skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s literally extremely common for companies to inform people that they will be laid off weeks in the future. Companies often have entire facilities that get shut down with months of advance notice.

Not to mention that temporary jobs are also extremely common, so this explanation that the only thing ever preventing employees from sabotaging their employer is the hope that they will be employed there indefinitely is pretty clearly insufficient.

You can’t explain this as “managers/executives have no choice.” They have the choice, and they sometimes choose the option that they determine is easier for them. Not surprising, of course, but also not worth defending.
I like it! I'm not one of those people who fetishizes 90's to mid-00's design. Something like Hacker News has its charm but let's not pretend all sites from that era were usable. One thing that drives me mad in default Wikipedia is the line length. On a large monitor it makes text way less readable. Also having access to the table of contents on the side is way better than having to scroll back up.
To me it the estimates themselves don't really matter. Everybody already knows if something is gonna be worked on or not (at least kind of). The value I find from estimates is they encourage the team to discuss how something is gonna be built.

The best moments are when everybody estimates that something is "easy" except for exactly one person who says "this is super hard". Then there is a discussion about what the "easy" camp might have missed or perhaps the shortcut the "hard" person didn't know about.

At the end, everybody walks away understanding a little more about what the rest of the team is working on.
> Why make the HR team go through 900 individual calls?

The entire reason companies have hierarchical power structures (in theory) at least, is so that information can be passed along with the log of the company size.

Having every manager have 10 min call with each direct report, or in the worse case a team meeting, would be much more human and could accomplish the task of notification in roughly the same time window as an all hands firing.
Why not against Western countries who did far more to create ISIS then merely be a passive communication platform?
There's a point where long line lengths start negatively impacting reading speed, so a lot of designers incorporate that idea as a hard limit in their layouts.

It might be better to leave it up to users, because it's a very common complaint on many sites where text width is limited.
I want to make a living making desktop applications. However, as far as I can tell, unless you hit the lottery, it's not doable in general, because of a growing contingent of users who won't use your tool unless it's free or open-source (there's a bunch of people running around the internet, many on HN, who think that the existence of proprietary software is intrinsically evil), and an increasing number of devs who will make an open-source clone of your tool simply because yours isn't open-source.

With that, if the only thing that's going to happen is my ideas get taken and used in an open-source project, why not just keep my tools to myself and continue to work for a big corporation?
Neither do the curl authors. This library is used basically everywhere, from your device over IoT applications to critical servers. Sure, people might have fun while writing this software, just like your plumber might enjoy his craft, but the end product is professional groundwork.
Circular filing bin. Not worth your time to respond to low effort stuff like this.
I understand the need for automation, and can imagine that the spammers, grifters and crooks would overwhelm any manual review system. I'm suprised that Google has not implemented pay for support. If the issue is really important, can I just pay $50 and speak to a real person? Just because manual processes don't scale, doesn't meam they shouldn't exist.
Does any one know when is MySQL 9.0 coming? It has been a unusually long time between a major version or a dot version release. MySQL 8.0 was in April 2018.

Compared to Postgres which has been shipping features after features.
I think this is more like some other baker saying "I don't put raisins in my bread because the people I am baking for don't like raisins" and you shouting "argh when did people become such prudes??"
Remember to keep the Hacker in Hacker News boomers!

One of my favorites:
Violent Python: A cookbook for hackers, penetration testers, and security analysts.

This is the book that really gave me the knowledge i needed to begin scratching that itch we all get about computers and their secrets.
Giant Cockroaches, Tarantulas, and Scorpions Found in Luggage at Airport
“Who else would think of putting something going into an obscure port in Washington, and then trucking it down to L.A.? Most people are thinking, well, just bring the ship into L.A. But then you’re experiencing those two-week and three-weeks delay. So Amazon’s really taken advantage of some of the niche strategies I believe that the market needs to employ,” Ferreira said.

Well that's exactly the thinking that created FedEx (and which "right thinking" people, like the founder's professor, "knew" would obviously never work. Until it did.

If you remember the job is about results rather than simply repeating existing rituals and habits, this kind of solution becomes obvious. Most people can't be bothered to live beyond rituals and habits.
> … this is a huge problem that we need to hold companies legally accountable for.

Legally accountable for what? They do not owe anyone free access to their service. If you're a paying subscriber then they do owe at least their choice of a refund or continued service until the end of the current subscription period—unless they can demonstrate that you were the one that broke the contract—but they are have no obligation to let you renew, any more than you are obligated to continue subscribing.

Google doesn't have a monopoly on much beyond their own brand and reputation. All the services they offer, including video hosting, can be found elsewhere. If you want to build your income stream on their brand ("Oh, but no one will be able to find me if I host my videos on PeerTube!") you do it on their terms.
One past thread:

This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage (1967) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9404250 - April 2015 (27 comments)
Does the first amendment and section 230 mean anything in Burma?
the invincible by lem

Very short to the point hard sci-fi.

Made me realise how sometimes some books/stories are dragged out and milked into oblivion.
And if the 10-15% range was true, that’s a major management screwup. A couple of bad hires, sure, it happens but when you’re talking hundreds of people there’s something systemic at fault, which is solely in the realm of management’s responsibility to hire and monitor.

Based on the excuse he gave to Forbes I’d bet you’re right. I’d especially believe some kind of internal inefficiency – e.g. having everyone need to have sign-offs by someone in an understaffed role – or simply having inefficient internal processes meaning that what he thinks is a 2 hour task actually taking much longer.

Another possibility would be something like having over-hired either due to misjudgment or to look like a bigger business to investors and then blaming the workers for not having enough work to do. I remember seeing that from the dotcom era, along with people who were very proud of 7 figure Oracle clusters handling hundreds of transactions per day. Senior management was so focused on IPO riches that they allowed if not actually encouraged it.
That's, uh, a pretty intense reaction to some curves.

There is a long history of rounded corners in graphic design. In the real world, perfectly sharp edges do not exist. Even on the printed page, ink bleed tends to gently round all corners.

This is a good thing, because sharp corners interact poorly with some parts of our visual system. Sharp corners in a design can be as jarring as extremely high contrast or saturated colors, which are also best avoided in designs where the intent is to let the viewer focus on the content and not the form.

A slight amount of corner rounding in digital graphic design can lead to a look that is easier on the eyes, less distracting, and more approachable. (The design here uses more rounding than necessary, but I think it's driven largely by fashion and the above principles and not some dystopian desire to infantilize you.)

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_inhibition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_glare

http://people.sunyit.edu/~lepres/thesis/principles/63_pdfsam...

http://macknik.neuralcorrelate.com/pdf/articles/troncoso_et_...
To your recommendations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, I'd add Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. That is by far my most favorite of the classic "monster" books.
Surprisingly, didn't find 'The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy' in this list. Must read !
it might seem like a minor issue. if I really wanted to shop with Walmart I could try a different browser, try their app, or switch to my PC. but people don't do that when they just want to buy something. approximately no one cares about giving second chances to a megacorp.

when you have strong competition, it's not enough to mostly get things right at a high level. the little things matter just as much for earning trust. Amazon gets this. Walmart, apparently, does not. they're a solid second choice if something is sold out elsewhere, I'll give them that.
Very good feedback – thank you. We are working on a new homepage that spells it out as clear as day!

(Sent from a new acc because my account is on noprocast)
Non-fiction :

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

A fascinating and intimate history about the people who developed particle physics and how it led to the atomic age. It really highlights what the scientific mindset is like.

Fiction :

Expeditionary Force series of books by Craig Alanson

I'm 12 books into this relatively new series and it is still going strong. If you like sci-fi and geopolitical dramas, this is the series for you.
Assisted-Suicide Chamber Approved by Authorities in Switzerland
> "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."

So you agree it's a provocative thing. Good, that's all I meant to convey.
In the good old days of Winamp (15 years ago...) I created a plugin that scraped the web and showed the chord in Winamp as you played a song. The code was dead easy to implement as it was just an embedded site within Winamp (HTML & Javascript & Winamp JS SDK). And surprisingly the site is still running! Not sure if the scraping still works though http://pikkipowpow.davidsmit.za.net/Home.aspx

So yes there are definitely a use case for all the new media players to show chords
> Product schools

This isn't really a thing. Oh there are few programs out there and there are some great private workshops, but there isn't degree you can get. There both are Design Schools, and Business/Management Entrepreneur programs that cover some aspects of this. But most PMs get that job from some other angle.

And even if they did cover this ... it directly counteracts their job responsibility. Yes, you should move me to another project or fire my, this project should be considered dead. How many people are going to do that? Within certain companies and cultures with many projects and growth, one probably could, because you have a clear path forward. Or you see the writing on the wall and jump to another, higher growth company.

The real problem isn't on the PM side, it is on the business leader / GM / CEO side of things. But even then, there is some other stakeholder asking them to expand them TAM and grow in some other direction that dictates some other feature coverage. This is a really hard trap to avoid.
The industry is over half a century old by now, barring some absolute catastrophe, it's not going anywhere.
I see how you read that completely differently than how I meant it. I apologize, and thank you for pointing that out.

I meant to convey that creating a free software tool specifically to support a hardware catalog has precedent, makes business sense, and is useful to customers. Not everything has to conform to the FOSS die-hard ethos to upstream everything.
> Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (I thought I knew the story until I actually read the book—whoah, that opened my eyes to our relationship with technology and industry and how we use energy)

Can confirm, the novel is very unlike every film adaptation I'm aware of. It also, incredibly, hits its themes even harder than those do.
Scarne on Cards by John Scarne
The buying boom caused by covid is cooling off.
Qt5 was release in 2012. Qt6 was released in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history
At 55 I can relate.
I'm wondering in the tech space whether we happen to be the first generation that has spent our whole professional careers in tech (me electronics first, then computers, then networked systems, then internet systems, with a bit of dev. sprinkled throughout) and thus after 40 years of constant change you (or one) just gets to certain stage?
I know I'm done (at least professionally, I've retired), although I still tinker with tech daily but out of pure interest.
The last prof. gig I had I spent a lot of time thinking why am I spending so much time re-tooling, re-fixing, re-inventing the wheel? :-)
He and his wife do seem religious: https://www.hwaci.com/drh/

I doubt a missionary christian would make that 'code of ethics' as a joke.

Guess we need a SQLight fork for those brave enough to query reality.
The poster of this PDF link chose the headline and who here at HN doesn't know who Meta are? Also read the Plaintiff in the document:

Plaintiff,
v.
META PLATFORMS, INC. (f/k/a Facebook,
Inc.), a Delaware corporation
What are you trying to accomplish with this comment?

The intractability of the overall problem is a topic of interest, sure. But this thread is pointing out how poor Google’s current implementation/attempt to solve that problem seems to be. The parent comment adds to the dialog by pointing out that while innocent content is getting removed, truly harmful content still exists and is rampant. Is it piling on? Maybe. But Google is earning the criticism.

This doesn’t imply that the solution is simple, but highlights how broken things are. Google is not the only place people can post user generated content, but they have a growing reputation for handling these issues more poorly than most, which isn’t just dismissible because it’s a hard problem to solve.
American Spirit
It really helps to use vague terms like S/M/L/XL or bike/car/plane or whatever. If you say an epic will take 6 months, it is very likely that in 3 months someone will ask for proof that you're halfway done.
I will throw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series out there. It was good entertainment that challenged some of my notions about human nature. Nothing super profound but just enough to remain engaging beyond typical pop literature.
Thanks! I don't edit the text much, though it is a bit of a manual process. I mostly change the prompt when it ends up repeating itself, but with the frequency penalty and a temperature of 0.8, that's rare.
It's more that, I've read critics of modern web design. And while I can understand that some people don't like it (myself included for some things), the visceral hatred that some people have in their rants against it is so great, I can't possibly send that to a client with a straight face. It's so extreme it's absolutely useless.

Edit: At some point, while you can agree with some of the critics' points, they become completely out-of-touch with reality and the typical user.
> Those tend to fall out of the “active use”

At least you don't have to write garbage collection code for those. It just crashes.
Yes, you're right. I guess I couldn't let go of the idea that an an appeals process should be scalable for paying customers. I still believe that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Motor_vehicle_assembl...
Drive to every employee's house to fire them in person?

No, but like the sibling commenter said -- you can at least aim for a bare minimum, of, you know, class.

Like an individual phone call. 10 minutes should do it.

Really, it's not that hard, or expensive.
Enough of literature around to learn and train critical thinking. That would be worthwhile and gets the job done in the end.
Do you have examples? This sounds rather a lot like a racist stereotype unless you’re using “entire countries” to mean something more like corrupt elites misdirecting people who don’t have alternatives.
This is really great product. Keep it up!
If only they knew about planned obsolescence /s
> During both of your options, how do you think China reacts to a massive US military invasion literally on its border?

Very nasty, it will scare them beyond all heavens. And this is why you do it. You make enemies afraid of you, so they don't attack you, and your allies.

> The us has a logistical nightmare where it has to move troops and resources halfway across the world.

1. US has just got a nuclear ally in Asia. A rather untrusting ally for now. Dispell its doubts with show of determination.

2. US military logistics ability is bigger than the rest of the world's militaries combined.
Aren't there a fair amount of songs where the guitar is in some non-standard tuning or played with a kapo, etc? I imagine a naive ML approach would spit out some tabs that would be difficult to play without that context.
I do significantly more pg administration than mysqlish administration.

Galera I gaze upon with envy, no question.
Some of my favorite fiction books and short story collections in no particular order:

1) Collected Fictions by Borges

2) The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka

3) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

4) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

5) 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger

6) 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme

7) 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

8) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
SQLite is a file format with a SQL engine which makes it a great embedded database.

It is not an RDBMS in the true sense so in my opinion it is correctly rated.

I tried using SQLite to solve problems which normally would require an RDBMS and ran into so many issues like the lack of enforced static types, built in date or decimal types (and fast aggregations on dates), concurrent writes, etc. It’s only when you’ve gone through this process that you’ll realize that SQLite it not the database you think it is — and SQLite itself is up front about that: https://www.sqlite.org/aff_short.html
I see that there's a tiny 20x20 fan in these modules. Do these make audible noise or are the fans in these running rather slowly just to have air movement "better than convection" through the sensor?
I think (hope) there’s an open niche for companies which contractually bind themselves to not sell your data. I’ve switched to Neeva for search and mobile browsing, but for now I just have to take them at their word. Same with Apple.
Of the lesser known things that San Francisco has done in this sphere, is that the SF Office Of Cannabis gave those that were materially oppressed by the War on Drugs [1], a leg up on starting cannabis-related businesses. They gave them a year's head start a few years ago before licensing was available to all, and now there's a government-run incubator.

[1] https://officeofcannabis.sfgov.org/equity/applicant#equity-c...
It's more fun and interesting than that - here's the full quote:

Why is the title of the book The Medium is the Massage and not The Medium is the Message? The title is a mistake. After the book came back from the typesetter's, it had on the cover 'Massage'. The title was supposed to read The Medium is the Message, but the typesetter made an error. After McLuhan saw the typo, he exclaimed, 'Leave it alone! It's great, and right on target!' Now there are four readings for the last word of the title, all of them accurate: Message and Mess Age, Massage and Mass Age.

I've 'massaged' the title above - seems most in McLuhan's spirit.
Seems like the MobileFrontend brought to the PC.

I think I would prefer rhe current Vector theme (or maybe Monobook, but definitely not thr Fandom one), but it would be fairly great to have a dark mode.

Thank you for your work!
How is it different from using Clang's CFI (control flow integrity)?

I thought this was the same technique used in webassembly.

Chromium is using this too i think
Is it open-source?
OP did note that he happens to be a YT premium user (for music), so in this situation it isn't a "free" service, they are interacting with a paying customer.
I actually just tried this out last month and thought it was a terrific book, but it was just too long and detailed to hold my interest. I found myself struggling to get through it and finally returned it to the library half-read.

So, would recommend depending on the individual - if you know you have an appetite for thick and detailed history books, this one is great. A sardonic and entertaining writing style for sure.
So, not a must read book?
The suit was filed in the state of California and would be judged under US law.
Tearing down a building,, you could probably find many easter eggs. Things written on the inside of walls. A signature in concrete later being covered by materials. Etc.

Comparing adding a fun flag to a system with making a physical bomb is a huge strawman.
I've never read Shakespeare but so I'm curious to hear what you think makes it outstanding? I've tried reading a bit before but I was weighed down by words and phrases that we no longer use and found myself losing the meaning.
Don Quixote is 900 pages of gut-busting humor that will ruin most comedy for you. And Moby Dick was an incredible read (if you're into audiobooks, Anthony Heald is the perfect narrator for Moby Dick IMO).

Will have to check out the others!
There's not all that much worthwhile on the internet once you look at things soberly and objectively.

Kind of like how sportsball really doesn't matter in the big picture. It (like the internet) is a useful "Opiate of the Masses" but hardly necessary and often antithetical to a happy, fulfilling life!
Going bit ahead of time, since still reading the last book, but Expanse series by James S. A. Corey. It has it ups and downs, but mostly ups. I really like the pace, good balance between opening up characters and story/world building. First 2 books can be read without going full on with all 9.
Because they weren't done. Not all change is bad. But for a "mature product," one needs to carefully consider the cost of bloat. Modular/plugin type systems (done well) can be one way to avoid this, since they allow users to select their own feature bundle. But you really need to manage the abstractions and interfaces carefully to not add more friction or user confusion.
> but don't need clustering or failover strategies.

Even for those cases where you do need it, there are emerging options. You can handle replication 100% in business logic (something I personally enjoy), or you can use a path like dqlite to replicate the physical WAL log.
The people in the sports club will roll their eyes at you because [they think] you are a tin-foil hat wearing lunacy who is paranoid about surveillance from the boogeyman. They will refuse to switch their mode of communication that works for them and everyone else for one person (you) who is just causing trouble for no reason.

The vast majority of people don't think Facebook is the abhorrent service it is, and an even larger majority don't realize WA is owned by Facebook.
There are no Easter eggs, but how about Saint Nicholas nuts or Christmas presents?
"Worldline numerics applied to custom Casimir geometry generates unanticipated intersection with Alcubierre warp metric", https://epjc.epj.org/articles/epjc/abs/2021/07/10052_2021_Ar... (open access)
You should try not making assumptions about what people have and haven't done.