skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're using an ORM/SQL builder, sure. If you prefer writing raw SQL because ORMs are often quite limiting, then you have to write something like `INSERT INTO foo VALUES ?` and then you pass it `[1, [2,3,4], 5]` as params, which is mostly fine but you still have to parse out that "?" from the query. Why parse? Because what if you wrote 'VALUES "?"' now it's a string and shouldn't be replaced. It would be much nicer if you could just send the query to the SQL server and figure out what to do with the params.
> The tech industry is going to take a while to recover from the current economic shocks

How did you come to this conclusion? The doubling of headcount in 2020 and 2021 in a year didn’t signal that this can turn on a dime in either direction?
some additional context, they don't seem picky about who can return either:

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1589075543420325888

"sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday."
This didn’t dive into it, but I appreciated the suggested search terms for information on decentralized peer discovery. I always wondered how that would work, especially the bootstrapping process. Ultimately I found this StackOverflow answer to be really helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22240583
Do they apply since they are still being paid?
Lawsuits take more than 1 week. They are coming, in time. Unfortunately, their only penalty is monetary. So the answer to your latter question is "he can pay the fine."
Yeah I don't think tutors do all that much if everyone is motivated. What I meant was that conversations in person are often more productive, especially when you're trying to get motivated.
Are you saying about 10 000 are 40% of the workforce of SF/SV? So workforce in SF/SV is 25 000?
Yeah nobody is getting hyponatremia from drinking a gallon of water over the course of a day. Especially if eating a typical American diet.
Your dramatic hyperboles hide the fact that there is some truth in what you say.

The page linked is not what people commonly see or use when interacting with "the mastodon network". It's a public view on a single instance of a single hashtag.

It certainly should be designed better. But you've clearly not spent any time to look into "the UX of mastodon" because if you did, you've known that the page you are criticizing, is an exceptional and hardly used one.

Also, please try to be civil and constructive. It gets your otherwise valid point across much better. Now you sound like a nitwit with a grudge, while the points you make do have some merit.
As we say in Spanish "as I have limited time left in the Convent, I will shit inside". I am very surprised to see all these polite colleagues behaving like angels while being treated like office clips. Good luck to all of us.
He's paying 3 months severance.
I don’t think it’s cheapening the labor… it’s a way to filter the pool at the cost of missing some gems.

Basically it will filter more bad than good but it will still filter good.
Of course people are verified. The forms of payment is enough verification. To claim a business you must submit form of payment and other legal proof.

Social media distorts reality to the point that people are now confusing “verification” with “influence status”. Yes, if everybody can be verified, then it loses its value as a status symbol, and that’s good.
Well I guess we've identified why I don't have the problems you do, haven't we?
Is this part of that social contract I never get to read?

I think every headline about layoffs and restructurings and companies shutting down are proof that some people do in fact get to fire whoever they want whenever they want.
Right, most people aren't bothered by it or don't even hear it. I see a lot of complaints online, though, so there might be a market for whine-free equipment. It's quite annoying when you have to record some audio with sensitive mics. Even LED bulbs and PC monitors can emit audible noise.
Searched for “React” and the official docs weren’t even in the top 10.
Wouldn’t that increase the time it takes to get a boil going? Doesn’t that increase the thermal load (or whatever the appropriate term is)?
It's not about fairness, it's about Musk making terrible decisions.
And yet i still think the facebook page sucks tremendously from an engineering pov. It hasn't evolved in years feature wise and yet it still slows to a crawl whenever i launch it.

Totally unimpressed.
Different stoves take different amount of time to boil water. Kinda hard to follow the timing directions on the box if you start with cold water.
This is one of the reasons living in a college dorm can be incredibly fun.
Honda electric moped coming, intended to fit “50cc” category
The at will is both ways, legally. It’s the massive unequal market power that forces two weeks notice.
because severance covers the WARN period
There's a reason I put quotes around the word "subscribe".

In current Mastodon, there is no subscribing of a hashtag - only searching.

My belief is that in the newest version, you can subscribe, but it's still not global. Essentially it just saves you from doing an explicit search and adds it to your feed.

So if someone posts a toot in some distant instance with a certain hashtag, it may still not show up in my feed.
From what I've been told, this is common at large companies. Lay off staff then hire them back as contractors.
I suspect that makes it harder to get the timing right, because how long the water takes to heat up varies a lot more than how much it cools down in the first ~10 minutes after turning off the burner.
I really don't know what in my post made you feel like I was giving the GP any credit at all. This is a weirdly combative reply for a vehement agreement?
Archive link without paywall: http://web.archive.org/web/20180729024838/https://www.thedai...
I don't know enough about the science to have a strong opinion, but I've heard a lot of people who have been critical of hyper loop, a very expensive tunnel filled with Tesla cars in Vegas that has much less efficiency than a subway from 50+ years ago, and saying that full self driving would be easy and finished years ago (he's since said full self driving is actually much more difficult than he initially thought).

Maybe no visionary is going to get everything right. But there do seem to be some pretty major areas that have received critical feedback from people who seem to understand those domains.
Did amazon change recently? I got leetcoded there. I even applied to a web dev role using ruby on rails and was blindsided by the hard trick questions.
Admittedly biased Bay area resident myself, but the fundamentals of the housing markets remain from my perspective: this part of the country has the best climate and natural beauty. Over the longer term, I'm not too worried about housing prices but these next couple of years could be brutal. I'd be curious to hear alternate contenders for the climate, landscape claims of mine if anyone's game.
held back how? at least it had a working search bar.

Seriously, the only improvement I can think of since XP is the gpu resource monitor in the Task Manager. I think maybe the search bar worked better in Windows 7 before getting broken in 10?
Poking around over at /r/taiwanindependence/ .. do you think Taiwan should unify with China?
> the user count of just mastodon users, has surpassed six million

That must make the users of Gab hate them even more...
I like reading TIL-type posts when I'm searching for a particular topic. Sometimes a straightforward "this is how to do it" is what I'm after. Most of the time, it's nice to have some context: what were you doing, why did you need to do this, etc. That makes the post unique and, importantly, gives me some additional ideas related to the topic.
‘Mattress Mack’ wins record $72.6M in World Series wagers on Astros
Take it as an opportunity to learn new skills and work on your own projects.
And when you consider the fact that pretty much every other tech company did the same wild overhiring in those same years, where did all this new talent suddenly show up from? The simple answer – it didn't. The companies just lowered their hiring bar wayyy down to fill quotas, and are now suffering because of it.
> I never really subscribed to hashtags in the first place.

They're useful for limited, local current events. As an example, there was a sudden bush fire near my relative's house, and it was convenient to be able to track all the tweets tied to that hashtag to get the latest updates. For events like this, the local news media has only a tiny fraction of the (mis)information. You get a lot more (mis)information by following the hashtag.
Moving accounts brings your followers with you. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
To add on to your "helpful sometimes":

As someone else with ADHD, I've found that one of the downfalls of "body doubling" is that it works both ways. Productivity can lead to more productivity because the body double can help me overcome the urge to research woodgas vehicles or the history of bread in Mesoamerica. But the double's lack of focus (e.g. being social, or forced meetings) destroys all focus because it's already enough of a task to manage my own executive functioning in a good environment.

The best balance I've found is remote work (so I am my only distraction), maybe with occasional in-person focused work sessions (à la hackathon), and occasional remote "body doubling" sessions with a friend or internet stranger.

TLDR:
Solo remote work is better than attempting body doubling in an office environment, but remote "body doubling" is also occasionally helpful.
Not the OP but the hyperloop thing is, imho, total bullshit. Not such a big thing though because he hasn't poured billions and billions of dollars into it as Zuckerberg has done with the VR stuff.

On the other hand Tesla has been a huge thing. I'm a big anti-EVs guy because I'm, at heart, a petrolhead, and at the beginning I was of course very skeptic of him managing to pull it off. But that opinion of mine changed completely the moment when I realised that a Tesla vehicle is basically a piece of software running/controlling a battery that happens to have 4 wheels attached, and that the Tesla engineers have managed to make good on that.

The rocket stuff is also quite cool.
I'm not cheering by any means. But the average individual salary at Twitter is ~39% higher than the average household income in the U.S.; the average salary of the folks HN relates to -- the tech team, the ally team, etc. -- is considerably higher.

Totally agree our social safety nets aren't the strongest. But precisely because of that, people -- particularly higher earners -- have a responsibility to build their own padding for the inevitable short, sharp shocks to their livelihood.

EDIT: I reflexively pulled Twitter numbers, but a quick glance shows the average FB salary is higher.
> Apple has already signaled that only 25% of iPhones will be made outside of China by 2025. That will leave the company completely vulnerable if were to be cut-off from its Chinese suppliers. I predict the company will simply go bankrupt if that were to happen.

That's the second time you've made that claim, and it's just as implausible as it was the first time. Companies go bankrupt because of debt. Apple has approximately zero debt, and approximately one gazillion dollars of assets. Losing China's manufacturing would cripple Apple's income. Bankrupt them? No, that's not a logically plausible outcome.

> And I've become convinced the Taiwanese will not fight their own kind, no matter how much they hate the Communists.

That's the second time you've made that claim, too, with no more supporting evidence than you gave the first time. You're convinced? Great, it's good for you to know your own mind. But the rest of us care whether your claim corresponds to reality, and how convinced you are is not supporting data.

Putin has claimed all along that Ukrainians were "their own kind", but the Ukrainians didn't see it that way...
I’ve seen this posted a lot, and I’m not really sure I understand what the point is. Yes, Zuck has an unusual amount of power as CEO. In another company, the CEO might be fired and the new CEO would come in and do the mass layoffs and course correction. But the only difference is in that one person’s job security. It makes no difference to the rank and file: the company over hired and there’s only one remedy for that, irrespective of CEO accountability.

When you say the CEO should take responsibility for it all, what exactly do you mean?
Reddit and HN are also social media…
Twitter Begins Offering $7.99-a-Month Verification Subscriptions
Depending on the thread it can go either way. There are large contingents on both sides as Musk is quite divisive.
Tuning a guitar string often involves going too low and then raising back up to the right note. Disruptive to the workers, but Musk is tuning a guitar not running a daycare - requirements and concerns are different. I’m sure he’s less worried about the optics of correction than you are. Add your own value judgements accordingly.

Personally I can’t make myself see this as a humanitarian disaster — these employees have known the risk was on the horizon for many months, are eminently employable, high-functioning, with presumably good professional networks and resumes. They’ll land on their feet, and have themselves to blame if they didn’t prepare accordingly. Plenty of other drama in the world to worry about, much of it more severe than ex-twitter ee’s on the open job market thirsty for talent.
I wonder if we'll see the outpouring of barely disguised schadenfreude that accompanied the Twitter layoffs. Then again Zuckerberg seems like a boring drone of a person, whereas Musk has the sub-Trumpian "I alone can fix this" aura that seems to attract so many.
Not really. One can always keep refactoring and churning things around. Search-replace to rename some long function name into something even longer. If you’ve managed to enforce the 80 char rule, this would likely result in things linted differently. Boom, massive change. No one can object to a good refactor.
Most of his AI claims are, so far, backed by nothing.
The demos are underwhelming, to say the least.

The rockets and car factories are impressive.

But the tunnels, the robotaxi, the hyperloop, the solar roofs... So far, a lot of over-hyped promises that are looking more and more like vaporware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PHv3E8jpY
Just my 2c: I know friends who work at other companies paying similar wages who immediately try to get ahold of the lists of laid off staff from these layoffs hoping to hire top talent when they're otherwise not even going to hear they're looking.

So I don't know how much this will really change comp levels? Especially with how frequently software people change jobs anyway.
If part of the fitness criteria involved printing out code written in the last 6 months on paper, it was predictable that they would have accidentally let go of many important contributors in a 50% layoff. Color me not surprised.

Turns out running a large technology platform takes more than just wishful thinking and personal brand stunts.
> Are you seriously criticizing my post

Yes. Personal attacks are unwarranted here.

> the post you're defending is worse?

I'm not sure what you mean by "worse" here.

> Anyone who has known Microsoft from back in the day knows attributing anything positive to them is likely an error

I agree with this fully.
I'd love to know the story behind getting the rights to the Lotus name, did you licence it from HCL or IBM?
Maybe it sucks and you decided to buy a good one. Maybe you're redecorating the whole kitchen and want the microwave to match the rest.
It varies. I’ve been a SpaceX (and thus Elon) fan since they were unsuccessfully launching Falcon 1’s. EM’s willingness to share information with the space fan community won him a lot of admirers. I was certainly willing to overlook many of his other failings as a result.

That’s become harder in the last few years and practically impossible in 2022. At this point, I am desperately hoping for SpaceX to get Starship/Superheavy flying before Elon manages to screw that up as well.

I’m not a trained psychiatric professional but it looks to me as if his extreme wealth and success has exacerbated some pre-existing tendencies and turned him into a (danger, medical jargon ahead) full-blown mess. It’s a shame to watch.
there are six million users now, not six hundred thousand.
"How can I make this about my inability to answer basic algorithms questions"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33497290
When I lived in Africa, they used to have controlled grassland fires, every year. I remember driving past one of these, and my mother explained the concept to me.

On Long Island (where I live), we have the Pine Barrens. These are areas of scrub and pitch pine trees, in a sandy soil. They require occasional fires, in order to reproduce (opens the cones, and fertilizes the soil).

Back in the early 1990s, we had a pretty major wildfire, because they had not been doing controlled burns. I think New Jersey suffered something similar, around the same time.

Since then, I hear they do controlled burns.

I have seen no "controlled burns" of the bloat that infests the tech industry, so this is likely to be a fairly significant wildfire.
This looks great, congrats on the launch. Weirdly I've seen probably 5 of these pricing as a service layers this week (and a few open source). Is it because I'm thinking about pricing for my own product or is there some powerful "why now" that I'm missing?
They were given 90 days severance… which is like 6 standard notice periods.
Tech wasn’t hit very hard in 08, nor was it nearly as large a part of the economy.

CA housing was hit hard though. Yes. LA was one of the worst hit
Stepping aside or closing/killing-off the project that is haemorrhaging money and is bringing down the share valuation.
This is what I loved about it! Felt like a more fun version of a chess tactics trainer. But to each their own.
Jim ‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale Wins $75M as Houston Astros Claim World Series
Would you mind disambiguating DC, best I got is data-center, which doesn't make a bunch of sense. I do like that quote though.
> As opposed to all of the other companies that aren’t seeking profits?

One of many is right in the quote.

The obvious difference is how the power in an industry has been wielded. Railroad barons were the closest historical equivalent, imo.
I have worked at two FAANGs. On a daily basis I see how the sausage is made. I currently work on an AI platform for a product 100M people use
Yeah but prices have dramatically increased since 2008, I want to say 2-4x or more based on my anecdotal data.
Does this logic extend to company shareholders, board members, and CEOs too?
But it's not a verification mark anymore. No verification is involved.

It's a subscription mark.

Why is NYT calling it "Verification Subscriptions"? Just because the mark looks the same as the previous verification mark?
If Mastodon's search functionality isn't federated, how are you supposed to find out about cool hashtags like this without manually exploring dozens of instances on a regular basis?
maybe not? if the water and pasta are at the same temp to start with. I'm assuming heating pasta also takes less energy that heating water.
No more $150k DevOps engineers that don't know how disk partitions or Python actually work?
> It's not about the cost of the service ... Every social media company succeeds or fails based on the network effect.

So you're saying it's not about the money, it's about sending a message?
I'd be happy if I stop hearing about Twitter and it's alternatives.
Here’s what I want for a technical blog platform: some way to add tests to the code in the article so that if the tests fail the article notifies the reader it might be out of date. One test could be “is the software version used here super old?”

I don’t know how many times I’ve read how to do Y with X language and I find it’s incredibly out of date and not I should be doing Y differently, or maybe doing Z instead.
I could give this a try. My current VSCode setup offers me nothing really. Just nice syntax highlighting.
There are compelling alternative explanations for the rising cost of education (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease#Educ...).

If the underlying cause were primarily administrative overhead, that should be readily apparent in the (public) budget of any public university. I’m not going to go do Silvergate’s research for him, but I’m surprised he doesn’t cite such a readily available piece of compelling evidence, which at best suggests he’s too lazy to track it down, and at worst that reality does not support his hypothesis.
The title mentioning “Brave” seems to be a red herring: there’s someone in the comments talking about Braze, though it looks like a typo. Similarly the “Who’s hiring” posts do actually have job listings for Braze, but you have to click through the More link at the bottom to find them. (Because I load HN directly from a data dump, the search doesn’t know about the pagination.)

I think the main problem here is that my index is relatively small: it has only (!) 30 million pages, and it looks like Braze just isn’t popular enough for me to have run into it with the right keywords yet.
That's quite the slanted framing.

An alternate framing: one was president of the United States and one got pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a kid because his father committed suicide.
Playing Elden Ring in the Cloud
7.7 million people live in the Bay Area. Your 40% estimate is off by several orders of magnitude.
“This is why Elon is a genius for keeping these employees on staff for 3 months instead of laying them off; now he can just get them back to work or they refuse and he saves 3 months of salary!”
I think they are saying 40% of those laid off are in SF/SV.
You don't mean to argue that because there are potentially an infinite number of possible editor configurations, that they must all be equally valid, and that there is no objectivity in editor design?

;)
Yeah fair enough, two sides to everything. Anecdotally I feel like I see a lot of Elon hate, but that could just be my decency bias due to Twitter drama and layoffs.
Nobody claimed otherwise!
The U.S. healthcare system traps people in companies, for fear of losing access to reliable healthcare. A system that was completely independent from employers would be much more beneficial to employees. Plus, it would save huge administrative costs for private companies. This would especially benefit small companies, but, really, it would make the job of running any company much easier.
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I think this is good advice. There are lots of links to an exact piece of code if you go to stack overflow. But few detailed discussions of how you get to the right answer and that's really helpful to beginners.

Julia Evans, who is currently in the front page of HN again, basically writes a variant of TIL all the time.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/11/06/making-a-dns-query-in-ruby-f...
The USG / DOD is a terrible customer. They want to control every thing; from suppliers to acceptance. They really don't care about what something costs, it is far more important to ensure the vendors are not making too much profit.

To move fast, you have to be willing to break things. When you go "agile" in software, you write a lot of crap that has to be thrown away. Same with weapons development, if you want to go fast and try ideas then some of them will not work. Will Not Work. That is intolerable to the procurement organization, because spending money on something that does not work is also known as "corruption".

Risk / Reward has to be changed by society. A war will do that.