skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I notice the same. I don't think it's an age thing. Products change their UI / UX often and it takes a mental toll to re-learn using them.

The Basecamp founders said in a book or podcast that they intentionally keep old versions of their website UI around, for exactly this use case – to avoid forcing people to relearn a UI. I don't know if this is true anymore, so fact-check me on this, but if it is: consider giving them your business.

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What's the underlying reason? I can only speculate, but having worked with product teams for a while, and gone through several redesigns, I suspect it has something to do with: new leadership coming in, and risk-adverse, unimaginative PMs.

New leadership because that's the #1 project to get the troops rallied behind you and to have that quick impact to put on your promo doc – get a new design out, make your stamp on the product, regardless of whether it's good or bad.

Risk-adverse, unimaginative PMs because a redesign is a safe product change, and similarly, a quick win to put on the promo doc. If you lack any ideas of where to take the product next, a redesign is an evergreen solution. You could spend time investigating customer's issues, having interviews with them, analyzing competition AND be "unproductive" while you do this (i.e. not have anything to show for it for a while), or you could be productive and do a redesign.

There may be other incentives that are misaligned, but those are the two I have noticed most pronounced.

My 2 cents. Curious if others have thoughts on how to solve it.
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Read the rest of the comment. I am clearly not in favor of that framing. I was going along with it for a moment to demonstrate why it was a bogus framing.
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Milkmen definitely still exist in the UK, and likely other places.
Most people who supported it said it was to get away from the deliberate imprisonment of black people who didn’t deserve criminal penalties for casual drug use. So I guess the question is, which is the worse conspiracy?
That would be the most unpleasant week of my career, regardless of the outcome. I'd get nothing done and probably be interviewing by the end of it.
It could have been a mass SMS message, so I guess this is a little bit better, at least the managers get to see the look on their faces and the sobbing part of it to make it more emotional and real.
When I was a kid, I remember we topped over this hill on I-15. Way down there in the distance, there was an overpass across the road. I remember wondering how my dad could aim the car accurately enough to go under that overpass from that far away. As an adult, I know that he didn't even try to do that. Instead, he steered the car as a continual process, not just once.

That's the same kind of problem with waterfall. You want them to do the analysis perfectly, and then you want the world to not move while the implementation happens. Neither of those is possible. And then you blame the analysts for failing to do the impossible.

The analysis phase is never complete enough. The conditions are never the same by the time the implementation is complete. That's just reality. What are you going to do about it? You need to steer during implementation, not just once at the beginning.
> Gambling is putting down money in a game of chance, that is divorced from physical reality

No, gambling doesn't require the game be divorced from physical reality; and, in fact, none of them are.
Hypersonic lava sounds AWESOME!
Ive heard the possibly apocryphal reason for this is that invading armies would kill or appropriate workers in other professions but keep around the trained blacksmiths working the forge and producing weapons and tools for war. Smiths survived the waves of conquerors.
Could be worse. There were mass layoffs in one part of my company many years ago. About half the people were fired and the other half retained. HR mixed up the packets for each group. The not fired got the packets destined for the people being fired and vice versa. It was a disaster.
"5 whys" is more direct, but the goal of psychotherapy is to lead you to the root cause by practiced, skillful questioning. The goal is to cut through narratives we create to obscure the emotion. I use emotion intentionally: notice the very last why in this article is a feeling of shame.
Hell, 10:1 would be okay and 1/10th of the price.
The sports results are clear. MVP awards are subjective decisions by a judging class. There are too many examples of the right person not winning awards and the wrong persons winning awards. Some awards oftentimes give awards to recipients who are the exact antithesis of the purported eponymous award and its “mission.”
The Nobel Peace Prize is often given to war criminals who bomb and destroy countries. There is even a Nobel Peace Prize recipient that bombed another recipient:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctors-without-borders-bombi...
It's not just you. I was the "IT guy" for a small marketing firm, with about 40 people to support. We were a Microsoft Windows shop. Once I got everyone settled on Office 2000, we didn't upgrade. We skipped Office 2003, 2007, 2010, right up until they outsourced my job in 2013. The users LOVED ME because I didn't change shit on them all the time. My workload kept going down until there was really nothing for me to do, because I didn't keep changing things.

Having stuff in the cloud, as a service, means you have no control over change. That is an unsustainable model for the end users. It'll take a while for the pendulum to shift back. Right now they can use the fact that you can't secure a Windows machine (ever) as a wedge to keep things managed... eventually this will be solved. (Capability Based Security) At that point people can run their own stuff again, and p*ss on the cloud.

You can still support it, you might even be able to make the case for bringing the stuff back under local control. It's just going to be a lot more work.

It's not your age, it's your intolerance of bullshit, that is at work here.

Good luck!
The handful of French nationals I know regard that case as a grotesque miscarriage of justice emblematic of the double standard by which French and EU laws essentially do not apply to third-world economic migrants.
Another thread points out that the contents on a Halo disc being sold today isn’t even a functioning game.

Back in the day when you shipped a game, you sure as %^*# made sure it worked because you can’t patch it easily or at all.

I think this contributes to it. Nothing is ever complete nor needs to be designed to be complete because the cost of modifying shipped software is lower than ever.
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Agreed. You give employees a heads up that the layoffs will be occurring, which both sets expectations with those who are affected AND also allows those who aren't affected to understand what's going on.

Then you take one of two approaches: If the CEO feels strongly that the news should come from them personally, you do the Zoom call, and then affected workers immediately meet with their managers for individual communication. Or you skip the Zoom calls and have the managers deliver the news.

Obviously, you want the time between the "heads up" meeting and the meeting with the affected individuals to be short, maybe a day or less, so workers aren't spending too much time in dread mode. But it reduces the feeling of having been blindsided.
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Memory is short and books/blog posts/videos are written by the winners (like Amazon and Walmart) and people can't see the forest for the trees. You live on your knees and act like sinners. Wake up. Stand up and realize you're not bad, not racist, not gay, not evil, just you, a human. Stop letting people tell you who you are. Then Amazon and Walmart and all these companies can come around and they'll succeed, so far as they can convince you that you're nothing. You are everything all at once, wake up, smell the cosmos.
Both of those lines have no citation so while I wouldn't doubt it, that page seems unreliable.
One of the things that the Windows kernel does just better than Linux is providing a stable kABI. The argument against that is “just upstream/open source your driver”. Well that’s not always possible. I think this is honestly holding back hardware support in Linux. The ideologically driven FOSS folks can choose to only run open-source drivers, while those just wanting to get stuff done (like me) will happily run proprietary drivers. I understand this does undermine the purpose of the GPL so it will never happen.
In Switzerland we have a law "right for private copy" and yes you have the right to crack the drm, it's not like that german perversion.

Terms are not law, and are most terms are illegal in europe anyway.
Open-source projects still have to sell themselves to get users (marketing/"devrel"). curl's author definitely makes money from curl: https://curl.se/support.html
It's an extraordinary sacrifice to be asked of 900 people. Yes, he was supposed to do more than just tell a bullshit sob story how "last time he had to do that he cried." Fuck him.

If you have hired 900 people that have become "useless", it is your duty as CEO to treat each firing with respect and understand that it might cause a ton of stress for some. What the fuck are you even paid for if you can't even do that job, after overestimating the amount of people required by that ungodly amount in the first place?

I am astounded by how many people in this thread lack any basic semblance of empathy.
I honestly don't know. I tend to be in favor of using gentle nudges to leverage natural market forces to institute change. Fortunately/unfortunately capitalism is designed to be self reinforcing. Catching more fish enables you to build bigger nets and protect fishing methods. But there isn't really any natural mechanism for incentivizing a reversing of that.

Someone smarter than me will have to come up with something. Right now though it's a runaway feedback loop that's going to eventually destroy itself by "doing everything right".
Thanks. I'll give this a try. I don't like the feeling that if I lose my glasses or contacts I'm helpless.
"We aren't making as much money"

Better.com makes money by selling housing loans to investors in the secondary market. Mortgage rates are quite low in recent days, so there are fewer potential customers.[0] Interest rates are also quite low. [1] This means that, while Better used to save customers a decent amount of money, that gap has compressed which makes new customer acquisition tough.

(this is based on some quick research, so please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this)

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=NUh

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
Fraud would be another term.

But as others have stated this should have been taken care of earlier. To fire them and then give the excuse afterwards meant they allowed the actions to happen.
There is no right way to layoff 900 people simultaneously, in the same way there is no right way to break up with someone who doesn't want to break up with you. There are just bad ways and worse ways.

If you try to give everyone a 1:1 zoom call with their manager, the inevitable outcome is that the rumor mill starts turning and everyone spends the day terrified for their job, because the layoffs happen in a drip feed rather than all at once.

I say this as someone who was laid off remotely during covid, as part of a large layoff of hundreds of people. I was told I was laid off by slack message, with a follow up zoom call later in the day with my manager and their manager. My manager had four or five such calls to make that day, each lasting at least 30 minutes.

I was an unpleasant process, but I understand why they made the decisions they made.

This Better.com layoff in particular sounds awful not because it happened over a Zoom call, but because the CEO is being incredibly unprofessional and badmouthing 900 former employees. That decision is not only in awful taste, but also has a likely strong negative effect on the ability of those 900 people to find new jobs easily.
And Tile just sold themselves to Life360...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/life360-to-acquire-...
Yeah but as soon as you work with other people who use newer versions of the software then either you need to get them to export in an old format each time, which they will find annoying, or you need to update the software just so you can open the files that they send you.
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Sorry if that was not clear, my wife and I live on the same address in the same country. Her billing address is same as mine. I checked the net and Google product forums for possible solutions, checked the billing address, Play store settings, nothing helped.
I saw that module, looked at the code, and wondered if at that point it wouldn't be easier to just run a thin wrapper around the virtual 8086 code while just using standard virtualization extensions. That way it's just another KVM and not yet more kernel code to maintain. Because honestly QEMU already supports that target. This is of course ignoring the many issues caused by faster CPUs or things the target program is expecting but no longer exist or act differently on modern CPUs.
I use sqlite every day at work as a web dev. I do a lot of work with file uploaders and being able to import CSV files as tables I can query is a killer feature.
Lets think it through.

Even if each person is given 5 minutes of personal time with the person doing the firing, at 8 hours per day assuming no breaks, that's 5 * 900 / 60 / 8 = 9 days. Almost two business weeks. That means that 900 people will have a zoom meeting scheduled two weeks ahead of time, and while they wait they see that everyone who goes into that meeting is fired.

Does this sounds like a better way of doing it, to you?
I’ve been writing recursive code “in the real world” for almost 40 years and your statement seems unrealistic to me.
...or this:

"I feel pressured to do a job that is impossible and it damages my self worth."

Which means GTFO and get a healthier job.
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If it happens as frequently as claimed? I'd call it total managerial incompetence. Call metrics are well defined and it is easy to see if someone is doing no work. If the line managers are slacking off like that, what does that say for their management (and so on and so on)?
I was curious and did some math. A five minute zoom call is not realistic; you probably need 15 minutes per person. If my math is correct, and if no one was even a minute late, it would take 225 hours to lay those people off sequentially, assuming 24/7 meetings. If you had 15 managers making those calls, it would still take 15 hours to complete all calls. Let's call that three business days, during which no other work gets done anywhere in the company.

I once worked at an employer who performed five rounds of layoffs in the space of a few months. I cannot recommend that method.

I agree with you, the 900-wide bandaid was the only practical option.
In my opinion you’re taking something completely reasonable and making it seem nefarious.

They are removing the requirement, not the ability to report.

Do you believe it makes sense for companies to be required to report sore arms, headaches or tiredness, all common and unremarkable side-effects during a massive vaccination campaign?
MIT is not a less free license than GPL. They're both equally completely free.
ah thanks Kye. i've edited my comment.
Better.com CEO Threatened to Burn His Business Partner Alive. Now He’s a Billionaire.

Last fall, employees at one of America’s fastest-growing startups began making anxious phone calls. They believed that CEO Vishal Garg—a volatile entrepreneur with a history of disgruntled business partners—had been giving huge amounts of equity...
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I think there are two distinct phenomena happening:

1) Rate of change in fundamental technology.

2) Feature churn.

I don't think #1 is actually changing all that fast, compared to previous decades. Consider the period 1991-2001 and the period 2011-2021. I think technology change in the former was much, much faster than in the latter. A typical PC went from {486, DOS, 1-4MB RAM} to {Pentium 4, WinXP, 256MB-1GB RAM}. Linux had only just launched in 1991. ~Nobody had a cellphone in 1991. ~Nobody was on the internet in 1991.

But look at 2011-2021, and is anything really that different? Computers are faster, but it's nothing like the growth rate of the 90s. iPhones, Bitcoin, GPUs, broadband, cloud, Minecraft ... we had all these in 2011. They're just incrementally better now.

Fundamental tech is still incrementing but revolutions are few and far between.

#2, on the other hand, is in its golden age. And it's all for the wrong reasons, largely articulated by others on this thread. My addition: our ability to create new software has outpaced our ability to think of new ideas that are beneficial for users.
I really hate this draconian attitude of these sort of companies. I think these 'brilliant' lawyers, experts in putting on abusive clauses, also ought to making the software for these companies. There is still a lot of work to do with OSS philosophy for software industry.
> So they collect this data, vet it, propose their use for benchmarks and give it away free. What is the complaint?

It's well known that neural networks can easily inherit biases from their training data. It's also well known that datasets generated by western universities are widely used in training and evaluating neural networks.

If my training set is full of pictures of Stanford CS undergraduates, I could end up with a computational photography system that makes everyone look like Stanford CS undergraduates, or a historical photo colourisation system that makes everyone look like Stanford CS undergraduates, or a self driving car pedestrian tracking system that expects 90% of pedestrians to look like Stanford CS undergraduates.

And if the people who make the model say "Hey, our model's biases aren't our responsibility, we're just representing the training data as best we can" and the people who make the training data say "Hey, we never claimed it was perfect, you can take it or leave it" these problems might fall through the cracks.
Disagree. Why make the HR team go through 900 individual calls? At the same time this will leak and other employees will learn that they might get fired before they get their own call. Recipe for disaster. Just rip off the band aid.
I know this looks bad but I generally appreciate manage giving clear warnings like this before firing. I have seen firings in companies where employee had no clue that the manager was not happy with him. I know this type of warning is the thing that would get published in the press by disgruntled employee and so managers couldn't give negative feedback and in the firing speech managers just tell that someone is not a good fit for the company or some other HR shit.
Tbh from the quotes it seems Vishal Garg is not only incompetent, but also a bit of a shitgibbon. Not sure if 1:1 meeting would help in anything here.
What an interesting life! Need to read more about Wells. This article was a bit poorly written, though. Ambling and unfocused. It seemed like it had a thesis it was trying to drive, while also trying to provide a general summary of his life.
Your argument goes like this: Somebody who is incredibly successful, a genius in many ways and very popular, can't be also a lier and psychopath.

That's a logical fallacy. In fact, the two are positively correlated (and there is a long list of entrepreneurs who are both charismatic geniuses and psychopaths).

So you need to differentiate what Elon says, and what is can be verified. In some cases the delta can be huge (and quite shocking). E.g.

> factory safety levels 2x+ those of the competition

Tesla is the single biggest OSHA violator in California.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26727/tesla-had-3-times-as-man...
Sort of. The main goal for WebAssembly is to be a fast platform-agnostic compilation target that you can use in websites. The "in websites" bit means that it has to be completely safe (i.e. no accessing outside memory etc.) but it's not the main goal.

This is a bit of a hack because Mozilla don't care about the platform-agnostic bit, so they're taking LLVM IR, compiling it to WebAssembly, then back to LLVM IR just so that they can ensure that the code is safe.

WebAssembly comes with extra constraints that you probably don't care about if you're compiling to native (e.g. there's no 'goto') so you would get more efficient code (and probably faster compilation) if you just had some way of compiling LLVM IR directly to "safe binary".

That would probably be a mountain of work though so its understandable why they went with this. Would be nice if they said how much the performance was impacted.
Doing this hierarchically is already a solved issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joz-tAsJ6as
The funny thing is that sharks are more likely to be eaten by dolphins (especially orcas) than vice versa. And sharks also get caught in nets.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/killer-wh...

I guess Garg is just as weak on marine biology as he is on leadership and business ethics.
Who is the “we” in that sentence that should allocate their money to something with a weak or non-existent promise of seeing a return on that money?
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