skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little hard to believe right now.

Normal employers are struggling to fill positions at supermarkets, salt mines, medical device factories, hair salons, restaurants, bus companies and other firms in my area.

If you believe the business cycle is like "economy runs too hot and inflation is high, the fed pulls back and crashes the economy, the economy gradually grows back to full capacity" then the low unemployment is a sign you're at a particular point in that cycle.
Since 'Web' refers to a web of links between pages, I would personally side on the combination of HTTP with HTML, but your point is well taken.

There's also the choice between whether 'invented' refers to the moment when a new technology first becomes usable, or whether 'invented' refers to the moment when a new technology is first used: was the web invented when a client and server were both setup and capable of communicating? or, when a client and server were first used to communicate? Only a difference of minutes, probably, but potentially significant.
Yep! This is an assumed optimization when it comes to modern linear algebra compilers. New primitives go way beyond FMAs: full matrix multiplies on nvidia/Intel and outer product accumulates on Apple silicon. It’s also expected that these are used nearly optimally (or you’ve got a bug).
unit labor costs take consumer prices into account but not the productivity number. Productivity is output divided by hours worked and there is no price adjustment described for the output number unless I missed something in that link.

Businesses may also be more staffed up than the same quarter a year ago.

Productivity is up over last quarter but down compared to the same quarter a year ago, when businesses were complaining about being understaffed (the enhanced unemployment ended in September of Q3 2021). Did the delta outbreak also depress hours worked and juice the health sector's contributions to GDP or hurt it because there are more profitable procedures?

All I can say is output is not adjusted for prices.
If that's the case, I bet the Twitter employees who still have a job, wish they got laid off. 60 days of pay is better than just resigning, which is what I'm sure I would do.
Your freedom of speech does not oblige me to provide you with a microphone.

You are free to post on your website and Twitter is free to manage their website.
> This makes absolutely no sense. Newspapers and cars have high societal value but reading the paper while driving a car does not.

Are we mixing and matching things just to prove a point? Because the only place where a gun really makes sense is at a war or at a place of extreme crime. Not while driving a car and not while reading a newspaper.
> you don't get to that level of businessmen without making all the right decisions

C'mon; he literally just tried desperately to get out of the Twitter deal that's the direct cause of these layoffs.

Jeff Bezos's decisions about where to stick his weiner cost him tens of billions of dollars.

No one makes "all the right decisions".
> Have an administrator `setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /your/binary/here` and you can use any port you want.

And remember to do it again every time the binary is updated :/

> chown /etc to nobody:wheel and

Bad idea! nobody is supposed to own no files at all. You run untrusted services (or untrusted users without account; something like anonymous FTP access) as nobody. This would potentially allow the least trusted entity to change your configs.

Apart from that. Since root can read any file anyways there is no reason to change the owner. And some programs may complain if the configuration is not owned by root.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
I've been self hosting TT-RSS since Newsblut raised prices some years ago (which was what I switched to when Google Reader closed). My list simply grew over time. Whenever I see an interesting article (doesn't matter where, here, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook) I check if the others are interesting, and if so, I subscribe. Almost everything worth reading has a feed.
I wish HN had awards like Reddit, I would spend coin on this comment. I got a much-needed proper belly laugh from it. :)
I do not understand the problems of multi-billion dollar companies. Are revenues disappearing? in an age of record military spending, this seems more like a story to cover whatever princely back room deals are emerging.
The article barely mentions any details, but from the sound of it they're likely just using a wifi card that allows for monitor mode in combination with something like aircrack/kismet. If that's the case, then this is nothing new at all.
Agreed. Feels like we are experiencing a "wealth dilation" effect; I have been able to greatly exceed the earnings potential of my parents, and yet the gulf between me and the executives I work for is unimaginably larger than it was for earlier generations - and still widening.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how this might be solved - getting rid of complex financial instruments and derivatives, making employee ownership mandatory or at least highly incentivized, banning digital advertising... I have to stop myself because of course none of it can happen; the people in power would never allow a change which dilutes their advantage. So, instead of trying to better my situation, I am stuck looking for ways to decouple myself from the world of work as much as possible. Quiet quitting and early retirement is about the best I can hope for right now.
> Corporate raiders / PE usually have a well defined thesis and plan to hit the ground running - Elon clearly does not.

He clearly does, but most people don't care to engage with it in good faith.

Something like:

- Twitter's value is its integrated GLOBAL network of professionals/leaders/celebrities

- Twitter Co has not remotely leveraged this, going for a FB/Reddit/etc content-centric advertiser model instead

- Sprinkle in some "super app" ambitions. If the new KYC subscriber model is successful, then Twitter could disrupt LinkedIn, then possibly payments too.

SV has been captured by advertisers and many people think "there are no alternatives". But there clearly are.
Surely the sand battery idea is more for centralized designs than for being somewhere in the middle of the woods? A chemical battery or a water elevation system would suite that locale better. Industrial regions where a sand battery would be used aren't traditionally known for their wooded nature.
+1 for miniflux! It’s great for low-volume, high-quality blogs. It’s got features to keep track of more frequent updates too, if you can be bothered to categorize them.
Hi! Chris(tal) here (also, I'm a woman.. she/her, haha. I get that a lot using my nickname)

Unfortunately, yes. There are many businesses that take advantage of not only people with ADHD but people in other vulnerable communities (e.g. other neurological conditions and mental illnesses). I've been in this space for a long time since I started with my Eating Disorder amongst other things in my teenage years.

Of course, as most of you have seen, there's a lot of splash currently in the news especially in the ADHD space so I completely understand the skepticism.

Quite honestly it's not easy for me to have my story out vulnerably in the open and linked to our business but for me it's worth it! So I really appreciate your positive feedback, it goes a long way!
> 3) Evan is mean.
> I do not care.

Is this not a valid objection? Surely there is a non-trivial economic cost associated with have a dickhead maintaining a critical part of your stack, who's willing to remove support you rely on at his whim.

> Elm is simple, write your own compiler.

... that is a significant economic cost; which if you have a non-trivial probability of having to do, drastically shifts the cost/benefit analysis in favour of JS.
reddit.
SolarCity was purchased to bail out Elon's cousins from their financial mismanagement (which was largely due to them listening to Elon about how to run the company).

Boring Co used SpaceX and Tesla engineers for preliminary engineering work (and also for the Vegas tunnel) without reimbursing either company, and Boring Co used SpaceX's Hawthorne parking lot for its original test tube without leasing the land. BoringCo has not paid for the Teslas it uses, it received them for free. (As Tesla claims not to spend any money on marketing, giving these Teslas could not have been a marketing expense for Tesla unless they deliberately misrepresenting their financial statements, which is an entirely separate can of worms.)

Tesla didn't pay SpaceX to send a Tesla into space. (See above.)

Twitter used Tesla engineers, without reimbursement, to evaluate code just last week.
Are you suggesting that Twitter will similarly remove leaks of other companies' confidential information? Or is this just a special case where they will be free speech absolutists for everyone else but carefully curate what people are allowed to say about Twitter?
>the Fed just doesn't want you to know about them.

First of all, the Fed doesn't have the power to implement price controls or levy taxes. Also, why do you think they don't want you to know about them? Janet Yellen, our last Fed Chair, is pushing towards higher taxes, she's part of the administration pushing for a windfall tax.

Nixon froze wages along with prices, so it's ironic that you're using him a positive example.
> I don't understand why you need machines to vote or machines to count.

The voting machines isn't for you, it for the politicians. Denmark have system pretty much identical to what you described. We normal have a result for parliamentary voting within five to six hours of the polling station closing. After three or four hours we normally have enough votes counted to call the election, on a party basis.

The issue is the individual candidates, the well known politicians are interviewed a few hours into an election night, when their seats are secured. The lesser known politicians may have to wait for a day, or two, in order to have their seat confirmed. So they get no airtime, no interviews, because the media don't care when the personal votes are finally counted and confirmed. The voting machine are for those low ranking politicians ego.

As for the US, who don't have a parliament and only two, or three, candidates in each election... I have no idea. Because they f-ed up their election system and closed to many polling stations, resulting in ballot counting taking to long?
You can follow twitter feeds in RSS via Nitter instances. Just place /rss after a profile URL.
lobste.rs/s is a missed oppurtunity
It is hard to keep the discussion friendly and on-topic. And mod actions very often result in someone becoming angry. Which is not only stressful but now you have to deal with off-topic meta discussions about the mod actions.
If you would have a ID you can later imput and check what you voted, you can be pressured by your boss/spouse/parent/etc. to reveal your vote and then be punished if you voted wrong. If voting is truly anonymous, you can just lie about your choices.
Just like Joe Rogan (most popular podcast in the world, btw), Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, John Stewart were all cancelled, as opposed to being wildly popular, but divisive media creators..?
Or liquid.
Maybe a naive question but assuming this isn't a troll, I'm curious why?
for WFH you have to be disciplined or, yeah, you end up with Work-Life Integration. I won't go into specific techniques or ideas but you have to be very disciplined with yourself when working from home. If you're not then you either start slacking off and eventually get fired or work just becomes all consuming 24x7 and you have a worse work-life balance than when on-prem.
It was invented on a NeXT computer, squarely in American cyber and thought space. Just like freedom fries.
I just don’t understand the obsession with privacy at all cost. What has anyone actually had happen to them as a result of their Reddit or YouTube browsing history?

This just seems like reverse voyeurism, and while that’s fine, it’s odd to assume anyone else shares that fetish with you.
"Everybody else commits these crimes, or would if they could" is a common coping belief expressed by criminals. But it isn't true.
You can't easily translate generalized unbounded loops into a solver (it introduces quantifiers that make things nasty; e.g. proving something about strcpy(x, n) forall x, n; translates to nested quantifier which gets hairy and requires you to boil oceans, but proving something about strcpy(x, N) for a fixed N is much simpler.) But in this case you can effectively unroll a lot of those loops assuming you can prove the necessary termination criteria about them. Here in your example the criteria is effectively a kind of structural induction on the input bit vector x (because it can be proven forall x. (x > (x & (x-1))), where bitwidth(x) = fixed N) so it's not hard to see it will terminate. So that's what would happen here, and you'd then feed the unrolled bitwise algorithm into Z3 instead.
I'm a fan of RSS and interoperability in general. That's why I added full-text RSS on Postcard [1] sites.

Metrics-driven OKRs processes are at odds with privacy-first protocols. The sad reality at most companies is "if we can't measure it, we ain't gonna do it" - even if everybody is asking for it. This is why OKRs suck.

So, I blame OKRs for getting rid of RSS and open protocols in general.

[1] https://updates.postcard.page/posts/new-on-postcard-rss-easi...
PSA: enable CORS[1] so people can make cross-origin requests without having to run a proxy.

PSA #2: set things up so the author field of your feed includes your email address (e.g. "Alice <alice@example.org>") and not just your bare name, so people can more easily get in touch with you without having to click through to the original post and then hunt around for your contact page; otherwise, you might never find out it's broken[2].

1. <https://enable-cors.org>

2. <https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/11/02/they-might-never-tel...>
Briefly:

* NYC is a lot more than Manhattan.

* NYC is a substantially larger area than SF.

* SF is also substantially built on top of reclaimed mud flats.

* NYC is tectonically stable.

All of these things mean that comparisons between the two cities approach to land use are basically meaningless.

[edit] to fight HN’s formatting
Branches influence the performance of your code and what can you do about it
Lovely article. As an aside (and I'll say this until I'm blue in the face), it always jars me when a site hijacks default browser scrolling functionality.
Not selling the at the price he offered would have been massively violating their fiduciary duty. Twitter stock would probably be worth like $20-30 given the current market versus the $54 offered.
Will Twitter apply that standard to other leaks of data?
He basically bought Twitter on a hunch, so yes, this is totally believable.
Watch Rocket Lab Try to Catch Electron with a Helicopter
It's more apt to compare it to phase change heat storage. What somehow doesn't appear anywhere on the article.

(I do believe the article's design fares much worse, even on capex alone. I never saw some salt selection that melts at 600°C, but I imagine it would have better results even in a lower temperature.)
Not a relevant comparison and makes me wonder why I even comment here

- phones cannot be used as weapons during a shooting

- guns don't require a monthly subscription to use bullets not approved by the manufacturer

etc
I have to say, I have much better family and friends.
It's very "in" right now to hate on San Francisco. It's a Nietzschean sort of thing, hating things you are secretly are afraid are better - which is why California is so unpopular.

Good luck with your comment.
I was only picking up on the term as used by OP. The reality may be closer to extortion (in the colloquial sense)
Bacterial sensors send a jolt of electricity when triggered
WA court blocks $4B payout in planned Albertsons, Kroger merger
It is an interesting case. In France, the case was already judged and having your means of work (example: access to your professional email) cut off before the end of your contract (which include the required advance notice) is considered unlawful firing. The same goes if you are put in the "placard doré", meaning you are not given any work to do.

Of course, the laws in France favor the worker a lot more than the U.S so it will be interesting what the result of the lawsuit will be.
What if the voter doesn't deposit the receipt?
> I personally believe that making use of features in the boot file systems that the firmware environment cannot really make sense of is very clearly not advisable. The UEFI file system APIs know no symlinks, and what is SELinux to UEFI anyway? Moreover, putting more than the absolute minimum of simple data files into such file systems immediately raises questions about how to authenticate them comprehensively (including all fancy metadata) cryptographically on use

It makes all the sense if you want the firmware to load your bootloader binary and then get lost.

Firmware is not to be trusted to read, write, interpret, analyze or send your boot file system elsewhere. It's a closed proprietary part of your hardware ffs and unless that changes, it should be kept in dark.

When there is hardware with free software firmware we can fix, then we can talk about accomodating firmware vendor needs.
We only have to look at the Stripe layoffs (also happening this past week) to see that you're wrong.
I make heavy use of https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to convert e-mail newsletters into RSS feeds -- IMO the RSS reader context is way better than an email inbox for consuming newslettery content.
What makes that explanation more likely than the other? Imagine there was no optics problem here, and it was just a highly publicized tweet of some internal comms with no PR consequences, it would still obviously need to be removed, right?
gnicholas in another comment mentioned this. The pincers can only pick up items in a narrow range. Chopsticks are much more versatile. The limited range of motion is a drawback that exceeds the ease of use benefit.
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Which is one reason why "Silicon Valley" never included San Francisco: There's no place to build fabs there. It's only been in the last 20 years with the rise of software-only startups that everybody decided they needed to be in the city proper (mostly because VCs wanted to live there and they wanted their funded companies to be close by).

Not that San Mateo and Santa Clara are much easier to find real estate in these days, but they're easier than San Francisco. Just not as cool.
You may have already thought of this but you could move the crypto to a stable coin like USDC while waiting for the tax / bank situation to be resolved (if that would not further complicate things).
Local politicians are such hypocrites if they cite the effects of the drug as being harmful to their people while allowing their local drunks to buy half gallons of vodka.
It’s one of those features that feels like someone forgot they support it and I fear the day when they remove it.
‘Go back to Africa’: outrage at MP’s racist outburst in French parliament
And they get sued/fined/jailed for doing it if caught. Like he is currently being.
Shareholders were being offered a very nice premium on the stock price, so Twitter upper management would have been awash in shareholder lawsuits if they'd rejected the deal.

Essentially, the Twitter board was snookered once Musk made a serious offer.
If ads didn't take over the whole screen and use outright false or misleading statements, or attempt to phish information or install viruses, then I don't think most would have a problem. Ads these days are intrusive to the point that certain websites and apps are rendered completely useless by them.
Note that LibGen is now a subset of Z-Library, as whilst ZLib sourced LibGen to seed itself, it's not contributed its own acquisitions back to Library Genesis.

The Pirate Library Mirror (your second link) is a complete archive of Z-Library, though it's a bulk archive of several TB and not readily accessed for individual titles. The PLM is intended as a tool for building archives rather than as a direct source itself.

(The pilimi.org link itself explains much of this.)
UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities
What does it mean to engage in discourse safely?
> I dont think that would work very well because there are not infinite ways to succinctly solve most programming problems. In fact the majority of solutions will look exactly the same.

Algorithms can't be patented or copyrighted, as they are pure mathematics. If an implementation of an algorithm has no creative content because it is succinct then it likely doesn't deserve copyright.
see comments elsewhere
What do you mean? As someone not in the US, I don't know what you mean if you just write "voter id" three time.
I think it's healthy to calibrate one's own beliefs to reality. So maybe you're right and there is no difference in outcome.

But strictly for my own mental model, I think it is far more accurate to model this as "super rich guy makes shit up on the spot and has no master plan" rather than "this is part of a massively complex plot that relies on second- and third-order psychological effects planned years in advance."
Systems where the perception of distribution is unfair don't work either - it disincentivizes people from participating. Many of us have a psychological reactance[1] reaction to such systems and no amount of trying to convince us that it actually is "fair" or that "everything is unfair" is going to change things.

The only solution to this psychological problem is the construction of systems where it's not possible for the person taking more to tell the people they are taking from to "get used to it."

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4675534/
I use Inoreader. Terrific app. With RSS I am able to add feeds of websites which normally have a paywall.
A tiny blip of history, state companies did impede some evolution, France Telecom wanted to ensure use of their system (x25 ? x500 .. I forgot) meanwhile TCP was growing in the US. Sometimes large public companies are great, sometimes a bit less so.
This makes no sense. Tesla, SpaceX, like video game companies, are able to punch above their hiring weight because the domain is "sexy" (engineers get excited about electric cars, space exploration, and video games)

Social media just isn't these days, from an engineering perspective. The fun parts (scaling distributed infrastructure) are already old hat and it's mostly a business rules complexity problem. Most of what all these people are doing relates to complicated and boring business details. It's a corporate job. It won't pay, for engineers, in excitement, so it has to pay in money.

So I'm not sure where all these people that are so excited to work their asses off for something that will be boring for them will come from (exciting for the businesspeople, as there are very hard business problems, but not for the engineers, as there are no hard tech problems in this domain anymore).

The only option will be to do what FAANG and hedge funds have always done, and either really overpay to force top talent to care about these boring problems, or just settle for average talent with average productivity and average outcomes.
CA WARN act -- https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN
I've proposed on HN multiple times that home HVAC systems could have a "battery" that consisted of an insulated box of rocks. It could be heated or cooled during periods when renewable energy is cheap, and used as a heat source/sink the rest of the time. This idea was regularly ridiculed.

I'm glad to see someone thinks it isn't so stupid :-)
50% is my guest.