skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They know what accountability is. That's why they never use the word.

Yeah we know you're responsible for it, but how are you being held accountable for it?

No one will remember in two years time, but my hope is it'll factor into candidates' decisions around whether to pursue a career with Stripe. If I've got senior executives without accountability, it's a distraction to my ability to deliver the product as well as to lead my own teams supporting their vision because it means I can't rely on them, and this outcome with absolutely no accountability behind it is a good enough reason for me to never want to join Stripe in the future.
Who doesn't have cost increases?
I read that Duplicati is also in beta (for years now), and that really seems discouraging. Restic looks great, but it's also 0.14 as of the moment. Would you consider restic a stable product, despite the version number?
I would honestly be more annoyed as an employee that the company didn’t go public at a $150B market cap when it had the chance.

I believe the company’s revenue is heavily tied to Shopify whose stock is down -75% ytd…
That's in the email:

Severance pay. We will pay 14 weeks of severance for all departing employees, and more for those with longer tenure. That is, those departing will be paid until at least February 21st 2023.

Bonus. We will pay our 2022 annual bonus for all departing employees, regardless of their departure date. (It will be prorated for people hired in 2022.)

PTO. We’ll pay for all unused PTO time (including in regions where that’s not legally required).

Healthcare. We’ll pay the cash equivalent of 6 months of existing healthcare premiums or healthcare continuation.

RSU vesting. We’ll accelerate everyone who has already reached their one-year vesting cliff to the February 2023 vesting date (or longer, depending on departure date). For those who haven’t reached their vesting cliffs, we'll waive the cliff.

Career support. We’ll cover career support, and do our best to connect departing employees with other companies. We’re also creating a new tier of extra large Stripe discounts for anyone who decides to start a new business now or in the future.

Immigration support. We know that this situation is particularly tough if you’re a visa holder. We have extensive dedicated support lined up for those of you here on visas (you’ll receive an email setting up a consultation within a few hours), and we’ll be supporting transitions to non-employment visas wherever we can.
A Deep Learning and Data Processing Framework for Spatio-Temporal Datasets
Show HN: Open-source OAuth2 & OpenID server Ory Hydra v2
I don't think any paradigm is inherently better at managing complex and messy state. I've worked on several very complicated applications written in a pure FP style which handled complex, shared mutable state really elegantly (and many OO applications where state management was a terrible mess...). And more generally I think that pure FP and specifically effect-oriented pure FP gives you really nice, composable tools to handle complex state safely in concurrent applications.

But yeah, for game development pure FP is probably a bad fit because you need pretty precise control over memory allocation and layout (from what I understand, never actually done any game dev).
Wait till the stories come out about criminals discovery what an extremely low impedance source of 700V does to your body.
> See how verbose this gets and very hard to read

No I think its easier to read. But I prefer verbosity over cleverness.
Educational material: Despite all the educational material available online (e.g., YouTube), channels with good educational material in the area of software engineering are far and between.
Tech workers need unions. This is becoming more clear by the day.
The point you're missing is that, as used in in this text, the reader can opt out of moderation.
Hi, this is my first post here. An article from my young blog that took me a lot of work.
L'Oreal didn't pull their twitter ad spend[0].

0. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/loral-suspe...
I've been using a Garmin Vivoactive 3 for a few years after owning a Pebble Time that eventually stopped working. I've been pretty happy with it: it also has a retroreflective screen that's always on and perfectly visible in sunlight, the battery can last about a week depending on usage, and Garmin's IQ app ecosystem is solid.

The notification functionality is not as customizable, but otherwise I haven't really been missing the Pebble much.
Because they hire people they don't need to show growth and attract investors.
Really, we have hundreds of years of thinking and writing about humans and it's more philosophy than meaningful to start speculating about universal this-or-that of anything that uses a neural network.

What's interesting here is that our AI models don't study their opponents; They don't do that. They're not capable of that.

All they can do is iterate over a vast set of sample data and predict outcomes based off them.

...and yes, that's different to humans, but I also think there is something truly fundamental at play here:

We may find that, as with self driving cars, the 'last step' to go from 'inhumanly good at a specific restricted domain' to 'inhumanly good at a specific restricted domain and robust against statistically unlikely outcomes such as adversarial attacks' is much, much harder than people initially thought.

Perhaps it does play into why humans behave the way they do? Who knows?

Why is that it's so easy to generate adverbial attacks against the current crop of models; that means the way that we train them is basically not flexible enough / not diverse enough / not something enough.

> One might hope that the adversarial nature of self-play training would naturally lead to robustness.
This strategy works for image classifiers, where adversarial training is an effective if computation-
ally expensive defense (Madry et al., 2018; Ren et al., 2020). This view is further bolstered by
the fact that idealized versions of self-play provably converge to a Nash equilibrium, which is un-
exploitable (Brown, 1951; Heinrich et al., 2015). However, our work finds that in practice even
state-of-the-art and professional-level deep RL policies are still vulnerable to exploitation.

^ this is what's happening here which is interesting.

...because, it seems like it shouldn't be this easy to trick an AI model, but apparently it is.

Maybe in the future, human go players will have to study 'anti-AI' strategies from adversarial models.

It's an ironic thought that the iconic man-vs-machine loss against AlphaGo could have been won if he'd used a cheap trick against it.
> There's a very real chance they spent 2 seconds buying something last minute because they were obligated to buy you something!

That's a hell of an assumption to make. In my family we negotiate what we going to buy for every member for at least two weeks, taking account what they are going to like and what they actually need, amongst other criteria.

Any friend of mine and my wife also gets the same treatment, as far as I experienced.

BTW, nobody is obliged to buy me anything for any day. I'm perfectly OK with that.
really ? so u keep subsampling as the data becomes larger and larger.

instead of ...well...throwing more hardware that seems to be easier and easier these days.

P.S. not trolling. im genuinely wondering if there is a better way to split the problem heuristically
I think whatever a leader does which isn’t ritual suicide when announcing layoffs is going to get criticism. People in power hired when expecting an uptick and fired when expecting a downtick.
That's a maisonette, so only one floor of the house. Closer to a flat (apartment) really.
FIRST Robotics. Every team is run a little bit differently, but every team I've come across is always looking for more mentors. https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc

A year ago I got involved with my local robotics team and began mentoring them as a way to give back. It's been very fulfilling, especially since the team has shown significant growth since then (3 students with 1 mentor => 12+ students with ~6 mentors).
One of the best writeups about QUIC, and my new go to reference for anyone who asks about the topic (since the QUIC RFCs are obtuse, and I say that as someone who's read many RFCs to troubleshoot networking issues).
Has anyone tried Kopia yet? I have used restic which works pretty much fine yet I felt misses a few features that Kopia promises.

https://kopia.io/
There is some irony on calling out benchmarks from an affiliated party and then linking to benchmarks from an affiliated party of the competing format.

> The source images were stripped of any metadata, EXIF, XMP, color profile etc. including the gAMA PNG chunk.

Just so happens that cjxl correctly supports PNG color profile/gamma data while cwebp doesn't.
Brackets are different than a bunch of different operators.
Im ex-pebble user that now uses a GTS 2. For a while I only cared about personalized watchfaces and alarms on my wrist so that model was more than enough.

But now I want some basic apps (ie TOTP) but this model doesn't support apps...
> The world is now shifting again. We are facing stubborn inflation, energy shocks, higher interest rates, reduced investment budgets, and sparser startup funding. (Tech company earnings last week provided lots of examples of changing circumstances.) On Tuesday, a former Treasury Secretary said that the US faces “as complex a set of macroeconomic challenges as at any time in 75 years”, and many parts of the developed world appear to be headed for recession. We think that 2022 represents the beginning of a different economic climate.

To justify the move, Stripe is pointing in every direction except their own operational situation. What's going on at Stripe?

> ... We provide an important foundation to our customers and Stripe is not a discretionary service that customers turn off if budget is squeezed. ...

Ok, so are you saying that business has taken such a dive so quickly that you're trying to get in front of it? Or are there more announcements like this on tap?
I did typeset in masters thesis in ConTeXt. It worked okay enough, but for me, it didn't provide any features that make up for the increased time spent searching for stuff because there's less documentation and a much smaller community.
A bit surprising considering they had 3x growth since 2020 according to this post. THen why the need to cut ? THe only answer could be "need higher returns for shareholders" because I honestly doubt their growth is at risk.

So is Stripe saying that they are cutting because they grew much faster during Pandemic and now are not growing as fast so they need to slash 14% of workforce to keep the same returns for shareholders ? Would love to hear from Stripe CEO directly.
Having read everything he wrote, it makes it interesting to see how the discussion on HN matches.
I use a condenser mic so the audio going out is top notch. The mic is the one offered with the Scarlett 212 bundle but you could use any decent mic.

HQ mics are great because you can fine tune the volume. It's high enough for my voice to come across strongly, but low enough to avoid background noises, people hearing themselves through my speakers, etc.

The idea behind my set up is to have a hands-free and always-on working room. I just walk in and know that everything is ready to start a call. Just click a button to make a call or accept it. No need to fiddle with headphones, adjust volumes, check if sound is working well, etc.

The only exception to this set up is when I have a confidential call, in which case I use my phone or headphones.

Everything is wired, as wireless sound devices are just not there in terms of quality and avoiding annoyances (see the HN thread called 'The first minute of every phone call is a torture now)
If you want to see this for yourself, be it either because you don't believe or an honest intellectual curiousity, find a forum (StackOverflow isn't actually the best since it's not really a "forum") and express skepticism about the utility of map and filter and suggest that a for loop works just as well. Be polite, but be firm and don't back down.

You will be called names. You will be insulted and told that you just don't understand functional programming, probably because you're dumb.

I know this, because I had to deliberately cultivate a writing style that learned how to avoid this (which is why I start out waving around the fact that I don't just know a bit of Haskell, but actually know Haskell; I would not normally make a deal out of that, for instance). I wouldn't have had to deliberately learn how to write around this if it doesn't exist.

Now, the tradeoff I get is people who don't believe such advocacy exists, because it is no longer appearing in the replies to my posts like it used to. A worthy tradeoff even so, I think.
Is Stripe profitable? I heard some of its financing is from PE and bank funding, which tend to be less tolerant of money losing or low profit operations. If they are not profitable they will need more capital eventually or to lengthen their runway.
The difference is in the who, not the what.
Your monetary theory is that nobody spends any of the money that is created as a result of increasing the money supply? OK Paul Krugman, I'll see myself out.

Bitcoin doesn't have the same problem. Monero doesn't have the same problem. The magic power of interest rates is to hide the theft of inflation by artificially increasing dollar demand from debt holders of the currency. With a hard currency, people tend to take less debt, and less risk with debt. Fortunately they also have less need to borrow because the currency appreciates in value.
Overload sounds cool. I should check it out. Maybe since no man’s sky has been updated I will check it out again.

I really want a serious FPS with spaceships .
What’s funny is he’s arguing that moderation should be based on behavior, not content. And that you could identify spam if it was written in Loren Ipsum.

If this thread and self-referential Tweeting was written in Loren Ipsum, it would definitely look like spam to me.

So I guess I disagree with one of the main points. For me, the content matters much more than the behavior. Pretty sure that’s how the Supreme Court interprets 1A rights as well. The frequency and intensity of the speech hasn’t played a part in any 1A cases that I can remember, it’s exclusively if the content of the speech violates someone’s rights and then deciding which outcome leads to bigger problems, allowing the speech or not.
"“That would have been it for SpaceX,” Musk said. “But fate liked us that day.”

That’s because the fourth launch succeeded, reportedly due to engineers changing a single line of code to fix a problem from the third attempt. The success helped SpaceX land a commercial contract with NASA valued at roughly $1.6 billion, extending the young company a lifeline."[1]

“NASA called and told us we won a $1.5 billion contract,” Musk can be heard saying in the clip. “I couldn't even hold the phone. I just blurted out, 'I love you guys!’" Pelley asks in the clip, "They saved you," Yeah, they did,” Musk is heard saying. He describes that he had “virtually no money, a fourth failure would have been absolutely game over. Done.” [2]

Musk deserves credit for avoiding that 4th failure, but that's not the same as saying the business was viable without govt support. That's where I think you're initial response is off the mark. To your earlier points, though, I think this is where the hybrid model excels. The govt, due to it's size, can take on a disproportionate risk to help nascent companies/technologies. But let's not lose sight of the fact that many of these success stories are predicated on socializing that risk to the taxpayer early on.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/30/elon-musk-warning-not-first-...

[2] https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/science/nasa-2...
Top of my list: anything involving food.

I’m allergic to casein and whey (proteins found in milk). And any amount of cross-contamination will make me physically sick. Caffeine and alcohol aggravate my mental health issues.

This was a disaster at my last job.

Every event involving food, one of the following happens:

- Pizza party, donuts, cake, etc as rewards. A number of people choose not to eat these because of calories, so people allergic to the food can choose not to eat it.

- Spend over a hour making a list of safe restaurants that are too expensive for me to ever have been to and still getting sick because food safety is for plebs.

- Help plan the catering for an event I’d rather not attend.

- Standing around awkwardly while everyone apologizes multiple times for forgetting my food allergies. I don’t want to be there and now I am responsible for making everyone else feel better about the situation.

- Told to get lunch on my own and expense it. Forget the receipt and have accounting get my manager involved.

And for fun, the worst situation: a VIP coming to the office to work with me for two days on an important project.

Well, if course everyone involved had to go to dinner with him. I had to pick the restaurant. Said restaurant did in fact not understand food safety, despite their claims to the contrary. Realized this about half an hour into the meal. I was severely sick for the next two days and felt terrible for the next week.

The damage was severe enough I couldn’t keep food down initially. Probably should have gone the hospital, but I didn’t want to pay hundreds of dollars on top of my misery.

I suspect this was career limiting. Got a new job eventually. So fuck that guy.
I think the ball is in your court when launching an ad hominem attack (before we even get to the question of whether it is relevant) It seems like that should be easy enough to provide some evidence for, if it’s true.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=meditating%20collison%... Gives nothing at a glance. Do you have anything?
Though council tax rarely aligns with desirability or average property price of a borough. Funny you picked Westminster for the example, the one with the cheapest council tax of all.
I can't blame you. However, if I don't understand what the box actually does, potential for huge -oooops- is too high.
We’re not talking about hand tools here.
AVIF is based on HEIF + free codec. Apple's HEIC is HEIF + commercial patent-encumbered codec libre browsers are not allowed to use.
This alone is a huge reason that the iPhone is doing well - iOS 16 still runs on the 8 and iOS 15 releases are still getting patches: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/supported-models-iphe... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213490
Not how it works from a financial analysis point of view. When interest rates rise money further down the line is rapidly devalued and cash flows in the near future are reprioritized. And firing people today and taking small layoff costs is much more accretive to the bottom line than growth down the line.

Also: Seems like the whole of VC is now on the FCF/Opex control train.
And here I was, working with a startup that had difficulty landing $500K. It was my first foray into being a founder, but I learned that I do not understand the investing landscape at all.
I feel like I shouldn't have to explain the idea of participation rate but what you've posted is the numerator, you need to divide it by total working age population to get the rate.
At least Apple products hold their value pretty well. I'm only just now starting to think about upgrading my 2015 Macbook Pro and it looks like I could still get $400 for it. A year old Apple device probably gets at least 60% of its MSRP back when sold.

I wouldn't do it personally (see me still using a >7 year old Macbook), but they're likely not dropping anywhere near the full MSRP every year, after they sell the old one.

Meanwhile, I've had three gaming Windows laptops during that same time, and two of them literally fell apart (one I kept using until enough of the plastic frame around the monitor cracked that I could no longer keep it in place with binder clips). The most recent one (ASUS ROG Strix G15) is still doing well, but I've only had it for about two years at this point.
3 is excessively low, but yes, they shouldn't need more than 500 employees total to build and run their platform.
This game reminds me of Candy Box! https://candies.aniwey.net/ and https://candybox2.github.io/
Kenya P2P car rental marketplace connects travelers to local car owners
Zuru helps travelers from around the world rent cars from locals in Kenya and East Africa
Morgan Stanley to start layoffs in coming weeks as dealmaking slows
The severance terms seem to be very generous, that is encouraging to see.
I am always wary of non financial metrics. Eyeballs, DAU, transactions. The old yarn about selling $2 for $1 and making it up on volume comes to mind.
I don't know if you're a good or bad programmer, but I'll tell you this about job interviews:

I've given dozens of interviews over the past 3 years. I'm fairly certain everyone got out of the interview with me feeling like they did very poorly, when in fact a lot of people were doing well. All of the people I ended up hiring told me "I was sure I completely failed your interview".

You don't know what interviewers are looking for, so don't make assumptions. I'm almost never looking for a "correct" answer. I'm always looking for your behavior and attitude when answering those questions. My definition of a good programmer is someone who understands that it's a team sports, who values clear communication and who knows how to read the doc on their own. You may or may not have implemented your own lisp in your spare time, but this is secondary.

If you ask me to review the quality of your code, I'll spend more time reading your commit messages and variable names, than you realize. It's as important as the choice of algorithm and data structure.

Other interviewers value other things. There's no one thing.

TLDR: You don't know how well you did in interviews, it's very likely you're better than you think.
"Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure."
Many find the r word offensive. Can you please be kinder and express yourself differently?

https://www.verywellfamily.com/what-is-the-r-word-3105651

Your post brings up interesting view points, thanks for sharing.
DuckDB is great! I love what you guys are building.
The main gap for me is native support of JSON (lines), like you have for CSV and Parquet.
I was quite a fan of Pebble, but was not able to get it when it launched.

I had Amazfit Bip for multiple years until it finally broke.

After trying Android Wear, battery life if very bad, I am looking for alternatives.

Is there any modern alternative to Pebble with all basic functions, such as eink display, battery life, notifications or call muting, but it also could reply to messages/notifications?
Don't overthink it! If you have any interest in teaching and have a bachelor's degree already you are most likely qualified to start immediately in probably most public districts in most US states, as long as you are filling a hard to fill position such as a math teaching position. Those are incredibly understaffed right now. Schools with multiple vacancies staying unfilled for years are not unheard of.

And if you want to get your feet wet just to see if you have interest in a greater commitment, they are always looking for subs. You can start out as a daily sub (just a babysitter essentially) and will very quickly be able to volunteer for a long term sub math position as soon as they see you're a dependable adult at all, and check the box of having a bachelors in a STEM field.