skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is true, the statement "We don't know that we're not in a recession" is not evidence that we're in a recession. Looking at the evidence that we do currently have--GDP, unemployment, etc.--that evidence strongly suggests that we are not in one.
The article is too vague on details, and I don't see the actual court filing readily accessible (bad journalists! always give a link to court filings!). But given the timeline and the wording, it seems likely to me that Twitter has not paid its rent for November or December--in other words, it's not one, but two missed payments. If that is indeed the case, then I do not find it all surprising that a lawsuit would be so aggressively filed after the second missed payment.

Even if not the case, Twitter has had very public issues which make it extremely likely that it is intentionally not paying the bills that are due. Thus, if the landlord wants to get its money, it either has to get Twitter to renegotiate its contract to one that it is willing to pay, or go to court to force Twitter to abide to the contract (including, potentially, invoking early termination clause). I don't know how much Twitter is behind on to this landlord, but the initial filing costs to the landlord are likely to be in the realm of a few thousand dollars, so it doesn't take much for it to be worth it to the landlord to sue pretty aggressively.
Mid term (2-5 years) it seems like it would be optimal for Twitter to leave SF. Downtown isn't that great to work in and the Elon hate is red hot. They could still keep their SF employees as a satellite office. Bailing on what is surely a very pricey lease is an attractive bonus :-).

Though, it would be hilarious if Twitter's no work from home policy lead to downtown revitalization :0).

I still think SF has a lot to offer startups, but it's no longer essential. Talent has scattered a bit and work from home will continue to drain people away.

Also you probably want to run content moderation from somewhere a little less lopsided ideology-wise. A little more normie like Salt Lake City, Phoenix, or Austin. Ideally a content moderator should be able to have a civil lunch with 80% of the country.
To my knowledge it is native on both android and ios and uses qt on the desktop (which is basically native on linux), but there is also a mac-native version.
No, that tax would disincentivize renting single family homes and similar. Corporate landlords wouldn't be taxed with it and are the meat of that market.
I have always been a fan of Watsi (a YC'13 alum) for this as well. Radically transparent and 100% of your donation goes to stated healthcare needs.

Early on they started with a simple GoFundMe-like approach and have since shifted focus to the monthly model that gives them more leeway to prioritize healthcare needs, but overall exceptionally well run:

https://watsi.org/fund-treatments
This is my favorite charity. I've been donating to them for at least 5 years now and I even ask extended family to donate to them for Christmas instead of buying me gifts that I don't want/need. They send a lot of annoying snail-mail though, I should call and see if I can at least opt-out of that.
It's cool that HN just turns into baseless speculation around Elon now
I feel the better approach would be where if you wish to downvote you must give a reason for the downvote.

This would eliminate the snowball effect.
You can fit a hell of a lot of living space in 1 acre if you use it well. Decent mass transit also increases the effective space of the city from a job perspective

London density could easily be that of Westminster (the borough with large open areas such as Hyde Park, Green Park, St James Gardens, most of Regents Park etc -- imagine all London boroughs having that much public open space).

Westminster isn't even particularly dense, but that alone would allow an extra 6 million people to live in Greater London.

Go for Manhattan density and that's 3 times Westminster, allowing 45 million in Greater London.
4. Experiences and relationships are valuable only because they are time-limited, either by change or death.

Not true by any stretch of imagination.
Snorted a little at this -- how can anyone forecast JS ecosystem 5 years out. =)
> Historically, forming these tiny niche communities wasn't possible.

Friends?
“Wouldn’t it be cool” and “Wouldn’t it be easier“

Well, it would be cool to get more real-time feedback, where possible.

And sure, somethings will be easier when blood is drawn.

So, “yes” to both questions
Do you have anything to add to the discussion other than calling people "high on [their] own farts"?
If you've ever worked with non-technical people it becomes clear that the issue is not really about Windows, Mac or Linux. They all have issues and they just delegate it to the "geeks" to figure it out.

The non-technical people I know that use Windows have it re-formatted every other month after something stops working. They're just used to having to call the technician constantly. As someone else pointed out here, they don't even know if it's an OS issue, hardware issue or whatever else. It's just how tech works (or not, hehe).

Windows is in my experience utter garbage to deal with. We've always had jokes about how it "expires" after a few months and you have to re-install or live with how slow and brittle it gets. It's a black box. BSOD are a common thing we've all had to deal with. Not to mention viruses and the crapware that is oh so common on Windows when people don't know any better.

But it really seems like when it comes to Linux people get all critical but for other OSes, they downplay it. All the crashes, issues, quirks, etc are simply not worth mentioning if it's on my favorite non-Linux OS. If it's Linux, oh damn this mess. It's impossible to use! Look!

The reality is that Linux desktop will probably never see the light of day because it's a commercial issue and not a technical one. We keep pretending this is a technical discussion when it's really not. Windows won early by letting people pirate it and won the majority of the market share. They can then use that power to force everyone to build drivers to work better with their OS. They can make huge deals getting almost every computer in the world to have it pre-installed. They pay for it.

Mac has their cult following and hardware that locks people into their OS. People don't choose OSX. It's their only choice. Only hackers and the more curious will ever venture out of the default choices. But once again, they are there because they pay for it.

It's not about quality, it's just money.
I confess, when someone uses the term the media it comes across as a red flag to me that the author might have an ax to grind so to speak.
Journalism is important. Critically important. Which is why the powerful spend so much money to ensure that they're saying the right things about the right people. And being silent on the issues they shouldn't be discussing.

Heavily funded corporate media has been this way forever. What's more important is small scale independent media, which may actually have a chance of getting out a message which even minimally approximates the truth. Or at least challenges prevailing power centers.
This sounds superficially convincing, until you consider how many hours I've spent trying to figure out stuff that goes wrong in Windows or MacOS. It's a coinflip between whether the conclusion of those efforts resolve in a solution, or instead ends with finding out there not a solution, or even that the lack of a solution is intentional, and every OS update comes with code designed to detect those solutions and silently remove them.
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What are your thoughts on why this is the direction it's headed? What is your experience with dealing with bankruptcy for multibillion dollar companies?
Obligatory: predictions with (good) track records! https://www.metaculus.com/project/2018/
I like this approach; for programming you want something like typing.io to type existing software. I find most of the accuracy in coding is being able to type operators and brackets and such, which don’t feature in normal text.

Practicing on code sounds dumb because you could just write code, but I find drilling this way to be really helpful as you can just focus all your attention on training accuracy. (Added benefit - you perhaps subconsciously memorize your frameworks code if you use, say, Django to practice your Python.)
Yeah, there are downsides to everything, the question is whether pros > cons.

Imagine tomorrow, some mystical cosmic event made it impossible for people to die of natural causes. Would you institute a law that once someone made it to 100 years old, they should be executed? This would prevent most of the downsides curing death would spring.

I think the answer to this is obviously no, that would be completely foolish, if not immoral. But when we start with the status quo of death existing, puzzlingly, most people think death is a good thing.
There is a difference between leetcode in fang and normal code challenges in normal companies

Leetcode has zero correlation to your practical working life, code challenges are what you would do in a normal day at work.

I never prepared for code challenges; if I had to prepare for leetcode I'd need a few months to have any hope.
I did exclusively pushups and pull ups and I actually thought that was fine (if boring) for building my upper body.

I had done squats and walking lunges for my legs but they interfered with running so I stopped.

I subscribe to the "heavy weight, compound exercise" theory of muscle building, which is why I think pushups and pullups are enough for the upper body unless you're targeting some specific muscle. I'd definitely be interested in hearing criticism though.
Major economies are already in deepening recessions. Major producers are starting the year with significant impairment from COVID and supply line pressures. The threat of Russia's aggression affecting other countries remains. Energy prices are still obscene in Europe.

I hope things get better, but I think you'd be mad to plan for global growth this year.
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I've hired from bootcamps multiple times, it's a great source of junior developers. It is however a show of the absolute minimum amount of skill a person could possibly have before you take them on as a developer.

If this person says that they've been coding for years, then that puts them at a way higher level than a recent bootcamp grad.

Instead of doing a bootcamp, spend a week or two building simple apps in whatever category you want to work in. If you want to be a web dev, a little node.js backend with a react frontend perhaps, or similar with Django or Rails.

Plonk it on your github, make sure you put on your resume that you're a junior that's been coding for years but never put anything in production, and you'll definitely be ahead of the bootcamp grads in my book.
Contributing to open source can be a valuable sign. It shows the candidate could navigate a large repository, communicate with the maintainers, and successfully merge something-- the ancillary soft skills needed when developing software in a team environment.
> The idea that the NSA cares you’re reading the article for Hogmanay is a bit of a stretch.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=I+Have+Nothing+To+Hide

> I think a caching proxy shared with other people would be more effective

Thank you, that's food for thought. Happy Hogmanay, if that's a correct use of the term.
From what I remember: the "long term" is 6 weeks. The productivity goes up up to 40 hours a week, then it remains constant up to 50 and then goes down with hours.

80+ week schedule is not because of output effectively. One reason for it is mismanagement - a lot of wasted time and general chaos. People posturing how much they work, but not actually being productive. And second reason is creating social buble - a group of people effectively isolated from outside relationship. That allows for generaly more abusive/controlling style of management, it allows you to shape employees opinions more. That is necessary condition for companies like Enron used to be to operate.
So improvements which shouldn't be taxed are taxed. The land owner of an empty acre pays far less tax than the land owner of an acre with 40 people living there. That's wrong.
Side projects you built and can explain in detail
> I’ve had my mind changed due to HN.

Do you have an example?
Finally, big geek brains are going to get applied to this problem. Maybe we can come up with some algorithms to improve this experience! I was hoping this demographic would do something to fix the problems created... the last time this demographic tried to fix this and created these problems. ( glad to see such humility and self awareness on what made internet toxic in this discussion).
Reversing “it” is not necessarily the goal, the goal is holding off Alzheimer’s. Diet, sleep and exercise are lifestyle remedies that may achieve this, and pre screening for risk might provide additional motivation
I agree with everything you said. Imagine what's going to happen when someone trains an AI model to act like a loudmouth, blowhard nitpicker.

Since this would be done by a programmer, programming communities would be among the first ones targeted.
> encrypted search

Whoa... how is that gonna work?
In the United States creditors can file a petition for an involuntary bankruptcy, which if granted would effectively put the company into receivership and no doubt under less friendly administration than a voluntary Chapter 11 filing.
Keepassx

I have copy of keepass dbs on phone, private notebook and employer notebook. Once a month I doing backups, and I am updating these databases. Fresh passwords, for current month I'm holding unencrypted in email draft/todo list/google keep till full backup procedure.
I think programming culture is immature because programmers are often unable to take a step back from the absoluteness of their work and see real life as nuance.

This is also what I think makes for great system architects and really differentiates them from “just” a programmer. The ability to reason about all the trade offs at each point and make that deal with designers+users etc in an amicable way. A good architect understands compromise and nuance whereas many software engineers often see it as a puzzle with one true solution.

So debate often becomes: there is one true way to do this. A difference in opinion is a difference in truth.

When I supervised teams, my favourite moments with junior hires was when they’d hit a problem that they couldn’t reason about without compromising something, and also when they’d invariably break something in the process because “it should work this way”.

It’s the best teaching moment. They can learn that best is relative. What may seem ideal is coloured by so many facets they don’t consider in the limited world view they’ve collected of the systems thus far.

The best are when they put out a UI based internal tool (so no designers involved). They’ll often get responses from users that they can’t figure it out but their own engineering mindset often can’t see past their logical flow and familiarity, to see to the lack of intuitiveness within a greater world view. Again, a really great teaching point about how intuitiveness is often non tangible.

Anyway all this is to say: as programmers we often think in absolutes , in binary so to speak. IMHO that’s one of the biggest issues in our community culture. It’s why we often fail to put ourselves in others shoes or fail to have discourse.
Well, at least in the short term...
This is a classic example of correlation and causation. You're basically saying that running is correlated with a longer life, not causative of it. Causality is undergraduate level science and any paper of any quality will discuss causality and correlation in depth.

For example, in the study that we are discussing here, it says

> It is possible that healthy people may run more, which could lead to reverse causality. However, we found consistent mortality benefits in runners in both healthy and unhealthy individuals

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131752/

You can read more if you want to understand more about how they handle these factors.
For sure, I cannot complain. There a plenty who lost money to create those crazy valuations, so I am definitely on the fortunate side of things.
Not sure why are you singling out West Germany here since the same applies to many other countries and tbh there is no particular issue with filtering content coming from totalitarian enemies interested in destroying you.

The very important distinction here is that were the same policies as in Czechoslovakia applied in West Germany, people like Rainer Werner Fassbinder would not be able to create their movies. Not distribute, create.
The desktop linuxes I've used would be my daily OS if it weren't for the edges. Not necessarily as sharp now as when you could break a CRT with the wrong modeline, but still bad relative to the alternative (for me macOS). I mean things like fonts, copy/paste, screen resolution, kerning, cursor acceleration, bounding boxes, full screen support, sound (and I primarily know what I'm doing with Linux Sound since the OSS days.). It's the churn that keeps the GUI tantalizing close but distant. There are happy kde and gnome users out there, heck I'm on KDE right now typing this, but all those other victories had a unity of involved 'stakeholders' (AWS, millions of ISPs, Android, etc) and the focus in desktop OSes is famously nebulous (or at a minimum splintered along multiple axes). Still things like PopOS give me hope for the future. Also I'm a 2 spaces after a period ghost from the late 1900s whose opinion isn't worth much.
People aren't hostile to the idea of mainstream Linux desktops. They're just fed up with people claiming that Linux is mainstream and ready for "ordinary users" when it clearly still isn't (and may never be).
I agree, but it all depends on how you define "get off the couch". Some people walk moderate amounts already and for those starting running makes a lot of sense, while others move so little in their life that walking is the best first step. It is also perfectly fine if walking is the only step, but at least in my case I felt huge health benefits from going from walking moderate amounts to running (I still walk, but a bit less).
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> future generations for the sake of the current, and this is being felt right now as younger are struggling to get started, and the the older generations are living in relative luxury.

I don't disagree with your overall point about sacrificing future generations for the current, but this specific point is probably true regardless as luxury often takes time to acquire.
Yeah I have no qualms about writing mostly-BS unit tests when the existing structure of a project makes it infeasible to write good ones. When in Rome! But when I'm starting from scratch or have a chance to do refactoring, I move toward the "functional core" approach as much as possible.
I don’t think I understand your point. If I understand correctly, you’re advocating for dishonesty to push Linux as an agenda?
I shower every day anyway, so I don't count shower time as cost of running. I head out first thing in the morning immediately after I get up and then shower immediately after I come back. Which I think is a terrific way to start my day.

Does it take time? Yes, it does, but only if you look at it in this simplistic way. Even if I did not enjoy running itself, it makes the rest of the day feel better for me which I think makes up for the time "wasted".

I also use my runs to listen to news, audiobooks or podcasts. I am walking every day in the evening and I use that time to listen to audiobooks and also get some grocery, etc. -- trying to get as much from the time I spent on walks as possible.

If I don't listen to something I am trying to be productive by rethinking things that happened to me, preparing arguments for upcoming meetings, thinking through other problems that I have at the moment.
For use as a bio marker the question is somewhat less relevant. However the other comments answer your question well
I once worked for a company during Dotcom that failed to pay rent for 7 months, was then forced into Chap 7 at 4:30 PM on a Thursday (we were given 30 mins to vacate the office). The building management then padlocked the doors leaving everything inside for the next 7 months while the they and the major creditor fought over rent and the contents. Turned out the building and the creditor were in fact parts of the same company - Merrill Lynch. They locked themselves out.

You can go quite long without paying rent.
Same, FWIW.
With the speed at which Elon changes his mind, I think "ages ago" is accurate even if it was less than 2 months ago.
Recession will come. Wages have not increased. People will not have enough money to buy the same stuff they bought before.
Mac vs Linux vs Windows feels like something from a bygone era. I don't think people are so zealous anymore. I've used all three as my primary OS at one time or another and currently use Mac and Windows. They're all better at some things than others. None could fully replace the others.
No I mean the total number of developers. I know software is growing, but having doubled since 2019 (and it wasn't small in 2019 either) is beyond reasonable.
Having done Couch to 5K, I can say 9 weeks is too short. I understand that a longer, more realistic time frame would mean fewer people will attempt it, but such quick growth makes injuries more likely. Lungs and heart adopt faster than ligaments. I ended up hurting my knee, which set me back by a couple of months.
> "Stacking layers on top of each other promotes inefficiency and poor security"

Yet that's exactly how the internet works today.
Good points. But so too can a lot change in the next 1.5 months. Or 12.
One aspect in which one can see that we are still in an immature field is seeing how "the new thing" is always valued more than the stablished one, and how language books are more recommended than works that intend to be foundational (like TAOCP or SWEBOK, disclaimer, I've read neither of them).
Nice, good to know. Thanks!
I don't see how expecting candidates to know algorithms by heart or solving complex algorithms is useful.

Whenever I encounter that at work I research the topic extensively and learn or re-learn whatever it is I need.

I completely agree on testing on real tasks, given some candidates who perform terribly on those manage to squeeze by (even thanks to them passing leetcode bs interview without having real world experience).
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"...The disclosure of the Classified Information at this time would case serious, and in some cases exceptionally grave, damage to national security..."

"...The Classified Information for Deletion shall be deleted from discovery and shall not be disclosed to Defendants, their counsel, or the public..."

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.239...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/62981851/united-states-...
If Freenom the registry starts having problems then yeah. Right now it's only Freenom the registrar I think (they're required to operate as separate entities I believe, although that might not help given the level they're integrated into each other).
I’m happy other people have similar experience.
I enjoy physical activity but running is just too boring.
The shower after a workout is extremely satisfying. Only takes a couple minutes in any case
I wasn't disagreeing (or agreeing) with that opinion. It's just orthogonal to whether or not dependency injection is a useful approach.
> there are zero maintainer of autoconf since 2012,

Paul's work doesn't count?