skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone that was around for the "Turn of the Century Crash" may find this familiar.

With all the massive scaleups, companies were becoming bloated as hell. They also became fairly sloppy with their money.

Time to pay the piper.

But unlike some bubbles, there's a real industry, here (like in the 'oughts). It's a return to a [still pretty decent] baseline, as opposed to an implosion to nothing.

In the early Web days, the money started to become silly, and people were thronging to the industry, despite having no qualifications, and no passion for the tech. They just wanted money.

Basically, they were expensive, and they sucked (sound familiar?). Most were Web developers, or around the process of creating and maintaining Web presence.

Also, some people were very, very good, and some marvelous tools came of it.

This is like the Late Devonian extinction. The table needed to be cleared off, to give rise to the new.

The company that I worked for, had survived being fire-bombed during the war, a major depression, and multiple recessions. They were absolute tightwads.

At one point, they started making a whole lot of money, and got silly.

Piper, meet company.

They have basically contracted back to what they were. Everyone is writing them off, but I'll bet they come out of the scrum, OK.

Same with the tech industry.
Take this with a grain of aspartame, but I was also very gung ho on artificial sweetners and swept all the fear mongering in with gluten and msg. Aka bullshit. For years, I was drinking tons of diet soda. Maybe 2L per day of diet root beer.

For whatever reason, 4 years ago, I became super sensitive to aspartame. It would make me hyperalert like a more subtle version of caffeine. I had insmonia for random days. It took me forever to isolate it to aspartame, since I've never had a problem, nor suspected there could even be a problem. I don't have pku but it is what it is. Sucralose, stevia, regular sugar still fine. Bodies are weird. I still believe in science but the older I get, the more I give credence that in some people things just work differently. I don't just jump to the conclusion that they're making something up just because official scienctific papers say it's 99.999% safe.
The friendship paradox in real and model networks (2020)
I use UptimeRobot. Never needed support from them. They seem to enhance/maintain the service.
Sorry, I was misreading "wait until medical intervention becomes necessary" as "Do not perform scheduled c-sections, only perform unplanned and emergency c-sections".

Anyway, I really don't think the issue with the majority of scheduled c-sections is surgery being forced on patients. It's patients and their doctors discussing the risks of an attempted natural birth vs a scheduled c-section and opting for a scheduled c-section. In some many cases the patients involved have no increased risk for a natural birth but may still opt for a c-section. And yes, on the flip side, no one should be forced into an attempted natural birth.
Yeah i meant 4TB SSDs, who uses magnetic HDDs anymore lol
When I make comments about other people, they need to grow thicker skin.

When other people attack me personally, it's a deep and dangerous violation of social norms.
Thank you for the thorough explanation!
For the best part of 20 years I felt chocolate as a gift was a poor choice. But a month or so ago someone gave me some figs with the inside replaced with chocolate and it was such a novel gift (for me) that I'd say it is the best gift I got in years. Novelty is king for me.

Similar story with wine. Someone went to the effort of buying me a bottle that you can't get in USA from my home country and it was really special.
Which sort of describes stagnation. Clinton takes it one way, Bush another. It’s net zero with America from what it looks like.
Yeah, checking on IA the snapcraft page, before Sep there was no notice (one was added early Sep) this was an unofficial package and the link just below the package name was/is link to Signal homepage with tooltip saying developer. Think the issue was the lack of such notice before. Because on Flathub the equivalent package exists fine: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.signal.Signal
The article explicitly compares overweight, grade 1 obesity, grade 2 & 3 obesity together, obesity generally, relative to normal weight.

> Random-effects summary all-cause mortality HRs for overweight (BMI of 25–<30), obesity (BMI of ≥30), grade 1 obesity (BMI of 30–<35), and grades 2 and 3 obesity (BMI of ≥35) were calculated relative to normal weight (BMI of 18.5–<25).
Try using Hugo, makes it very easy
Been using uptimerobot freely and it works good.
I am familiar enough with the concepts of OE.

There is a difference between being good and efficient enough to handle number roles, and the borderline scam of "get a remote job and try to stay under the radar and drag it out before they fire you".

I'm honestly not 100% sure which of those you are advocating for.
It just feels like the psychology behind a bank run. 1. Convince people their bank is in trouble. 2. They withdraw all their money. 3. Now the bank really is in trouble.

Or 1. Convince people stocks are going to go down. 2. Mass sell-off. 3. Now stocks really are going down.

I think this is just a self-fulfilling prophecy where business leaders convinced themselves a slowdown is coming, causing them to take actions that will result in a slowdown. A lot of what happens at the CxO level is looking around at your peer companies and imitating what they are doing.
You say :

> At the end of the day, the conclusions are much the same as people would intuit. moderate drinking has little impact, may help some conidiations and exacerbate others and will depend on the individual. for the average person, the effect will be slightly negative.

You are of course free to interpret facts as you wish. However, the study from 195 countries and over 26 years, literally, and I copy word for word from its conclusion, says :

"Our results show that the safest level of drinking is none."

And in the paragraph where that phrase is, anyone interested can find what they say about the supposed and non-existent benefits of moderate drinking.
To sleep in a sea of stars, definitely recommending it. Sci-fi.
> has previously said that he wants higher unemployment

He has not. I am open to being corrected with a credible source. But every time I see this conspiracy theory, it’s based on summaries of Fed statements unsupported by the statements themselves.

> is why the market goes down when low unemployment numbers are released

Because the market is anticipating rate hikes. When inflation is low strong employment boosts the market. We just went through a decade of that.
What value does VR provide? Cool things get funding all the time. Just make sure that you pitch it right.
The philosopher of science Bernard Suits, cogently characterized games as the deliberate selection of inefficient means[0].

For some time I played MtG competitively, an activity that involved me paying money for pieces of cardboard.

Treating a game as though it's productivity software is an incorrect point of view.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/186102
Dataclay's QUE API docs: Scale dynamic video creation with Templater
Dataclay's flagship product is Templater, a plugin for Adobe After Effects that enables data merge of text, images, video, and audio. QUE is a cloud-based API and datastore that allows for integration and use of Templater at scale.
OOP Wonders If He's a Scumbag for Automating His Job
I would argue that the signal-to-noise ratio outcome-based reason is the principle: it's off-topic. You could also argue another principle: you're censoring a bot, not a human.
Yes, though that doesn't put the value of the `Ok` variant into any scope. At the end of the day, if you need maximum flexibility for whatever you're doing then you still need to reach for `match`, even if it's a bit more verbose.
It printed in a preview mode, not as a spot colour job --- if it's not getting printed as a spot colour, don't pick a colour so defined.
> I spent my time in school being called a retard by the other kids on a daily basis

> If we trust the experts on this I'm severely handicapped.

I mean they themselves basically said they do not identify with it:

> If people ran around calling you the N word on a daily basis would it be a comfort to you that you aren't actually black?
> you definitely dislike being told how to talk.

I may be unique in this regard, but I am aware of the fact that sometimes I make mistakes, and I don’t highly value all of my conversation, sometimes I just rant, or enjoy engaging in more superfluous conversation. Sometimes the best conversations aren’t “highly valuable”!
Thanks for sharing. Tinderbox seems to be implementing many ideas I had about GUIs. Looks very interesting. Will try to test it when visiting friends. I don't have access to Mac and am totally oblivious to the whole Mac software space.
Last paragraph:

> They make sure to note that they’re not calling for consumption of sugar instead, because excess sugar is absolutely, positively linked to adverse health effects.

I think they care about the substitutes because that's an area where the harm is often debated and much is still unknown. They don't seem to be suggesting that sugar is preferable in any way.
I completely disagree with whatever Carnegie says. He takes the human element out of the business and puts profit above all. He sold life insurances on airplanes, just by betting on people's fear of death.
CS was already a popular bet among incoming college students, but the memory of the manic 2020-21 period have fuelled a vast flight of talent to CS majors, at least in my country. Everyone is convinced that the only way to make any real money fast is to learn how to code. The expectations are absurd - most expect to make doctor-tier salaries right after graduation (source: wife teaches at university).

By 2024, the steady drip of fresh CS graduates is going to turn into a flood.

An entire generation of teenagers saw the tech boom, the crypto boom, and the SPAC/IPO mani. Its going to color college major choices for years.

In short: downward pressure on programmer wages.
For me the best company gifts are small mundane things printed with company-specific inside jokes. Coffee mugs with quotes from the team, references to past projects or humorous incidents, that kind of thing. I'm not going to bring that stuff outside the office, but it does a lot to make me feel like a m member of the team in an "I was there" way.
The point of punishing the rafinery is for them to figure out next time how could they know if this powder was stolen or not.

The role of companies is to undertake risks in exchange for profit. They have all the incentives and tools to lower the risk they took wherever possible. If company can't be punished for buying stolen goods then there's no risk and society has to take the risk and the costs. Which makes no sense because whole purpose of private companies is offloading risk from the hands of people that don't want it into the hands of people that do.
This is very much like a project I made for myself and have been thinking about commercializing! "create nudges that repeatedly nag you (with something like an escalation policy) until you acknowledge them" but that has absolutely been my plan! It does text me and my idea has been that it would escalate to phoning!

I've been using my own version, completely terminal-based, for more than a year now and it has changed my life. I'm a lot like your wife; other systems haven't worked for me. This does, because I do look at all my SMS messages every day and dismiss them. Todoist's alerts just didn't do the job, and other systems didn't either.

I almost certainly would have had a product out in this area months ago but my attention has been going to crypto-related projects! I have the start of a Django-based UI nudge-like product now. I've been working on it in the background, partly in case none of my crypto stuff works out, and partly just to learn web UI development.

I'm not sure where my project will go now that yours is out, but congratulations on getting it out there, and good luck! (Now I'm thinking I might just open source my terminal version, and drop the django one. Techies could use the terminal version by getting their own twilio accounts...)
I probably signed a non-disparagement agreement to get the little bit I got.
Before verified accounts kids were “conversing” with me online, one went missing
I don't see how what you posted contradicts what I said. I guess it all depends on how you interpret what Powell says, but him saying the labour market is overheated is a signal to the market that unless the labour market stops overheating the Fed pivot is not becoming more likely(which is all that market participants care about as of today with regards to the Fed meeting, i.e when is the pivot coming).
You'd rather stay at a dead-end position until a lack of money forces you to be laid off by a broke company that can't afford cushy terms?

The alternative is being fired early, given several months of pay, months of free healthcare, early grants, help if you're an H1B holder, and help from your old company in getting a new job...

There are bad layoffs and there are ok layoffs, I'd say this is an ok one.
Or they are a self motivated high achiever.
I can’t believe this twitter saga is so one sided on HN. The layoffs have been in the cards for weeks. The individuals working through the weekend are doing it because they want to keep their jobs/ are excited about the future of the company.

You don’t need to feel sorry for these people. They’re making individual choices.
I'm a cynic and the majority of the time when I hear something like "experts to tell us" all I think of is clout chasers pontificating to anyone who'll lend them an ear.
Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet
I'm not sure what you are answering. I am writing about the thing where some programs intentionally write different byte streams to stderr and stdout that will be interleaved a certain way if stdout and stderr turn out the be the same thing, but if the user wishes to distinguish which bytes were written to which stream, they can no longer recover the correct interleaving of the bytes.
SMS is also not end-to-end encrypted. At least in Brazil, the reason why people use whatsapp is because sms is expensive (and they use audio messages also)
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please avoid generic ideological battle especially - it just makes threads predictable, therefore boring and eventually nasty.
1) Is there a substantial difference between the existing concept of modding and what you're saying here? I think so, but I want to check to ensure I understand. Could you provide some "No Man's Sky" pseudocode to indicate what you'd want the script to do?

2) The goal of a game designer is to create fun experiences that you actually want to do. If game designers announce they're including scripting for the purpose of automating repetitive tasks, it would probably feel embarrassing to them because any boring and repetitive parts of their games should feel like kind of a personal failure on them.

3) I'm not a full-time professional game developer, but I'd imagine that trying to implement some kind of highly polished scripting that's user-accessible represents a significant additional effort in many cases for very marginal financial benefits. It's not just building this feature that would be required, but you'd be introducing a potential new security/stability risk that would need to be extensively checked, as well as having a big system that needs to be documented and supported for users.
Whatsapp took Skype's market as a free voice over and video ip but the value of 'communities' is hopelessly questionable. We already have a crowded market for gossip groups (Nextbore, etc etc) and you could argue this directly competes with ye olde facebook. Maybe they are going to do a roll up of WA & FB as part of the brave new Meta era?

More importantly Meta owns astounding amounts of undersea cable, which lends credence to the idea they are the new 'cable and wireless'...
https://fairinternetreport.com/research/facebook-meta-submar...
If these companies push humanity forward? Honestly, I'm a bit on the fence about that. Tesla was disruptive in a sense that it made car manufacturers massively accelerate their EV plans. But do I see any continued impact? Not really.
Thats what i wrote - degree makes your start easier, but with years of exp. it becomes less and less relevant

So the biggest salary gap is at the beginning and later everything is up to the skill

If you want fancy jobs like Jane Street then "just" degree from random school may not be enough
I think a lot of that comes from the fact that O365 are more corporate users. And oftentimes they are restricted from connecting their calendar to 3rd parties due to corporate policy.
We shouldn't assume everyone lives in California. They're giving general advice.
Good to know! But it's not required in every state in the US, let alone around the world, that's why I suggest people should check.
DMCA isn't a mechanism for trademark disputes.
That's not an example, I want a specific example
It’s what most people want and what people have to keep calculating when you give them time stamps. If you are in a decision making position you’d want to do the same research to see what your users want.

I like to make it show the time stamp on hover / tap.
Although I do think an industry downturn is here/coming, I don't think Lyft is part of the trend. Lyft, specifically, is just a bad company. It has never made an annual profit, will never make an annual profit, and is gravely overstaffed for its operations. Liabilities are approaching assets on the balance sheet. They have to cut somewhere. They already shed their useless little autonomous driving division, and I expect them to just abandon or spin off the bike share.
Haskell is a beautiful, elegant language. And the tooling is a trainwreck that keeps me from using it.
Agree and 20 mbps is a reasonable rate for modern codecs for resolutions up to 4k for the 99% of viewers
Not saying it should be happening, but if abusive misuse continues, it is likely to happen. Regulations could force labeling on content with punishments if mislabeled (content that makes sense turns to gibberish later on after you've wasted time on it looking for the main point). Flagging could be done by the community (HN style), etc.
Wonder if that means alternative OS's will eventually reach the Galaxy Book Go.
Its rock bottom price intrigues me but it seems to lack dev support in that regard. Maybe these attempts to support similar specs of machine will trickle down to it.
Exactly. I think switching jobs is a huge pain in the ass. I have a CS degree but I'm not naturally gifted at Leetcoding; however I can manage _with enough practice_. (I work at FAANG.) Also if you found some work you enjoy, with a team you enjoy, finding the same in a new company is not easy.
Yes, the `else` branch in `let else` is required to diverge.
Good to know but my takeaway from the reviews was that it is slow as molasses. Just over 1k in Geekbench multicore is extremely low.
Listen, Software Developers should not give up whatever we got so far. If we pushed for these salaries and quality of life, hold on to it. Don’t sit here and tell the tribe “some of you want too much”.

Few professions earned this quality of life, doctors and lawyers, and I can promise they aren’t sitting around going “maybe we’re spoiled, maybe we oughtta curtail our expectations”.

No, take the life you have and don’t go backward. Most people working aren’t given an ounce from their industries, many of them still fight for basic stuff to this day.

Tech should not be okay with these levels of lay offs and still revere these companies. This is the stuff the car industry did when they just offshored jobs, and collapsed entire cities (Detroit). Why should we be okay with the same playbook?
Replace C with Rust.
What is the risk of "sudden death months later" compared to the risk of hospitalization for Covid? Serious question.
Explain (all of) the findings like I'm five?
A schadenfreude-laden reminder that a business owes you nothing more than a paycheck and a legally safe work environment.
Then complain about that. Honestly given the existing set of miscommunications about what happened, I’m not sure it is an actual DMCA request
They look at _trends_ as opposed to where they are now. And perhaps each transaction currently loses them money, so the more transactions they have, the more money they lose. There are lots of factors that go into this than just one metric
A somewhat flawed solution to a harassment campaign is whitelists.

This is also the approach celebrities in general need to take as they get drowned in messages (elon musk could spend 24/7 reading messages sent to him and read only a tiny fraction), so harassment can probably be solved by whatever solution we come up with for celebs.

Can make some fairly elaborate "allow" rules depending on why you might want to read messages from non-contacts like "this person is a contact of a contact" or "this person has "IT" in their Twitter bio or "this person is on the 'good person' white list that Mr. Whitelist maintains for the community".
> The same platform that banned a sitting President.

For repeatedly violating the terms of service, including inciting violence.

Edit:

> I would never hire an ex-Twitter employee. I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking they're too toxic.

So... because you think twitter discriminates on the basis of political viewpoints expressed by individuals, you would discriminate on the basis of mere association with twitter which isn't necessarily held by the individual? That is bracingly hypocritical.

Let's say I don't like political positions taken by Elon. Following your reasoning, I'd want to refuse to hire a twitter (or SpaceX) employee because they worked for him. Is that totally cool now?
The content of the message is E2EE except when it is not with the loophole you mentioned. The major difference between Whatsapp and Signal is the metadata collection. Meta can record each message sender, receiver, time, size of message, length, device ID in some cases, location and more. This is valuable information for the authorities. Signal encrypts metadata and knows the first time a number connected to the service and last time they connected and have consistently only been able to provide that when given a warrant.
Hey, I wanted to try this out but I am seeing a lot of performance issues. There are forced reflows of >1s on normal interactions. I ran it on my MacBook Air M1.
What recession? We are not in a recession. Unemployment data and the broader economy are still strong. Saying otherwise is dangerous, to be honest
I was too young then, but did that crash have the same "everyone and their mother sees it coming and have been talking about it months before" feeling?

Cause this "crash" is surely like that – it has to be the most "expected and talked about" one in modern times...
Although this post was the first with the story, we've moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450753 so we can ban the account with the trollish username. Please don't do that here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Yeah I don't get how Linux is running on the Thinkpad and openbsd was able to boot but a device trees is the blocker for Linux? Are they just on some distro that doesn't have the new kernel packaged?

Oh, it's because of "APCI" mode working with openbsd apparently...
Ya'll are hyper focusing on the nights and weekends. That was my personal decision, not part of the culture.