skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even after Zodiac Age (which I liked fine, btw), the majority people still feel that way about XII's combat. In 2006, XII was a very hyped game (the last single player mainline FF was in 2001). In 2017, the people that hated XII didn't buy Zodiac Age, but the people willing to give it a chance or liked it did, so the discourse leaned positive.

I personally find it less engaging and very MMO-like - I'm not an MMO guy so I would not want to see the gambit system come back. I respect it however and am glad they tried something new. Its influences can be seen in later games.
Not a maker channel, but Technology Connections fills a similar niche in our household. Simultaneously in-depth enough for me and accessible and interesting for my wife.
I believe it's probably worse for you in Europe simply because of the energy costs eating up more of your income. Energy costs are going up here as well, but it seems to be more dependent on where you live and less dramatic for now.
I run revenue planning for a large-ish public SaaS company. We knew all of these factors were a risk this year but they were immediately shot down when brought up or part of models. "Focus on what we can control" "Usage and growth is so high there are no signs of slowdown". Whenever we used data to show that macro factors might be artificially driving up usage and demand it was dismissed. Politics plays a large role here as senior leaders want to take credit for all the growth. What's funny is now when it's all trending down of course macro is the factor and rarely anyone's fault.
Your comment is funny, on so many levels. Did you intend on being that brilliant.

Nice. ;)
So your point is "we visibly saw the cost before, but no longer see the cost now with tech. Therefore we can conclude that the invisible cost now outweighs the visible cost...because ummmm it's not longer visible?"

Explain that one to me.
Much of the severance is legally mandated pay in lieu of notice for a mass layoff, the rest is (usually, and presumably in this case) an inducement for a release of any potential claims and to sign non-disparagement agreements.

Of course, its presented as largesse to the recipients, but its very much not.
If you don't know, insulin signals a process for sequestering sugars through glycogenesis.

Stevia and Glucose groups both increased plasma insulin. Contrasted with Saccharine and Sucralose which, the authors suggest, blunted insulin release and thus increased blood sugar. They cite a paper indicating that combined NNS and caloric sweeteners increase the insulin response compared with a NNS itself.

So... both..? It's a disproportion. NNS should have negligible impact on blood sugar to be called "inert", either when paired or when not, regardless of whether glucose is present or not. Addition is changing the whole formula. They're saying it's fucking up the signal interpretation. At least that's what I've put together.
We should not ignore that for countries like Japan and Germany, they have an enormous advantage in not having to spend realistically on a defense budget relative to their risk-prone geography, living as they do under an umbrella.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?end=2...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/19...
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I was a freshmen in 2004 it was already widely believed CS career was reliable source of middle class income. Nothing we see here is new
Postgraphile is built out of wet noodles (JavaScript) and Hasura is Haskell. That's enough for me. JavaScript doesn't belong on the backend.
You can run the same experiment with water fasting. We overeat.
No one is forcing you to use their deb
As someone who's written multilingual books with custom typesetting needs in it, the learning curve can definitely be steep, but as someone who's also written regular old papers in it, the learning curve is "use our template", and that's kind of it. The only real learning curve is how to write maths, as long as you don't fall in the trap of trying to make LaTeX do graphics. For the love of all that is sane, use the tools best suited for that job instead. For everything else tex.stackexchange.com already has at least three posts covering any "how do I..." you might ever have.

And as someone who's even written packages: ...you're going to end up needing low level TeX, and TeX is insane, don't try to write packages. It's a world of hurt. (But then most people will never need to write their own packages)

Can you talk more about what you mean with the lack of composibility? Or of course link to some page(s) that makes that point?
We got rejected after [YC W23] interview
We applied to YC W23 this cycle and managed to get to the interview stage. We were rejected. The insight from the YC partners were generous, insightful and absolutely fair. They were nice to us, entertaining our thesis when none of our friends and family did. That's all we can ask for.

From the partners' POV, it's a lack of social proof and traction. This is true. In our post-mortem we think the root cause is not being authentic and honest to ourselves, our instincts and our domain expertise. We applied with a product for a concrete "burning painpoint". We had atleast one set of users: ourselves. In the interview, we pitched our pivot to a better, grander, idea that we ourselves didn't need. As pragmatic programmers, we should know better: good in theory is not necessarily good in practice and vice versa. For example, sometimes copy-and-pasting a block of code is the cleanest solution.

We got carried away with the ceremony of doing a startup for startup sake and not actually building the business. We should have spent our cycles on sales and marketing, engaging customers and product designing to actual needs. Instead, we hypnotized ourselves with strawman product design for a pitch deck and a hypothetical user. It was a helpful exercise but there was no actual value creation going on here. We still think there is something there, but it will be far too capital intensive to realize this vision right now.

We are un-pivoting and doubling down on our original product. We think we've built a product that along some dimensions is 10x better than what's out there, but we need to sell. We'll still probably get turned down by YC but at least we'd have an actual business platform. We also made the decision to open source our solution (alternative UI for GCP and more, with a focus on a search engine) as it might create value for others.
If I wanted quality content, I would just do the Something Awful approach and charge $x per account.

If I wanted lots of eyeballs (whether real or fake) to sell ads, I would just pay lip service to moderation issues, while focusing on only moderating anything that affects my ability to attract advertisers.

But what I want, above all, because I think it would be hilarious to watch, is for Elon to activate Robot9000 on all of Twitter.
I've seen a lot of smartwatches that can match maybe 80-90% of the functionality of the Pebble, but miss something important. I occasionally wish my Pebble Time Steel had a slightly larger screen and a heart rate monitor (like the Time 2 would have) but other than that it's been nearly perfect. If/when something happens to it I'll probably give up on smartwatches and go back to wearing mechanical or solar analog watches again.
Stephen King can easily show he's real: his publisher can mention his handle, he can print his handle in his books, his web page, facebook page, etc.

Similarly for journalists: they can add their twitter link on their author page. Or government officials and .gov sites. They all have trusted sites to use to authenticate.

But it's unclear on Twitter without the user doing work. The blue check / verified value accrues almost entirely to Twitter, and improves the user experience for Twitter readers.
Some of these questions won't be answered in Economics class, but may be in Management Science class (that's what they called in back in my day).

Regarding your #2:

Companies cannot adjust headcount in real-time. Economics is a 'social science' as a result; you cannot create experiments in controlled environments with randomly selected populations like you can with the natural sciences. Experiments of this kind happen do happen, but for small-scale things like behavioural finance among neighborhoods, rather than between billion-dollar companies.

Layoffs are a human decision. As such, the logic behind them, and the timing of them, can't fully be explained by economic theory.

One reason why workers are sacked even when demand remains the same, can simply be because there is a surplus of labour available at that time, and the company is betting that they can fire them and rehire at lower wages.

Another reason is simply 'fitting in' with what everyone else is doing to meet Wall St expectations (or VC expectations). Look at the job cuts today: Stripe 14%, Lyft 13%, Mollie 15%. Why are they all the same? Because they are all in the 'tech' industry and valued by the same set of metrics.
Yes, the U6 I believe counts "underemployeed".

https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate

> U6 adds on those workers who are part-time purely for economic reasons
Did those incentives plummet during 2008, then slowly increase until now, with a brief spike during they pandemic where they briefly plummeted again?

Because otherwise, that explains nothing about the chart.
I don't know. I'm at 16,285 and stuff is happening.
If you optimize your price and invest in auto clippers it shouldn't take too long to really get rolling.

If the available inventory is bouncing off of 0 your price is too low, if it's growing, it's too high, so you (as an AI) are learning about market clearing price right now. Later, you'll learn other things.
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"Supply recession" is a shortage of people willing to produce meaningful stuff for the going price. Majority of Gen Z wanting to become CEOs, youtubers and luxury bloggers is very indicative of that. We kinda plugged the hole by letting China produce cheap trinkets, Saudis pump cheap oil and Russia get cheap gas, but it only kept working as long as that money came back to the West through various laundering schemes.

Except now that Russia and China are showing military ambition, this arrangement is done with, so we truly need more domestic supply. Except now it's a cultural problem: if you give 10 youtubers and 1 baker one extra dollar, the price of bread will go up, but it won't convince a single youtuber to go stand in front of a hot oven all day. We won't fix it by printing more money. We could fix it by destroying easier ways to make money, but it will be painful and will take time.
Yep. I used to drink a lot of diet soda. I stopped that probably 10 years ago or so. I don't use artificial sweeteners in anything. I mostly drink water now. When I drink coffee or tea it's unsweetened. For an occasional treat such as a milkshake I will use sugar, sparingly.

Incidentally, when I drink diet soft drinks now they taste like chemicals. Completely unnatural sweetness. I don't find them enjoyable at all. But when I used to drink them daily, I liked them, really almost craved them.
Like Discord they say that 3rd-party clients are against their Terms and Conditions.
Also there is a mod for Minecraft (or used to, I haven't played in years) called ComputerCraft, which had computers, routers, even robots called Turtles that were all scriptable with Lua.
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I disagree. There is a ton of VC dry powder right now. Many are waiting for 'the bottom' to happen before pulling the trigger on more investments and big rounds. As soon as things level out, you'll see a flood of money in. I think it's unlikely rates will continue to rise for an entire year.
For fuck sake man, and hour and 20 minute long video really?
Well keep in mind that stuff like sucralose may be more expensive to make but it's also selected because it's way more potent, so there's a lot of filler (usually cyclodextrin?) To fill out a packet and make a cooking/flavoring equivalent.

Though I'm not 100% sure maybe sucralose is made by enzymatically installing those halogens? I could be very wrong.
Or maybe the masses inside those individuals have different needs? Different bacteria levels responding differently to various diets. I think that's what some of the microbiome companies were working on, but I don't think it was ever successful.
I've seen probiotic yogurts advertising the claim. (Scientifically proven). So there must be some truth. I haven't delved in further though.
Trusting Signal to provide the source and host the servers.
>The subprime mortgage crisis started in April 2007. But the job market didn't really get fucked until 2008.

The job market didn't just magically "get fucked". Companies found themselves with little cash and no access to credit. We had the biggest credit freeze since the Great Depression. The Fed is not making that mistake again, and the corporate world is absolutely loaded with cash right now.
Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process
Not really. When it started the US tried to get other countries to go along, including having military ships near by that didn't actually do anything.
One thing that's easy to forget is that super-complex weighted moderation/voting systems can get computationally expensive at the scale of something like Twitter or Facebook etc..

Slashdot had a tiny population, relatively speaking, so could afford to do all that work.

But when you're processing literally millions of posts a minute, it's a different order of magnitude I think.
If you have icons on 2 monitors and then you disconnect 1, yes icons are everywhere. When you will reconnect the second one, it will restore as it was. I do not know how it is working (or not) on laptops and monitors combinations as I have desktop PC with 2 monitors.
>In the new study, two crows were trained to create embedded sequences by pecking at brackets of colors and shapes on a screen. When the crows pecked a correct sequence, a chime sounded and the birds were rewarded with birdseed pellets or mealworms. If they pecked an incorrect sequence, a buzzer blared and the screen went dark for two seconds before the training resumed.

>After a few days, the crows learned to peck correct sequences using bracket combinations they hadn’t encountered before at rates significantly higher than chance, Dr. Liao said. They pecked correct patterns at around the same rate as U.S. children and outperformed monkeys from the 2020 study, she said.

That was the study

>“Our research suggests that recursion isn’t the sole difference between human and animal cognitive ability.”

I don't think anyone seriously thought this

>Dr. Chomsky said he wasn’t convinced the crow study or earlier work including Dr. Ferrigno’s monkey study demonstrated recursion. He said he believes the ability is innate, not learned.

>Rules people use to understand grammar and math go far beyond a crow’s recall of a few sequential patterns, Dr. Chomsky said. “It’s easy to show that humans have the rule in their heads,” he said. “There’s no evidence that corvids have the rule.”

Not sure if this is what he means but I also believe the crow's recursion here may not be the same as that of a human. It is possible that the crows are doing the recursion in software, so to speak, and this software is compiled into the crows brain differently from the human, which calls the recursion instruction directly, so to speak. Then the crow might not scale to more complex tasks. This said, I'm sure now that they have found this ability of the crow more complex studies will be held to understand the nature and extent of the crow's ability. It has opened a new area of investigation.
But those users would be left alone in their pride in the put-up-or-shut-up model, because everybody else would see the mistakes of that user and abandon them. So the shame doesn't have to be effective for the individual, it just has to convince the majority that the user is in the wrong.
This is a crazy approach. It signals the company is on trouble so the first to go will be your best, who all have lots of options. Anyone half decent will immediately start risk diversification by looking for other opportunities. Meanwhile nothing will get done by anybody and in the end your left with the dregs.

Far better for everyone involved to do it quick rather than perfect. Those getting let go shouldn't see it coming and those staying shouldn't find out before it's all been done.
Why is Signal, a company that prides itself in being tech-centric, allowing lawyers to send DMCA requests without consulting anybody?
I was confused by that too.

are saccharin and sucralose good (benign) sweeteners?

or is stevia a good (benign) sweetener?
one point of contention - potatoes and bread (specifically white) are some of the highest GI foods available. i specifically use these (white bread with peeled boiled potatoes) for their quick conversion to available sugars prior to exercise. some scales actually use white bread as the index point (GI = 100) because of this.
I'm open to the idea that there might be some employees who would find this more humane.

However, I think a lot of people really struggle with uncertainty. During these six months, especially in a large corporate environment, there would be a lot of horse-trading. Employees will seek assurances they won't be fired. They may avoid projects or people they think are likely to get cut.

At the same time, the business likely has an idea of where they want to go. The "in" managers will navigate their preferred people to safe projects. But there isn't room in the boat for all of their employees -- after all, the business has announced the target for layoffs.

This was my experience when I was at Microsoft during their horribly ill-conceived layoffs in 2009. They basically announced that there would be 3 rounds of layoffs tallying up to 5,000 people over the next several months. It was... incredibly demoralizing.

I still remember one fellow on my team who got fired in the 2nd or 3rd round. He took it poorly (understandably!) and then ripped into the people who didn't get fired (also understandable, but still really shitty).

I don't really know that the advance warning helped him. I think he knew he was likely to get fired when layoffs were announced. Being a dead man walking... not very good for anyone, really.
> But some people are harmful. They may not always be harmful, or may be harmful only to some people.

This is a fundamental reality of life that cannot be avoided. There is no magical solution (technical or otherwise) to prevent this. At best, you can put in some basic safeguards (like what you/I have stated above) but ultimately people need to learn to accept that you can't make everything 100% safe.

Also, things like muting/blocking work but the ugly truth is that people love the negative excitement of fighting online (it's an outlet for life's pressure/disappointments). Accepting that reality would do a lot of people a lot of good. A staggering amount of the negativity one encounters on social media is self-inflicted by either provoking or engaging with being provoked.
What is "corporate workforce"? I assume it does not include hourly (warehouse) staff. But AWS? With 75% of corporate profits and high growth I wouldn't imagine they'd want to skimp there.
No one is punching Twitter workers in the face, not even remotely close.
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He is currently the 7th most subscribed to YouTube channel, and the second most subscribed to if you're caring more about individual, personality driven channels than broader ones.

That you've never run into him on YouTube speaks to how the recommendation system works; given what you've watched, there's not a lot of reason to recommend him to you, so even though he's extremely popular, he's not clogging up your feed.
I found another paper [1] that implies that "impaired glycemic response" is measured by an "oral glucose tolerance test" and that high levels of blood glucose in the two hours after drinking a glucose solution are what they mean by an impaired response. The graphical abstract [2] from the paper discussed in the Science article has "glycemic response" graphs, which I assume are from this oral glucose tolerance test, although I wasn't able to access the paper's PDF.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Impaired-glycemic-respon...

[2] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00919-9?_re...
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To be sure the 2001 crash was also mixed in with 9/11 and its aftereffects. But, in general, I agree. 2001 was catastrophic for a lot of people in the broad tech domain--as in not even a sniff of work and, for many, just got a job any job doing something else. I was really lucky to get a related job at the small company someone who I had been a client of in a prior role ran. Things still got difficult over the following year but I had not so much as a nibble otherwise.

Offers were withdrawn, tons of companies went under, even the big firms like Cisco had massive layoffs.