skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the UK has generally had a pretty good ratio of protection from firing and having reasonably sensible interview times. Although some companies do seem to have picked up longer interview practices more recently, this actually seems to be an import from the US in trying to emulate Google, etc.
It's a de-coupling device also. Like the same set of legs might go on 5 different pieces of furnature. You might have to stock legs in 5 locations. But having all the racks at the end means only 1 location to stock legs. Multiplied by every product in there it's a lot less logistics. Plus re-stocking is very easy.
Ikea sells budget furniture as you describe, but they also sell furniture made from real wood. It costs more, of course.
I worked for a couple corps in my life and the security theatre in here is ridiculous. At the same time things like this happen all the freaking time. And none of the company spyware can catch that. Funny how this never happened in small companies I worked for, although maybe that's just a function of number of people? Or maybe because small companies rely on fewer platforms and frameworks so fewer chances of such leaks?
Your perception is skewed because Romania is a hotspot for companies to outsource to. There's a lot of companies hiring in Romania and the employers are not as picky.
Compare to community policing, in which crimes are created and solved by modifying the environment. It is a very good thing.
Well, I'm swiss and evoting at least twice a year...
https://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/fdfa/living-abroad/schweizer...
I completely agree with the sentiment. If you're an entrepreneur I think you've got a responsibility to your employees who are counting on their paycheck to not screw up. I think where it goes wrong is with entrepreneurs who:

a) Come from a financially privileged background and have never experienced living paycheck to paycheck or losing a job they needed due to a "necessary corporate restructure" or staff cuts.

b) Come from a 'blitz-growth' ideological stance (and VCs) that see new venture as a winner-take-all 'grow big or blowup' world.

These entrepreneurs (and the people backing them) talk about the virtues of teamwork and ethics but it's all secondary to their greed.

If I was an employee I would stay away from such people, the problem is employees have no idea who they're working for until it becomes too late.

The way I see it, employees are paid first and entrepreneurs (and by extension investors) deserve profits because they're paid last.

However, if capitalism is abusive people aren't going to tolerate it and entrepreneurs will find themselves in an ever difficult political environment where taxes will erode the risk premium successful entrepreneurs enjoy.
No need to wait, you can pick Idris today, but it won't be a productive experience versus mainstream development tooling.
Yes, that's called a privilege.
> When you make firing more difficult, you mechanically make hiring more difficult

or, depending on the law, you make mechanically easier to form new companies or create more contracting jobs etc

What you're missing is that in most European countries where firing is hard, it's only for medium to large companies
Because you might suck as an investor, because the fees in the specific funds you can choose from are quite high, because "employer match" funds usually are NOT actually your money until 3-5 years of vesting, because you will likely be too optimistic about the number of years of life you have left and actually draw down less per month than a pension would offer so that you don't run out of funds, because a lot of pensions also include health benefits and spousal support, because a lot of pensions are pretty clear about the retirement benefits at the start of the job, some others as well. Not saying a pension is always best but there are numerous legit reasons why a pension MAY be superior to a 401k.
I must be missing some context, then. It's unclear to me how pseudocode would be used in e-voting?
It's so easy to call this society "shitty" and "sick". It's much harder to articulate what it should be - and how it should be.

Oh I know you can give a wishlist of things you want society to be; I bet you can't even begin to describe how you achieve it. No one ever does. The only method ever given is "revolution and then New Soviet Man". Every method is a restatement of those six words in longer format.
I am surprised Google is their customer. Why would google be a customer when it has all information about all the websites on internet?
Yes, he explained that the passage there is only open during emergencies or something like that.
Firing without cause is "almost impossible" in Europe. Firing for cause or genuine redundancies are rarely a problem most places in Europe.

You have consultation requirements many places, to ensure that it's actually a genuine redundancy, but a company willing to offer a reasonably fair payout and who can demonstrate a genuine need to cut costs or a genuine lack of work for certain staff will generally not have much of a problem carrying out a redundancy most places in Europe.
> When you make firing more difficult, you mechanically make hiring more difficult. There is no free lunch.

That operates under the idea that employees only change when fired. And that's patently not true.
Be more specific please.

In most countries of Europe we have a lot of laws to "protect" employees and current companies, making it harder in the first place to even create companies and hire people. But that's also true for others places in the world

Yes generalizations are never true. Even talking about one country is a generalization and you will fail at making a statement about it. The best way to not make a mistake is to not say anything

Europe is a 750 million people continent

There is no good reason to separate Europe from Asia, it's all one big continent. Your theory is also flawed :(
I think they're joking that if you follow the idea through to the extreme, you end up back at familiar old desktop programs (/'apps' now).
In my experience, smaller companies tend to hire the best they can attract and afford. Larger companies tend to collect talent so no one else can get it, so it usually isn't "the best."
Right but it’s still absolutely miles away from making hiring an irreversible decision.
It's quite hard to comment on this broadly around the world.

Ultimately, there is an expectation that the employee make themselves a financial safety net considering their job security.

6months expenses is a rough guide.

Yes that's a lot of money, yes it'll be hard to accumulate, yes you will have to top up with inflation.

I find it shocking that people I know have worked in well paying jobs for 5+ years and have less than a couple months of expenses and no investments. Often a minimal pension.
It reports so many technology used for "x.com". If you look at the source of "x.com" its just one single letter.

How does it deduce the technologies used or is it bug?

https://builtwith.com/detailed/x.com
> For at least some time. E.g. a few month of salary seems reasonable because a person has planned his future with you, now he needs to find a new job which will take some time.

I realize I speak from a privileged position as a software developer. But never since the first day that I stepped into an office as a professional software developer in June of 1996 did I “plan a future” with a company.

My plan was always to use where I worked as a stepping stone for my next job. I spent my first two years saving money and building my resume. I have spent most of my career “with my running shoes on”. Meaning I’m always prepared for a layoff or to leave when the pay/bullshit ratio is going in the wrong direction.

My employer owes me nothing besides to pay me for the hours I worked. When that arrangement isn’t working for either of us, we both have agency and the ability to terminate that arrangement.

> Unless it is another economical crisis and nobody is hiring?

I lived through both the 2000 crash and 2008-2011. The 2000 crash wasn’t bad if you had both skills and was working in many major cities in the US as just a regular old enterprise developer working for profitable non tech companies.

2008 was worse. But as a developer, you could find a contract somewhere if you had a network.
Would you please just follow the site rules? You obviously broke them, and this petty objection-making is not helpful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> As far as I'm aware, witing to a file doesn't require any memory allocation on any of the major OSs, so you can most definitely save the user's work when running out of memory.

Course it does. You can’t run any code in a typical app environment without allocating heap objects as you go, and even if you didn’t, anything that accesses a swapped out page is “allocating physical memory”.

And once it gets into the kernel, file systems have to allocate their own objects to track new writes. Though if the kernel is failing to allocate memory you have worse problems.
Hey Paul & Taylor, congrats on the launch!

Can this be used, for example, to create a collaborative whiteboard app? I am trying to understand the use cases. Does it depend on Docker and Guacamole? Guacamole was mentioned in passing in your video but I haven’t heard of it before.
If you're an EU citizen and this company is regularly addressing EU citizens (ie. it's not a special case for them) then yes, it's against the GDPR and can be raised to the authorities as a breach of your rights.
Very cool project! Definitely going to check it out.

If you don't mind a bit of a shameless plug, I've also recently built a terminal client for HN [1], although with a slightly different objective - to make it look less like a website, and more like a traditional mail/news reader (i.e. mutt/slrn)

It's not going to have any advanced features because I mostly wrote it for my own use, but maybe someone finds it useful.

[1] https://luke8086.neocities.org/retronews.html
They don't hold up fine. I bought some Hemnes when I moved a few years ago. One frame broke when I loaded it up with hardbacks. The sides are incredibly thin - purely decorative with no structural support. The shelf pins are just about strong enough to hold a collection as long as you don't keep pulling books off the shelf to read them.

They're not a cheap option, considering. I was looking at them a few weeks ago thinking I should either have spent more on something more robust or looked at options elsewhere.

As for IKEA's store plan, I've long suspected the really cheap products are loss leaders to get people into the stores. The majority of products - like Hemnes - are far more expensive but still budget-or-just-over quality.

And there are always a few items, like premium persian rugs, which are far more expensive than equivalents elsewhere. I expect IKEA makes most of its money from higher margins on the just-over products.
Not malice, rather sacrificing employee wellbeing in the name of profit and growth. There is a reason we needed unions to fight for us to have weekends off, a minimum wage, paid holidays, maternity and paternity rights, sickness provision, and more.
This actually comes out of the box for the system screenshot tool in macOS (Cmd + Shift + 4 and then Space to select window). The screenshot of the window will then have this shadowing around it.
Ted Kaczynski like the Unabomber?
I'm sure the visually impaired users appreciate that a lot.

"Show, don't tell" is good advice for creative writing, which this website isn't. As a potential customer, it shouldn't be my job to cut through the marketing fluff to figure out if a product is something that is relevant to me.

This buzzword-driven style of writing, which has infected many a software project in recent years, is a pure triumph of form over function. Maybe it is necessary to appeal to the CTO types of the industry, but as a simple developer I do find it confusing and frankly repulsive.
Seems OK. Cheaper service for those on a tight budget who can pay a bit with their eyeballs.
Normal service remains available.
> Switzerland doesn't have evoting.

Looks like they had it in varying number of areas from 2003 to 2019. Then all systems were withdrawn due to security concerns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Switzerla...

https://www.ch.ch/en/votes-and-elections/e-voting/#revision-...
Let me repeat if I understand it right:

* The function will return True for all primes.

* The function will return False if the number is detected as a composite by some tests.

* The function can return True or False for all other numbers.

* For numbers<=23 they implemented a shortcut using a lookup table which is implemented as bits in a number.

* The bit for number 19 is wrong. It returns false for a prime number which violates "return True for all prime numbers".

This is indeed quite shoddy programming for such an essential and easily testable piece of software.
Some comments are out of touch with reality. I genuinely don't understand how you are not explicitly addressing the massive corporates and multinational companies that actually *do* have protection and an entrenched position. Some of these layoffs are happening in companies that are posting record earnings and profits. Let's not be naive about it.

Certain comments seem to argue for labor liberalism while at the same time retaining preferential treatment for these larger companies. You cannot have it both ways. Either create a truly capitalistic society that allows defaults, free movement of people and capital, create an even playing field for workers or by default lose some of the human capital flexibility that is necessitated by the current corrupt and broken system.
Oh yeah this is to prevent employers from keeping employees employed on a fixed term contract or through an agency indefinitely thus denying them some benefits and protection.
I'm sure Steve Jobs' father, a Coast Guard mechanic, had a lot of money and connections :)
Dalle doesn't produce any better images of people than "This Person Does Not Exist". All that's happened is it has a large corpus.

A larger corpus allows it to be more varied but it doesn't fix the fundamental limitations.
I see lots of users here hammering on about IQ - but that's just one factor.

The kid grew up with two mathematicians, so I'm sure they knew how to get him in the right direction. Kids also tend to value whatever their parents are doing.

And not to mention that most kids have all the time in the world to do what they enjoy - and rarely have other concerns.

I'm a musician, and grew up playing my instrument from 4 to 8 hours a day, every day, almost all year round. It was pretty much the only thing I did between age 10 to 18. I had very supportive family and mentors, and got lots of chances others at my age did not.

Naturally, I met a lot of other talented kid. Some child prodigies.

One thing I have noticed afterwards: Being at such a high level as a kid - does not necessarily mean you'll go on to do great things later in life. Some kids just grow out of it, lose interest and motivation, and - well - life often just happens. Even among the most talented, only a small % of them end up doing remarkable stuff later on.
Australian Federal Police hacked, classified documents on drug cartels stolen
In theory, this is true. However, IME as a techie in the UK, those situations happen when there is a significant mismatch between the interview vs reality - from either side. Hiring based on referrals is one way to mitigate some of the unknowns.
IKEA Walkthrough v2.3.1 (2004)
>Or as the social critic Dr. Ted Kaczynski said,

yknow , I agree with your broad points -- I even agree with the sarcastic tone you used to convey the line, but the families of those murdered or injured by Ted Kaczynski would probably prefer the title murderer/arsonist/terrorist.. even inmate.

Most folks would probably prefer that the most infamous title be used when speaking about those that society has deemed to be of ill repute.

'Spiritualist Genghis Khan' sounds weird. So does 'music aficionado and critic Charles Manson'.

It's a grim take, but the condemnation offered by the legal process is one of the things that helps the victims of a crime cope. In other words, the social branding of 'murderer' or 'convict' onto the person charged with the crime is also part of the justice offered to the victims via the legal system -- to ignore that the social title and distinction of the person has been affected by their transition to 'convict' status is to ignore a facet of what the prosecution was attempting to achieve for the sake of the victims.
> In Europe where firing is almost impossible, hiring is a very tedious process.

France has good job security rules, from what I've heard. The UK, not so much.

Once you've completed two years, you are entitled to a consultation process if the company wants to make redundancies. Those positions cannot be filled for six months after a redundancy. HR departments can reword and change descriptions though so if they really wanted to fill the position, they could, but from what I've seen they mostly change it after six months anyway.

If you're unlucky and have just started a position, you can be dropped easily, no consultation, but the rules of redundancy above remain.

However, having spent some time on the other end, doing interviews, hiring is a lot more expensive than firing. One month of consultation vs delays to projects, training of new starters, retention of employees and talent are far more valuable than an easy firing process. Never doubt the value of your experience to a company, any employer who does ignore that value isn't worth working for as they're delusional and likely to fail soon.

Yes, hiring is a very tedious.
No More Ransom Project
About The Project: https://www.nomoreransom.org/en/about-the-project.html
Is it easy to get fired from a big SV company ? Anyway, I am not talking about one specific company, I am talking about society as a whole. Read the OP's fear about being fired
When my wife and I were in our 20s we bought an IKEA countertop and quite liked it. It lasted the few years we lived in that house and is better than the countertop we have in our much more expensive house that we haven’t yet remodeled. It wasn’t magic countertop but it was perfectly serviceable and relatively easy to install.
To be fair, it looks like a long term decline, with a larger drop between 2018 and 2019. Could be that milk is less and less preferred by consumers. The milk might still be used for cream, cheese, yoghurt, ice cream, protein powder, and so on.

According to this, the number of milk cows stays constant:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194934/number-of-milk-co...
Ooh right, I remember seeing that by chance before. Thanks for the clarification.
There's already probation - 3 months in the UK. It doesn't make us less careful though because we don't want to waste our time.
Weirdly, i have no issues with owning rifles, but the idea of anyone having a semiautomatic handgun worries me. Might be because i was a rural kid (and not from the US). I'd assume anyone carrying semiautomatics is a gang or Klan member or whatever.
I actually wasn't aware of this, you've made my day. Thank you!
We were also a part of it in Portugal, that is how I got to play with Amigas, without having one at home.
Oracle of 2010s/2020s.
> You get what you pay for I think. $40 bookshelves? Not making it through a move

I'm sitting next to a Billy that's nearly 2 decades and 4 moves old.
I agree, as long as there is no guarantees for your human rights, we'll continue to live in scary world, where being fired might literally mean death or suicide or becoming criminal. I know that in my country many men took their life, after they lost job, because unless you can quickly find something else, your life can quickly fall apart and most people don't earn enough to have savings and state won't offer you much help.

I know that now we talk more often about how this global system is broken, but can we actually do anything about it, if wealthy just amass their wealth and don't want to share? I don't want revolution, but it seems like we need some revolution, so humanity can survive as something more than masses of wage slaves.

It's just sad, when I again hear in my company about equality, sustainability, but CEO is making 150-300x my salary and is in top 0.1% by income and I hear that I don't even deserve raise that would match inflation in my country.
Yes, true (in the european sense) liberalism at all levels is better than only labor liberalism + legal protections of current companies. But it is still better than "protected" employment + legal protections of current companies
Linear is nice looking app and I the workflow is well thought out.

Unfortunately I stopped using due to the lack of robust offline features (this might have improved meanwhile).
I would love to bring this to more package managers, including MacPorts!
> Oracle's DB is quite stable and reliable

Can't speak for the OP but I think that's what he/she meant. Tooling might not be the best due to their proprietary nature, but the software itself kicks ass.
Interviewing practices have very little connection to logic in the first place, and to the extent they do there's probably more connection to the general employer/employee power balance than any such specific consideration. American companies make candidates jump through hoops because they can; European ones don't because they can't.
Either an internal joke, or a token research program to satisfy the Chinese government ! https://zox-news.com/less-tiktok-more-quantum-in-china-a-tec...
It's hard to debate without citations. Here are two things:

> Saying hard work and sacrifice is the key ingredient to getting rich

I didn't say it's the key to getting rich. I said they worked extremely hard (no holidays / long hours of hard jobs / making sure their kids prioritised school and working hard) to ensure their descendents could afford something. Not get rich. Afford something.

> is massive survivorship bias

I'm not saying that these things guarantee a home. They're just the most likely path to getting one.
Don’t rage quit but start looking for your dream job. Take yer time
Thank you, I didn't know about the jsr instruction. I always imagined forth does this somehow with jmps.

Another main difference from true compiled code is that your entire program consists of subroutine calls. There are no inline instructions and a main function.

I've got a lot of reading to do on this. "Indirect jsr", I'll experiment with this.

Okay I'm convinced, forth is not interpreted when it's compiled to threaded code :). There is no main loop that reads instructions and dispatches them dynamically, the program flow is linear with subroutine calls stacked under each other.
Exactly. They don't need help, they should help themselves like true responsible adults

While Companies are not, they are just social tools

Agreed
It's surprising to me that IKEA only has 464 stores (https://www.statista.com/statistics/241821/number-of-stores-...).

For a company that have a revenue of 42 billion, I was expecting that there would be more stores. I guess the world isn't that big.
As we know too little about how this will affect climate dynamics, be sure that suspicion, loaded infodemics and extreme events will trigger more than one climate-based conflict.
What was being discussed was that C without the CRT is a dialect of ISO C.
But majority of terminals were bought by third parties. State Department (USAID) paid for ~2K, Poland bought >11K units.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex...

> The largest single contributor of terminals, according to the newly obtained documents, is Poland with payment for almost 9,000 individual terminals.

https://twitter.com/j_jakobowski/status/1579889819010097154

>~11.7k out of 18k Starlink sets in were bought by Poland.

>6,7k by Polish government and 5k by Polish oil company Orlen
Your description remineded me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33201033