skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well Tesla bailed out SolarCity, a clear conflict of interest. Elon won the Tesla shareholder suit, basically on a technicality, but everyone can see what actually happened there.
This is literally no different than before.
>THe issue we all have here is this: if Musk is successful then treating employees nicely will fall out of fashion.

Yea but guess what will come into fashion at that point?

Unions.
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that "Akamai is whining" about this. It's an informational blog post about what's happening and what's changing.

User Agent strings aren't used for feature detection, they're used for classification. As a developer, when you're trying to fix a bug reported by a customer, it helps to know exactly which browser right down to the patch version that bug shows up in so that you can try and reproduce the bug in the same environment.
and Fuck you healthcare in another country
Play is a store. Amazon Appstore is a store.

I believing OP was suggesting Google will need to allow the latter to be available in the former, not just allow the latter to be installed on Android.
Ah right I see what you mean. That's a whole different can of worms.
yeah nextdns has been working just fine for me.
But not through the existing app store, you have to go through what google termed "side-loading" which was pushed to be seen as "very dangerous thing no one should ever do no matter what"
It looks like doas is missing some important features sudo has, notably full I/O logging and wildcard and in the newest version regex support for matching arguments. The latter could maybe be worked around with wrapper scripts, but I don't know what you would do for logging. And the password persist option is experimental, and not configurable on Linux.

If you don't need those features, doas is probably a good replacement. But if you do, it probably isn't an option.
Has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, and frankly, I rather trust a unified program with a set of functionalities done cleanly in a programming language over a set of random bash scripts trying to do the same, but failing. It’s not like you don’t have to communicate between them and it is goddamn bash.. I would make less error in binary.
Elon is heavily dependent on politicians keeping taxes low for billionaires, and policy that pushes NASA and other government agencies to hire private companies.

Crony capitalism it’s called colloquially.

Marc Andreesen was tweeting a few months about the pressure from DC to curtail behavior that the politicians felt was undermining them.

Around the time Powell began raising rates, memes in finance changed to “save”, banks raised rates on savings accounts to get people to park cash they can leverage rather than get free cash from Powell they can leverage.

Pulling cash out of the economy means fewer lattes and avocado toasts; being a bit glib, but those are the workers most likely to be hurt long term.

So yeah it’s basically division politics. The only reason it works like this is because of memory this is how it works.

NPR reporter literally just said employers offering higher and higher wages is what’s creating inflation, and they want unemployment to go up to bring inflation down. Manufacturing consent by repeating “truth”.

Behavioral economics runs the country. Politicians prefer behaviors like fealty to politically correct traditions. They are protecting the net worth class based system that keeps them from growing potatoes and determines which families thrive or die.
> when I say backups, I mean paper voted created by the voter's own hand as the original vote

Fair enough, however the issue of the thread is electronic voting machines not electronic paper vote tabulation.
Exploring this further. I don't have real numbers but I suspect yours are pretty far off.

10% reported seems high, possibly by as much as an order of magnitude. The overwhelming majority of tweets are vapid and innocuous.

It seems like an ML algorithm could do better than 90%. It doesn't have to be as perfect as driving a car; if it screws up occasionally it will merely annoy users (and probably the users that are most troublesome).

If twitter becomes a more permissive environment, less censorship is necessary. Agree or disagree with it, it means less work for the censors.

Paid subscriptions give you a significant new trust metric for users.

The rest you can farm out to mechanical turk?

250 seems within the realm of possibility. People will complain about you the same way they complain about Google, but they'll keep using your product.
USB Power Adapters 5W-100W USB A and C [video]
Interesting! The author of the New Yorker article is a CS professor who has been studying work, productivity, tools etc for awhile.

I’d recommend the hyperactive hive mind concept from his previous book “A world without email”. Refers to both synchronous and asynch digital comma like email, Slack, MS Teams, etc.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575655/a-world-with...

Imho, very good diagnosis of problems with the tools and culture around them and good examples of how some small companies have battled against those problems. But unfortunately I don’t think his solutions are super generalizable beyond pretty niche organizations.
>I am a bit worried about the effects of long Covid for people,

Personal observation ( which contracts established 'science' ). There were always some 'long' aspects of all diseases including for colds/coughs/flu/tuberculosis etc. Nothing special with 'covid'.
I can only guess, but automatic updates maybe?
Congrats and good luck on the launch!

Ok so in general I'd chalk this up to being disinterested, but I think this is relevant for a product meant for people with ADHD:

After a couple pages of choices, I was met with a screen with options A through K, and I instantly closed the tab. I didn't even read what it was asking. I realised that this may literally be ADHD like behaviour, so I opened it back up again, but it was still quite overwhelming and it took conscious effort to read through the form. I think this is just because I'm used to just entering my email and password, or using social logins, so filling the form seemed to be a substantial point of friction (even though I realise how it could be useful)

I'm unsure if I have ADHD, and it's never been a problem for me, but I sure do have a short attention span haha
Workers understand inflation and they're working less because they're being paid less.
Similarly, I know DragonFly BSD focuses on speed (making the kernel as non-blocking as possible, thread-per-core type stuff), but is there a comparison of the scheduler with FreeBSD's?
Securely Generating TOTP Tokens with Emacs
I wonder how many other tools we "take for granted" are similar to these these conditions.
Curious why you mentioned HP specifically in your submitted title. The actual title is Why Some Big Corporations Must Split Up to Survive.

The first company mentioned in the article is General Electric.

EDIT: Oh, I see that HP takes up the bulk of the article.
Can't we just all agree that freedom of speech should be some narrow technicality that can legally be ignored in most circumstances?
but if 50% of twitter employees are cut, regardless of role, where will they go? you have skilled employees (3500) actual people suddenly looking for work and likely in a small area of circumference...
> This is ironic if you consider all the complaining that Musk does in the public sphere about "freedom of speech"

Another ironic thing is the number of people who lectured anyone disagreeing with twitter's content moderation decisions that twitter is a commercial enterprise that can do whatever it pleases (usually this means yielding to activist pressure) and who are now acting indignant when Musk acts like he owns the place (which he does).
SVG would be much larger for the same image, it's XML based.
My experience is that software businesses and teams have an internal pressure to grow the number of software engineers on staff. I have seen three things swirl together to cause that.

1 - During periods of company growth (increased revenue and profits), there is a tendency of leadership to not have their hands on the wheel. You tend to see growth in company "cost-centers" instead of "profit centers." So you'll get new efforts that don't directly contribute much in increasing revenue. Early in my career I wasn't tuned into the need to really build your work and projects directly into profit center activities.

2 - Internally, I have seen people grow the number of staff underneath them as an almost weird way of justifying a promotion (eg, "executive VP mucky-mucks have N employees and I'm now managing N employees, promote me to executive VP mucky-muck").

3 - I have seen smaller companies really focus in on the revenue and/or profit per employee number to guide hiring plans. So during a good period of revenue/profit growth, a CEO/owner-type will say something like "It looks like every engineer I add at $1X0,000 is resulting in $[2|3|4]X0,000 additional revenue or profit - let's just keep adding engineers." These napkin calculations are devoid of deeper market analysis.

If you went one-on-one with every single software engineer at a big tech company or in a smaller org, you probably wouldn't find many who aren't busy with work. You just probably would find a bunch on "nice to have" work instead of real revenue generators.
I believe a lot of the moderation is contracted out and isn't part of employee headcount.
Probably depends on whether it stays up or not. See here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA

7 of the 12 recessions marked on the graph temporarily jumped up then dropped back down during the recession.

A note though that the "2 quarters negative real GDP growth" has only ever been a rule of thumb that tends to fit (on that graph above, the dips below 0 outside of recessions only ever lasted one quarter). The official determination has always been made by NBER ( https://www.nber.org/ ), and how they determine it is more complicated (though AFAIK the details aren't public). I think it's too soon for them to make a determination on this one though, they make it while looking backwards, so these two quarters may yet become official which would maintain the pattern.
It's not that complicated to download APK and install it. Most people don't download is because they don't trust other stores the way they trust Google. And Google could definitely make it much more harder to download F Droid in play store by presenting warnings(some of which are legitimate) or even not allowing it on search.
> “The splits of many multibusiness corporations involve a form of corporate speciation. A corporation that was previously viable reaches a point where the ecosystems of its different businesses have diverged and the CEO can no longer develop a viable strategy for all of them. The original species needs to split into multiple new corporate species that are better able to pursue their specific opportunities.”

This is not strictly biological: Companies grow sort of like unicellular organisms, absorbing things they can, and then transform into complex multicellular organisms. The complexity of companies and their reach typically grows over time until they reach a stage where it’s no longer possible to be managed well (as the author indicates). They then split to create smaller companies that are easier to manage. Those smaller companies again grow by mergers and acquisitions to become large and complex, and have to be split.

It’s the nature of the market and the competition dynamics that companies go through these cycles periodically.

It takes a lot of focused effort and staying private (and preferably not taking VC funding) to resist the temptation to absorb many other companies and become unwieldy and complex.
"Freedom of speech is an ideal that applies to all people and all spaces, public and private"

Since we can't agree on a definition of "freedom of speech" this doesn't mean much.

In practice it seems to mean something is a "freedom of speech issue" when a speaker wants someone to not face social consequences for some action (For example an Elon Musk fan saying he shouldn't be charged with investor fraud because "freedom of speech"), and when a speaker wants someone to face social consequences they stay conveniently silent. (Say, an Elon Musk fan not complaining when he fires an employee for something they said).
The concept outside the context of legal sanctions is an odd one though. It's much like the anti-cancel culture argument. It seems some want freedom of speech with absolutely no chance of any consequence whatsoever. I think there's a reason why the more broad sense of freedom of speech has never been codified.
Ask HN: What curation methods do you use for online content?
The internet is designed in ways that really don't serve me or my time, yet it's full of great content, i'm finding i Need to employ curation methods to help me manage this, curious of what everyone else does or what systems you have?

For me, newsletters are a big help, I have a folder in gmail for them and just subscribe to my favourite thinkers and a summary of the daily news which even the subject is enough news for me in any given day.

I need to get better with youtube, mostly making a seperate watch list at the moment so i can watch stuff when i have time.
> If you have ADHD (or think you do)

Does the "or think you do" mean you perform diagnoses too?
The installation process requires extra user intervention vs. Play store.
I see... the Reddit crowd is here again posting useless trash
I see people refuting this a lot. I don't see many people asserting it. Reeks of strawman.

The real debate is if society should value free speech.
Basically a VPN running something like pi-hole for you.
Ah, I missed the pipes bit. Yes, that is exactly how the mass storage heaters I am familiar with work- pipes run through clay, which does need to be fully dried before you heat it to avoid cracking.

I did overlook the 600*C bit at first- straw would definitely be a bad idea, lol. I still would guess that the additional cost of clay would be worth it. Clay is both more conductive AND has better capacity- the air between the grains of sand is an insulator, and has significantly lower storage capacity than the grains of sand themselves.

Another option some people use if they don't want a permanent installation (or just need occasional portability) is large stones with gravel for fill. It's quite a bit less efficient than clay, but the larger size of the gravel and rocks inside make it a better option than sand.

I imagine they have done the math on the cost of the sand and the efficiency they are getting out of it, it just goes against everything I have ever learned about thermal mass storage from the permie / rocket heater mass storage community.
What does 'advanced parole' mean in this context?
Storage heaters might make comeback if gas prices remain high, because intermittent wind power and smart meters make it possible to use electricity when it's windy and cheap.
Great listen on the Japanese hankos and how Japanese workers had to deal with using them during the pandemic on 99pi:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hanko/
I'm glad to hear, although even DNS level is somewhat unnecessary.
I could import the root certificate but instructions for activating it didn't work, they seem to apply on more recent versions of iOS.
At risk of finding out, what is a "drama site"? Do people actually have websites devoted to… drama?
UK's tree of the Year: 'Magnificent' Surrey yew wins vote
How exactly does your opinion on transit exempt itself from being subjective?
Tesla has discontinued the solar roof, as far as I know. That was basically just a stunt to use Tesla's money to bail out Musk and his brother. The solar wall is a better example of what you mean though.
I think there's a much simpler and less juicy angle here: someone posted a screenshot of an internal communication, and it got removed. It's not surprising or controversial that Twitter would try to contain a leak of its own internal comms (a screenshot of their slack). This isn't "Twitter took down a disparaging post about Twitter", it's that they tried to stop the sharing of internal data.

That being said, I don't disagree with the sentiment here in the sibling comments, this just isn't the steelman you're looking for.

Best of luck to all remaining and recently parted Twitter folk.
Amazon is a completely asinine company that not only recognizes the need and difficulties to continue replacing turnover, they continue to actually maintain a turnover goals and mechanisms.

I really do think they are going to speedrun themselves to labor pool exhaustion in a first for a company in the US. Their management seems fully head in sand.

But hey, even Bezos said in an interview that he doesn't see Amazon lasting forever, even 30 years tops.
This happens on both sides of the spectrum.

For the left the common enemy is often greedy exploitative capitalists.
For the right it's often socialists and/or communists.
Sounds real fun! Rust also has great support for WASM, should make the native modules easier to write.
This sounds like pretty much every network admin gig I've ever had, but I'm old.

My first job in 2001 involved running around trying to back up everyone's Outlook files and yeah, you see a lot of email.

The tone of this comment suggests a young'un who has never been face to face with a /var/spool/mail that is mounted over NFS because your supervisor worked at BAE in 1992 and it was SOP there for reasons that were never, ever, ever relevant in your shop of 14, but NFS didn't come up this morning so you're trying to figure out where the hell everyone's email went

And yes this is vaguebooking about my supervisor from 2001 (you know who you are)
Perhaps, though this more of a response to "We aren’t in a recession yet" as this is an odd thing to say being just 1 quarter out.
Lyft leads the way: last Lyft ride we took two weeks ago, the passenger seat headrest had some Androidy tablet advertising games (which I have strong reasons to believe was abstracted gambling), and an ad came up at least once. There was an "off" button, but that just dimmed the screen with a "touch to play" message. I have no idea if it was a "Lyft thing", or something the driver added; I suspect the latter.
OPERA1ER hackers steal over $11M from banks and telcos
nope,not even close,the final size of a few binaries is at least 10x larger
I like the site but it seems overpriced - a good therapist is cheaper and can do the same thing. A psychologist and psychiatrist can both clinically diagnose you and give you pharmaceuticals if needed at prices similar to the ones mentioned if you have insurance.

Personally I would argue from working with some kids who have adhd in the past that more gamification and reasons to use their phone will exacerbate some of the worst symptoms of their adhd.

I don’t see the niche this fills. In any case, good luck.
> I hope there's a decent severance package

If Musk's behavior with exec termination is any indication, there will be no severance package.
Lots of people saying "Why is this lawsuit needed? Musk / Twitter HR would obviously comply with the law". Bear in mind that Musk has a history of not complying with legal obligations unless forced to (e.g. honoring the agreement to purchase Twitter).
Big tech layoffs are never really "good." Even in the way you're describing. Its a nice notion... but I imagine most of the laid off workers will be doing the same thing, just at another company.
> Those outside of the US who subscribe to this ideal seem heavily influenced by US culture in my experience. I'm not aware of non-US sources of the idea.

I think it unlikely that Ancient Athens was heavily influenced by US culture on the topic of free speech as an ideal: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Socrates/The-Athenian-i...
It sounds like your sentiment is part of the same problem in Europe - I mean you said it yourself, you saw delays on these combo trains.

Luckily Europe has high speed rail which does not allow your friend's party wagon to disrupt the schedule. You might imagine a TGV or ICE picking it up, but I don't think it will ever happen.
For sure. People many other places dont really care about free speech. They are totally OK with government censorship in favor of social harmony.
> I go to sleep wishing for the day when I can automate everything away.

I've been sitting here trying to suss out why something about saying this outside the context of a job interview feels so cringe to me. Best I can figure is that it's two things. 1.) Having that thought as a central part of your inner life implies that you have a very limited social life. 2.) The lack of worry about your own well being - "we'll have UBI or a dystopian hellscape, oh well" - feels almost ... subish in a sadomasochistic sort of way. Like you're bottoming for the economy (not that there's an issue with bottoming, lol).

If you owned your own business it wouldn't strike me this way, but if you're just a programmer at a company you don't actually get to work less by automating things, you just get to work on different stuff. But if you automated everything you'd just be tossed aside and reap no benefits. Wishing that on yourself is just.... so strangely pathetic. I know you didn't mean to sound pathetic. You probably consider it cool or heroic (in a nerdy sense) to talk about how much you want to automate everything.

Sorry to derail like this. I'm just fascinated by my revulsion and trying to untangle it.
Doomer fatalism is nearly as dumb as sci-fi optimism. It's 100% physically plausible, using technology we have today, to make humanity star-faring. The costs would be exorbitant at this point, but within the reach of human productive capacity (assuming we're willing to ditch the partial nuclear test ban).
"Advanced Python ecosystem experience" in this case is understanding how to create and publish a Python package.
Musk to gut Twitter infrastructure, cut costs by $1B annually
See https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

I have built systems like that for classifying employment opportunities and handling the workflow of applications and also to process images from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I am now thinking about building one for a certain image board that is inadequately organized.
Does content-blocking API works for apps? Or only for browser?
The molten salt used for energy storage is a sodium nitrate – potassium nitrate eutectic with an operating temperature range of 200-550 C and a much lower corrosion behavior than chloride salts.
Alabama’s Three Largest Newspapers to Stop Printing Next Year
As someone who detests the prevalence of the automation engineer role in the industry, I find the idea of an IDE for automation even more loathsome. Notwithstanding the fact that developers ought to write tests, tests are also code written using the same set of tools you use when writing "code". If the editor you use for writing "code" is insufficient for writing tests, something is really really wrong.

I don't know if you can blame JetBrains because there is definitely a market for this, but they should be careful going too far down appealing to the lowest denominator. At the end of the day, users control the product direction.
> * The hardest part of software development isn't yolo-ing code into an IDE. It's collecting requirements, troubleshooting and translating that into both code and requirements docs for other teams.*

Pre-agile development laundered all that through a bunch of heavyweight documents and such. And while it had issues - leading to the whole agile thing - it also didn't completely not work.
But why do I need an app to connect to it when VPN connectivity is part of Android?
> Productivity has fallen

The alternate, potentially more honest, statement should be that productivity hasn't increased at the same rate as it did in the past. I'm not the only employee who has realized that working harder year after year isn't physically or psychologically sustainable, and is rarely (if ever) rewarded.

Someone is angry we're not working hard enough.