skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about Twilio specifically but Covid is the biggest reason for most of the current layoff rounds.

Kind of the opposite of the beginning of the pandemic, when companies with in-person employees were laying off staff and moving to work-from-home and online companies like Zoom, Shopify, Teledoc, Twilio began booming. But now many of those brand new customers are returning to their old ways.

These internet companies "over hired" in the sense that they got a massive unexpected influx new demand they needed to scale out for, and no clue how long this would last. Will it fade out next month or be a decade long pandemic?

Many companies also expected higher customer retention after covid than they're actually keeping. If you look at trendlines for online shopping, work from home, etc related industries covid caused an instant jump in their growth equivalent to about 5 years on the trend line. Rather than staying "in the future", demand is declining back towards a trend line that otherwise ignores covid.
I wonder how this is deployed to presumably a large number of hosts? Do you build a distribution package out of your Rust build and ship that? If so, what about the Rust standard library? Though I believe some distributions do provide a package for the Rust standard library, but that means one also has to use the packaged rustc/cargo, which tends to lag behind quite a bit.
Many people are trying to rationalize the "anti-racist lens" remark as a simple post-hoc analysis to make sure there wasn't racial bias. (This seems plausible, and I don't think many people would have an issue with that, in theory.)

However, if this is what the CEO did, then he did not use an anti-racist lens -- merely a "not-racist" lens.

Kendi is explicit in his book, "How to be an Anti-Racist", that there is no neutrality. You simply cannot say "the layoff is not racist". You can either have the layoff be racist, or antiracist, there is no middle ground.

DiAngelo agrees in her assessment. She says that people should not ask, "Did racism occur", but rather, "How did racism occur?" When looking at the roster of layoffs, one must come to the conclusion that racism occurred, no matter how unbiased the results appear.

How does Kendi say anti racism rectifies past prejudice? Present prejudice. How to rectify present prejudice? With future prejudice.

If the CEO actually used an anti-racist lens in the layoff decisions, then by definition, he used prejudice based on race.
Is there something I'm missing? I'm not a patreon power user or anything, but my impression is that they don't host content. It's all links to youtube or whatnot. What does it mean to "sell content on patreon"?
It's important to note that 7.5% is the max we would make. The more direct dependencies you fund, the less we make. When we reallocate funds, the same rule applies.

Our goal is to support projects outside of GitHub but we had to start somewhere and GitHub seemed like a pretty logical choice.
Is there currently a big market for new logging solutions? It has been years since I worked much with logs, so I don't know much about the current frustrations of those who work with them on a daily basis.

There will always be potential for a 'better mousetrap' to take some market share from existing solutions, but are current ones bad enough that a great solution could come in an capture significant market share? Or are today's systems 'good enough' that any new solution would face huge headwinds, even if it has some cool features?

The reason I ask is because I am building a new kind of general-purpose data management system (https://www.Didgets.com) that can handle all kinds of data. It does file data, relational tables, Key-Value stores and other kinds of NoSql data. I did a little proto-typing of it managing some simple logging data and it seemed to work really well (in my opinion). But I would need to do a bit more work to get a good demo going.

I have limited resources, so I would only want to do that if there is a significant demand in the logging space for something new. What is the biggest 'pain point' for people working with log data today?
Yeah I'm going to need something more than potentially disgruntled employee posting anonymously on Glassdoor.
Well, and isn't it the same for BTC then? In the city where I live, there's tons of Bitcoin ATMs everywhere - and people using them, pretty clearly to go around their everyday business, as if it was a bank ATM.
Blogs and websites that post curated lists of new releases for the genres I like.

The way I find those sites is by searching for an album I know I liked and seeing which sites have posted about it - release dates, reviews, etc. Works the best when you can find sites with a more specific genre though, to cut out some of the extra noise.

Then I just check back in to see what is getting released when, and look it up on whatever streaming service.

Subreddits work occasionally, but it seems like more often than not those are used to post old albums and old songs for free upvotes.
They said it was a factor. Twilio I'm sure had said they've been trying to diversify their workforce for years and you didn't care (which is the same thing, just through hiring instead of firing).

It is you parachuting in to be offended that is the disingenuous thing here.
If my environment is AWS and someone has experience with GCP I’ll pass in favor of someone who knows AWS. The concepts are the same but the day to day is quite different.
Do you have any data or references to support your argument? I'm open to considering your hypothesis, but right now, it's merely an assertion.
I'm confused by the structure of the article which is just a bunch of interleaved posts from social media, is there actual illegal content being bought and sold or is it animations?

If it's the latter it's reprehensible and arguably cover for real CSAM - but it's not illegal in the US. It's (currently) protected speech because of the Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition SCOTUS ruling.

If it's the former, holy shit. I can't believe it's just the security team responsible. And another thing that's not clear, was it them that was responsible for the content, or were they fired for speaking up?
They definitely host image files.

I follow two furry artists that post full-size (3000+px wide) images.
This shows the stupidity of using percentages when dealing with individuals!

What about all the boys who should be skipped ahead?
Except of course for the part where they didn't fire their security team [1], and what actually happened was that Patreon's closing two European offices and one of their many security teams got outsourced with the in-house folks being let go.

But hey, good to see we're upvoting nutcase tik tok conspiracies on HN as easily as they make the rounds on Facebook.

[1] https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/156968445070277017...
I asked a group of visiting college students from El Salvador about the situation with the Chivo wallet. They all uniformly believed the U.S. had put sanctions against the country's official exchange, making it hard to send money between the two countries. I could not find any evidence that such sanctions had actually occurred, but they all believed it was true. I wonder how they got this idea, how common it is, and whether it's had any effect.
Most college kids know the following about Che:

He saw the poverty and exploitation of LatAm by the US and others and decided to do something about it after the CIA assassinated Arbenz. He was pivotal in overthrowing Batista, an autocratic despot.

He later served in several government programs, and wrote a memoir about motorcycles.

He was eventually executed without trial by Bolivian special forces backed by the CIA.

But college kids probably don't know that much about the flip side of his character. Plenty of stories suggest he enjoyed killing - he certainly had no concerns about executions. He wrote some pretty racist stuff in his early life.

He's a complicated figure, for sure.
Can anyone determine if SECJUICE is a legit site - never heard of them so not sure how much I trust their content.
> people didn't see his central theme

Ah - interesting. It took me several readings to tease-out what I thought the central theme was. As it happens, it led to a position that I objected to (and still object to). So discovering that central theme brought the book down a peg or two in my estimation.

I still think it's one of the most entertaining books of popsci that I've ever opened.
By "the content" I assume you mean specific IP such as Star Wars, because nobody has monopoly on "content" at large. Anybody can create content, new stories, new characters. People do it all the time!
I was similarly sad the NB C++ plugin was switched to a "language-server and good luck" approach. I actually do look forward to the day that language servers become on par with formal IDEs, but today is for sure not that day
Yes. I used it to create UIs using swing.
They definitely have jpeg-upload capabilities so that your patrons can read the advance copy of the webcomic or the bonus materials or whatever

probably video of some sort too
My wife used to work at Patreon and given how toxic the culture was, I'm honestly not surprised. The cavalier attitude towards sexual content combined the the natural awkwardness of most engineers basically makes for an environment ripe for this to occur. Also management would regularly dismiss employee concerns, so no surprise there.
Compare and contrast with GCP documentation.
Given that affirmative action has been a thing in both hiring and college admissions for multiple decades now, that's of course incorrect. Those "innumerable advantages" in today's USA overwhelmingly go to (immigrant) minorities.

I'm so glad I live in a country in continental Europe where this shit is unconstitutional and any company that even tried to hint at doing this is going to get sued to oblivion.
Probably means advertise content and accept payment on patreon?
That account will let you start investing right away. Try to pass 250k through it and I think you'll find fraud and KYC flags are in effect until you've done something that verifies your access to your address, etc, go change your address to a forwarder and that will affect your credit report, and so on..

Regular banking is pretty indifferent to the future profits of a new account that can pay out cash as it examines risk, while a loan salesman's interest in believing he has a sale..
RMS started open source because of printer driver issues (he wanted the source code but wasn't allowed it and thought it as a betrayal of the hacker culture). This post is like history repeating itself.
OK - so this article actually proves that Patreon is allowing some extremely disturbing content on their site.

Patreon needs to step up, clean up their act and publish a credible and sincere apology, otherwise I'm fairly sure a sizeable amount of people will make sure they are done for. Myself included.

Edit: looks like this case is similar to the story of the "boy that cried wolf"; just because allegations of child abuse has been misused a lot, doesn't mean it can't be true in this case. Please read the whole article and do your own research. This stinks.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.patreon.com
React Query meets React Router (v6.4)
> As some people say in Brazil, as an architect, Niemeyer was a very good sculptor.

We indeed have a lot of those fancy buildings from famous architects, mostly from the 70s.

They all share a common pattern:

- a repressed artist who became an architect

- a beautiful piece of concrete modern art on the outside and that makes fancy design magazine photos

- an oppressive building and a complete failure in term of comfort/ergonomy

Another example is the "Espaces d'Abraxas". But there are even worse examples when you look at brutalist architecture.
*were ?
No video will show the subtle differences. The principle is that you would let the physical aspects of the ride flow through your bike to minimise shock and allow the bike to more naturally ‘fall’ through the path that will take it the easiest.

An good analogue would be jet skiing. If you just hold on for dear life and hope for the best, you will get a very sore back. A lot about doing it right is letting the waves do what they have to do, and making subtle corrections to ensure your path is optimal but taking into account the obstacles it’s encountering
> a) It doesn't consider the transfer of energy from the stove to the pot. Burning the gas may realease 90% of the chemical energy, but how much of that makes it into the pot.

Roughly the same as the inefficiencies of an electric stove.

I recognize that "induction stoves" have a different property, but the original poster said "electric", not "induction". Both electric, and gas, stoves, heat up the pot and the air around the food, causing inefficiencies. But these inefficiencies are roughly equivalent between electric and natural gas.

> There are plenty of other sources of electricity that are not natural gas.

None of which serve the same "peaker" purpose. Since none of the electric-ovens come with large-scale batteries to save power from ideal time periods, the most likely use of electricity will be the natural gas peaker plant that's been tasked with frequency-stabilization.
True, but that’s a completely separate concern. Frankly that’s likely going to happen anyway. El Salvadorians suddenly trusting the government with large amounts of their cash isn’t going to make that government any more fiscally competent. Better not to go down with them.
This came up in the Patreon discussion yesterday. Twilio is giving decent severance packages (12 weeks plus week per year of service) and is accelerating vesting. Both of those impact the bottom line and should have a material impact on C-suite compensation.
I sound like a shill for Upwork (promise I'm not!). But the fees for long-term clients (>$10k in earnings) is 5%. If you go on your own and bill through a system you will likely pay 3%. So it's not that different.
>The shares can’t lose money (in theory) because with the extended exercise period you can simply not exercise them if they are underwater.

Incorrect. Yes, one would not exercise options that are already underwater, but once you own the shares and there is a post-IPO lockup period[0] you most definitely can lose money on the shares, money on which you already were taxed at ordinary tax plus FICA rates. Try looking at the volatility of company share prices in the period immediately after their IPO.

>you really have not even a basic understanding of how this works?

You also have not addressed the strong possibility of being acquired rather than going public. (Ex-)employees do not make any money until after all the VC people do, and there may not be much left.

Again, I never said this was a bad thing, more like a "meh" thing.

[0]https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answer/12/ipo-lockup-period...
It is a requirement for every CEO that I’ve seen that they understand all core business functions, to the degree I’m stating.

A CEO that can’t understand how the companies finances are structured and how it makes it’s money is going to be blind to the core machinery of the business.

A CEO that doesn’t understand how the companies operations work is going to make bad optimizations that will hurt it’s ability to serve customers with it’s core products.

A CEO that doesn’t understand how the companies customer support and public facing relations work is likely to
tank the companies public image.

A CEO that doesn’t understand how the companies Sales work is going to be scammed by them or destroy the companies revenue producing channels accidentally.

I can point you to dozens of high profile examples of this.

None of this is micro management level. It’s ‘are the books making sense and congruent with the actual day to day operating status of the business’. It’s ‘are we competent and effective at producing our core products’. It’s ‘when someone needs help, they get it effectively and at a cost to us that makes sense’.

To judge those requires knowledge and understanding of those areas.

The reality is that no one individual knows all these things well enough to run a large corporation well, which is why the board of directors in a properly managed company will be performing oversight on many of these functions.

Especially financial, as that’s the most tempting target if someone gets desperate.

And you’re right - a good manager or leader isn’t worried about BS (for long), but I never said they would be - I said they could tell the difference. Good fences make good neighbors, after all, and if folks know you can tell, there is no point trying.

None of that is micromanaging.

If you get a reputation as someone who can’t tell the difference and/or doesn’t care, a lot of people you wouldn’t expect will try. That’s what causes problems.
do you suggest an alternative?
Back in the day (80's) in Spain you could find these depictions (Vibora, CIMOC...) in underground/exTreMe/hardcore fanzine publications but as an excuse on how shitty the low working class neighbourhoods where, in order to show teens with no proper guide to a good sexuality development (or caring parents, generally). OFC you saw junkies, psychos, alcoholics, rapes, kidnaps, all king of drug abuses, corruption from police and so on.

The message was: lack of rights, work and education created monsters.
And, as I see, the trend continues, sadly.

They tried to censor them, but the politicians were not aware that that kind of shit was depicted as a harsh reality in fanzines because of their ineptitude making the worst neighbourhoods in Spain degrade like hell because of the big unemployment (astounding in the 80's).

Someone should tell people porn it's just a theatre, and that sexuality requires a partner close to your maturity. Oh, and stop idealizing extremes. You aren't that ugly, neither you one aren't that hot. Stop degrading yourself and idolizing the others with $PRODUCT/fake IG filter/make up. Capitalism exploits extremes
and insecurities, stop giving a crap on pose and appearance.
the Mozilla position on COLRv1 is "Provides comparable design capabilities to OpenType-SVG, but in a more compact and lightweight form that integrates better into font rendering pipelines. Has the potential to supersede OpenType-SVG fonts in web use."

So this seems like a good thing overall. Note that Firefox doesn't support it at this time.
I don't know where you live (Australia?) but in the US cashier's checks are standard. For decades, if you close one bank account and open another, you transfer the money with a cashier's check. If you pay first month's rent and deposit on an apartment you're renting, you do it with a cashier's check before you're allowed to pick up the keys. Any time you're dealing with thousands of dollars between parties who don't trust each other, it's cashier's check.

You don't need to see the law any more than you need to see the law to know that if you put a stamp on a letter it will get delivered by the post office. Cashier's checks aren't another financial product, they've been around for a lot longer than you or me. (If you're not in the US then practices might be different, I don't know.)
We really did throw it away. And when I'm an engineering manager, this is my big test for product managers. Initially I give them a low-limit credit card for technical debt. If they pay it off when they promise, I give them a bigger limit. If not, I take the credit card away and we keep a consistently low level of technical debt.
Cool thanks! Will test that out then.
I find this article conflated multiple things:

1) “family” blogs- this isn’t just a problem on patreon but also exists on YouTube, tiktok, etc. this is when you can film your own children bathing or other settings and sell it as family friendly content. Yes, creepy men comment on these videos and it’s dubious about how or if the parents are exploiting their child— a much better coverage than this article is the Somewhere Under Neith podcast which explicitly explores how vulnerable parties are exploited and overlooked[1] (they also did a series on child marriage and where it is legal to marry children in the USA).

2) drawn or animated adult content - loli/shota shit, legal dependent on country, no actual children harmed here

I think this article performs multiple leaps of logic and cites anonymous sources for its more serious allegations. For example it assumes an off handed anonymous glassdoor comment “if half the child porn allegations are true patreon is in trouble” to mean patreon as a company is aware of and endorses any child porn on its platform. It could instead just be someone who saw the same tiktok the article points to alleging child porn.

(This isn’t to say there isn’t csam on patreon but I don’t think patreon is uniquely platforming csam based on these allegations. Unfortunately uploading videos of your own children in bathing suits and stuff without their consent is very legal and categorized as family friendly even.)

1. https://www.lastpodcastnetwork.com/some-place-under-neith/
Its sad that Twitter posts and Glassdoor reviews are what pass for "primary sources" these days.

I'd personally wait to jerk my knee a little longer.
Drink, drink!

So I in fact need alcohol chemically, like psychiatrically, under limited conditions. Limited. I payed for and received medical advice, that when I went out and partied, make sure to take my medication with me and take it then too, alcohol is too risky for and deficit too much downside. It's synergistic sometimes.
My FB feed no longer feels like walking down a hall with my friends in it, it feels a lot more like walking through a mall with advertisements constantly in my face and strangers screaming from every store front with their "content." It just feels like a very different place than even a few years ago- and showing your vacation photos in the mall is the wrong place to do it (I know the analogy isn't perfect, but its the best I can do to reflect on why it felt weird to me).

They are pretty much at the tipping point where the signal to noise ratio has gotten so low that it seems futile to add more signal. There is also a component to it as well where is it really worth it to give FB even more data about my life?- what am I even getting in return for it these days? And even more recently, I woke up one morning recently and the feed felt really stale, I was seeing posts from the previous day. I tried to look at just my friends, and then sort by most recent, and you could see that just the number of people actually posting what they are up to is just way down.

Instagram is better for this these days, but its headed in the same direction it seems.
From their quarterly results:

8,510 employees as of June 30, 2022

7,381 employees as of September 30, 2021

3,060 employees as of March 31, 2020 (!)

With an 11% reduction it looks like they're going back to a number similar to what they had a year ago.

(I'm assuming they haven't been growing that much during the past 2.5 months.)
Back in my time, we called "treating people differently, based on their race" racism.
> "were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens"

People have lost their damn minds. This is actual institutionalized racism.

I wouldn't work for these people in a million years, but I really do wonder how I'd fit into their shallow models (I'm mixed race b/w).
They announced a partnership to build a crypto trading exchange with tech provider EDX Markets.
It's not a separate concern if you're arguing the government should not be able to print its own currency.
Please enumerate all the races first and the criteria to distinguish each race from the other. It will be important for your statistical analysis.
> to a certain extent

Devil is in the details. Peaker plants are almost always natural gas, and I'd expect an electric oven (high power appliance that immediately turns on when you turn it on, and immediately turns off when turned off) is most likely using electricity from a peaker plant, rather than a baseload plant.
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