skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s possible no paperwork was ever provided to folks (!) who were “laid off”, in which case these are going to end up in court as constructive dismissal cases. Hard to say until legal action is taken and it shows up in courtlistener. I am not a lawyer, but if I was one, I would file whatever I thought was most likely to succeed from an employment law perspective while Twitter has cash reserves left.

The lying works so long as you don’t run into a judge and a judgement. The odds are very low a judge looks favorably upon Twitter’s HR practices (which are, publicly no less, quite abusive). Will a judgement be obtained before Twitter is no longer a going concern? That’s to be seen.
Funnily enough one could argue that we're also biologically predisposed to apply certain moral judgements to the behaviour of other people and our own. After all, our environment of selection didn't include the ability to alter much of our body chemistry.
have you spent a lot of time with chatgpt personally?

for me it feels more inspiring and uplifting about the future of humanity than any technology I've experienced.
Output Before Input
Yep, a lower-than-replacement birthrate combined with a hostile immigration policy that is against permanency will do that.
>because he's cool

Elon Musk is not cool, he just wears a leather jacket.
First, this comment seems like a hater perspective. "I hate things people like."

Second, this was already going on for much longer than you think. If you read reddit now, or if you were 5 years ago, most of the posts are reposts from bots, and most of the top comments are reposts from top comments of the exact same posts. People, or bots, I don't know, literally find the previous posts of the exact same thing and copy/paste the top comments from there to have a higher chance at getting karma, and it's working.
Blatantly lying in a public statement is not against the law, depending on the circumstances. Otherwise the man would already be in fairly deep trouble.
Thing is, he most likely lives in CA.
Sorry for that. At first I found a broken, unreadable version of the article[1] and I guess I assumed they don't have a better copy.

[1] - https://archive.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/risc-cisc/rvc-1.htm...
Maybe it's been edited, but it seemed pretty clear to me they were describing the ways Musk is trying to 'cheat the system.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/democrats-blue-st...

https://www.cbs8.com/amp/article/news/local/california/study...

https://www.businessinsider.com/california-worst-quality-of-...

I can go on but tonight I have to deal with a flood situation that the SF Bay Area infra is struggling with.
Humans have always been input machines that produce outputs.
"{" on a french keyboard is two key presses but at the same time (alt gr and 4), while ^ is two key presses one after the other, which makes it a bit slower. Most editors will also insert the corresponding } when you create a {. That makes in my experience {} faster than ^ and {{}} as fast as ^.

{} is still a common complaint in my circle of programmer friends and everyone has seriously thought even once about switching to an english/american keyboard, but then there's the issue of switching back when writing stuff in french (é by itself almost ruins the idea).
More explanation of the promise pipelining that samsquire brought up:

http://www.erights.org/elib/distrib/pipeline.html

https://capnproto.org/news/2013-12-13-promise-pipelining-cap...
It's way harder to scam people with AI/ML stuff compared to crypto since it fundamentally doesn't involve transfers of large sums of money. Well perhaps venture capitalists, but it's their job to be able to tell the real from the fake. The hype around AI is well deserved though.
According to https://twitter.com/magey/status/1610856428646064129 the 60 day notice ends tomorrow, so it’s possible the payments are being sent at the last possible day.
It’s still early days, but there’s very compelling research around unhealthy gut flora being a significant factor in uncontrollable weight gain. Current hypotheses are essentially that certain bacteria, given free rein in the GI tract, are able to over-signal impulses for nutrition which typically leads to low satiation and high calorie intakes. It’s also hypothesized that gut flora can play a major role in suppressing satiation.

Again, only hypotheses at this time, but the existing data is far from fluffy and there’s a lot more in the pipes.

The most compelling research I’ve seen used various semi-controlled diets (unfortunately diet was indicated but ultimately self reported by subjects, as it didn’t occur strictly in a controlled environment) with some subjects receiving fecal transplants. Those receiving diverse flora from transplants succeeded much better in losing weight and keeping it off some months later. The study needed stricter controls and more subjects, but it’s a fascinating start.

I’ll point out that the cause of the differences in results isn’t necessarily gut flora alone, too — it’s all super preliminary. This comment is mostly just to say “there are other factors, we just aren’t sure what yet but we have some interesting leads”.
This endless Musk pile-on is getting tiresome.
> Ex Twitter folks should hurry up before they have to negotiate with a bankruptcy trustee.

This, one hundred times over. Musk has been openly talking about bankruptcy. I'm shocked if only one commercial realtor has sued twitter over deliquency. Sue early, sue often, because Musk's wealth is locked behind a corporate veil and twitter just doesn't have that much in saleable assets.
Some people feel negative feelings about EVERYTHING. You should have seen the threads here on Github Copilot, or VR, or going to Mars, or ...
Suppose the concussed person ends up muttering what would amount to a beautiful poem in one's own native language. Why wouldn't I think of it as beautiful and even artistic even if I know perfectly well the person in question didn't intend it to be so? Of course when we're speaking about language there's a very real sense in which the person didn't intend to create a poem - nor did the ants intend to draw Winston Churchill - nor did an AI intend to make a picture of a cat. But then again, the tree on my street didn't intend to be beautiful, nor did the pink clouds at sunset - so what? I'm perfectly capable of furnishing the semantics myself, thank you.
Yeah, Oxide's basic pitch is 'hyperscaling toys for the rest of us', where they essentially commoditize the kind of hardware and software setup which previously only the hyperscalers had (having built it themselves and only for themselves).
> and it extends through all of life, not just magic

A form of entertainment, playing with deception. Deception's expected in the act, but not, perhaps, in other parts of life. I hope you share a strong ethics.

My kind play with words. I wish we shared a stronger ethics.
* The increase in complexity is unavoidable as well as accidental (creep due to marketing). Some of it is necessary to address the increased sophistication of the web. Just compare what we can do today to what we used to do in 1996 with cgi and perl.

* It is not that native GUI libraries like Qt or SDL or GTK are super easy. GUI are event driven and composed and need to be in sync with the user wishes and as such have a programming model that is different from a top to down execution of instructions.

* The biggest challenge with the current state of front end development though is that there are no standards and no stability on a YoY basis. What I learned to do with PHP in 2005 is still valid. I can still use those tricks and whip something useful. What I learned to do with tables in mysql 3.x is still useful with mysql 8.x. However the world of Javascript frameworks is one of shifting sand.

What I learned with Javascript framework X.1 will be obsoleted by X.2 and will be obsoleted by X.3. No guarantees for time investment is challenge #1. angular 1.x -> 2.x, Vue 2.x -> 3.x are some examples that come to mind. Think of all the wasted effort. That is the killer. Humans are good at making peace with whatever crap is thrown at them. I do not think technology is the reason here. It has more to do with hype cycles and trying to catch developer's attention in a competitive market with new buzzwords.

* There is a lack of simple tools like what visual basic used to do. Sure, everything is async and we are in an event driven world but frameworks could have provided a common core to enable simple use cases. bootstrap library is a case in point. I can get decent results with bootstrap without knowing the intricacies of css. However I am hard pressed to find a suitable Javascript framework.
Was just thinking a while ago why not many people are talking about RoR lately. It sure is declining since the rise of Javascript and its various libraries started to pop up.
> Short-term investors will live by the sword or die by the sword, but long-term investors are fine.

Well, and also some of the employees there, regardless of their length of service. This whole thread is more from the POV of the tech workers getting laid off than investment performance.
Ice Age hunters used cave paintings to time life cycles of animals, study shows
> Do you have evidence to support this happening, or are you just speculating?

Public evidence is hard to track down (especially quickly) since raids on private trackers are so rare and like I said almost all of these issues get solved out of court in non-disclosed settlement offers, but this isn't just speculation either. It's clear from history and what we do know that they're very much interested in user data and willing to file lawsuits:

https://torrentfreak.com/mass-bittorrent-lawsuits-now-target...

https://www.wjunction.com/threads/elitebits-private-bittorre...

> How many people got in trouble after the What.CD raid?

The damage there was limited since according to the admins all site and user data was destroyed.
With private trackers, aren't you also 1 suuccesful penetration or website breach away from exposing your history?
Come on people they are even giving you dead simple hints to make this as laughable as possible, mentioning a "Hi-Fi (High fidelity)" speaker - as if anything but a single-frequency acoustic wave might matter here.
They have had such an extreme stock price dive into the toilet. Their stock looks like Solana.

This is probably not among the optimizations which will help anything.
Presumably email (plus getting locked out of equipment and work accounts) if this person was part of the November layoff group.
NYC education department blocks ChatGPT
I suppose the good thing about this is at least AI is definitely useful for creating tools that improve productivity, whereas a lot of crypto was just speculation - it was easy to make a shitcoin and pump it up, but with AI you have to actually make a usable product that people would pay for.

That is, unless you're making some kind of AI auto-scamming system, but that's less of a grey area.
> Crypto will probably go the way of the less useful bubbles (beanie babies and tulips)

People say that and yet it's been like what, 14 years? How long can a tulip market really last?
So how do we reason about rutracker, a site not as glorious as some of the true private trackers, but certainly not a slum like many of the public trackers?
Whatever Jobs wanted he is now long gone
> a hostile immigration policy that is against permanency will do that.

Why are you spreading lies? Permanent residency is really, really easy to get in Japan, unlike the US where you have to win a lottery.
I did this and lost 18% of my body weight (BMI 36 to 29) after reading Gary Taubes. It works. The resulting blood chemistry worried my doctor.

Worse, it’s excruciatingly boring. The 60th serving of fatty steak is no longer delicious. I lusted for a crouton. Even onions are a cheat in a glycemic load regime.

When I was single, strategies like having no sugar, alcohol, or refined carbs in the house were practical, but living with a family and especially with young kids, they really aren’t.

I regained it all and more. I’ve made follow-on efforts and had several +/- 30lb swings.

I started tirzepatide three months ago. I echo what others have said above: I never understood satiety before this. Keeping keto takes excruciating willpower in comparison. I now know what it feels like to eat 3/4 of a normal dinner with balanced macros and not think about food till lunchtime the next day.

There’s a big difference between maintaining constant vigilance against desire and having none.
Even that much is aching for more numbers. How about .5C versus 1.5C? What if my phone is one of those fancy ones rated for 6C or even 10C? Unless someone gives some precise scenarios it's so hard to guess how my phone might be affected.
At a first read it's a bit ambiguous - but essentially Musk is more or less "staying in the office without paying rent", waiting for the "landlord" to try and kick him out using legal means, or renegotiate for a lower rent (severance pay for ex employees in this case) or none at all, knowing that the "landlord" has no real power or means to penalise.
It already is revolutionary and maybe we overlook how it is helping us all daily, work faster, spend more quality time, make things easy.

I’ll give just one very small example: I have this huge photo library on my phone and sometimes I need to find a particular photo or receipt from a specific business that I clicked 3-4 years ago. Doing that manually means spending at least 10 mins to 30 mins if I don’t remember the exact month or year I clicked it in. And I used to mostly defer finding the photo as much as I could. Or do it when I was totally bored and nothing to do.

Cue AI: I type the business name or photo description in the search bar and it displays the photo right there. 3 seconds.

Another could be about the Camera app using CV to read live text or numbers. I guess CV and LLMs are specifically going to explode this year as they already have a strong base and proven use case.
I was never a promising player, but playing sax in the school band was just boring. When it came time to go to high school the choice was marching band or jazz band. Both sounded miserable so I quit.
If I remember, a set of emails went out to everyone at Twitter. You either got the “we’re sorry” email or the “you weren’t laid off” email, along with instructions if you were a part of the laid off group.

https://twitter.com/MiikeCuevas/status/1588347810872557569
Sorry that people suffering is getting tiresome for you.
No. That real decisions affect real lives and have real effects. I do not subscribe to the idea that employees are an accounting problem either.
What's funny to me is that people are yelling at open source programs. This is a new kind of yelling at the clouds.
What's bad about scrutiny?
Tailwind UI is the component product.
Noita! It's the most fun I've had with a new game in many years. Cute, innovative Finnish sidescroller roguelite.
Oh, let's hope that he sells Twitter to someone else... at a big loss.
This is why: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-e...
But what does that have to do with the link?
I never said I snacked all day. I said if I was going to get my calories from greens I'd need to in order not to be hungry. Once again not actually considering what I'm saying. Your just making whatever assumption if convenient to your worldview.
Your other points may or may not be valid, but I think it's fairly uncontested that Musk's reputation took and continues to take huge damage over every aspect of the Twitter fiasco. He's burning down a $50 billion acquisition like he's a 1980s corporate raider, except that the raiders made money by torching corporations.
Definitely yes. Over 25 years ago I started a second career, in tech. After 6 months in a Microsoft academic program I got hired by a Big Six accounting firm to do desktop support. My previous education was completely nontechnical (a BA and MA in history, and a JD), as was my experience (10 years as a trial lawyer). No way was I the most qualified on paper for that job, but the people who hired me saw something and acted. A year later I was able to move into a new job with better pay at a Fortune 200 company, originally hired to do applications analysis but shortly after found myself a lead desktop engineer and later a Unix sysadmin. At every turn I was fortunate to have hiring managers that looked beyond my resume to see the potential there.

Sure, in 1997 an HR person told me they needed someone with at least 5 years experience in Windows NT, but in general most interviews I had in the late 90s and early 00s were way less myopic. I'm not sure I'd have the same experience if starting out today.
> The Fed is trying to trigger a recession, although they'll never come out and say it

Oh, they are not shy about it, it's just a little obfuscated by the jargon they use. One of the Fed's explicit goal is to lower "consumer demand", i.e. make people buy less stuff. Employment numbers are a function of demand, and the Fed has no means of directly tweaking employment numbers, but they can nudge demand (indirectly) by raising or lowering interest rates.
15% in Q3 2022 is a larger dollar amount than 20% in Q3 2019...
It's a list of ideas or "takes" about the situation. I enjoyed it and thought it was interesting. It's time consuming to put something like this in essay format, but some ideas thrown out there are fine with me.
yyghuipsoxer
> "Stable Diffusion is going to destroy the art industry;"

While there is of course a bit of hyperbole in that statement, I do think it has a lot of truth in it as well.

Stable Diffusion isn't going to destroy art since art is fundamentally a human endeavor. But many of the creative professions commonly called "[something] artist", whose day-to-day work consists of drawing pictures to illustrate a point, making things "look good" etc. are absolutely going to be wiped out. Logo designs, cover illustrations for books and music albums, pictures for marketing releases and so on. No one is going to keep paying people to do those when AIs can do it faster, better, and at no cost. I wouldn't be surprised if already in 2023, AI had a noticeable financial impact on those professions.
The one thing about PC sound cards include SBL was in comparison to other cards they were super noisy. The hiss that came off them was much more noticeable. At the time, every Mac was much more quiet than PCs. There were a couple of PC sound cards that were much more quiet (Turtle Beach cards come to mind), but the typical Creative card sounded like it had an air leak.
Is it weird that I like Windows only because of AHK?
Are you saying twitter is legally obligated to pay severance because musk said so on twitter?
The GP on twitter was laid off almost two months, and not given their severance as far as we can tell, or given any notification of severance.

More or less they were fired on the spot, and they'd have to find some legal means to recoup any backpay / severance from Twitter (Musk).

In OP's words, they're the landlord who did not get paid and the tenant (Musk / Twitter) is abusing their power.
My friends and I found documents authored in the 70's and went around the 90's trying to buy saltpeter--whatever that is. Luckily time had changed "Do I need to call your mother?" into "What the hell is that?" and our mothers were never called.

We eventually gave up and graduated to shoplifting model rocket engines, which we powdered with vice grips.
I was born in & lived in the UK, but I was only 7 when the 1970s ended, so my viewpoints are of limited value. From what I could gather from my parents & teachers, income tax rates peaked at 90% (and apparently 98% for "unearned income"), which drove high earners who could escape to move overseas, and made the highly-paid but unable to move, unwilling to work many hours. There was obviously a lot more going on (high inflation, growing unemployment, industrial unrest / industrial decline etc), but the ruling political party at the time of these simultaneous debacles would not be elected again for 18 years, and the fallout from their 1970s policies is still being used to attack them 5 decades later.

The couple of short sharp years at 90%, even if it were politically possible, may not actually generate as much extra revenue as you'd think (leaving aside the fact that this isn't really how governments raise operating funds in an unbacked fiat currency world) - unless you force the ultra-wealthy and high-income earners both to stay in the country and to carry on working hard, while taking away most of what they perceive as the fruits of their labors - how do you think that would go?

BTW I suspect you and I have very different opinions and politics. I find it rare these days to be able to have a civil debate "across the divide", kudos for that.
Under California law you are legally entitled to pay during the WARN period

Don’t need a letter but make sure to enforce your rights
Tailwind doesn’t provide components, they provide classes that map more or less 1:1 with CSS rules. They have a secondary project, TailwindUI (mostly gated behind a paywall), that provides examples of using their classes to build full-fledged components
This is true, but I feel amazing whenever I get something working and when I execute a shortcut.
>I haven't worked there, but I got the impression going back decades that Amazon is a terrible place to work. That said, I have a friend who worked there and had really only positive things to say.

I've heard the same thing about them. I think it's a place where certain kinds of people like to work, for a while, because it pays well and looks great on a resume, and they don't mind working long hours to do that kind of work and earn that kind of pay. But it's not for everyone.
Was E-Mu the brand with the unicorn logo? I knew a few musicians that had racks of 1RU pieces of gear. I remember the E-Mu name and the unicorn logo, and in my brain they are on the same gear. But in my brain, things get fuzzy when reaching back further than 15 minutes ago let alone 30 years.
You're breaking the site guidelines badly with your posts in this thread. Moreover it looks like you've done that more than once in the past as well. Can you please stop? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We want curious conversation, not angry putdowns.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
There's a major difference of scale. No individual human artist can reliably learn to copy every other artists' styles, and then produce infinite works in those styles.
> I think they did an effective job completely Turning public opinion against twitter employees.

Interesting. Is this true, and I just live in a pro-twitter-employee echo chamber?
A little, but I did drop by this thread to say that it's one of the absolute "killer apps" for windows. It's a very VERY complete swiss army knife of automation and makes it trivial to build little utilities that interface with the OS. I use it all the time.

It's been a while so perhaps the situation w/ linux and OSX has improved, but IIRC linux was very fragmented/finnicky and OSX is absurdly overzealous on permissions so you can never get anything useful done.

I'm constantly frustrated by the enormous gulf between what my computer COULD do vs what it actually CAN do because of how much stupid wall building everyone does. AHK is one of the few things that meaningfully bridges that gap. There are so many things that are infinitely frustrating because you have to click through like 10 menus instead of issuing a simple API command, and with AHK you can get some of that back.

We live in a world where 9 times out of 10 I won't open Premiere or whatever, because it's so much faster to just use ffmpeg. I want a world where Premiere still has all it's ui shit, but also has a decent scripting interface. It's one of the reasons I'm so bullish on Blender in the 3DCG space. The scriptability/extensibility is so far ahead of everything except Houdini.