skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can fire people from the night to the morning only in US

And in most of the Europe and I'd guess also world during probation period (typically in Europe 1-3 months).

But yeah, you can't do that once probation period pass, then it's usually at least 1-3 months PAID resignation period. You can tell people not to come to work and still get salary though, but if they would still wanna come it could get very messy legally.

I had actually only fixed contracts during my EU jobs and either company told me they won't extend the contract or I told them I won't extend it, but they were happy to keep me working until very end.

Only in China during Microsoft layoff I was told I don't need to come to work, while getting compensation, but that was understandable considering me and other Israeli girl were only two people fighting against company trying to cheat us for our legal compensation and it came to me telling them whether they wanna leak certain data and me contact labor bureau about their illegal procedures.
Par de course in finance (hedge funds etc.).

People just "disappear" overnight. Access cut. You've had nothing on your personal computer anyways (all work & data is on company machines, accessed through Remote Desktop).
It's already happened to them in 2017 and during my interview with them (after the 2017 crash), the interview was basically me interviewing them asking them what they're doing and it all checked out. Their biggest mistake was growing too fast and too much liquidity in crypto. All fixed now as far I can see from the public eye now
I usually terminate access immediately. It's just solid IT security practice.

I've seen WAY too many cases of employees email forwarding documents to their personal email the moment they are told they're being let go.

Before we started terminating access immediately, I'd estimate that roughly 25% of employees would email themselves at least something.
At least when I was growing up it was the New International Version. You were a fundie if you insisted on the KJV or the NKJV among people I knew.
The oil revenue is a short-term concern.

In 30 years, hopefully there's zero oil revenue.

But what happens in the meantime is important. I have zero faith that a UK government will invest in alternatives that will generate wealth for people living in Scotland.
It appears that cookie isolation is always on.

If you want to further mitigate risk, you adjust your settings block all third-party cookies.
Largest European Cities(agglomeration) in History 7500 BC – 2020
Well ignoring the fact that beanie babies still sell for thousands of dollars today, they also never became a countries legally enforce currency (el salvador) or were utilized by the EIB (europes federal reserve equivalent) to issue bonds.

I think you'll struggle to find many comparisons to short-lived hypes with cryptocurrency as a category.
I think the skill depreciation concept is a bit exaggerated. Especially in the context of the newness of computers relative to the engineering field in general, the latter which has been around, arguably, for thousands of years.

For example, SQL & Unix have been around since the 1970s.

Linux since late 1991.

Javascript: The end of 1995. NodeJS: 2009.

Sure, there's a ton of churn in the JS Ecosystem, but all it takes is a bit of wisdom, skepticism, and patience to avoid the hype-cycle.

Also, once you learn to build certain things with a programming language you learn the paradigms of the system you build.

For example-- Web Servers. Looking at ExpressJS vs Python Flask documentation, there are many analogous pieces, because they follow the same standards for protocols.

Another example-- data engineering / statistical computing: Checking out R vs Python packages, there are a lot of the same concepts, just in a slightly different format/language.

HTTP/1.0: 1996 (RFC 1945)

TCP: 1974 "In May 1974, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn described an internetworking protocol for sharing resources using packet switching among network nodes."

"TLS is a proposed Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, first defined in 1999"

Considering all of this... I don't think most major things actually change that much. Sometimes a popular new framework takes the world by storm, but that's pretty rare compared to the output and churn of the ecosystem.
>[Firing people is] a generally fraught situation.

It is, but it should not be. In the best world, it's impersonal. Sometimes it's not a good fit, period. The reason it's fraught is at least partly systemic. Having healthcare tied to the employer is particularly wrong. It makes severance (for any reason) akin to having life support turned off.

But also, ours is a culture that discourages employees from participating in the job market while employed - this is deeply hypocritical, especially as most employment is "at will", which means they can dump you whenever you want, and of course the employer is always active in the job market, happy to replace you with someone cheaper/better if they could. If you're already in the market, and have warm leads, this softens the blow considerably. The final thing worth mentioning is that a firing is a severance, and need not reflect poorly on you (except, perhaps, insofar as you didn't adequately anticipate it and quit in advance). On first principles I hate it when those in power tacitly accept the implication that if other, unrelated powerful people have punished you, you're bad. I'm not sure if this is actually believed, or just used as leverage to get a better deal, or both, but either way it's unfair. Hence the importance of privacy in such situations.
> In rocketry one big needed technology before scale up can happen is reuse.

There are other ways to reduce cost, such as cheaper rockets, more efficient fuels, etc. Whatever SpaceX does isn't the only possibility or a necessity.
It is very common. The number of virtual server instances running far outnumbers the number of k8s deployments. I don’t have a company, I freelance, doing lots of system admin. I have yet to see k8s in a production environment. I do see Docker now and then, mainly for development. As far as I can tell bare virtual servers continue to dominate, with k8s mainly used by startups.
Brian also posted a short explanation on twitter:

> 1/ Today I shared that I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of our team at Coinbase by about 18%. The broader market downturn means that we need to be more mindful of costs as we head into a potential recession.

> 2/ We also grew quite quickly over the past two years and have begun to operate less efficiently at our new size. It will take us some time to adjust to this new scale before growing again.

> 3/ We've put some key programs in place to try and minimize the impact to our affected employees. Here is a note that I sent to the company earlier today with more information

https://nitter.net/brian_armstrong/status/153668976014760345...
To some extent chrome only cares about google being able to invade your privacy, if google can get information a different way anyway then its a good thing to block it for everyone else
Their business is mostly based on tx fees, whereas in the “old” financial system tx fees are no more.

Orange is the new black?

I don’t see how they can build a long term sustainable business. They were lucky enough to go IPO during a BTC super hyped bull cycle. It is all downhill from here.

If I was working at CB I would have probably cashed out post-IPO and moved on. I see no reason to work there post-IPO.
Cookies first appeared in Netscape on Oct 13, 1994 [1]. In 1994 the 'web' was a very different place and the current environment of web tracking and invasive advertising companies simply did not exist. And no one saw the privacy invading potential at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie#History
I haven't even looked at KDE in many years (I'm not a DE kind of user and just use dwm), but this was true back in the KDE 3 days as well, which I considered much nicer than the contemporary Gnome 2 as well. I never quite understood why Gnome got so much more attention compared to KDE.
How would Matt Damon know it's a scam? If it was a scam, wouldn't they be trying to fool him as well?

Hard to call him a victim with a payday like that, but I think he'd be closer to victim than a charlatan.
Yes these are each subsets of State Partitioning[1], of which cache has also been partioned in Firefox for some time now.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_P...
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> Just because something is a lovely animal doesn't mean I won't put a round through it's heart and butcher it's corpse to sustain my life.

Do you actually do this, or are you just virtue signaling? You never buy factory-farmed animal products from the store?

> Elk are beautiful animals, but I have no problem killing one and eating it

But it's not necessary for survival, so why would you?

> We are the greatest predator Nature has ever evolved and I can accept that. More's the pity others can't.

Interesting thought. I wonder how great of predator you are faced with a lion, or even that elk, but disarmed of technology.
I think OS Telemetry will see to it that its not private!

However this will make it easier than it currently is, to work out who is data sharing illegally.
Or even more so compared to other office workers like managers and such. Or marketing, accounting and so on. All in all it is not too bad.
The web was designed to be highly interconnected. Deep linking is a feature. Cookies are set via headers. If you load an image from another domain, the headers from that domain could set their own cookies, and your browser will give each domain every cookie it has set.

That is, cookies aren't shared, they're locked down to the domain that set them. It's just that some domains have content loaded by millions of pages. This change won't protect you much if you have a relatively stable IP address without many users on it, because your IP is still in the third party domains logs. This welcome change makes it harder to differentiate people on the same IP, or to track a browser as it changes IPs.

As I'm typing this, I'm remembering how helpful IPv6 is for people who want to track everyone.
TBH, i do not think they fought there for the marine life.
As evidenced in the 2016 US elections, their collective power is limited. It is not directly the power to control the military and police forces.
On my system, if you type "window borders" into krunner, it pops up the "Window Decorations" settings page. Krunner can be spooky sometimes.
Hadrian's Wall is entirely in England. The Anglo-Scottish border more closely follows the River Tweed until it reaches Berwick, (part of England).
> Everyone has a say and we all take home the same salary.

I was confused by this since that seems tricky to do at a large company, since hierarchies are generally needed at some point to help with organization.

> 8 people.

Then I saw this. Much easier to do with 8 people. Seems like they've been a small team for a long time and that's what they like and they're going to stay that way. Small teams that don't plan to grow are refreshing after you spend so much time around companies that scale up so fast. Probably a really nice work environment too.

That said, I wonder how a cooperative with equal pay would scale to a company of say 1-200, or if that would even ever be a goal of a company like that.
Is this show like a prequel for The Expanse?
> Other languages feel primitive, slow and/or unreliable after using rust for a while.

But the fact is that that is just feelings. Rust is a cool language, as well as a litany of others. It is unique in the low-level PL domain, but at most places managed languages can be used just fine, and I would wager that they are a better fit for regular old CRUD apps.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."

Don't blame the administrators. They have simply given the students exactly what the students wanted.
> This actually seems like solid advice for communicating, generally

If and only if your job is to write tedious corporate pablum.
Labour has made it clear what they really stand for: the liberal culture values of the urban elite, while paying lip service to, you know, labor. The more they “stand up” on those grounds, the more they will alienate both traditional Labour voters and the working class BAME voters they have become increasingly reliant on.
I used to work as a contractor at a help desk, the company was based on the east coast while the office we were at was back west.

We hired a guy that while nice enough was not a good fit; he couldn't do the work. HQ decided that we would terminate him on Friday. I have no idea why, but the on site supervisor had gotten the perception that we had the go ahead to inform this guy he was terminated, and right before he was going to get escorted out he realized this was premature.

We basically had to tell this guy, "You're fired, oh wait you're fired on Friday, carry on until then unless you want to quit before that.." it was a Monday or a Tuesday. We practically begged the company to move it up, our supervisor even asking to give the guy his own leave for the rest of the week to get him out of here. They didn't budge. Because of all the bureaucracy we couldn't revoke his building access or even his computer access; we risked getting in trouble just by disabling all of his administrator related privileges just because we didn't know what he was going to do if left to his own devices.

The guy was a mess, he had left a decent job to have a shorter commute and it blew up in his face horribly. I felt awful because he wasn't a bad guy or lazy or anything.. he just wasn't a good fit and couldn't contribute. I remember talking to him later and him saying how humiliating it was to be sitting there knowing full well he was 'a failure' and just 'waiting to be fired', browsing the internet looking for jobs while at 'work'.. but wasn't willing to quit before hand because he needed as big a pay check as possible to support his family. I don't believe it was just because of this but do I do firmly believe this awful experience may have been a contributing factor to him taking his life later that year.

It was such a garbage company. We had the reverse happen with another employee; local management was planning to let him go on Friday; somebody from payroll sent an email telling him to fill out his time card so they could process his termination.

Cold? Maybe, but frankly to me it's a million times better than my experience with the inverse. I do NOT want people who know they're about to get canned hanging around. In the best case they are miserable and just wanting to leave.
> education outcomes improved considerably if you constantly bombard students with multiple choice questions

I would love to read more about that, if you happen to have a link to share.
>This is because national currencies keep inflating
Now consider the (dominating) 2nd order effect that the price of the "bag" was inflated by leverage and speculation.

Definitely worse than most national currencies outside of select countries.
somewhat click-baity, but the general advice to "get out there, follow your interest and communicate" is valid, I suppose. ^_^
The PIP thing varies. Some companies just use them as a risk reducing tool to fire people, but a few really believe in them and will keep employees who've gone through them. I take a dim view of that, personally, just because it ends up feeling like management-by-fear.
Plaintext and ascii art are in this year and that’s cool to me. Nice work.
Yeah sorry about that, I meant that both panes scroll independently (but only vertically).

I totally agree about horizontal scrolling by the way, it's horrible. I used to use Siebel 6 which used that heavily. And Microsoft's Azure portal does it too Though in Azure it's more like a 'breadcrumb' thing to go back, you don't normally need it. In Siebel you actually needed it to get to some important fields.
> In general my opinion is meatless diets are possible, but not as healthy as omnivore ones.

Indeed, that is an opinion. However, the science is clear that meatless diets are more sustainable and healthier for humans.
Isn't that pretty much definition of nepotism? Those jobs would go to someone, they wont disappear out of economy. However, they should go to "the best person for the company" rather then the school friend. I can understand giving jobs and promotions to friends, it is tempting. I am surprise over it being treated as a "something to strive for".
Severance is different, though. My contract, for example, requires the employer to give me 3 month's notice (well, potentially up to 4 since the 3 month timer doesn't start until the first day of the month after notice was given), and without a very good reason to do so (we think we might run into cash problems if we don't do this wouldn't count), they'd have to offer a significant amount of money to get me to leave voluntarily - often times that ends up being about a month's pay per year worked.
But why are they two-phase? My single phase supply in the UK is 100A, of which I'm currently using 1.2.

If I used all my sockets at their maximum rating I'd trip that 100A, but equally I could put an 80A circuit off this and draw 14kW to charge my car without worrying too much (other than the cost!)

Is a typical supply 100A on each phase (so 300A total), or lower?
> In fact writing is never one person’s game. Otherwise why bother to write.

Ever hear of personal diaries or lecture notes? People write to formulate their thoughts, reflect on their lives, record something so they can remember it later, establish a base of ideas on which to build on top of, etc.

It could possibly be argued that at some point what they will interact with others, and they might use the results of those thoughts in the interaction, and therefore indirectly the writing is not single-player, but unless you're a hermit living in the mountains that's just something that has to happen and "single-player" becomes a bit useless as a definition. I might as well start saying single-player board and video games are multi-player then, too, as I might take skills I picked up playing them into the real world.

Like I've got about 300,000 words in a personal diary. Some of them I intend to maybe eventually turn into blog posts, but the vast majority of those words I will most likely keep private until my death (after that point, whatever). But every once in a while I reread some entries, and help remember some details about my life that I have since forgotten. Also there's a bunch of game designs I recorded that I might need to get a reminder of what I was thinking when I double back to them.

But those journals aren't going to build me an audience sitting on my hard drive or physically written on a notebook.
To me, saying that "you don't want to be doing it" (paraphrased as "you are upset" or "you haven't slept"), is much more of a fake bullshit than the other thing. Be an adult take responsibility for your actions, don't blame "the guy" (your boss, your company, the economy, whatever).

If you really hated doing it, you wouldn't be doing it. Quitting yourself is always an option.
Yeah that seems huge. After 3 years at an SF-area company (not SV), I got 4 weeks severance. Barely enough to make it until unemployment kicks in, or get the ball rolling on interviews.
I know France is awful, but it’s not that bad.
So only the popular third-party login providers are excused?

That feels worrying for competition, does it not entrench the current login providers?
A pseudorandom number generator

- is necessary for technical reasons
- is easily distinguishable from a different one by players
- can (and since it is Nethack, should) include the phase of the moon as a seed
I think that confuses two potential problems in one: pollution from particulates and pollution from carbon dioxide. If you don't really think carbon dioxide is that big of a problem, or can be managed effectively, the priority should be on filtering out particulates from the burning of fuels. This can be accomplished with much less disruption to the economy than trying to eliminate fossil fuels, which will likely backfire anyway, as countries such as China and India will continue to use it without regard to either problems.
I'm not disputing anywhere that the original PHP has issues, and in fact I'm acknowledging that in the beginning of the first paragraph. Adding additional information and context is not moving goalposts.

What I'm actually reacting to is the rude provocation at the second paragraph that grandparent must "Look at the actual tech here. Do a tutorial. Discover what the difference is".

They probably don't have to, because this specific advantage is not novel.

...not that this deserved any answer, considering the original reply is now flagged/dead. Maybe someone should tell you to check the website guidelines.
I think we're in a 'perfect storm' of fraud right now.

Firstly, 'Reality TV' has become influencer culture. A lot of social media is you being bombarded with "look how great my life is" pictures. The newest sneakers, handbags, fancy cars, fancy watches. Young people with possessions. "This is what a good life is, this is what you could have." We spend a lot more time on social media than we did watching the TV.

Secondly, we keep being told that 9-5 jobs are for suckers. That's what your parents did. Why work in an office for peanuts when those people you follow on Instagram get paid to dress up and take photos and go on fancy holidays? Every week there's an article about someone making 500k a month on OnlyFans, etc etc.

Thirdly, a bunch of people have got wildly rich from cryptocurrency by being in the right place at the right time. Almost zero effort. You read about these people, and then you talk to your friends. Some of your friends tell you they've made 5 or 6k from a $500 investment in a coin with a dog's head on it and how easy it was.

So now you have a large group of people who spent a long time on social media, don't want to work a 'proper' job but want to be rich and have the life that goes with it. They hear the stories about people who have actually got rich from crypto, quickly get caught up in Cryptotwitter (with the I've got $500 in bitcoin "have fun staying poor" folks telling them to get on the rocketship or miss out) and are now absolutely primed for the 'next Dogecoin' so they can get money for nothing.

Of course the romance or student scams can happen, people will always fall for scams. But right now the crypto scam space has got to be like shooting fish in a barrel. It's like the get-rich-quick schemes we've alway had but on steroids.
I have 3x25A fuses at 230V (which is normal here, you either have 3x20 or 3x25 typically) so I could probably run a 22kW charger. But I couldn't run it and run much other stuff at the same time!

I guess the solution is to have something store the capacity, i.e. a second battery. If one really needs to charge at home very quickly (e.g. you are a taxi driver or have some other specific reason) and you can't overload the grid, then the solution must be to slowly charge a battery at home when the car is used, just like most EV owners slowly charge the car over night. Then the home battery can be quickly emptied into the car for a fast charge. In the end, it's just like having 2EVs where one is charging while the other isn't. And of course, buying a 100kWh wall battery is going to also set you back a large part of the cost of a second car too, just like your $20k for a better electricity connection. BUT - the dual battery solution doesn't have the tragedy of the commons issue where not everyone can do it.
I doubt more than a single digit % would ever consider needing fast charge at home though.
You dont have to "learn it for the job" you have to learn it for your next interview where you need to have that trendy tech on your resume.