skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So what do people do with the money they make? Just keep in in the bank with no interest? Put it in a shoe box?

Any of these. Or buy stuff, just like 99% of people do with their money. Or give for charity. Or start a space program / rocket industry. It's their choice.

> Also, what about people who have so much money, like Jeff Bezos, that it doesn't matter if he gets interest because he has so much money he doesn't have to work.

So what? I'm not proposing to take their money away.

> Also, what about business owners - if they have employees, they can't just sit at home and watch movies all day?

You mean like a modern slave owner would do, if slavery was legal?

> Or are you saying that they should be in their business working all day, and they have no options, they must work, just like a slave - not allowed to not work?

No. Be in business, work all day for a number of years depending on how much successs they have, then sell the business, retire early and stay at home spending the money they got for selling the business. In a world where having money won't bring more money, I imagine a business won't be worth as much as it does in the current world, but they can still retire early.

> Or if they don't work, then are you saying that they get their business taken away from them?

No. Simply not get paid.
It would be difficult to tell if a person actually works or not, I know.

> And given to whom, if so? The employees? The government?

Any proposition for improvements can be stretched into a horror dystopia by an extremist. Tere's far-left extermist dystopias and there's also far-right extremist dystopias.

> How would people get rich in your scenario? Is it only by working, like a surgeon who can charge $1 million per year, but still works?

Yes. Is that not fair? If you think it's not, create more medical scools. In ~5 years there will be more competition.

> What about if someone sells info online but once he or she creates the information, people keep buying the info, but the person doesn't really work, except for the one time?

To create information worth selling he/she would have to work (unpaid) for some time. Getting paid after seems very reasonable to me. And he/she won't get paid forever. Copyrights expire after a while.

> It's so confusing. Is there a book about this economic system that you are talking about?

I'm not aware of any.

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Let me say it again: just having lots of money should not bring even more money.
> its virtual private network (VPN)

it's not theirs, it's mullvad ones

https://mullvad.net/en/help/partnerships-and-resellers/
I don’t know if I can agree with you about “little to ruin” for older people and TV. As we get older we still work, have lives, learn, see family and friends, hobbies , etc.

Spending too much time alone or alone together in a non-interactive virtual realm like watching filler/garbage TV really has a huge opportunity cost. We lose so much time that way and time is the most important thing we so trivially waste. I’m doing it right now on a forum comment! That being said I’ll utilize my time in the real world after this short statement. Don’t forget the older cohort has the highest voter participation rate. What they watch and how much of it matters because it will affect your life.

Have a happy thanksgiving if you’re American. If not, happy harvest festival wherever you are!
Did they not comply with the law before?

> “NordVPN operates under the jurisdiction of Panama and will only comply with requests from foreign governments and law enforcement agencies if these requests are delivered according to laws and regulations.”

I dont get why anyone thought that their VPN provider would go to jail for them for $8 a month (use code PAID-SHILL at checkout to get 50% off for a limited time).
My favorite $100k idea to share is starting a landscaping business. The startup cost is small, you grow through hustle and good work, and the ability to expand to multiple employees/crews is there as you expand.

I think it's something just about anyone can do as it doesn't require special training.
Not sure, but I bought the PineTime the other day and I think I've fallen in love. The build quality is excellent, the watch OS feels like a Pebble, and the battery life is long enough to take on a weekend trip while leaving the charger at home. At only ~$30 it feels like a steal...
I mean it either is or it isn't. Either way it doesn't answer any fundamental questions at all. It's simulations all the way down.
Would you bet money on that? Google Maps is pretty entrenched. A competing 2.4 trillion dollar company that preinstalled their app on the most popular phone in the US couldn't dethrone Google Maps.
I will look at why the charactere that Umlauts are not well pronounced. Do you have examples of other words? I will investigate :)

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I'd expect RISC-V to make that problem worse since you don't even need a license to vertically integrate it.
Maybe petty and I know it will hurt Musk as much as slingshot against Godzilla.

But we’re looking at an EV purchase next year and my wife and I have ruled out Teslas. We also want to liquidate our Tesla stock position as soon as possible. Perhaps we should have done so when Elon himself did at its peak early this year, but that’s bridge under the water. Really want nothing to do with this guy anymore.
Actually it is easier than you think IF you know the stuff. But that big if does not apply in most of the cases.

I have tried this whenever I moved to a new company and read other people’s code and can almost pick out more than half of the coaster or BSers immediately without talking to any of them. You will miss a few more but you rarely get false positives.

BTW the loc is a stupid metric should never be used in the first place.
Earth may send Musk to Mars...involuntarily.
Lookup M-DISC
If Twitter had unionized they could have protected themselves from the whims of Musk. It's still likely Musk would have massacred the company, but maybe people wouldn't be getting fired the day before Thanksgiving.

How any engineer looks at Twitter and doesn't say, "We should consider a union..." is beyond me.
I’m not well versed in California/USA labour laws but does the haste and lack of cause for firings seem like grounds for civil suits?
How do you make that kind of determination when you're missing the wider context which led to the code being written? Same goes for the code printouts and screenshots he was requesting people send.

Did Elon write any code during his time at PayPal?
You are right. We are firing you to cut costs could put the blame on the company, we are firing you because your code is ugly puts the fault on the employee. It is all about blaming.
Good question, but the better question might be if there is anyone except H1B visa holders left in the US.
Being here now.
Are people really surprised when they hand their location off to a domain that any other part of the domain might have access to it? Like, taking away the technical specifics of how location allows actually works, you’ve given the data to the _company_. At the very least, they throw it on an internal service and allow other parts of the company’s infra to grab it.
Cool, reminds me of habbo hotel, what stack you use to develop?
Let’s make other robots build the robots.
Twitter is not working anymore. I got errors after errors. My timeline won't load on mobile at least four times over five. I don't get most of my notifications on the website even when the interaction are right there before my eyes.

It is quite amazing/awful to me how it is possible to break a platform that has been working pretty well for 15 years in a matters of weeks. This is quite fast.

Anyway, most of all I sincerely hope the layed-off people will find another, better job as quickly as they were fired.
New tech to prevent fake accounts released
Do you mean "an update required manual intervention but I did not pay attention and as a result my system was broken later"? If not, do you have links to the bug reports?
Exactly. And please don't add CAPTCHAs to login.
Yeah, but didn't you know Musk is a "special person", so therefore can abuse the fuck out of anyone he wants. He isn't just some random emerald mine heir with some interest in technology.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/elon-...
Sure, but why would that not apply to humans? And we don't consider it copyright violation if a human learns painting by looking at art.
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Certainly, but the cost of what those inevitably settle for will be far less than keeping the employees on payroll or paying severance.
> If it was not Musk it would be someone else.

This is an argument that needs to be done really carefully: its logical conclusion is that his cruelty is deterministic and there is nothing he can do about it. People have a certain degree of agency, he actively chooses to be cruel amongst other options at his disposal.
Ah yes! And when he is asking questions and pushing back, it's like: "Are you expressing attitude? You will be punished. Take a sedative." dystopian dmv
> What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?

Paying $8 for Twitter Blue
Thanks for the nudge on the guidelines, you're right.

You are however redefining the meaning in this conversation or just not really aware that no one here wants that 'mission' to fail, we want Elon's methods to fail because they set a bad precedent for current and future leaders.
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By Harold Abelson

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4663/Turtle-GeometryThe-Co...

Gets to Curved Space-Time by chapter 9.
I am a web programmer since the late 90s. Most of my time has been doing development similar to what you described although with a large bit of JavaScript/jQuery done as a progressive enhancement. Most of this work was for the public side of large content sites.

We’re we struggled was on the internal tooling for content creators and managers. While we could still do most things, many of the new requested features were difficult to implement with our tools and time budgets

In other words, the older development ways still work for us for static content delivery but rich interactive applications were very hard. And increasingly the public side of things needed to be more application focused.

My team ended up choosing to use SvelteJS, which in many ways allowed us to still use similar development patterns. And has all so allowed us to slowly enhance our sites and not fully rewrite in on go.

I won’t say it has been an easy transition, and we had several false starts (trying React and other frameworks). But we are now very happy with our direction.

In the end, do what works for your project. Your current practices maybe the best for your situation l
Yes, definitely inspired by Habbo too. Client is pure vanilla JS, I've built the game engine from scratch. Multiplayer is socket-based.
True, though the mozilla client is their own, and seems to be somewhat customized, like using only wireguard.
And yet you go ahead and speculate that the account "was likely compromised", without saying what facts inclined you to that opinion.
My understanding is that Paypal was largely implemented @ Confinity before the merger with (Musk-founded) X.com
For more about ObjC:

https://gnustep.github.io/resources/documentation/ObjectivCB...

https://gnustep.github.io/developers/documentation.html
> If you consider it absolutely unthinkable that it was not one of the reasons, it's you who is being too generous.

The person you are replying to didn't use the word "unthinkable" or even imply it.

I think you are being either incredibly naive or disingenuous if you believe an adtech giant like google doesn't factor changes to data gathering into every single decision they make.
The change may have happened for any of many reasons. Regardless of which reason was the motivator, it's clear impact is reducing user privacy. When talking about a tracking/advertising company, so it's kinda natural to assume that this was kept in mind.
Maybe this repo could help: https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
He is not more cruel than the stakeholders who sold the company without ever worrying about the employees.
Oh they will, there will be no iPhones this holiday season :-)
Will the EU build something like china's great firewall, if twitter doesn't censor enough?
Maybe it's time to consider whether we're better off not having such concentrations of wealth...

Let Musk keep $5B, he'll be able to live luxuriously forever on that. But he won't be able to ruin thousands of lives so easily.
This is sort of the idea with Phoenix Umbrella apps.
Unless you are under 20, you are just as responsible as any random 60+ year old.
Astounding to me that this is what the leadership at twitter wanted, even forcing Elon to go through with the deal when he tried backing out, knowing full well that this is what would happen to their employees. All for like 20-30% premium on the stock price.
Ubuntu’s release upgrade also corrupts my system, so it’s not just pacman
> that has been working pretty well for 15 years

"Fail whale" is a well-used term for a reason. Twitter has always been known for low reliability. It got better, though, but still nowhere near Facebook etc.
A strong emotional response can go either in the direction you want, or the opposite direction just to spite you. I feel such protestors are doing a disservice to their cause by expressing themselves in such ways.
> Those fired got 4 weeks severance, by the way. A slap in the face, given that if they chose to not click "yes" to stay just a week ago, they would have gotten 3 months.

Can this be real? That’s seriously f-ed up.
He is. Demonstrably.
Imagine having paid 2 months of your salary to lick Musks boots and be discarded and branded "not satisfactory" for your efforts.

They should have at least gotten a horse out for the deal.
If you're just going to use another machine to do your work on, it doesn't sound like much of a replacement.
There are plenty of good ideas in pure tech. I believe they are mostly in the small niche communities that are online that just aren’t well known - build something that a small die hard group will pay for. I’m more a fan of subscription money / fee-for-service than ad money which is inconsistent and requires lots of eyeballs.

I own a handful of profitable small online businesses and I’m building another in my spare time. You can tell by my user name where a lot of opportunity for small time programmers are (crypto in general really) but HN is ideologically opposed to that industry despite the profit opportunities being massive.

And finally I don’t want to reveal any here because I believe Peter Thiel when he writes that “every business has a secret”. On the surface level they are selling XYZ but the reason they win in a competitive market is only known to those running it.
Amazon is unusable at this point, and I don’t get how they have so many customers. Free and fast shipping is no longer exclusive to them, and there are others out there with far nicer websites and no shitty ad listings.
The author worked in Belarus for Wargaming.net until just before making this commit. Wargaming recently withdrew their operations from Belarus and Russia for obvious reasons, and the author appears to have lost his job with them as a result. Combined with the way he nonchalantly reversed the commit and I’m thinking the theory on r/netsec may not be so far fetched.
I've read a load of stuff recently talking about how SpaceX and Tesla survive when he's in charge there too, and apparently SpaceX have a load of people who basically are a buffer between Musk and the bits of the company that actually get the job done.

Twitter has no such buffer, so we get to see the full scale of his hubris and impulsiveness in action.
I've tried to run Emacs this way and quickly gave up. There's just too many packages which don't work at all. Also, it's very, very slow. Finally, for it to be truly useful you need to be able to edit all the text files on your iPad with it and setting that up is either very finicky or doesn't work at all (looking at you, Dropbox).
You might want to check out:

https://framapad.org/abc/ (this organisation has a lot of FLOSS cloud alternatives to Google products)

https://cryptpad.fr/
Here’s a tutorial on how to fine tune stable diffusion form the guy who made text-to-pokemon:

https://lambdalabs.com/blog/how-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusio...
He would have disregarded the unions as well. In the EU the workers have probably been illegally fired and the lawsuits are coming soon.
Might be a little late for Twitter workers at this point
Many World Cup updates do not show up in time (usually delayed by 10-120 minutes). So, Twitter isn't broken but is essentially useless.
Git-delete-merged-branches. A command-line tool for keeping repositories clean
I've been installing Ubuntu this week. Checking download updates during install gave me a broken libc dependency graph which blocked installing ssh or gcc. Libpci-dev conflicts with gnome as far as I can tell, installing that took down X and the network. Changing to the server iso of the same version gave me an OS that can't use the builtin intel NIC, though the desktop version can. The driver errors on modprobe, -2.

I'm going to try again with a different Ubuntu release as soon as I can find the patience. Where prior lessons have taught me to vandalise automatic update or it'll brick itself in the future.

Ease of use has not been the defining characteristic of Ubuntu.
I would hope to be like that myself, but looking at my parents they did basically nothing after retirement (especially my father, my mother kept an active social life).
FYI; PinePhonePro : https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/

PineTime : https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/
But that's still better then just having the main text saying "do this" where "this" is wrong. And that's often the case for non-wiki documentation.
That's a bulshit generalization. The way Musk is handling the entire Twitter situation is a shitshow and I don't really see many people in his position playing it that way. Musk is a controversial character even among rich/powerful and his behavior is in character but not something I'd expect from many of his peers.
> Why did Sweden and Finland just decide to join NATO, after more than half a century of neutrality?

It's a nitpick but one I believe just expands your point here, I live in Sweden and this country has been neutral and out of wars for more than 200 years. Putin has broken a 200 years stance on neutrality and forced Sweden, under a Social Democrat government nonetheless, to join NATO, something that was unthinkable and unsupported by the population barely a year ago.
Yes. The experiments at Yahoo showed that bookmarked things were MUCH, MUCH more likely to be highly ranked.
funny how that works. I never ever allow location access to anything Google or any website for that matter, and have a muscle memory to hit deny when the browser prompts me. The other day I was searching something and then clicking my bookmarked Google News and suddenly all news were UK specific, and my search results fro "heatpumps" were are UK companies and products.. I was confused until I noticed that my work VPN chose a UK endpoint because the NL one where I am had higher latencies.
So, Google heavily tailors the results based on where it thinks you're at.
Also, I was delighted to know that inspire all the tracking Google probably does on me, it was easily fooled to think I was in the UK :-)
I did not intend to write an essay of why PFP would be great to have in Elixir/Erlang. I'm just posting my opinion here and I'm happy to explain it as you can see from my answers.

> ability to put a logging statement anywhere in the code without re-engineering half of your program

Let me ask you a question: does it change the semantics of your (whole) program if that logline, that you are talking about, is not executed for some reason - or if it is executed more than once?

If your answer is "it doesn't really matter, might at most be a bit annoying but it's just a log, no stakeholder of the program can ever notice" then there is no problem with putting this logline into the program. No need to re-engineer anything.

If, however, this logline is critical and will be e.g. parsed and used by another system and actions might be taken due to it, then I would argue it is good if you are forced to consider the potential impacts to your program. If that means that you need to re-engineer half your program then there is a good reason for that, since the potential impact is huge. Such a thing has never happened to me in many years while working on different kind of applications. Sometimes a couple of 100 lines need to be rewritten - that is the max that I ever had to do. And indeed sometimes this rewrite in fact caused me to find and resolve problems that would have otherwise been introduce by accident.
It'd be interesting if Mozilla offered a iCloud-like solution. Obviously, they wouldn't have the tight integration compared to Apple on mobile or desktop. They'd also need a really compelling use case that Apple can't offer.
> I've read a load of stuff recently talking about how SpaceX and Tesla survive when he's in charge there too, and apparently SpaceX have a load of people who basically are a buffer between Musk and the bits of the company that actually get the job done.

https://twitter.com/cestperdu/status/1595778031481942016
Alexa is powered by the forges of mount doom, which burn only cash.
California is At-Will. You can fire for “no reason”. Someone could try to claim your reason was a lie and that it was actually based on discrimination against a protected class though.
Google Maps could have set your location in a cookie that is shared with google.com. Then search would have your location anyway when you next visit it.
I mean, to be fair, the stakeholders of twitter had a chance to not allow a sell. Musk wanted to back out. They knew what would happen. Note, this doesn't absolve Musk of any of his actions, but the stakeholders are also assholes.
I'm still a bit traumatized by the pink popularity badge. What was I thinking?

The wordpress suggestion in the response is just A+.
By the time the deal closed, it was speculated Twitter should have been trading ~$25/share or less. So more like 100%+ premium.
I’m on the spectrum and I have both family and friends on the spectrum. None of them would want to fire thousands of people on a whim. That’s not what being on the spectrum is like. Uncaring is not an apt word at all, and it would be just as surprising for someone on the spectrum to be truly uncaring as any neurotypical person.

They might seem uncaring in fleeting moments due to communication breakdown. They might not understand other peoples’ needs at all times. That’s far, far different from executing on the unemployment of thousands as though they are just crumpled up balls of cash to throw in the waste bin. Not remotely comparable.
What are your preferred alternatives?
Not a productive way of thinking about it, this isn't some tribal conflict where its about having more guys to go beat up those other guys.
Realising you wrote all your life but never thought of yourself as a writer