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Good for you, I'm experiencing the exact same issues as the parent comment. Tweets don't load taking multiple refreshes to load, on mobile I get an error every 2nd or 3rd request. Notifications definitely are not popping up anymore and when I click on the tab I do see them but then the next refresh they disappear. Sometimes completely failing to load.

It's not completely broken but I've been definitely experiencing a degradation the past 5-7 days.
Seems to be following firmly in the footsteps of Elon - starts working at twitter, makes big claims (I'm going to fix twitter search), immediately shows he's out of his depth (Asks for other people to fix twitter search and send him the code MIT licensed) and then gets angry at everyone else when they laugh at this absurd turn of events, gets so angry he then starts bad mouthing the last decade of innovation in the tech industry, fully in the knowledge that time period covers the entire time period his own company operated. It's like our own mini-Elon.
Main reason I still use them is 100% hassle free return policy. I don’t stress about buying something crappy, as I know I can return it, in very convenient ways.
> the ability to expand to multiple employees/crews is there as you expand.

Finding reliable, motivated employees who will work for you and not themselves is the challenge that makes this type of business exceptionally hard to scale, from what I’ve been told.
My spending on Amazon has diminished significantly due to the flood of Chinese copycat brands and products on there.

Wish there was a way to filter out products by their country of origin. Is there any alternative out there?
Surveillance Powers in UK’s Online Safety Bill Are Risk to E2EE
I'm now firmly confirmed that it is Ubuntu that fucks something up. Upgrades seem to work much better with plain Debian.

We've seen many failures during upgrade, from both novice and advanced linux users, meanwhile one of our sysadmins accidentally upgraded Debian by two releases at once (From Debian 9 to 11) and it still "just worked"...
I'm talking about future mass extinctions. The hard fact of life on Earth is that species die, we've had several mass extinctions (defined as >75% of species going extinct) but there is always a background extinction rate. That background rate is conservatively estimated to be 130 vertebrate species every 100 years. The reason people are saying we are at the beginning of another mass extinction event caused by human activity is because we have apparently accelerated that rate. I say we are at the beginning because as it stands about 1% to 2% of vertebrate animals that were present throughout human history have now gone extinct. We have a fair ways to go before we hit mass extinction levels but there are a significant number of species that are threatened or endangered. The confounding issue is that we are studying this problem and also have been mitigating it for at least 50 years if not longer if you count less organized attempts at conservation.

Personally, I don't think we are going to continue to increase the rate of extinction as long as we continue to modernize the rest of the world. As people are lifted out of poverty they have more time to spend worrying about their environment and the animals that inhabit it. The best thing we can do is to make sure that no one on Earth lives in poverty that requires them to cut down and burn wood for fuel and heat, make sure they have fertilizer so they can get the best crop yields out of limited land without having to slash and burn wildlands, have access to refrigeration so they don't waste l3% or more of the food they grow, and have proper infrastructure so they can manage their waste water and garbage disposal without polluting natural water ways and the land surrounding urban centers.
What is the best way to support Mozilla/Firefox? I'm happy to sign up for this if it is the best way to contribute to the longevity of the product I use more than anything else.
Have you seen DigMyPics.com? I knew the owner in Phoenix, he built the whole pipeline custom. Very smart guy and cool business.
They did this with Gmail years ago. Same scheme, I warned everyone that gmail.com would change over to a google related domain, and it didn't take long. And I tried to explain how it meant every email could be directly related to your internet traffic.

"What do I have to hide?" was always the response...
I personally use https://mrzv.org/software/artemis since it's very lightweight, agnostic about VCS, and stores issues in a standard format (maildir) with existing tooling for reading, writing and other processing (e.g. Emacs to read/write, and MHonArc to build into a Web site)
Threads like this bring out the most hate on HN. I wish I could automatically filter this crap out
> The only way I managed to create savings is by earning like a wealthier person but living like a less wealthy one,

Isn't that natural by the definition of saving up? That you'll have less money here and now, because you are saving for later?

> but there's a social cost to this course of action.

Only if the people you hang around spend more money than you. There can also be social costs to earning and spending more money than people around you.
Sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks
I would love an answer to that question. Until recently, my wife and I both had 11 year old low end cars, then when I started working remotely, we had one car when I gave my other one to my son who didn’t live with us.

We also had a house built in 2016 and purposefully chose the cheapest floor plan and even that was 3000 square feet (builders won’t build small houses)
I'm waiting for all of the advances in Neural Networks and Machine Learning to get us to the points where we can start communicating (or at least understanding) whales and dolphins.

This also reminds me of the quote: "Talk to aliens? We can't even talk to whales!"
I like the Nissan Leaf and the Kia EV6, I do think Tesla make some questionable decisions for some real world needs where actual car makers know better.
I remember the spiffy demo where the thumbnail in search results morphed into the full Maps UI without reloading.

But unification had started even earlier than that. Pretty much since Larry became CEO again, he pushed this mantra of "One Google", which brought the infamous Kennedy redesign across all services, as well as more of them available under the google.com host (e.g. maps as discussed here, but also flights and more). One of the ideas behind the latter was that you had to log into your Google account just once, which gradually made it all the way to YouTube(!). I vaguely recall other factors, such as compensating for the increased latency from going HTTPS everywhere, but also discussions about securing and hardening cookies.

As far as I know, google.com/maps has been around the entire time, but perhaps now it might be simply the canonical URL in a larger number of cases.
In before that was Gentoo wiki, no matter what problem the Gentoo wiki was likely and good search result.

... till they had a failure and discovered none of their backups was working.

Check your backups kids.
Still worth it to me to avoid the spam of a hundred small companies giving my personal data to SEO and marketing experts to spam me, and despite the improvement in time and cost for individual merchant shipping, I have not seen the reliability of that speed approach anywhere near Amazon or Walmart level. Returns and fraud resolution are also extremely streamlined.
Mozilla probably gets too much money from google to do this
That's just Debian
Architect here.

An analogy: staying in an (artist) architect house is like having a meal in a Michelin restaurant.
Indeed it seems he has:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/technology/elon-musk-twit...
Let’s see one for wind power, then. OP implies wind is an order of magnitude cheaper.
Not only that, but many publishers, specifically scientific ones, seem to get in the way of the natural near-0 marginal cost of digital publishing. Information should be available to all by default, because the value of having it freely available is much more than even what people could be expected to individually all pay for it. In the end, having a million paywalls and restricting information for disadvantaged individuals is not rational (or ethical), or effective for a society.
Would it be possible to create an Amazon "Ad blocker" of sorts that hides all the sponsored products and store promotions?
> Leadership didn’t necessarily want this, shareholders did.

Musk is the shareholders though? Him and come-alongs, such as Larry Ellison.
Elon's great strength is his personality cult. I think that being shattered in the eyes of normal people is a great thing.
"Twitter has been a very useful partner in the fight against disinformation and illegal hate speech and this must not change."

Governments are supposed to do regulatory action and not partnerships. I rather have democratic laws (even with the minor power individual citizens has in EU), than governments officials being in control of content moderation at a public platform.
Indeed, it used to be constantly broken in the early 2010s. But I believe it was quite stable by the time it started regaining relevance again with Trump.
Is that bad, or good?
I do the same. Hate to be that guy, but I had a strong dislike for him when he first got hyped up years ago, this is just reaffirming an old decision. Does my boycott matter in any way? Yes, to me. That's sufficient.
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The idea is that Musk clearly doesn't judge performance and rather just fires haphazardly, as somewhat evidenced by the failed attempts to rehire various critical staff.

Firing them with much less severance than the "nonbelievers" he pushed out previously is a pointlessly cruel action.

Over in the EU, it is quite clearly a set of societal obligations that he is violating, ones that are enshrined in law.
There is a certain amount of people who like to work in a “Elon Musk” company no matter what. Like him or not, but he is a guy who has a certain pull which let’s people overlook a lot of stuff. So Twitter will still bee able to hire from that pool - despite all the negative firing news.
Both PyTorch and TensorFlow offer backends for Metal that works pretty well on Apple Silicon.
It's harder to care about an extraordinary field, unless being in the top 1% of something is a goal in and of itself.
Well same (well more tbh) could be said about PowerPC back in the early 2000s when comparing it to x86. Look how that turned out. I mean it might happen but I don't see how is this in anyway a foregone conclusion.

> wrong with their cores which compare favorably to ARM9

ARM9 is a 32bit core, the last design of which was released back in 2006. Are you saying RISC-V is competitive with ARM chips from 15 years ago?

IMHO RISC-V seems to be in a spot (in relation to ARM & x86) where ARM was back in ~2000 compared to Intel. Very promising and superior in certain case, but still a very long way to become competitive on the higher end. Well it took 20 years for that to change, why would RISC-V do any better?
1 million is both a lot, but also not a lot, in 2022. Especially depending on where you live.

There are so many nuances in play that you can’t really put a hard number to this.
> I can be relatively sure I'm not getting ripped off by more than +/- 25%

I think this is the only thing keeping them afloat. How are you so sure you’re not getting ripped off? Did you know counterfeits can be sold under the “sold by anazon.com” branding because of co-mingling?

I used to have the same view as you until I started getting shoddy products consistently from brands that were otherwise high quality if I purchased in store. Then I realized I had no way to tell if what I was purchasing was real, and I started questioning why the lack of toothpaste I bought tasted different than normal and had off-color printing.

I’m just increasingly finding it not worth the worry, especially for things I put I my body.
Is Brave (and similar browsers) not their own browsers because the rendering engine is the same as what others use? Similarly, was Chrome not Google's browser when they were using Webkit?
Custom gaskets and orings seems like a great and relatively simple business. Have you tested the idea?
* I imagine this is what you experience when you say you have to think about right vs left, is that pretty close?*

If I pay attention, I can feel my heartbeat. I know that is my left side.
I think that used to be true about Tesla, but now other companies are fully into electric vehicles, opening up new opportunities for people who want to go into that field. The allure of Tesla is vanishing, leaving only long hours, workaholism, and Cult Elon as the differentiating reasons to work there.

Your main point is absolutely right: whenever you have a company where a lot of people want to work, that company can (and always does) get away with extreme hiring selectivity and abuse of the people it selects. See also the video game industry.
Faced with such a suspension or ban, what approaches are most likely to be effective in getting it reversed? Are there actions one can take that most users might be unaware of?

I do not believe there is a great or universal answer for this. In my utopian vision, people would just leave platforms that have been tainted in this manor and let their wallets to the voting. Some have started to leave PayPal after their recent malfeasant behavior.

Short of that, one would need to:

- have friends working at that platform that could effect change

- convince a wealthy person or company to acquire the company or make a new platform that is so enticing that people leave the old one, accepting it will also become tainted with time and still will not please everyone.

- be an influencer with a significant number of followers or have an influencer friend that will speak out on your behalf.

Many people have become reliant on platforms

Perhaps this is the root of the problem that really needs to be addressed and I do not have a good answer that could apply to the masses. I believe each person would have to reflect on the reasons why these platforms have become critical path for them individually and find alternate paths even if they are less optimal. These platforms are not going to change. For good or bad we have all just witness what was required to make changes at Twitter and even then, the outcome will not make everyone happy.
Do you know that "maximize shareholder value" trope that's trotted out every time a corporation kicks over a baby carriage? This is one of the few times it's actually relevant. Letting Musk back out of the deal would have been a gross dereliction of fiduciary duty, would have landed the board members in court personally, and perhaps wouldn't have even stopped the sale given how shareholder-friendly Delaware is.

Despite all the lofty platitudes about building good companies, startups are always headed towards the uncaring wood chipper of finance. In a way, Musk violently running the company into the ground (ala the cliche of the rich person buying a sports car only to crash it on the way home) is a better outcome than the surveillance-monetization pot slowly boiling.
It does not handle apostrophes good. It says "we L L" instead of we'll or "Andrea S" instead of Andrea's. It also has some problem with pacing around dashes, three points and quotes. It speeds up a lot and connects the words before and after those. Overall would not use it in this state to turn articles into podcasts or something like that.
I won't stand in your way if you want to live in a commune in the woods foraging for roots and berries. It's your life so do what you want with it. I prefer living in a heated house with modern amenities like smokeless lighting and clean drinking water.
We can barely talk to each other :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_... (671 dead, 2616 wounded total so far)

The ones which had made it through to UK twitter were the Walmart one (not ideological per se, but the workplace massacre is a distinct American phenomenon) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_nightclub_sho... which definitely was ideological.
I assume that they will make it impossible for EU citizens to access the website like they did with rt.com without even a court order.
Yes, but they use water. (Also reduced pressure means reduced density, which should in theory make heat transfer less efficient... except when phase changes are involved !)

That reactor is a radically different design, operating at a much lower temperature, where sodium doesn't evaporate.
The disbanding of Twitter's Brussels office has sparked concerns whether Twitter will be able to comply with EU rules on online content (e.g. disinformation code).

Two remaining Brussels executives left last week after Musk asked staff to commit to a "hardcore working culture"; it's unclear whether they resigned or were fired.

The article quotes the EU's vice-president in charge of the disinformation code as saying she is "concerned" about Twitter's future ability to "detect and take action against disinformation and propaganda ... Especially in the context of Russian disinformation warfare, I expect Twitter to fully respect the EU law and honour its commitments. Twitter has been a very useful partner in the fight against disinformation and illegal hate speech and this must not change."

The article adds that advertisers are also worried.
If you think the way Space Karen has gone about these RIFs is even remotely effective at achieving that objective, I have a bridge to sell you.
Arch has served me well over the years on almost every piece of hardware I owned and is still my goto for a "traditional" FHS distro. The documentation is top notch, it's fairly unopinionated and I love the simplistic nature of it (everything in the repos is just unpatched upstream software, for the most part at least).

Recently made the jump to NixOS though and been really happy with the additional features it offers.
Depends on what you mean by "humans".

Most human behavior is easy to describe with only a few underlying parameters, but there are outlier behaviors where the number of parameters grows unboundedly.

("AI" hasn't even come close to modeling these outliers.)

Internet pictures squarely falls into the "few underlying parameters" bucket.
A weird claim. Not only have France and Germany been incredibly dominant throughout history, the Holy Roman Empire was pretty explicitly claimed to be a successor. France is the successor to Charlemagne's empire, who was crowned Emperor of the Romans.

I'm curious what claim you think Spain, Great Britain, not to mention Netherlands or the US have to be considered successors of Rome.
> If it was not Musk it would be someone else.

I don’t know the name of this fallacy but the “if X doesn’t do it somebody will” doesn’t seem convincing.

Especially as the previous management of Twitter wasn’t like that so it’s actually already disproved by history.
That depends on the type of uuid used. And whether it is used in an indexed field or not.
A timestamp based uuid should not be stored as a byte array. Rather, it should be reordered slightly to make it lexicographically sortable
Aka, increasing taxes and increasing pay to quality of life at work ratios for healthcare workers.
tbh, just used Newegg this week...

2 day shipping costs more, they didn't even get it here in 2 days, they split my order into 8 orders, each tracked and emailed separately. I've been boycotting Amazon almost 5 years, but their competition really sucks to the point I'm thinking of going back. At least I've been able to avoid a lot of frivolous purchases for a while...
For some reason that changed for me lately and they no longer do free UPS pickup for returns. I have to go mail them myself, which tips the balance of the return convenience scale for me.
A union could have used a strike or other type of organized labor action to fight back immediately.

Not typically pro-union in tech, but Twitter is making the best case for one I’ve seen yet.
What I miss mentioned here is AUR and the fact that almost any software that you can think of is packaged there. You read about some cool software (like git-bug I learned about today here on HN), you do `yay -S cool-software` and it's there. On Ubuntu or Debian? Not so much...
This sounds like a lot of fun for people who have personality traits I don’t posses. I think I would end up quietly stewing that I keep getting talked over and nobody listens to my ideas. Nevermind that my ideas turn out to be wrong in the end.
What about something that can do the opposite? Like converting video and/or audio to articles?

Most of the content I consume fits best (for me) in article format, so I can read it at my own speed, but some really good information can only (annoyingly) be found in videos or podcasts.
>1: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595250835096621057

>Elon Musk has said he's about context on tweets, so here's context for these shirts: They came from Twitter's Black employee resource group and were popularized by @jack, who wore a version around to conferences to support the group (and was sometimes ridiculed for it).

https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1595271296459292672
So long as you can sell you just can just about turn any basic business process into a $100k idea.
Seriously.

But Apple, having been in that position, is now at the whim of public markets, who demand that profits don't stop increasing, no matter the means. Will this inevitably cause a distortion of Apple's previously stated values?

Probably, if not already.
And if the iPad gets much more Mac-like, I might be done with it. I like the iPad for what it is and I like the Mac for what it is. I like that they are very different things and I hope it stays that way. I don't think they can combine them without ruining what makes each thing special.
My guess would be either ignoring the problem altogether or "pulling out" of Europe employment-wise and then ignoring any ramifications of that for as long as possible.
I am pretty sure there is plenty of code he can copy from on stack overflow. Or maybe copilot...
When there is nothing happening on my page my cpu can go idle.
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Avoid merch that is "creatively" marketed as toys.
And only if you give a shit about what other people think.
No, absolute free speech has never been a blanket right in all of the EU states, why do you assume that? There are multiple laws against hate speech, against spreading of Nazi ideas, etc.

Do you have examples of when those laws have silenced a citizen from speaking their mind where it wouldn't cause damages to a minority or just other people in general? Because I'm fully onboard in not allowing Nazi-speech be spread around, it infects the mind of the fearful and tolerating it has been shown to not work.
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By that point, any remaining people likely won’t be recognizably human, so I’m not overly concerned about that. Plus, that’s billions of years off.

Climate damage that begins to kill off my great-grand kids (probably through water wars or similar), who I could conceivably see born, is a very real possibility.
> But he was quite clear from the beginning that he's doing it in good part for society at large

Judge a man by his actions, not by his words. So far, his actions have been cruel and destructive, not only to Twitter's employees and Twitter's users, but also to everyone forced to share a society with the newly-chaotic, increasingly-bot-filled, resurgently-hateful, woefully-undermoderated Twitter. Musk is a liar. Stop worshiping this man.