skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of times what you'll see done is structured more as a reorg than just a straight layoff, where if they need to trim $xM from the budget, they'll start shrinking and eliminating teams at the IC level until they reach .7-.8 of that figure, then see how many "extra" managers they have and start trimming there, typically just based on seniority rather than pay. Rinse and repeat until you're at .9-1.1x depending on how many people you think will resign after the layoffs.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450980
Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunately, I don't understand anything from this article. Would you be able to rephrase it in a simpler way?
Don't forget the recent "mini budget" also had quite an impact on the current and future state of the UK economy!
> Dr. Smith has spent decades studying the health effects of indoor air pollution due to biomass burning on women and children in developing countries.

Your link is talking about indoor fires. Outdoor fire pits wouldn't concentrate the smoke in the living area. I have no idea what the total effect would be for outdoor fires, but it isnt' the same as the indoor burning biomass stoves
I think you are right, but keep in mind we are currently in the middle of raising interest rates and unemployment has not gone up. So what I am trying to say is, rather than say A (rising interest rates) -> D (recession), acknowledge what happens is A (rising interest rates) -> B (less money supply) -> C (less employment) -> D (recession)

Because if you don't acknowledge the steps, you can't explain what is happening today. Rates are going up and unemployment isn't. The economy is complicated.
The only success I've seen in sorting out random vitriol is cutting chat off entirely and minimizing methods of passive aggressive communication. But Nintendo's online services haven't exactly scaled to the typical MOBA size to see how it actually works out
A great article by Labour peer Lord Glasman

https://www.ft.com/content/7c8f24fa-3aa5-11e4-bd08-00144feab...
I picked up an older Fossil Hybrid HR a few months ago for $100. I've been rocking it every day and it's been great - battery lasts a couple weeks.
I drank non-diet soda semi-regularly before deciding that I had put on too much weight, so I started a very austere diet. The only reason I've been able to stick to the diet as long as I have is the sweetness of Pepsi Zero Sugar Mango. So that soda, in particular, has helped me lose 23 pounds and counting. Without it, I think I would have series trouble staying on a diet so strict.

So yeah, I have a weight issue, and I'm diet soda drinker, but for me, at least, you had the cause and effect reversed.
Do you use an ice cream maker?
Survey puts Windows 11 adoption at just 15% worldwide
It's still a "walled garden" even if its free.
A Report from the 2022 Image-Based Linux Summit
There is Gren, but I didn’t use it.

https://gren-lang.org/
The tricky part is that there are multiple species of bacteria able to digest (ferment) lactose, and the composition of your microbiota is highly variable at the individual level and also over time.

In practice, your reaction to lactose is difficult to predict, regardless of your production of lactase.
The US economy != tech meme stocks.

Small cap tech stocks were literally worth 10-20x their present values. They hired like crazy (chasing more of that funny-money growth). Now they'll need to cut back some since the funny-money valuations are gone.

I wouldn't try to connect the dots and come to the conclusion that doom & gloom lies ahead.
Short-term rates can be effectively by set by the Fed arbitrarily. It's only long-term that the real rates are independent of the Fed.
Yup, it's an interesting research - even if it's poorly summarized. I will look for more info, since we use a lot of sweeteners. I have a sweet tooth and my wife bakes a lot of keto cakes and makes keto desserts with them. Surely some are better than others.
Ask HN: How Does Zelle Work?
I'm curious: Does it use ACH behind the scenes? The RTP network? Some other system? Thanks to anybody who can satisfy my curiosity!
Godspeed to any other college seniors looking for new grad roles! What a nightmare of a time to graduate.
Netflix launches an ad-supported tier
Automation fixes the oven problem, and we've been doing it in the US for a long time in applications where low cost of energy in the US allowed.

But thinking we're going to bring lots of jobs for $5 an hour so they can try to afford $3000 of rent per month is just going to get cities burned down in mass.
Seems like the first thing to ask yourself there why this is happening at Twitter and if that same situation applies to the company in question.
How old are you? An adult running a discord server for mentally ill teenagers seems like a cautionary tale from the 1990s about chatrooms.
adnauseum is dangerous and misguided. You can't "poison" data collection because nobody collecting that data cares if it's accurate or not. They just collect everything that they can. Nobody is going to throw away all of the data they have on you just because some of it might be wrong. You can be certain that all of that data being collected will still be used by others against you regardless of how accurate it is.

It doesn't matter if your browser addon was responsible for clicking on a bunch of fast food ads and not you. Your insurance company can see that and will happily increase your insurance premiums anyway. They won't tell you why they did it though and you'll have no chance to correct them and explain it was your addon.

Maybe you have no interest in expensive ski trips but your addon clicks on ads for them anyway, and the next time you book a room at a hotel or buy an airline ticket they may decide that they can get away with charging you more than they otherwise would have. You'll never be told that you would have gotten a better price if not for the data in your permanent record.

You can also never know what will prejudice someone against you. You might not be Muslim, or gay, or a member of a certain political party, but if your addon gets you flagged as being something you're not it can still cost you job offers, get you denied housing, or even get you targeted and harassed by extremist groups.

Data collection is not simply about what ads you get shown online. The data being collected about you is increasingly being used for much much more. It can determine how much you pay vs your neighbor for the same items at the same stores while shopping online (and even offline!). Companies are already using it decide things like what they'll tell you when you ask what their polices are, what products/services they will offer you, and even how long they'll leave you on hold when you call them!

The information in your dossier is permanent. You aren't allowed to know who has your data or what they are using it for. You cannot edit or correct the data in your file either. It will follow you for the rest of your life and it will be used to impact your life online and offline in countless ways without you ever being made aware of when, how, or why. Stuffing your dossier with a bunch of random data is just handing people more ammo to use against you.
The Lonely Middle of the Hard Tech Spectrum
Restic and B2 "just work". Works how I expect it to, and restores what I expect it to. Not amazingly fast in backups or restorations, but it works reliable for me. I have restic running on everything from workstations and laptops, (~200G each), to servers (500G-2TB) to a mini 'data hoard' (25TB+) level of backups, and its been doing great on each.

I did not like and could not trust duplicati to finish backups or restore from them.
People have been making these doomer claims since 00s to my memory and all that has been proven since then is we don't have enough software engineers.
I know some people are comfortable writing blog posts as markdown files and publishing to e.g. GitHub Pages via Jekyll/Hugo/etc., but that's too much friction for me. What little motivation I have to write dissipates quickly when I think about having to go through this process to publish something. And I can't easily write posts from my phone when I'm on the go.

For a brief period of time, I self-hosted Ghost[1], which was great from a writing perspective, but I was really dismayed with how crappy the average request latencies were for visitors.

[1]: https://ghost.org
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEDG

Happy to keep sending graphs until the point is clear.
I think metafilter still does this ?
Why not put any accountability on Cuba/Venezuela/Russia/Iran for present relations ... because after all it takes 2 to tango. For example, Iran has made being a belligerent towards USA a core part of their internal and external policy for decades - what if .. you know .. they stop? Same for Cuba, Venezuela and Russia.
This is absolutely crazy. OP is like asking for acting advice from internet randos. Suddenly, Al Pacino drops in!

stuffmadehere is famous shit. Middle schoolers watch it in the classroom because the science teacher plays this. He has millions of subscribers & each show ( I refuse to call it video. Its a proper show. ) is very professionally done. It's so popular, if you were in India & you were speaking in Hindi, you would legit be on TV. Over there people are glued to content because some guy is explaining centrifugal force in hindi with some string & tincan. Meanwhile, look at your production values! Huge respect. Thanks for everything you do.
My father also came to this country with nothing and built himself up, but as someone else mentioned, my father was born in a high caste, he got an education to become an engineer when most people didn't even complete secondary school. There is something to be said about generations of cultural knowledge and success that makes you rise up from "temporary poverty". This is true of most of my family, due to a bad generation of parents they became poor but they used to be pretty wealth a couple generations ago, this is a stark difference in attitude from people who've always been in multi generational poverty, they don't know any succesful people, they don't have any role models, the color of their skin / caste makes them not confident in their abilities to succeed, realistically those people are the ones who need affirmative action. i'm sure your kid is smart enough to succeed in this world even if he went to berkeley instead of stanford.
Did someone suggest that, or are you just straw manning?

All I saw was a suggestion that Cuba's political environment, including lack of sufficient democracy, can't explain the United States animus in general and sanctions in particular. Because we have much more accepting policies for a whole lot of countries that are worse.

Why pick this one moderately-bad actor to go metaphorically nuclear on when we're fine with everyone else? Hint: the answer is in Florida, not Cuba.
Not my experience at all. I work for a big company and we've been under staffed for basically as long as I can remember. The default position is not enough people to do what we need to do.
Hey, I have 10 job openings if you want to work at 1/4th market price. Um, good luck affording rent!
I think the point is about the timing of the announcement. I could see it landing a little softer when people are talking about the Twitter stuff.

On the other hand, big companies do this all the time and get a little bad press and then move on with their lives.
I don't even know if it solved bots. Rich countries, rich organizations, rich people could do a lot. $100M would buy you 10M bots.
/r/srd and /r/againsthatesubreddits exist with the explicit purpose of brigading other subs, and yet they are not banned.
Thank you for explaining it for younger audience, but I dont think many of them visit hackernews.
>As far as the UK goes though, this is just result of multiple terrible decisions and incompetence on the part of the government.

What is your evidence for this? It seems most countries in the euro zone are identically situated.
This is what people should really be scared of. It's one thing to point at Musk and say he's crazy and ruining Twitter. But if Musk fires 50% of the workforce, removes full-time WFH as an option, removes mental health days, etc., and Twitter actually does do a complete turnaround from a bumbling social media company into an advertising powerhouse... what does that mean for the rest of the industry?
Looks like their documentation site is down. Any idea what kind of bandwidth we're talking about here?
Yep, that is more than a month ;-)
1 kbps
Because programming now days is basically botting in games. I’ve botted in WoW for example, and just using the program required you to manage waypoints and sort out how your character moves around, what they pick up, how long they fight, and so on.

It’s kind of unfair to bot. You would need to create a game that has unfair systems that would be cruel for a human being to play manually. Then programming the game becomes fun.

Early WoW grinding was a little unfair (many MMOs can be). I wish I could legitimately write bots for Eve Online for example. The current incarnation of dealing with said cruelty is auto-play (your character literally plays automatically, like a bot) in mobile MMOs, but I can imagine developers getting some joy out of an absurd MMO where programming what your character does requires scripting it. These would very advanced and niche games though.
Right, most of it is just report the U-3 rate because we've always reported the U-3 rate. You can infer the U-x rate by multiplying the U-3 by some fixed scaling factor (i.e., x1.9 for U-6).

I feel like people love to call the the U-6 the "real" unemployment rate because it looks far worse than it actually is. But, in reality it doesn't matter if your preffered figure feel from 10% to 6% or from 17% to 10% over a time period.
Flatpak is more like Docker than Snap. Flathub, an unaffiliated 3rd party that uses the Flatpak format and provides a Flatpak repo -- Flathub, allows people to publish packages to their repo that aren't the official developers.
I mean that's the claim, the counter-claim would require a social network banning topics and not behavior. Note: As a user you can see topics, you can't see behavior. The fact that some users flood other users' DM's is not visible to all users. So how do you know?

"I don't trust left-y CEO's", is a fair enough answer, but really that's where the counter-claim seems to end. Now that we have a right-wing CEO, looks like the shoe is on the other foot[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1588174959817658368?s=20&t=F9...
> an Uber driver working at a loss, if you count the car depreciation

I hate to nitpick but I see this sentiment word-for-word on HN way too much. Uber drivers don't actually operate at a loss unless they only Uber for a short amount of time and they total their car during that stint. They just tend to earn less profit (often way less) than they think they are earning due to the car depreciation and other factors. But a working class person cannot afford to operate "at a loss" without noticing immediately, and a $25,000 car cannot depreciate infinitely.
Developing markets (starved for dollars to pay back loans) and and Europe (starved for energy) will suffer the most imo. The US will be infuriatingly fine (given the warmongering they are doing). It is most likely the FED will be able to pull of the soft landing (even if there is a small recession it will probably not be too deep and long)
the ironic thing is that the US did tons of direct check-type helicopter money and yet our growth is healthier and more robust than anyone else in the world (and the dollar has also outperformed).

given other countries did not undergo similar fiscal programs and have faced similar levels of inflation, i would argue that the larger component of inflation was the sudden global start-stop supply-chain shock from the pandemic rather than purely excess demand from the too-large fiscal programs. and i do not consider that shock to be self-inflicted (tho the excessive fiscal spending certainly was).
It's elections season and there is about to be a shift in power. Those currently in power have been resisting labeling the current environment a recession. Expect this to change in Q1 2023 as they gaslight you into believing we're in a recession because of the new team in charge.
Adam Curtis Uk 'oh dearism' 5 minute piece after the 2008 shakedown

https://youtu.be/wcy8uLjRHPM
He also makes an important and little-understood point about asymmetry: the person who posts complaints about being treated unfairly can say whatever they want about how they feel they were treated, whereas the moderation side usually can't disclose everything that happened, even when it would disprove what that user is saying, because it's operating under different constraints (e.g. privacy concerns). Ironically, sometimes those constraints are there to protect the very person who is making false and dramatic claims. It sucks to be on that side of the equation but it's how the game is played and the only thing you can really do is learn how to take a punch.
Doesn't Win 11 require you to have the absolutely latest processor? I'd upgrade but I can't.
I've got 6 mails in my gmail spam (in the last month) - 2 of them are not spam which is about normal for what I see (30-40% non-spam.)
In reality I am always "on call" even though I am not officially "on call" -- except for the weekend, when it is known that I am not going to be reachable unless pre-planned.
I'm not sure we can equate low glycemic index foods with foods that suppress the insulin response. They might have a small insulin response in common, but their effect on blood sugar concentration is not at all the same.
This appears to be a trend. A while ago my project owner's role went "poof" and he was notified of this via email the same morning.

The weird bit is that company policy is to award a generous notice period during which... you're not allowed to do anything.

It's been half a year now - most of the benefits of that period(like salary) are gone. He still appears to have access to the office, but nothing to do there.

I don't understand how a company which has such a program for laid off people doesn't bother to notify them in advance.
From Amazon’s Freeze to Lyft’s Layoffs, Tech Firms Brace for Tough Times
>...Is it?

It is: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QFRTCASHINFUSNO

It started burning down this year, but corporate cash on hand is still the highest it's ever been in history.
Wow...looks like Mark woke up now, and realized that the ad dollars are going to nextdoor and he wants to get it back.
Any good sources you know of? Unless we are talking crazy expensive I feel like it could be pretty useful for a lot of home recipes. I don't make that much sugary stuff anyway. Does it caramelize like normal sugar when heated?
Even Windows has a separate, NTFS boot partition these days. Fail to see the point of this, and since the main take basically is "put your /boot inside the FAT ESP, or if not possible, make /boot a FAT partition", it's also bound to create a lot of disagreement.
PrinceXML.com - free for non-commercial use. PDFs from HTML/CSS with Katex support. Produces beautiful output.
Swift has `guard else`, including `guard let else` for preconditions, where you only put the error responding code and where the compiler forces you to exit the current context (e.g. return a value, throw an error, etc).

It is nice for collapsing pyramids of doom that come from normal precondition checking. You can put multiple comparisons or variable assignments into a a single guard as well, separated by commas.

It does not support binding to the error in a Result though, so for these you usually still get more readable code handling these with try/catch, with the corresponding nested code block.
As far as we know, yes. As other commenter have noted, I wouldn't discount the potential role of gut flora changes on obesity risk. This is explicitly called out in the

This study isn't saying that everyone should stop eating artificial-sweetners. It is saying that the previous understanding that artificial sweeteners are biologically inert and risk free.

This study shows that we need to do further research to understand what the gut biome changes entail. It also suggests that we should be a more circumspect about replacing sugars in our diet without worrying about trying to reduce our overall desire for sweet foods / drinks.
Subjective labels being applied subjectively isn't as big of a problem though, since it'll probably be clear to most people just from the name that they're subjective. More objective labels will naturally be more useful, and therefore more popular. The only people who are going to use "Libtard" as a filter are those actively trying to create an echo chamber for themselves.

If your concern is with the labels themselves being used to convey a (possibly offensive) message, I think you could just have a way for people to hide specific labels and never see them again. Or maybe a way to label the labels as subjective, or just delete ones that are obvious flamebait.
It is[0]. Duff's device, whether you like it or hate it, was a performance optimization at least, saying "idx[arr]" instead of "arr[idx]" does not help in any way and will make some people angry or sad.

Contestants in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest will (and probably already have) find delightful ways to use and abuse this syntactical curiosity.

[0] My one-track mind always wants to jump to pirate jokes.

EDIT: If you like to explore this area, I highly recommend "Expert C Programming - Deep C Secrets" (get the pun? There's a fish on the cover...) by Peter Van Der Linden. It's pretty old (it talks about DOS memory models, among other things), but it is a fun deep dive into the murky corners of C. I wish there was an updated version and/or books covering other languages in that style.
I would say he's trying to control the narrative so that his future prospective employers believe that he was not laid off because of his performance.
I’m neither an executive or a founder. I’m just self aware enough to know that software engineers aren’t exactly starving.
Good point. Maybe the word "artificial" to describe one human construct vs. another human construct is not a productive conversation.
IMO We are in the middle of it: https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

Hoping it doesn't get uglier than 2020.
What are the exact mechanisms and quantities that the mentioned entities are „siphoning“ from the other one?
To be fair, the 'done' part was the actual leaving- notwithstanding the issues that continue like the NI border.

I voted to remain and would vote to rejoin. But I think in fairness the getting it "done" part was to leave the EU. NI border is pretty much unsolvable outside a common market anyway.
Nicked.
> if sea levels rose by a few 100m s

Not since the 1995 docudrama Waterworld have I heard such an ambitious prediction. Accurate maps and compasses will certainly be important at that point.
Thank you for using that quote, it's one of my all-time favorites.
Mental illness or not, your interactions with users in a service with a block button are all voluntary. Unless someone is going out of their own way to drag drama out of Discord, or god forbid, into real life, it tends to be best to just let it happen, as they are entirely willingly participating in it and the escape is just a button away.
I have a friend who worked at Stripe unit last year. He recently warned me that things are not going well, and he has heard rumors and I should avoid interviewing there. So I think they had some idea that something is going on.
> QUIC uses more CPU, due to the processing in user-space.

That’s not inherent to the QUIC protocol itself though, that’s an implementation decision. There is no fundamental reason why QUIC couldn’t be implemented in kernel-space, such an implementation would still be conforming.