skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truman isn't too uncommon as a first name. Harry S. Truman was a president.
But can you engrave them with the precision required for miniaturization?
Same as "gender critical", it's unsubtle dogwhistles in the form of "we're only asking questions".
>OS kernel in Lisp

GC is the problem there. Look up Carp-lisp
Apparently the Chagos Archipelago is much closer in distance to the Maldives than Mauritius. It would not be a surprise if they are claiming that area as well.
Add to this, rumor has it Elon fired the 3 executives (CEO, CFO, chief legal counsel) with cause to try and avoid paying out the golden parachutes (eg the CEO would otherwise get $40-60m+). I guarantee that'll end in a lawsuit and probably a settlement for less. But I expect that to impact executive hiring.

As for hiring peons, it's hard to say. A bigger factor (IMHO) is Elon himself. Fans will probably go there. Those who don't like him probably won't. I expect that to have a far bigger impact than firing a bunch of employees right before bonus time several years earlier.

My read of the situation is that Elon never really wanted to buy Twitter. I mean he did try and get out of it but the Twitter board crafted a good contract and I believe Elon realized he was going to get dumpstered by the Delaware Chancery Court.

So what does he do now?? The private equity playbook is my guess. He'll massively cut costs, repackage it somehow, claim victory (for "free speech" or whatever) and then sell off a minority stake or even the whole thing. He may even try and do the tech thing where he sells most of the equity but retains all the voting power.

In such an environment, short term hiring probably isn't on the cards.
Don't use US based domains if you suspect there might be a possibility in the future that some US agency or entity can seize you domains? Applies for any other jurisdiction.
Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords
Combined fridge/freezer units use a heat pump to get the freezer really cold and residual cold air is cycled into the fridge. So having the freezer on bottom is not the optimal design, maybe because cold air is dense and will fall taking more active effort to distribute it.

Source: https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI
I have been through enough companies that grow and layoff people to be immune from it. It would impact me, and I feel bad for the people that did get impacted by this. The writing on the wall for me was when Elon took over the company and told everyone to come in over the weekend and print their contributions. That to me signalled ok give me my package. It ended for me there. I know my self worth, and know working more hours per week does not make you a better developer. It does the opposite actually.

One of my initial managers when I started working almost 20 years ago said to me that developers and code is like artists. You cannot just tell someone sit down and write code, or you will get the Walmart paintings. Creativity cannot be turned on, bam write code for me. Make this piece of software.

The point that I am trying to make is that employment should be a transaction. That is why you sign the contract when you get hired. When it is not beneficial to you or the company that contract is terminated. I have no loyalty and always question if this is the best situation for me. Am I learning? How is the work I am doing benefiting me? How is the company benefits helping my family? It is selfish but I think that is the way to look at it, since the company is selfish as well.
I've taken a look, and I'm seeing a cisgendered man having Opinions on transgender teenagers. I've seen enough.
The Interleaf document creation software was written in Lisp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaf

It lives on today as Broadvision QuickSilver, which still runs on Lisp:

https://broadvision.com/broadvision/quicksilver/quicksilver-...
It's full of corporates with self-interests

system-d being spread everywhere is a side-effect of that
> he was substantially more successful than they were ever going to be.

Yeah, no. He was that much richer even at birth, whose father owns an emerald mine?!
Especially if they’re making something excellent or world changing.
> for a whole lot of people not being able to show their productivity in a very simple way means they’re unproductive.

No, this is completely nuts! It encourages all sorts of pathological behavior to fake the metric, and throws the thing you might actually care about - business value - under the bus. It's even worse for senior people and those with architectural responsibilities. Spend time helping a junior on your team? Well, that's going to count under his commit metric and not yours, so he can figure it out himself.
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How is this different from a regular fridge?

The main reason people forget stuff in the freezer is because it's used as a freezer, for long-term storage. The shape isn't the biggest part of that problem. If you use this as a fridge you won't have the same issues.

edit: having said that, the accumulation of condensed water at the bottom that some other commenters mentions seems like a real problem that needs a dedicated solution.
Lisp and Windows 3.1 are “not dead” in very different ways.

Put otherwise, as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465597 says one could define “dead” in a way that Win 3.1 is dead but Lisp is not (not more than usual anyway).
At a deeper level, content moderation isn't about stopping hate speech and harmful speech. That's just chasing the symptom, not the cause. The cause is a certain type of mentality that becomes obsessed with the idea of beating their thoughts into the fabric of the universe, no matter what it takes. These are the ones who stoop to spamming, flaming, mocking meme GIFs, hate-speech, death threats, etc. (and generally spend all day online posting such things).

This is why Reddit has been so successful. Community moderation is much more effective than top-down moderation at combatting people with this mentality, because it discourages them as soon as they show their hostility, not once they have passed some threshold of badness.
Yeah, in the two companies I worked at that did a lot of advertising - Twitter had some of the worst ROAS.

If we are in or do enter a downturn, I wouldn't be surprised if these ads become unprofitable. They'll quickly get turned down.
Auto companies cutting spending is just spite from competition which is understandable.

What’s comical is the gall of General Mills, who has spent decades getting kids (myself included) addicted to sugar with manipulative advertising.

It’s genuinely amazing and saddening how many people want to see Musk fail. We are watching Atlas Shrugged play out.
When I worked as a cook, in smaller restaurants we would have a walk-in fridge but a chest freezer or two (mostly fresh ingredients). Each freezer was just a bunch of milk crates with frozen product in them. You just shuffle the crates around. I realize milk crates aren't as freely available to the general public as they once were but the system works.
I agree that "good company" and "bad company" are a reflection of personal preferences, but the fact that FAANG comp is much higher than elsewhere tells us that the companies strongly suspect that a lower salary will not be enough to attract such a strong talent pool.
> they’re the ones that make our days a little bit more painful but also write the fucking insane code that makes most of our workplaces profitable.

People like to think that but in my experience there are far more brilliant nice people than brilliant assholes. This is the mythos antisocial engineers tell themselves to justify their poor social skills.
Business take:

Companies that scaled up quickly in earlier days of the internet tend to treat their customers like trash.

Today, as they reach the limits of their growth (hard to grow when nearly every person on the planet has had an account with you or has one with a competitor), they will find that poor customer service comes back to bite them. Everyone will remember the time PayPal closed their account without warning, or the time AirBnB refused to refund them for the rodent feces and other unlivable conditions in their rental, or the nonsensical response from Google's "support" that ignored everything you sent them.

Populist take:

I would really love for some regulation and standardization of service usage agreements. We already know basically nobody actually reads them, despite the checkbox or button confirming it. Give us a summary with some popular icons or simplified lists.

I'd also love for some regulation around forced arbitration clauses. It should not be legal to waive your rights to remedy by trial any more than it is to waive your right to minimum wage.
> unemployed life in third world countries, and even in second world countries, is far more brutal than the unemployed life in the US

maybe so, but we should look at the trend not just one sample group at one point in time... for a long time it can be argued that the u.s is riding along as fast as it can to catch up to "the 3rd world" in that regard....
That's definitely how it has played out, yes. The big one for me was:

https://github.com/robb-oat/server/issues/7

I coded it up myself and then was like "wait I should be dogfooding this" so I did and Robb Oat spit out basically what I had just written. That was the aha moment for me.

Also I've been reading Innovator's Dilemma and basically all disruptive technology sucks at first so I haven't been too discouraged about it.
They were just bought by Akamai so unfortunately things like this are bound to happen if they are trying to integrate with Akamai the way they'd need to successfully keep growing. I'm not talking just software integration but process and people integration as well. We'll see I guess!
Musk took over Tesla by firing the founder CEO, and took another 4 years to ship a car to production. The car had already been built when Musk took over. He only needed to build a production pipeline.
Happy Purelymail user for about a year and a half now. Multiple custom domains, easy routing, and cheap. It does have a "bus factor" of 1, though, so something like Fastmail might be preferable to some people.
How would they have survived? If you put Nansen in Andrées shoes on the ice next to the failed balloon, his fate would have been just the same. The only way to have survived would have been to avoid the situation all together. Which would have been wise, but does not take someone like Nansen to do.
I played around with Guile scheme for awhile. Also a bit of Perl. I wanted to write a simple utility, and chose Python. I am familiar with Python, but hadn't used it for some time. Getting back into it again, my conclusion was: Python, it Just Works.
> but I would define "dead" as "not being used for starting new projects with intent for these projects to be used in practice"

> I'd consider Clojure activity as evidence that "Lisp may be dead but its descendents live on"

except that common/emacs lisp or scheme is certainly not dead by any measure lol
TLDR: PayPal's user agreement says you can't sue them and must use arbitration for any disputes. And PayPal will pay all the costs of arbitration up to $10k. This guy followed the process and they unfroze his account without any explanation of why they froze it in the first place.
Why? If you stayed for more than a few months you'd be better off with the higher salary.
OODA loops might look superficially like the same concept, but that's hiding a lot of the complexity of it. The difference between the scientific method and OODA is that OODA is a framework for making decisions under extreme uncertainty. It's not just the feedback loop of continuous learning, but its about recognizing that your adversaries also have their own OODA loops and that if your loop operates faster than theirs, you have a distinct advantage. This implies both that you should make decision faster than your opponent, or that you should make your opponent make slower decisions (such as by causing confusion). Very powerful tool.
> Shifted means that some end products see an increase of costs in their value chain, which leads to higher prices.

In the long run, but it is not uncommon to see production lose money when their input costs are higher than the consumer price. A vendor is still beholden to what someone will pay and when you have to pay for your inputs before proving what the end consumer will pay, you can quickly be left holding the bag. This corrects eventually, but not usually within the span of days or even months. It can often take years to see things correct.

You still can't have inflation if the people don't have money. A business can't magically charge more than someone is willing and able to pay. And they say the people don't have more money to pay with, currently subsisting on draining their savings, so inflation will be short lived – unless incomes start to rise. The FED is working tirelessly to try and prevent that from happening, but we'll see.
The point is that requiring cvv for a login is stupid, not that the risk levels are different.

Does it become acceptable to require the blood of my first-born because the risk levels are different?

Of course not. They're not even allowed to store that in the US (PCI-DSS), so the other poster must not be in the US.
Ukrainians literally pay for the internet access.. what did he do?
When I was around 15 I used to do 10 hours of x86 assembly programming, and then several hours every day after school for a month or so in a row. Parents would have to force me from the computer.

I attribute it to a younger brain, NO internet and NO fun distractions. At 42 I just don't see how I did it, and I know I could never be that focused. Just sitting still for 4 hours make me feel quasy now, and I need to use my physical body in some way.
Just use this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

5d is a bit dramatic but it is a femtosecond laser writing of quartz crystal that should, in theory, be stable for billions of years and can hold hundreds of terabytes.

Seems to be just what is needed.
Really, my only banking experience here in germany is with n26 and since they offer it free, I thought that was the norm.
The NYT itself has been doing amazing in the internet age. Check their stock price chart.
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It erases everyone who does not consider themselves inside of a binary, which is a lot of people. It excludes and erases them, tells them they don't fit in and that they should just conform (or they'll be made to).
I'm self taught, spent 4 months entirely on my own going through freeCodeCamp and The Odin Project. My tip - only do it if you enjoy it, there's plenty other professions out there with a better ROI on time invested.
Statistics about average and median income in the US and EU is widely available. Also the graph linked above about disposable income shows that only in the lowest 10th percentile people in Europe are (marginally) richer that in the US. Starting with lower middle class the gap becomes quite significant already, and what's important is only growing.
AstraZeneca patients data exposed for over a year due to password snafu
When will devs stop hardcoding passwords? smh.
A wire like that is a single point of failure. Great for sending lots of data, but using two different systems is safer than using two different wires along the pipe, both of which could be severed in the same event.
500k TC is the new table stakes for these sorts of jobs. Agreed with your point though.
> and that using the user agent string should be a last resort solution.

In fairness, “last resort solution” means sometimes it is your only solution, when a specific browser fucks up on specific content and you need to work around that specifically.
He did none of that? Companies listed under his name that employ smart people for a shitton of money did.
Page 8 there’s an entire section dedicated to discussing bot accounts.

“The company could not even provide an accurate upper bound on the total number of spam bots on the platform. The site integrity team gave three reasons for this failure: (1) they did not know how to measure; (2) they were buried under constant firefighting and could not keep up with reacting to bots and other platform abuse; and, most troubling, (3) senior management had no appetite to properly measure the prevalence of bot accounts—because as Mudge later learned from a different sensitive source, they were concerned that if accurate measurements ever became public, it would harm the image and valuation of the company.”
The question was basically settled with music sampling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)#Legal_and_eth...

I.e. any use without permission is illegal.
One would have to have their head in the sand the last couple years to have not heard these kind of stories. I'd hope that people on this site would still be able to infer that legally downloading an app isn't enough to trigger that kind of response in literally any US jurisdiction.

The world is a scary place, cops can be bastards, and terrible things have happened, but it's straight up hyperbole and nonsense to pretend that a random internet nerd is going to get killed by police because they downloaded an app. I downloaded it (it's crap, as expected), so if I'm wrong on this then I'm willing to face the music, yet somehow I think I'll sleep fine at night.
Erotic role-playing with an offline bot would be pretty cool.
Ask HN: What Recession?
So, I'm reading a lot these days about lay-offs in tech companies and how many HN users (mainly from US?) are having a hard time finding top-level paying jobs.

I work on Western Europe, and in theory we should be more screwed up than other Western countries... but:

- Just landed (3 months ago) on a job that pays me 20% more than the previous one. I could have switched jobs years before, but I just got the courage to do it now

- Keep seeing the same amount of job offers on Linkedin. Now, I have the tendency to keep a list of companies that hire on an Excel file, so I can come back to it later and compare past and current situations of such companies. I have over 200 companies that operate in Western Europe (but not exclusively) that I consider "top-level" (at least from my point of view). The effect of the recession? Well, it has had one, but somehow very poor: many companies went from having around 1000 job offers open in linkedin on a weekly basis to having now around a third of that. Sure, they are not hiring like crazy anymore, but they are still hiring!

- A company that announced a 14% lay-off back in May, is now hiring again (the same pattern as before: when they were offering thousands of jobs before, now they are offering a few hundred)

Now, I have no idea how FAANG is doing in Western Europe (I never cared to track them) because I have no plans to work for them. But all the other non-FAANG companies over here are hiring. So, I don't feel the recession (yet). Touching wood.
Curation. Have a wide open repo and then have a repo of curated packages. There is no typo squatting in the curated repo because a human had to approve it.

Pip install ansible --from curated.pypi.org

Pip install anssible --from wildwest.pypi.org

Let them typosquat all they want in the wildwest. I don't worry about this nonsense with Apt. Heck maybe curation becomes a revenue stream to pay to get in to support such activites.
If that were actually true, why do so many people love working at Tesla/SpaceX? Clearly they don't have the same view of Elon's management style as you do.

The reality is that Twitter as a business (and, imho, as a product) was sorely in need of a course correction. Layoffs, if they need to be done, should be done crisply and thoroughly so that remaining employees don't feel like the other shoe is about to drop.

You rip off the bandaid, it sucks, then you refocus on the work ahead.
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I don't think many users will be affected by dhcp outage. Most linodes have fixed IPs.

Mine don't seem to be affected
These companies don't personally care about Musk -- they just don't want to be associated with the fallout as he mananges to offend or annoy a significant proportion of people.
Yeah, but they have lots of people working on PR and "ethical algorithms".
Page 8 of the report contradicts what you are saying.
People who talk about regulation of social media should spend 5 minutes reviewing the Supreme Courts’ approach to regulating speech over the last 25 years. Never going to happen.
"makes huge and sometimes unreasonable demands on his workforce"

Weird way to spell serial labor law violator

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/tesla-factory-is...
A/B test: Do users who have the feature enabled get you better KPIs or not.
He does seem to be a lot more hands-on with the technical stuff than most C level execs, and for SpaceX there are reports that he is actually doing the work that comes with his role as Chief Engineer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
so does nature force the lions to hunt or face starvation?
It's actually illegal to tell clients when a Suspicious Activity Report is filed. It's quite possible they filed one. It wouldn't necessarily trigger any investigation but it would be kept on file.
Good news, today SLIMA for Atom is easy to set up. Alive for VSCode is getting there. See more: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... (But I agree, the editor question was slowing adoption.)
I didn't want to imply that.

Educated people can be wrong alright. However really educated people are rarely absolute in their positions because they know that the world is not black and white and almost always the answer is "it depends" and "let's see it from the other side".

However polarizing views are attracting to non educated minds because they often give their believers simplistic views, potential enemies and pseudo-arguments that can nail the other "educated" or even just common-sense people. It's frightening really to see in action the amount of flattering it goes on in such cases.
A huge amount of government subsidies does help tremendously at that…
> People like to think that but in my experience there are far more brilliant nice people than brilliant assholes

Yep 100%, this has been my experience too
Well, when you have employees with irrational hatred of the new owner, you have to take some precautions.
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>He has said and posted things he shouldn’t.

According to whom? His internet comments are sci-fi libertarian mainstream with a dash of NWO.

His business accomplishments are impressive, but he's rather boring, no pun intended.

I think the only argument against Musk's success is that he enjoyed unfair regulatory advantages.

PayPal's KYC was non-existent for years, you could send money with little more than an email. Amazon had similar miraculous regulatory exceptions. No State sales tax until it had a near-monopoly network effect.
Humans!=robots
Yeah I did it took me 7 months more or less to get an offer and the rest is history. I trying to post videos more regularly here’s a recent summary I made of the minimum to get a job: What you ACTUALLY need to learn to get a job as a programmer
https://youtu.be/iqUm_3rOp7M
> Aren’t you just selecting for obedience and unnecessary hoop jumping?

Let's be real, that's exactly what most mid+ companies are looking for.
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I wonder when this lawsuit actually began, before he took over, or just in the past few days.
I don’t think his proposal was pro-Russia as much as it was anti-more-dead-people.

There’s no way Russia loses this war if it doesn’t escalate beyond local conflict. The objective now is (or should be) minimizing casualties and human suffering, not lines on maps from 2015.

Stopping recurring monthly donations of something very expensive is also not “blackmail”.