skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the alternative? Telling all of your employees "hey we're thinking about layoffs that may or may not happen, and we don't know who will be affected" would be a massive morale hit and make people leave. Until the final decision is made -- and this is a hard decision that everyone, including upper management, wants to avoid making until absolutely necessary -- it's best to keep it close to the chest. Just because you've planned for it doesn't mean you'll execute on it.

Look at this situation, even. Elon says he's going to cut 10% of Tesla's jobs. You're a Tesla employee. Is your job on the chopping block? Should you start looking? Nearly every person at Tesla is now living with fear that they might not have a steady paycheck in a month. To me this is a way shittier situation because you're stuck in limbo for a month or more. Isn't it a lot better to have a single all-hands meeting where you announce layoffs, the people who are affected will be contacted by their manager with severance information, and the plan going forward? Rather than just having this stuff linger for months?
> If it is such a good thing, why developers prefer not to disclose its usage?

In my experience it's usually very prominently disclosed. In case of VSCode it's literally the 2nd section in their License Agreement, not to mention help pages, highly visible settings etc.
It's easier to build your own bazaar.
I am considering several blockchain approaches.
Food and gas prices are already inflated now. It's not clear how people paying even more for these would help the economy.
How does this rule out that it's a political attack?
It's been a long time since I wrote any PHP in anger but back when I did, I got a ton of mileage out of CodeIgniter (https://codeigniter.com/). It looks like it's still around and being actively maintained. I can quite clearly remember a number of projects that went from being just an idea to 90% functional in the span of an evening.

I write Python almost exclusively now, but still pine for something like CodeIgniter. Flask is nice because it lets you bolt on whatever you want, but you spend a lot of time choosing, prototyping, and often discarding libraries. Django does a lot of heavy lifting but has (IMO) a very steep learning curve. There doesn't seem to be anything (or at least anything I've liked) in between.
Any intermediary is only going to add more to the price, not less. If an intermediary made prices cheaper for their customers than upstream, then they wouldn't be in business.

The incentive is clearly competition from other manufacturers. In a world of dealerships, competition is murky because you can't really know the final price of a car unless you play the haggle game with every dealership. But if every manufacturer had all the final prices online, you can easily evaluate what is the better deal.
It's an incredibly unpopular view on HN, but I don't think we can categorically conclude yet that WFH is always equally good as working in-person for all white-collar jobs that have good prerequisites for WFH.

For me personally, the train has left the station and I would not expect to ever consider a non-WFH job again in my career.

But that's a completely different question than asking whether companies that require physical attendance can in some cases out-compete those that don't. I think we have a tendency to project our wishes onto this debate, and not make an honest attempt at figuring out the truth.
I can't believe in 2022, on a website dedicated to tech and other interesting things, I'm having a conversation with some one ardently defending whether humans can shoot fireballs out of their hands and walk on water or not.
In college we used to work under a bunsen flame, is that not enough space?
I going for aesthetics I might just put them in the ceiling and have what appears to be low profile vents that one might not even notice. That would keep most of the noise in the ceiling. One could build an enclosure that the HEPA filter unit sits in and routes the intake/output to different ceiling vents.

With a little extra effort the filter could be swapped out by removing/lowering the vent intake.
Since KDE 3.5 (2002) you can use SSH to mount folders in the file manager and modify not just code remotely as if it was local, but other files too.
Public transport changes that.
This sounds more related to unfair immigration laws than to caste discrimination.
I'm not sure on butterfly effects among subcontractors and whether all the affected employees quickly find a new job, but I don't feel this adds up to a positive effect.
When I was making gears, a pen and paper, and a $11 Casio science calculator were the main things I used to figure out angles, etc. It had a nice DMS (Degree Minute Second) conversion mode.

You write down your calculations and keep them with the work, as you're working on multiple jobs at the same time, and it helps keep things straight.

There's grease and oil everywhere, stuff tends to disappear or get forgotten, so a low budget knowledge base works best.

It's amazing how much stuff you can get done with such a cheap calculator.
>Are there any benefits that dealerships offer today over direct sales?

Competition. In a decent sized city you will get multiple dealers for the big names (Toyota, GM, Ford etc) and they will compete against each other. Because of this, you won't pay over MSRP, winter tires at cost, discounted warranties, free oil changes for life and they generally try really hard to keep your business through good customer service.
Agreed. They are self-evident, high-quality representations of KtF. When faced with disagreement on that, it's hard to know what to say in response to convince someone other than to point to another canonical representation of KtF and say, "These are the same."
Caring is part of the system. It is an aspect of the system that only exists because of the system itself. To refuse to analyze this is basically lying to yourself. EVERYTHING is a system.
Not to turn this into a military strategy thread but....

There is something to be said for highly mobile anti-armor weapons in possession of the defending force, but there is ample evidence that Russia simply does not have enough manpower to use its tanks properly.

* There are many cases in which a three-crew tank is manned by two people (there is no commander).

* They don't seem to have enough cannon fodder to act as a filtering force - the perimeter around armor to make sure they are not targeted with standoff weapons.

The reports of the tank's death are greatly exaggerated.
I wish! Our desks were made out of tinfoil and old ramen boxes.
The onion trick really is amazing! I do that whenever my pans aren’t quite as slick as I’d like. They always end up performing better afterwards. I think maybe the sugar in the onion is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I think that a little bit of material that can carbonize and mix with the oil seems to produce a slicker pan. For example, cooking bacon in a fresh pan seems to yield a better result than just lard alone.
Won't let me reply to fizzynut, but this is a reply to you.

Yes making data structures is important, and the reality of that is, there are people in the ecosystem creating fancy ones which can be leveraged for your use case.

If that doesn't exist then yea you have to write them. Sometimes that's difficult(you need to use unsafe), sometimes it's easyish and you can use all safe(I did this for a graph type). It can be done(lots of people are doing it), but I think what it shows is, data structures can be difficult to do correctly.

In a worst case scenario you could write it in asm inside rust if you really need a low level control, or write it in C/unsafe rust and ffi or just write it in.

Basically worst case scenario in rust is writing something closer to C.
Remembering that this is happening on a platform where many celebrities' accounts were totally compromised, I wouldn't be super surprised if they've implemented client-side filtering.
Layoffs and Hiring Freezes
The word monopoly unfortunately invites all sorts of pedantry about whether a company is a monopoly (and it goes on endlessly because people can play a game of quibbling about exactly what 'the market' is). Twitter is obviously a powerful player in the social media market, whether or not it is a monopoly. You don't need to be a monopoly to engage in anti-competitive behavior.
> Nasdaq posts one of its strongest rebounds ever

I see Nasdaq is down 23% since beginning of the year. Where are you seeing strongest rebound ever?
If you seriously believe this I have a bridge to sell you LOL. Elon has a history of shilling FSD and FSD payments at let’s say… opportune times in history when Tesla was at risk of running out of runway.
It feels redundant. How many government companies are there in the US?
Today’s word is actually really hard… it’s one of those words which is close to a whole lot of other ones, so it’s hard to understand the similarity scores from a human perspective. But I’ve played this game before, and the scores are usually much easier to make sense of.
This is likely the same reason that sometimes links on FB can't be pasted. There's a spike in usage and some anti-spam mechanism blocks it. Which makes sense, but sometimes catches the wrong URL just like every spam filter.

Give it a day, move along.
Open Compute Project: Data Center Design by Community Effort
Design a better one and there will be companies looking to acquire you. Problem solved, in a more constructive way.
This makes sense in regards to comments about remote work. Sometimes it’s cheaper to give people a reason to leave instead of firing them.

Also, this is supply chain related.
...on Android.
People have pointed out that he’s likely going through mental health issues and Im inclined to agree with them.

He went a bit too far with the Twitter buyout stunt.

Honestly, he should just get off social media and take a vacation or something. But of course he’s too egotistical to do that and will try to muddle his way through it. Its amusing to watch as an outsider but I can’t imagine its a lot of fun for people at Musk companies (+ Twitter).
In other words, you want every website to be held liable for all user generated content on their platform, which would benefit every large social media (because smaller ones wouldn't be able to afford to moderate every single post), leading to them becoming even more of a monopoly?

Or do you have something concrete in mind on what to replace it with? Because just repealing it would lead to a much different Internet than it is today — and not in a good way.
This is a fundamental problem with the US corporate model: responsibility to shareholders should carry no more weight than responsibility to employees. This is more the German model (see VW) where a company's workers and a company's shareholders have similar representation on the corporate board and both share in the decision-making process. It's also no surprise that the main pushback against the 'back to the office' move is coming from workers in Germany.

Probably in this case the shareholder representatives on the board are privately pressuring Musk to do layoffs. People seem either ignorant of this fact or unwilling to comment on this fact, but the major shareholders (mutual and institutional funds) can be seen here:

https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...

Maybe the bigger point is that while blue-collar workers in the USA have been treated like disposable units for years under the neoliberal program, now the white-collar workers who thought they were above all that are going to get the same treatment, much to their shock and dismay. Should have seen it coming.
Please build a system with 100% availability under load and with no false positive. I'll wait.
I'm out of the loop. What's wrong with Microsoft Purview Classifiers? I tried to quickly google them, but didn't find any obvious controversies.
"This happens all the time" at badly managed companies, or perhaps at well managed companies if there is a huge macroeconomic shock like in 2001 or 2009. Given that great software is what supposedly gives Tesla its competitive advantage, it's really bizarre to me to go from having 20 open software dev positions to a layoff within 48 hours, because Elon Musk "has a very bad feeling" based on no new data points as far as we can tell. Unless he learned something this week that he isn't telling us.
They're not toys. They're jewelry.
"Private company", in this context, means "not the government". The opposite would be "public sector", referring to the government or companies it owns/runs.
Absolutely terrifying
https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1532578531674189824
I've thought this too but I've seen some things that put this assumption into question [0]. The way that I've dealt with it in Anki specifically is by decreasing my leech threshold such that knowledge that isn't working well in the exponential-backoff strategy simply gets removed from my reviews.

[0] See eg the experience here https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/ukavcj/9_year_ankiver...
If anyone is curious, the submission from 2019 got 573 points and 187 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20096271
If the results are actually impressive, then the dismissive rhetoric doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
You keep making the same comment where you pretend you don't know that Ford isn't the only car manufacturer so you can justify the existence of dealerships.
They are also blocking noc.social (another mastodon instance). Wonder if more are impacted.
I use Fiber (https://github.com/gofiber/fiber) for APIs and SolidJS (https://www.solidjs.com) for web UIs.
Despite what Racket advocates claim, there is virtually no real (non-toy) web application written in that language, which is created for academic jerking off and mass production of worthless academic papers about missing flights that nobody actually read.

Racket comunity will never admit it to you, but the more they praise their "sweet & perfect & superiror" language, the less web applications are written in it!
Ask HN: Best Way to Search for Lyrics?
It probably happened to everyone that when looking for lyrics of a somewhat obscure song, Google search results are clogged up by the usual popular lyrics websites, despite none of them having more infos that the title, album or artist.

I was wondering if the "tech savvy" crowd of HN had a tip for this issue...

(My actual example: the first album of Thee Headcoats)
Depends on what 'quick' is: 1 week?, 1 month?, 1 year? It's possible for that to happen but I doubt it will be that quick. My suspicion tells me it may be longer than expected and as always, the market needs to go down first before it rises up, hence why I said the 2020 market rally had to end some day.

The startups who are paranoid of the markets and prepare in advance for profitability will continue to survive and the startups constantly raising money each week and making little to no revenue will be caught swimming naked when the market retraces. Fast is a prime example of this.

We could have another dotcom style crash and it may take another 3 - 4 years to get back to the same all time highs again where that is still possible.
They’re widely used, which is not the same. If you’re a customer you’ll routinely encounter bugs, clumsy or inaccessible UI, annoying limitations, and performance issues which take ages to get fixed if ever. I would not assume that they’re better at security than everything else.
Traditional Korean bbq is done over hot charcoals without any natural gas. The few kbbq restaurants that have approval in the US to do this continue the tradition and the meat tastes way better without the butane taste the same way a bong rip tastes better when you don’t torch it with a lighter for a minute straight.

Of course, this comes with other issues like the potential liability of a server dropping hot coals on a customer.
Have you ever played the game of telephone? Is it not more likely people lied and repeated lies that got so completely changed from reality than to believe some person actually flew to space on a winged donkey?
The man has bought Twitter for the purposes of distracting and manipulating the public.

To be fair, twitter ownership is not required to use twitter for this purpose.
As @therockhead replied already: you won't put every single variable behind `Arc`. It will only be for shared state: queues, handlers that you need to move between threads/tasks etc.
> The advantage of physical systems is that it's straightforward to collect data from natural systems.

For a lot of physical systems it might be "straightforward" but expensive. Testing new building designs for energy efficiency is just a matter of building a new test building, why not just build 1000? Testing new car designs to see if they reach the safety qualifications is just a matter of crashing a few of your prototypes, why not crash 1000? It's just a matter of getting more telescope time. It's just a matter of getting more robots to try more materials or proteins. Yes you can do theoretically do it, it's just cost prohibitive to get Google-level datasets for many scientific and engineering problems. Of course that's not true for all domains (high-throughput sequencing for bioinformatics is the prime example of something that became cheaply data-rich for standard machine learning), but there are many domains where getting another data point is always possible but just would cost another million.
Yes! This is the basis for the Corsi-Rosenthal Box [1]. Five 20"x20"x1" filters and a box fan, with duct tape to seal the edges. Not the prettiest, but it's effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box
If you don’t have leverage when raising money the opportunities to lose control are endless.
Is there a situation where you would not expect the dirt of the rich and famous to be reported on? Where journalists collectively, ALL OF THEM, right-wing nutjobs and useless centrists alike, would say let's not?

This whole attitude of expect political attacks on me is disingenuous at best. Anybody with power should always expect their personal faults to be reported, whatever their political colour.
Yes; when I first read the post I didn't know yet if her offer was rescinded. By the time of the second comment I called her and found out that it was indeed rescinded.
I have a degree in electrical engineering, thank you for telling me to do my research, I spent four years doing that.

Sure, some motors have characteristics that can be tweaked to run at different work loads either with PWM, or allowing them to pull more amps to drive higher loads. Hell, you can even overvolt them and make them actually work harder.

That's not how HVACs work though. Have you ever opened one up and did a repair? The circuitry is dead simple, there's no current limiting setup or PWM to control how much the motor is pulling or spinning, there's no CFM measuring device to give the motor more volts or a higher amp limit.

The motor is simply pushing air. Air isn't something like a solid load where a motor might lift something or move a lever or gear, it's fluid. The motor is going to run at max and be done.
We are actively moving away from netlify for that reason- we have a mostly stable website that maybe sees 10 deploys a month, but usually from 10 different people. I just can’t justify an enterprise account for that.

Too bad, since I actually did like the workflow.
Lots of big companies in the past couple years have had 10% layoffs and still have job openings because they are shifting strategy and need different skill sets.
All of your concerns and questions are addressed in the website, which I recommend that you explore more in depth. The site is not purely from a cultural anthropology point of view, but physical anthropology, as well. As such, it addresses genetics and health issues.
> People don't buy coffee on the way to work, people don't buy coffee on the way home, people don't buy sandwiches and snacks, people don't spend money on commuting, people don't spend money at resturants for launch, companies stop having team lunches.

Plenty go to work from coffee shops which they wouldn’t if they were in an office. Coffee shops with WiFi are thriving. They still buy take out lunches. Or they buy more groceries so they can cook and eat healthier food. They have more time due to lack of commute and allocate it to spending on something else (like a hobby, meeting friends, keeping fit etc).

The money is just be reallocated elsewhere.
Late 1980 was when criminality was going up and right before its peak. It is quite lower now ... and people who were teenagers in late 1980 are almost 60 now.
Why would you want access to steel that's supposed to be reinforcing concrete? What kind of maintenance do you think is occurring? It's great for water infiltration.
In the same vein, when you have that much money and power you can simply buy/create your image.

There is a lot to criticize about Elon Musk but he's too influential for any of that criticism to reach the majority.

When you're that wealthy you can also circumvent the law. During the pandemic, Tesla "threatened" to move from California to another state if they wouldn't be allowed to reopen their factories. This caused the state of California to basically make an exception for them... so they circumvented the law which other smaller companies could not do.

Personally i can't understand the obsession with someone like Elon Musk or even someone like Bill Gates... It's easy to control your image when you're a billionaire, so you don't actually have to behave and live ethically.
I would expect people like the people I went to high school with, since that was a pretty random selection of society. That would not be a group where you could describe an abstract concept like the criteria for applying a law and expect them to get it the first time. More likely you'd explain it many times from many different angles over a couple of weeks and then give them a test and they still wouldn't get any part of it entirely correct. And that's on average; you also have the low end of the range, people who managed to put the right words in the right boxes to pass world history but came away not sure if there's an ocean between France and Germany or not. And then at the very bottom there were the ones who couldn't pass high school classes at all....
Except, how many government owned companies are there in the US?

What's the point in saying "private company" if 99.99+% of companies are private?
I could see how this might be fun, but today's word (I won't spoil it here) seems ill-advised for such a puzzle. When I saw the hint it made me laugh out loud. Why would the creator choose such a word (or such a hint)?
I'm suspecting that we'll see forced return to office as a way to implement layoffs without as much bad PR. Stock will go up since costs will drop, but management will be able to say that is more an issue with return to office rather than a company failing. "We're doing great, it's just that some employees don't share our commitment and focus on doing things well, and making our mission a priority."

There has been a sudden uptick in return to office talk (despite plenty of reporting that covid is actually much worse than people realize now). Other people on HN have mentioned it and all of a sudden the leadership at my office, who were always extremely pro-remote work have suddenly started making mention of how valuable in-face communication is.

So the feeling of a "soft layoff" might be the intended effect.
Here in California the campaigns can get copies of the contact info on everyone's voter registrations: "pursuant to Elections Code §2188 and §2194, voter registration information is available for electoral, scholarly, journalistic and political purposes, as well as governmental purposes, as determined by the California Secretary of State."