skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anybody has had such a story, feel free to message me and we can talk about it. I won’t claim that this is always the case, but the interpretation that it is opening up and showing vulnerability that is causing a loss of attraction is almost always a misinterpretation. And a very dangerous one at that, because it prevents learning and solidifies the very problem that caused the relationship breakdown in the first place.
Oracle is/was laying off thousands as of August.

Within the past 12 months:

Peloton laid off over 4000. Snap 1280 (which is 20% of the company,) Shopify 1000 (10%.) Groupon laid off 15%. Salesforce, 1000. Microsoft 1800. Carvana (while not "big established" it's still a lot of people) laid off 2500. Tencent laying off 5500. Alibaba: 9500, ByteDance: 1000, Zillow 2300.

This definitely isn't really the first major layoff announcement.

Outside of big tech: Credit Suisse laying off 5000, Ford 8000, Telefonica 2700. Societe General 3700

A bunch more, but these are the one measured in thousands or otherwise a significant percentage of a company's workforce.

(By the way, not arguing with you, my point is that this isn't surprising, the writing has been on the wall for the past year, so an Intel layoff isn't a bellwether for things getting bad -- it's a lagging indicator of things already being bad.
> The chemistry-equivalent of this joke is to warn everyone around you of the presence of dangerous di-Hydrogen Oxide which kills hundreds of thousands of people every year.

https://dhmo.org/facts.html
No more than the usual half a week at a time every now and again.

It probably helps that I got fed up with the low SNR on my Twitter and Facebook ages ago and stopped bothering to check them.
Fault was mine, had an extra “don’t” that made it a triple, rather than the intended double, negative.

Your interpretation of that last sentence was correct
It is important to remember that we have a bias towards painting the past with "rosy retrospection". Life can just be hard and we tend to forget that about past events. It's quite possible you were just as worried about other stuff then.

That being said, yes, there certainly are some particularly hard things going on right now. However, I wouldn't use external factors as an excuse to not address the legitimate feeling of burnout that you are experiencing. [I think it is a dangerous trap people fall in to say "I feel bad because of X external factor" rather than taking control of what they can control to make themselves feel better].

Personally, I think arming yourself with tools to better cope with that life stuff in general is useful no matter what. CBT therapy, in particular, I find can be helpful.
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 9 is the latest major gadget to ditch the headphone jack
Huh. I've never used contacts that way. I suppose it could work but that's a new extra step. My Contacts list is gigantic and full of bullshit I don't care about because it's sync'd from work and flooded with people I don't know. Usually I just find the conversation from the chronological list (which is more of how I remember things). Maybe there's some way to sort contacts by recent use? It just seems like that's leaking metadata to push all of that context into Contacts. Anyway that seems maybe plausible if it can index or springboard to convos in other apps.
Wait so you would keep donating even if you know they are thieves?
>> I think that’s far fetched.

I like to think of it as wishful thinking. I fantasize about winning the lottery, too.

>> The question is simply whether the level of corruption reaches the level...

Yeah, agreed. I couldn't point to a single instance where an attempt to eliminate corruption did not eventually spawn unintended (bad) consequences. Working to manage it seems to be the best alternative.
> And let's not forget to be grateful towards for-profit companies that contribute to open source.

The main sponsor of WINE is CodeWeavers, who have been paying folks that work on WINE for a very long time, and are involved in Proton development:

https://www.codeweavers.com/

They sell a supported version of WINE for Linux, macOS and ChromeOS, as well as providing engineering services to clients like Valve.
That doesn't matter. With the recent wave of unionization, companies are going to be playing hardball with union busting tactics. The play of "figure out some small perk that sounds good and is news-worthy, then give it to all the non-unionized stores" is a solid one.
Yeah Google is more evil than all of those other totally non-evil companies that act in your best interests at all times. It's not like other companies have the same incentive to profit from you!

You believing $company is not as bad as Google definitely has nothing to do with marketing!
I agree completely, and thought it important enough to note up top.

As a general principle I believe this kind of data should either be rigorously analyzed in depth or analyzed as little as possible. That's why I originally posted raw numbers: I think raw numbers are the only responsible way to do this kind of internet forum surface-level analysis. It's too easy to trick intentionally or unintentionally with statistics.

It's obvious the US is an outlier from the raw numbers, there's no need to get fancy.

I chose the metric of police killings carefully. In a non-tiny democracy with a police violence problem there are enough that it's not dominated by outliers, but few enough that it's feasible for a few reporters to spot check the data. They're also notable enough a large portion of the incidents generate some publicly available commentary, often in local press.

(In non-tiny democracies without a police killing problem it might be dominated by outliers, but the raw numbers make the fact killings are rare obvious)

In the US, for example, the FBI collects statistics even they acknowledge are poor quality. The Washington Post has a project to monitor publicly available information and enter police shootings into a database, and they generally find publicly available proof of about twice as many shootings as are entered into the FBI database.

The main takeaway I wanted people to take from the data I posted is that there's nearly no country like the US close to it. Either way you read Malta & Luxembourg that's true, so there's no need to get fancy (and I think further analyzing that single stat without country-specific expertise would be questionably responsible).

I thought about saying I expected underreporting from the less democratic poorer countries but I decided I didn't want to spend the time reading their methodology to be confident in that. It's possible they've already attempted to correct for that, possibly even too much in the other way. The definition of police is also complex: Whether a unit is police or military is often historical chance.
Self was great in multiple ways, and worth reading up on and playing with.

Looks like distributions are at: https://selflanguage.org/ and repo at: https://github.com/russellallen/self

Java and many other languages (JIT), Squeak (morphs worlds), and JavaScript (class-less prototype object system), later got some of the Self magic. But I think Self was where I first used all of those.
I know for certain there are 13.8 kV motors, I don’t see any reason why higher voltages aren’t possible for motors.
Check out "prefers-reduced-motion": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
No, the point is you get to make demands and make the company meet your way. That means once the deal is done, that's the deal. It's literally fair. You made a deal, now that is the deal. Your deal is different from other employees deal. There are upsides and downsides to both. Upside for the union employees, they got all the benefits they demanded with the downside of no new benefits. Upside for non-union employees is they get all the new benefits with the downsides they don't have all the benefits the union employees demanded and got because they thought they were that important.
I am glad that the EU actually has another definition of letting people use what is floating their boat: Force big-tech player to open up protocols, so users can send messages from any messenger to any other messenger.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/dma-political-agreement/

As a user I cannot see any downsides.
> American management is adversarial to unions

Yes, adversarial relationships have this symmetry.

> American management is adversarial to workers

Strongly disagree. Between tech and finance we have proven models for gains sharing that doesn't require workers and managers be at each others' throats. Many European models similarly have workers aligned with the company's long-term goals and vice versa without a militant union butting heads with sociopathic management. (They're symbiotic.) Meanwhile, American ports are embarrassingly inefficient because the port unions don't want to modernize.

These models need refinement. But for many industries, they seem better than inserting a middleman whose existence is reliant on an adversarial relationship between employee and employer.
Most companies don't even buy webcams to improve meetings, they're not going to spend 100 times more on VR headsets
I see, so all the stats about how many business fold and go bankrupt, how most startups never get to success -- those are all just fake news I guess? Business is just rolling in the money, risk free, huh?
Seconded getting off the news or your phone. I learned to embrace blissful ignorance.
> All I want to do is look at my phone and consume more content

This will contribute to and/or perpetuate your burnout.

If you're overwhelmed and burned out, the last thing you need is to spend more time in front of screens and more time consuming endless streams of content. News content and outrage bait is especially bad at burning people out. It's easy to spend 30 minutes on Reddit or Twitter and feel like the world is collapsing around you.

Put down the phone. Do literally anything else. Meditate with your eyes closed in a quiet room, or go outside and go for a walk. The more often you do this, the better you'll feel.

And to answer your question: No, we're not all burned out. I have noticed that burnout-prone people tend to cluster together in bubbles where everyone amplifies each others' cynicism and pessimism. The rest of us prefer to build some distance between the chronically cynical people so we don't get brought down, too. Make a point to break out of your bubble and find people who are more like how you want to be.
monopoly power of the same resource

they can because it's not a resource in first place, it's infinite.
I just did a powerpoint about how we should avoid integration hell in a project by releasing early. The timeline only had "now", "God only knows when" and "much earlier than God only knows when". There was an architecture diagram with devil emojis bouncing on each arrow. I also had two consecutive slides which were fullscreen memes of Beelzeboss going on and on how every service Jack Black makes needs CI/CD, a dashboard, Correlation IDs, auth, and it all takes time
Quit drinking, lift weights, do some cardio even just zone 2, get proper sleep, and above all stop looking at your phone and play with your kid!

When I'm feeling stuck with tech work, I go take a moderately brisk walk for 30-60 minutes while I think about the problem, sometimes with a buddy. It works very well for getting me unstuck.
Being on call doesn't mean you're responding to arbitrary stuff at all hours of the day, just emergencies.
I think what you care about is to have enough power to be at the limit of the grip of (all) your tires. If you are heavier, you need more power to reach at point. If you do have enough power, then it's all about maximizing grip - tires, surface, downforce and so on.

More mass and more power are roughly equivalent to less mass and less power, if the above holds. Maybe even with less mass it's easier, since you can produce significant downforce with smaller wings.
This. Also this seems like a whole bunch of nothing. Coinbase isn't significant GCP revenue. Google partnering with Coinbase is just good trading news that don't really benefit Coinbase all that much.
>The things you might want to do are infinite; that means that each one has 0 probability of realization.

That does not follow.

>If you need an extension later, you can code it later - and probably do a better job than if you did it now.

Not if it requires intimate knowledge of the internals. Then you'll need weeks just to get reacquainted and then you might still not know enough to do a good job of it.

Just today I was implementing a feature that I chose not to do initially. Now I was burdened with an incomplete view of the system and also had to deal with a lot of other code that was written in a certain way because the feature didn't exist at the time. I'm sure it would have been better if I had done it in the beginning.

I agree with the sentiment, but disagree with the arguments. In the end it is a judgement call as any.
Wow :-(

Just a week ago I replaced the sms app with signal for two people.

This was the main reason why I just installed signal and still use it vs telegram because of this exact feature :-(

Come on signal what ya doing stop!
The 28,000maH banks will charge a phone about 5 times. That's huge. I've got one, and an 8,000maH. Some of them can charge macbook. We kept gas, and having hot water and being able to cook is also huge. The barbie will cover for gas failure. You're going to be OK. Maybe a bit smelly and tired.
I'm surprised he just glossed over one of the biggest issues:

> Then one of the developers moved house, temporarily misplaced his headset, and we haven’t used it since.

Meta's vision is all-or-nothing. Either everyone has it and they can Do The Thing, or someone is missing it and nobody can. Meta seems to be making no effort to create an on-ramp into the metaverse, and is demanding that everyone jump in whole-hog. It can't work, except in niche cases where the job is in VR. And nobody's going to work all day in VR if they can't glance at their phone. Full-color passthrough is close, but not good enough.
Here's the nap room - don't be seen using it.
> language models just need to translate problems into code of some kind that can be run to get the answer

A huge "just"! Isn't this the magic step? Translating ambiguous symbols to meaning and combining them in meaningful ways is a big deal which, apparently, these AI models cannot do. They can just parrot things.
This thread seems to get derailed into the age old anarchistic debate "organization or not", also sometimes named "platform or not". My take on it is that this debate is usually theoretic in nature (in particular in this thread), and that anarchism is very much not a theory and actually a praxis. A core principle is also to refuse bottom-line-truth and dogma to keep being relevant in day-to-day struggles. Hence the unifying principles of the anarchistic nebula elude any objective definition (one behave "like an anarchist" only if a couple other ones says so, not that this would be sufficient tho).
But you are commenting on a news site, probably while on the phone.

Hnews is not different, I come here for the same dopamine hit
Ted Hoff worked in Atari Corporate Research (before Atari broke up / was purchased in 1984). This story was told to me by a friend who worked in ACR:

Ted had a pad of conductive foam with a number of 8008 processors (a few dozen, perhaps). From time to time he would be contacted by someone in the US government asking if he had any of those chips around.

He would pick one out, carefully package it and mail it off. Since the applications were almost always very secret, he never found out what they were actually for.

(These days, you'd just write a cycle and pin accurate emulator, or design an FPGA equivalent. Not an option back then).
This is a moral question, but the answer doesn't really matter because there's a more important issue that preempts it, which is that you're ignoring a signal that if these these things aren't worth your money they're probably not worth your time either.

I'm no fan of the companies involved, or their policies, or even copyright law as it stands, but I've gotten to a point where if something entertaining isn't worth the price, I just don't buy it. I have no "right" to watch a TV show that some monopoly is infringing upon.

We all have so many things competing for our time and money, take advantage of that. If Rick & Morty isn't worth $40 to you, spend that $40 and those 20 minutes on something of better value.

And yes, I still watch TV, though far less (2-4 hours/week) than I did before I adopted this thought process. And yes, I do watch, and pay for, Rick and Morty :D
> Walking is not great exercise from a time efficiency standpoint.

Sure, but it's infinitely better than a more efficient exercise that never gets done.
Yeah that's true, I think there's a lot going on in the world right now, but there is some truth in what you say. Things in the past were a lot worse than they are now. The constant threat of nuclear war, more sickness, various wars around the world, etc.

The difference now is that we all just get too much information about what's going on in the world, we have access to information about ALL of the world's problems all the time. It's just too much and is difficult to deal with for many people.

It takes real self-discipline and self-awareness to tune it out.
> One employee is fungible, the entire workforce is not.

Not sure what it is, but man i dislike this term being used like this.

To be "fungible" is a contract for a physical good without a specific "sample" of that good being specified.

So you can put a contract on for "100oz" of gold, and the counter-party can complete their obligation by supplying one 100oz bar, or 10 10oz bars, etc.

Legally, they met their obligation as these are "fungible".

People are rarely "fungible" and it is a pet-peeve seeing this being used all the time like this.
Little Smalltalk is great and I highly recommend it. But it and GNU Smalltalk only give you access to the bare language itself, while Smalltalks with graphical user interfaces given you a very different programming experience.

I am trying to compile list of the many different Smalltalk implementations:

https://github.com/jeceljr/SmalltalkSurvey
Well there you have it, these crooks probably accepted a few million$ by the feds to kill the app.
Just to add another suggestion to the multiple windows approach: the Titler extension allows you to name each window so that the title shows up before the current tab name of that window. Unfortunately, Sidebery doesn't pick it up, which makes moving tabs between windows a bit of a pain...
In their defense, maybe those people didn't know if it's a project by a very clever student or by the one who mixes up units ;)
If this guy is you:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/386:_Duty_Calls

that can explain burnout, as the internet is an endless source of errors.
From the Reddit thread linked above (lots of context there, worth reading), the author answers:

> what's the main benefit?

Drastically reduced memory usage by improving Copy-on-Write performance. For mid-sized apps it can even use less memory than puma depending on how you set it up. See this synthetic benchmark.

> Why did you decide to build reforking into a fork of Unicorn instead of contributing it to Puma?

Mostly for simplicity. You can build this in Puma, but there are a few extra challenges.
For instance you don't want to refork when another thread is currently processing a request, you'd risk leaving some global resource in a corrupted state. So you'd first need to stop accepting traffic and wait for all requests to complete.
The problem is, Puma doesn't have a request timeout, so if the request never complete, what do you do?
Lots of small challenges like that. But I think it would be awesome if Puma was to take back that idea. Puma's fork_worker feature was a big part of the inspiration after all, and I'd even be happy to help Nate or someone else do it.
I don't care. Despite any warts of the organization, site, and/or its editors I think Wikipedia is the closest thing to an ideal that the internet has on offer. I will continue to donate to them monthly until I am somehow persuaded that doing so is actively harmful.
Can this be done in OpenCL?
If I set a conversation length limit though it prevents my ability to search back through my history, which is the feature I'd like to preserve. I value that history, it's useful to me.

My ideal solution would be to export any message older than a month to an archive on my NAS, ideally in a format that the app could search on request. Keep my history, keep the on-device space nice and small.

I take advantage of the Android backup feature, and the backup syncs over to my NAS via SyncThing automatically, but that's only useful for restoring a brand new phone up to the latest state.
Honestly, piracy for video games became less relevant because most of the game revenue comes from locked down platforms - mobile and consoles. Also, much of the revenue of from games these days come from in app purchases.

As far as iPod sales, I won’t editorialize

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quart...
So when the server has the key, how can you say it's encrypted?

I mean in context of signal we don't just talk about some form of transport encryption but e2e
Hackers use 32M votes from hack to vote on own proposal to not pursue charges
The term "12 AWG" only specifies conductor thickness. Voltage is limited by insulation and current is limited by conductor thickness. Assuming sufficient insulation, it's safe to run arbitrarily high voltages through any conductor, since it doesn't even "see" the voltage.
If I can get access to your device to exfiltrate the private key that generates the domain specific keys, why wouldn't I also have access to the the randomly generated site keys? Your device needs access to the keys to use them.

In both cases your device has a private key that it needs to secure. In my scenario we remove the third party cloud service.
Human Brain Cells Grow in Rats, and Feel What the Rats Feel
I just walked slowly. They didn’t even sting me. But bees crawling in your ears is something you never forget.
Nah. I’m good. Life is good. Work is good. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But if you need therapy, get it. No problem there, everyone could probably stand a tune up.
I'm sad. I actually donate to signal every month, but now that will likely stop and I'll have look for alternatives.

Rip. This is definitely going to make it harder to get signal adoption. My partner will surely stop using it too now and I'll have to convince my friends to migrate to yet another platform.
Not the wrong place; stigma is a huge part of why fulfilling these subscriptions is so awful.
Same mate! I cope with legal herbel essences and the gym. Ironically both do a great job of keeping me sane. I tried not smoking herb and working out but that just brought out my perfectionist tendencies. Smoking before bed helps me roll with the punches .
Improving on Emacs macOS Sharing
Yea but that doesn’t solve the problem that the world IS crumbling around us. Putin is backed into a corner, how does that not end in WW3 if we continue on this path?
Dumb question. Does Brian Eno how to code? Does Kanye?

Do any pop artists know how to code, or do they outsource ideas to people who do?
I can loose interest in HN in about 15 cumulative min / day.

And I often got some valuable tools/libs out of it.

Reddit is infinite, as well as much other social media