skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at a company that did layoffs recently as well, about double this size.

Our managers also had no idea until day of. The entire day was spent watching co workers google calendars and slack accounts. Once they got a meeting booked with HR, their meeting titles all turned into "busy", so we would know who is getting cut and who wasn't. It was a brutal day.

In our case I don't think they were picking people based on performance whatsoever. It seemed to just be about who was paid the best and who in the org structure could have their job removed and someone else take over. Really weird.
I think it's important to call out that Rosetta 2 on Apple silicon uses a special mode that changes how the memory model works to support x86 style memory ordering. That massively reduces the amount of work needed to emulate x86 and x86-64. Pretty sure apple both has a patent on it and a special dispensation from ARM to use it. Where qualcomm and MS don't have either. Which means emulation on Qualcomm CPUs is going to be painfully slow in comparison because it has to use a lot more locks and fences than is actually necessary with that mode available.
Seems to me like anywhere Python is too bulky to work, a layer serializing and deserializing JSON at every pipeline step is likely to exhaust your memory too.
But we had growth last quarter now, right?
6 hours later...
Slang is still something that confuses the translation apps, especially if you have a simple phrase without much context clues.
How much this brings to mind those old black and white newspaper cartoons with the big fat cat in a suit riding on the backs of the poor pulling out his pockets to show how empty they are.
The culture is the product of many personal decisions. If I was working nights and (especially) weekends at my current employer (another big tech company), I would be told to stop.
> 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?)

Is it not the case in your area that every fast food joint and small business has a "hiring" sign up with a starting wage listed that a lot higher than it was ~3 years ago?
https://archive.ph/NEQJr
Like I can't believe that this reasoning doesn't resonate with people even outside of advertisers. Who wants to be on a social network where if one of your posts breaks containment you spend the next few weeks getting harassed by people who just hurl slurs and insults at you. This is already right now a problem on Twitter and opening the floodgates is the opposite of helping.
> It seems to me that the presence of that community on your site has effects that spread beyond the community itself, it shapes the way people interact even outside the soft-banned subreddit.

This is sort of talking around an argument. You could say the same thing about a subreddit dedicated to re-electing a local alderman because of his policy on the maintenance of public parks. Speech is meant to inform, or to affect change.

The question is whether you're going to use an online annoyance argument to moderate controversy on a platform. If the justification for why you're going to moderate speech is that people who are not annoyed by that speech might react to it, you've moved squarely into making "genuine arguments for true censorship: that is, for blocking speech that both sides want to hear."
Fascinating. It's like your body gradually figured out that you were trying to fool it, and revolted.

I'd bet there are digestion processes that "start up" in response to taste. Maybe your body detected that stevia was regularly "starting up" one of these processes and then withholding the expected glucose spike, and got upset about the pattern
https://snikket.org/ could be the thing you're looking for.
I don’t know about “mass hysteria” but this inflation has certainly made me purchase less physical stuff and especially less services, I guess I’m not the only one. Generally speaking a sudden decrease in buying is cause for a recession, unless you go the Keynesian way and make the Government make up for the lost demand, but I have a feeling that most of the governments are out of “good” money to throw at that.

I do live in Europe and not in the States, though, maybe things are different there.
Who are you to say to be better? Policing people's language doesn't make you better, it just makes you feel better. Entirely performative just like woke people using "Latinx" when 90% of Hispanic people preferring they didn't[0].

[0] https://archive.ph/UONL2
"That few?"

"Why nobody else makes such a watch is a mystery to me."

There ya go.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450753
Yes, it's normal for layoffs to be planned and executed by a very small group, typically to avoid leaks or creating hysteria ahead of decisions being finalized. This in turn means less-than-perfect information is available, and so less-than-scientific cuts are made.

"Ideally", your layoff strategy dictates some cuts regardless of performance: Say we're shutting down the self-driving car division, folding up recruiting, or choosing to accept the risk that comes with getting rid of the whole security team; sadly, the performance of the individuals involved isn't really considered.

Tenure, seniority, and comp are also factors that can come into play & are straightforward to establish without lower-level involvement.
All: this is an interesting submission—it contains some of the most interesting writing about moderation that I've seen in a long time*. If you're going to comment, please make sure you've read and understand his argument and are engaging with it.

If you dislike long-form Twitter, here you go: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1586955288061452289.html - and please don't comment about that here. I know it can be annoying, but so is having the same offtopic complaints upvoted to the top of every such thread. This is why we added the site guideline: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats" (and yes, this comment is also doing this. Sorry.)

Similarly, please resist being baited by the sales interludes in the OP. They're also offtopic and, yes, annoying, but this is why we added the site guideline "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article to complain about—find something interesting to respond to instead."

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

* even more so than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446064, which was also above the median for this topic.
It goes both ways. Keeping under-performers around starts to muddy the culture and push away your high-performers.
The current environment has a similar feeling to the early part of the dot com bubble-burst. In that early part of the burst we had the feeling that it could get bad, but we also were sort of deluding ourselves into thinking that it wouldn't be that bad.

...also HN today kind of looking like fuckedcompany[1] back in those days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
Following the project documentation, you easily come to:

jc dig example.com | jq
[
{
"id": 30081,
"opcode": "QUERY",
"status": "NOERROR",
"flags": [
"qr",
"rd",
"ra"
],
"query_num": 1,
"answer_num": 1,
"authority_num": 0,
"additional_num": 1,
"opt_pseudosection": {
"edns": {
"version": 0,
"flags": [],
"udp": 4096
}
},
"question": {
"name": "example.com.",
"class": "IN",
"type": "A"
},
"answer": [
{
"name": "example.com.",
"class": "IN",
"type": "A",
"ttl": 56151,
"data": "93.184.216.34"
}
],
"query_time": 0,
"server": "192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)",
"when": "Thu Nov 03 14:06:40 CET 2022",
"rcvd": 56,
"when_epoch": 1667480800,
"when_epoch_utc": null
}
]

Rather readable to my mind. And you can rather easily transform it to your preferred human readable output format I guess.
Similar to my own thoughts - like the Warren Buffet rule to say "No" to almost everything so you can leave time for the opportunities that you really want.
> Powell will continue to raise rates until the labor market cools.

This is entirely different from "complaining that the labor market is too tight." The Fed has nothing against a tight labor market so long as we don't have high inflation. Imagine you're a doctor and you're telling your patient that you're going to administer chemotherapy to a child until either the cancer goes away or they get too sick. Then you see protestors trying to convince laymen that you're complaining that a child is experiencing too much cell growth. That's exactly what GP is doing.
Kerosene makes a lot more sense than methane. The only reason methane makes sense for SpaceX is they intend on manufacturing fuel on mars for the return trip.
Amazing. I would consider making an official Youtube channel, and uploading some video tutorials there. Many people prefer video tutorials over good ol articles. Also , maybe a way to turn telemetry on/off? I really love I can use Acreom without any type of account. If you add E2EE in the premium plans many offline first users will get it for sure (at least I will). I didn't get super deep there, but is it possible to have an account with you and after buying a premium plan, just use an activation code/license, instead of logging in?

Edit: typo
“I know this sounds critical, which it is” You have no reason to be critical at all. The author is expressing a desire to help people. They are here because they are unclear how to do so.

That being said, I actually really agree with what you’re saying. (So if your tone was to get strangers on the internet to read a valid point, you succeeded with me at least.) To summarize the greatest takeaway for me: technically the most efficient way to give back (definitely not glamorous) is probably donating further SE income.
I’m primarily a frontend developer. The task i hate most is dev-ops like stuff and dealing with Aws in any capacity. If i was to create a start up I would 100% use something like this or Supabase.
You've got it backwards. As a society, we've already given NBER the authority to declare recessions. They are the official recession caller of the country.

Its you who has to argue why NBER's methodology is wrong.
Computercraft is pretty good
Similar in the UK: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-are-five-million-bri...
Made a small tutorial video
I think they are arguing its about removing political influence and restoring balance.

This will be seen as an "attack on the left" because Twitter has been controlled by the left till now.
Its common place these days for tech organizations to promote social and political issues. The issue for me here is - what if hypothetically the political viewpoint is misguided?

What if this was 2003 and the statement said "Due to the newly found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, we stand in solidarity with the American government for its war against terror"?

I don't think a tech organization should be making such statements in their release notes, which is essentially telling people what should be thought of as right, or wrong, or how to think about a particular issue.

To me its reflective of a potentially dangerous trend that everyone _must_ be an activist and have some kind of alignment.

All I care about is the new and improved logic flow syntax of Rust.
That reminds me of something I've wanted for quite a while:

A ringbuffer filetype. Similar to a named pipe file (see: fifo(7)[^1]), but without consuming the contents on read and automatically rotating out the oldest lines.

Of course, there would be some complexities around handling read position as lines are being rotated out from under you.

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/7/fifo
TL;DR: sugar substitutes may be bad for you because of how bacteria in your gut metabolize them. Or maybe not. Either way, sugar is still worse.

Not that much of a surprise actually.
> So you have to be a publicly traded company to deliver a product now?

No, but they’re the only ones with enough resources to burn. Of the companies that you’ve named, none of them has made a VR system for the masses when the price for entry is about $3000 for a complete PCVR system. To add insult to injury, they’re not even wireless

> My point still stands. I’ve tried the HTC and Valve equipment multiple times. If your argument is “oh you gotta own it and dump hours and hours into it before you see the value”

Yes, it doesn’t stand because you haven’t used it enough. If your only impression of the internet was Yahoo, I don’t feel that it’s fair or accurate to say that the entire internet sucks. Your complaints are vague and they still reflect that of a person with near 0 experience in VR and that’s why I can’t take you seriously.

> I think you’ve already lost your argument with 99.9% of consumers

I don’t expect the masses to be able to see or understand the future. They don’t have the skill set for that. Conversely, most people on HN have that skill. I’m just asking people here to use it with enough data
Right, I had the same response to that sentence, see my comment infra.

It seems to me that an "impaired" glycemic response is what is actually desired, but the word "impaired" has negative connotations. It might be typical usage in a journal article, but it is not for an article in Science.
>>There's no real benefit (or downside) to being "early" or "late" to calling the recession.

For people interested in understanding exactly what the economy does in detail, of course it is more important to get it right than getting it early.

However, for some sets of short-medium-term investors, there could be a very real benefit to calling the trend correctly and early.

I'm quite convinced that what is happening here is what happens to every complex system after a large uncontrolled disturbance - all the subsystems oscillate wildly and often not with the same leading/following indicators. This is just that happening until it gets damped.

I see a key real-time recession indicator as just the level of traffic in the area (I'm north of Boston). Obviously not hard numbers, but quiet vs dense & fast traffic seems to indicate better whether we're going into recession or not. The traffic has only increased since the beginning of the year, and indeed, the last quarter came out as 2%+ growth...
I wanted to make something like this. You almost fulfilled my vision!
> I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency

If anyone is giving you any kind of marketing or content distribution advice, and at no point do they mention product-market fit, or content quality, then they are selling you a dream.
Haven't personally heard of an "Oxbridge accent" but my brain filled it in subconsciously.
No. That quote still doesn't support your assertion. It clearly says that the actual goal is to control inflation.
George Burns smoked cigars into his nineties. He was famous for smoking them while performing.

Anecdotes don’t mean shit for public policy.

And is this even an anecdote? Were you overweight before you started drinking diet and now you’re not, with no other lifestyle changes? Food? Mood? Exercise?
Then self-servingly removing AdNauseum from the Chrome web store is one of the primary things that drove back from Chromium forks to Firefox. Recently they doubled down even harder in such moves so I don't regret my decision there.
The existence of a bias doesn't mean the observation is invalid, just that the bias has to be taken into account.

Anyway, it's definitely not true in this case. I notice the very unusual instance of people drinking soda because it's so rare these days (among my extended social circle). In some cases I _hear_ about it before I meet the person ("my bf drinks like a liter of soda a day" or whatever) -- and then meet them and, unsurprisingly, they're weirdly skinny or fat.
So, are monkfruit or stevia bad for you? I'm a heavy user.
>How is $1500 possible

The fixtures are sold as a for-product solution. They are set up to have flex connectors so the plants can be put on movable racks (with multiple levels) and share power supplies. They are definitely not a hobbyist thing. Think of them as the Cisco switches for growing dope.

There's also some woo-woo about specifically tuned frequencies. This may or may not be a Real Thing, that's not in my wheelhouse.

>630W

They have multiple watt ranges. Another set is more like 340W. The 630W is more for the flowering stage.

I have never grown or used weed at all, but I have done the electrical design work for a largish facility. It's all really fascinating, but it is also a niche market that has a lot of "dude, weed" guys at all levels.
I think this is meant to be humour. Awkward and not particularly successful humour - distasteful humour - but humour nonetheless.
One time I was switching between phones or restoring from Titanium Backup, and WhatsApp removed me from all my groups (maybe when I logged on from a new phone, I got a new key, and when I restored using TB, the new key didn't match my key the members knew)...

If someone from one of the groups confront you/GP about leaving, you can always say "I was restoring from backup and it looked like something went wrong!"
>Or 1. Convince people stocks are going to go down

Stocks are not the economy.

We literally have a cold war with China escalating, a hot war in Europe (which we aren't directly involved in..yet), all after years of loose monetary and fiscal policy, inflation is at generation highs, with rates rising and housing relating prices crashing, and on and on...

Maybe HN needs some more serious economic analyses posted if people think all of this is caused by a 15% fall in SPX.
related to slide 4...

how much does netflix donate to the FreeBSD foundation relative to their profits?
I'm no economist, but isn't this pumping of free money was one of the main reasons we have so much inflation to begin with? America's a great country and all, but I don't think the people really know what they're talking about here. Let's leave the diagnosing to the doctors, and the economy to the economists.
We expect our companies to be efficient and competitive -- and that is the correct expectation to have in a market economy! Giving people busywork will hurt companies, and thus the overall economy, in the long run. That will make everything worse, including school funding and homelessness and inequality. After all, if you want to redistribute wealth, you have to generate wealth!

It would also mean companies would be less likely to hire people. A lot of those people who got laid off never would have been hired in the first place if it was not going to be easy to get rid of them if market conditions changed.

Everyone who works for a startup should know that the market is very dynamic and companies that scale up might also scale down, and they should have a mercenary mindset about this. People who don't like that should work in different industries. People are expected to be adults about this stuff. And frankly the severance package the people who are laid off from Stripe are getting will add up to more money than most Americans make in a year.

I would never under any circumstances recommend the way Japan runs companies to anyone. Their economy is stagnant for a reason, and being an employee in Japan is terrible. You get lifetime employment at the cost of your own personal life, because the company owns all of your time.
I appreciate you "not supporting it" even though you've very selectively chosen to express "understanding" in instances where that understanding aligns with racism. To be clear, you are against racist property ownership laws and thus against the racism of the local government of American Samoa, correct?

>the plight of the local foreign underclass

The disadvantaged minorities (such as Filipinos) I'm referring to who thankfully were actually allowed to own land in Hawaii are almost all US nationals, not foreigners. Under the racist laws of Americas Samoa they would be excluded from land ownership, even as fellow US nationals residing in American Samoa.
> As an example, we've often been told to eat more fibers to increase "flow", the flow increase is because the fibers are digested by bacteria and the mild toxicity of the process forces the digestive system to flush everything.

This isn't an accurate portrayal of the benefits of fiber. The laxative effects of fiber are just one of many benefits. For example, Fiber can bind to saturated fats, disabling the negative affects of them. Specifically, in terms of bacteria, many bacteria digest fiber, which in turn creates short chain fatty acids, which have many health benefits.

You're right about one thing, though: this is indeed a complex subject.
true. My intuition is that that's not the case though. I should add, I don't know _any_ non-diet soda drinkers, and the diet soda drinkers are the ones with weight issues.
I basically want an old school style mp3 player with bluetooth and a GPS tracker that I can just plug into a computer and grab the gpx data, and copy mp3s to its disk. No apps, no locked down ecosystems. If it tells the time and shows a calendar, great.
That wasn’t a tunnel (“an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end”, according to Wikipedia); it was a tube.
Employees have pricing power, which is why wage growth is running far ahead of what's consistent with 2% inflation.

The labor market tends to be tightest before a recession because it forces the Fed to hike until it breaks.

https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker
Afraid people will read my blog.

I enjoy blogging but it is like a journal. It helps me think. A private journal might work but I tend to ramble on in private journal.

A blog makes me want to write a bit more concise. But I am afraid my friends will find it and may make fun of me.

I still write but not as openly as I want to.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEMZHmMoYvgFroDr8T8x8jYU...
The article points out that different artificial sweeteners have different glycemic responses, so you could try some others.
How “Gathering Requirements” is indicative of ineffective Dev-PM interactions
> Pet conspiracy theory: boom/bust cycles are not only inevitable, but desirable to some extent.

I wouldn’t call this a conspiracy theory at all. The founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, spent time and money to publish this idea in various forms. I learned about it from here:

https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0

There’s more to this idea—-the long term debt cycle—-but the premise is exactly what you stated. There are benefits to both the boom and bust phases of the economy.