skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In recent years, financial institutions - Paypal being one of them - have had an increased tendency to deny service to clients based on their having espousing unpopular views. Glenn Greenwald has recently written on this matter:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-consortium-imposing-the...
He's just kind of unlikeable (to many) due to the things he says and does. I don't think it's hard to understand.

It's not some immoral thing to dislike a person for their personality.
It says they are smart and know how to protect their infrastructure.
Good to hear. Thanks.
Our survival is not the point. It is an act of hope and the manifestation of our goodwill to the rest of the universe. There is nothing more valuable that we can offer to the Universe than our culture, history, knowledge, and the Earth's biological data.

Imagine if you were an alien species who somehow comes across this capsule hundreds of millions or billions of years from now. It's proof of sentient life elsewhere! But then you date the U-238 and realize that they're probably all dead...

But, they've left all of their civilization, culture, heritage, and knowledge behind. And you get to experience that, even recreate a tiny simulacrum of their world. And it gives you something, it's a tangible form of communication and cooperation across aeons.

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In the short term, the backup is probably useful to have. Imagine if a collection is lost to fire or some other catastrophe, and one of the closer ones could be used to bring it back. Case in point, the fire at Notre-Dame. In 2015, Dr. Andrew Tallon, an art historian, painstakingly scanned all of Notre Dame, https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/04/16/we-have-b...

I think it's important to be honest. Would you have flagged his work as pointless in 2015? After all, the Cathedral has stood for centuries, been photographed so many times, what's the point of a 3D scan?

After 2019's fire, those scans became important (unsure to what degree) to the restoration effort. At some level, by capturing and preserving history, Andrew Tallon helped save history. And now it becomes a part of the story.

That's the goal. To engage in an act of optimism for the betterment of us and all of humanity.
I want to ditch PayPal.

My problem is that PayPal is the primary, and often only method of payment accepted on online auction sites, specially person-to-person of used electronics.

I buy electronics by the boat load (I think, never seen the boat) to experiment with them. Most Asian or individual sellers will accept just PayPal.

Yes, it is a monopoly in the niche field of online auctions.
> Some 3,000 voters will run their paper ballots through the new machines, and then, to ensure nothing went awry, those same votes will be hand counted in a public session in Concord, N.H. Anyone who cares to will be able to see if the new machines recorded the votes correctly

If hand counting paper ballots instills confidence, then at some low level of public confidence in elections, it makes sense to do so routinely, rather than just a demonstration. Vilifying doubters doesn't seem to be very effective. For many of those there is no level of proof that could dent their opinion, so little is lost by simply attacking them. But there are many others that are convincible by sufficient openness.

Sure, turning it back into a manual process has its own issues, particularly with efficiency. But with an election efficiency is a minor consideration compared to confidence.
Vancouver, Toronto saw greatest high-tech job growth in N.A. in last 2 years
Thanks for the video. I always wondered about Duke. That put a great 'face' to the name.
None of those are sent by Whastapp, everything you quote literally talks about USERS deliberately forwarding their own messages, so clearly without use deliberately doing it, Facebook wouldn't have access to content of these messages. By this logic NONE app is E2EE since I can always take screenshot or forward the message or in the worst case take photo with other phone while reading and then write crazy articles that mesages on Signal are not E2EE because I took photo of the message and send it to Signal team.
People forget to count the corporate taxes on the employers in Europe (to support the welfare state) which lowers the salaries of workers making the calculation look like taxes are similar.
Extra-urban (outside of the big cities) Texas feels increasingly feudal every time I visit; maybe it’s because I’ve spent an increasing amount of my life in comparatively egalitarian Germany so it’s easier to see than when I was embedded in it.
The internet commenter's fallacy: I can only interpret things that happen to other people through things that have happened to me.

To some degree, this is just the human condition, but it is especially common (and annoying) in internet comments.
> Can you clarify why you think the new owners will look the other way at crimes being committed on their platform?

Because, put plainly: I don't think there's much reason to expect Musk to take them seriously.The previous management had only minimal capability to curb this behavior, or claimed they did, because of scale. They'd deal with cases that rose to the top, but not a lot more. Musk, on the other hand, is ideologically congruent with much of it, and there are no indications that his yelling about "free speech, especially for the right wing" comes with consequences or even minor disapproval for that speech when you use it to threaten to kill somebody.

Maybe I'm wrong. I don't think so, though.
4 OpCodes, I think Geohot is taking a cue from his favorite intellectual's Curtis Yavin's Urbit project
The Akamai acquisition has had me kind of stressed to be honest. Here in Oceania there aren't a whole lot of established "cloud" hosts to pick from that host locally.

Linode is fantastic and I have loved them for 10+ years. Digital Ocean doesn't host here, nearest is Singapore. Vultr does but I have had poor experiences with them. The other options are AWS and Google which are potentially unbounded expenses which is hard to sell to clients that already see $12/m (aud) as a cost sink, no matter what the server+service will save them in seat time.

There are of course local hosts but they're either oversold cpanel hosts or comparatively expensive (3-10x the price for the same hardware).

I guess it just feeds from my existential dread of being a small fish where if any one of these upstream providers decide "oh, no we flagged that account because of [black box reason], sorry!", you can be out a lively hood with no real recourse.

Guess it just kinda sucks to be at what feels like the end of the long tail of infrastructure.
The actual details of how the underlying datastructures work isn't that hard to grasp (see: https://youtu.be/wASCH_gPnDw?t=1817), but in practice you don't even need to go that far.

At a high level there's really just a few things you need to keep in mind, the biggest being the big O guarantees of the core DS interfaces, which are listed here https://clojure.org/reference/data_structures. Those guarantees hold across the different underlying implementations, and there are plenty of things you can tune to get a 2x, 10x, 50x improvement in performance before resorting to things that depend on which specific DS is being used under the hood

Edit: Fixed timestamp for video link
JACK: Elitist, East coast, alternative, intellectual, left-winged...

LIZ: Just say Jewish, this is taking forever.

- 30 Rock
The recession where my electricity bill quadrupled.
Meta is now the worst performer in the S&P 500 this year
I see it as a fairly energy-efficient way to get additional warmth - after all it's a heat pump.

That being said my mother keeps all the Christmas food on the balcony because it solves both the cooling and storage space problems.
Yeah, I'm certainly not dissing Lisp! It looks nice, and if I didn't know Python, I'd certainly be more interested in it.
> That deer had a name, Bambi

If someone from Disney is reading this: there is a former american president who uses the name of the one of the Disney's duck. /s
Steady stream of new people showing up tells me at least there is a heavy influx of users and have been for a long time.

Edit: you might also be onto something with the "specific social circles" part of the comment.

It is maybe like Google+: from the outside it looked like a ghost town, while inside it was beautiful.
We know what they do with journalists that tick them off, I shudder to think what they'd do to someone who doesn't repay their debts...
First Autonomous Car in Luxembourgish Traffic
> I imagine the buyout netted most employees with stock hundreds of thousands of dollars.

One of the theories knocking around last week was that these layoffs are just before a stock vesting was to happen, presumably in an attempt to avoid paying them.
Oh that's great to know! There seems to be an experimental API already, will have a look :) thanks!
Zuck demos AV-1 Codec
You don’t just axe off half a company staff with little to no notice, severance.

I think this type of sleazy, heartless behavior is the prime effect of Silicon Valley glorification.

But hey, it’s a free, fast paced tech driven country no damage done no? Degenerate
Only the 5.8bn in FTT is being claimed to be worthless. Not the full 14.6bn in assets.

If that's true (and the article itself lists reasons it isn't true!?), that still leaves 8.8bn in other assets, vs 8.0bn in debts.

The article itself says the same when it says 88% of equity. Equity is assets less debts. So as long as they have any equity left at all, they're not insolvent.
Now do mainstream media.
We aren’t in a recession yet.

Companies are starting to see the slowdown, so they are taking preemptive action so as earnings contract, P/Es will hold up better.

The politically minded readers of Hacker News refused to listen to those who said 2 quarters of negative GDP doesn’t necessarily mean a recession.

It would be really nice if we could take a deeper dive into economics, markets, etc and all learn but …
Fair but I didn't miss what you wrote, you choose to explicitly choose an example that would get eyes rolling. Which, if I read your comment correctly, you accept the responsibility with "there's something off about how we're communicating right now".

Inflammatory language get's more reaction - well documented and your probably aware of that.
Where's here? Haven't seen this in Germany.
Probably because he is/was Dekasegi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekasegi and there are some specific rules to move their money back to Brazil
"Don't get me wrong I get that making encryption the standard should be the way to go"

That did sound like saying "it would be better to make encryption the standard", didn't it?
THe issue we all have here is this: if Musk is successful then treating employees nicely will fall out of fashion.

Tech was a bastion of "treat your employees right, and they'll be productive". Musk is not a proponent of that. He is a micromanaging, capricious, easily distracted, arrogant and vindictive CEO.

If twitter thrives then we can expect copycats to try and spread his shitty work philosophy (like everyone idolises Jobs.)
>I don’t know how “spending more money for less benefits” is better than “callously refusing to spend any money”?

I don't know if it is better, but it is certainly a different problem, which matters if anyone is interested in understanding or fixing it.

I think it is important to understand the problem specifically there are a lot of patients dying of treatable cancer who would benefit from a health care system that functions better.
I was curious about the second Tweet on that page, which states:

>"Yep, the team is gone. The team that was researching and pushing for algorithmic transparency and algorithmic choice. The team that was studying algorithmic amplification. The team that was inventing and building ethical AI tooling and methodologies. All that is gone."

Does anyone if this team published any of their research on algorithmic transparency and algorithmic amplification? Could anyone say more about their work and what if any literature or tooling might be available to the public?
It would be, if the Green Lantern ring came with teams doings psychological studies how to fuck with your mind for profit and increase your spending time with it, and if its business model was dependent on framing how you discuss and what news and stories you see...
Perhaps we should judge not by what is happening only with ourselves, but take a look around us ;-)

The inflation is rising, central banks in EU, UK (and US) are increasing rates to fight inflation (in a wrong way IMHO), energy prices are rising without a solution in the horizon, food prices have also increased considerably, small shops are closing, small businesses are struggling, but hey look, I switched jobs, got a 20% pay rise and can't understand why you're all complaining... :-(
They chose the crypto market for their "flywheel" scheme. Why?

Crypto attracts scammers like flies to crap.

And a big part of the reason is the lack of regulation and transparency.
I hope employees air the dirty laundry...
What if the loans are minted DAI? How is that a Ponzi?
Why won't someone think of the business!
3 console maker: Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo

Nintendo doesn't sell the switch at a loss [1]

Sony no longer sell the PS5 at a loss, (sold at a loss for 9months) [2]

Microsoft still selling at a loss is anti-competitive, since they are able to sell their console cheaper than the competition, they are a billion dollar company btw

Another example is the Steam Deck, sold at a loss, as a result, competition can no longer compete, read about "Deck vs GPD"

[1] - https://venturebeat.com/games/nintendo-wont-sell-switch-at-a...

[2] - https://www.gamesradar.com/ps5-is-no-longer-selling-at-a-los...
You can sudo to other users besides root.

For installing things, you generally need write permissions to /usr/bin and likes. So you could create an user with such privileges and sudo to that.

The real issue, I think, is Linux not being capability based, so there's no programmatic way for scripts to communicate which sort of permissions are needed.
There will pretty much always be job openings in large companies, as people who fill essential roles retire, move away, etc. Sounds like the companies you monitor have reduced open roles by 66-90+% which is quite significant. Most companies, before they start laying off existing workers, will simply cut their hiring and hope to shrink their business through natural attrition (hiring fewer people than are leaving), which is probably what you're seeing.

EDIT: More broadly though, we are not actually in a recession yet, it's just that there are numerous signs of an emerging global economic slowdown. It's difficult to draw any concrete conclusions about the state of the economy from traditional metrics such as asset prices, inflation, GDP, unemployment, etc, because years of loose monetary policy coupled with recent shocks such as the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have messed with those metrics.
This is why the concept of "granular permissions" is so important on modern pcs, and I personally think linux is severely lacking in this regard.

Flatpack et al. have improved this situation somewhat, but come with their own drawbacks. Linux needs a central application-level permission system like Android, where I can grant/revoke e.g. internet access to applications. Frankly, I should never have to use sudo to install anything in my daily life, that is unfortunately not the case with the common ubuntu install, and will probably stay this way for a long time.
TL, DR; Books are your friends. They are already structured for learning, you just have to experiment with the examples, and do Google-fu when you're stuck. Resolve to stick with the problem is a personal thing, but you need a lot if you want to be self-taught. Self-discipline was easy because I was genuinely interested about what I was learning.

I did not touch a computer until around 12 years old. And the computer broke soon afterwards. Then my parents bought a laptop for my brother who was going to college, and I experimented with it for a while (no internet access) and this is when I learned about installing Windows XP (significant). Then everything I learned about computers was playing with friends' laptops (they always wanted me to fix something), and my desktop (still no proper internet access). I've started learning about programming from books I've downloaded at a cybercafé, experimenting with things until I hit a stopping point (not understanding things enough or the examples in the books are no longer compatible). I was in high school and I did have the time to play around, but did so without any mentor, because there were none in my vicinity (either online or physical). So, it was curiosity and determination who got me through.

I've studied electronic engineering, and the CS part was nothing much. It did have two courses on programming for learning the basics of C and Java. But I was already far ahead. I did so by downloading many books (internet access was still intermittent, so I could not always google my answers). My method of learning was playing around with the examples of the first part of the book, then I have enough to tackle a real project. The books became a reference for looking how to do stuff. But I did not focus on programming only. I was learning about computer security, Linux administration, network and network programming, system programming, operating system concepts, game design, UI design, database, and a lot of other stuff. The goal was not really learning facts, but to understand. If something is too complex, I switch to another and revisit later. Still no mentor around and YouTube was not really an option because of the low speed of my internet access.

Now I know enough about the practical side of both programming and computer science that I'm moving to the theoretical part (theory of computation, algorithms and programming language theory). Still the same method, still being self-taught, but I now have better internet access, so I have a lot of help from forums and YouTube to guide me. But it's still the same thing for learning languages: follow half of the book, then look for a little project, to learn about the tooling, libraries and stuff. For tools, I just experiment with them and with the manual as the sole help. Then I read books to see what I missed.
There are situations where you want a loosely typed scripting language, and there are times you don't.
Without really getting into the economic nitty gritty, the current environment feels a lot like late 2007. While the broader economy was still humming along fine, but the sector (finance then, tech today) that led the growth during the expansion was going off the rails.

During that cycle, the frothiness was led by the financial sector instead of the tech sector. The mega banks like Citi, JP Morgan, and Goldman had a lot of analogies to the FAANG tech giants today. During the bull run their market caps exploded, everyone thought they were geniuses to the point that the orgs started getting complacent, and they were scooping up people left and right paying huge total comp packages. The hedge fund explosion in the mid 2000s felt a lot like the VC and startup excesses of 2021. Money was sloshing around, and basically anyone could raise a ton of funding off a pitch deck with minimal due diligence.

All that being said by late 2007 there was major distress in high finance. The structured credit markets had already basically imploded, the banks knew they were facing major imminent losses, and hiring was basically frozen. But this didn't really affect the broader economy until about a year later. It took a while for the complex credit markets on Wall Street to really impact vanilla credit markets on Main Street. But just because it was slow, didn't mean the tidal wave wasn't massive.

I don't know if history will play out the same. But my point is recessions don't happen all at once. They typically take some time to really unfold across the entire economy. We can expect that there are "leading sectors" and "lagging sectors". Probably the sectors that were really the tip of the spear during the expansion phase are generally most likely to be the canary in the coal mine during the crash. And we know that tech has been responsible for a huge amount of growth in American over the past ten years. My guess is this is very unlikely to play out as "tech gets clobbered and everything else pulls through fine" just as 2007 was very unlikely to play out as "Bear Stearns collapses but the good times keep rolling".
Do we need a large corporation building our roads, pumping our water, etc?

Sure, the work on these is sometimes done by corporations, but the they are (ideally) publicly owned and and any for-profit entity is (ideally) accountable to the public.

I think we need the same for our core internet infrastructure, including browsers. The Mozilla foundation could have been that but they don't seem to be interested in funding and developing the browser in a publicly-accountable way.

On the other hand, browser are only so complex because other giant corporations (or one in particular) push for them to be so complex. This should also be fixed via anti-trust enforcement.

Then finally, I think you also overstate what it takes to maintain a browser. Especially when you keep the scope reasonable (focus on web pages, don't chase the never ending torrent of features added for web apps) then even creating one from scratch is doable for a relatively small team: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...
For a minute, before following the link, I was thinking 'why not just look up the schedule? And, did you leave a RasPi on a bus?! Those things are like $200 now! Maybe you can get it back at the bus depot...'
Make Twitter premium ad free and bundle with that the feature to curate my timeline as I see fit (no "suggestions", chronological by default).
Do this and I will gladly pay ~$5 a month for Twitter.

But $8 for a blue checkmark and ads? No thank you. I will certainly not pay a company that still treats me like a commodity if I can avoid it.
Milk crates are still widely available. Home Depot sells them for $10 each, and I've seen them for sale at grocery and hardware stores. The lookalikes sold at Home Depot are about 1/2" smaller than the actual ones (so not suitable for vinyl records), but I haven't measured the other ones, but they looked more like the actual crates.
What other people said, plus also if you open an office in Western Europe, you are also proximate to a new set of advertisers in relatively high-income countries.
Just reason number 4893 that my company will never hire anyone residing in CA.
when the black plague killed a huge portion of the workforce of Europe, GDP probably shrunk significantly. The resulting labour shortage also give the nascent guilds so much bargaining power that a significant middle class arose and the Feudal system was seriously undermined.

Covid was obviously a much smaller plague, but coupled with a lot of people retiring at once, it would probably give a modest boost to employee's bargaining power at the cost of GDP as a whole shrinking.

So I predict we'll see a period of shrinking GDP and shrinking inequality. Still technically a recession, and not great if you're investor class, but not really impacting living standards in an adverse way for the rest of us.
Why replace one chore with another. My solution was a height adjustable platform, so I can easily lift/lower the entire contents with a push of a button.
It's super complicated because part of the reason the other economies are having issues is because of the US dollar strength. Obviously the impact of a strong US dollar from inside the US is different because it makes importing cheaper and exporting harder but does affect domestic consumption.

There are hundreds(thousands) of physical supply chains that are each different and which will react differently. The financial supply chains are incomprehensibly convoluted.

In short the economies will influence each other but no one knows when or how the US will be affected.