skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They aren't. We're nowhere even close.

They are and have been for decades. One of the reasons of passing laws preventing businesses from engaging in certain forms of discrimination is because because businesses had enough power that to discriminate based on a protected factor could lock someone out from society. This is extremely noticeable in smaller communities where there might be only a single grocery store, but even in larger communities you'll find companies often working together and that they share common suppliers of certain goods or services who can lock you out of the majority of companies all at once.

Up until now we have tolerated it because the forms of discrimination we wouldn't tolerate have since been individually banned and there haven't been enough cases of coordinated denial of social involvement to prompt further legal action, but the power is there. I assume the threat of legal action further limiting the power of companies to discriminate has prevented the threat from going too far, and why companies will even walk back cases when enough popular support gets behind it.
by the way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27Sw7r6gB8 (DEF CON 30 - Paul Roberts - Brazil Redux - Short Circuiting Tech-Enabled Dystopia Right to Repair)
How about news optimizing for news pieces that are the most controversial/fear inducing/outrageous to get more clicks and thus more revenue?
What was normal was not hate, and hate - as an extreme emotion - was never normal, but if belief in hate is the root of one's entire ontology, there isn't common ground with someone who doesn't have that princple. Acts of hate absolutely occurred, especially systemic ones that resulted in genocides, but what was considered normal was not hate. We have adapted the word to mean something it did not previously. Just like we don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity, I'd say the same thing about modern hate and self-interest.

The instances of the other examples have only barely been reduced by identifying them, and in many cases, it has licensed behaviours that don't fit the definition, and it has empowered a layer of people who have jobs effectively managing and extracting value from them now, imo. Like malice, I reject hate, and in doing so, I also reject indexing on it as the axiom for a positive morality.
The U.S. and especially the dollar are doing better than pretty much everyone right now… but haven’t we been told for years that we are now part of a globalized economy? If the EU, Japan, and China all fall into recessions at the same time won’t they take the US down with them?
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Yepp, it wasn't a reflection on your comment. I just think the good/bad dichotomy ties in to my argument about polarization. It doesn't happen with every comment, but when it does, it adds fuel to the fire.

Sorry if that wasn't clear.

... I wonder if polarization can be seen as a market spread, and that more polarization causes higher volatility, which leads to more "trading" to close the spread. I.e. discussions follow some version of the efficient market hypothesis? Need to do a PhD on this. :)
Honestly I quite companies while being grateful to them... I m not sure why the need to be salty here: they cant keep these people, what can they say?
And timezones. Western/Central Europe works fine especially from the East coast of the US. Asia is much harder.
> I doubt many celebs went through the process of identity verification.

That's OK. Twitter verification was "Twitter verified this person's identity", not "this person asked Twitter to verify their identity". Twitter can and should do so proactively in scenarios like this.

> Journalists basically get it for free regardless of their journalistic ability or follower count.

Yes, they're one of the specific categories permitted to apply laid out at https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twit....
Perhaps the one that has multiplied her own salary while the browser gets less and less relevant.

https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
What if the "know-nothing jerkoff CEO" also printed off his 50 pages of code at the same time? Would it make it an acceptable deal at that point?
Based on my own self-taught path, I think it's a lot easier if you have a project in mind first. Many moons ago, I had a few personal web design clients (frontend developer wasn't a term yet), and I was tired of updating their static sites by hand. So, I decided to learn PHP (and MySQL and Apache) in my spare time to solve this issue. That took a long time. A year maybe? Certainly not 40 days.

Then, I got interested in the Arduino, then graphics programming (openFrameworks, openGL), then iOS apps, and the list goes on. I worked as a graphic designer during the day, and would tinker with this stuff at night or the weekend. Eventually, started applying to developer jobs, and the rest is history.

The point is: My interest in writing software was primarily hobby driven. Not career driven. I would run into a problem with the code (or some concept), research it, and move on. The projects I worked on would dictate the path in which I learned these things.

All that said, I would have loved something more structured. Beating your head against the wall to figure things out isn't the most time efficient way to learn things. But, it's the way I did. And, fwiw, this field is a constantly moving target. You're going to have to teach yourself a lot over the years.
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I joined Meta at 20 years old, without Bachelors Degree, fully self-taught. Possible 100%. Mostly learnt all the skills by doing and then reflecting through online courses and paid ad-hoc for teachers 1:1 online.
Sudo feels like a broken concept to me because it's there to protect the machine and other users.

But these days many computers are only used by one user.

Everything I care about on my computer is readable by my user and a program running as my user could put fake binaries in my path.
And if they are not, they should have been fired a long time ago.
> I think one thing that hampers adoption of lisps is being a bit more beginner unfriendly

I realize you're talking mainly (exclusively?) about the editor situation, with which I don't disagree; but aside from that, I feel like learning Lisp as my first language sort of brain-damaged me for learning other languages, even ones thought to be simple to get started with like js or Python. The Lisp syntax and programming model are so simple to wrap your mind around that everything else, to me at the time anyway, looked noisy and inconsistent. Then I discovered Tcl and Prolog, found them as easy as Lisp to work with, and discovered I just have a super low tolerance for syntactic complexity.
Any source for this data other than telegram PR?

Even if that were truth I know pretty much nobody who has it, while I think I dunno single person who wouldn't have Whatsapp, so I assume majority of those Telegram users are concentrated in few countries lika Russia, Iran etc. or in some specific social circles, which I am not part of.
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I thought US employment was mostly at-will? What's the basis for said lawsuit?
Lots of highly paid tech jobs relied on company stock via RSUs which have been creamed. Relying back on regular salary doesn't seem so good any more.
I haven't closely monitored the situation for years now, but it used to be the case that OS/software support for anything than a Raspi was often spotty at best.

With a Raspi, you not only have Raspian/RPiOS that fully supports all models back to the first one from 2011, but a decent number of really good alternatives like Fedora, Ubuntu and special appliance variants, e.g. for console emulation etc.

In contrast, my last experiments with some other SBCs consisted of downloading some ancient ISO files of questionable provenance from some shady .cn domains. It might have gotten better, but one should carefully investigate the software situation before buying a non-RPi SBC.
People have been screaming about a recession for the last year now, with not a whole lot of hard data to back it up.

Other than 2 quarters of negative GDP growth - which was the common understanding until it became politically inconvenient.
Yet you yourself provide no substance to the discussion and just formulate some centrist statements without any points adding to the discussion.
>Significantly less misinformation

Considering day 1 the new head of Twitter posted false information about the Pelosi attack from a site known to publish fake news, I'm going to guess this probably won't be the case.
I think the problem for most people is that we simply don't have many opportunities for these type of interactions at a certain point in life. Also, why do you need to have deep conversations before going out on a date? If there is physical attraction and some shared interests, what's the harm of meeting for some drinks?
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A log of their journey was recovered, which makes clear how, having put themselves in this predicament, they tackled its many hardships and setbacks with a level-headed determination and fortitude resembling that of Shackleton and his party a year or so later.

Edit: Shackleton's expedition departed 17 years later.
Perhaps you should delete prod so you have to work harder, compete harder, learn faster just to save your job
"We have jobs" is a very low threshold to say there is no recession

I'd be more focused on 10%+ inflation and the 0.x GDP growth rate forecasts, especially since these forecasts are known to be somewhat optimistic

> Just landed (3 months ago) on a job that pays me 20% more than the previous one.

Well that doesn't even cover the 20% food price increase and ~40% energy price increase
To be fair, it's the permission model that's not kept up with use cases. On a multiuser system sudo makes a lot of sense.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I think you're probably off the mark, but these are very reasonable and falsifiable predictions and this is what most of this comment chain should be.
> I feel bad for the folks losing their job because that always sucks

I'm not trying to minimize the fact that this sucks for those affected, but let's not also forget that prior to the acquisition, the employees were given multiple opportunities to unionize and/or turn Twitter into an employee-owned company. This is the direction they collectively chose to go in instead.
I'd reserve judgement until they're done raising interest rates. These things take time to propagate throughout the economy.
This does not seem to me to be a responsible way to manage a firm and retain the most competent and talented employees.
> This is an example of how something is good?

No. But it is evidence that people have different standards for more distant wrongs than more recent ones. Many Argentines think the UK should “give it back” the Falklands, but how many European-descended Argentines think Argentina should be “given back” to its original indigenous inhabitants? What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

> Taiwan was invaded by the retreating ROC army.

The Qing dynasty ruled Taiwan from 1683 to 1895, and that is when Han Chinese colonisation started. The Europeans came before that - Chinese colonialism pushed out European colonialism, and Chinese colonialism was in turn displaced - for a period - by Japanese colonialism. But there were already very many Han Chinese in Taiwan before the defeat of Japan, or the flight of the KMT from the mainland.
I genuinely don't think it is. At the risk of paraphrasing one of the replies below, and probably to repeat myself - it's more of an arena showing ads, in which the contestants are encouraged by onlookers and the organiser to argue and aggravate, to express thoughts in such short-form that nuance and understanding are lost, to create spectacle. For profit.

Regardless of moderation or censorship, a public square would/should operate quite differently.
I've posted this elsewhere, but I'll repeat it.

First they send your work home, and then they send it next door.

Corporate learned during COVID that the metro premium isn't worth it any more. These layoff announcements--which have always occurred in the shadows--have three purposes:

1. Shift jobs to cheaper locales. In the US, many metro jobs are being moved to cheaper locations like the midwest. Western European labor is also relatively cheaper. Work from home works for you and your boss. I live in Raleigh-Durham. Things are on fire over here. Google, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon are all hiring at a rapid clip. My fiance just finished her PhD in comp bio, and she has competing offers... but last I heard, biotech is dead and some other thing about long term R&D slowing down due to rate hikes (more on why I think this is nonsense later).

2. Off set the massive over-hiring. The rush of cash during COVID and record profits lured many companies into growth-mode-at-any-cost. While they still need the head count in many cases, people were willing to cut corners in hiring and project quality (i.e. does this really have returns to justify the investment) so a cull is needed. Think about crypto for example. I have a feeling a good number of companies are regretting jumping on the crypto NFT train right about now.

3. I believe companies and the media loudly communicate layoffs in part to reduce labor's negotiating power. I can't prove this, but it seems about right. In December, Facebook was struggling to hire. It was in the news. Right now, I'm sure many people are afraid to ask for more money, but I've managed to wring out 10-20% more than what's being asked for by recruiters despite what everyone is hearing.

I know people thinking this is all Fed induced, but you have to remember, the money that was spent during COVID hasn't gone anywhere. It's still circulating. Companies also borrowed record amounts of cash during ZIRP that's due in 30+ years. Many of these companies have returns in the 10-30% band. A bump to 4-5% is no where near enough to slow down business given how much cheap money was created.

For more evidence, go look at the start up raises. In a recessionary environment, VC would be completely dead. Yes, deal making has slowed and garbage companies can't find financing, but let's be real: those companies should have never existed in the first place.
"If it wasn't for these damn twitter personalities messing up the plans, they would have gotten away with it."

You sound like a Scooby Doo villain. If these companies are not run well, they can be brought down by mere twitter personalities. This is a stress test. Those who are run well, will survive this.

Another analogy: If you build a house out of straw (because you cut corners) should you blame the big bad wolf who can just blow it down?
Twitter was a bit shit. But its up and running more or less in real time for millions of users. Thats pretty impressive. Its business is shit, yes.

Musk looks like hes done the classic: "the office is clean why do I need cleaners" dance. I am surprised he can fire that many people that quickly and still expect momentum.

It doesn't help that he appears to be shitting out product ideas that he's just "dreamt" up. Rather than talking to people to see why twitter didn't do it in the first place. He clearly has a low opinion of the entire company.
Many Americans think Europe is heartless because youth unemployment is allowed to get so high because businesses are paralyzed to protect those that have work and thus can never reorganize.

Knee-capping the dynamism of youth is a current consensus of the European system.
So far most of the layoffs I've seen have been for nontechnical roles at big tech.

In the 2000 crash it was still fairly easy to find a job if you could code. Even though the big tech companies of the time were doing mass layoffs and losing 95% of market cap.

Who knows what it will be like this time. But I wouldn't take layoffs at high profile publicly traded tech companies as an indicator of the whole market. In some cases these companies are still even hiring a few engineers here and there while doing layoffs.

So far as I can tell demand for software engineers may actually be slightly higher than it was a year ago in the larger market.
A prediction - trump will get back on Twitter and will again use the hell out of it, with corresponding election results
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What assets are you buying today with cash that are cheap and offset the pain of higher food and gas? Meta stock isn’t a great milk substitute.

Housing is one asset class that is dropping in price, but the increasing cost of borrowing is more than offsetting that decline.
Performance is of course very good for SBCL. I guess 90% of the time it's not a constraint for me, the rest of the time maybe yes.

On a broader "performance" side though, the executables are enormous. If I'm tinkering with a new language on the side, I like to build little utilities - like, say, transposing a csv file. Having a 60MB executable for doing it seems... weird. Can't quite put my finger on it.

Of course, if I were to "compile" Python that way, it wouldn't be much smaller.
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The new owners have quite loudly and explicitly promised that there will be less content moderation than their was before. And specifically less moderation of conservatives.

If Twitter, under the previous leadership was full of death threats to leftists, and the new leadership is promising less moderation actions taken against the sort of people who make those threats, it seems reasonable to assume that those threats will continue or get worse
Yes very well written and reminds us all that in the end we're humans, and once in a while things can go right if only for us asking why they aren't.
>> if you’re wrong, you’re not accountable to your actions because there was never any actual money on the line.

> I mean, that's the risk you run right?

> Either you're a regulated system where you can avoid this kind of thing, or you're an unregulated system where you go 'screw the man', but you don't get the protections that are associated with the traditional financial system.

He does not mean companies operating in the unregulated crypto space. He means the author of articles like this one.
Good luck to whoever is working on it but if the original devs couldn't keep it alive because of VSC, I don't think anyone else will.

I think both editors play in the same league and VSC has the community which is was matters.
Almost like the outsourced it
Social Media Is Not Dying Yet
Sony is no longer selling the PS5 at a loss [1], they sold at a loss for just 9 months

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> It is false because I have no intention of believing it

It's not even a statement, it's just a hearing but I guess that can also be dismissed if you don't want to hear anything near the idea at all.
I think it'll be fine. You don't need 7000 people to run a micro blogging service. It's really that simple.
US Traffic Safety Is Getting Worse, While Other Countries Improve
I think you are out of touch with how poor Twitter is as a medium currently. Either Musk brings it back to some validity or he puts the final nail in the coffin and creates a space for some new better technology to fill the void (that last bit is a bit sarcastic about the new tech).
IMO secure isn't enough. You also need to make it auditable. As far as I can see, it's pretty much impossible to do this satisfactorily with a digital solution. It also seems entirely unnecessary. Manual counting systems work well, and allow people to feel like they are participating in the democratic process (because they are).
First, I don't see this kind of split ever working. How do you monetize it? Email is federated and has huge problems because of it. Moving a centralized service to federated would be a massive destruction of value. Let's not forget Elon is on the hook for $44 billion so I expect him to protect his investment first and foremost. Why do you think one of his first actions was to apease advertisers?

In politics corporate interests transcend politics and cross party lines. There is no shot any Congress would destroy the value of all these American companies that way.

> But it could help break down some echo chambers ...

Nobody wants this. The idea that any of this is about free speech is a complete myth. The idea that an "echo chamber" is even a thing is problematic. People are going to engage in content they like and not engage with content they don't like. It affects what websites you go to, what TV you watch, what channels you subscribe to and so on.

The post on HN yesterday from the ex-CEO of Reddit was great in this regard. He put forth a cogent argument that none of this is about content. It's simply a user behaviour problem.

So when Kanye goes on Twitter and launches into an anti-semitic screed he gets banned. Not because of the content per se but because he's annoying and he's making the experiene worse for everyone else. Whenever conservatives (in particular) talk about "free speech", they really mean "hate speech" and wanting to avoid getting silenced even when everyone else just wants them to stop being anti-semitic, homophobic, transphobic, racist or whatever.
> ...and others use a more complicated metric trying to get at how people and businesses feel...

Yeah, agreed, but i wonder how much of what will happen is more self-fulfilling prophecy, where a critical mass amount of people "feel lousy", and hence unconsciously push all sets of invisible levers of the economy which push the world/countires/companies into something closer to a recession. I'm going to call the global economy the "mopey teen economy"...because even if things are not "that bad", the consensus will make everyone feel like things are not so great. ;-)
> The CPU result is doubly incorrect, since a) it's not an Intel chip, and b) i'm running 12.5.1 instead of 10.15.

It looks like you've enabled resistfingerprinting?

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/eddb810ffd5499f098...
I 'll keep downplaying it. It's a 280 character asynchronous telegraph office that crashes more often than whales wiggling their tail, has had 100 awful iterations of the interface , spam issues, terrible search etc etc. But it's popular because it's the Chosen One by the mainstream media, which brought politicians and CEOs in it. If the MSM decides that it's too rightwing, they will take their toys to the next twitter clone that barely works and all of their audience will follow.
This make me spit all my coffee.