skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in the vast majority of cases it's going to be their PR team, not them
Survey: 17.5% of Americans Willing to Kill or Injure for Political Objectives
I am currently looking for work and I can see some struggle, just because of the Ukraine/Russian war and the post COVID pandemic impacted seriously the remote work market. Advice on how to keep afloat is welcome.
Off topic: any updates on Linode's Bare Metal service?

It's been 2-years since it's been announced as "Coming Soon" and I haven't seen any updates.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201116142627/https://www.linod...
The specific team the article mentions, the "inventing and building ethical AI [stuff]" seems like a very reasonable choice for layoff. This is a company in debit, and as such I see no good reason for them to have a long term, unknown timeline, unknown outcomes and (likely) expensive team. Especially considering how much AI critics accuse AI of being racist, sexist and all sorts of impossible to judge human behavior without bias.
A lot of people aren't even excited about the company anymore, they are excited about the stock itself. Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's absolutely possible but you need to be extremely motivated and willing to grind. It's all about the grind, it's not just "learning to program" it's the tooling, the shell, the messy configs, etc.. basically everything around programming.

Do you have it in you to just power through and keep plowing in the face of adversity? Do you have the personality to sit in front of a computer for hours and hours while being mostly frustrated with the occasional high from getting it to work?

And by the way, no one will "teach to program" you have to learn it yourself.

Like others said, pick an area and a goal. I would just recommend that you use chrome devtools + kaboom.js and hammer some basic basic games to start with.
Is there a modern consumer bank?
I use Mercury for my business needs, and I am quite happy about them, is there an equivalent of a modern bank for consumers that you would recommend?
Well, there are a lots of issues with this, so I will just point at the most obvious one : if ultimately one of your main goals is to find someone to raise your kids with, it's more of a hindrance than a help.
> For Microsoft, there was a 15 percent year-over-year decline in Windows OEM revenue for the quarter.

That's because, since Vista, they are shooting themselves in the foot.
1. Terrible GUI
2. no configurability
3. Automatic updates
4. Ads
5. Slow on normal computers
6. Telemetry
7. Touch centric, although for working you need a keyboard and a mouse
8. Ugly bugs unfixed from years: mouse double clicking on clicks, GUI elements drawn with black instead of the normal colour, apps starting on the disabled monitor, etc
9. Pro version available only with expensive computers
10. Crazy push for virtual folders (Documents, Photos)
11. Crazy push for saving in the cloud
etc.
Cornell-led election survey seeks to improve science of polls
Sure, different cultures, different rules.

If you interviewed at a company and got told "Every quarter, the know-nothing jerkoff CEO wants to see 50 printed pages of your code", and you accepted the job, hey, you've accepted that this is the norm in that company...
What problem is this meant to address? How is this making OSS better?
The big thing to know about rust datastructures is that you need to use unsafe to implement anything cyclic. There is nothing wrong with using unsafe for a few lines of code - just review carefully.
While I do rather think that tesla and spacex has an unhealthy work cultural based on the limited things I read about it, these two ideas are just ridiculously dump to the point where a 3 years old wouldn’t have come up with “cars in a tunnel”.. they are ridiculous.
A system made of multiple distinct components, while it can be complicated, is not a distributed system. A SoC is not a distributed system.

For the system you describe to have the practical challenges of a distributed system it would also need experience some of the following:

- some of the "different processors" would need to fail at seemingly random times, only to come back again in a few minutes.

- the speed at which those "different processors" respond would need to vary widely, and different times of the day.
I’ll give you an example.

The delta in wages from my home country to the US, after taxes, could pay for private insurance for 5 families.
I was thinking on moving to Hetzner (from Digital Ocean) - now that they have/will have a data center in Virginia....but i have heard iffy things about hetzner (some people are happy, others not so much). I should clarify, i'm only thinking on moving due to costs (not because i have encountered any ops or support issues). The stuff that i host is not as essential, and could do with slightly lower costs. ;-)
I'd love to see a social platform where your followers see what you post for free, but you have to pay for anyone for comments else to see it (that goes for comments too). Advertisers would be treated no different than any other poster. Everyone would get a portion of the money that was paid to show them content. You could set your own threshold for what it cost for someone to show you something.
He is kind of an asshole.
Honda aims for a solid-state-powered EV by the end of the decade
Anecdotal evidence is not helpful when trying to evaluate an economy.

For that matter, an economy is always too complicated to usefully describe in a single word. They come up with broad terms like "recession" and give them rigorous definitions in order to get some kind of handle on it, but it doesn't reflect everybody's experience. In fact, it may not reflect anybody's experience: some will do worse, and some will do better.

The definition is "less total stuff getting done". Measuring "stuff" is already hard; defining how much "less" constitutes something to be worried about is even harder.

One common definition is "Two straight quarters of declining GDP". GDP isn't a great metric, but at least it's consistent-ish.

The US had one declining quarter of GDP, at the end of last year, and it's been up ever since. Europe as a whole has not had any negative quarters, though a few countries have.

GDP isn't a great metric, and others use a more complicated metric trying to get at how people and businesses feel: the price of goods, how much they earn, etc. GDP is supposed to be the aggregate of all that, but aggregates are misleading, in the same sense as "Mark Zuckerberg in a room full of poor people means billionaires on average". Sometimes it's useful; sometimes it isn't.

It's clear that inflation is up; that's good for some people (like people who owe debts, and can now sell their goods for more money to pay off those debts) and bad for others (those with money in the bank). None of it is where economists want it to be -- even the low unemployment figures mean something is off kilter. (Too many people employed means that people who would otherwise be doing something like training or hobbies or retired are dragged into working for some reason.)

In other words... the economy is what it is. If you're doing OK, fantastic. Others are not. Others are doing better. Overall, it's not a crisis, but worrying. There are signs that it will improve, as we get past the pandemic and start to treat the Ukraine war as a baseline rather than a downturn.

Does that help clarify at all? Or just make it more confusing?
Speaking of ghost job postings - https://careers.twitter.com/en/roles.html

Who knows, maybe the person who is supposed to update this got laid off.
If you enjoy what you are doing it's pretty easy to work on something that long, I've had gaming sessions last as long back in the day with friends and some of those games are as demanding in terms of focus as programming.

External motivation of having an audience would also help
Its not double speak.

Its a job, what do you expect?

The other way around could have true. You could have had an amazing time at a company, and be grateful for everything they did for you during your tenure at a company, but due to life circumstances that force you to move somewhere else, or something personal in your life, you have to quit, while also being grateful for the impact a company had in your life.
I’d also add that Twitter is weird for being far more influential than its user size would suggest. People advertise there because it has a disproportionate impact, and many high-profile users are reconsidering how much content they create for the service for free.
So, they don't consider weight?
At Tesla, Elon is a manager like any other CEO. At Space X, he clearly is not and Gwynne Shotwell with decades of experience in Aerospace engineering runs the show.

As much as people would like to believe that Elon musk, a materials science graduate with his only career experience being online payments with PayPal, is actually responsible for the core founding engineering of SpaceX and Tesla is crazy.

Musk made bank with PayPal and has been an investor in many companies including failures like Neuralink, boring company etc. He has both invested and managed Tesla.
My 'self-taught developer experience' as a teenager is too far back to be any useful today I guess, but when I learn a new technology (like a new programming language) I usually don't use any '3rd-party-material', but instead just lock myself into a room with my computer and just use whatever there is on 'original' documentation.

The next important thing for me is to set myself a practical goal that seems achievable in a relatively short amount of time (preferably something I had already done before in a different context). For instance for a new programming language that could be "I'm going to write a Tetris or Pacman clone", so that you are forced to tackle actual real-world problems instead of just following the documentation examples.

Just passively reading a book or watching a video tutorial never works for me. I need to tinker and experiment with my own hands and refer to the documentation for guidance only when I'm stuck.
Eh.

Does the pay by itself mitigates some of the following shitty behavior:

- Timing bathroom breaks
- Requiring lengthy security check prior to entering work location
- Micromanaging and invasive monitoring

Just small things that would drive some people livid regardless of pay. Scratch that, at the higher end of the spectrum it could easily drive them away.
IMO non top paying companies have been hiring more regularly, across the world. It's nice that you do not consider FAANG, but some people do just for the 2x-3x raise is income.

When the top payers do layoffs and/or stop hiring, overall the max compensation you can get goes way down

Just as an example, Stripe who just did layoffs yesterdays, pays $450k a year for a senior software engineer. How does that compare to your recent 20% raise?

The tech sector in the U.S is definitely still hiring if you're a senior software engineer who's willing to make $200k. But lots of people got used to very high compensation, and some also depend on it with loans they took out, that cutting their compensation by 50% would make them go bankrupt
My sites in Newark are up. The situation is not as alarming as the submission title would suggest. They've updated the status page to indicate that it is limited to an issue with DHCP.
more like a Miro, Mural, or Figjam competitor I believe
Life insurance is available- as is emergency healthcare riders.

Americans won’t admit it publicly but a big part of living in America is knowing what parts of America you shouldn’t go. And if you do have to go to or through those areas, you start to understand why so many people drive urban assault vehicles.
> So my cereal company is getting involved in politics now?

Have you been in cryogenic deep sleep the last decade? This is every single Big Corp now. No matter how you stand on these issues, but if subsidising abortion, flying the rainbow flag, enforcing affirmative action and supporting immigration isn't political, then what is?
Rookie numbers.

The new owner of Twitter took on $13 Billion in debt, which probably costs $1.3 Billion+ in interest payments alone.

Twitter has gone from a hundred-million loss / year into a Billion+ per year loss in the past week, because of the decisions related to this buyout.

That is the problem. $200 million loss per year is manageable. $1500 million loss/year is not.
Brazil (1985 film) was not supposed to be an instruction manual!

The scale of these absurdities is just wild. Years ago I signed up for a domain for my blogger.com blog. At some point google decided to transfer the management of that domain to google workspaces ... I don't know how or why but they did. So when it expired I was told to login to google workspaces, but I don't have a google workspaces account at the email they kept emailing me at ... and their emails never told me what email to login with.

To get help on the website I was told to contact my google workspaces administrator ... but not who that is.

I figured out who the domain registrar was and told them my story and they helped me get a hold of the domain. Kudos to them to having a very fast and effective support team.

Now even more years later I get more emails from google workspaces that my account is expiring and sorta implying some consequences (but not actually saying) ... not that I can do anything about it.

At this point I have it in the back of my mind that any given day google could find this weird situation, assume malice, and ban me... a situation that 1. I didn't make happen. 2. I can't even fix. 3. I don't even know how it happened / what the problem is / google won't really tell me.
Are we looking at the same graph? Aside from 2012-14, it consistently shows the UK trailing the pack in terms of growth, often by multiple percentage points. Bear in mind, even a single percentage point is quite a big deal: the chinese economy was 'roaring' at an average of 4% growth per year.

I loaded up the csv in visidata, and the graph you sent me shows the UK trails the EU growth average by half a percentage point since 2008. Against a relatively well-performing economy like germany, it trails by 0.94% over the same period.

I do take your general point that the stats do not make such a dramatic picture as one would expect given the recent coverage. The general picture, though, is of a country generally underperforming, even when compared against an underperforming region. This is, in my eyes, totally in keeping with what you would expect from the haphazard policy-flailing that has characterized the UK government in recent years.
Ever heard of social contract?
Hmm, according to https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/omnipoint-communicat... Omnipoint was bought (for $4.5b? no lol) in 1999 by https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/omnipoint-voicestrea... (VoiceStream), which of course became T-Mobile once they were bought by Deutsche Telekom. Interesting. (The phone number (!) in the first link is the T-Mobile Corporate Offices number.)

Maybe that explains why everyone looking at is going "nnnoooope" because the number's owned by someone 3 times removed from existence and those are probably really hard to fix.

I'm curious who the MVNO was, given it clearly wasn't OmniPoint?

The only idea I can think of is to go as far down the *enterprise* rabbithole as possible, if you didn't already try that ( :/ ? ) - in my own experience (with comparatively tiny issues) I've found far less gatekeeping and "wrong number" than the (Interesting™ O.o) phone menus would suggest. Also, one day I also found the enterprise number I'd squirreled away randomly turned into a totally different department (whole new phone menu + tree) but apparently went to the same phones, so don't just try random/wrong phone options, but wrong/unlikely-looking departments' phone numbers too, they might be hubs not spokes. Oh - and calling somewhere Important™ (eg, network operations) at 11:30PM-12AM-1AM might net you a bored, idly curious night person with a bunch of lateral capacity who might not mind the opportunity to do something interesting during their shift lol
> RSS only has one page for all posts.

There are pagination and archiving standards which solve this. But it isn't widely implemented. Likely few people see this as a major issue.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005.html

https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#pagi...

You do still need to put the full content of posts into the feed which I can see as suboptimal. Maybe it would be nice if the feed content could be stored elsewhere and fetched as desired. However in general HTML is relatively small so it isn't a big issue to download a few entries when something changes.

> there should be more interactive APIs about RSS

This one I can sympathize with. However whenever I think about it I feel that the author's blog isn't actually the best place for comments. The best place for comments are discussion sites or even private chats. I think some way to link these together more easily would be nice but I haven't found a comment proposal that I find enticing.

> it should be able to be easily classified

Categories are fairly widely supported: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#cate...

> Most of the bloggers want to see more people reading their blogs and especially visiting their websites

As much as I can understand this as a blogger. I have little sympathy. I would much rather prioritize the reading experience than the author's analytics. Getting a large following will also get traffic to your blog because people will share good content even if they got it via RSS. You can also do tricks like tracking pixels to get some idea. Maybe the current tools aren't good enough to give a good picture of RSS readers but I would not like to hurt the reading experience to improve it.
What a bunch of ridiculous whining here.

They are laying off a large portion of workers who have previously expressed being hostile to the new leadership. There is bloat, laziness, aimlessness, and the company is being taken in a radically new direction. It’s pretty tactful so far, as far as I am concerned. We haven’t even seen the severance.

You have nothing to complain about. First priority is to protect Twitter systems, so locking everyone out temporarily (or as the case may be, permanently) makes a lot of sense.
Stratechery Plus Adds Sharp China with Sinocism’s Bill Bishop
I consider remembering the names of "crypto firms" and their products an index of contamination: I might not be ignoring them well enough to protect my savings.
You want to learn from an egoistic manchild who managed to make a terrible deal and forced himself to actually go through with it to buy a company that has yet to turn a profit, and I’m almost sure it will never, because he is the owner?
> it's the 10,000 hours of practice that differentiates

Jeez this hits home for me. I think of myself as a decent guitarist and songwriter, but when I look at what I consider “good” guitarists that are far better than I am and that are half my age, I have to keep telling myself it’s because they’ve put in those countless hours despite being so young, which means that in their much shorter life span, they have somehow fit in my entire lifetime’s worth of practice and possibly much more. What did they have to sacrifice to do that? Friends, relationships, gaming, binging on youtube or tiktok? If you can be ok with certain sacrifices, you can accomplish great things.
A great example of non-violent resistance. The UK would not be at the table without the flag-raising trip; it forced their hand as the only other option was violently confronting the landing Mauritian vessel.
Missing the point huh?
Depends on how Caligula feels next week.
buybacks reward selling, not holding, I dont like that. dividends reward ownership
I suppose it depends whether you view a company as kindergarten for adults or a place of business.

Is there such a thing as a warm personable firing email? You think HR drones are your buddies whose role is to make you feel good? Egads.
Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit from former employees
A fun one. Buffer overflows tend to usually get associated with providing too much data; here's a nice case in which an overflow is triggered by providing too little. Seems like the buffer for storing the password was changed to be dynamically allocated, but only in some parts of the code; other parts still treated it as something that is at least nine bytes long (including the null terminator).

In practice, this means that if your password is only one char, then the actual buffer is two bytes long, and the seventh byte past the buffer is then zeroed/set to the null terminator. I wonder if and how this is exploitable.
Are you suggesting people who pirate don’t want to pay?
Infinitely scroll any content horizontally using CSS animations
> I don’t think his proposal was pro-Russia as much as it was anti-more-dead-people.

I believe this topic has been discussed more than enough since February, by people with way more expertise than Musk. Ukraine has made it very clear that they do not intent to let their country be oppressed by the foreign aggressor. It is their decision to make.

Asking Ukraine to bow to Russia now that they are successful in their defense is a pro Russia stance. Claiming otherwise is just dishonest.

Especially since he was attempting to imply that anything close to a proper voting process would even be possible in that region now.

His statement means he is either incredibly stupid, or malicious. Both possibilities are dangerous. And Musk fans will vehemently disagree with the former.
And how does TinyGrad solve this?
but debt taken out to fund buybacks is also a form of dilution
Weird, for me it's entirely the other way around. At least there exists a package for drawing a figure in place, but consistently defining and using semantic commands for math is pretty much impossible. Whenever I'm able to actually use semantic commands, I can write LaTeX math pretty much as quickly as I can write math by hand, but getting these commands to work has been a consistently terrible experience for me.
> I respect the ambition, just not at the cost of being a decent human being, and I think that’s a fair position to hold: disappointment.

This seems to be a very common position. I know Tesla owners who are perfectly satisfied with their cars but somewhat apologetic about being associated with the CEO. You know that the CEOs of GM or Toyota must have views they also disagree with but they aren’t constantly making the news for such stupid reasons.
How do YOU regenerate the silica gel? Just let it try out? Set in sun? Bake? I'm just genuinely curious. Thanks!
Twitter paid membership, broadly speaking, is a good idea. The specific plan Musk has to reuse blue ticks to mean something entirely different (and totally devalue them) however… that’s a bad idea.
A recession is complicated and may not be highly coupled to a specific field of employment.
Which "makes sense" since companies usually try to keep the team deciding who to lay people off very small for fear of leaks. So the n people at a small company making the decisions might know everyone but the same n people at a large company might barely even know the names of all the middle-managers much less all the individual contributors and how well they are each doing within their role.
Anecdotal, but I know of a few companies that are cutting jobs in the US and moving them to lower-wage areas including Western Europe. Huge difference between employee compensation in SF vs much of Europe, even after taxes/benefits/etc.
So BTC has been wash traded at 20k for several months now. It is very possible because below 15k loans automatically get called in. Which causes a cascade of defaults and then liquidation of assets.