skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how you make all your most hireable employees leave ship first. If you want to retain some those are usually the ones you'd want to keep.
Not sure if a valid analogy, but don’t think engineers who designed and built autobahns or other infrastructure in Nazi Germany were held responsible for indirectly facilitating a genocide.
I would love to find the citation outside of Wikipedia for the USB-C 60W requirement. Apple makes a USB-C charging cable that only does USB 2.0 but is capable of up to 100W. And you can find cables like this Belkin one that promise 15W: https://www.belkin.com/my/chargers/wall/usb-c-home-charger-u... But perhaps it’s out of spec?
> Qt from 5 - where I ported one of my apps - and bang we're already at Qt6 now ffs!

It was 8 years between the release of Qt5 and Qt6. Qt's one the things I consider quite stable compared to many other frameworks these days.
Basically it's saying the MySql code base is a mess. Maybe PostgreSql's codebase is also a mess. Without experience inside it, it's hard to really say. Anybody here worked at both for a good while? Most code bases are messes in the real world, I hate to tell ya.
If you set the width slider to maximum, it goes to 100% browser width, which gives you the current Wikipedia style :)
Interesting. Why do you think that is?
From the screenshot:

I absolutely adore the positioning of the table of contents. The design looks clean, utilitarian, and overall well executed.

That being said - and this is more a critique of modern design - I absolutely hate the suffocating roundness of the element corners. It's an aesthetic that drips with overfamiliarity and a patronizing attitude. It's the visual equivalent of being put in a padded room, or having a distant relative who you have nothing in common with and have not seen in years trying to relate to you with anecdotes about your childhood that you can scarcely remember.
Oh thank you, pre-coffee units fail on my part.

So I’d guess most air sensors on the market aren’t necessarily classifying their readings into green-good / red-bad, or at least come with a now-outdated chart. Are there sensors that have been released and/or updated to match the new guidelines already?
"As your manager, I'm sad to tell you this, but you are fired. But so am I! It's not you, it's the company."
Not for these roles, I don't think. You can just lock their laptop and call it a day, which is what they did. This is fungible labour.
I've worked for multiple companies that have had major reductions in force at times. When folks get laid off in a group, it has never been done 1:1. Usually the group getting let go is told all at once separately from the rest of the company. It's done per team or per department, so if you're a software engineer getting cut, you're told at the same time with the other software engineers getting cut, but yes usually the guy that runs the department will be present.
If the comments in this thread is any indication, you can't please everyone. Do it in mass and some people will be pissed off. Do it 1:1 and others will be pissed off.
Sidekiq has several easter eggs, involving emoji code.

https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq

Those eggs did require fixes from YARD and code linters, in order to support emoji code, so in a sense they helped make the ecosystem better.
At E-7, E-8, E-9 there is no technical role. They will still have a career field like IT, maintenance, artillery, etc. and work in those types of units, but they will do purely HR/administrative functions.
Pro tip: replace the pecans with candied pecans.
Thanks the UI is great.

I don't know why but since at least a year we have a new design on the french version of wikipedia (you can check by yourself on any wikipedia page in french).

But the english UI is bad it's hard to read on large screen. With your extension is really nice.
Even if this were true, it is nothing new : in The Netherlands after WWII every religious / political fraction had its own public broadcast group ( channels / stations are shared ), schools, sport clubs, news papers, labor unions etc.

There was even a word for it : verzuiling [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation
I didn't say that they knew. I was saying "This wasn't done by NSO knowingly." isn't necessarily true. I think I was pretty clear about the fuzziness of the evidence as it relates to this specific case.
Isn't your example code a stack allocated array? Flexible array members would rather be:

struct Foo {
int len;
int data[];
} *foo = malloc(sizeof(struct Foo) + n*sizeof(foo->data[0]));
foo->len=n;
What if they just passively or inadvertently encouraged it? It’s entirely possible that the algorithms Facebook has used to prioritize content highlight inflammatory or violent content. Maybe in the process of maximizing attention they simultaneously optimized for showing violent or hateful content. YouTube has been shown to have done almost exactly that.
> https://wikiless.org - a free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy. No JavaScript or ads. All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Wikipedia. Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address. Self-hostable. Anyone can setup a private or public instance.

From: https://codeberg.org/orenom/Wikiless
Yeah, in a world of politics, having provably low utility is worse than having actually 0 utility. It's a shame.
Are you working on a Safari extension?
Web security is completely broken. We have super complex web browsers (written in unsafe languages such as C++) that we try to secure by installing 'add-ons' and those have vulnerabilities that can steal our data.

Who thinks this is a good idea for online banking?
It actually took me a while to realize this, but some areas use the term 'facebook' (before the website was around), as a term similar in meaning to what most of us call a "yearbook"
Bouncing a LoRa message off the moon
well the other 'benefits' obviously not but 100% the hat will protect you from 5g :)
Alex Berenson Is a Twit
His post about vaccinated vs unvaccinated death rates is a tour de force of statistical trickery.
Hah. I cannot count the number of times we made action items as a result of five COEs and the ultimate result was a SIM issue permanently sitting in our queue because there was always something more important to do.
Gorgeous. How can I buy you a coffee?
The reasons why may not be obvious if you're not a manager or haven't run a large organization before, but the simple truth is, "employees" are not a magically ethical bunch of people simply by virtue of being the underdog and poor and downtrodden and being all fired and stuff. You do not want a significant number of employees running around who are either uncertain they are going to be fired for a significant period of time, and even worse, you don't want a whole bunch of employees running around who have a pretty good idea they're going to be fired in a couple of days, because some fraction of them are going to take advantage of their access to wreck things up for the company. Wrecking things with technical access, wrecking relationships with companies... there's hardly anyone in a position in a company who couldn't do quite a bit of damage if they know they're out the door anyhow. All you have to do is be sure to keep it under the threshold where it's worth getting the legal system involved. (e.g., more "wreck relationships with customers" and keep the damage difficult to quantify and less "set the place on fire during peak business hours").

If a company told me they were going to fire me in two weeks, the worst risk the company would be taking is that I might just decide that they can't fire me in two weeks because I quit. I wouldn't do any other deliberate harm on the way out. Perhaps that's most people.

It certainly isn't all people, though.

Maybe it would be nice if we could all get along well enough to see being fired in some period of time as just business and not worth lashing out. Then again, maybe your sympathies lie with the employees lashing out. But in that case, the company has no choice but to get you out the door with as little warning as possible, to defend both itself as an abstract entity and all the rest of the employees.
From the README [0] and code, I'd wager that the only thing happening is that JS has been filtered out, that the CSP rules are significantly stricter and that a dark mode has been added.

[0]: https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless
Dolphins are much smarter than sharks. It's Garg who is being dumb.
It is really a shame that there is not a carbon dioxide tax and have it pay out for sequestering carbon dioxide (negative emissions). Sequestering CO2 in geologic formations would fit right in with oil and gas company's core competencies. Many of those companies supported a carbon dioxide tax and they could have transitioned to companies just sequestering carbon dioxide sometime in the future. This could still be done right now, but current politics is more interested in punishing the other side than finding win/win solutions.
This CEO violates all the rules of communicating bad news. It needs to be short and to the point, and should definitely not include self pity ("last time I was crying").
They're the firm that won the USD $650 million privacy suit against Facebook earlier this year. They....kind of have a track record when it comes to class action lawsuits.
While there are other techniques, one thing to think about is how often the analysis/review group is that particular group. In large organizations, if they particular issue being analyzed is with a group that hasn't gotten together before, a more accessible technique like five whys could be easier to use and mediate. If the group regularly gets together to do such analysis, or has a longer range time frame to complete the analysis, more involved techniques could get to deeper work.
Are you familiar with the industry this company is in? Right now they are printing money with the current economy. This is absolutely feasible.
SQLite is extensively used in web browser codebases. If you check your Firefox profile, it's well-packed with SQLite databases.
Some journalists and announcers for Radio Télévision Libre des Milles-Collines were given sentences after the Rwandan genocide. (I am not saying Facebook's role is at all comparable to RTLMC's)
I disagree. I think the troubles of cross-platform GUI are overstated. People used to port software to a dozen different 8-bit micros and 5 game consoles using assembly, writing for Win32 and Cocoa can't be as difficult as that. Besides, it will incentivise you to make your interfaces simpler, while still providing you the ability to leverage platform specific features.

I think everyone is moving to electron because web developers are a dime a dozen.
I have been part of a mass layoff via Zoom. You’d be surprised how easy it is to do with empathy and respect.

When it’s handled with empathy and respect - much less likely to make HN front page though.
I guess Kafka forgot to acknowledge the power of complaining on Hacker News.
Does MySQL still converts `0::timestamp` into the date '0000-00-00'?

I have never seen a MySQL database that didn't have problems with dates. (But I haven't looked in a while.)
I have no idea. I believe in Nuremburg trials (an exceptional and extraordinary situation far behind what this case claims) most of the legal power was brought to bear on leaders although we often say "just following orders" is not an excuse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders).

The people who created this case want to damage the leadership of the company (who set the primary policy decisions), not engineers or other staff, unless they could find that an engineer worked on their own (and documented in a discoverable way).

Honestly, I don't think this case has even a remote chance of making it through the courts. The filer would have done far better to not ask for a enormous monetary sum (2X the GDP of myanmar).
In general it seems MySql targets start-ups while PostgreSql targets more established companies and projects. It's not necessarily about good-vs-bad, but using the right tool for the job.
At YouTube (or Facebook, or Twitter) scale, correctly assessing let alone addressing abusive content is a near-intractable problem.

One might argue, and I think there's a strong case to do so, that if you can't do a thing viably at scale, then perhaps you should not do it.

At the same time, an acknowledgement of the scope of the problem by those criticising practices ... would be a breath of fresh air.

(I'm a long-standing critic of most of the information monopolists, and have to the greatest extent possible avoided getting sucked into their respective maws.)

Shallow dismissals really don't advance conversation or understanding. Please do better.
They do sell licenses to their proprietary test harness.

https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html
Two counter points:

>1)Stephen Wolfram is not a police officer and has not been spat at in the face.

That's right I hold stephen to less of a standard than police officers. Police officers should uphold a law and stay neutral. If you're not a police officer and someone insults you, there's no need to stay neutral. A retort in return to an insult is 100% viable.

>2) You don't know the tone of the question and neither do I. The question is obvious and expected and deserves an answer in such a context.

The true intent of the question can be deduced from the content of the question itself. The tone is irrelevant in that case. The answer to the question as I repeatedly said is obvious so the question was asked not for an answer... the question was asked as a deliberate attack. That is the only logical explanation given that the answer to the question is 100% known by the asker.

An attack DOES NOT DESERVE an answer.

In fact any additional tonality that went along with the question would be manipulative. The asker can use deceptive tonality to disguise the question as innocent but we know clearly from the content of the question that it is an attack despite the tonality.

Everyone and I mean everyone knows why mathematica and windows is closed source. There is ZERO need to ask such a question; that is unless your intentions are insidious.
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Doesn't that presume guilt a bit? The whole point of a trial is to see if there is guilt, and if so maybe which parties are guilty will be shown (in the case of a company).
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What a weird turn of phrase. Comparatively a dumb dolphin is pretty smart still.
> Make them all risk their health to come to an in-person event, only to be fired?

“Risk their health”?

Grocery store workers have been coming into their office the entire time and I don’t see them dropping like flies. Same with Home Depot employees, and any other “essential” business.

It requires a hell of a lot of privilege for tech workers to think they are entitled to stay home “to protect their health” while all these other people go in. It’s treating people like they are expendable…
I just looked into that, and it seems it can tell if someone is at the house or not, but nothing beyond that?

My family doesn't use Life360 just to know if someone is at each home or not. They also use it to see if they're on the way home, or stuck somewhere, or if we've left our phone somewhere.
Edleson is Counsel for Plaintiff and the Proposed Class, the Plaintiff in the Complaint that's linked to.

Are you asking if the company that created this document actually filed it?

Here's some news about it

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/your-profit-fuelled-genoc...
My time spent on Among Us is finally going to pay out!
Playing devil's advocate, this device is obviously made for mass market($11.99), what if the WHO/AQI "Good" numbers are too hard to achieve for general consumers?, the buyers of this device might be venturing into clean air for the first time and the last thing they want to see is "orange/red" ALL the time.
Or "claims are untested in court" is a common disclaimer in Canada
> I"m not sure a global zoom call did them any favours or helped them at all here.

the benefit is that everyone knows upfront whether they were fired or not, rather than having rumors swirl around the office for a week.
A fun one that I'm personally familiar with is the Upholder, predecessor to the modern Upholsterer. Back in medieval times, the upholder was a combination furniture and textile producer as well as interior designer and the person who did the banners in castles, bedsheets, etc. Basically anything involving textiles. Over time, padded furniture became the main focus of the trade, leading to what we think of as upholsterers.[1]

[1] https://spruceaustin.com/uncategorized/history-of-the-uphold...
TBH this looks like a toxic place to work at. If i had such a CEO i would look for another job. I hope that they all find a new and better jib and the toxic CEO gets what he deserves.
I like to feed the birds with my less-awesome bread loaves sometimes, as I learn to bake. I am not at all disappointed that someone doesn't create stuffing or croutons with it.
it's also easier to build new features than to evolve existing ones.

Yes, that too

endemic problem of devs rotating through jobs every 1-2 years

I work as a contractor. I prefer long term contracts, even if they pay less. But the past few months, every job requirement I have gotten is for 6 months, some as bad as 2 months. What a person can achieve in 2 months, I do not know (unless it is extremely well defined job and the contractor gets help). Maybe this is because of the pandemic, I don't know. But employers and employees both deserve blame for this high churn.
I'm disappointed in myself for being surprised by this article, you're exactly right about this being the norm for similar software. I've found Life360 to be a helpful free tool in many regards but as is so often the case, if you aren't paying for the product then you are the product.
> Garg told Fortune that a month earlier, the company began to review employee productivity data, including missed telephone call rates, number of inbound and outbound calls, employees showing up late to meetings with a customer, and other metrics.

I mean, data driven decision making is actually pretty great!

I'm curious how many people here would disagree?

That being said, who here thinks the CEO had a complete picture of the performance metrics? Or perhaps he was operating from an intentionally incomplete data-set to self-fulfill a prophecy, or some other ulterior motive?
I knew you would get downvoted. HN is a weird mixture of professionalism and childishness. Getting angry at two lines without context/relationship with manager is all I could expect from here.
In 2015 Dave Thomas, whose name is on the Agile Manifesto, gave a talk named “Agile is dead - long live agile”, addressing the intent behind the manifesto and the Agile Industrial Complex / cult-like movements which spawned from that.

https://youtu.be/vqz8ND-N1hc
Working backwards to find an activation metric
So do you have a problem with the placement.com service, or the GP promoting it?

Because shifting goal posts does nobody good.
I know people are worried about peoples feelings over all else and that is important, but after the shift to everyone working from home I bet every single person here knows that one out of every 10 of their coworkers is not performing. Hell I question question if they ever work at all or just collect their check, let alone perform well.
And this isn't a turtles all the way down thing either. This is the entire point of a hierarchical system. Everyone's performance is monitored and checked by the layer above them up until you hit the CEO.

Sure, it's not crazy to have 10% underperformers at any given company, someone has to be below average. But regular pruning doesn't involve mass layoffs like this.
Wow! $650B privacy law suit. Impressive! Are you sure about that number? It seems a bit high?
I don't think I've ever put a true easter egg in software. I do decorations instead.

A random quote on a login page, some skeuomorphic theming, a config option to put particle effects on your custom dashboards.

I wouldn't really trust software less because of eggs though, unless it could be triggered by in band data. --egg is fine, triggering on nano activateEgg.txt is a problem.
Let's not get distracted by an extraneous provocation. As you can imagine, this has come up frequently when people run into that bit, and tends to lead to the same discussion over and over (and ultimately, religious flamewar).

There's a new site guideline about this actually:

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article and rush to the thread to complain about it. Find something interesting to comment about instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29461959.
Every news outlet excepting Buzzfeed disagreed with your philosophy of newsworthiness, and it led to years of political catastrophe and public opinion of journalism reaching its nadir.
Ask HN: Are Midnight Screenings Dead?
The Matrix Resurrections tickets went on sale today and no theaters in the city I'll be in (Portland, OR) are having a midnight showing.

I love the camaraderie developed in line for a midnight release. The whole theater feels electric.

I'm a bit bummed this won't be the case for this new Matrix. Feels like a hugely missed opportunity.

Is it an artifact of COVID-times, the fact that this is simultaneously released on HBO or something else?
What a piece of shit.
Like this one

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/world/lawsuit-says-ibm-ai...

And this one

https://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/08/ramasastry.holocaust....
Whelp, time to get rid of my Tiles. Shame, I was just about to refresh.

Anyone have a recommendation for something else? I only need BLE, don't need crowdsourced finding, but I really want a slim form factor for my wallet and a more rugged form factor for my keys. I'm in the Android ecosystem (GrapheneOS).
I am one of those people who actually like Wikipedia the way it is. It's what I hoped the web to become.

But i am sure there are people who will appreciate your effort. Thank you for your work.
That's apparently based on a Bloomberg article for those who'd prefer not sitting through a 40-minute re-reading of it:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-29/amazon-ga...
I hope each of the fired employees sue him and he gets himself 900 lawsuits to handle.