skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working in industry since '97... and I've dodged so many layoffs. That doesn't mean I wasn't impacted, though. There's always at least as much work to be done, and fewer people to do it, and a a lot of people get super stressed out and hard to work with (or work for... this is especially bad with management. Working for someone who is afraid of getting fired is miserable.) Usually, there's a lot more work 'cause the boss expects me to figure out how to make the systems work just as well without spending as much money on them.

Several times, I've quit after the layoffs because work became a lot more stressful. At least once, I quit without another job lined up, just 'cause it was too much. (In my defense, I was like 21, I was the only technical person who hadn't been laid off (or left for greener pastures) and my boss, I think, was driven insane by the stress of keeping things going during the brutal dot-com bust. It was not a situation a reasonable person would expect a child to be able to deal with.)

In a lot of ways, I think the people in the first round of layoffs have it best; that's when the severance packages are sweetest, and in my experience, after the first round of layoffs, the people who have the best options (which aren't necessarily the best people at doing the job? but there is some correlation) jump ship, and that makes things harder, too, just 'cause you have lost all the people management thinks are the worst, and all the people that management (at other companies) thinks are the best, and you have to then do the job with just those in the middle. (the downside, of course, to being in the first wave is that it's a lot easier to get a new job while you have a job, vs getting that new job right after you got laid off.)

My own personal rule is that when the first layoff hits, start looking hard. I mean, if it's an industry-wide downturn and you happen to be at a company that is well-placed to weather it better than most, maybe you stay? but usually the best thing to do after dodging a layoff is to find another job at another company, one that isn't in as much trouble.
Sorry I was on mobile and wasn't very clear. I meant in terms of services like Google Drive or Dropbox, what about the sharing functionality doesn't work for you?
I haven't experienced this specifically on YouTube, but you may be talking about the Page Visibility API [0]. I've tried to disable it natively in Firefox and Chrome (without extensions) but with no avail. It can even tell if I switch desktops in i3wm. Here's two demos [1][2]. I'm guessing it's saving $$$ on bandwidth. I just want the option to turn it off.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility-2/

[1] http://daniemon.com/tech/webapps/page-visibility/

[2] https://testdrive-archive.azurewebsites.net/Performance/Page...
NextCloud is quite a dependency for a simple file upload.
The entire map of Fortnite was removed, literally sucked into a virtual black hole. The game world is being rebooted/remade.
Not only were there few repercussions for Intel, their CEO and some on his team faced few repercussions too.

What amazed me is how Intel execs avoided insider trading charges from the SEC when they sold their own Intel shares, knowing of the problems themselves, but before it was public knowledge.
No, you get goofy measurements like these converting weights / baker's percentages to volume. Yeasts are one thing, but salt is much worse. You can get roughly twice as much salt per volume in table salt vs. common kosher salts. I have a jeweler's / drug dealer scale that can weigh small amounts very accurately. If I scale a loaf up or down, I have complete confidence in a repeatable result.

Baking is not like other types of cooking where you can adjust as you go.
Apparently my information is out of date, thanks.
I've worked for SUSE for quite a few years now, and so I've gotten fairly used to running openSUSE on all my machines (and I do quite like things like the Open Build Service and other openSUSE projects). I'm am a package maintainer for a bunch of openSUSE packages (most of the container-related ones and a few others) -- so I might as well use them myself to make sure they work properly.
Where do you put 1 trillion dollars when your main goal is to just preserve it or lose just a little?
No comment on whether public stocks are inflated at the moment, but it's odd to spin WeWork / Softbank as an indication we are in a stock market bubble. This whole thing blew up because public investors rejected the inflated valuation of Softbank's portfolio.
Jeremy Hammond Issues Statement Explaining Why He Is Resisting the Grand Jury
A small donation will go a long way.
I got a vacuum sealer and happily buy steaks and freeze a few.

Costco often as Prime beef that's ~$18/Lb. Whole Foods for USDA Prime is often $30+.
The interesting thing is that after the Wright Brothers successfully flew, their main contribution was a patent war which held back the US aviation industry significantly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
I will not likely be around much longer and there seems to be no way to ensure my remains are used for good or just flushed and not lining someone's pocket. You cannot even just be disposed of...you have to pay four figures at least just for a simple cremation where someone profits from just burning you up. I cannot even escape capitalism's nonsense in death. I had my end of life documents made up not long ago and had noted scientific donation as my preference, but after this article and looking into it more, I don't want some greedy jerkwad selling my bits. My life was ruined by greed and people choosing profits over life...and I hate the idea of those same sort of people "winning" in my death.
What newnewpdro describes is definitely not a commoditized product. Real commodities have exacting standards. E.g., US grain standards: https://www.gipsa.usda.gov/fgis/usstandards.aspx

Or the standards on commodity exchanges, like Kansas City Hard Red Winter Wheat Futures, which come in 5,000 bushel lots and require a deliverable grade of "No. 2 at contract price with a maximum of 10 IDK per 100 grams; No. 1 at a 1 1/2-cent premium. Deliverable grades of HRW shall contain a minimum 11% protein level. However, protein levels of less than 11%, but equal to or greater than 10.5% are deliverable at a ten cent (10¢) discount to contract price. Protein levels of less than 10.5% are not deliverable." -- from https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/files/fact-car...

Real-world commodities have exacting standards precisely to prevent this kind of nonsense.
That's very much not true. I've received many fake items - where if I didn't already own the product AND box and could compare side by side, I'd never know.

Even then, until it doesn't work right, you wouldn't know.

There are some _very_ good looking counterfeits on amazon.
Indeed. "Bread" is not just a book of recipes, but a valuable resource in learning how this stuff actually works. The breadth of techniques in the book is also much greater than most.
Sturgeon's law applies. 99% of Flash was garbage - animated autoplaying ads that slowed your browser to a crawl, unnecessary unskippable splash pages for every restaurant website ever, DRM'd audio and video players...

And then there was utter genius like Homestar Runner, which made it almost worth it.
What happened to the previous Mu that was a funny looking procedural language and why did you decide to switch directions?
To put aside the whataboutism first. Yes I have seen the consequence of coal mining, on both people and place, which is why I am pleased that the UK now has under fifty coal miners, working in a few small scale open mines. From a peak of around 1 million down the mines. Coal is almost completely out of UK generation, and would be with no nuclear. It is presently the source of last resort - the few coal plants that remain spend most of their time idling. By 2025 there will be zero.

If the authorities were able to show an ongoing period of best-practice, excellent management and regulation to ensure the industry (all industry) pays the environmental cost up front from their profit, I'd still be a vocal advocate of nuclear like I was in my naive twenties. No, every time there is systemic ineptness and a public purse left holding the bill for the after-closure clean up. Decades of renaming, cover-up, lies, official inquiries and ignoring the locals. Many of whom are like me - they'd love to accept it and perhaps work there were it not so criminally inept. Same would go for an explosives plant. :p

Have confidence in a reprocessing plant that was going to make the UK billions of good Thatcherite pounds reprocessing the world's nuclear waste, that caused an international outrage, and has not actually made profit if you include the large leak and decomissioning cleanup. In fact even if you discount cleanup THORP looks pretty questionable as to whether it was really profitable at all.

The UK is a small place, a major accident or Chernobyl scale catastrophe would be easily and rapidly nationwide as guessing, Sellafield is perhaps 300 miles as the crow flies from London - maybe 400 by road. I'm maybe about 40 or 50 miles straight line from the plant - it's 80 or 90 by road. A major sea incident would be similar. No one in the UK can get further than 70 miles from the sea.

Authorities say it is safe, neighbouring country Ireland and others in Europe have been campaigning against Sellafield for decades. Not just nuclear activists that you would dismiss, but they have made governmental approaches at diplomatic level and within the EU. That's been because there have been countless incidents, reports of malpractice, official reports and public inquiries of lies and cover ups, and two or three official renamings so we'd forget about the scandal of the Windscale fire, or Seascale. This seam is so rich I am not going to mine it for you. That's all on top of the couple of dozen International Nuclear authority reporting incidents that must be reported. Extensive history of (inadequate) fines too.

The TL;DR is Seascale / Windscale / Sellafield is a Western gold standard for how not to do it. It would take considerable evidence and persuasion for me to have faith and confidence in say the USA or French nuclear management competence. I'm entirely prepared to believe there is someone, somewhere doing it with excellence, but capitalism and communism appears to rule that out, so um, where now?
Live demo doesn't seem to work on iPad (using Chrome)
Or buy Regus for said $3B and combine that with Wework at a much lower valuation. Own the market. Own 51% of the whole shebang. Done.

But in real life things are not quite that easy ;)
Or an issue. Feedback and ideas are often appreciated, even when they don't come with code. It also allows non-coders to contribute.
> I suspect that would ruin their whole 2-day/1-day shipping bit.

They are no longer offering 1-day shipping. When I signed up for prime, one of the benefits was discounted 1-day shipping on items for which the free 2-day shipping wasn't fast enough. I recently had need of that, and learned that the options are now (1) "prime shipping", with no particular service guarantee. There is no second option. I contacted customer service multiple times asking why I couldn't choose 1-day shipping and was told "because the item is out of stock. There is only one item left in stock, that means the item is out of stock".
Do we know how much Apple and Microsoft are actually putting in? I can't find anything about it.

To put numbers on "enormous piles of cash", Apple books $20 billion in profits a quarter [1] and $245 billion cash on hand [2].

My guess is that if they are looking for risky plays, there just aren't a lot of options for the amount of cash they have.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-group-vision-fun...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/apple-now-has-tk-cash-on-han...
Does the data presented in that article really suggest that the apartments are actually empty or is it simply that it takes a while to sell out a new development? It's going to take a while to move a hundred units, especially if you want to increase the profits.

The StreetEasy report the article is inspired by actually shows that in 2019 there were more condos sold than completed.
What's pernicious is the attitude that helping people and treating them likes humans, in the real world, can be turned into some act of malice where we can assume the worst about the intentions of the people doing it.

That said, I do think it's silly and pointless to "help" on Thanksgiving. These places are overrun with volunteers on Thanksgiving but not at other times of the year.
"the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: 'theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron'"
Pedantically speaking, many of the freeways are actually at-grade or sunken: e.g., Cross-Bronx, Grand Central, Major Deegan. Still had massive deleterious effects on their neighborhoods, though.
Sometimes the health food stores in town have whole wheat flat bread with just whole wheat flour, yeast, salt, water. I can imagine my distant ancestors eating it and feeling right at home with it.

I am supposed to watch the glycemic index of food I eat so eating a small amount of dense whole wheat flat bread works for me. I also sometimes make pizza crust from riced fresh cauliflower and avoid the wheat altogether.

I really like the advice given in the article about only eating what our great grandmothers would recognize as food.
It misses the point of microservices in the same way that posts titled 'sharding' instead talk about load-balancing.
Essentially what you are saying is have really really good public transportation and the traffics problem can be solved.

Can any HNers from Japan or Singapore chime in here. Is traffic congestion common in your country’big cities given you have some of the worlds best public transportation infrastructure?
Tim Apple better have an explanation for this one.
They are time, they just don't encode a place. All Unix boxes should have a nearly identical timestamp, independent of where it is.
Regus does something similar, but slightly different.

Regus is geared towards small businesses anticipating a long-term home. WeWork is geared towards individuals and companies that don't know if they'll be around in one year.

As a freelancer, Regus is too large of a commitment while WeWork is more manageable.
And Microsoft has now become quite infamous for forcing updates on the unwary--to the point that people now produce webcomics about it. I don't see that as an improvement.

The real problem with updates is all the crapware that companies like Samsung foist on people. It's shitty software that never works right but still gets delivered and then its brokenness is in the way of an operating system update because of how shitty it is.
Does Proof of Space work? I seem to remember there being fundamental issues FileCoin hadn't resolved, but I probably last looked into it months or years ago.

Maybe this? https://github.com/filecoin-project/research/blob/master/ope...

I don't have the time/desire right now to figure out how the project is doing and the soundness of the approach.
Sorry, SoCalian here. Everyone has a car. If you’re rich you can afford to live close to your job. If you’re poor you have to drive to work over an hour each way. If you’re homeless you live in your car. Buses exist, but no one knows where they came from or why they exist.

(Please don’t argue exceptions, I’m being reductionist on purpose)
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The hallmarks of a no knead bread are primarily small amounts of yeast, long proofs, and high hydration. It is possible to convert one recipe to another, but you won't necessarily end up with the same result. For example, no knead develops its own gluten network as it rises, but the dough won't have the same strength as kneading five or ten minutes by hand will. So don't expect a nice tall sandwich bread out of a no knead recipe.
The only limit is... yourself!
Rule of thumb I head somewhere is that union dues should be around half hour of wage per week, assuming full time employment. Not sure what it would be for part timers.
> just preserve it or lose just a little

Housing generally underperforms the overall market.
There are the buckets of soy sauce that seem targeted to the “restaurant supply” sector.
Create an urgency to deliver. Use that as a motivator.

1) Promise someone you value/respect to deliver some program

2) Join an interesting coding competition

3) Help teach kids programming.

4) Figure out if you can solve a problem in your current scenario with any program.

Concentrate on the process/act of doing it, rather than the thing itself. Learn to enjoy doing it. Also if you are not doing it already, I would suggest to start exercising or playing a physical sport which would put you in better frame of mind.
It's worth noting that the Flash platform originated on mobile devices, and pivoted to a Netscape Plugin when the mobile market proved to be premature (early nineties).

For those of you half-considering building a Flash player replacement, I suspect the majority of Flash content (especially pre-AS3) can run performantly on modern mobile browsers with a canvas Context2D shim. Maybe even on 2010-era mobile devices.
> Before visiting a website, Safari may send information calculated from the website address to Google Safe Browsing and Tencent Safe Browsing to check if the website is fraudulent. These safe browsing providers may also log your IP address.

This is quite different from sending links.
I spent a bit of time earlier trying to figure out who owned what in Seattle earlier. What I got out of it:

* QFC/Fred Meyer are owned by Kroger
* Safeway/Albertsons are owned by a capital management company (Cerberus)
* PCC, Red Apple, Town and Country, and Metro Market are local.
* UNFI owns SuperValu, which is the main distributor for Whole Foods / IGA / possibly some others in the 'local' list.

The depressing part of this: most of grocery stores in the area are owned by 3 companies. And they've all turned into a complete garbage race to the bottom "what's the minimum quality we can sell and still consider food".
Search SeriousEats for Bravetart's (aka Stella Parks) 100% whole wheat bread. It uses a food processor to knead the bread in around 75seconds. No VWG. Taste is phenomenal.
I had a month to month lease with Regus a couple of years ago.
Redhat EL provides this. There are various engineering reasons for why they don't care for it in the Linus kernels. So it seems nobody wants to invest the engineering effort to do this for Android.
Proof-of-Capacity schemes would incur ecological cost as well, replacing a constantly escalating energy demand for a constantly escalating rare-earth metal demand.
Trogdor!!!!!! I introduced my kids to Strong Bad when they were young but just about zero of their friends know about it. :(
You seem to have missed the part about the investments they have made for the same, perhaps doing themselves what you suggest.
Because advertising is about the cool factor, that's not why people drink soft drink. Conversely it is why tobacco advertising bans did work.
This could at least in part explain some common patterns:

- Non-IT companies overall have terrible IT systems because as soon as they have two systems they need some sort of integration which the vendors are likely to botch and the resident "IT person" isn't qualified to build and maintain.

- "Nobody was ever fired for choosing $vendor" actually makes sense when integration is a black hole for time and money. At least a single vendor is likely to have already taken care of integrating with their own products.

- When people start looking at which parts of an IT infrastructure to improve it's usually the oldest and most botched-together piece. But it is nearly impossible to replace because of all the botched-together custom integration code which was cobbled together by half a dozen barely-qualified staff.
I think you're right and I'd go even further and say most people don't want updates because they know that basically anything could change. I imagine non-IT folk look at computers like appliances, and so I can sympathize because If I woke up every 6 months to find all my appliances interfaces had rearranged themselves, I'd never update anything.
No, the real problem with updates is that they don't exist.
Yes. Remember the way to dial in those days. You hit it and release. Guess you need to pretend you do this (and the computer already know the number haha).
I thought this was always known. Common sense even.

IIRC OpenBSD disabled SMT by default, which took away from performance, but overall secured the OS from several CPU-related vulnerabilities.
Water (the stable form of hydroxyl + hydrogen, we can't disperse radicals at the atmosphere) is a powerful greenhouse gas and will offset a lot of the cooling you may get by it.
> Some of the steps look like they'd be hard to do that for.

Then those steps must be removed. I thought the mantra "deploy is ONE step" was a more or less universally acknowledged truth.
As far as #6, it is disingenuous to count indirect coal deaths due to respiratory issues and completely ignore the indirect nuclear deaths.

For example, the article you link does not seem to account for the 2000+ deaths that occurred due to the Fukushima evacuation, nor those that survived but later starved due to their homes and livelihood being destroyed in the Chernobyl accident.

A proper model needs to take into account the economic implications of a nuclear incident.
I guess that doesn’t work for gas though...
They don't talk to me because to them I was begging for money.
Nevermind rocks, I would be glad to just even drift in space.
Yes I was laid off from a startup. A bit of a shock and of course health insurance in the united states is a bit wonky but I mean its their prerogative to let people go. I found another better paying job from people who actually had money
You brought up Doom, I'm still mapping for Quake. Quake and Doom are awesome because they are indeed sandboxes with open source code that you can play with at will. Also, these older games are quite a bit less complicated to make content for than some of the newer engines like UE4.
Cocoapods is a dependency manager for iOS/MacOS projects. Works more like NPM.
I go back and read this every once in a while. It's a pretty magical story.
70% hydration is not super high. Tartine is around 75%, IIRC. But if your bread is "fairly dense" you might have other problems. You might find this bread troubleshooter useful. It shows pictures of various crumbs and what the probable cause of the problem is.

https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/11/troubleshoot-bad-bread-m...
Maybe nice, but their call quality suffers, the web client is a joke and they just started using webRTC datachannels
> Aye, notebooks truly represent a wrong turn in scientific computing.

I agree with that problem, yet somehow like the idea of notebooks. Maybe the real tragedy here is that jupyter notebooks are saved as json and not as a valid program with comments, that can be run "as is" from the command line.
I believe they're aware and were making a joke.
Cities are becoming more expensive because of zoning. If you build enough housing that demand equals supply prices will be stable. Tokyo’s population has gone up 50% over the last two decades and property prices and rents are basically flat because they’ve built more housing.

Why does this happen in Japan but not NYC or SF? National, not local zoning. State level would probably work too.