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Being an avid HN reader, I've been loosely following the crypto/NFT market with various sentiments oscillating between disbelief and facepalm.

The real question would be: is there anything that is not a scam in this market?
Btw arendt is hella, hella racist. Look at her essay on little rock. No defense for that, and she's extremely overrated.
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I mean whoever decided that the proper way to handle a layoff is to tell someone who has not yet been fired that they can no longer access company premises while they're on their way to work, or possibly wondering why their badge doesn't work, and should instead go home and wait to be fired from there. This breaks just about every management rule about how to handle a layoff, not to mention common sense.
What’s to show when you’re more powerful than the state?
I seriously was not attempting to be inflammatory or get a reaction. I was just expressing how I felt.
The gold is in the comments.

Thank you for all the ingenious ideas for a chest-style refrigerator/freezer. I have a need for one, and the tips and tricks posted here will save energy and make some old folks very happy.

So, thanks.
We're not in a recession (a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.), at least not in the US. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP
For desktop use, sudo let's you elevate your permissions as necessary (polkit kinda replaces some sudo stuff, but similar concept). The reason you want this is when you run anything, it will _by default_ run as your unprivileged user, not root. That is a huge security benefit and pretty standard across desktop OS these days.

Now on a server, sudo for a single user probably doesn't make sense, just use root and keep it simple.
Linode London has been experiencing "greater than normal" intermittent packet loss to Akamai network which they use to peer with other player such as Cloudflare in LDN for nearly two days - before they peered with CF via Linx if I remember correctly. It isn't just isolated to UDP customers. Currently it's fairly stable so for most it's hard to notice but certainly uncomfortable how far they want to drag this problem on - see status.linode.com for how grim the LDN situation is - their support said we'll tell you in a few days what it was once we fixed it. i.e. it's not the rock solid of the last 7 years and their support are largely deaf to how unacceptable this is based on previous standards.
Facebook had 9000 employees in 2014. Over 70,000 today.

Twitter yesterday was about 7500?
thank you for your work!

> Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of books but to get more you had to pay for a subscription). They started out as a fork of library genesis, whose mission has always been strictly non-commercial and about providing free access to everyone without limits.

What is the difference between what "z-library" was doing, which was "you download a lot for free, but if you need more, just pay us, because no internet bandwith is for free" from donations? I always understood the subscription at z-library as support, not different than patreon...
Well for the exact same reason why it's so fun to drive a very expensive very flashy sports car through a crowded area - you get a lot of attention and everyone thinks "wow this person must be loaded". If that's your thing of course.

Same reason why rich people open up their gardens and dining halls and art collections to the public from time to time - to show off.
Can I ask where you live? I know this attitude is common in some cultures more than others. I also know the viability of eating a healthy diet without your own refrigeration in some places will be next to impossible. Bulk frozen vegetables are pretty important when you don't have local access to fresh ones.
1 possibly we'll see, but 2-4 with less people and no obvious plan to get there I really I don't see it.
Canada's got a lot of talent and cheap wages. Woohoo I guess.
Owning and holding Bitcoin is not a scam. That's about it.
When, not if. Unless we die first.
The guy that wrote it, Dirty Bubble, was big on the Celsius exposé train and he is trying to strike gold again. Idk how accurate any of it is though but that’s Dirty Bubble’s history and backstory. Kind of like FatMan and Luna. They want to stay relevant and get the next “big scoop”.
Maybe a key thing.

Maybe a physical notebook. Still infinity better than increasing your threat surface by a third party holding a bunch of keys that might be encrypted well.

Let's try it this way. I'll use a third party if they indemnify me. You screw up, you pay me?
3AC was a prop trading firm flush with cash… until the curtain was lifted and it turns out it was just a big fraud. Alameda is a prop firm flush with cash…

Why do you assume that Alameda isn’t “packed to the gills” with financial gremlins?

If you asked anybody in the space about 3AC or Alameda 12 months ago, you’d have heard the same thing about them: prop trading firms that have been hugely successful investing their own money and thus have billions upon billions of self-generated money to invest. Today, 3AC is gone and we are now discovering Alameda has huge liabilities and (potentially) mostly junk assets.

What’s a bigger leap: Alameda is like 3AC, or that the information we’ve seen so far isn’t representative and actually alameda are doing great?
Just because it's easy for you, doesn't mean it's easy for everyone.

rocket science and software engineering are two skills that take years of experience to hone. they come with their own set of challenges.

i feel like this sentiment belongs alongside "isn't netflix just an ftp server and a media player?"
Many of these young CEOs are really brilliant folks. They deserve to be given a fairly free rein.

However, there's a big difference between brilliance, and good judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

When a CEO makes a mistake, there's usually only one strike, and you're out (we won't talk about Steve Jobs, though -that SOB had nine lives). When lower-level managers make mistakes, it's often recoverable.

Until recently, it was fairly common for corporations to be run by folks (usually men, but that's another issue) in their fifties.

These folks had no problems considering older folks on their merits (which often included price). If they discriminated against older folks, it was usually because they didn't want to pay for something. It wasn't really personal (but that doesn't make it any less reprehensible). Younger folks, on the other hand, bring in the younger generation's resentment against their elders, so it is personal.

Many folks think that only younger folks are creative. I'd not argue that youth doesn't have a great deal of creative energy; mostly because they haven't encountered limitations, imposed by things like the laws of physics.

Creativity, however, does not equal results. What SpaceX has done with reusable boosters, is awesome. I do not know the details, but I'll bet the team that developed it was not just a bunch of enthusiastic kids. I'll lay odds there's a lot of well-coiffed grey pompadours in that team.

IBM is in hot water, because they adopted a "cargo cult" mentality, that, if they hired enough younger folks (and got rid of their "olds"), they'd magically transform into a startup unicorn.

I don't think that strategy has actually worked out too well.
Doing programming is like playing Dark Souls. Trying things again and again until you've pinned down the problem (learning the moves of the boss) then present a final solution that solve it. Then be euphoric when it does exactly that (when you beat the boss). I think that's why I love those games.
How do you expect OP to answer this question? Companies don’t publish the revenue breakdown by customer in their quarterly reports, only people on Twitters internal finance team would be able to (illegally) answer this for you. We can only wait for next quarters earnings report and make the inference.
And on day two the Biden white house was "fact checked" so brutally on a tweet that they ended up deleting it. That would never have happened under the previous regime. A republican white house - sure, but not to Biden.
Yes, I agree. I did not mean to imply that literally any other language would have been better for sudo, which I see is a viable reading of my original post. Go, for instance, would be a terrible choice, because the way the runtime deeply assumes you're running in a multithread environment, even before it gets to your "main" function, means that exactly the sort of UNIX hackery sudo is designed to do is effectively impossible. I have a system myself that is otherwise entirely in Go, but we have a very small C-based wrapper whose job it is to be setuid, open a few files with the escalated privileges, do some user verification, then change its uid and gid and exec the "real" Go program, because Go just can't do those things.

Dynamically typed languages as a whole would be a bad idea.

Java's startup time for such a small executable would be a problem.

I'm just saying this problem is unique to C, and in my opinion, sufficiently endemic to security software to disqualify it entirely.

Mind you, you might well end up at Rust in the end anyhow. Perhaps D. It isn't necessarily a long list for a sudo replacement. But...

C delenda est.
I assume many companies will be doing the same in the incoming months with this economy. Elon just took the chance to get some free publicity from it from a lot of people who hate the media.
Hadn't thought about that. Good point. I'm sure that plays into as well.
Where I live they drive the biggest pickup trucks imaginable mostly to piss off anyone who thinks the environment or planet matters. Sometimes they purposefully billow black smoke from those same giant pickup trucks just to provoke anyone who cares. Do you think many people in that world will inconvenience themselves enough to use this refrigerator? Yeah, I didn't think so either. Our planet is so fucked, but hey, we still have the freedom to display our total lack of respect for other beings.
Data-first and data-last: a comparison (2019)
Maybe this changed recently but I created a few Debian instances this year, both were configured with DHCP by default
I'm surprised to be saying this, but it seems like so many of the tech start ups are just media companies that sell ads.

I just read a book about HBO, (tinderbox by James Andrew miller). It's amazing how many things were similar in the 80's compared to today. One example, HBO was using subscriptions to finance shows just like Netflix does today. There's dozens of other examples.

The more things change the more they stay the same...
> If the liabilities are collateralized by assets on their balance sheet, then the financial risk is not to Alameda but the lender!

No, the risk is to both Alameda and the lender. An undercollateralized loan doesn’t just go away. It’s partially secured and partially unsecured debt.
So... OneNote?
They also recently released a developer API [1]. The free access looks okay for personal use, I haven’t tried it yet.

Oh and if your public transit service has GTFS then just install home assistant and get maps and arrival times.

[1]: https://transitapp.com/apis
yeah but he wouldn't be able to fire himself
> I have seen a report of the press conference they gave before starting, and it seems painfully clear that they would have all abandoned the attempt if any one of them would have said, out loud, that it was a bad idea.

This sounds very interesting if anyone can dig it up!
Does it? I genuinely doubt this; and if it does -- is this current system by which it happens worth keeping (i.e. is not merely legacy gatekeeping by incumbents?)
It's a full outage for me -- wasting quite a lot of time. It's been 7 hours so far. Hopefully it won't drag on longer.

Who knows how many people it's affecting?
What's sad to me is, OK, if being a real hard-driving exploitative ass really is what it takes to organize people to make amazing products (mostly Jobs, a little of Musk), why aren't there any good people who do that to make their employees do great things for the world, and then put the profits to good use? (better use than Musk's "buy a $1M car and crash it immediately" style
.)

I think a lot of people would be OK with being pushed hard to really do something great, if they were paid fairly and the economic profits spent on good areas of society/customers, but not to enable a man-child's ego and waste.

(It related to the philosophical idea (not the implementation details) of Gates's "tax my consumption, not my income".)
The fact that this "concentrated campaign of lies" (whatever that means) has resulted in so little actual damage (note: random members of the public believing things you would rather they do not, do not count as "damage") leads me to believe that the relatively new fear and outrage against it amounts to a politically motivated desire to clamp down on public discourse. The fact that there is bipartisan support for gutting section 230 should give anyone severe pause.

It is the responsibility of the listener to police their own information intake. Anything else leads down a well greased slippery slope ending in the maws of dragons.
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Or as another poster posted, perhaps the media is pushing this to keep tech workers afraid of moving to another job or asking for more money.
> In the new study, two crows were trained to create embedded sequences ... The idea that the ability to grok recursive structures

I have this vision that in a year's time we'll walk into Twitter's HQ to find it being staffed by crows pecking at keyboards and spitting out Typescript.
I've considered chartering a transit bus from my local transit authority for a birthday party before just to tool around town in for a few hours. They only want ~$600 CAD for 3 hours ($200/hr after), and you get to choose what type of bus from their fleet you want -- a 40 foot, a 60' artic, or a double decker (with routing approval). Not a bad way to do a bar crawl or otherwise.
Ask HN: How long could Twitter operate if the remaining staff quit?
In almost every organization there are roles that could be trimmed, but it seems extreme that Twitter is potentially laying off half the company today.

Can the company survive that?
If the remaining team is over worked or feels like they are not respected… what would happen if they all left en mass?
I thought AutoCAD was, like Emacs, written in its own ancient idiosyncratic dialect?
In the 1970s, Jimmy Carter got hammered for saying that.

The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.

The situation was worse then, but oil played a huge part in both. It wasn't just malaise. A key input had gone up, causing genuine inflation, regardless of monetary policy. (The solution in the 1980s was a massive expansion of government debt, with the same expansion of the money supply as the Fed could do with low rates.)

As always, there is a lot of politics: some people want the economy to feel bad, others don't. Today we have a lot more vigorous public square holding the same old discussions.
I always wonder why the management needs to deal with this. I believe in state run services of which one is the police. If someone threats you, go to the police (and then with proper procedures the company needs to be forced to help prosecution E.g. by a judge). I do understand the police is reluctant to do something (at least here in Germany, "Die Polizei ist nicht im Internet, oh wei oh wei!"), but privaticing crime management is not the future. And I did go to the police several times because of things that happened "on the internet" and was helped.
As an ex spacex employee I can definitely say that it wouldn’t have been half the company today if Musk want in charge. Not a fanboy but trying to give an honest evaluation. Space is crazy hard and doesn’t happen without brilliant people so of course the credit for the success of the company goes to the engineers and everyone that gave some of their best work to making it happen though that type of success doesn’t happen without Musk at the helm. When it comes to space, he is truly a visionary that pushes for the craziest ideas and then challenges these brilliant people to make it happen. He truly loves space and has embraced learning everything there is to know about the engineering side of things so it’s not like what he’s proposing is impossible. It’s just batshit crazy, moon shot type of ideas and then the brilliant people that he’s been able to recruit are able to make it happen. It’s a BRUTAL work environment from a work life balance perspective but you don’t mind because you’re working on SPACESHIPS with some of the most brilliant people you’ve ever met and doing some of the most impactful work of your life.

I try to separate the visionary tech genius side of him from the public crap that he’s done to ruin his public image. He has achieved the impossible so many times that he’s developed a god complex. I can’t speak to the electric car part but I’m impressed that he was able to will the country into caring about electric cars. He literally reinvented the space industry and made it cool again. But personally he’s a shit show that has gone unchecked for too long.

When it comes to Twitter I doubt his magic is going to carry over to running a social media company. His style works because of the culture he’s able to build and the vision that he’s able to sell. From what I can tell he’s ruining the good parts of the Twitter culture and he doesn’t have a vision. Good luck to anyone working there. The years that I spent a working at spacex were the best years of my life that I’d never want to repeat again.
idk but i don't. cause the expensive textbooks are not the $40 ones my upper level classes have. they're the $200 intro class ones where 1000s of students take the course from a single school and there's some shitty online access code bs paired with it.

also, it is def not "reasonable" to repeatedly re-release editions just to make old ones useless.

i usually enjoy reading the $40 upper level ones a lot more btw.
Unfortunately treating employees nice has never been a necessity, and we have Amazon as a prime example.
The solution is simplicity, not more complexity.

This bug was introduced by the latter.

If you seriously think a buffer for a password needs to be dynamically allocated, the "safest" and most "modern" shit won't help. It'll just contribute to the ongoing decline.
It's up to personal preference. I use Bitwarden for work and 1Password for everything else and find 1Password to do a lot more than Bitwarden, and it now has a consistent UI across all platforms. Bitwarden is usable as a password manager, but 1Password can do ssh keys (including for git commit signing), Privacy.com cards, and I've found it to have better integration with browsers and the operating system.
All these people complaining about not being able to afford the price of bread. Why don't they just eat cake?
> Musk, on the other hand, is ideologically congruent with much of it, and there are no indications that his yelling about "free speech, especially for the right wing" comes with consequences or even minor disapproval for that speech when you use it to threaten to kill somebody.

Absence of indication is not indication of absence though.

Another way to look at it that by having less strict moderation, and keeping moderation mainly focused on unprotected speech such as incitement or threats, you have more resources to go after unprotected speech.

> Maybe I'm wrong. I don't think so, though.

Fair enough.
I've come up against this weirdness with sets. I often like to use sets to get access to the 'intersection' function.

The trick I tend to like to do, use a dict with an index of your own. There you go, ordered set.

You have to build your own stuff around it and pull and push data annoyingly but you do get effectively an ordered set.
Breaking news: talented software engineers are recession proof. Now think about 99% of the rest of the population, and how they are doing now that every single thing costs more while the labor market is tightening.
Find out his age. 1. The younger he is the more likely his knowledge is going to be up to date. 2. The older he is the more experience he has had. While I don't know the optimal trade-off point one might think say 10 to 20 years of experience might be optimal while either fresh out of residency or close to retirement would not be.
And as a lawyer, I don't like when people conflate "copyright infringement" with theft.

Stealing/theft is best thought of not as "getting a thing for free that you're not entitled to" -- it's "depriving someone of their property," which copying ain't.
> Imagine how many fewer kids will get diabetes if Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Lucky Charms blinked out of existence.

Unscientific gut feeling guess: sugary sodas need to go waaay before the cereals.
Exactly, it's so simple! /s
Here's the part I responded to:

> Not enough people are even willing to give it a try due to a combination of FB’s broken brand and the intimidating giant box that you have to put on your face

I'm not willing to give it a try because it doesn't interest me, it has nothing to do with FB or being 'intimidated' buy a box. I just don't want to play things in VR, especially games that I've already played and the only new feature is '3 inches from face'
You have no evidence that this post is misinformation. You’re just choosing to believe it’s untrue.
Few believe we are currently in a recession, although they can really only be identified in hindsight. There is strong belief that we will end up in one soon, with most predictions seeming to target early next year. Preemptive measures are being taken to prepare for the anticipated storm.

> many companies went from having around 1000 job offers open in linkedin on a weekly basis to having now around a third of that.

But if we want to use labour as an indicator of recession for the sake of discussion, that's a rather substantial decline. Why is that not indicative of a recession? A recession is considered a decline in business activity and if businesses are now not seeing the activity to support two thirds of that prior activity, that seems like a meaningful decline to me.
Religious affiliations aside, I'd be somewhat surprised if Vim doesn't have some generic mechanism to talk to external interactive processes like Emacs' comint. I use sql-mode on top of that for most of my database interactions and it's great being able to use all my normal editor commands and muscle memory there (same as my terminal and various REPLs).
As much of commercial support as Pythagoras theorem.
If we have to sacrifice 1000 nerds a day to sustain him so be it :)
There are some available for charter:
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> Typical pricing for a trip is along the lines of a high-end cruise. On average, the all-inclusive costs typically can run between $2,500 and $7,000 or more per car per day. But remember, a rail car may accommodate 6, 8, 10, 20 people or more.

https://www.aaprco.com/travel/where-do-i-start/chartering-a-...
If you’ve got a private rail car on an Amtrak train in the first place, I’m sure you can afford enough staff for a night watch shift if you really were concerned.
Has there ever been a recession so widely accepted and talked about before it kicked in?

I mean that honestly; I know there's a downturn and it'll probably continue, but my instinct is that something so widely talked about and accepted will probably not be as bad as it seems. Again I have no proof and maybe my instincts are totally wrong, but that's the feeling