skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is better than standard in the US but I'm not sure I'd be happy if I was one of the laid off employees.

That 3.5 months and healthcare buys them some time to start interviewing and line up new work. However, they're competing with everyone else that's been laid off recently. There's another article on HN right now about Lyft laying off staff. Meta is getting pummeled in the stock market right now and Google has recently had hiring freezes. I'm not sure now is a good time to be looking for tech work in SF.

Unused PTO should be paid out. That was already earned by the employees.

Accelerated vesting is only good if you can afford to use it. How long do they have to exercise their options? What's the secondary market like right now for Stripe stock? Are they allowed to sell stock currently or required to hold it? In a worst case scenario, people could be unable to exercise their options because they don't have the savings to cover the tax bill and want to hold onto cash because they're unemployed and need the liquidity.

As for healthcare benefits, that's a result of a very broken system in the US and not something that should be celebrated.
If they did they'd have pushed to Friday evening or Monday.

I think once the layoffs started companies began to follow suit. There's a serious herd mentality that's hard to avoid.
How generous were these cashouts? I've seen order of $1MM caps on early cashouts, but I have no idea if that's the norm or not.
Mods aren't part of the core gameplay.

Also, you don't want to make it easy for gamers to use other people's code.

Rather, you want gamers to write their own code.
Interesting. I must say, that doesn't look like we're currently in a recession.

On the other hand, if the job market is actually that tight, you'd expect employees to have pricing power. (Maybe they do, and it's just taking both workers and management a while to get used to that idea?)
The holy grail of sugar substitution is ironically sugar. The left-handed isomer of glucose still hits our taste buds but doesn't get metabolized in the body. It just goes straight through. We've tried it before and it worked absolutely perfectly but to synthesize and then separate the isomers was prohibitively expensive.

Whoever finds a way to make left-handed glucose economically is going to be fucking rich.
Where do homeless bacteria go? Do they go alone or as colony? What is the minimal viable product for a bacteria's exoskeleton capable of reaching Alpha Centauri with enough water to terraform the exoplanet reached?
The former CEO of Netflix, Patty McCord, who helped create a culture of firing people "when it was time", was fired as a result of said culture:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3056662/she-created-netflixs-cul...

Remember, “companies don’t exist to make you happy. You know that, right? The business doesn’t exist to serve you. The business exists to serve your customers,” reminds McCord.
Due to the recent news of other tech companies making their employees work nights and weekends before laying them off, it is easy to interpret your earlier message such that Stripe did the same.
Yeah I had to read this a few times too! I was totally baffled by having 3 categories for obesity, but one of the categories is grade 2 & 3 categories together, and one of the categories is grade 1, 2, & 3 together.
I started long distance walking this year, and nearly every time I see the calorie count I am reminded of the aphorism about not being able to outrun a bad diet. I think that’s bullshit, with a proviso.

The provision is that you can’t outrun a bad diet by exercising a half hour a day. That 30 minutes is a number doctors settled on not to scare sedentary people into not starting an exercise program. You really need an hour or more a day.

I’m trying to get my walk route down to 90 minutes, in prep for a half marathon next year. If I stop for a matcha at the halfway point, I’ve still burned well over twice what I consumed. If I get the smoothie still come out ahead.

The real “secret” there is that when I watch TV I nibble. Not getting food on books is the only reason I don’t nibble when reading. What I’ve done in a 90 minute walk is to forestall eating more than one single thing in that ninety minutes. And lowered my stress level. Cortisol is the other killer here.

Even before that the nearest good coffee shop was a mile away and my net calories were ~100. If I avoided a certain cream based beverage.

For some people, banning prepared foods does a similar thing. Preparing a snack takes fifteen minutes instead of fifteen seconds. You just don’t have as much time in the day to stuff your face once the convenience is gone.

The other aphorism is that you lose weight at the grocery store, which I do believe. If you come home with fruit instead of pie and chips you’ve already fought half the battle.
I agree but the person i am replying to is talking about using matrix
And there are so... many... ads... on that page
I don't see where the source was being offered by the distributors of this package which would mean they were in violation of the AGPL and it was therefore a copyright violation.
The idea is that back when IDNA was created sending just-UTF-8 in places that had historically been ASCII-only would break software. The scale of the breakage was probably unknown. The real question is: would a flag day have been needed to just use UTF-8 where previously only ASCII was allowed. I think the answer to that is "no". The punycode thing certainly avoided the question altogether, which is why it was done, but there's no question that had we bitten the bullet then and just gone with just-use-UTF-8 life today would be easier.

(There's also Unicode normalization issues here. One of the problems with just-use-UTF-8 is that dumb servers would only match on octet-wise label equality, but with Unicode you want normalization-insensitive matching. Now, at the time the notion of normalization-insensitive matching hadn't been invented... Requiring something like IDNA made it possible to slip in a normalization requirement.)
Keep pushing out those goalposts. People on HN last spring were confident we'd be in a recession by now. Now you're saying that it's 6-12 months away? If you keep pushing those goalposts eventually you will be right. There will be a recession some time in the future.
isn't zapier like a million dollar a month?
And getting paid lots of money to do so.
That's not what I was trying to say. You know that it's impossible to remove WebP from the web platform any more. I do think it'd be nice to have a plan for removal of AVIF from the platform, but I don't know if AV1 video will become unremovable. Porting of new features to the old JPEG has been attempted in JPEG XT, but it didn't take off.

It sucks that the codec with the best quality/filesize ratio doesn't just win. There are many other factors beyond this, e.g.

• There's a lot of inertia keeping old codecs alive, which is from "just works" that has been from merely being old and popular. There's a whole graveyard of JPEG-killers that have beaten it on features and compression. GIF isn't even "good enough" technically, and it still refuses to die, because it's just so old to be universally supported. JPEG XL hasn't done the legwork yet to be everywhere, and isn't old enough yet to be everywhere including old software.

• Browser vendors' default resistance to ever-growing complexity of the platform, code size, and attack surface. I think JPEG XL's ability to be both non-Web editing format and Web format is actually working against it here, because the Web platform doesn't want non-Web features. Browsers haven't even implemented AVIF as specced, only a bare minimum subset. JPEG XL doesn't have a minimal subset.
"Is OVH cloud archive the cheapest cloud storage for backups in europe? It lets me use scp or rsync, among others."

OVH may, indeed, be the cheapest.

If you email[1] and ask for the long-standing "HN Reader Discount" you can get $0.01/GB storage and free usage/bandwidth/transfer.

Zurich Equinix ZH4 on init7 pipes.

Depending on your preference either [2] or [3] may be the most compelling aspect of our service.

[1] info@rsync.net

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There’s a number of things to be aware of when transmitting emails. Here are some methods that can make SMTP connection really secure.
Some popular videos are just random off the cuff talking with no effects or editing.
It’s not so simple…
EDiffi: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Ensemble of Expert Denoisers
This quote says it:

> The labor market continues to be out of balance, with demand for workers substantially exceeding the supply of available workers. The labor force participation rate showed a welcome uptick in August but is little changed since the beginning of the year. FOMC participants expect supply and demand conditions in the labor market to come into better balance over time, easing the upward pressure on wages and prices. The median projection in the SEP for the unemployment rate rises to 4.4 percent at the end of next year, ½ percentage point higher than in the June projections

He's expecting the act of raising interest rates to increase unemployment to 4.4%. He's doing this to bring balance to supply and demand for labor, to ease upward pressure on prices.

He is also asked directly when he will know when to stop:

> So I will answer—I will answer your question directly, but I want to start here today by saying that my main message has not changed at all since Jackson Hole. The FOMC is strongly resolved to bring inflation down to 2 percent, and we will keep at it until the job is done. So the way we’re thinking about this is, the overarching focus of the Committee is getting inflation back down to 2 percent. To accomplish that, we think we’ll need to do two things, in particular: to achieve a period of growth below trend; and also some softening in labor market conditions to foster a better balance between demand and supply in the labor market.

He directly says he's waiting to see softening of the labor market before stopping the rate hikes.
I actually just started to blog (somewhat) consistently. Right now I'm posting something about once a month. It's very early days still.

The catalyst for me was deciding that I was going to publish writings exclusively about my interest in literature. Philosophy, books reviews, interesting ideas, etc. This helped me to focus. Before, I was vague about what I would blog about.

It's an exercise in thinking out loud about an interest of mine and organizing my thoughts. I know most people don't read blogs. It's for me.

I've wanted to blog for years but never did. There were a few reasons. I was unreasonably concerned with originality. You have to accept that you're probably not going to write something that's never been said before. That's fine. It's about exercising your cognitive muscles and expressing yourself.

I also thought that everything I published had to be philosophically profound. I set the bar way too high. Now, if I think something is cool or interesting, regardless of how niche it is, that's reason enough to blog about it. Who cares!

You have to free yourself from that sort of stuff. It does nothing but hinder your natural impulse to do something creative.
Tech or SAAS has definitely had a major correction/downturn. This is not evident in the unemployment data because it is such a small contingent vs the US population
Parrot Browser does this (https://www.browserparrot.com/).
What the public thinks – and data shows – about violent crime in U.S.
Here’s another article that may be helpful

https://www.pacer.org/bullying/info/students-with-disabiliti...
Show HN: Eleven – Code sandboxes with automatic HTTPS
Eleven is the second project that I've built to learn Go. It lets you create code sandboxes in your cloud provider account easily.

What's a "code sandbox"? Just a VM, running in your cloud provider account, with some runtimes pre-installed, your repositories cloned, a way to connect to it with your preferred editor (or via SSH) and a way to serve your apps easily via HTTP (with automatic HTTPS).

You could use it to deploy your app, as a remote development environment or even to test some code. It's up to you.

For example, to deploy a Node.JS app on AWS:

$ eleven aws init hello-world --runtimes node@18.7.0 --repositories eleven-sh/hello-world

> Success! The sandbox "hello-world" was initialized.

$ ssh eleven/hello-world forever node index.js

> Forever: command started. Run "forever stop" in current path to stop.

$ eleven aws serve hello-world 8000 --as hello.eleven.sh

> Success! The port "8000" is now reachable at: https://hello.eleven.sh

$ curl https://hello.eleven.sh

> Hello World

Still learning Go by the way, so I'm open to any suggestions to improve.
If you look at anything through a narrow enough lens you can make it look good.
The reason why there's a debate is that by some measures, we're in a recession, but by other measures, we're not. Jobs is extremely strong. From a jobs perspective, we are not in a recession.

And so cues the debate. Which measures _should_ we focus on? Etc. etc.

The only thing with any certainty, is that I know we'll be retroactively be declared to have been in a recession for months. The NBER is 100% trusted on calling the recession, but they're also always late to the party by several months.

NBER always calls the recession accurately, because they backdate their calls. Ex: in 2008, NBER declared that we've been a recession since 2007.

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Because of this effect, everyone wants to be "correct faster than NBER", so you see a whole lot of talking-heads talking about recession way too early (ie: before all the economic indicators prove we're in a recession). Everyone wants to predict the future after all, so that they can feel smarter about the whole situation.

EDIT: It should be noted that in the real world, it takes weeks, maybe months, to collect and process the statistics. That is to say, we won't know how good our economy in October 2022 is, until maybe January of 2023. That's why NBER is late, they need the time to collect statistics and analyze them. But its also why everyone who is trying to call the Recession "as it happens" (IE: call a January Recession in January) is inevitably going to be wrong, because they're baseless and without any actual data backing that sentiment.

Data and statistics take time. Many months. Just sit tight and wait. Have patience. There's no real benefit (or downside) to being "early" or "late" to calling the recession. Getting the call correct is important. It takes many months to spin up employees and/or fire them anyway (good severance pay is multi-month affair after all)
I think Mr. Beast is a billion-dollar brand now, I'm surprised his name hasn't crossed ways with you before.
If you don't know who the useless colleague is, it's probably you!

Not entirely true, but I think most people can (if they're being honest) get 70% or more correct when guessing who will be laid off.

The only wildcard usually is when entire teams are let go, and sometimes those are predictable, sometimes surprising.
You're probably a very good programmer - strange that you're comparing your work against seniors; are you not a senior engineer yet with 20 years experience? You probably could be.

Also, don't be so down on yourself regarding interview questions. If you spent a month or two just practicing these types of questions in your free time you'd be surprised how you'd do on some of the interviews you would normally bomb out.
As mentioned, we didn't have USB controller until 1996. But even if you included that, which was an order of magnitude more complex than parallel port, USB 1.0 spec was only about 100 pages long. And yes you could reasonably understand what was going on there.
Same here. I have a wrapper script that runs restic commands. Whether I run it in a console or per crontab stdout/stderr is logged to a file and is emailed to me (in the crontab case). Nothing fancy yet, but it works and I am satisfied. Still pretty new to restic though. In another life I had a disaster recovery role and was using DLT for backup / restore of all the things, so ...
Is it really annoying though? It takes 5 seconds to respond to a pulse question and it is not disruptive at all. And you will have to respond just once a day.

On the flip side, it provides a structural mechanism for sharing feedback about what's working and what's not.
I agree. I really liked the interface and gave it a go at least 3 or 4 times, and got burned every single time with errors or random issues.
Especially if he moves HQ to Texas.
I don't know why I never considered this sort of option to powershell out bash. My only problem with it is that it's in python (also why I don't really use jq), and that it's not something that just sets aliases behind the scenes.

If this were written in a performant language, if it simply aliased (i.e. invisibly) all common cli commands to a wrapper which would obviate the need for all of the text processing between steps in command pipelines, if it were versioned and I could include the version number in scripts, and finally if I could run versioned scripts through it to compile them into standard bash scripts (a big ask), I'd give it a 3 month test starting today. There'd be nothing to lose.

Just putting that out there for people who like to rewrite things in Rust. A slightly different version of this concept could allow for nearly friction-free adoption.
DALL·E API Now Available in Public Beta
> 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. But attempting to replace it with artificial sweeteners may not be a good way to go, either

Oh no, what will the food industry that got us addicted to sugar will do ?
"The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable"
Why not make both isomers and feed them to bacteria? Only left-handed remains.
The upstreamed Qualcomm drivers in the Linux kernel require a device tree from the vendor which doesn't exist yet for this machine, I believe the Linux community has something cobbled together for the ThinkPad x13s, or got something from Lenovo.

> Oh, it's because of "APCI" mode working with openbsd apparently...

Indeed, OpenBSD attempts to support these machines to some extent in ACPI mode, but from what I read the ACPI tables are in bad shape/incomplete. "Good enough for Windows, ship it.".
Layoffs are the working stiff's cancel culture.
I was always very doubtful about those AI tools, but I absolutely second DxO. It actually managed to save some Astro Shots which were completely noisy to a manageable level, without too much noticeable LoD
Can recommend kopia as well. It is the one that I settled with after trying out pretty much all the other open source solutions (at the time).

Works great across all my devices (win, mac, linux).
As a consumer of YouTube videos, I couldn't agree with you more.

I think the consistency of popping out videos on the regular is about working the algorithm and grinding out content for views, and with those views: ad dollars. I've seen too many channels just turn into churning really awful, boring, long videos with little in the way of direction in the hopes you'll just mindlessly watch it. But I think the math just works out better (marginally) to pump out low-effort, low-value content more often than for example, what you are creating. And like I said: blame the algorithm.
Copyright license is revoked under AGPL v3 if you violate the AGPL v3 terms.

AGPL v3 specifically allows authors to add trademark restrictions that become violating.

Don't follow the trademark clauses, lose your copyright license, that becomes a copyright violation, actionable under DMCA.
> get 70% or more correct when guessing who will be laid off.

What happens when it's the managers themselves who are useless, overpaid, and can't evaluate the team for actual efficacy?
> I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency.

I know "The Algorithm" gets a lot of hate, but surfacing quality-over-quantity content is one place where recommendation algorithms excel over pure chronological feeds.

When I switched Twitter to chronological mode, I had to unfollow several people because they posted all day long. The most valuable Tweets I wanted to see were buried in the noise. The algorithmic feed is far from perfect, but it does a good job of highlighting posts I've missed from people I've interacted with previously. It takes some time to see the algorithm with enough likes and interactions, and it won't work if you never click the like button, but it's actually not half bad once it's up and running.

Reddit is another platform where quantity over quality prevails. If you click through to the post history of people who get content to the front page, it's basically a firehose of posts using recycled content and slightly altered headlines to as many subreddits as they can get away with. Eventually one of them clicks and rises to the top, but by that point the headline is often so mangled into clickbait that it doesn't accurately reflect the content of the article. Redditors don't really read articles, though, so it doesn't matter. Spam away.
Yes you can. For 32 -> 64, and assuming the OS supports both modes in the same process, this code should be sufficient:

switch_to_64bit:
pop edx ;EDX=return address
xor ebx,ebx ;EBX=selector
.next_sel:
add bx,8 ;try next
jc .exit ;none found, -> segfault
lar eax,bx ;load access rights
jnz .next_sel ;failed?
and eax,0x60F400 ;mask bits
cmp eax,0x20F000 ;64bit code selector?
jne .next_sel ;no
.exit:
or bl,3 ;set RPL to ring3
push ebx ;selector
push edx ;offset
retfd ;go there
If someone was pacing about the room in a physical meeting it's going to be the same effect, and same disrespect.
>try Matrix earlier this year and so far I've regret it

Why is that?
If it's a one time payout (to be clear, I'm not that will be the case here? It was for me the only time that I was laid off), I think the withholding would be calculated as though that single payment were a regular salary extrapolated to the entire year. This is similar to what happens if you receive a bonus; to compute the withholding they assume your annual salary is $BONUS * $PAY_PERIOD. So you'd likely be taxed at a much higher rate on that single payment than you would be amortized over a year like a salary is.

You'd get that withheld money back after filing taxes, but most people who are laid off would prefer to have that money now.

If Stripe is making regular salary-like payments instead of one lump sum, then the taxes would be pretty much the same as always.
Same in Australia atleast back in my day. As much as I hated back then I am so so so grateful for the breadth of problem spaces (and associated toolsets) it exposed me to. Never mind that people seldom value generalists (to pay them really well). I get plenty of confidence to work on and successfully finish side projects completely unrelated to my day job!!;
It's a Small World, After All!
It's a Small World After All ~
We are all workers on the same side in this sorry story. It is important to realize who the sides are: one is exploiting the other, extracts all their work, gives back the minimum they can, and prevents them from organizing as a group. In-class infighting distracts us from the real issue.
Thanks for investigating this and ultimately getting the fraudulent store taken down. I saw the same social media post regarding the fraudulent store and was surprised that a small local store was targeted with this kind of attack. A good mix of small stores and major corporations in the list. I wonder if they target the small stores because SEO is easier?

It's inspiring to see you follow up like this and help out a wonderful mountain shop. A great reminder and inspiration to be more involved in my community.
Home refers to the place where one lives. If one does not live in the U.S. to have to leave, what's the urgency?