- CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM : I hate poor people so much its unreal. Also can you buy me an unban award please
- breakcore : fewer
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(RIP BlackPeopleTwitter)
!peakpoors Go dunk on them while you still can
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209382
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214619
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211027
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222501
Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team
Electric-car maker's public policy unit also being disbanded as chief announces in memo hundreds more jobs to be cut
Elon Musk has shut down the division that runs Tesla's Supercharger business, dismissed two senior executives and fired hundreds more staff as the electric-car maker continues its restructuring amid a sharp downturn in the EV market.
Musk announced internally on Monday that the head of the superchargers group, Rebecca Tinucci, and Daniel Ho, head of new products, would be leaving along with their entire teams. About 500 people were in the supercharger group, the memo said.
Tesla's supercharger system is among the largest charging networks in the world, and was one the reasons the company enjoyed such a commanding lead over rival carmakers for so long. While the supercharger operations will continue, the move raises questions over the future of the charging business.
The entire public policy unit will also be disbanded following the departure of its leader, Rohan Patel, in the middle of April.
“Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction,” Musk wrote in the memo, which was first reported by The Information. “While some execstaff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”
Any manager “who retains more than three people who don't obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” should resign, he added.
Tesla shares, which fell 5.5 per cent on Tuesday, were down another 2.6 per cent in pre-market trading at $178.53 on Wednesday.
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.
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The latest dismissals at the company come after Musk announced last month that the carmaker would cut “more than 10 per cent” of its total workforce, more than 14,000 jobs, in order to be “lean, innovative and hungry”.
The urgency of the shift was underlined by Tesla reporting a decline of almost 10 per cent in revenues in the first quarter of this year, its first year-on-year quarterly drop since the start of 2020. The share price has more than halved from its November 2021 peak of just under $410 a share.
The decision took staff by surprise. Will Jameson, who worked in the Tesla supercharger team, wrote on X that Musk “has let our entire charging org go”. Another employee of that division, George Bahadue, posted on LinkedIn confirming he had been let go.
He added: “What this means for the charging network, [North American Charging Standard] NACS, and all the exciting work we were doing across the industry, I don't yet know. What a wild ride it has been.”
When Jameson was asked by a reader on X why the entire division had been let go, he replied “your guess is as good as mine”.
Musk said in the memo that superchargers sites under construction would be finished and “some” new locations would be constructed.
The surprise move comes despite Tesla having built the dominant EV charging network with 50,000 sites globally and 15,000 in North America. Recently it has signed contracts with several rivals, including Ford, General Motors and Rivian, to use its NACS charging standard.
Models from other carmakers will be able to use its branded charging stations, potentially bringing Tesla a significant revenue stream, as well as establishing it as the de facto industry standard.
Tinucci, Ho and Patel are not the only long-standing Musk lieutenants to leave this year. Drew Baglino, senior vice-president leading Tesla's engineering and technology development for batteries, motors and energy products, resigned in April and Martin Viecha, its head of investor relations, said he would step down on the company's first-quarter earnings call last week.
In a post on X, Musk said the carmaker would continue to grow its supercharger network “at a slower pace for new locations”.
“More focus on 100 per cent uptime and expansion of existing locations,” he wrote.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-suspended-us-green-card-applications-foreign-workers-2024-4
https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1786007150562828542
Tldr
It used to be as a foreign worker you'd get sponsored for a green card after working at a big tech for a few years.
But due to layoffs companies have to first make a case for why they laid off an American to then sponsor a foreigner. Google, now Amazon and others have stopped it
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the other downside to this is that now it's even harder for talented people to find secure and remunerative work so what on earth are they gonna do now
— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) April 29, 2024
finance died in 2008, if tech goes (and consulting is dead) what's the fallback
pray for AGI i guess https://t.co/1JfszY9ZBp
learn to do things other than code lmao
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NEW: 🇺🇸 X/Twitter will become a full-service financial services app as it now has money transfer licenses in 25 U.S. states
— Radar🚨 (@RadarHits) April 29, 2024
Coming Soon:
- Wallet/Account
- Payments to any user
- Interest on funds
- Shopping
- Subscriptions
- Tipping pic.twitter.com/eZia6PPKli
- CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM : Can you un-exile me from slackernews please
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Article is too long to copy & paste, so here's the link https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/.
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We have heard from several sources who told us that the reason for these firings is because Rebecca Tinucci, former head of Tesla's EV Charging division, resisted Musk's demand to fire large portions of her team.
While this is hearsay, it's plausible considering the language in Musk's letter announcing the firings – which claimed that some executives are not taking headcount reduction seriously, and made a point to say that executives who retain the wrong employees may see themselves and their whole teams cut. It isn't a stretch to think that Musk included those demands since they were related to his firing of Tinucci and her team.
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fun fact: SQLite is the most deployed and most used database. There are over one trillion (1e12) SQLite databases in active use.
— v (@iavins) March 31, 2024
It is maintained by three people. They don't allow outside contributions.
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Congratulations on being the first person to do something with AI that will directly make my own, personal life worse. You are a monster.
An AI that makes the internet even worse than it is! Congrats to the team.
You're a horrible person. Your mother should be crying. You're the vanguard of a trend that will damage the mental health of millions or billions, especially if taken at all farther.
AI posing as human customers to promote your product on the web is fraud, change my mind.
This should be illegal.
Nobody wants this
You are helping to ruin society , not that you care
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orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40235114
i have lived in exclusively red counties my entire life
alaska is not as red as i would expect
also lol @ wisconsin
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https://www.engadget.com/fcc-votes-to-restore-net-neutrality-protections-161350168.html
Here's some dude saying that's horrible
https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1783559014950854704
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