skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't help if you follow, eg. five different news sites and they all report on the same event with largely the same facts (or even the exact same article copy syndicated)
Elon Musk fires 50% of Twitter staff
Points to the Markdown family for using mostly nice syntax. I mean the basics like lists, links, and headings look fine (I can do without the underlined headings or whatever they are called though). Markdown is nice for readmes and simple notes. Usage beyond that is not quite questionable to but debatable.

Asciidoc seems to have a solid backend. But it seems to have a problem with nesting. Nesting things should be tablestakes in a markup language.

I don’t know much about RestructuredText (no, I won’t play these silly free-caps games) but it doesn’t look that nice to me for whatever reason. It looks the closest to regular markup to me except they have replaced things like brackets with backticks.

And finally I am glad that I never have to use some Wiki lightweight markup variant with silly syntax like using X numbers of apostrophes for emphasis or whatever.
Well, that’s fair, though with flakes it will further improve in case of nix.

I do know it is not about reproducible builds, I wrote as much, but I still feel that dismissing nix as you did above is not professional.
Can't find the article now but it made an interesting point that Starlink is just busywork for SpaceX to keep launching rockets.
> but you can't convince German to move to Romania.

I think nobody is trying, but with the right salary I'd love to. Some acquaintances did something like this: they moved from France to Poland and have a salary that's locally really good. There's more companies that hire like that on the basis that a certain salary gets you further somewhere east.
Pretty much, yes. It's an employee friendly policy, which is certainly not the norm. But given how long tech interviews can take, it's a good policy for tech employees.

Note, I don't benefit from this since I'm not in CA, but I still think it's a good idea.
(This comment is from my point of view and is about me. It is not about you. It's OK if people are different! I am not trying to force you to feel how I do.)

Like the parent, I also really like my commute. It's 40 minutes, each way, on the bus. I also use it to read. There's a library right next to my office! I'm going there this afternoon before I grab the bus. It's great.

When I was forced to work from home in 2020, the commute was actually one of the things I missed the most. You're correct that I could have just spent 40 minutes reading each day at home. But I didn't! I looked at my phone or cleaned the house or started work early or something. Having the forced structure is what works for me, to enforce different "parts" of my day. I catch the bus at 7 AM. I read for the 40 minute ride. I get to work around 8. I catch the bus home at 4 PM. I'm home around 5. It works for me.

Working from home didn't, I felt lost and bored and frustrated and actually had some breakdowns near the end of it and ended up going back to the office before I was vaccinated, which was kind of scary but better than waking up crying. I don't know why that's the way I am, but it is.

(Thanks for reading this comment. This is a reminder that this comment was from my point of view and was about me. You may feel differently than I do! That's OK.)
I've never heard anyone say their compensation was fair. They always felt they deserved more.

Systems where everyone gets the same pay are also invariably viewed as unfair by the people who know they produce more than others.

The fair price is when the price is set by Supply&Demand. All attempts otherwise produce worse results.
Ask HN: How do I stop missing remote meetings?
What do you do to alert yourself when meetings are starting?

I have alerts in my google calendar already for 10 and 2 minutes before meetings, but in practice, I'm basically blind to alerts when I'm in meetings or in the zone.

I've asked people to ping me if I'm late, but it feels unprofessional of me, they wait longer than I'd like to reach out, and I sometimes even miss it when they do.

I join meetings as soon as I get out of the previous meeting, and that helps a lot. The failure mode then is if I have volume off and don't notice when the other parties arrive.
More so if you swap change device to gun.
It feels like you intentionally missed my point. uBlock is the number one add-on that most people care about (at least in my circles).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlta-dP9Tq4
It makes sense to punish or reprimand someone internally for leaking confidential information. Something like a firing could be appropriate.

But banning someone or their Tweets on Twitter for posting an internal corporate communication is wrong (at least, it's not the Twitter I want to see). That's using one's privileged position as steward of a public platform to enforce internal rules in an extraordinary way. If how Twitter moderates users on its platform is a free speech issue (I believe it is), this is just as much of one.
The fact that at some point over the last 6 years, a huge bipartisan majority of people expressed doubts about the security of our elections (One party in 2016, another in 2020) and yet very little real change has been accomplished is pretty telling. Fact is, if you are in power, there's very little motivation to mess with or risk a change to the system that got you into power.
That’s what I need, another task lol
Yeah this is great once you know about it. It changes how you use YouTube.
This is actually a great idea. No need for anyone to be the designated driver, and you can go to places not within walking distance.

A really enterprising transit agency (an oxymoron there) would create The Party Bus and promote the hell out of it. Rip out all the seats and put in couches. Special lighting. Use your imagination.
Trust Thermocline
My guess is that very few Ops people are going to be part of this layoff.
Ask HN: Are throwaway accounts becoming a problem for HN?
Recently I've noticed a lot of totally new accounts posting comments on topics (Mainly Crypto related!)... all commenting in the same direction.

Are these throwaway (Possibly bot) accounts now becoming a problem - effecting ranking and the conversation?
For people who willingly live in (or visit) Apple's walled garden, I like News Explorer because it syncs (subscribed feeds and read/unread state of each article) via icloud between iphone, ipad and macOS.
You know how a little old grandma will have a Trump yard sign out front of her house and anyone on the left who sees it will say "she must be a transphobic bigot"?

It's that level of evidence.
I'm kind of a JSON maximalist because I find it really simple and haven't put too much thought into it.

I'd also like to shout out

https://www.jsonfeed.org/

https://jsonresume.org/

https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/

https://geojson.org/

It'd be pretty cool to have an ecosystem where you could

```

$ packagemanger init my-site password

$ hostOfChoice deploy

```

Go to the url, auth yourself, then have a list of "plugins" that act as a ~cms for formats like the ones above

Edit: Could you at least tell me why you're downvoting
Yes. They don't have to let you into the building, let you access their systems, etc., but they need to fulfil their contractual obligations in terms of pay and benefits for 60 days.

(EU laws apply more broadly, but the California one is only in the event of mass layoffs)
I agree. I'd go further and say nothing will change it. IMHO companies like this own our (and international) government+the justice system and our votes are meaningless. The same interests control both parties, but I digress.

The EU seems to exercise some control in limited cases, or that privacy law that somehow got passed in California, but those actions are the exception by far.
I see that as more convergent behavior rather than explicit intention. What do you specifically want to be different?
> My feed was littered with the same stories and sometimes even the same content.

To be fair, this is a big problem everywhere, not just with RSS. Especially on Twitter, and even here with dupes on HN.

It's more of a problem though if you're following a bunch of "news" feeds, as opposed to, say, technical blogs with original content.
Is everyone using the same version control system? I wouldn't be surprised if some people have code that would get missed if they just had IT pull everything.
Can one disable the airbag, say, by pulling a fuse?
UUID RFC use <timestamp, sequence, node id> layout which is different from the layout of snowid scheme which is <timestamp, node id, sequence>. Also UUID RFC timestamp can only use up-to 60 bits whereas snowid has the full 64 bits to spare. They server different use-cases.
"It is what it is" is not an acceptable answer, from a European perspective. That's the point I was trying to make.

And I stand by the original claim: "There are various band-aids to try and help people out when they lose their job, but none of them are particularly impressive, looking on them from a European perspective."
A random reason, not necessarily the most important one, is that a company buying its own stock is the ultimate insider trading. Market fairness has left through the nearest open window...
It'a a sure sign you're visiting an American site when the unit of energy used is kWh/day :)
> ~2,936,000 changes

I don't think it makes sense to add all added and removed lines together and call it "changes": for example, this counts even a single character typo fix as 2 changes.
From posts elsewhere. They are still employed till feb. Just do not report for work. So no violation
Definitely. I don't see why there shouldn't be a way to get out from the inside, or some form of alarm / ring for help button.
I've been using INO Reader since Google Reader Death Day and totally agree. Didn't know about the paywall. What does that mean?
The existence of a lawsuit can't be used to judge the legality of the layoffs. Only the ruling can. It's possible (although a bit more unlikely) that the person filing the lawsuit is a terrible lawyer.

Making factual statements/judgements seems misguided, at this point, in my IANAL opinion.
You can indeed learn things when your models highly accurately reflect reality (or in situations where the models themselves are their own reality). Logic and mathematics are powerful tools for making discoveries and learning.
A work around for PDFs it to select "Open in Browser" from the download popup menu.
Are there any left ? I heard anecdotes that tech salaries in places like Bangalore are now on par with of Western Europe.
The Town Square metaphor is equally strained. If you act like an objectionable fool you'll soon be chased out of it.
There is a lot of value in the CoI being visible quickly. While with an email there could be an unbound delay in the CoI being visible. And often visibility for such things drops off quite hard.

If 90% of the impressions happen within an hour of the post happening and it takes 2 hours for the CoI being visible, then 90% of people probably weren't aware of it.
This seems like a troll comment, given how disastrously Musk has handled the Twitter acquisition so far, and how many times he's been in trouble over mishandling things at Tesla and SpaceX.
So as far as I understand it's basically old guard HP (calculators, pa-risc, multimeters, etc.) who formed Aglinet in 1999. Following this, "Consumer PC Clone Manufacturer" HP under very questionable leadership bought Compaq who themselves contained the mummified corpse of DEC somewhere in their folds. That company lumbered along for a bit and then later themselves split into modern HP who still sells PCs of varying quality and HPE who primarily sells servers and associated backend services, possibly leaning more toward the ladder than former nowadays.

This shit feels like napping out the royal family, no wonder it's compared to a petri dish.
Has anyone got Mozilla Pocket and newsboat working together?

I'd like to bookmark interesting long reads for later to Pocket from newsboat, but also resurface them as an RSS feed, but it seems a little awkward.
This happens in nature all the time, and interestingly it's to prevent competition. The classical model of this is Darwin's finches. A species of finch landed in the Galapagos millions of years ago, but over time began to speciate into different ecological niches.

Rather than evolving into a generalist bird that ate every type of food, the birds evolved to specialize on specific trees and nuts. Each species became best for its given niche.
That's like agreeing to take your shoes off when entering a building, leaving your shoes on, and then complaining when the employees/owner/whatever asks you to leave if you're not going to take them off. If you think a rule is stupid, then rebel against it by not agreeing to it
I'm not sure why you made such a broad claim, but I'll be happy to exploit it. Please list all attempts and confirm they produce worse results.
Wow. That's horrible. Imagine trying to save for a home. jesus.
> It feels like the mid-90's web.

mid-90's web embraced weirdness and creativity. Primarily recognizing that we get so much info visually.

Gemini says: no, it's only text, no creativity or weirdness allowed. While I sort of understand where the authors are coming from, I think they threw the baby (or some of the baby) away with the bathwater.

Yes, some of this can be rectified by clients (like the insistence that images must be external), but clients can only take it so far.
Unfortunately, your best option is most likely the ridiculously, laughably, absurdly over-moderated reddit. I wish you the best trudging into the hellhole that place has become.
I could, but a smartphone is built with the expectation of total connectivity, as are the apps on it. The Palm was built to be offline first, and makes different expectations around data transfer. It also had a different interaction model - stylus with Graffiti instead of a keyboard - which would be fun to revisit. So yeah, I could have an offline device, but it's not the same.
Highly recommend the newsflash rss reader for linux, wroted in rust and official flatpak so it should work on any distro.

https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk
Hey, we'd welcome discussion on those topics over on Sqwok.

https://sqwok.im/p/ReSGugPjqF4lhw - "Any recent interesting books, you've been reading?"

https://sqwok.im
that's not why Apple locks down the iPhone. They lock it down to make more money through the app store by not facing competition. They say they lock it down to protect users to distract attention from their rent seeking behavior.
Which IRC networks and channels?
That is a dangerous Calvinist line of thinking. If someone lies/steals/cheats their way to the top, you’d never notice because you are ascribing virtue to the person solely by their success
Is free Wi-Fi a good deal for coffee shops? (2009)
There are a lot of US agencies which have law enforcement functions - with their own armed force and powers to search, detain, seize, etc. US Postal Service has one, so does IRS, Department of Education, Library of Congress, and many other federal agencies. One could be surprised why the Postal Service is dealing with things having nothing to do with delivering mail, but mission creep is extremely common in all branches of federal government.
Wow this blew up.
How about a hint - both presidents had trouble with impeachments. But NOT trump (again, think 2001)
I looked him up on LinkedIn, and he's not there.
Speak up Prez if you're here!
There are other ways to achieve an audit trail with paper ballots. Like cameras. Electronic voting is opaque by nature compared to a bunch of people in a room actually counting paper ballots.
Thank you, and more than happy to share in detail what we're on. The key (or one of the keys... not THE one) here is not just that I'm working on those things, but that there's another human on the other side who I deeply respect who is keeping me accountable to these changes. Checking in each week and knowing that check in is coming is helpful for me. For me out of the motivators of [accountability], [novelty], and [interest], accountability is my personal biggest one.

But back to the topic...

> Setting up triggers, plans for distractions, rewards:

1. Triggers: I get a glass of this special coffee (smart energy coffee, a brazillian brand that just came to US actually) every time I enter a 3 hour deep work block. It signifies the ritual has started, essentially

2. Plans for distractions: We tried a lot of things here, some worked and some don't (it's important you test and experiment to find what works for you). For me, I pre-came up with what sort of situations would take me out of flow easiest and planned around it. It was cumbersome but helped. E.g. for me it was "if a member emails I feel inclined to respond right away to help them", my solution was to give that 3 hour "shift" to my co-founder and trust that he's got it. Another one that worked was having a distraction log stickynote. If something happened that wasn't on my deep work agenda, no MATTER how important it was, I wrote it down on the sticky note and moved forward. This was really hard in practice but now I have it a lot better down

3. Rewards: This we also tested a lot and tbh I don't have anything perfect here yet but after each deep work session I allow myself to bask in the sun on my balcony and now I find myself nearing the end of the block and feeling the sun already as a physical response (I'm very sensory)

> Auditory alarms: I used to have terrible alarms that induced anxiety, fear, and surprise. My coach had me change it to things that are pleasant (oddly I never thought alarms should be pleasant lol). Now I have certain ones that signify the start and end of sessions, my work day, etc. They're just on auto-pilot and they help me build an awareness of time. Once again, like the other stuff, daunting to set up but once it's set up and you find your flow, it runs itself.

> Detailed items: THIS ONE is definitely still a challenge for me BIG TIME. I now have a specific part of my to-do list that is for items like this and I've experimented with different times in the day I do it, how I do it, in what chunks, etc. And we landed on me setting aside 1 time a week for "these tasks" that are kind of gross and I do it with wine (I know... not great) and with my partner, and with a pomodoro clock and we race each other to finish our annoying tasks.
> In that case, Musk sounds very much like every government, business, politician...

If you mean that in the sense that everyone, no matter how powerful, needs to be subject to oversight, I agree with you.

If instead you mean that in the schoolyard, "But Johnny was cussing too!" sense, well, if that's supposed to be a defense, it isn't. All I can suggest is be a smarter criminal.
Any functional family or military unit. Many non-profits and charities. A lot of successful startups. Costco, there's a reason their employees tend to stick around.

Self-sacrifice doesn't mean you get zero reward or that reward is evenly distributed, it means everyone gives of themselves to improve the whole, whatever that is in context. You're part of the whole, so regardless of your position in it you benefit indirectly.

The converse is a parasitic/extractive relationship, where your objective is to consume/destroy as much of the whole as possible to improve your own perceived standing relative to others. See Sears, most private equity firms, Kanye's recent antics, and arguably some of what Elon's doing with Twitter.

At a large-scale, democracies work because they incentivize/force self-centered assholes to act in self-sacrificing manners in order to satisfy their greed.
I lived through all those splits as an hp employee and I think this is a very good analysis. A few more anecdotes:

- When we got the news that Fiorina left you could hear "ding dong the witch is dead" being sung across the entire floor. In retrospect maybe she wasn't as bad as we thought, but completely lacking empathy

- We (hp) were saddled with a lot of debt when Whitman took HPE, the thinking was that Enterprise had a brighter future. Luckily we came out okay out of the split

- EDS acquisition was awful, we got like 200000 employees that never delivered on the promised Enterprise synergy

- It's amazing that we survived "burn the furniture" Hurd (RIP) and completely clueless Apotheker (purchased criminal con man Lynch's autonomy)
Determine how much you value the security, and if you can fit other things into the time you have if you’re underutilized. Alternatively, bounce for something “better” while keeping in mind the grass is not always greener and the remorse you may have if your next role evaporates during a global recession.
Also a noted racist, misogynist and pusher of conspiracy theories who appeals to people who think that “asking questions” is the baseline for intelligence . But you do you.
> In a trusted boot world, the two file systems for the ESP and the /boot/ partition should be considered untrusted: any code or essential data read from them must be authenticated cryptographically before use.

In the real world, my ESP and boot partition are trusted, since I've installed them and control them and can check them for malware, and the firmware is not trusted since there is no possibility of control, it's vendor blobs.

Mr. Poettering is clearly arguing for interests of the secure boot/DRM complex, not competent owners/users.
In that case you should not be too hung up about him getting admission into a "lesser" (according to you) school. But here you are.

Oh absolutely I am projecting my thoughts. I was lucky but I know many Indians who have been pushed by their parents and are miserable. I also dont think a university environment dominated by such kids will be good either for the school or for them down the line. I am pretty positive your son will have a great experience in whatever school he goes to vs whatever ideal school you had in mind for him. Diversity to me is ipso facto a good thing.
Other kitchen utensils you might not have considered using when plating and/or at the table:

• Small silicone tongs (e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/Fuyamp-Kitchen-Cooking-Silicone-Grilli...) — great for "family-style" service of oily spaghetti, salads, etc. Much better grip on saucy foods than laquered wooden "salad hands." No need to wind pasta around anything; just pick it up. Works much better than a spoon/ladle for breaking up a mound of sticky sweet-and-sour pork — you're pulling and twisting, rather than pushing.

• Kitchen shears — some foods (e.g. Korean short ribs) that are extremely annoying to slice/saw the meat off the bone of with a steak knife, can be scissored through with ease. Also work great for cutting open crab legs.

• Handheld cheese wire slicer (e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/Cheese-Slicer-Stainless-Steel-Cutter/d... — don't bother with the ones with a little roller in them for "depth of cut adjustment", it'll just get gummed up) — rather than pre-slicing your cheese for charcuterie snacking (and having it all dry out), you can just bring the block to the table and slice it as you need it.

• A mini-sized silicone spatula (e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/HLMY-Silicone-Resistant-Baking-Essenti...)... for spreading butter on toast. Yes, really. I just figured this one out yesterday, since I already had the spatula on hand from making eggs, and figured I may-as-well try. It works better than any butter knife I ever used; even the fancy wide-bladed "spreading knives." Much less butter left stuck to the utensil in the end. And it makes sense — buttering toast isn't all that different than icing a cake.
Twitter is a toxic clown party lama joust. It's nothing but a means for millions of narcissistic people to decorate themselves with signifier quotes and feel-good platitudes. twitter is where progressives go to sniff each others farts... So good for Elon for charging them 8 dollars a month for their little blue checks. What an embarrassment to my generation twitter is and it makes me ashamed that people in my industry created such a heinous (platform).