skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been laid off twice. I have also witnessed a lot of layoffs.

Bad:

Supervisor comes to your office and asks you to come with them. You know you are being laid off, because everyone knows they are doing layoffs.
You go to your bosses boss’ office and they tell you. They give you a bunch of paperwork. They escort you out, and you schedule a date to come back and get your stuff.

Good:

They announce there are going to be layoffs. They justify it as a need to ‘fill in kind justification’. Explain the process and procedure.
Line up an employment specialist(s), from outside the company. They will provide resume writing help, job search help, financial counseling, and possible family counseling.

When you tell people, you give them a month or two to hand over their work and get their resumes out there, while they are still employed. IMHO being unemployed and looking for a job costs you between 15 and 30 percent of your salary.

Provide a pseudo office where they can go to work on job hunting. Typically away from the work site.

When I was laid off by Siemens they did all of these good things. Although prior lay offs they did not. But I am grateful to them for how they handled it when it was my turn.

Extra bonus good:

Before the end date, organize the people into small groups (3 to 6). These groups have to be people that can care about each other’s success. Have them meet every other day to discuss how they are doing at finding another job.

At the groups, the people need to set goals. Establish limits (e.g. I will not take a job that pays less than abc). Define plans. Set the date when you need to revisit this and possibly change your plans / limits / goals. This date should be no more than 3 months.

Your group’s objective is to share success, support each other, and hold accountable for achieving plans.

It is easy to make the group meeting just a BS session. Need to make it formal with everyone asking about each other. It is easy to lose focus and wallow in self-pity and anger.

When someone gets a job, celebrate it. We did steak and eggs breakfast.

Super bonus good:

Set up a company, that employs everyone at a ¼ time as consultants to the job they used to have. This provides then the ability to retain their salary. But might negatively impact unemployment.
That's a very weak argument.
Odd? I think it just makes business sense.
You should be able to have fun anywhere.

But seriously, should they be skewed more single 30s guys with no commitments? Should they be skewed towards the things that benefit the majority of people who are not single 30s guys.

Saying this as a former 'single guy in his 30s' myself.
If I was a Goldman shareholder I'd be quite alarmed by this. What productive assets will they be getting for this money? Hard assets or just more coins?
Pinboard works great for some. For others it doesn't work at all, and, unlike you, we mere mortals don't have Maciej's cell number. :-)

The most grating part is where he ignores support mails, Twitter DMs etc. completely, over many, many months, but drops in on HN to talk about Pinboard, still ignoring you in that very thread.

Really, this hasn't been going on for six months or so, this has been this way for years and years.

I've recently read on HN that it depends on which server your user account is located on, so I guess we can both be correct. Just open accounts until it works for you. :-)
Or more likely - all of the above.
I find it weird people are focusing so much on the tech, instead of the kind of person who would use it.

After decades of professional software development, it should be clear that code is a liability. The more you have, the worse things get. A tool that makes it easy to crank out a ton of it, is exactly the opposite of what we need.

If a coworker uses it, I will consider it an admission of incompetence. Simple as that.
I'd say 200!
What about the massive amount of capital that was raised by VCs over the last couple of years? It has to be deployed at some point.
>Any spending bills require require 66.7% yes votes in both houses of Congress

This is absolutely false and, in fact, has never been the case.

>a cloture vote. It can currently be rejected by a single _staffer_ of any Congressperson _via email_

This is absolutely false as well. You are confusing hold requests with cloture and are confusing the Senate with the House. Cloture is a formal roll call vote in the Senate; no "staffer" participates.
This is not good news at all. Access to basic healthcare should be a constitutional right. This only increases the power of mega corps.
So postgresql upgrades are a piece of cake if your users doesn't care if your system is available to them. Is this some paradoy of the older claim that MongoDb is a great system if your user doesn't care if their data is lost?
It's somewhat funny how Mozilla uses "fx" for Firefox abbreviation while the rest of the world uses "ff".
> A good example is the recent release of PostgreSQL version 14.4. It is a minor upgrade, so no new features. But it requires extensive work on B-tree indexes.

I find it wrong to call out B-tree indexes -- any index that is (re)indexed concurrently in PG14 <14.4 might have had corruption. Just because PG14 only has a way to detect it for b-trees does not mean it doesn't exist in other index methods.

The author also seems to confuse upgrade complexity with the complexity of verification and decorruption tasks (that you should do if you have run concurrent (re)index in your cluster in PG 14.0-14.3). The thing is that you are not at all required to do that during the upgrade, because you might not run (re)index concurrently, or because fixing the corruption is also possible when still on <14.4, by using non-concurrent reindex, or by doing the manual snapshot control that I detailed in [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31688332
There's also a difference between leaking a novel virus and one that has been circulating. Also the accusation of "gain of function" experiments making the virus more dangerous.

Of course it is not extremely unlikely that a virus escapes from a lab. To me it seems very unlikely that this particular virus first escaped from this lab and especially that it wasn't a threat before being collected.
most fascinating part is that we don't know how AI is doing it.

Race then, isn't just skin deep - there are indeed small, perhaps imperceptible-to-the-human-eye, differences in internal morphology that correspond with whatever racial categorisation they used in the study. We also don't know how meaningful these differences are, though we should cautiously move toward healthcare service provision which takes into account a persons genetic lineage
Would you consider that a piece of cake? I have doubts. The page you linked to describes that if you follow the instructions on many other blogs you'll have data loss. Not a symptom of a piece of cake process
It certainly seems like he was there from the beginning (and it was built to be compatible with RSX-11M which he was the lead for):

"In April 1975, Digital Equipment Corporation embarked on a project to design a 32-bit extension to its PDP-11 computer line. The hardware component was code named Star; the operating system was code named Starlet. Roger Gourd was the project lead for VMS. Software engineers Dave Cutler, Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lipman acted as technical project leaders.[29] The Star and Starlet projects culminated in the VAX-11/780 computer and the VAX/VMS operating system. The Starlet project's code name survives in VMS in the name of several of the system libraries, including STARLET.OLB and STARLET.MLB.[30] VMS was mostly written in VAX MACRO with some components written in BLISS.[10]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS
>There are as large regional differences within individual European countries

Have you considered that they're not very large differences and you're just blinded by the fact that you're attuned to them?
> Have you perhaps considered that they're not very diverse?

This. Being a European, after seeing NYC, SF and Las Vegas, I passed on an opportunity to go for a week-long business trip to Seattle. Even though I had the time, I imagine Seattle being just mostly more of the same (an uniform, boring city consisting of XX century architecture built on a grid) and absolutely not worth the trip.

Americans speaking about large cultural differences between regions always surprise me - I often suspect they don't understand what "cultural differences" mean and instead talk about political differences.
> There isn't really a story here. YouTube just kind of blindly accepts any and all DMCAs regardless of whether the claimant has legitimate ownership or not.

Sounds like a compelling story to me.
Cars make cities worse for everyone, whereas public transport makes cities better for everyone, even people using cars because there is less traffic.

I enjoy biking, public transport and the density to support a nice shopping/bar/party street within walking distance, but what do I know, living in the second most livable city.
I use it a lot, but it sometimes is too slow to catch my copy action. Maybe the newer version is better? But I was very disappointed they switched to a subscription model (1-2 years ago?). Looking on their website now, maybe I should reconsider, but its not even clear how much. And too many features for me anyway.
The whole point is that the virus that was collected would already need to have some properties that predispose it to become a dangerous pandemic. Which is unlikely because those Viruses are pretty rare.

And the rest of your comment just tells me you know nothing about biology.
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As I wrote last year, these liveability index ignores all the best cities in Europe and I suppose in most countries by focusing on the largest cities.

I enjoyed living in the US, France, Denmark and Germany, I can't find Boulder, Besançon, Nantes, Helsingor, Münster, etc. These are all smaller cities outside of the big ones and they would all have a score higher than Vienna in this index.

I am 100% confident that you can find in your country a lot of incredibly nice cities to live in.

This article should be titled "The most livable big cities".
Haha most livable if you’re a white German speaking European
It's even more irrational to just assume the opposite or whatever you want to be true.
> I'm not sure in what universe an unfavorable round is worse than insolvency.

It’s worse in any universe where the choice is between insolvency now and insolvency later, because “later” can mean wasting a lot of time and burning bridges with investors that may end up funding your next business instead.
There is another file hosting application called plik.

https://github.com/root-gg/plik

It also supports login providers like Google and has cli clients.
> The disadvantage with making the parameter class a member is that the code gets littered with indirection like 'data->param1' all over the place. This is much nicer.

Isn't that a rather trivial concern? Implementation inheritance is not "much nicer" than delegation, the opposite in fact is the case. It adds a dispatch step to all calls to virtual methods (including calls that are private to implementations at any level of your 'hierarchy') that is not what you would want in most cases. Which in turn means your entire class hierarchy has to be analyzed as a single, highly-coupled program module; it's quite literally impossible to understand portions of it in isolation.
1. Use a bicycle; public transport is the (popular) backup.

2. Living in a city means living densely (for some definition of dense). If you don't like that, you should probably not live in a city in the first place.

3. Dutch cities are not really that dense in my experience.
> The use of virtual methods is verboten for many common use cases of C++, due to the necessity of being in paged memory

I wasn't aware of this. Maybe I'm just out of the loop. Do you know where one can I learn more about this? I'm desperately trying to reduce the number of virtual calls in our codebase, but I'm hitting the aforementioned problems.
With its colourful graphs and precise numbers, this all sounds very scientific. In reality, I'm guessing a group of people listed where they think is lovely to live and that's what we're now discussing.
Yes, but of all the cities in Eastern Europe, it's the least livable. Even Baku is better.
Different people have different definition of livable. Even same person has different definitions in different stages of life.

And frequently people move for bigger money or career opportunities over livability.
Mass shootings are rare but yeah, the only way you could tell that Warsaw is anywhere near a war is because of a large number of Ukrainians and all lower cost rentals gone from the market.
I think that's a pretty uncharitable reading. Saying network target implies eventually. the data ends up on the network, not that this person is proposing blocking execution to make API calls on logging.
My point is that if you find multiple samples with the same protein sequence, and those samples have independently diverged, you can easily assume those viruses did not originate by recombination from the Wuhan strain.
> Google like many companies doesn't comment in detail on these types of situations.

I think the best statement from Google would say:

"We have more information which gives additional context to our actions here. We have asked for permission from the account holder to publish this information, but so far that permission hasn't been granted".

Why don't they make statements like that?
> The only person to consistently aim for well written code is Knuth

That is a ridiculous statement. Are you really saying that from all the developers all over the world you believe that he is the only one who consistently aims for well written code? How would you even start ascertaining the truthfullness of this? Have you went around, interviewed all the developers and found their ”aim for well written code” to be lacking in consistency?

> That he needed to invent a whole new ecosystem to do that in should tell you how far away the average programmer is from getting there.

That he thought he needed to invent a new ecosystem tells you much about him, yes. It absolutely does not tell you about the aims of others. Perhaps others found that they can write well writen code consistently even without inventing a new ecosystem.
> should have verified at least a registered company or domain or trademark

None of those things are necessary to hold copyright.
Hey don't let the secret out. Do you want all those people who read the economist and believe their lists to come over here and ruin the housing market even more?!
How about Kabul? It's not that far away
To be fair livable probably means the nice parts of the American city. Most American city have nice parts and bad parts, where life in the bad parts can sometimes be as bad as living in a third world. Take Chiraq for example, or even Detroit. Schools have metal detectors to prevent weapons from being brought in, even if there isn’t a risk of mass shooting.
sorry replied to the wrong person.
I was arguing that even an abstract data structure describing the state of a brain over time as it experiences is itself sentient. GPT-3 et al is essentially crystallised experience. Lots of snapshots of peoples consciousness rolled into a set of neural network weights. Just as we are essentially a bag of experiences, moving from one experience to another, as we are prompted by internal or external stimuli.
In the US, typically employers pay for most or all of your family's health insurance. Yes, it's absurd. Losing your job means losing your insurance.

US also has laws requiring up to 3 months of leave for having children.

So, if you have a child, the company must accept or pay for your leave, depending on policy, and their health insurance costs for you go up.
I stopped reading where they lamented grammatical errors and then proceeded to write “queue” when they obviously meant cue.
I enjoy biking and hiking in the woods (not city streets), driving cars and living 20 minutes away from a major city so I can go to shops/bars/parties when I feel like it.

I also like gardening and farming, wood and metal working and generally doing all kinds of projects involving metal casting, glass blowing, pottery making etc. I would never be able to do comfortably living in a city.

The only downside to car culture is environmental concerns that I really hope electric cars fix.
Can I ask why?

I'm genuinely curious, as I feel the opposite
Everyone seems alright with Kotlin, and Swift seems close enough to Kotlin that I think they would do fine (we do have a few frontend devs that do Swift BTW).
I will be downvoted for this, but the whole focus on marginalized people at the cost of everyone else, and not allowing any reverse-ism debates pretty much sums up the site.

A giant marginalized circle jerk.
See also: US suburbs in the streetcar era, which were built just densely enough that it was practical for everyone to walk to streetcar stops. You can see what's left of that period in some neighborhoods of cities like Boston and San Francisco, where row houses that were once mass-produced to appeal to the middle class have become multi-million-dollar 'luxury' homes almost entirely from the total unavailability of that kind of housing and living style elsewhere.

The equivalent mid-density construction is basically nonexistent in new construction today because of exclusionary zoning. It's only recently that some states have started forcibly re-legalizing this sort of thing by overriding local zoning codes, and it will still take decades at best for new construction to really catch up.
Yeah, it uses the definition of personal data that includes information that isn't personal.
A virus that is optimized for mice or bats doesn't normally work well in Humans. If a bat virus somehow evolves in a lab into a pandemic in Humans, without essentially breeding the virus in Human subjects, that would be somewhat of an accidental development because the viral particles aren't specifically selected for that reason.
What is wrong with public transport? I understand in America it's not great, but having frequent, reliable, fast, clean & safe public transport is amazing. Public Transport in a lot of Western European countries are like that with the exception of the DeutscheBahn (DB is hell).
I just love that there is an H&E slide on article cover of Ars
It might be rendered poorly at my end, but what's the idea behind the first chart? I'm not able to make sense of it. It seems to present the same thing (city liveability index) three times, and all the cities are just thrown on there in no particular order. Honolulu is even off the charts, which indicates that there's some intention of an axis somewhere, but I can't tell what it is. Edit: Ah, it was missing a world map rendered in the background. Now it makes sense.
As for decent powered charger try one from https://frame.work -- it also has both power and USB-C cords detachable, so you can use any other USB-C you like, as well as custom length (or plug) power cords.
How it worked?
It means "Too long; didn't read". The guidelines say:

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Unlikely, as foreign visitors invariably point them out uncoached.
I'm using it too. Personally, I like it. But sometimes it lags so much if you copies a huge amount of text into the clipboard.
In the comments, there is a question about LTE working or not. That's a good question, wish the author replied.

Anyone know if y/n?
It's even worse. If you look at that Lancet Letter scandal, you'll find for example Christian Drosten as a signatory, who was the expert with the most influence over the German government until recently.

Even after the Daszak conflict of interest was discovered, despite the declaration of no conflict of interest, none of them ever retracted it or even apologized. Even more, it was later revealed the letter had actually been authored by Daszak himself, as the pretend lead author Charles Calisher himself admitted. Calisher is a long retired professor born in 1936 who at this point may or may not understand what's going on. To his credit at least he told the truth when journalists questioned him. It looks like Daszak used his name to distract from his authorship. The strategy worked too, at first.

What's shocking is that none of them have faced any consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_letter_(COVID-19)
Yes. It used the world’s oldest “AI”; the human brain.

But that is exactly how this works. From what I understand, the “enhanced” version of the technique is scarily accurate, able to match, using just a couple of sentences.
I want to agree with you, and hope you're correct...but remember the job of actuaries and how they've worked in the past which is honestly rather depressing.

Specifically, Ford realizing it was cheaper to pay for crash lawsuits than making everyone's car safer in the days of rear end gas tanks.
I just find waiting in a station, having to account for schedules, the annoyance of having to deal with bags and luggage and sitting close to people in that setting not all that enjoyable.
Blue green deployment is, while it requires a professional, is not particularly complex or unusual.

Postgres is a tool. It can do many things, but the tool cannot run your entire business.
How would he know? This article is strictly about San Francisco companies.
Study: Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease
> I have a wonderful System76 Lemur Pro

I bought one of these recently but the keyboard is making me very sad. Especially the arrow keys are almost too small for my fingers.
I was comparing generics in Java and Rust with generics in Zig.
This being hn, I'm struggling not to be sarcastic about how similar Seattle and Las Vegas are.
Why not to connect an external USB mic to a desired smartphone?
Funny I remember warning people on various reddits many months ago that there is no risk free 10-20% investment and asking where is this yield originating from. Let’s just say people weren’t very receptive. Greed is a hell of a drug
> Mass shootings are rare

Yeah, but...

Typical (Median) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015)

United States — 0.058
Albania — 0
Austria — 0
Belgium — 0
Czech Republic — 0
Finland — 0
France — 0
Germany — 0
Italy — 0
Macedonia — 0
Netherlands — 0
Norway — 0
Russia — 0
Serbia — 0
Slovakia — 0
Switzerland — 0
United Kingdom — 0

Using the median analysis, the United States is the only country examined that shows a propensity for mass shootings. The data itself supports this interpretation, as the United States endured mass shooting events all seven years, but the other countries all experienced mass shootings during only one or two years. Thus, in a typical year, most countries experience zero mass shooting deaths, while the US experiences at least a few.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shoo...
I'm currently a casual user, I use Postgres for personal docker services, and I wish it would auto upgrade itself when there is a new release, like how MariaDB does it.
The difference between e.g. northern and southern Italy is large. Larger than the differences I've seen in the US. I'm from the Netherlands, so I may be suffering from the same issue, but a reason I doubt that is that in many ways Dutch culture is closer to American culture than to Italian culture, so if anything I should be able to detect nuances in US regional differences better.
I take it you write all of your code in notepad with no linting, formatting, or any of the other cheater plugins that incompetent devs use?
Is this US or EU advice?
Does anyone have experience with Linux on the latest model, the Surface Go 3?

I'm considering getting one of these as they seem like ideal travel devices, but uneasy about having to rely on a small community for basic driver support. Official Linux support would be much better.