skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a relatively old trick at this point, so it's crazy that it still works. Effectively makes their protections useless.
You may be assuming FAANG are recruited on quality rather than background and networks.
I live in New Hampshire, and though I've never voted on a computer where I'm touching a screen, I still feed my paper ballot into a scantron machine that seems to do all the counting. I’ve voted in maybe 20 elections (between local, state, and federal) in my lifetime, and it's always been done this way around here. Maybe we all forget that that's a computer, too.

All that said, I live in a town of less than 3,000 people. I don't know that the solutions that work for us here would work everywhere.
No doubt they'll all be back in a few months. If Twitter brings in verified users for a fee it's ultimately going to get leveraged for advertising.

I imagine an "only target verified users" option being offered to advertisers with a surcharge associated with it. They're going to get paid from people being verified, and get paid more by companies wanting to advertise to verified people.
TLS doesn't matter / isn't needed here right?
The IP address is still in the header from what I understand. So the only thing https can hide is the content, such as a credit card or password that you enter into the site.
The fact that it's a plaintext website that doesn't change means that the exact same information is encoded in simply giving the IP address as there is in knowing that someone looked around the site - because there's nothing else to do?
I would like to learn more about how I am wrong, if I am wrong.
No, they also got the opportunity to build a system to make people miserable at scale. And, it's important to remember that, their life isn't over. They're not being marched into the ocean this afternoon, they just need to get a new job in the area, which is unlikely to be too hard.
Thanks, just lost 7 hours of time.
*girl . Singular. The AI has found the One and can never be wrong
If the recession fear-mongering thesis is right, the stock market is at a local maximum right now because of several mispricings: stock markets have priced in a lower "pivot" from the fed than there will be, and there's a lot of "dip buying" - pent up demand that has stayed out of the market so far. These two factors give you the expectation for another 20-30% drop in the S&P.

If the "what recession" thesis is right, chances are this was just a price correction, where companies' values are adjusted based on non-infinite time horizons. Stocks may still drop a bit as this correction finishes and earnings some in, but they are equally likely to rise.

There's a chance that the fear mongers are right.
This study seems to conclude that moderate drinking has minimal negative impact. Having a glass of wine with dinner or a cocktail on the weekend trends towards negative but mild long-term effects, but nothing disastrous.

Pretty much what you’d expect, hence my puzzlement.
Sure you can say this is a stress test - I’m just saying it’s misinformation. I am annoyed by people who spread misinformation for clout. Applies to both the bullish credit and the bearish crowd.
I'm the last person to defend lawyers, DMCA takedowns, etc. But Signal has very strict build processes in place to ensure (to the best of their ability, anyway) that the official binaries are devoid of side-channel attack vulnerabilities.

Putting my tinfoil hat on, all it takes is one unofficial Snap maintainer to be approached by one Glow-In-The-Dark with an offer they can't refuse to infect a hundred thousand users with key material compromise.

I hate to say it, but Signal is doing the right thing, here.
Well up till now, Twitter paid better and was considered a near FAANG caliber gig.

Tesla is known for fucked up WLB and low compensation compared to FAANG.

I bet Twitter employees have higher average IQ. Especially compared to whoever at Tesla authorized removing radar and parking sensors.
There have traditionally been ways to mess with a hand count.

One example I recall is vote counters wedging a piece of pencil lead under a fingernail. If they see a ballot they don't like, swipe the lead across it and toss the ballot in the "spoiled" pile.

Sure, this requires a little bit of blind eye from the county clerk (or whoever), but if the election goes the right way, it's worth it.
I'm curious how they decided who to fire and how they can do it so quickly without accidentally axing critical people.
I'm not going to accept that assertion without evidence, but even if we grant it, it's not an okay thing to do to put hundreds of your employees, and their families, at risk because you have a fucking hunch. Even if Musk were a superhuman thinker with really great hunches it wouldn't be an acceptable thing to do.
I'm trying to befriend crows. When I go out for a walk, I started to get into the habit of putting a biscuit on a post. Crows fly off when you get anywhere near them. So I kinda hope that the crows spot me putting the biscuit down.

It's interesting to think about. For the first few times nothing much seemed to happen. So you never really know if the crows are doing stuff by blind luck, or they've twigged that there's a connection between me and biscuits.

I think they're catching on, though. A couple of days ago I approached the post, and the crow dispersed. I put down a biscuit, and I reckon the crows saw what I was doing. I carried on my walk. I had to get some way away, and then a crow went to the post and nabbed the biscuit. I think it bought a friend.

So I reckon that the crows now know what the system is.

One day I shall be King Of The Crows.
I believe it's a good compromise on timezone (8-9 hours is manageable), political stability, safety and reasonable talent pool. You can still relocate people from cheaper countries yo richer ones. You can convince Romanian to move to Germany, but you can't convince German to move to Romania.
Why would any engineer stay at this point?

Either, you still believe in the long term vision and that some day it make you rich or you can't find another job. Is the first choice even plausible now?
This is America. A persons value is 100% derived from the increase in capital they provide billionaires.
There has always been Fringe groups on Twitter but it's more on the left or the regressives.
For comparison, 400,000 people worked on the Apollo space program.
The users who will pay $8/mo are the ones who will be advertising themselves and their content/art/opinions like substack pundits, influencers, streamers, etc.
Would CIDER's interactive debugger not be more straightforward here?
> I don't think it's possible to kill the crypto industry, but Alameda's implosion would be the most likely event to cause it.

As a bystander, it's hard to grasp the likeliness of this happenning, can someone elaborate on what would be able to trigger it?
It sounds like you're describing a recession to me.

People tend to confuse "recession" with some sort of "economic armageddon". But double digit % layoffs at some companies and pulling back hiring by 66% (by your estimates) at others is a pretty huge pullback, no?
Great post/strategy.
I was a software developer before, but in an obscure language and I was taught on the job, no CS degree, and there are plenty of gaps in my knowledge.

I had a little side project going, I didn't want to spend money on the software normally used and started figuring out how to write my own, kept me out of trouble in the evenings, but then I got made redundant. I'd pretty much lost all interest in my career field, and getting a new job in the same field would have meant moving to another country. I had enough.

So I just threw myself into learning and developing software that I could publish, tried to make money, unfortunately that did not work out, but I did publish apps, and even got some fans of it, but it wasn't paying the bills. However a published pretty complex app is a good referral when applying for jobs. I eventually landed a job doing something much more up to date and interesting,

I still kept a new passion for just writing random apps on the side, wrote one to interface with software my employer makes to do something I was interested in then started seeing it could be really useful to them, and started pushing it to them, now I work on that full time with a team.
If your private car is "that" heavy, and they need to hook up an extra locomotive just for you, then that is going to be a steep fee per mile added.
After we stop changing our clocks, what’s the ideal time zone for each US state?
Time to read up on that...
Yeah, I'm a very type-driven dev. So sometimes I'll get stuck with my types and not know a way forward. Usually the answer pops in my head out of nowhere. Reminds me of when Nietzsche said ideas were out in the world, waiting to be bumped into on a walk.

Sometimes it's more that I have a tedious problem and think surely there's a better formulation. That also is a good thing to grind in the subconscious.

There are still some problems for some project I haven't solved too! It'll come.
This is an opportunity to go back to RSS with perhaps some extensions. Nothing would feel more satisfying than downloading your tweets to host them wherever by yourself.
Detective Dénouement
Sudo is a security boundary, it has to be rock solid and an issue that doesn’t immediately look exploitable is still a big deal. Sudo runs under the control of the attacker, it’s playing with fire!
Posteriordb: Database with posteriors of interest for Bayesian inference
Ranked choice voting systems (e.g. single transferable vote) have a lot of "game theory" advantages over e.g. first-past-the-post, but are hard to implement with manual counting.

Edit: I suppose that doesn't mean voting machines are required though, just that the results on each ballot paper need to be inputted to a computer to determine the outcome. A lot of data inputting required, but still auditable.
Giropay is great!
He won't need PCI compliance. He's going to attempt to make a wechat with cryptocurrency as a method of payment in collaboration with binance. We'll see if it sticks.
There are significant differences when it comes to expectations on a fix. If the problem is just refusal to spend, the policy problem is easily improved with easy to write legislation: 'medicare will now cover everyone over 55'. The US healthcare system is far more difficult to improve than that, as just asking the government to cover more bills at the prices companies and the public pay would be hard to sustain. Changes to make costs more in line with European countries would have extreme opposition from some people: Every dollar of waste is someone else's income, and in general those are also American voters. This doesn't make American healthcare any better, but it means that it takes extreme efforts to make it better, even a little bit. So it's at least not a matter of malice.

As for labor laws, the US does far better than it seems. Easy to fire also means easy to hire too, as the risk taken by the employer is also far lower. And the stronger the protections, the higher the slack, showing in unemployment. Very few European countries have the unemployment rates of the US, and the ones that do get there via a lot of temporary work, which has about as many protections as US work. And even with those protections, you still see Spain and Greece at well over 10% unemployment, while the US is under 4.
They probably couldn't see the CVV but were going to run the card and see if it verified.
I hear you, treasure island decorated fridges. The treasure of frostbeard, a map with a hidden opening button on top, wood panneling on the side..
Seems like signal already uses it for non downloaded images, so your suggestion should be simple enough for them to implement.
> Women are attracted to high-status (doctor, lawyer) and thus men spend time attaining status.

Uh... I think you're vastly oversimplifing it. Women are attracted to men who give them orgasms, see for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmav517MQJc
If Twitter and Facebook went bankrupt tomorrow, other, not necessarily better, social networks would surely step in to take their place. Same goes for car makers or makers of sugary foods.
Of course the real problem is that dividends shouldn't be taxed in the first place.

The entire economy operates on a rule of no double taxation, except for dividends. It's income that's already taxed at the corporate level, then taxed a second time when that post-tax income is transferred to the shareholders.
I found that a lot easier to deal with if you embrace the added arity of the comparisons. Specifically, I don't read (< x y) as "x less than y", rather, I read it as "increasing x to y." This can work with (< x y z) to "increasing from x to y to z." (That make sense?)
I’m curious, do you distinguish between ballot counting machines (what the NH SoS is talking about) and voting machines (your term)?

I understand “voting machine” to be any mechanism that acts as a substitute for a paper ballot, or that acts as an intermediary between you and a paper ballot. And I would agree that the former are a terrible idea and the latter probably don’t provide much net benefit.

But ballot counting machines are a different matter. Here’s the thing: there’s no voting process without a ballot counting machine. It’s just a matter of whether that machine will be a carbon-based one subject to bias, fatigue, boredom and hunger, or an electronic one that excels at stupid-simple repetitive tasks and is subject to none of those things.
You meant unsafe, not non-GC?
> The new owners have quite loudly and explicitly promised that there will be less content moderation than their was before.

Less moderation to the point of not taking actions against content which is criminal, i.e. threatening violence?

> new leadership is promising less moderation actions taken against the sort of people who make those threats

I think there is some leap in logic here, which is that conservatives are more likely to be criminals, but if that holds then banning them from the platform for non criminal offences will reduce the amount of criminals on the platform, however you will also be banning people who are not criminals in the process, and this does not really seem like a terribly morally sound thing to be doing. How many steps from banning people from twitter for conservative views to reduce crime to jailing people who frequent bars because they are more likely to be criminals? If your only value is to reduce crime, then I'm not sure I see where the breaks are.
Related, but sudo is not in scope for this project:

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
The Recession is being talked about but will be felt in the middle of the winter/spring as high energy costs start hitting the bottom line of companies//costs of war, consumers aren't spending like they used to and interest rates are higher (costs of borrowing for their consumption hurt more).

No one is saying there is a recession currently but rather that is coming down the pipeline.

From a personal perspective: I would say though as a new employee of a company - hope that they have good revenue and that you have a protected role, prove your value quickly as typically new hires have a risky position if the firm is facing layoffs.
He has already added 1b in annual expenses.. More than Twitters' annual profits.
> 3. I believe companies and the media loudly communicate layoffs in part to reduce labor's negotiating power.

I thought this was to make share holders happy. Fewer employees, more money for the owners. But to improve negotiation seems useful, too.
I don't get it.

The lawyer asked "“Is there anything the court would like to review to reconsider?”
and the judge said, oh, well "since you have asked if I want to, yeah I guess I do, so I'll just change my ruling for no reason?"
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a program that the Department of Defense (DoD) uses to certify the cybersecurity status of businesses operating as suppliers and contractors within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).
You're mixing and raising new issues beyond rehire price for an individual.

Who are you disagreeing with?
The reason he's laying off people. Due to his financing, he has to pay $1 billion per year just in interest.

"Love to borrow money to buy a company and then saddle that company with the debt so I can lay off thousands of people"

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1587457450311122945
The Liberal Democrats took an even stronger position, basically ignoring the referendum. But the LibDems are still out in the wilderness, and got very few votes. All they did was to highlight that Labour was not the anti-Brexit party.

The impression I get was that by 2019, Remainers were tired of fighting about it, weren't enamored of Corbyn's version of Labour (Brexit was only part of it), and weren't going to rush over the LibDems.

And that overall, Brexiteers were enthused. Probably for very bad reasons, but they genuinely believed them. As for the original question, they might have been nudged along by some foreign propaganda and targeting, but it wasn't anything that their own leadership wasn't encouraging them to believe.
DHH – Setting the Pace
Critical is mostly subjective to whom you ask. In one way everyone is critical, in another no-one is critical (Except E.g. Ive or Jobs).

That said, I would think they are axing critical people. Then struggle and either fix it or go under. Whenever I was involved in layoffs, critical people have been laid off (from my perspective).

As a manager I was forced to lay off critical people before M&A. Because they we're critical positions I did rehire the positions after acquisition.
The real broken concept here is root. Why do I have to give a process the ability to do anything it wants with the system if I want it just to write to a file in /etc, or to bind to port 80?

On the other hand, having to always explicitly specify all the fine grained capabilities a process might need is a pain, too.
I am pretty sure the golden age of the social media giants is over. The future will be a more fragmented landscape of specialized services and I don't believe Meta is in a position to buy their way into it.

Facebook/Instagram/etc are not going anywhere in a hurry but they have reached their peak.
I also wonder about the social effect. Twitter rapidly settled its position as some kind of global heartbeat.
Companies posting job ad does not necessarily equate to companies hiring. Some of these ads may be disingenious - they still interview candidates only to have a list of desirable people to make offers to once the company starts hiring again.

And of course, on top of that there's standard recrutiment scam of "oh, sorry, this position was just filled, but may I interest you with $WORSE_JOB_FOR_LESS_MONEY instead"?
> communicate which sort of permissions are needed

OpenBSD has something like this https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2
Awesome! Did something similar using GTFS data. Used an e-ink display though: https://github.com/Scarysize/transit-pi
I think he will try to make it more "facebook like" in terms of moderation line, which is generally considered to be too rightwing by the MSM , and they will attack him viciously, like they attack FB. He either will sell it or it will be the new Yahoo, my bet is the former.
“Software everyone can see“ sounds like window dressing.. You would have to understand how the software works. Open source voting software is a great idea, but the vast majority of people are not gonna have any clue.

Is this really transparency?
> then treating employees nicely will fall out of fashion.

To other CEOs: you can make a distinction right there when you fire people and do not need to look to Musk.
You could send search requests. The reason I remember this is because I was writing a Gopher server which had a built-in search engine.

I say "I was building" rather than "built" because two things happened: someone showed me a graphical web browser that actually was usable, and whomever owned Gopher wanted to charge money for using v2 of the protocol (I think?). So I ditched all the gopher code I had written and made an HTTP-server instead.

update: I think it was Goper+, not Gopher v2 which was the new version
Not a huge fan of stock buybacks in the first place personally, especially by companies that get bailouts and use that money for stock buybacks.

I'd rather companies just gave higher dividends instead (which would then be taxed). Also buybacks drive the price up to benefit people who sell to take advantage of it, whereas dividends benefit those who prefer to hold, which is what I prefer doing.

But I think this is a good alternative to just banning the practice.
The Death of Decentralized Email
When it's collateralized with crypto it's uncollateralized. 3AC learned this. Like half the exchanges have learned this over the last year. There is no inherent value in any of them, there is no hard floor of assets, as the market continues to tank that 'collateral' becomes/remains worthless. It's turtles all the way down.
Ballot boxes that scan ballots are auditable because they keep the paper ballots.

In my state, election workers have to ensure that the number of ballots is the same as the number recorded by the ballot box on election night - although we don’t recount who voted for who. The ballots are preserved.
I went through the dot-com-crash. This might not be wonderful advice but how I made it through was to hold on to my job despite taking on loads of new roles and work without expecting more pay. I kept from being a salary target. I did this at one of the worst companies in the history of the internet but I do not regret it. I stuck with it and just accepted all the new roles and responsibilities as learning experience. With feet to the fire I picked up decades of experience in less than a decade. I eventually left when the fifth merger/chapter-11 resulted in customers and employees being put into precarious legal situations. I will not name the company as some of those shady individuals are still running companies.

It was both the worst and best experience I could have had. I learned a great deal but had to accept being put into morbid situations of documenting the jobs of people that left and people that were about to leave. Knowing some of those people had kids to feed made it very rough and demoralizing. But I stuck with it, mostly kept my head down and just took on every challenge I could to gain as much knowledge and experience as possible. I automated countless tasks before automation was cool.

These experiences and knowledge I gained benefited me greatly in my career at other companies.
I think where elon will take twitter is a sort of idea -> project -> mass colaberation, society sized incubator, were news and policy discussions are just a byproduct. But may im just projecting. But it would make kind of sense, to have it all in one app, from pitch, to finance, to realization
All My Neurodiverse Friends
The Reuters article I linked was literally in response to the (false) claim by FT about the cancelation.

FT had "sources", while Reuters had a direct statement from L'Oreal itself, confirming that there was no pull of ad spending.
I think "Outage" as stated is a bit over-the-top. We run significant operations in most of these DCs, and we have seen zero impact. YMMV of course, but I think it's a big disingenuous to say this is a full outage.
Seems like the buffer for storing the password was changed to be dynamically allocated

When I see things like this, the first question I have is why? A password isn't going to be long enough to require dynamic allocation, so just use a fixed-size buffer. 255 is already generous and a good round number. The best solutions are often also the simplest.
However, that theory was proven false. Today is Friday and vesting was Tuesday.

I find it very odd that people keep mentioning it despite it not panning out, and not sure what to make of it.

Out of honest curiosity, what was your intent for bringing it up?