skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about a revolt, but this is what we're seeing:

People mobbing into stores, grabbing things off the shelves, and just walking out. Sleeping in tents in massive encampments, turning parks and sidewalks into shanty towns. Pissing and shitting on the street in broad daylight.

The richest are driving up rents and housing prices in cities. Gas is increasingly unaffordable, driving up cost of living in rural areas. People who cannot keep up will find other solutions. It might not involve guillotines, but the US has more guns per capita than anywhere else in the world.

edit: what I've described above is not a revolt, per se, but it is revolting.
They have a saying about bank loans:

If you borrow $100,000, the bank owns you. If you borrow $100,000,000, you own the bank.

The bigger you are, the longer it takes the establishment to bring you down, if they ever do.
Google food desert
Mine bitcoin on users' computers for you when they are idle?
According to the article, Musk started giving six-figure retention bonuses. That's a lot of motivation if you think things will calm down soon.
The grocery store has food for all manner of diets and it takes SNAP. I don’t think your story negates the crux of the matter. It’s great junk food is healthy for you.
AT&T really is annoying but it feels like the big vs little endian debate. Fairly easy to convert between the two as well.
> You have a lot to learn. Start by reading the article, and understand that the effects of growing up that way are hard to overcome - psychologically. The author has a Ph.D and still suffers from it.

The author grew up poor and has a Phd? Sounds like all the arguments here about how it is impossible to escape poverty are at odds with that fact.

-- someone who grew up poor
This is a completely valid perplexion. It's so bewildering, right?

Something I've learned (and keep learning in other contexts) is that change can be overwhelming for some for many reasons, probably more than I'm aware of.

I've literally gone to a previous coworker and said, "there's a job with your name on it. Your pay will literally double. Your hours will halve. And you won't ever have to fear a C-level throwing a tantrum." They hummed and hawed and explained away why they didn't want to try.

I think some of it is:

- inertia

- anxiety of "what if?"

- known over unknown

- ???
Someone need to add this to Sarnoff wikipedia page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sarnoff
I run screen inside my mosh sessions which provides scrollback, among other features. (Tmux is another option.) ET is also a great solution, but I happen to need screen or something like it for its other features anyway.
>I absolutely cannot understand why any engineer would chose to stay at Twitter with the way things are.

I get it. For the same reason that Geohot gets it.

There's a certain type of personality that doesn't care about life. They don't care about family. They don't care about wealth and material possessions. They don't care about "work life balance". They care about clout. They care about being "the best of the best". They want to be part of an elite team working on the hardest problems in the world, and nothing else matters. And Elon (through SpaceX, Tesla, and now Twitter) feeds that need greater than anything else available.
You got dependents? Does cooking require any utilities? Let's say you can only afford one. You going to sleep by the oven or do homework by candlelight? How many illnesses are you away from homelessness?
anecdote to the contrary:

>visits a handful of news websites

That's exactly how I got my only zero day virus in 20+ years of tech career. News sites have sources. Some news are rumors. It was very long ago and i pressed source link to 'semi accurate' tech news source in a news about CPUs.

Your best bet is to replace hdd with ssd or replace laptop and turn everything to 'recommended' or even 'security recommended'. Yes 8ms delays on some file opens will be there but people can live with that.
As I see it, cruelty is often a byproduct, not the goal. Most often born of ignorance, or simply because the incentives differ. Therefore, I think it's natural to expect people to be cruel to the other. So what we can do, to be more civil, is to regulate our way of doing things - either by culture, law, or in other ways.
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It could go to the people who produce the value in the first place: the workers.
At least in the past I know that would get you blocked as it acted as a bridge to allow tweets from the blocked instance to get through.
He could but does he really want to go all-all-all in?
That explains it. I use win+R (the hotkey for run) the same way since I think win95.

When I search the start menu, it does the weirdest things, e.g searching notepad via bing instead of starting it, or preferring the uninstaller above the real program. So I learned that the start menu is basically broken for search, and became harder to use as a menu. I mostly abandoned it.

Meanwhile, the gui widgets, built in windows and control panels became much worse and dumbed down. It pretends to be a helpfull assistant, but behaves more like an arrogant drunk. I want to do some work on the machine, not be told about some experience it really wants to shove in my face.
They can't talk about it.

I'm a first generation college grad (both undergrad and grad school) raised by blue collar peeps (sort of - it's complicated). In professional environments, talking about your life or the impacts of poverty will get you pushed out. You're not a 'culture fit', you make people uncomfortable, the upper-middle class/PMC assume that if you have poverty problems you can't work as well, etc.

It is 100% passing. I'm very good at it, because my mother was a defector from that life and passed on the social mores for us to use, but I hate it, and the energy it takes up is immense. I didn't even realize until I worked in my first 'non-professional' job in retail. I don't have to hide everything about my life and childhood, I don't have to watch my language so I don't give away I grew up poorish, etc.

And I have it very, very good in my groups. (Poor-raised + disabled).
I would say 100% of my engineering circles, 50% of my non-engineering-but-I-work-in-tech circles, and 30% of my other circles are familiar with the story. Incredibly anecdotal of course and I imagine less than 10% of the general population has been exposed at this point.
No, it's not necessary. It's exactly why things like Intel's current situation happen. You get some douche with an economics background in charge that spends a decade optimizing for profit, and when you realize the company is fucked because everybody else is suddenly ahead of you, you just move on an sell your time there as a success, while the next guy tries to fix it. Which obviously means it will get pretty bad for a while, but that's ok, because when shareholders are fed up with it after a few years, you put one of those douches in charge again that can take credit for the eventual success of the previous guy's work.
He’s a criminal fraudster.
Is 32 bit cheaper? Still 1 cycle.
Wouldn't it be more like Thomas Keller cooking you whatever he is having on a random Thursday night? Executed with style, but not overbearingly perfect like one might expect from a 3 Michelin star restaurant.
Other than some fantasy consoles like WASM-4, which have some retro-inspired limitations, there isn't really a standard way to do any kind of GUI in Wasm yet. Wasmer has a non-standard way[1], which they hide behind compilation flags, and involves writing to a bitmap framebuffer, so no hardware acceleration.

[1]: https://medium.com/wasmer/wasmer-io-devices-announcement-6f2...
The UX for the COVID vaccination bookings webpage in Nova Scotia was, um, not great, and contributed to the problem.

We did rollouts by age groups, and generally the appointments in urban areas would be two weeks out, but once you had a vaccination booking you could reschedule it. So everyone would book the first thing they found on the site, then could start looking for appointments made available due to other people rescheduling.

I wrote a scraper for vaccine appointment availability and shared it
I am an immigrant myself. So I understand the pain of uprooting yourself and moving to another country. I put myself in the shoes of Twitter staff. That ultimatum by Musk of Twitter 2.0 would simply had me quit. As did many engineers. But if my visa status was tied to the job, I would had stayed. Simply to get some more time in landing another job if nothing else.
Amazon's business model has shifted from selling goods to consumers to selling consumers to anonymous Chinese manufacturers.
One challenge with that approach is if you're not careful, someone might start identifying you as a threat because of that behavior, and start attacking you using the BS and lies that a great many others are susceptible too (or outright violence).

What we're seeing now is the part of the larger cycle where folks get more and more insistent that they're warped world view is correct (and it wouldn't surprise me if we get more violence than we got on Jan 6th later because of it), since they can't acknowledge that they're wrong and something bad is happening because of it, which will cause more bad things to happen.

It is imperative more people stand up and provide counter-pressure, because otherwise they will win.
How many companies in the last 300 years were as large as amazon or walmart?

A local hairdressing salon owner/director doesn't earn a lot more than the employees there.

Maybe it's time to disincentivize huge companies in favour of many smaller ones.
He didnt start Tesla, be bought them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.

Similar story for pay pal.
The motivation of the purge was 100% political and cultural. Performance was the facade.
I think it is fair to say that there is a variety of reasons why people are obese. Some people certainly eat out of boredom, for emotional reasons, taste, etc. But there are people who also feel hungry all the time. Those people will benefit. Others may as well.
Well we have 10m people living under poverty, even armed with forks and spoons they'd take the Elysee in a day. Even the 42 000 homeless children living in France could take care of it
Facts don't exist in a vacuum. And their context gives them a side.
There's always a cost somewhere...
It is not illegal to send cash in the mail. Thats just silly.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sending-cash-u-s-mail-ille...
This article is framed in a way I find epistemologically suspect. It confuses observations, models and truth. Some of its intertitles are meaningless like "Will we ever know the real nature of space and time?".

The article is actually about models in which spacetime is an emergent property of more fundamental structures: string theory and loop quantum gravity. Both face a lack of experimental evidences validating their predictions.
Agreed. I think the only use cases would be that your fist hop is stable but you want to proxy to another region over a lossy link but I can't imagine that would be very common. Maybe when using a satellite link or a inter-continental connection has a single over-saturated link but that would be a very fringe case. Perhaps when Starlink gets over-subscribed that could be a case.
Likely you made this up and have no idea actually.
I just had the (to others obvious I'm sure) ultimate idea endgame - we will all have a mini 3D printer in our pockets, with a library of handy things.
If "import ctypes;ctypes.string_at(0xdeadbeef)" in Python doesn't count as memory unsafety, then I don't see why the equivalent in Unsafe Rust would.
There's lots of confusion what this is. Basically browser runs a giant eventloop. Whenever you call async function in javascript, it gets put into a queue, and called by the event loop (usually the next execution). This basically makes it so that the async call gets tagged with metadata that tells the event queue "Don't call me unless you have nothing else to call". So basically it keeps the async call at the end of the queue until it's the final call, and that's when the eventloop will call it. The subject is quite misleading as it is not really about idle.
It's... interesting to see all the VCs on twitter defending the culture at Musk's twitter.
Absolutely none of this is surprising. Twitter employees knew that this was coming for like 9 months or so. If people are still there, then they are voluntarily accepting this cruel treatment. Any software engineers that are even halfway decent would still get snapped up in a heartbeat elsewhere.

Of course, the one caveat to all this is our indentured servitude system of H1B visas. Even then, though, if I were on an H1B, as soon as it became apparent that Musk was taking over I would have started looking for other employment if I wanted to stay in the US.

But otherwise, I don't see why any other software engineers at Twitter would have any right to complain about cruel treatment. Just leave if you don't want to work there.
> The 1 hour build time went down to 5 minutes for release, about 9 for debug.

I kind of one in the future if there will be a publicly trustable, free to use "just plug and play, you don't need to set up your own" ccache

Think of the energy savings implications

Imagine every unoptimized build job for every microservice (Rust in Docker pulls the entire Cargo registry + rebuilds all dependencies every time you make a source code change of any kind if you don't go out of your way to prevent it)

Obviously trusting a public source to just compile something for you and give you a binary-like object is... probably a malware distributor's dream.

And I don't have data to prove the bandwidth cost would offset the energy savings of CPU cycles recalculating the same stuff over and over.

Interesting though...
He signed up customers with documented agreements saying that their funds would be segregated and not lent out, and then he used the U.S. banking system's wire infrastructure to have their money sent directly to his hedge fund Alameda Research instead of the exchange FTX.
Ahh, thanks for clarifying! Yes, in that case it is very appreciated to see recent updates.
Arlo Guthrie's song is an important part of my Thanksgiving day tradition.
> At what point do you see the irresponsibility? Applebees? Ruth's Chris? The French Laundry?

Definitely not the $2 burger special at Mcdonald's, that's for sure.
All the poorer people I know are very skilled at saving small amounts of money on things, e.g. pirating shows, using a cheap old phone, knowing where to find the cheapest groceries, and so on. I know that I've gotten a lot lazier about stuff like pirating a show vs just paying three dollars or whatever to watch it as my income has gone up.

The things that prevent poor people from becoming not poor, in my experience, are things like chronic health conditions and abusive upbringings. The things that have gotten people I know out of poverty have usually been education. I don't know a single person who got out of poverty by cancelling netflix. Where are you getting this idea from?
Here is a step by step, keystroke by keystroke, howto for rclone with S3 buckets as an example target:

https://rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html

... this HOWTO uses an rsync.net account as an endpoint/throughpoint but you can ignore that - this HOWTO is applicable to any general configuration.
Will give this a go. I saw an app kind of like this but the images did not look like me. Was very unsatisfied. And I know it was just released, but is it using Stable Diffusion 2?
They've said they expect him to attend virtually from the Bahamas.
Boosters or no, the conditional probability of dying is (I assume) significantly lower for vaccinated people, but if there are many more vaccinated than unvaccinated, the majority of Covid deaths will be among vaccinated.

It's sort of like saying there are more yodelers in the US than in Switzerland. That could be true even if the per capita number of yodelers is much higher in Switzerland.

On the other hand, saying that Finland has won 15 Olympic medals in the 10,000 meters compared to the USA's 3 understates Finland's achievement, given that Finland has a population of about half that of Los Angeles County.
Another question: do you look at your saved links frequently, for example to browse by the tag you assigned? What's the primary purpose of tagging?

I just created a ticket for this: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/595
If this money was distributed among the wealthiest 10% it would be far more distributed than it is now.

Most of the people driving the 399x compensation figure are in the top fraction of a percent for wealth, and even small-time CEOs are mostly well above 90th percentile earners.
Alemania(SP)/Allemagne(FR) for Germany -- must be related??
Anyone can be mistreated
Even this metaphor breaks down, in what way would someone who eats at 5 star restaurants be qualified to comment on the structure of the recipe or the reliable sourcing of ingredients? The truth is pretty clear at this point: Musk has no technical chops.
Only OpenBSD has a track record anything like going since ~1996 with only 2 remotely exploitable security bugs in the default installation. And ongoing, it has far fewer (no?) privilege escalation bugs, etc., which gives some comfort as one installs packages beyond the default installation.

So one can weigh security, clean organization & good documentation, vs. some convenience if needed features are missing (bluetooth is available sometimes via USB, I think I read in a mailing list, but no NFS, and some other things).
Ask HN: Books about full text search?
I would love to learn more about FTS at a very low level and I'm looking for books to read more on that topic. Any good suggestions ?
I agree that there could be people caught in this situation. I feel for them and I want this system to be improved.

However, people are claiming that no engineer in their right mind would stay there if not in that situation. It turns out Twitter has had less than 700 H1-B approvals since 2009:

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Noahpinion/status/159464174641...

Basic arithmetic to determine there are at least hundreds of American engineers working at Twitter right now.

People. I get it. You don't like Elon. You find this type of work environment toxic. Not everyone is like you though!

In fact, at least a few of us are applying to work there as we speak.
I think we all invested in him as he's nerdy and chasing moonshots. I bought TSLA stock at IPO and held through all the fail years. Musk enjoys unparalleled fandome and respect in many circles.

But of course, Elon thinks it's all him. He's a genius, a savior and nothing can come between his view of reality. Imo, Elon is past his expiry date. Time for capitalism to fix him
Rarely, and only when I don’t verify such statements for myself (which is my usual practice).
Even if this is true, which I would need citations for, the wealthiest 10% of Americans is way broader than the singular CEO. They'd spend more money, pay more taxes, and generally distribute the money more broadly.
Populists have so far been able to focus all that anger at immigrants and LGBT people.
Imagine being him and sitting in his little billionaire playpen and having the choice of playing with the car thing, the space rocket thing, or the website thing and picking option 3.

Literal space rockets. You couldn't tear me away from Starbase Texas.
Come on, no one could see _this_ coming. Let's be honest, what Musk is doing is surreal and bizarre.
Not yet but it's what I'll be spending much of my Thanksgiving doing. Being able to train models on a half or a third the steps is huge so this is a priority.
Content littered with ads can not be considered free.
The difference from traditionally paid content is that customers pay with their attention and virtual purchasing power instead of spending money directly.

Nonetheless ads obviously allow access for all.
Yes, and currently I use my SNAP on junk food.

If it were restricted, I'd have major issues eating because what is and isn't healthy would be determined by upper-middle class people who work in think tanks and based off of some weird ideal diet, completely ignoring the varying health needs and ability levels of the people actually using SNAP.
I run arch on my VPS. Before, I ran Debian, but if you need a special package version, or something, it just feels almost as hard as getting a newer IIS version on Windows. I got sick of it, removed Debian, and installed Arch from scratch.

My Linux experience was pretty minimal. Some trying out on desktop in the early 2000s and later again after Ubuntu became a thing, but I always got weird errors. Then some in university, and again a bit to administer my VPS or rPi.

Arch was a breath of fresh air, not only could I get current packages, everything was so well documented! The wiki is, as the article rightfully says, amazing. Now, even when I’m not using arch (I have a small Proxmox server with Debian and Debian containers), I still use the archwiki as I know it will help me for everything but Debian specific things. My first arch install (before that, I never installed an OS without an installer) took maybe 2 hours.
What are those for? My laptop has internet, but I don’t need to plug it anywhere for it to work. Is this for computers like they had in the really old movies like Back to the Future?
bizarre is the right word.

Musk's actions are so bizarre and inefficient. He could have used perf review...
Hilarious that you mention it, because Graal has a Wasm front end.

https://www.graalvm.org/22.1/reference-manual/wasm/
Hope everyone has a good one.

Any recipes to share?
I think most comments here are America centric where Amazon might've peaked. Even without Prime, Amazon has been the best e-commerce site I've used in Europe or India. The customer support itself warrants the price they ask for and it's usually the cheapest in the market. It is possible that it will head the same direction with market saturation but for now the promise still lives up.
He admitted to using client funds against the stated TOS. Embezzlement, Fraud, whatever - a crime did occur, regardless of if it was crypto, and every country I've run across has laws against that.

Untangling how to charge him, and where, and digging up concrete enough evidence to file an indictment is going to take awhile of course. The post-bankruptcy CEO seems to be finding plenty.

As with a lot of non-violent crime, it takes awhile to arrest someone because there is a lot of paperwork. When the suspect has a lot of cash and lawyers, it takes longer because they need to make sure there isn't an angle they are missing that could get them off.
The typical comment about toaster ovens is that they’re bad at making toast and they’re bad at being an oven. Just learn to use the oven that’s already installed in the kitchen.
> Maybe others would find what the other guy wants too narrow.

That's exactly what makes it worse, though. They currently have to choose more globally, it's not that personalized. in the human-curated world others would get different things. I know they don't like Slipknot, I know you do, I give you each different recommendations. Spotify's code hasn't shown the ability to learn "me" vs it's view of what the "average me" would like.
Wasn't the head diver he called a pedo, was one of the organisers.
How many cancer treatments poor life decisions are you away from homelessness?
Bambu Labs X1
> Restructuring and refocusing firm sized of Twitter should take weeks if not months. Not saying that it wasn't needed, but the approach taken seem just insane.

Agree completely. Part of my shitshow comment is how haphazard and plan free the layoffs have gone.
Who is selling oil in gold? I'm curious how Ghana plans to pull this off; such a move would typically result in being cut off from world bank + WTO, if not invasion.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "happens only in different timezones?" It sounds like an interesting bug to identify.