skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have somewhere around 750 employees still after the layoffs; it's hard to understand your comment that that both says they should have 150 employees but reducing their teams is a bad decision.
I think he's talking about more basic technology. For example, cooking eggs in a non-stick pan is significantly easier, and even regular pans have uniform surfaces that heat evenly.

Things like silicone cooking tools, food professors, even just ovens where you can set a temperature are all miracle breakthroughs compared to how cooking was done in the past.
If you weren't working on deletions it would seem to me that you are not better informed at all.

The rest of what you write is an open book to anybody in tech. And whether Facebook has anything to gain or not from nefariously storing data you delete is a much lighter shade of gray than building up shadow profiles, profiles on people without an account.

https://theconversation.com/shadow-profiles-facebook-knows-a...
single revenue stream gotta be the hallmark of bad magenement. Not just that, but tied to your direct competitor.
Yeah, I was ready to donate out of a firm belief that multiple browsers and MDN are essential to the open web, but... what are they doing? That number is absolutely bonkers, and I don’t understand why they wouldn’t make a clear public statement about the future of Firefox given how much confusion there’s been.
On PCs Chrome has ~70% market share with Firefox being a distant second with <8%. On mobile Firefox's market share is a negligible 0.7% compared to Google's 64%. If Google wants Firefox to stick around it's certainly not because it would give them any plausible defense in an antitrust lawsuit.
Comparisons across different environments are not always productive. Pathfinder has a well defined scope, a single platform to run on, no adversaries at runtime, full time hardware team to talk to, likely no interaction with third party software. It's pretty much the complete opposite of a browser.
Sure, and conflict and murder and genocide is also the standard that humanity applies. And also wars to stop all of those, sanctions, international blame, loss of moral standing, these are also standards that humanity applies.

So the standard is that Israel will keep doing what it pleases, people will still argue that it is completely wrong and needs to be stopped, and in the end if someone throws a nuclear weapon over the country we'll just shrug our shoulders and say- 'hey, might is right, that's how the world goes'. Is this the world you want?
I pity anyone whose system needs less than X downtime per month, but who depends the constant availability of an external system that is down for more than X per month :)
From your comment, I think your underrstanding is that the cable failed and the section of the dish it was supporting failed due to lack of support.

That's not the case... The cable failed, and then the giant cable (with a ton of stored energy due to tension) impacted the dish (as well as some other bits of the antenna).
Author of the article here. I would doubt the assumption that it's easier to start with other people. Would be interesting to see the data on that. In GrowthClub's case it was easier for us to start with one founder.
the same is true for computer hardware, but have you seen how electronic waste is actually recycled?

It's basically an environmental and health disaster, just shifted to poor people in China.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste_in_Guiyu
I was looking for independent movie reviews (in this case red letter media -but without adding RLM as I’d forgotten the source) for Star Wars, but got flooded with to me irrelevant results.

To be fair, it’s most pronounced when I’m looking for something I found in the past and then try searching for it in the present. Using custom date ranges help a bit but it’s still biased toward big entertainment and “brands”.

So what it looks like to is that it doesn’t use historical rankings to show results but present rankings.

So let’s say I was looking for something sports related that in 2005 was on a regional site, today that site is relatively obscure so even if you limit date range it would down rank the legacy site even if back then it would have been at the top.
> Do you have a source?

OP asked respondents to weigh in anonymously. That’s a call for anecdotes.
Actually, that's their argument for doing it. Most users don't understand the different bits of a URL, to know whether it's from the site they think it's from. See (huge) previous discussion from two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516088

Personally, for my own purposes, I think hiding any bit of the URL is incredibly inconvenient. Already hiding the www. is seriously annoying. I will switch this new behaviour off and hope they don't remove that option.
Does this ever end well for the company? These moves should make it extremely clear to the employees how much they need a works council.
Warming of the Greenland ice sheet passed the point of no return
Same here for Norway. I can flip the switch for Norwegian results, but it's sticky, so I have to remember to flip it back when I want to search for everything else. All in all way to tedious.
I thought it was only the dev tools and mdn people? Although looking at twitter it appears it may be more?
> That sounds like a very small setup you run with very limited requirements if you run this successful.

No, not necessarily. Computers are fast, and if you don't add complexity until you need it, you can do a hell of a lot with a half-decent VPS and some rsyncing.

For context: a couple of years ago I ran a website that was in the Alexa top 1K for a while (back when that was still relevant), and that was heavily visited and used for the time during which it was relevant. If you worked at any news organization anywhere, it was probably on your daily list to check.

Yet it was relatively crappy PHP, not even very optimized aside from some very naive memcache caching, and ran off a random VPS with 2GB of RAM - and that included the database. The biggest challenge wasn't scaling or deployment processes, but fighting off constant DDoS attacks.

Of course, the key difference between that deployment and a typical startup deployment is that it wasn't built like a startup. It wasn't "measuring engagement", it wasn't doing "big data", it wasn't collecting data for targeted advertising - it just did one thing and it did it well, with the only complexity involved being that which was actually necessary for that purpose.

Over the years I've looked at a lot of complex "devops" setups for other people, and almost without exception the vast majority of the resource requirements and complexities originate from data collection that approaches kleptomania, and their choice of tooling - which ostensibly was chosen to better handle complexity. It's just a self-fulfilling prophecy that way. Most people don't actually have this degree of complexity to manage.

That's not to say that there's no organizations or projects at all that would benefit from automated cluster orchestration (with or without containers). But it's very much a "prove that you need it" kind of thing, not a "you need it unless..." kind of thing.

(I do think that there's inherent value in deterministic deployments. But that's separate from whether you need multi-system orchestration tooling, it can be achieved without containers, and even then the deployment process should be trivial enough to make it worth your while.)

Edit: To be clear, this is not an argument to prioritize performance over everything else or avoid dependencies/tools, at all. Just an argument to not add moving parts that you don't actually need. For anything you add, you should be able to answer "what concrete problem does this solve for me, and why is it worth it?".
There are various concepts for wind propulsion but even the most optimistic think they’ll only provide some of the energy needed. Some kind of EV/wind hybrid might be the answer but battery size is still a major issue.
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Brazilians are Latin and definitely not Hispanic. Latin is not a racial term (and that's why Brazilians tend to find the racialized term "Latino" as used in the US repellent), and has nothing to do with your appearance or genes: it means you speak a language that was derived from Latin as a first language. Angolans are Latin, the French are Latin, Romanians are Latin, etc. Some Swiss are Latin, some are not. So, Brazilians can be Latin, White and non-Hispanic all at once.

Hispanic is something related to Spain. Spaniards are definitely Hispanic, Colombians, Argentines, etc. are (in a more distant sense) Hispanic.
Google takes deletes seriously. Extreme efforts go into deleting stuff within 30 days of the user requesting deletion.

Imagine how hard that is when a datacenter is switched off for 14 days for maintenance, and then a fire breaks out and takes it offline for a further 20 days... When something is powered off, it's very hard to do those deletions... Yet misses of the deadline are exceedingly rare, even in cases like the above.

Sometimes disks are crushed in a crusher to meet the deadline if software approaches to deletion can't be done in time.
We had an haproxy running in a container. The reason it was in a container is that we didn't trust the infra team to trust it. Once we were shot of the infra team it went onto its bare metal.
It's true! https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/everything-causes-cancer/
> moral values and policy preferences

I really like the idea that things could be better. If you tell me that you've got a way to fish and all the other animals that you like end up safe, then I like the idea that we could be using way.

However, this article isn't a plan it's a wish list. It wants you to feel bad about whats happening to some animals. It doesn't really talk about how they're going to achieve this.

If the how ends up starving millions or billions of people, then I'm really sorry but I'm not going to side with the whales as much as I would like them to be okay.

The article sounds like it's coming from someone with other options when it comes to eating. If they don't have a plan, then they're just hoping someone else will do all the work for them. If they really cared about the whales then they would find a way to provide for the people who eat the fish that power the industry that is hurting the whales.
there's an obvious and easy way. but we value sushi all you can eat over that one
Help me out, I'm a long user of n26, I've found bugs in the app - still in production - but can never escalate them to developers. Interactions with support is as easy as interacting with a different life form, independent of the problem the solution is always to unpair your device, reinstall the app.
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I did not seen a kid cry over grades nor my kids are reporting schoolmates crying over grades, so I think that there was something special about where you grew up.
I sure some people who apply to Caltech apply to Yale, but most people who apply to Yale probably aren’t applying to Caltech. Even if Caltech practiced AA, it would still have very few underrepresented minorities.
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growthclub.online, the publisher of the article, does exactly that - one founder call a week to help you check for swamps. (I am the founder of GrowthClub)
Author of the article here. At least for myself I see a big difference in payroll in GrowthClub (with a solo founder) and my own startup with 3 co-founders and 2 more shareholders-partners.
I ordered a XPS 15 (9570) last year to replace my wife's slow Walmart special. We debated between Mac and Wintel and decided to stick with Wintel due to familiarity and various programs we run. We get the delivery, take it out of the box, plug it in, turn it on... and this horrible screeching noise greets us like someone is cutting a piece of metal with an angle grinder. It was not a shipping bug either, the package arrived in perfect shape.

That pretty much summed up the difference between Apple and everyone else for me.
Which raises the obvious questions: why didn't C++11 implement template printf along with variadic templates?

`cout <<` is ugly and hard to use for anything but the simplest printing. Type safe printf seems like the obvious use case of variadic templates.
isolation, ease of deployment, management of artifacts and network resources

if you're running a single app a lot of this may not apply
If you want security guarantees, find a service that makes them. Expect to pay more for the additional work it takes to deliver them.
The sooner the profit corp dies off and eats humble pie then, the better.

An actual community project should rise from this state of affairs, with tanginble, browser-oriented goals, not something dependent on Google's money...

Here's the person who announced the firings... Nothing to do with development or FOSS, some laywer ex-Netscape employee:

Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1959) is the Executive Chairwoman and CEO of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Baker was trained as a lawyer. She coordinates business and policy issues and sits on both the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors and the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors.

It's like the leeches that hang on to NGOs for a salaried office career, and don't do activism themselves...

For all his faults, at least Brendan Eich was an actual developer, and with important contributions to the web and Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox.
That's fine, just dont expect everyone else to change their lifestyle to accommodate you.
I really like that approach. It also takes pressure off the tech lead or whoever is implementing the fix, and transforms the patch into a full-team responsibility. I bet this sort of behavior makes for strong and effective teams.
In my case sometimes DDG returns me results in Russian, I am in Romania and my IP is geolocated to Romania so i am not sure what code they use to ignore my IP and my browser settings and serve me this results(I tried Ff and Vivaldi and a sample search is "php array search" and first link is https://www.php.net/manual/ru/function.array-search.php).
Really wish they would stop trying to do this.
Believe me, we got it.

All developers are scummy and trying to make a living without paying 30% of your earnings to the platform is just too much to ask.

Even though YOU purchased the device YOU don't want to be able to run any and all applications, even when YOU might really really want to, full stop. Apple should own what YOU can do on your device, and since YOU said it, EVERYONE should just agree to it.
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Aquafarming is an amazing emerging trend and will help us create a sustainable environment for fish and reduce collateral damage on marine wildlife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture
Giga-kilos :-)
> A zero-carbon lifestyle is completely unattainable for the simple reason that we breathe out CO2. Zero deforestation is crazy because people rely on wood for heating in winter.

The total amount of carbon dioxide is the problem, not emissions themselves.

Exhaling carbon dioxide from metabolizing produce that extracted carbon from the short term cycle makes no difference.

Cars or other fossil fuel consuming processes on the other hand introduce extra carbon into the short term cycle by burning substances that contain carbon that was sequestrated long ago. This can happen indirectly, e.g. by converting oil into plastics first and later burning these plastics as garbage in a power plant. Boom, extra carbon emitted and nobody really noticed.
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Soft deletes are generally a good idea. Being to recover data for some time is very useful. Ideally this is also exposed to users. However respectable companies will keep this time-limited. For example Google has very strict deadlines on all of their deleted data wiping. Their privacy policy is quite vague but gives some examples: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention
Recently, my gf found me still awake at 05:00 playing factorio. Had completely forgot the time and thought it was closer to 02:00. That's when I realized that I had to stop playing the game because it is so addictive. I simply can't play that game in moderation.
Not wanting data shared seems to contradict the mission of a site that shares data.
Solution is either to discriminate against individual shippers (can't imagine how that might be abused!), or to charge based on destination / cost of route.

The answer is just so elusive!
Wife and I chose to move back to Knoxville a year or two ago for similar reasons. Have looked at moving to NC or GA but the extra taxes don't make it that appealing.

I think if I hadn't known Knoxville before, I'd have chosen Chatt due to the internet and vibe. But I can't complain as I've always loved Knoxville.
Everything gives you cancer -- Joe Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2MGN_w4sU
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359950/
I prefer FLO, for free/libre/open, in those contexts (here: "FLO software"). https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/free-libre-open

But, I also acknowledge that "open source" is much more widely understood, so I might also choose to put it in the title of a blog post, depending on the target audience.
Is the quasi-urban group modern, e.g. with technology and everything else? Even ignoring the fact that 1000 is not a long time evolutionarily - you'd get what, 15-20 generations? - a hunter-gatherer group is going to have a lot of evolutionary pressure that a modern technological group won't. You can have a physical injury or disability in the modern group and be fine, but without support that may not be there in the hunter-gatherer group, you will die quickly.
If there were only 2 physical stores in the US, yeah, I absolutely would want the same thing. I think anyone would.

Imagine if Walmart and Costco were the only two feasible places for most people to buy groceries. Is there anyone who doesn't think that would be a giant problem for both consumers and producers?
Drones are a lot easier to get to now after they tweaked the sciences/tech tree, you're now able to pursue drone science immediately after green. Mods are always available if you need it immediately though.
Corn is in nearly everything on the shelf at grocery stores. How much does that cost the U.S. Taxpayer every year once you factor in subsidies, healthcare, etc?
But that's the operational headache of using Kubernetes specially when you are dealing with a small number of services. There are other simple and/or managed platforms that will give the same usage experience hiding the complexity.
It was named after a vegetable and vegetables meme well in Ethereum because a subset of Etherians like to "yield farm" and identify as yield farmers.
If a car model has a defect, it has to be recalled and fixed in a timely fashion, otherwise, there will be a fine. Why should software be any different?
That would raise prices for tickets. Concession prices are there so rich people subsidize poorer people.
Deletion is effectively a failure mode, and engineering tends to focus on the happy path.
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If you can tolerate building the same infrastructure from scratch every level, with a need to max out production and/or do levels multiple times to get the unlock points you need.

At least that's the impression I got from a couple hours of time into the demo before I threw it away in disgust. It was like minutes 15-30 of factorio on loop, plus tower defense. The tower defense was good but not enough to make up for the tedium of setting up drills.

Also if I'm remembering right the conveyors were unreasonably finicky for such a core mechanic.
Chrome and it's bastard stepchildren like Electron is an OS upon themselves using Windows just as a glorified launcher and then sucking up all possible computing resources to render web pages.

Older versions of I.E are nimble and fast compared to it.
I know this is almost off topic, but I find it fascinating and really funny that a company/game well known for "borrowing" pop culture (i.e. the whole dancing thing) is doing the same thing to get their message across.
https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...
Is the China study adequate evidence for you?
It was a 20 year study about the link between consuming animal products and chronic illness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study
Ultimately, you can run Docker on a VM for local development, and of course you'll run it on a Linux server on production. But you don't need Canonical gatekeeping for that...
Hasn’t Safari already been doing this for ages with no issues?
I am sorry you feel like that.

Personally I would always want to factor in some sort of ROI for the conversation to have any meaningful context.

There are many ways we can "fix" things but the cost of the fix should always be measured against what it is fixing.
Google is testing domain-only URLs in Chrome to help foil scams and phishing
I have seen this come up periodically, and it seems to be the case that for various reasons soft deletes are the way it is actually done.

here is one not particularly recent discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954393

Now that I think of it I would probably have done soft delete if I got around to automating deleting accounts at my old startup for lots of reasons.

on edit: another more recent article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005060
it's a legal term. I think "Scheduled" in this context means recognized on some government list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_Castes_and_Scheduled...
asking the other way round: did you ever have a problem that you don't quite know how to replicate a given setup? for many tasks it saves you time - instead of having to mess with the host environment one can instead create an isolated environment - and give the docker access to the host file system or network.

It takes a time to get used to that mode of working (without automated testing it is very hard); but it does have a lot of advantages.
They used to present applying Jews with special problems: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

This practice was supposed to end with sovient union — but my school, which always had a fair share of jews that applied to math department in MSU, taught those in 00s, and athough discriminiation wasn't as blatant then, I'm not sure that it completely went away.