skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean they could also not set record profits, and just have regular profits for a while.
From what I have heard, they are a terrible company to work for (even for SWE). I could be wrong but that reputation alone has made me ignore most job postings and recruiters reaching out. Even if they could offer me a 20+% pay rise.
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> Not sure about the stealth layoff take. It's too unfocused, you'll lose people you want to keep and keep people you want to lose.

Given how political worldview seems to be pretty correlated with concern about stuff like Covid-19 and the new labor movement that has emerged, I'd suspect that it's reasonably focused.
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The file chooser has been broken since at least gnome 2, and was antiquated in the gnome 1 days. I don't believe it will work in gnome 4.
I'm shy about saying silly words, so I would never be able to recommend this product or talk about it.

There's a bunch of food items I won't order off a menu if the restaurant chose to give it some ridiculous name I can't say out loud. Same thing here.
Can you articulate why this is different to other text summarising solutions?

It may be that yours is easier to integrate than using AWS APIs[1], or performs better than what's available on say, npm[2]. It may be that your algorithm is designed specifically for news articles.

If you can articulate where this fits into the market of other solutions - that will help inform how best to utilize it.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/part-1-set-up-...

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/text-summary
Not really what the article says - Amazon's enforced-churn policy leads to workers that want to continue working there being fired for no good reason.
Good to know,

Who are these fully capitalized crypto firms?
Get rid of oil in a rapid fashion, and we go the route of Venezuela.

Getting rid of oil is the goal of the current Administration. They are having some success by making it difficult as possible.

Now we have a huge mess from it and elections are coming up, so goal is to blame oil for the problems caused by the Administration.

If you want to get off oil because you believe it's bad for environment. That is a respectable position. But there is a huge political price to pay when the poor in the country are suffering now from it.
I found this article funny, engaging, and touched on a point that I’ve had for years about Linux on the desktop. (I won’t spoil it)
Unconvincing examples, because those are simply personal grievances and unrelated to broader company culture.
Visual scripting makes sense because game logic is fairly simple (eg. when $POINTS > 100: $TEAM wins), but their data structures (teams, players, stats, scores, state, etc) are not. Video games are one of the few places where object-orientation isn't a matter of diminishing returns, and it pays dividends in places like this.

If you're interested in more visual scripting, I think there's definitely still pockets of the industry where it's useful. Blender has a fantastic node-based shader programming environment, which is both simple to use and wickedly powerful. As for "general software" analogs, I think Docker/Kubernetes has really abstracted all of that problem space away. People seldom need simplified interfaces to modify their tools, most users will just want a "road warrior", set-and-forget option that works ad-infinitum, and containers fit the bill. For better or worse, statefulness and good automation options often seem to be at-odds with each other.
Does anyone know - is the Logitech MX Ergo more durable than the M570? I, too, have a pile of broken M570s and I'm not sure I want to spend more money on the upgrade if the result will be the same within a year or two.
Surely at some point the market will just regulate itself and amazon will have to improve working conditions to keep operations running... Right? Isn't that how capitalism is supposed to work?
So he's in favor of "cancel culture"? It's hard to keep up.

Edit: Isn't getting kicked off twitter simply a consequence of saying something that's against twitter's TOS? What definition of free speech is Musk using?
I'm a fairly inexperienced software engineer (<2 yrs experience) and I've been contacted by 3 separate Amazon recruiters on Linkedin in the past month alone if that means anything
My brother is a doctor, while he works insane hours, it seems there's a LOT of downtime between jobs, where he's technically "on the clock" but reads ebooks or watches series or socializes.

I technically work 12 hours as well as a developer, but actual work might be 6 hours or less, and it's way less stressful than a doctor.
I don't have a political tribe, I'm not a partisan, etc. I was hoping HN would be the one place on the Internet where we could discuss things maturely. Notably, I'm not attacking left-wing people or viewpoints here, but observing that there are two goals that are in apparent conflict (which isn't to say they contradict each other or that they're ignoble or anything else).
No but if I am paying him $300/hr and what he is doing is not related to fixing the toilet and is in fact causing me more problems or distracting the electrician who is also costing me $300/hr. Getting rid of him is not petty tyranny.

Also I am not threatening his career, he is, he is choosing to take a principled stand and should understand the likely consequences and be willing to accept them.
It is not a given that all service economy business models will survive. Historically as goods got cheaper relative to labor, service prices rose. In poor countries service jobs such as doorman or shaver are much more common than in rich countries. The classic example is that below a certain income level, the majority of men start to have their faces professionally shaved rather than doing it themselves.

Having another person spend 15-30 minutes in a high stress situation to deliver you food should be a high cost activity that gets more expensive relative to your income over time. Traditional delivery services only made this cost effective by making food for low cost. The alternative is an economy where wages cannot rise relative to goods.
So they get breakfast, lunch and dinner from mo-so?

If this is still good food and cheap enough I still feel this is totally okay.
Thinking about regional restrictions in history, I'm thinking there may well be older examples. Though those would be standards driven in many ways. As from a manufacturers driven aspect, I feel there may well be earlier examples given how some companies would sell sales rights for other regions to control, then limits to prevent grey-market products would certainly of been something addressed in the past. That said, I'm pondering if IBM had some level of restrictions if only to compartmentalise their sales regions.

As an aside in respect of regional restrictions in history, then the era prior to railway time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time
would certainly see some regional locking in a way as local time varied.
Then the whole utility market, surely beyond country variations has some aspect of restrictions.
To say this is a stretch is an understatement. Working conditions are hours, the physical space, WFH v. hybrid v. remote, async or not, etc.
Having worked in conditions like this, god it's horrible.

The people that were there when I started were rough guys, but they could do their job.

After I started the company apparently could only hire angry alcoholics, lazy stoners, and fresh out of jail domestic abusers who were proud of it. How many of these people could the job effectively, no.

Then the company had a merge and corporate came down with a brilliant plan to force all the fulltime employees (read legacy employees with some level of leadership responsibilities and the only ones good at their job) into part time positions or offer them severance to leave. You can imagine what happens.

So then it was me, a couple other guys, and a slew of incompetent bums. I managed to take advantage of the situation to demand a pathetic raise and near total autonomy of my hours. These concessions ended up being not enough and one night I decided not to show up anymore, as management was constantly moving responsibilities of their "friends" to use.

Luckily I had been using my time to make my break into the software industry. A couple years later, I read that triple merged company had to file for bankruptcy.
He’s teetering on the edge of being Howard Hughes 2.0
> many employees continue to experience unequal enforcement of our oft-repeated “No Asshole” and “Zero Tolerance” policies.

Sure sounds like a discussion about workplace policies and enforcement to me.
To me it makes more sense to use a longer password for FDE, and maybe have it have it cached into the TPM but with a shorter unlock code for resuming, locking, etc. It might make sense to have a two tier password for password managers though. Like a hot/cold.
Far too late for that unfortunately, but we can try to be better.
I generally do not understand how people can accuse Musk of being incompetent in 2022.
This is some completely made up bullshit for the record.
Who are the emerging competitors to Amazon that the article refers to?
Some parts of the right have advocated for more skilled immigration, which would tend to equalize wages across the board (mitigating a non-trivial cause of inequality) while raising fewer social concerns compared to the unregulated immigration of lower-skill workers. Unfortunately, many left-wing folks tend to oppose such proposals, with the usual 'they tuk er jerbs!!1' arguments. Just look at the reactions here at HN anytime the subject of H1B visas is brought up.
This is from mid-2021. I suspect they are now more concerned about having expanded too quickly during the pandemic period.
It's covered in the article, but serialization just has to appear to execute in any sequential ordering of transactions. There are no other constraints about the ordering, so it technically allows the print to appear to run before the assignment.

Linearizability says that if A happens after B in real time (e.g. you don't start A until you get confirmation that B completed), A must see the effects of B. This would require the print to run after the assignment takes effect.
There’s always the all-natural, centuries-old alternative of leeching!
True. Same can be said of unions.

Unions were supposed to protect workers, at least in theory, but they were more than happy to off-shore manufacturing and allow layoffs in the US --as long as they got to keep their union boss jobs. Cesar Chavez understood this. This is why he did not want just anybody to be able to work in the fields.

It's all related. You wanna pay less by offshoring labor? You got it! But one day that off-shoring is going to come get you and your job will evaporate and you will be happy with service sector jobs. And don't complain, you didn't want to pay $70 for a shirt and instead went to buy a $20 shirt and "saved" money but "sold" your job or the underemployed person's job now driving a clunker.
We'll revisit that in a few years shall we? After continued inflation caused by endless QE.

Sounds like you have a problem with fossil fuels and the subsidies that exist for them. I suggest you direct your anger there instead of trying to police what calculations people choose to do.
Things I didn't even know I needed.

And a brilliant way to present the info
> "There's a surplus of customer eager to pay the lowest possible price even if that means exploiting workers."

This is just wrong. First, Amazon’s prices and their wages for warehouse workers aren’t directly connected. If they were, amazon wouldn’t have posted 200B in profit in 2021. Given the 1.6mil employees, that’s $125k per employee of profit. Amazon could pay MUCH more, and still hold the same prices.

Second, the hunger for cheap stuff is driven at least in part BY LOW WAGES. If you’re making minimum wage - you’re going to buy the cheapest things you can find.

edit: i'm getting beat up in the comments because I used gross profits rather than $YOUR_FAV_PROFIT_METRIC

I stand by using that number. If you think I am actually suggesting they distribute 100% of their profits to every employee you're straw-manning my point. I'm suggesting cutting a slice off profits, exec pay, and stock grants, and giving that to the lowest paid employees - since the company would not make that money without their labor.
>I don't understand the distinction you're making between "any immigration" and "mass immigration".

Because the amount matters?

If we talk about the impact of migration the amount certainly plays into what if any impact occurs.

It really seems like you're stuck on a sort of rhetorical talking point phrase.
I think the difference is that GtkFilePicker is a part of the running GTK program, like firefox for example. If you wanted to get all of nautilus' features, you would have to embed all of nautilus into your program, including features that would be innapropriate fir a file picker

Maybe instead of just using GtkFilePicker on linux, it should first check if there's an available "xdg-file-picker" in the environment, which gnome sets to nautilus with some flags to run it in file-picker mode.
It is also that we are expected to grow from 8.0 billion now to 9.9 billion by 2050 and almost a billion people don't have electricity right now.

The developed world going back to 1950 would probably cause the biggest famine in human history.

Let them eat cake.
That's not even close to being considered protected activity.

Given you've spammed this misinformation all over this thread, despite being corrected on this point repeatedly, I'm not sure you're acting in good faith.
It used to be social decorum to not talk about politics and religion at work. But the past 10 years everyone wants to be an activist now. I'd like to see more rules around this in every company. It kills productivity and really distracts from the company goals.
Arguably the largest company in the world is depleting its own potential labor pool around all of its facilities, due to the sheer cruelty of how it treats its workers.

The assumption has been that there's always more workers, so who cares if you burn them all out before the year is over? Just get some more. But Amazon has unprecedented scale and an unprecedented (sustained) attrition rate, which means they are heading into uncharted territory. Maybe there aren't always more bodies to burn through.

When things like these happen, it's time to consider regularly using terms like "megacorporation" in earnest.
I built PDFEncrypt (https://pdfencrypt.net) a couple years ago based on a very simple need from a client: to encrypt PDF files via a native Windows app, for free, without needing to upload files to a sketchy website or buy expensive software. I have been amazed at the number of visitors (4000/mo), emails, downloads, and donations the project has received. I released it as open source software, and I'm now working on V2 (almost done!) which is a complete rewrite based on user requests, as well as a bunch of new features I've dreamed up. This has been a very fun side project and good practice coding in C#.
Lots of civilizations have struggled with drug problems in the past. The Americas, China, India all had lots of problems with opium addictions during colonial times, IIRC. And of course the USA post-WWII has dealt with a slew of drug problems, from cocaine heroin to meth. How have past civilizations broken free from the yoke of drug addiction? Maybe we can take some cues from the past.
This is the sad reality. The associated wage stabilization is going to be necessary for us to control inflation.

SWEs probably don't need worry about remaining employed, but the days of salary wars will be over.
I don't see that as tribalistic/negative language at all. However, I do see it in the unqualified assertion that left-wing people want "more mass immigration", which seems misleading and tangential to their actual desires (which seem to be more about treating immigrants better and allowing more cases of legitimate asylum seeking, rather than actively seeking "more" and "massive" immigration in the general case). Even just the more innocuous version of that statement - "make immigration easier" - is not even a popular opinion of leftwingers, as far as I can tell.

Edit: Where "popular" means a strong majority. However, I'm speaking totally intuitively. I'm not sure what the reality of the numbers are, and there are so many subtly different opinions one can poll for just be tweaking the wording.
Always remember there are many sides to most stories. I have a cousin who works at an Amazon warehouse and loves it, he says it’s the funnest and most rewarding job he has had. He’s in his late 40s and has worked all kinda of jobs. His schedule allows him a lot of work life balance, he knows exactly what is expected of him and advancement is possible and also easy to understand. In fact he said he doesn’t understand the hate aside from lazy people that have no work ethic complaining they are being asked to actually work, and work hard, consistently. If it was as terrible as some articles make it sound, I’d doubt they’d have so many employees.
> The left wants to help people, no matter who they are, and that means supporting both immigration and livable wages

I'm not saying otherwise, I'm observing that in this particular case, mass immigration has a wage suppressing effect which contradicts the "livable wages" goal. Noting the challenge doesn't imply ignobility.

> the right only cares about the rich and themselves

I really don't know what this has to do with the subject.
But it's only an issues for other connected entities when they are using risky business practices themselves.

A stablecoin that backs its assets in the currency that the stablecoin issues (for example a USD-based stablecoin that is backed by US treasuries) won't be affected by any disruption in the market. An exchange that is fully backed and does not allow margin trading won't be affected either. Regular holders who hold their own coins or use responsible exchanges also aren't affected.

Yes - there's quite a bit of propagation. But all entities affected by that propagation didn't seem to have proper risk management and used business practices that work well when the market does well, but that fall apart in case of high volatility. Maybe I'm just biased because I'm not a fan of margin trading (and similar practices), but I don't consider it a disadvantage if an ecosystem is hostile to those types of business practices.
The AFM has pretty much every professional performance job in the country locked down. Getting kicked out of the AFM means giving up their orchestral career.
Not at all, although I'm beginning to feel like a bit of a shill for the company.

I use "Culturelle Digestive Daily Probiotic".

My Dr. suggested either that or "Align". His comment on that was that they are delivery systems that are designed to let the bacteria survive the trip through the extreme environment of the stomach.
The letter itself is at the end of https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170228/spacex-elon-musk....

The bit about Musk's behavior gets quoted because it fits with various agendas. But the letter itself is mostly a plea for making SpaceX a more inclusive workplace for people of different races, genders, and so on. To establish clear HR policies rather than current vague rules like "no assholes".

That's pretty far into the protected category of talking about improving workplace conditions.
What effort is required? You go down to the model home centre, pick a style you like, tell them where your vacant property is located, and hand them the money. The last bit is the only hard part. Give them some time to build the house. Done. Your involvement is required to a minimal extent, but that is also true when buying a used home.

If this were settler times then you would have to do everything, perhaps, but in this advanced economy others will happily do the work for you in exchange for money. You can increase your involvement, trading time for money, as much as you wish but it isn't strictly necessary.
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>> for every one of its consoles except the Nintendo Switch

This made me laugh because when I was a kid living in Europe, my dad would often travel to the US and bring back unreleased in Europe and/or NES games from the US because they were much cheaper. To get them to work with PAL/Secam NES, we took our NES to this (shady?) electronics shop that installed this silver mechanical switch. You would insert the US cartridge and if memory serves, the screen would blink and when the image was on, you flipped this switch and the blinking would stop, permitting you to play the US cartridge in the European console. That was my 'Nintendo Switch'
You would live in the ship, stationary on the ground. The terrain is not desert so much as rock and dust.
You could argue the reason is that they weren’t good enough.
I hope that was satire...?

Johnson is the one who keeps pushing these crazy schemes just to keep people riled up against the "bureaucracy-mad EU" he invented so many years ago. He will stop at nothing to stay in power, and will happily sacrifice all your freedoms to that effect - he doesn't respect the law anyway, so anything put on the book is just for you and me to be beaten down, not for him and his mates.

> it's still better than Cameronism

That's a false dichotomy. There is life outside the Tory ideological landscape.

> If an uproar comes, which it hopefully will

If the uproar comes from the "wrong" sector of the electorate, the Tories will just double down on it.
Yeah, I don't know if I'd make the cut and I'm sure it'd be a SUBSTANTIAL pay increase, but I haven't followed up with any Amazon recruiters simply because of their reputation as the sort of company who's comfortable with employees having visible breakdowns.
I see this type of comment a lot - "if you don't like it then leave!" - and at best it seems to indicate a lack of vision. Change is possible! First, there are two possible motivations for saying the above:

(1) The practical advice sense (an "is" statement): "workers currently have little power in large corporations and so trying to change the company will not succeed and is a waste of time, therefore you should leave"

(2) The moral sense (an "ought" statement): "corporate leadership should not respect the opinions or desires of workers; the hierarchy exists for a good reason and should be maintained, and trying to have influence beyond your position in this hierarchy is wrong; therefore you should leave"

If you meant your comment in the second sense, fair enough, although you should be explicit so I know we have nothing more to talk about. If you mean it in the first sense then this ignores the option of collective worker organization, which among the oft-touted compensation improvements also gives workers an actual say in the running of their workplace - and certainly the ability to talk about what they want without fear of being fired.
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"They are in most of Europe though."

Weirdly, Orange will sell anyone a "Orange Holiday Europe" SIM card that has no identity attached to it whatsoever.

I am using it now - purchased from Amazon for $40 - and it is an insta-connect SIM with talk/text/data that auto provisions a number and brings up service immediately upon insertion.

And yes, my Amazon account is indeed pseudonymous and has no connection to my name or physical address. That has always been the case.
I believe that it's a common feature amongst a large portion of cults, but my scepticism arises at the use of it as a broad definition of what is or isn't one.

The same way you wouldn't say having a charismatic leader is the definition of what a cult is. It's certainly an aspect of most cults, but not the definition, nor unique to cults