid-80's some researchers badly misunderstood a facet of NLP, researched it badly, and then declared the whole thing to be baloney. Here's a good (brief) paper describing some of the problems with the "research":

Einspruch, E. L., & Forman, B. D. (1985). Observations concerning research literature on Neurolinguistic Programming. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 32, 589-596.

Since then, as far as I can tell, almost no one has done anything like proper science to NLP at all, at all. The NLP people are merrily doing their thing, the research psychologists are doing their thing, and "never the twain shall meet", eh?

It's a sad state of affairs really.
Fuel in ground tanks can be pumped out by manually pumping enough to power a generator to power the regular pumps... which is pretty trivial to set up.
Internet as Dark Forest is a nice concept to think about. But I wonder about this:

"It’s quiet because night is when the predators come out. To survive, the animals stay silent."

Is that really so? Isn't it more like everything is easier when you have light? Why waste energy stumbling in the dark, even if there are no predators?

And why wouldn't the predators come out during the day when its much easier to see their prey?
I agree with you and as far as I am concerned, Twitter was broken pre-Musk. Not sure it's fixed, but it is better. Where better is closer to real free speech.

BUT I hold this view while also loathing Musk's general behavior and personality. He is a petty tyrant and a scam artist. Mistreating employees and lying about it is the scam part (normal for Musk, who SWAT'd a Tesla whistleblower). The petty tyrant stuff is all the journalists he banned while supposedly being a free speech warrior.
I think he's more impressed by the trajectory than the current state of affairs.
Yeah, it's honestly amazing how people somehow entirely discount the idea of spending any time at all actively going out of their way to learn the history of anything :(.
Jargon takes quite a bit of collective time to establish. Instead of jargon, how about offensive phrases? Since AI lacks both creativity and the ability to be offensive (barring current workarounds/hacks), perhaps an easy way to (temporarily) prove you are human on the internet is to respond with unique, creatively offensive content.

"How are you today, you irradiant sack of sludge?"

"Oh hey douche firehose, can't complain."
I thought that somebody retyped the original and introduced the typos. But it looks like the typos were present in the original too:

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX...
Way slower and more cognitive overhead.
Also, "make the web totally OS agnostic"? Clutches pearls how will Microsoft control the web if any old operating system is allowed to access it!?
There is no reasonable way to definitively control this, though explicit theft of trade secrets between companies is prosecuted in practice and dangerous enough that ethical companies are careful about even the appearance of impropriety.

Where trade secrets really leak (in tech), in my experience, is engineer to engineer. A chat between friends over beers about some technical problem. It is nearly untraceable and it doesn’t involve anyone leaving their job.

As a fun example, database tech is buried in trade secret restrictions and has been for decades. There is a classic problem in cache replacement algorithms that has no solution in literature. Nonetheless, an astonishingly elegant solution exists — the kind that you can’t believe you never thought of it yourself after you learn it — that has been selectively passed around informally among practitioners for (at least) a decade or two. No one knows who invented it but it was likely developed at one of the old database research powerhouses like Oracle, IBM, et al that have severe trade secret regimes. A trade secret that leaks isn’t a trade secret, but there are enormous punitive consequences if anyone knows who leaked it.

This kind of trade secret leakage happens even under non-compete regimes and it is pretty common. When it happens, the probability of figuring out how it happened is very low. It has to be part of your risk model.
Working for Musk means you don't have a moral core?
None of my UX complaints are about attractiveness, there are several usability difficulties for me using CL. I hope it stays brutalist and ugly and plain forever. Most of my UX complaints are about ambiguous navigation and state, which are consistent with UX from a time when web programming had those problems almost universally.
If he hasn't been paid all this time, then certainly yes.

If he was given notice (which he was) but didn't receive the formal letter containing all the details, then maybe. Depends on exactly how the state laws work in California.
200M Twitter users' email addresses allegedly leaked online
The WARN act does not mandate severance.

It does, instead, mandate that the employee is given a 30 (edit: California is 60, federal is 30) day notice that they will be laid off. It would be completely within the law to say "you will be laid off on Feb 4" and require you to work until Feb 4, and not have any sort of additional severance pay.

Severance pay is not required under California law. https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/finalpay.pdf

> There is no legal requirement under California law that employers provide severance pay to an employee upon termination of employment.

Confusing severance pay, WARN act, and the common practice of garden leave can make it harder for people to understand what they are entitled to.
> You must be on some garbage trackers if you're getting away with multiple accounts

Idk, I just always cheated when I was close to coming to my DL limit.

https://github.com/NikolayIT/RatioMaster.NET
You'll still be able to do that with Fn+F1/F2.
We know much more Jewish and Christian religious literature from antiquity than found its way into the bible. The nomenclature for it is a bit confusing. There are the "apocrypha" of the "Old Testament" in the narrow sense, which are those parts nowadays excluded by the Protestants. And then there are the "apocrypha" in a wider sense, which is the literature that bears a certain generic resemblance to biblical writings. However, some texts related to the New Testaments were typically not called "apocrypha" because the term traditionally had something pejorative about it; so it is not used for "almost" canonical texts that were traditionally recommended as pious reading, such as the so-called "Apostolic Fathers"[1].

To everyone who is interested in the texts and backgrounds of the apocrypha of the New Testament, I can highly recommend the two volumns of Wilhelm Schneemelcher: "New Testament Apocrypha" (or for German speakers: "Neutestamentliche Apokryphen"): vol. I: "Gospels and Related Writings" and vol. 2: "Writings Relating to the Apostles Apocalypses and Related Subjects". They include a lot of texts, many in complete translations, and provide excellent philological introductions to each text. However, the Apostilic Fathers are not included. For this you must look for other editions.

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Fathers
It wouldn’t be hard to convince yourself that Big Brother is a great thing. If only the facial recognition was correct, it would be a criminal in jail and not an innocent man.
Had no idea about joining across multiple databases! Hot tip!

Yeah, you can drastically increase write throughput by just having extra SQLite databases.. Example pattern:

* main.db

* sessions.db

* analytics.db

* cache.db

Will 4x your writes.

Combined with a modern nvme drive, you begin reaching crazy fast write throughput which you'd require far more traditional database nodes to achieve, but on a single machine.
If only they could throw some kind of diesel generator in a truck. You could plow a ton of snow
"People suffering"

That's not how I'd describe what this person is experiencing. We're talking about 3 months pay, not a mortal wound
sow*
Same story here with piano lessons - I wanted to write my own music! I would come up with interesting sounds when practicing, and wanted to learn how to develop those further.

Nope! Class time rolled around and it was forty five minutes of posture posture posture and finger movements. Mrs. Bell didn’t care about the interesting music I had created, she just wanted me to tick off silly boxes and follow “the plan”.

I’ve barely touched a piano since.
I don't even think "pain to keep employees" is the right word here - Amazon for instance is still highly profitable, it's just that the profits went down a bit (which is to be expected if the economy is worse). But they're still laying off people just to make the bottom line look even better...
More specifically the billionaire mid-life crisis starter pack: leather jacket, hair regrowth (alternatively clean shaven), designer jeans, fast sunglasses/aviators.
it's easier for us indians. Just insult anything related to india and watch the modi brigade go on the overdrive lol.
It's still available from hardware stores in the US, in the form of stump remover. It's really pure as well.
Guy loses all credibility when he's tagging Taylor Lorenz. This is an attention play, nothing more.
I still have a JavaOne tshirt in the back of my closet that says,

In a World Without Fences, Who Needs Gates?
Had one legacy app still on CircleCI and figured may as well move it over to GH actions if we're already rotating tokens anyway. Really hard to recommend anything else these days.
AppleScript is a terrible yet reasonably well documented language. At the other end of the spectrum is JavaScript for automation (JXA), which exposes all the same APIs AppleScript does (modulo the spelling of function names), is a much more sane language, and is barely documented. I find that AppleScript is like bash and JXA is like python in terms of how complicated a script can be before you swift from the former to the latter.
>He wasn’t forced to buy anything.
>He bought Twitter. And then he didn’t like what happened to it while the deal was being closed and tried to back out of the sale.

>It’s like buying a product, signing a contract waiving off any return period, then insisting you want to return it even though it’s working exactly as it was supposed to.

Actually still undersells it a bit.

It's like buying a product, refusing to sign the standard contract a typical customer signs, having your lawyer create a custom contract that waives the return period, then complaining about not being able to return it.

Bewildering honestly. Like he must have thought that Twitter would use that clause in some way against him or something?
Oh yeah, totally. I recall one absolutely terrible place that was well-stocked with H1B holders because they would grimly put up with all the executive nonsense. They were not a talkative bunch, but I got the impression a number of them were just saving every dollar possible for a planned return home. Which I totally respected, but I still felt terrible for them.
I am much more active on reddit than I am on hackernews. Not everyone opposing your POV is a "Russian bot account."

This also means that I only comment here on certain topics.
And nowadays they are an OpenJDK contributor, were part of the companies doing the ARM port, and develop Java support for VSCode in collaboration with Red-Hat.

Meanwhile the chocolate factory has created their own version of ".NET" for phones.
I would simply not lay off half my workers and then fail to pay the severance that I promised and legally owe them.
Anybody doing this for any of the US grids?
Suggesting, but not making any actual claims if they have been paid through their 60 days or not. Seems like very relevant information
Your retort is that bad things have happened in the past therefore all things in the future are bad. Solid argument!
> And eating only candy makes me sick, so I should also buy crisps so I can alternate and keep eating.

This one hit hard. If you swapped "crisps" and "candy" for "MDMA" and "ketamine", people would tell you to go to rehab.

No judgment here, but a lot of your behaviour sounds like addiction underpinned by a coping mechanism. If you replaced <food> with alcohol or drugs people would point out how your relationship with the substance is pathological.

IMO food is the most cruel of addictions as it is fuelled by our most primal of instincts to survive, it is also why I think Big Sugar is the most sinister of institutions...
By making everyone install their own browser, including shipping applications with the whole browser alongside the application. /s
They said they were going to pay, but Elon musk is a notable liar and welcher. He’s also getting sued cause Twitter stopped paying rent on its office