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If you are anticipating human greed evaporating, then yes, crypto will go to zero. My experiences so far in life have shown that to not be likely.

People holding stocks may never see ATH either, it’s the risk we take for the mental construct we believe in.

History says they probably will, as long as they hold a diverse portfolio.

Unfortunately crypto has become just a leveraged bet on the stock market and has lost much of its uncorrelated asset status. If the stock market recovers, crypto recovers even harder. Ethereum price is like a higher leverage TQQQ if you check the charts. I liked it better when it was uncorrelated.
Well, you can run it on Node.js, too.
On 2022 11/4 7:50 am Pacific, this was the top-ranked comment on this article on HN.
And we all know that fines are just fees for rich people.
That's very silly, and false.
"Lawnmower".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
Open Source is not sufficient for voting machines, and frankly I don't think software should be involved at all. How do we know the source code was compiled without a tool chain attack? How can we verify that the software running even is the source code involved? How can we verify there isn't some kind of IME like kernel running somewhere that does something nefarious? How we do know it wasn't tampered with?

Even if you remove networking from a machine the whole system is so fragile and there are very high stakes at play.
He did all that to maximize government subsidies.
I think this one is even more apt:

https://xkcd.com/1831/
Sometimes I imagine what a post-apocalyptic Mad-Max style internet would be like, I would like to see gopher, archie, ftp, irc to come back, maybe over packet radio or something.
If you lay off 4000 people where perhaps 1000 could seriously harm the company, and where you know that a large fraction hates vehemently, I think it's wise to take precautions.
The problem is that improper input data can come from data scientists, or it can be a result of the same issues that cause society's bias. In that later case it isn't improper data so much as data properly collected from an improper society. That is super complicated to adjust for even if you decide to do so. Children of poverty that are malnourished grow up with deficits that might make them less valuable employees, extending the cycle. But the data and AI were not wrong to correlate childhood poverty with performance levels.

Then there is the far trickier case of the AI picking up on real things that we choose not to accept or talk about. Perhaps it is safe to give an example using white men? When they go bald very early in life(prince William for instance), it generally is due to high testosterone. Which in turn leads to all sorts of predictable behaviors and health issues, good and bad. AI would spot all that from a simple picture, judging people on their appearance can occasionally work really well. But that doesn't mean we should do it. And again, it isn't improper data, just data we choose not to act on.
Sadly his whole save humanity thing is a schtick..

If you investigate his back story, who he works with, it becomes clear it's not about Mars.

His real enterprise is a massive DoD program, built off the Strategic Defense Initiative (the "real" Star Wars). Republicans have been trying to resurrect it for decades and Elon was part of it since at least 2001. The idea is to intercept ballistic missiles from space and end the threat of nuclear armegeddon. In that sense he is trying to "save humanity", but it's misguided because the project is already aggrevating China and Russia and is fundamentally destablizing to the nuclear stalemate/M.A.D.

This project, operating under the Space Development Agency and working with the Missile Defense Agency, requires Republicans to fund--Biden and most Democrats been trying to stop it. Twitter helps Musk with the elections and boosting Republican power, while currying favor from them when it comes to these contracts.

If you're interested to know more, Mike Griffin is the ringleader.. he goes way back with Elon. Read his career history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career

Starlink is building up the basic tech for these constellations--currently just sensing ballistic missiles and hypersonics--but with Starship, putting kinetic weapons in orbit become feasible. Some good references here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
I mean, some people are coming at this from some kind of altruistic angle, but let's be pragmatic: immigration is the American superpower and the key to expanding the dominance of American companies decades into the future.
Yea I was surprised with that one too. It wasn't my local station but I think that sometimes happens when it's a busy station at a busy time so they have more than one bus. Or it might be a bug.
There are tons of legit projects that do exactly that

The most well known is probably Maker https://makerdao.com/en/

But there's also Aave, Benqi, and a bunch of others.
A fire-sale of (say) a skyscraper in Manhattan is a very different proposition to a fire-sale of random shitcoins.
I suspect that part of this is a re-buttle to WFH. In the past, managers generally could see who was doing what. Now it's based on trust. If someone decides to watch TV all day while sometimes checking slack... well then they can. No one ever had any idea how long coding tasks took anyway. Some people are doing fine in this new world, and some are struggling. Whether I'm succeeding or struggling depends on the day.
If an OS has a GC-based kernel, it is automatically inferior to one lacking GC.

That's why the cases you brought up are not used in industrial/production environments in modern times.
> Less than 10 bucks a month to hear basically every song ever recorded? Not sure that can last.

When it launched, it had to compete with "free" via piracy.
> Smart journalists are going to stop relying on Twitter's API now.

This seems unlikely. Journalists are pragmatists and won't abandon Twitter unless there is an alternative.
I don’t actually disagree with you, I was just responding specifically to that one person.
I participated in the arbitration swarm against Indie Go Go a few years back..

There was a crowdfunding which was successful, they charged all of us, told the creator they were sending the money, then after a week canceled the crowd funding and refunded our money.

According to their TOS, they were NOT a party to the contract we had with the creator and forced arbitration, so we fought it. Each participant (200+ iirc) each had to pay $200 while IGG had to pay the other $2300/participant (~$460k) to get the arbitration initiated. Then they tried to push it to a class action (to simplify their legal battle) but according to their own TOS a class action was not allowed so that died quickly.

So then we collectively worked through one firm who iterated on our filings based on how each one went.

After a year+, IGG finally unlocked the creator's account, issued an apology, and updated their TOS. Insiders at IGG claim that the legal bill was into the millions.

It's not easy but you can fight bad behavior from these guys.
More than that, how elastic is the demand for ads on Twitter? Were these companies barely outbidding for the slots? If there is a drop in CPM, will it bounce back from reallocated ad spend from other platforms? Hell, I've build dashboards to compare cost per conversion for different platforms for exactly this purpose.
Yeah, a what a "waste" to build high-speed trains... I don't even understand how such a gigantic country can even exist without a safe, quick and inexpensive way to transport its citizens (so not by plane or by car).
i hope they made him a CTO after this
Interesting okay. Is a combo of paper and automated counting not ideal then? To my mind automatic counting is probably great for the speed you mentioned, and I'm sure those who have to perform the counting/run the election like it, but then keeping paper to hand-count as a backup or to verify seems sensible too. Or is the very possibility of a compromise too bad to entertain?
You don't if you don't need any content moderation.
When it comes to approaching the asymptote of the singularity (or just general exponential increase in tech advancements across the board, if you don't buy the general singularity theory), the societal impact of the car replacing horses means little to me in terms of predicting the future.
I agree that it's fascinating, but the race issue is more like a pornography for America. And Americans would prefer to consume the porn than the substance.
Safer systems languages than C predate C.
And after that, the ones who stay are probably the ones most in line with the kind of culture Elon is aiming for.
How do you fire the right people? Where is the information about who to fire and who to keep coming from?
You can't net money by donating to charity. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a tax deduction is.
As a rule of thumb, sure, you can presume that zip codes follow political boundaries (city, county or state). The vast majority of times, that's the case.

However, if you do a lot of mailing, you'll discover some zip codes that cross state lines (because some remote area is actually served by a post office across the state line).

Or some area where several towns & cities map to a single "preferred" name that the USPS uses (example: Centennial, CO).

Zip codes are for the convenience of USPS and to make their life easier. The edge cases are very fuzzy & fractal.
The better question is why are so many weird nerds so quick to jump to the defense of a multi-billionaire con man who has done nothing for any of us?
Yeah sure, but he wants to funnel money into Twitter somehow.
They actually mention it in the PDF under "more locomotives" or something.

I think that mainly applies when you add a whole train to the train (you can hire them for multiple private cars)
SEV as in sev-1,sev-2,etc incident. Ie something would go down and people would normally be called in to fix it.
A lot of interesting takes here.

My take is: #BuildInPublic works are often carried by indie hackers/solopreneurs. Working in public is a way for them to keep their motivation high, by having an additional purpose - they need something to report to their audience.
Wouldn't that be wash trading?
I don't think there's a lot of advertisers trying to influence Twitter policy. Rather, they just don't want their ads by certain content.
> I think what would help with that is that we start not contrasting Bosch with tech, given that Bosch is a technology company in the most literal sense of that term

Took the words out of my mouth.
> The best solution here would be to secretly implant a RPI zero with gps into every bus

Ha and then you can also create an API for others with that data :)
Brand safety is massive concern for large brands and they consistently decline cheaper performance to ensure brand safety. Source: I’ve spent $10MM in ad spend the last 2 years for major brands, and constantly set up brand safety settings that are so strict they reduce performance significantly.
There's already a bigger org doing this - Amazon. They are constantly hiring and struggling to replace those who leave - even during their new corporate hiring freeze.

Tech workers are still in very high demand. And the younger generation seems much more willing to unionize or refuse poor working conditions.
What does being private have to do with it?
> Corporate learned during COVID that the metro premium isn't worth it any more.

I'm quite sure they were realizing it before that. Here in Canada, Statistics Canada data was already showing stronger job markets away from the large urban areas during the mid-2010s, which continues today, and the 2016 census showed a meaningful decline in large urban areas with communities of 1,000-29,999 seeing the largest growth. The 'counter-urbanization' moment was already well underway.

It is fair to say that COVID sped things up. There was, and still is, a lot of friction involved in making that transition, but COVID no doubt provided a lot of grease.
I'm a strong believer in workers cooperatives and democratic organization. Usually, people don't want to run their livelihood into the ground, but sometimes they make errors. (Just like executives, if Amazon games and stadia are any indication.)
It's possible you need 100 engineers and 6,900 moderators.
They haven't even been notified properly and don't know what information will get in today when they get that "email" they are waiting for and they are suing already?

They might get 60 days of pay as a severance package to comply with the law. I don't think they want to get sued over something this stupid.

I just think they are just jumping the gun with this kind of reporting.
Can this be done for a Twitter account that was suspended ?
Usually employment is good when inflation is high, and when Fed kills inflation it will kill employment too. I think it's called Phillips curve or something.
Maybe, but most of these things would require "brand safety" which is in the opposite direction of free speech. Maybe if twitter had billions of users like facebook, they could strongarm companies and get away with it, but all of the things you describe are probably going to require twitter directly interfacing with said celebrities/politiians/journalists, which will require lots more employees and a different tact than Musk seems to be taking.

Besides the fact that "more free speech" seems to involve making fun of trans people and bringing back donald trump, which do not correlate with more accurate feedback to elites.
Look around you and have some awareness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma there ya go. Do you see a whole lot of uses with it prefixing things? This is the common way that commas are used in grammar and also in programming languages. I'm not sure why everything has to be an argument, but that's it. It's ugly and I don't like it - find solace in letting me lament without having to reach consensus with your uncommon preferences.
Here's also a read-only NNTP/Usenet bridge for HN you can self-host https://github.com/epilys/nntpserver.py/blob/main/examples/h...
Was this in order receive your personal deliveries?
There must not be a single suid program in a safe system. The concept of suid bit is flawed and nothing but a hack. You can build sudo-like functionality using ssh @localhost and additional root user with special shell.
Video encoding works fine using VAAPI with their open source driver. Sadly there are lots of programs that don't implement VAAPI.
Is this otteroooo trying to get famous again under a new name?
He bought Twitter because the SEC and court systems forced him to.
> THe issue we all have here is this: if Musk is successful then treating employees nicely will fall out of fashion.

How bold, to speak for everyone ;-)

I really don't see this as a "treat employees nicely" issue. I'm open to being convinced otherwise. But... Elon's premise from day 0 was that Twitter was mismanaged -- bloated, misguided, bad as a business and broken as product. This echoes the sentiment even by many here on HN over the years. Now Elon owns it, and is undoing the hiring decisions of previous management, to start with a clean slate. Seems to me this was simply an inexorable part of his takeover, and so you may as well be saying it "wasn't nice" of Elon to buy the company.

Also, a completely different counterpoint: If an employee's layoff is inevitable, it is much nicer for that is be part of a mass layoff like this, rather than a surgical one later. Because these people have a perfect explanation for their dismissal when they apply at their next job.
See also Dadbod UI on (neo)vim to interact with databases: https://github.com/kristijanhusak/vim-dadbod-ui
Thank you for this information. I was leaning towards other init systems for the potential future where I switch to artix simply due to recommendation, I will reevaluate at some point. Thanks again.
Yeah, this kind of thing is nice.

Alive had been used for years (almost a decade actually) by people to verify LLVM instcombine transforms.

Alive2 (https://github.com/AliveToolkit/alive2) makes it easier to do the same with most optimization passes.
Why should a manager care as long as the employee's output is average or better?
It's the same thing you see with millions of people, especially in some political demographics: Freedom for me, not for thee.
The alternative is screenshots or direct quoting, both of which are actually easier than using the api.
Let us not forget to mention that they realize much later that all along they have been 'useful idiots' for someone else's gain whilst also parroting that they support the current thing and whoever disagrees is a fascist.

Now we are all told that the villain of the month is Elon Musk according to the reporters. Time to complain on Twitter!
I used dadbod[0] and the following in my vimrc[1] to do a similar thing, only I haven't make the shortcuts for sending a block yet.

Looks nice though, maybe I'll try it out sometime!

[0] https://github.com/tpope/vim-dadbod

[1] au FileType sql nmap <leader>d :%:DB g:db<CR>
I think something about not being face to face makes people prone to think of your fellow commenters as an abstraction, and to interpret the ways their experiences differ as from yours as their misunderstanding rather than your not having that set of experiences. I'm aware of this, and am often able to catch myself and reflect further before hitting send, but will still observe this if I look over my past comments.
> However, if you think for a second that you can replace US developers, building products for Americans with someone from Nigeria you are off your ass.

I've been a SWE for decades and have worked on large, complex projects. I've always been an IC, never officially a manager (personal choice), but at the moment as part of my regular job writing code I am also managing a team of 10 developers from a country where they are being paid around 1/5th our rates and they are doing a very good job at at it.

I don't make the hiring decisions where I am at the moment, and this was the decision. It turned out that, yes, good developers from country X can easily replace good developers from country Y.

It's the same skills, you either have them or you don't.
Musk was the primary initial investor in Tesla when it was company with 3 "employees", was chairman of the board and directly involved in the design of the Roadster. He didn't take on an operational role until he forced out the first CEO for allegedly lying about the financials. Musk is certainly more than just an investor in Tesla, it seems pretty nitpicky to argue he is not one of it's creators.

Musk has been the only CEO of SpaceX since he founded the company. Gwynne Shotwell often doesn't get enough credit for her huge role in making SpaceX what it is today, but to say Musk isn't one of the creators of SpaceX is absurd.

Musk has made plenty of bad choices and done unethical things that deserve to be criticized, but that is no excuse for the level of ignorant, misinformed hatred that is directed at him.
Oh Sorry! I should have added that. Here's a link to it
https://thepihut.com/products/hdmi-4-800x480-ips-touch-scree...
> At least it didn't go the way beautiful Standard ML went!

It blows my mind how under appreciated MLs are.
Mark Hamill, Whoopi Goldberg, Lars von Trier

https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=67...
The HSR was boondoggle from the start. It's like designing a downtown to airport subway but then in the political process all political entities in between make it required it serve their community before approving the plan so you end us with a snaking line that takes 60 minutes to get to the airport instead of a straight line taking 15 minutes.
Having to pay to tweet would be the death of Twitter. It wouldn't just shrink, it would be thoroughly decimated. It would initiate a vicious spiral in which Twitter becomes less attractive to read because fewer people are using it to tweet, which causes fewer people to feel the need to tweet, etc. As the audience shrinks big names leave the platform (because getting attention was the name of the game for them), causing even more of the rank-and-file to leave. Advertiser revenue would plummet. Any Twitter that does possibly survive would be a zombie, so minimally profitable there'd be no conceivable way of keeping up with those interest payments.

I get the point information warfare, but you may as well just wish for Twitter and other social media platforms to outright die.
Indeed, I've been looking around somewhat during off-time with a colleague how much we actually use of sudo, and what doas couldn't do. We're indeed looking at starting a migration, because some DNS based, LDAP integrated, PAM integrated, really complicated priviledge escalator is becoming kinda scary as of late.

The biggest difference we found is that sudo is a little more convenient to manage with a config management solution, since each piece of config management code can just drop a file in /etc/sudoers.d. With doas, we have to coordinate a bunch of parts of the config management manipulating one file, /etc/doas.conf. This always turns out a bit messy. But maybe we'll just merge everything into one big and somewhat messy monster doas-conf-template with a ton of feature toggles and loops and go from there.

But beyond that, almost all of our sudo rules are 2-3 patterns: Admin can sudo as everyone, zabbix/telegraf can run data gathering commands, and maybe some other automation triggers like pgbackrest wiping a postgres data dir during a restore, that's about it. All of those are pretty trivial doas rules all in all.
If the guy can blow enough hot air about self driving cars to make people buy the hype, he might be able to blow enough hot air about a self-moderating social network to make people buy the hype.

Unfortunately, eventually you need more than hype before the public and regulators come for you because you haven’t delivered.

And musk hasn’t delivered.
Would saying that in the US I struggle with bread, cheese and wine give too much away?

It’s fine: you can find anything you want.

But you have to suffer posh places and step markup.

I just want some decent unpasteurized cheese.

Joke aside, I was more thinking of culinary traditions.

Like cooking things from the season, from scratch and eat it with other human beings around a table.

US friends: that when I look at you like barbarian : when you shovel food in your mouth between you desk and break room.

Get a table, look at your food! Talk to another human about his food. Share food and diner time.
Purely looking at the math and the product portfolio, I would argue that since Twitter is such a single-product company, with a near-monopoly in this specific niche, it should have a much higher ratio.

Given these factors, I wouldn't be surprised if Mush cuts the employee base in half again.
Be Civil. Really shouldn't have to be said.

Lots of gross comments here today, and I don't have the time to go check every last username but I only hope it's not long-timers here who are being so snarky and callous at people losing their jobs.

And if it is, y'all should remember that the best developers have long memories. Would be wise to have a little empathy and delight a little less in the turning of the business cycle, even you think it benefits your interests.
A small clique of people is still more distributed than vesting power in just one person.
I see Twitter as possibly working up to the ideal of "crowd sourcing" the truth. If Musk does what he seems to be saying he will do -- and take the training wheels off the moderation, and get the government out of it -- we might be left with a system that really can sort out the truth from fiction. Or, at least, present both sides, and let people decide for themselves, without hiding one side.
My billionaire dream is to make a 2/1 scale model railway. These little ride-on hobby railways are very cool. But I want everything twice as big as the real thing. Impractical, but conceptually hilarious IMO.
yeah, I'm with you, it's just hard to tell which ones are reputable