skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems absurd that 18% can be laid off without an extended consultation period, proper notice, proper protocol of who should be laid off, etc.

If any UK staff are affected, then I would talk to citizens' advice (or a solicitor if you can afford it) asap.

Know your rights: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/consultation

You’re entitled to a consultation with your employer if you’re being made redundant. This involves speaking to them about:

why you’re being made redundant
any alternatives to redundancy

If your employer is making up to 19 redundancies, there are no rules about how they should carry out the consultation. If they’re making 20 or more redundancies at the same time, the collective redundancy rules apply.
I thought crypto would collapse every year for the last 14 years, and I've been proven wrong every time. So I'm wondering why this time I'm right.
I’m would say pretty common? Sometimes it happens to personal accounts if the user has access to sensitive data. For setups that aren’t as sensitive or groups of employees that don’t have access to such data, various systems may be locked down for a period. For example, access to source control or staging/production environments may be generally limited. For unexpected one-off firings, the user is often locked out before they’re aware they’ve been let go.
Central bank action. The federal reserve drastically cut rates at the start of the pandemic, so a lot of people were stuck at home with cheap money.

Now, inflation is spiking, so the federal reserve raised rates and money isn't as cheap as it used to be, therefore people are pulling out of the market.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
Show HN: Drunk Startups
That's basically only a problem if you use async-std (just don't, and switch your project if you have). Pretty much everything supports tokio (or there is a just-as-good equivalent library that supports tokio).

Which isn't to say this shouldn't be fixed. Just that there's a fairly good away to avoid the problem in practice.
As a kid we had a neighborhood guy named Henry Schuster. We used to say "It takes a Schuster to be a rooster, but it takes a Henry to be a chicken." I don't know what side this puts me on.
Hi HN! OP here.

Backstory: I work remotely and one thing I miss is the brainstorming sessions. That’s what got me to build drunk startups, a new team-building activity by Thursday.

In this activity, your team breaks out into smaller groups and ideates over absurd prompts like delivering pizza to International Space Station. You put your best ideas onto the whiteboard and later pitch those to the entire team.

Let me know your feedback/suggestions.
so, de-aging video call filter?
Sounds like typical market swings and gyrations in highly speculative markets. Happens in other boom-bust speculation assets from gold to oil to tulips. Are these "winters" or just wild market swings?
I suspect most of the layoffs are in the US, where no such protections apply.
> Software development is some of the easiest, highest paid work in history.

Nope this is an outdated opinion. You can do just as well or better in trades (source: my electrician buddy). If you’re referring to the FAANG salaries (sub 1%) you’re comparing to doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs in terms of opportunity cost. Your average joe programmer isn’t killing it like you seem to think, and they’d do just as well in trades or middle management.

The cynic in me thinks this is an opinion promoted by employers, just like the BS “labour shortage” headline.
You're both right, unfortunately - which makes it hard to ever consistently choose a path. Many people are stuck in the middle of the two sides in lots of orgs.

Your tedious tasks are important. But some of your research/autonomous work is important as well. But both are sometimes hugely wasteful as well. I'm regularly reminded that someone more senior can ascribe "business value" to something and push that to the top of your priority list even when that thing isn't valuable.

To me, as a manager, it's worth thinking about it from the perspective of praise. People might feel better if you're reminding them that the tedious stuff IS actually important, IS actually valuable (and why), and etc. And it's important to tell folks to share their side/research efforts as well. I've neglected to share so many of these little efforts over the years, but feel that they're almost always well received.

Last part said a different way. Share something, get the response, and then do what you can to connect and make it more relevant to a real problem or issue if it's not already.
I thought the problem was that Spain wouldn’t like it because that would set a precedent of rewarding independence movements they oppose like for the Basque region?
Case in point: OpenSea's monthly volume:
https://dune.com/rchen8/opensea

There's no hiding on the blockchain. Monthly volume has gone down from a peak of nearly $5B in January to $372M in June so far.
Since when has Canada ever been a "3rd world country"? The OP is talking about schools in poor emerging economy nations, not schools in industrialized economies.
There is also a lot less regulation in the Bahamas.
I’ve had video conference calls worse than a cold email with the facts.
Well that is a good question as no real solid answer. I do know that what has been classed as far-right in the media has shifted more and more towards the center to the stage that if Hitler was around today, most things on the current far-right would appear centerist-left. Though I like to look at that as progress. Though equally some people class what is on the left as far-left and it's all just got very silly with focus upon labels and arguing over rational logical debate with facts.

If you look at various media outlets, their own definition of far-left or far-right varies so much that you can end up being labeled as both very easily.

Another issue would be cultural aspects and you will find what is far-left or far-right will vary country to country and with that. Subjective labels have and always will be a can-of-worms.
I've seen it once due to the executives being disconnected from reality and not willing to accept that things are now truly f-ed. They were believers more than executives. In that case it took the board telling them "no, that's not enough cuts" multiple times.
> eligible

Even using “granted” as a proxy for “eligible”, hard to tell as every source I found contradicts all the others, somewhere between 25 and 75 percent.

However, this isn’t the right question, for two reasons.

First: The number you want to compare against is the people whose minds were changed by the latest policy. Given how few people were seeking asylum in the UK even before this, the maximum is already low.

Second: this policy does not improve the expected accuracy of government judgement regarding the legitimacy of any given claim.
Infrastructure as code for Azure using Pulumi and C# (Part 1)
Polluted air cuts global life expectancy by two years
Tales from the Jarside
if that is what you expect, then our kids were angels. really we had no trouble with them. they slept pretty well very early, maybe because they slept in our bed so feeding them at night was easy. we had a nanny for help, but i was working from home so i could spend a lot of time with them. we'll see how it will be when they are older. so far it's going well though.

i think what makes kids tough to deal with is not accepting their behavior as it is. when you want them to be a certain way, but you don't know how to get them to be that way. even when i see problematic kids portrayed on tv many times i feel that the kids don't have a problem, but it's the parents who can't deal with it. they don't take the kids seriously and don't respect them or consider their needs. with that attitude, kids will be difficult at any age.
Oh Look. Hacker News attacking my finances again. This is like the 5th book thread within a week and they're largely filled with _really_ good recommendations.

I haven't read it in a while, but Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, resonated with me a lot and I (used to) read it every so often to stay humble and focus less on winning life and more on enjoying it. It's a short read and I recommend it often.
On the other hand, you might attract talent that wants to use a specific language like Rust, but hasn't had the chance in their current professional environment.
That's a really creative way to spin a majority "remain" vote into a "leave" narrative
Did they tried to change how institutions work to add stuff like random nominations, split/defund the police, self determination for smaller bodies (decentralization towards cities basically)?

Or did they try to subvert capitalism by forcing half+1 workers representative on every company boards?

There is not a lot of far left ideas left to implement. Societally, there is basically nothing left since women are allowed to vote and segregation ended. Socially, it is impossible to advance without political or economic far leftism. So this only leave political far left and economic far left.
Things got pretty crazy in the original dot-com boom. Different for various reasons; you probably didn't have the same religious fervor around dot-com stocks. But there was also a similar vibe of "These stock prices are insane but everyone else is getting rich of them."
Yes... You don't hide sensible investments from your partner. You do hide gambling. He knew it was wrong.
>should just be banned, no reason to have it in a civilized society.

The main problem with this line of thinking is that banning, and not having it are two very separate things. Seeing the effect of banning widespread things in societies, the only thing that such a ban ensures is a thriving black market. More suffering for the people involved, loss of power for the government, and the banned thing being practiced in harmful ways.
bc there’s not much current use beyond speculative trading on future utility
Remove the disk, mount it on another computer, edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow on that mounted disk, as described here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105278/resetting-pa...
Contrary anecdotal evidence: I have moved four small companies to SendGrid without any problem. I have also received prompt support from them on accounts sending well under 100k/mo.

Hanlon’s Razor seems to apply here.
I have avoided podcasts entirely until this year when I found out about Darknet Diaries. It’s fantastic and I binged all 117 episodes on my drives.

On the other hand, I tried others…and they are mostly fluff. Eventually I will probably find another but haven’t come across much so far.
Intentional Creation
Yes but that requires special gear I assume, that might drive up the cost. Just using cold water for a cheaper heat exchanger (Than some pumped medium) seems like the simple solution if you have unlimited cool water.
Compare and contrast CB’s hiring with that of FTX[1]

Coinbase

“ We have now exceeded the limit of how many new employees we can integrate while growing our productivity. For the past few months, adding new employees has made us less efficient, not more. We have seen ourselves slow down considerably due to coordination headwinds, and difficulty fully integrating new team members.”

FTX

“ It’s a race–between how quickly new employees understand the company's culture, and how quickly people are hired. The faster you hire, the harder it is to keep everyone on the same page.…. we wanted to make sure we could actually integrate everyone we hired into FTX's working culture.”

[1] https://twitter.com/sbf_ftx/status/1533946713366568962
and Crypto.com laid off 5% of its workforce just yesterday
It does seem people struggle to learn from their mistakes. The last year has been marked by the institutionalisation of irrational exuberance.

Just look at that whole GME saga. A mob of people attempted to short squeeze a bunch of hedge funds, but got carried away and kept pumping up the price long after all the short sellers had closed out their positions.

GME is still riding at 24x the price prior to the short squeeze began (and about double its all-time-high prior to the Reddit intervention). Who are they squeezing now?
Coinbase have always been amateurs. Were you here 9 years ago when they melted down the first time? That was fun. That was also when I decided the fix was in and I got out of crypto.
I am in awe of the completeness and entertainment factor of this thing; you have to admire the dedication that went into bringing it to such a level. Probably the most entertaining thing I've ever seen done with computer hardware.
Those who have too much head count and hire aggressively, also fire aggressively.

I'm guessing FTX kept their head count low, so not impacted as hard as Coinbase is.
Absolutely, both awful, but I don't know, I personally would at least want to be "told live" what was happening and in an avenue where I could potentially ask some followup questions synchronously.
I'd be completely flabbergasted if they trained an AI to parse source code while playing a game.
I think it's the "lack of addition" rather than the "expressly disallowed" training rules that are being referred to.
From an outside perspective, as someone who does embedded development as a hobby rather than a profession, the answer is both yes and no. The stability of C and C++ helps, but you still have some churn in libraries and you almost certainly have to deal with vendor specific libraries (which makes moving between vendors difficult). Trying to bypass libraries doesn't really help on that front, since you are simply trading of churn in libraries with churn in microcontrollers.
If each 50% happens to be more or less perfectly geographically distributed, sure, but if not then you've just recreated the same problem twice (now something approaching 50% of each new division wants to immediately undo what you've just done).
That depends on a manufacturer. The dreaded Huawei made a lot of durable cheap phones. There are a few rivals with similar quality, who allow 3rd party OS.
Coinbase is the only publicly traded exchange that I know of? Coinbase wasn't public until early '21. So sure, VCs might have piled more money into Coinbase at higher valuations, but all of that VC activity and valuation is an inexact science without a liquid market.

At any rate, off the top of my head, the dot com era had a similar vibe. And several tech firms are down 75+% this year so far (Netflix included).
In my opinion no it's not.

The changes from brexit are minimal compared to what Scottish independence would be. Trade with UK dwarfs trade with EU. The Snp government basically buried their own economic report on the economic case for independence because there isn't one (let's see what's in the next one). Last referendum they couldn't even give a clear answer on currency as many nationalist don't want the euro (or EU for that matter).

Next up is defence, we would need to fund an army and navy etc. Given what's going with Ukraine and that russian jets regularly test our air response capability (jets scrambled from cooper airbase regularly I believe). Would we join NATO? Given what sweden and Finland are looking at I really hope so. Oh and the Snp government firmly want rid of nuclear weapons in Scotland (I'm not pro nuclear now hardly seems to be the time to disarm in northern European countries). Break up of the UK would be a huge win for Putin and loss for the west. Oh and have a read of our defence spoke persons bio:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_McDonald_(politician...

It would be funny if it wasn't so serious.
The real problem is ISPs that allow devices on their edge networks to send packets with spoofed IP addresses.
Common in lots of jobs. I’ve seen people get fired from Gov IT and F500 IT teams where they only find out they’re fired when they rock up to work and their pass doesn’t let them in. Security has their stuff in a box to give to them along with a letter explaining everything.

To be fair, getting fired from those companies meant you actually did something wrong. There wasn’t these mass culls that crypto/startup type companies are famous for.
This is what happens when you centralize a decentralized currency
The difference is that most of Europe considers adulthood to start at 18, whereas the US considers true adulthood to start at age 21.

In most European countries, universities do not have these invasive policies because it’s culturally unacceptable to control the lives of other adults.
The yield curve says otherwise.

You won't feel it until Q4 2022 or Q1 2023.
Spain and France aren't super keen on encouraging the general idea that regions of a country can easily split off and become independent EU member countries.
> California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN Act). Under this Act, the right of employers to lay workers off for reasons bordering on business necessity is curtailed. Employers who plan to lay 50 or more employees off within a 30-day period must give them a 60-day notice before taking such actions.
> I think we should punish these ads & its associated companies for not indicating that there is risk in investing cryptos.

punish who exactly? an ad agency that took the job or influencer that took the job or an llc registered who knows where?

they should have known better is logical, but when you write something into law it's tricky to convey the spirit. Should an ad agency do due diligence on every product they advertise, even if they understand nothing about it?
It's subjective, but since there is some scale (from personal to professional), couldn't there be a way to classify this and filter it out? That would be a cool feature.
One popular competitor is MailGun. The major cloud platforms also offer bulk outgoing email service, i.e. AWS SES.
the difference between a hacker and a social engineer that hacks
It's very common in Finance or anywhere where employees have "potentially unreasonable access". Often you get perp-walked or called to the boss's office, and someone boxes up everything in your desk for you, and you'll be escorted offsite afterwards.

Most will pay you your two weeks or whatever in cash, the risk of an employee using their access to do harm is considered too great.

For many other types of jobs, including potentially software development, the risk is considered minor (all code is backed up, everything is in Git, transitions need to happen, etc).
In practice if you fired people weekly/monthly/quarterly (pick a small enough discrete period to approximate “continuously”) at % you wouldn’t be maximizing profits due to other costs. “Non-linear effects” is carrying a lot in your description.

Take a high performing team, fire them, and then rehire tor it, retrain, etc. the cost it took to get to the previous level of productivity is the “knowledge capital” that was squandered. It usually will be more than the labor savings, unless we are talking about huge disparities based on decades of seniority: older workers with higher pay and defined benefit pensions etc vs younger workers with defined contribution pensions, is about the only case I’ve seen this make sense, and it was a once-in 30 years kind of thing.

Then there’s the reputation and morale hit: people won’t want to work for you if you have a reputation for regular layoffs.

Amazon for example is struggling with employee turnover and morale because of its aggressive approach to annual PIP and layoffs.

Labor costs also tend to be sticky downwards - people will accept getting laid off but won’t accept a pay cut.

Of course there are industries with seasonal or overflow workers etc where this is an understood job characteristic, but that tends not to be the norm…
It's nice that you think Coinbase actually has a "long term" to worry about.
In a sibling comment you said he was “appealing to racists” by blocking Begum’s return. My question is whether Bangladeshis are racists for the same reason?

And it’s not a false equivalence. Bangladesh has special rules for return of children of people of Bangladeshi origin. My brother was born in Virginia but could travel back to Bangladesh without meeting the usual immigration conditions by showing proof of our parent’s birth in Bangladesh. Begum was in the same position. But Bangladesh isn’t as sympathetic to terrorists as some folks in the UK.
Yeah the government made money on those plans IIRC
upper middle-class tech workers live in their own bubble.
> In 2010, New York randomly chose homeless applicants to participate in its Homebase program, and tracked those who were not allowed into the program as a control group. The program was helping as many people as it could, the only change was explicitly labeling a number of people it wasn’t helping as a “control group”.

You could also interpret this in a different way: The experiment did some good, but at the same time established a ceiling after which doing even more good would run contrary to the experiment's interests.

E.g., if some miracle happened and the city council suddenly had the means to include every homeless person into the program, this would actually be highly problematic for the program, because now they'd be lacking a control group. So by running the program, the council may help some homeless people, but at the same time it has an active interest that the other homeless are not helped.

I think this is the difference in general this article glosses over. It's not about doing a little good vs doing a lot of good, it's about not wanting to do more than a certain amount of good, even if you could.
Hmm what makes you think software developers are not abused? Maybe in your world they are not, but it regular to hear about devs working 12-14 hours a day. With bosses and clients harassing them even at off hours.
> Link please...

Mission impossible for now, because sleep is long overdue.
Anyway, something anecdotical: At the times, when I looked into it about 2008, I discussed that with some people, some of them 'engineers', as in the people who actually drive the trains (both freight and passenger). They also confirmed that, they even learn that during training. Can 15kV at 16 2/3Hz produce such differences?

Whatever, as I said before, it isn't limited to rail, grids as they are now aren't as efficient as the models suggest. But I can't re-research this at the moment. I just know I didn't hallucinate that stuff, OK?
In which prior downturn were they even listed?
There were still humans who made the decision, regardless of what reasons they claim forced their hands.
I've dreamed about a 20% policy like google had, except it's where you can work on anything, including code debt.

I've tried to stress to managers in the past that developers feel the pain of code debt. It makes us slower! Enable us to spend time sharpening our tools and managing our codebase.

One problem of course is, not all SWE can do this well. I wouldn't necessarily trust a junior hire to recognize and execute a proper refactor.
It's not true crypto. It's just a scam using the word crypto. That scammer is no true Scotsman. A real Scotsman wouldn't scam people using the word crypto.
He described defi yields as a literal ponzi. Sam Bankman Fried’s business is charging commissions to people in the ponzi and trading against them and he does a good job of that.

As an aside, for those who like names as destiny, SBF’s is epic

I.e. Bernie Madoff made off with their money

Nuke Goldstein of Celsius nuked depositors money

You get:

Scam-Bankman Fried

Or also Sam Bank-Man Fried (if they go bust)

This sort of naming thing is more common than you’d think in frauds anyway and if you are placing your money with someone who could chuckle to themselves “hehe I made-off with their money” it is a material risk