skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone use (or know of) software that follows RSS feeds and sends you a single daily/weekly/whatever digest with links to all new posts? TinyTinyRSS has this functionality which I am currently using but it's not very pretty or configurable - I'm wondering if there is anything else that I could look into.
tough day in tech
Ok keep ignoring data and reality and saying "how does this happen?" every time another mass shooting happens.
I don't know much about finance, but why didn't he just pay the 13B? This seems much more expensive.
> ... and a declining police force inevitably leads to more crime

Citation needed.
Do the majority of self-taught devs in the US get that kind of money within 1 year? I honestly find it hard to believe.
Amtrak online store: "There's a subordinate for that."
> There's an option of overbuilding PV to fully accommodate cloudy days or the winter season

It would be interesting to see exactly what kind of overbuild would be required to "fully accommodate" for the winter season with PV in Finland.
you can't cut deep enough to cover $1B in interest paymets, maybe now people will figure out that Musk is the wealthiest man in the world by taking tax dollars as subsidies for all his businesses.
It’s a matter of principle. If everybody were more concerned about their privacy there’d be less dark patterns from the these giant ad companies. Social media, Google, etc…
> Swarm uses a narrow band carrier (about 40 kHz wide), and a chirped spread spectrum approach

Is this LoRa? I guess if it was they wouldn't need their own modems. There have been some hobbyist attempts to put LoRa gateways on satellites and from what I remember it worked reasonably well.
this is insanity
https://archive.ph/KrpUY
Isn't it more likely that organizational inertia is the culprit? Elon doesn't have the capability to change the day-to-day activities of 7,500 people following established policies and procedures in the amount of time that he's had the authority to do so.

There are some coarse-grained things that he can do, like fire the the top execs. The idea that he can strategize and effect change at the fine-grained level of emergent phenomena like a picture of an internal comms channel is bonkers, conspiracy theory stuff. He's got to lay off half the company to begin to even get some kind of handle on all of the machinations going on outside of his team's review.
So did I, for instance here: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=concepts

When I discovered that I could forget the cons, car, cdr of LISP and rebuild them from the ground, the lambda-calculus, a very basic "text rewriting" tool, the Swiss knife of the code, the TAO of code ...
It's a fair question, and shows that a lot of these sites are like icebergs - they look simple until you delve beneath the surface.

How are you detecting human trafficing and reporting it (FOSTA-SESTA)?

How are you detecting CSAM and reporting offenders to NCMEC?

How are you detecting and removing spam? How are you preventing fraudulent ad clicks? How do you deal with "whale" accounts (very large follower counts) and returning an algorithmic feed for their followers?

I interviewed for their deveng team and they were doing things like build-caches because it sped up compiles and increased productivity. Also optimising the Scala compiler (more productivity gains).
Disposable chopsticks are both ridiculously cheap and not much worse than reusable ones (compared to how bad plastic forks are). So the crossover where we switch from disposable to reusable as a bar/restaurant gets nicer is in a different place with chopsticks vs forks.
Sounds like a good service for a national security service to provide (in comparison to finding more ways to spy on us).
Maybe we have different definitions for “expert”?

I’ve been following epidemiology experts and no one implied “everyone dying”, nor recommended “24/7” mask wearing (rather cited lowered transmission rates) and yes isolation lowered transmission rates too.

The flak they had to take for inconveniencing the lifestyle of people in the interest of prioritizing health outcomes for all, is insane.

If anything, we learned that the thought of care for others at a small cost to the self is extremely triggering for many Americans and is easily politicized as a wedge issue to influence voting.
Craigslist has about 50 employees. If it really had to, Twitter could probably run with 50 employees and AWS.
Thank you so much for sharing! I have considered this exact same idea to break my friends and family free from the chains of Facebook and Instagram, but you've packaged this up so nicely, I should really give this a shot.

Is there a way to update my own blog to play nicely with Haven? I like my own styling and hosting setup, and I already have my own RSS reader, so ideally I would like to continue using those, while also making them available to friends and family on Haven.
>phones cannot be used as weapons during a shooting

Theoretically, a phone can absolutely be used as a component of the triggering mechanism of a rigged up firearm.

Yes, there are even extant regulations around that.

The ATF will consider anything that meets the definition of a firearm rigged with an electrically actuated trigger a machine gun by default due to being readily convertible to being fully automatic.

That you don't have the creativity or will to go down these rabbit holes does not in any way mitigate their existence.
This!.

I ride my bike LITERALLY 1,000 miles a month. ADHD is not mitigated by this - only my focus on depression is... and still... that doesnt relieve it.
I would say HTML?
Municipal heating can be extremely efficient, precisely because it doesn't take that much insulation to make losses a non-issue and heat generation tends to scale up very well.
How Russian soldiers ran a ‘cleansing’ operation in the Ukrainian city [video]
"Allowing" as if people don't have the god-given right to put whatever they want into their own bodies.
Why not all 3 at once: https://scroll.pub/public/blog/indented-heredocs.html
More expensive for Twitter - the company, rather than Musk and his palls.
During the pandemic, SF had in-person schooling at private schools, but not in public schools.

This continued long after it was clear that (a) in person schooling was not a significant risk and (b) remote education was not adequate. (You're basically insane if you think sitting on videochat hours a day, with no in-person contact with other children, is in any way a healthy lifestyle for an elementary-school aged kid.)

This was SF policy, not state policy!

It was just a totally fucked, unafir situation: only those w/ enough cash to afford private education could get even the most minimal level of quality education for their kids.

Besides failing at the basic public service of educating children, SF also struggles with things like providing safe, sanitary streets and public transit. All this while having a huge budget.

Here's a memory that has stuck with me, from just before the pandemic started:

A man lying on the sidwalk at the intersection of Colombus and Broadway, covered in his own shit, calling out, "help me, call an ambulance, help me". A constant stream of people, passing by, doing nothing.

That's SF in a nutshell: people are in a sort of state of denial about the condition of their city. Sure, there are lots of great things, and you can ignore the badness and pretend it's not happening, but it's there.

(Or at least it was when I was there, from 2011-2021.)

I hope they figure it out and improve things! It's truly a geographically blessed area. And I've still got a bunch of family there.
Because his name is really Sake Jherman.
Yeah, mail-in paper ballots work too. I was speaking more in the "we must have in-person" mind-set - I assuming convincing the election skeptics to use good machines is an easier task than convincing them on mail.
Old news?

Few years ago I got a similar notification. A government agency here in Lithuania was happy to remind that my wordpress instance was outdated.
No, US law states that companies with <100 employees must give 60 days notice for mass layoffs. I can only imagine this qualifies as mass layoffs.

WARN act.
It doesn't sound like the subscriber model will be KYC (no verification of identity).
I think this is different. I hadn't heard of Kiwifarms before, but I looked it up in 10sec. Looks like they were a forum for people to actively harass others - which has always been and should remain illegal.

"Specific Person is a real jerk! And they probably eat live frogs for fun too! What a loser!" - As long as Specific Person can effectively ignore this - meaning it's not forced into their feed, overwhelming their inbox, etc - then that's probably fine, even if untrue.

"Specific Person might live near XYZ. Definitely DON'T put any turds in their mailbox ;-) " - Pretty clearly an invitation to real-world harassment, which is not okay and should not be abetted by any platform.
Your list lacks the reason for his initial fame: iPhone and PS3 jailbreaking.

And I think you're downplaying the achievements of Comma AI -- it may still be somewhat niche, but its product is better than Tesla Autopilot for highway driving (they aren't there on city driving / FSD yet), all with an absolutely tiny team.
Changing ownership of /etc/ and directories under it like that sounds fine in theory but in practice breaks in many ways.

I did some extensive testing of this some years ago (on Debian/Ubuntu) and many system services and tools expect/require these directories to have specific ownership and permissions.

In the context I was experimenting with it was pretty simple too - renaming the UID 0 'root' account to some other name. That revealed that many tools actually test for "root" (the string) not uid == 0.

As I dug into the code of those tools I found many would also check and insist on particular ownership and modes on the directories and files.

I forget which one really annoyed me, but 'all' I wanted to do was allow members of group 'adm' to read/write into a particular sub-directory of /etc/ but the service would bail out if the directory wasn't owned by "root":"root" (or 0:0) and had 0700 permissions which is a pain when wanting to run services unprivileged and using 'setcap' to enable capabilities without starting as UID 0 and dropping privileges.
All of what you said does not absolve the fact that Musk is acting whimsically and clearly showing errors of judgement in his words an actions since taking ownership.

Memes aside (I kinda LOL at his sink joke), he is breaking laws and terminating entire departments without any handover or planning.

The entire verified fiasco is a good indicator - the new process won't actually require verification of identity - is essentially a shakedown of existing verified users.
Please add "Tell HN:" to your title.
>> highly oppositional at all times

> tech industry should not be subject to investigative coverage?

I don't see how you can read his quote and come up with yours. Absolute strawman
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To start: VSC is made by Microsoft and not the community. That's all that needs to be said.

But to continue on your logic path...

You are right in that the original devs couldn't keep it alive because of VSC, but your correlating that this is because of a lack of community interest, which I think is far from the truth.

The reality is Microsoft owns Github, and they own VSC. Why pay to support two editors? Between the two VSC is more clearly "their" product, so they try to kill Atom to further help their product.

But VSC is dangerous, imho. Not only does it watch all sorts of things you are doing, it's just locking you into the same hegemony that brought you the frightening CoPilot AI that is scanning everybody's code on Github, creating all sorts of problems. https://thenextweb.com/news/github-copilot-works-so-well-bec...

Whereas one of the first things the Pulsar group did was remove "telemetry" from the code base, making it more of a free "no strings attached" community editor.

However, to each their own, as I suggested :) Not everybody likes Atom, but MANY people do. It certainly is not a minor editor by ANY count.

Just because it's #2 or #3 compared to VSC? That's a pretty lofty position.

And if you enjoy suckling from teat of Microsoft on VSC, by all means continue to do so. I am not a fan of their sins of the past and present, so I avoid them when possible.

And personally, I like the configurability of Atom far more than VSC, which I've tried it from time to time—but it's just a different experience, not to my liking.
On the other hand, Hyperloop and the Boring Company went about as well as everyone said they would...which was not very well.

You win some, you lose some, I guess.
Correct, the person you are conversing with is not aware of the WARN act, or they are aware of it and trying to spread misinformation.
Because not everyone is familiar with the proper way to fill out a scantron, and some mess it up. "Hanging chad" type issues happen on scantrons -- people put an X or a checkmark through a bubble, people make a mistake and then "cross out" a bubble, mark too many options, etc.

A voting machine that marks a paper ballot for you is the best of both worlds -- it is a paper ballot, but it marks it consistently, and allows the user to affirmatively confirm their choices were recorded correctly.
So, article is a bit vague on who were let go. Is this gonna have any real impact on operations going forward? Could you really axe half the staff and not?
Some clients let you dedup a bit
The problem is that we are having a hard time reaching out to companies that could offer childcare services as a benefit for their employees.
We see companies as a customer acquisition channel: The final user are the families who need help taking care of their children at home, but it's in the companies' best interest to keep their employees' families happy, and what better way than supporting them with childcare?
I think Kafka's The Trial is an even better fit - in Brazil, you could at least see some of the machinations unfolding - in The Trial, like in reality, you only hit a wall of the bureaucrats telling you that your case is being studied with no way of knowing when or if you will ever get anything more.
Historically speaking, being miserly has often been considered unattractive.
Vote-by-mail ballots are fed through a computer tabulation system once received. In some states, especially those that are entirely vote-by-mail like OR and WA, large centralized tabulators are used that read multiple ballots per second from a stack feeder. In most states though it's very common for mail-in ballots to be fed through the same precinct tabulators as in-person votes, just at the election administrator's office instead of in a precinct location. This "mail-in precinct" approach has the advantage of keeping the process very consistent across voting methods, although it tends to require more staff since precinct tabulators are not built to quickly feed large numbers of ballots.

Remember that hand-counting of ballots has been unusual in the US for quite some time. Some states process their mail-in ballots through large central tabulators even though they have only a small portion of mail-in votes, simply because they still have the central tabulators from before they switched to precinct tabulation, back when they used to drive the ballot boxes from every precinct and have staff re-stack the ballots and feed them to a tabulator after close.

Ballot secrecy is unlikely to change. It was widely adopted in the US as a direct result of the fact that non-secret ballots facilitated purchased and forced votes, since the payer could verify that the voter cast the ballot they were supposed to. This is not a theoretical problem but one that was widespread in the 19th century.

Something like you describe is already in available in many states, though, at the pollbook level rather than the tabulation level: in many states you can obtain a record online of whether or not you were issued a ballot and, if you were issued the ballot by mail, whether or not it was received back. The ballot is 'severed' from this record system (usually by physical means like dual-envelopes or even passing through a slot in a wall) before tabulation so that your voting choices cannot be proven after the fact to facilitate bribery or intimidation.
He doesn't want to sell all that stock, which would lose him control, and probably move the market around and be even more costly in terms of shares than what it looks like on paper.
Presumably because he thinks he will make more than 10% y/y from his Tesla and SpaceX stock.
Pretending its a lack of nuance is exactly what's annoying about Musk and the rest of the grief-complex
Thanks for the nice reply and congrats on the launch!
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I am actually curious how Musk is going to pull this off. Twitter is actually in a way worse financial situation than it was two weeks ago due to the massive amount of debt incurred in the buyout process (and the associated payments). Layoffs are a must and cutting infrastructure costs is also crucial, however it's critical that twitter starts generating some serious revenue.

Some advertisers have paused buying, and the $8 blue check thing could help a little but there is major ground to make up and I don't know how it get's done in the short term. I'll be getting some popcorn, but I am rooting for Musk to figure this one out.
There's little chance average salary even for engineers comes to 300k in cash. Even Senior Staff SWE is ~270k base per levels.fyi, and that's got to be a 1-3% position, and that's just engineering, which is probably not the majority of these layoffs.
You don’t get tortured for criticizing the current administration for one.
Good point. Also whenever Musk talks about making sacrifices to “make ends meet”, one should point out that Twitter was a perfectly profitable company with all those employees before the buyout.
Stop spreading misinformation. The WARN act is a federal US law.
The adjustable debt rumors should also be viewed in the context of an economy where everyone believes the fed will likely keep raising rates repeatedly and often over the next year or so. Definitely a risky situation
Agreed. And his response to Stephen King about “we gotta pay the bills somehow” is best read as “I gotta pay off this moronic purchase I made”. It’s really bothersome that people like Musk and Trump are able to so consistently and effectively over market their successes while turning around their complete failures to be successes in the mind’s eye of their followers.

Musk is a walking contradiction of his yesterday’s self.
Wonder if he's going to use money from his other companies for interest payments for twitter, and then claim tax deductions for those companies because these were interest payments.

FWIW I have no idea how finances work, just can imagine Elon getting into weird loopholes.
The UK government seems to be doing the right thing in IT, again and again.
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Because then he doesn't have to sell his assets to pay for it.
Coincidentally, respondents also favored using a flamethrower to put out a fire.
Yes, I know, I really get amused by references to "I fought the law and the law won", that takes real creativity to come up with! Never would have seen the pattern if I got into a dispute with a large corporation and then was victorious!
He's not personally liable for the $13B. If (when?) Twitter implodes, he gets to walk away not owing a dime of that money--so why spend it if he doesn't have to?
>[t]he dramatic layoffs with no severance

They don't appear to be without severance[1].

>Today is your last working day at the company, however, you will remain employed by Twitter and will receive compensation and benefits through your separation date of February 2, 2023.

>Within a week, you will receive details of your severance offer, financial resources extending beyond your Non-Working Notice period.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/read-blunt-email-telling-twi...
2FA by itself isn't a flag to me, only offering 2FA via SMS is. It means to me they did the bare minimum in order to say they offer 2FA.
The Thetford porta potti I have in my DIY campervan was $250. Chemicals cost about $10/mo. It has a 5 gallon capacity which lasts just a couple days with myself and my partner using it (I built a separate bathroom in my van) but we're often out in the woods where we do a lot of our business outside to make the tank last longer. Emptying usually just requires a quick stop at a vault toilet that are common at the mountain bike trailheads we frequent.
What impressed me most about this story is that Teton Gravity Research isn't actually a research company, they're a action sports film production house with a funny name. They make (very good) movies of snowboarders, skiers, and mountain bikers.

https://tgrtv.tetongravity.com/

You're not entirely wrong, the article is pretty much an ad, but it's for the upcoming film about the search and the recovery.
It does not sound reasonable, as the concerns (and actions in response to those concerns) in the city during 2020 were driven by the actual documented damage COVID was already causing elsewhere (especially NYC), not based on some hypothetical “dunk on The Donald” point scoring exercise.

Many people seem to forget how in the dark we were about COVID at that time, and are now criticizing the actions public health organizations took with the benefit of hindsight.
Disposable chopsticks are a bit of soft wood or bamboo. Your processed and bleached napkin probably has a higher environmental impact. Compare that to a plastic fork, or even a metal fork that accidentally ends up in the trash.

That said, most people have re-usable ones at home. Metal ones can be tricky, but easily last a decade or more. Bamboo ones are also common. Both are dishwasher safe.
Agree, RSS is great tool for decentralization.

However, I cannot find proper open-source RSS reader for Windows that fits in 2022. Any recommendations? I especially need customization for appearance of text/feed.

Feeder for Android is great.
I set my page length to something long (n>1000) and have a userscript that round-robin sorts the unread posts by feed, and it works pretty nicely for all but the most high-volume (e.g. Boing Boing)
https://maya.land/userscripts/miniflux/round-robin-sort/
The management and the shareholders are not the same thing. The board represents the shareholders, not the management. If they don't take the offer they get sued for breaching fiduciary responsibility.
...and then complain they don't have enough money for <insert thing here>
In some contexts it's used to characterize the purpose of the copying, but it's not a consideration that was made in Authors Guild.
There are aspects of my life obvious from my Reddit/YouTube history that people I have heard people they say they think should be worthy of death [0]. Is it so unreasonable to be worried about that?

Why make it easier for this to happen? :

> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
> Because I was not a socialist.

> Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
> Because I was not a trade unionist.

> Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
> Because I was not a Jew.

> Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

- Martin Niemöller

[0] Most of them wouldn't want to kill me personally. Just the nameless other that happens to match a lot about me.
That explains why all he talks about is how to squeeze the most short term revenue out versus long term growth.
With just one user managing the server, for sysadmin tasks like SSH, use root, especially if you're going to sudo everything you do anyways. For services, they should still run as unprivileged users.
How can one get all the active ip's within the borders of a country? Is there a database for this?
After running black it is more like 6.8k. And black does not format C and/or shader code.

But even 5k is closer to 20k on the log scale than to the promised 1k.