skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the Unix environment is written in C, and there's a ton of legacy from the past several decades still to migrate from C. It's going to be slow going. That said, ditching sudo seems like the right thing to do, but then, writing a drop-in replacement is non-trivial too because sudo/sudoers is so baroque -- yet w/o a non-drop-in replacement would require user/customer migrations.

Meanwhile RedHat and others don't have infinite resources, and they inherited sudo.
>Twitter in it's current form is a dead end, and there's no way "more free speech" is going increase either revenue or users.

Twitter was on its death bed until Trump signed on and became the shit-posting President. This is not an endorsement of Trump or bringing him back, but the type of "free speech" people are talking about saved Twitter, made it a pile of money, and made other media/press companies billions of dollars covering the chaos.
>News like recession is not made up for political ... reasons.

This is such an absurd statement I feel like it must be tongue-in-cheek.
You could print a receipt that contains the voter's selection. The voter would then verify the selection and deposit the receipt into a receptacle. The voting machine results could then by audited by comparing the receipts to the voting machine's history.
I work with the author of your link [2], and his literate programming documents for Common Lisp are awesome. Watching him during Zoom screen-shares is fun. I am not currently a user of literate-lisp but it is on my non-urgent to-do list.
Apple Adds New iPhone 14 Maker in India in Shift from China
That's a once type thing, the website is supposed to prompt you after that QR login whether you'd like to enroll your local authenticator (Chrome, Edge, Firefox,etc) after you login so you don't need to keep using the QR code.

The concept is that many people will frequently have multiple passkeys, thus not be 'locked in' to any one sync ecosystem.

From https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/wiki/Explainer:-broadening-t...

> When signing in on a different computer, either the credential will already be locally present (if the computer is using the same sync fabric as the phone) and suggested by autocomplete, or else the user’s phone can be used to transmit the assertion to the computer. In the latter case, the service may invite the user to enroll a local platform authenticator for easier sign-in in the future. (Now the newly registered credential may be part of a different sync fabric, and thus enable local sign-in on other devices.)
The forum section of “elite” private trackers.
LG was one of the first ones out there with their Linear Compressor series.

https://youtu.be/1T3kaHjwMJU?t=28
> This is ironic if you consider all the complaining that Musk does in the public sphere about "freedom of speech" (I know that the first amendment only applies to government censorship, but Musk likes to pretend not to)

It’s not ironic or remotely unexpected if you’ve taken notice of any of his actual actions involving freedom of speech.
I think it's about more than money for Musk. It's about influence and nudging the world closer to how it "ought to be". This is why wealthy people buy newspapers that will never make money. It's about power and influence.

And I agree with OP - all this will be forgotten when Twitter is considered an elite place to work in a few years. Love him or hate him, but the guy attracts really talented people that want to work with really talented people.
I'd say that the fact his post was downvoted kind of proves his point?

edit: Changed wording
The ToS says:

> We reserve the right to remove Content that violates the User Agreement, including for example, copyright or trademark violations or other intellectual property misappropriation, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment. Information regarding specific policies and the process for reporting or appealing violations can be found in our Help Center (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-repor... and https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/suspended-...).

So the ToS refers to the policies in question. The list of things is only "for example," with more in the specific policies you agree to.
> Additional plaintiffs, Justine De Caires, Jessica Pan, and Grae Kindel said they were terminated on November 3 by being locked out of their accounts.

> Under Twitter’s takeover deal terms, Musk had agreed to keep employee compensation and benefits the same. That means the laid-off employees should receive 60 days of salary and the cash value of the stock they were to receive within three months of their last date at the company, per law.

Have they actually been "terminated?" When does "employment" actually, legally end? This might be closer to "suspended with pay," unless they're no longer being paid which would be hard to know as this literally happened hours ago last night. It could be he's just locking them out, continuing to pay them for 60 days, and then will announce layoffs. I think this lawsuit could be a bit premature if you set emotions aside.
> treat your employees right, and they'll be productive

Until complacency settles in, blubber accumulates and the productivity takes a nose dive.

You don't have to like Musk to agree that 7500 employees seem like few Ks too much for what Twitter is.
Sure I can. On the same track you have many different companies operating their own lines, combined multi-operatoe lines, as well as irregular connections (again single and multiple operators combined).

I've seen multiple operators (some of them entirely private, some entirely state-owned corporations, some combinations) combine their trains on an EuroCity-labelled line more than a few times.

I have a friend who is working on founding his own train company and he's actually providing services to the state-owned corporations where they have him operate their wagons in his combined train, with his own locomotive. He operated a major intercity line several times this way (they use his service when there's a problem on the regular route) - and it stopped to recombine several times. I've personally been on a train ride that combined his private for-fun party wagon with an EC train.
Every time this debate comes up, someone suggests that companies like Twitter are in violation of the first amendment when they remove a user's post. To me they often sound like the ignorant ones.
> If he wants people to work 84 hour work weeks regularly - yeah that's a problem.

No. The fact that it even crosses his mind as an acceptable demand at any time is a problem. No one, under any circumstance, should ever be asked to work that much in a week. It should be a criminal offense for an executive to even allow employees to work that much.

> Twitter is in such bad shape the only choice is to burn out engineers in order to fix it.

Nope. Even if it would otherwise go bankrupt that choice shouldn't legally be available.
It does achieve that by being most horizontally dense Python code I've ever seen.
set-uid is especially dangerous, so that's the best target for removal.
Because I have really great ideas that will die in the dark, like me, after toiling my useless life away in a cube of obscurity staring at a glowing screen hoping they don't fire me tomorrow. I'm doing what I was told but my life sucks. Elon breaks all the rules and he gets to fly around in a private jet with supermodels.

The outcomes don't match the 'natural law' story in my head so I'm reflecting the anger and frustration of my own personal tragedy at the biggest outlier I can find. I don't understand politics because the game is filled with criminals and sports is too boring. So, I focus my puerile venom on tech leaders.

I'm a creep, and my hatred for Elon is based on my own self-loathing for being irresponsible with the talents I have.

When I win the Powerball this weekend, I am going to buy one of his damned rockets and fly it to the moon, and build my own casino. With blackjack, and hookers.
It's not more efficient, for the reasons stated earlier.
Two days instead of 180--and certain deportation.
Lets be clear - twitter favors right-wingers - says their own engineers: https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1588378198168915968
"Never sign anything, but always get a receipt."

Love it!
Does this mass layoff comply with the WARN Act and California's mini-WARN?[0] What about all of California's protected classes?[1] The pregnant ladies let go before their FMLA seem especially aggrieved.

Maybe some lawyers here can chime in: How soon will we see some class action lawsuits?

[0]https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/layoff-protections-c...

[1]https://www.employmentattorneyla.com/blog/2017/june/what-are...
But wouldn't use such miners make the extraction cost higher?
> Why not lift something REALLY heavy and let gravity spin a gearbox on the way down?

Because lifting something that’s heavy doesn’t store much energy (or, stated alternatively, 1kWh is a lot of energy, compared to human muscles)

https://www.quora.com/How-much-mass-in-kg-can-I-lift-to-1-m-...:

Q: How much mass in kg can I lift to 1 m height, with 1 kWh of energy?

A: Let x kg be the mass to be lifted. The energy required = mgh

x * 9.8kgm²/s² or 9.8x Joules

1 KWH = 3.6 million Joules.

9.8x = 3.6*10⁶ => x = 3.6*10⁶ /9.8 = 3.67*10⁵ kg.

So, that’s about 360,000 kg.

The great pyramid of Giza weighs about 6 billion kg (https://www.egyptabout.com/2019/02/facts-16-fun-facts-about-...), so lifting that by a meter would store less than 20,000 kWh.
My bad.

Same question to them then!
This requires enabling being able to log in as root, which I'd rather not enable.
I thought higher pay tended to often to together with higher other benefits, like coworkers thinking you're important and management wanting your to think they're you're friend.
Exactly, so using a screenshot is in fact a good solution
Was it a net contribution or not? Should we stop every activity that alone is an improvement but an incomplete solution?
I just checked, and on the machine I'm sitting at 100x slower would mean it took 0.1s of CPU time.
Why does Musk tweet lame conspiracy theories he is obviously smart enough to know are false?
[redacted]: Hey Elon -my name is Jake Sherman.

I loled at this. Why redact the name if its in the content. SMH
This is one of the few areas where paper is still king, IMHO.

Been filling out paper ballots for years. I don't want to vote on a machine. A machine can count my vote. But there should be a paper that goes in the ballot box, so it can be recounted using multiple methods. Different machines, humans, dogs, cats... whatever. There are real physical artifacts.
Conversely, people often reference "First Amendment" in situations that have nothing to do with government censorship.
"Open source" voting machines is essentially like baby-proofing a machine-gun. All of the problems that electronic voting poses to true democracy are 100% still there, but it looks safer - which may, unfortunately, make it more attractive.

I'm putting open source in quotes, since only software can be open source, a voting machine is a piece of hardware that you do not own, so you have no idea what it software it is running.
These guys are in Australia amongst other locations:
https://www.ovhcloud.com/
Progress is a very subjective term. It’s very okay that your view of progress is different than mine.
Gold is quite useful as a corrosion-resistant conductor. If it wasn’t, cheaper metals would be used in its place in electronics.
Quantum (Hardware) Hacking – QV Defcon 30
Talk about some hack-y thoughts to do with quantum computers.
That's called "Hacker News economics".
I've always wondered why there isn't overlap between voting machines and slot machines. Surely most of these problems have already been solved by the Nevada Gaming Commission
Those sizes exist in the US, often called compact refrigerators or apartment refrigerators. (although these days most apartments have the full size American-style fridges too)
Indeed, it’s the magic that made PayPal what it is today.

Back when it was x.com, they were trying to figure out how to avoid being a bank, and they did it with something that violated credit card merchant agreements: by crediting accounts without correlated purchases (you can still do this today, depending on your card processor I think).

That got noticed, so they just started holding the money instead. I never figured out how a company that holds your cash with exclusive rights to do anything they want with it has avoided banking regulation.
> Not saying we should ignore the possibility, though...

Two suspected and one confirmed attempt in linux from a post 6 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/54in5s/the_nsa_has_t...

Found this while looking for a more recent one I vaguely remember involving a bad implementation of I think /dev/random
Like someone was in a rush to be lead plaintiff, or the representing law firm.
Did the general public start caring about news being real at some point?
This article is about a pilot scale project that is already built. It is significantly further along than a report about a theoretical energy storage mechanism or one that has only been demonstrated at the laboratory bench scale.
Appreciate the sourcing. Still difficult to fathom.
Without forcing people to work, it is impossible to eliminate involuntary unemployment. The government using tax dollars to offer people jobs that don't match what they're seeking would result in them refusing to take those jobs, and remaining involuntarily unemployed.
And no notable features have been released
This is extremely accurate in my experience (besides trusting only myself, I don’t even trust myself). In general, the engineers I work with are much less “techie” than a lot of people I know outside of work.
> can always sell assets (at a haircut of course) to evade cash flow insolvency (arguably that's closer to illiquidity really)

For financial institutions, particularly those with short-term liabilities, illiquidity is insolvency. The initial liquidity depresses prices which marks down the balance sheet.
I tried starting a manufacturing site in Switzerland. We wanted to get the Swiss Made badge (70% parts sourced in Switzerland and all major assembly steps done by Swiss employees). An hourly employee had basic rate of CHF 45 an hour and they had to be paid some ridiculous benefits totaling up to like CHF 120 an hour. Apart from the cost, the biggest issue is that you can’t fire them essentially if you hire them on “permanent basis”. It’s impossible to do anything there for a scrappy small business.

Modern Switzerland is much of a socialist state. It’s lost all the things that made it a great place for business. Zurich is still a small tech hub for startups but mostly services and finance. Labor is usually hired in US or elsewhere.

About the only place in EU that's pro-small business is Italy. It still has some 50% of the GDP from companies less than 50 employees.
These kinds of plugins are not worth installing & configuring & learning in my humble opinion. Just type \e in the psql shell and voila, edit your sql in vim.

Just a little bit of UNIX knowledge saves you a load of unnecessary plugin installs.

To be clear; this is not some kind of premature optimization argument. I think plugin installs are ok as well as their memory & persistent storage requirements. What I worry about is the storage capacity of my brain.

I don't want to know about one more plugin unless it introduces a significant benefit on top of the already existing capabilities of the program in question.
the metaphor is sort of broken... here the "shotgun" has the ammunition and the dead child in.
This is pure speculation, but I'm guessing they were working on ensuring that the ML models built by Twitter to do things like content moderation, tweet promotion, identifying trending hash tags, customer service help, and more were behaving in an ethical manner.

More concretely: Helping the teams who actually build and maintain these models ensure that the behavior isn't biased, that the model isn't being exploited by adversarial data, that the decisions made by the model are explainable, that the decisions are fair, coming up with corporate-standard-definitions for those various mutable terms (like fair), etc.

The usual things handled by a team that is tasked with AI Assurance/Ethics.

Now for my opinion: When it comes to impugning Elon Musk's character, he's done enough of that himself. He doesn't need my help. Additionally, firing an AI Ethics team in a company which requires AI(ML) to even operate speaks for itself.
Carbon Capture Is Pointless
I don't see any mention of that tweet?
Only on Internet message boards is this a live issue.
Ask HN: How do layoffs in the US work?
As a person working in the EU on an unlimited contract and reading all the headlines about mass layoffs in the US I can't help asking myself - how is that possible there and not possible here? Are unlimited contracts not that typical in the US? Or is it easier to circumvent them and find an excuse/reason to void the contract? In the EU the notice period goes both ways - I can't leave my job immediately, but my employer also can't fire me immediately - from what I read here in the US it is perfectly normal to wake up and find out you've been fired. What am I missing?
I'm sure the BBC did exactly that for ages, iirc because somebody who got their tweet embedded by them changed their display name to "big dogs cock" or something.
1. Send the results to multiple independent organisations
2. Print out for each voter a list of codes they can use to show that they voted for each candidate, show on screen the code they need to memorise/highlight for their actual vote
3. Later they voters can put that code into any of the organisations' websites to check their result was recorded correctly, which also means each org can check that they have the same results the voters think they made
Freedom is for everyone given that you stay out of the limelight and don't have something someone else more rich and powerful wants to take.
About 12 years ago, I used LaTex to write a semantic web book, but in 2 editions: Common Lisp and Java. It was very cool to have 2/3 of the manuscript common text, and about 1/3 unique to the programming language.

For the last two evenings, I have been revisiting my old manuscript materials because I am thinking of updating the material and also creating additional editions for more programming languages: Python, JavaScript, and maybe Swift and Prolog.

I had forgot how cool TeX and LaTex are. It was very easy to start working with again, even after a 12 year gap.
This reads like sarcasm
If you give those employees 60 days of severance, you would not be in violation.
Why does he have to be one of those things? None of them are mutually exclusive. You can be a big nerd with lots of money and a narcissistic power-hungry attitude. Just because you’re obsessed with money doesn’t mean you also don’t crave power (the two routinely go hand in hand as money is a form of power).

He seems to embody all three “types” fairly well.
It depends on whether or not you have a lot of highlights. As you said it just overexposes the image, which you should do if you can get away with the highlights.
> One downside to storing these images on the (FAT) EFI System Partition is it is not possible to make it part of a software RAID device, so if the device the ESP is on dies suddenly, the boot fails

It is possible to make ESP part of MDRAID array of level 1 with metadata v1. True, the boot starts with single disk and only later Linux activates the array. So if your boot fails before that happens, reboot and try the other disk.

Or alternatively, don't set up MDRAID array for ESP, just have the ESP mirrored on all disks.
> Smart journalists

This seems unlikely.
Yep even if you take a maximally cynical view and think of policies exclusively from the perspective of rival nation states, I have no idea how you'd conclude that pulling very large numbers of smart people from China to the US is bad for America's hegemonic influence in world politics.
We'll see how it goes, but "making fun of trans people" is an unfair summary of the situation. Megan Murphy and Rowling were not making fun of trans people, for instance.
"everyone"? Bold claim
> When I see things like this, the first question I have is why?

Perhaps because they were still fighting the last war, where they were hurt by a greater-than-255-character buffer overflow vulnerability.
Musk says Twitter has had massive revenue drop as advertisers pause spending
For what it's worth I have around 25 Linodes active, mostly in Newark but a few in Atlanta and Dallas as well.

Of those I had two in Newark which actually had their leases expire before we were aware of what was going on and then found three more (two Atlanta, one Newark) once we knew what to look for which were failing to renew. All five of those machines already had network helper enabled as Linode suggests but were unable to get a lease even with manual operation of the DHCP client until they were rebooted.
Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Rust in 2022?
Usually your employer has confidentiality and non-disparage clauses in your employment contract and separation agreements. So "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules." probably would be more like "This Tweet violated your contractual agreement to your employer".
Would the copyright even belong to Twitter, as opposed to the author of the tweet?
All of my layoffs had post termination pay to satisfy federal and state law. HR stressed that we were on salary (without working) during the termination period and that leaving would negate benefits. Once this period ended, there were usual benefits like n weeks per year of employment. Blatantly ignoring the rules just invites lawsuits and weakens em’s position.

Sux how rules and established norms of behaviour restrict one’s actions.
Not all storage is created equal: introducing Storage Buckets
"Musk says Twitter has had revenue drop as advertisers pause spending" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468630
Imagine being this far down into a cult of personality and people reading it and thinking to themselves "yeah _this_ comment is fine"
One good reason is that mdraid takes care of syncing automatically, no need to set up rsync on every update of /boot.
I see you only listed three options but where's the fourth: D) Musk is the saviour of humanity and everything he does is perfect and in no way, shape or form subject to criticism.
Surly a reduction of government command over the economy s/
Don't need to test them all, just enough to probabilistically catch anyone hacking them.
> The best solution here would be to secretly implant a RPI zero with gps into every bus

From the title, this was what I was actually expecting the article to be about. :-)
Sure you get a boot menu. But the UEFI bootloader also shows a boot menu if requested. I think this feature is universal.

Editing the kernel command line on the other hand is something you never need except for debugging or recovery. For that you would have anyway an extra UKI installed, with a recovery system in the initrd.

But in normal operation you never ever even see the boot menu.

I still miss to see what vital advantages `systemd-boot` would offer. (And this has nothing to do with systemd as such. I use most of its modules. I just didn't find any compelling reason to use the boot module also. Some very simple hook script that triggers efibootmgr when needed is imho perfectly sufficient).
This is what always happens, and what will almost certainly happen here. They'll just give a few months severance.

This is so much noise over nothing.
Small UX idea: what you really care about is not when the next bus arrives, it’s “can you make it?” Of course, you can arrive at the latter from the former, referencing the current time, and roughly how long it takes to get to the bus stop (with reasonable buffer time).

Or you can do this work in code, and put a countdown timer beneath each bus time (such that you walk out the door before time expires and you will make it).
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