skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "recession" is aspirational. They will keep talking about it until investors get spooked and cause a recession.

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/04/federal-reserve-interest...

> “We see today that there is a bit of a savings buffer still sitting for households, that may allow them to continue to spend in a way that keeps demand strong,” she said. “That suggests we may have to keep at this for a while.”
Musk isn't going to somehow accurately identify the worst performers. You lose good people too when laying off half the workforce. Not just that, but the treatment of those who remain is likely to be really poor. Did Musk wipe out their RSUs? I don't know, but he has incentive and that special lack of empathy needed to cut their pay. The union protects all of the employees.
No, because you missed the point of the post you were responding to. They were clearly
talking about the effect of conflict between major powers.

Huge genocides are horrific tragedies but did not effect the development of technology like wartime did.
Those techies had years in which to organize their workplace under US labor law to forestall exactly this kind of outcome. For the past 20 years, there was no group of employees on earth with more latent power than US tech workers, but this very fact blinded them to the possibility that they might ever lose this power. What feeble efforts there were at collective action were organized around divisive "social justice" topics rather than securing a permanent voice for labor in tech company governance and decision making.

Twitter workers are highly intelligent and the current pity party for them is unseemly. Everyone in the industry saw a day coming when the music would stop, whether because of economic changes or automation, but no one chose to act.
How do VPN ad blockers work? Like do you need to add a trusted CA to your device and the VPN MITMs all of your traffic? I’m not sure I’d have that level of trust in my VPN provider…
If you're willing to pay, Interintellect might be it.

https://interintellect.com/
I don't need a reporter to tell me that Elon Musk is a villain.
Why do you feel like he should be a hero?
Well, no, you don't chain-load Windows from grub either because then PCR are wrong and Bit Locker rightly complains.

Which is why you... Just use the system boot manager to pick which loader to load. Easy, problem solved.

And you can edit the system boot manager entries from Linux and Windows, set bootnext from either one. It's really strictly superior to what you're describing.
He would need about 12-13M people to sign up to cover the $1bn/year debt interest. Going to be interesting to see how far he gets in that...

[edit: hedge between 12M and 13M]
> Mudge isn't saying that Twitter's statements about mDAU are wrong;

He literally did say that. I get the sense you're not reading the whistleblower docs... Or just arguing for the sake of arguing. I've quoted Mudge. Whereas you are inferring things based on what Musk said.

I've already linked the docs so I won't again. I've pointed out where this information can be found. Those documents are in no uncertain terms stating that Twitter does not have a grasp of how many fake accounts there are. Therefore, any number they give is wrong.
omay - sokoban+ is incredible
The way employees were treated was beyond disgraceful. Really feel sorry for my younger self who believed that Musk truly cares about Humanity. Never ever hero worship a billionaire while thinking he will change the world. They are all ego manic pos hungry for more and more control. Small things you can do a) If you care about environment don't buy an over expensive electric car. Think about efforts to improve Public transport b) SpaceX is not about putting man on Mars. It is about elon wanting to control world's internet through Starlink. Whenever a small nation falls for the trap raise your voice.
It's easy to quit a job when we are in a bull market. The last few years have seen massive turnover, for example.

But we aren't in that scenario any longer. People who remain will find it much more difficult to find a good job somewhere else as more and more companies are freezing hiring. This could go on for awhile.
> Musk may be a competent engineer

What has he personally engineered. He's an 'ideas guy' and maybe a manager.
Noah Webster's “A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language” (1806)
I think humanity should stop putting its trust into flawed men no matter who they are. I couldn't care less about labels, only ethics. Musk isn't close enough to virtually pure for me to put any faith in him, despite that he has done some "good."

Let's look inside ourselves for leadership.
Bungie to PS5 owners: Stop playing the old PS4 version of Destiny 2 already
> So the only thing https can hide is the content, such as a credit card or password that you enter into the site.

TLS is not only for hiding the content, it's also for authentication: it ensures that no malicious middle party can modify the content, for instance to inject malicious Javascript (for an example of this happening, read about the "Great Cannon" attack on GitHub).
I've always said that onlyfans is one of the more ethical platforms; there's less of a question of who gets paid and how.
The fact that real wages have been stagnant for decades and productivity gains all go upwards could be a factor here.
To be fair, SpaceX and Tesla have two sides: manufactoring (low wages) and design/engineering (high wages). Few on HN care about manuf jobs that pay less than 40 USD/hour. When you say "tens of thousands" -- you can say the same about Amazon warehouses. My guess about Tesla: Lean and mean design and engineering teams. Twitter? Bloated as hell with people who don't code or have sales revenue targets.
Makes perfect sense. As twitter is now a private company at the whims of a crazy bro i think more companies should reevaluate wether they want to use his services and products. He needs to convince users, corporate or private, that this ad platform is worthy.
The purpose of the article is to talk about the arbitrary and sometimes cruel nature of the legal system. They have power because they are known to have power, because what lawyer will overstep the boundary implied by the almighty power bestowed onto the judge to effectively ask, “will you please just do a different ruling?”

They don't invoke anything, beyond a simple appeal to humanity. And the fact that they work, when everything else about the legal system is based around mechanical certainty, is terrifying for a lawyer; because it undermines the system they're trained to understand as “if X then Y will (almost) always happen.” If a judge can just decide, “you know what, instead of Y I'll decide to do Σ,” then that shakes the implicit trust of the system. By revealing that the Justice System is based around the whims of a small group of people with disproportionate power.
Well it's less that HE is mutually exclusive, it's more that the polarized social media world tends to see through these extreme lenses. And probably some days he's more one than the other.
You've nailed it.

I bailed on a MAAMA job in the states to move back to Canada.

Salary expectations (and currency!) are generally lower here, but the job market itself is hotter than I've ever seen it here.

My theory is that USA tech companies are friendshoring like mad.

In other words, Canada is picking up the recoil from the trade war with China. Biz that used to go to China (or even India) is now going to Toronto.

And every time a US company looks at their bottom line, they will recall that, if they hire three hours north of Seattle, they'll get something like a 40%-50% discount on total comp, PhDs out the wazoo, and a convenient, well-funded federal immigration system.

It's a no-brainer. What kind of fool would start a business in a politically unstable disaster-country where some populist executive order could cut you off from your supply of H1Bs next year?

Your job is moving to Canada (or possibly Europe,) and if you're smart, you'll move with it.
Looking forward to a new insidious workaround Google and Apple will use to limit the impact of this legislation.
Europe has much stronger labour laws, and a much deeper social safety net for people who do in fact lose their jobs. Almost all states (Montana being kind of the exception where at-will goes away after the probationary period of your job) have "At-Will" [1] employment, which basically means you can be fired for anything, at any time, without any reason needing to be given, apart from for a few carved-out exceptions; for example, it is illegal to fire you because of your skin colour. If your boss wants to fire you for wearing a blue tie on a Wednesday, you're out.

In many ways worse than the immediate loss of job/income, though, is that your medical coverage is usually (and by usually, I means pretty much always) tied to your employment. So if you're pregnant, or if you're on expensive life-saving medicines, well, you have a problem.

There are various band-aids to try and help people out when they lose their job, but none of them are particularly impressive, looking on them from a European perspective.

I'm a Brit, been here for almost 20 years, basically for the money. I would have left and returned back to the UK 5 years or so ago (having made enough to keep us comfortably for the rest of our lives) but the kid is in school, and my (US) wife doesn't want to uproot him (which is fair). Once he's off to college, I'm going to retire, stay a while on relatively low "income" to get out of the "fuck you" tax for green-card holders leaving the country, and I'm (we're) out of here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Unrelated to the Linode thing, but in 15 years building and selling SaaS products, I've encountered a number of customers who nitpick prices or try to haggle. I'm not talking about non-profits with micro budgets, rather very profitable businesses.

Nowadays, whenever someone goes there, I just change my usual lighthearted tone to a serious one and say "Yeah, our prices are firm, if that's outside of your budget it's better we just move on". They 180 real fast. Every. Single. Time. Then they never mention prices again.
Dropbox Data Breach Another Multifactor Fail
Musk blames Twitter's drop in revenue on “activists” instead of himself
I’d love to know the intersection of people who want this and can’t trivially get around it with side loading
This[0] is probably a first amendment violation.

[0]https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...
This is my issue too. Politicians have seemed to abandoned reality. Why not though, its what they get rewarded for.

Politician X makes a claim that would be torn to shreds in a setting where people are at least trying to be honest. Politician X then gets thousands of supporters blindly agreeing or having meta discussions about almost anything besides what matters.

Until we as a people stop rewarding this behavior, it will only continue.
Ask HN: How to prove to USCIS my startup is building a business of significance?
I am one of the co-founders of a startup working in AI and ML space. We are currently past $1M ARR but are bootstrapped and supported with our revenue (No VC).

I recently decided to go for EB1A green card. I got a "Request for Evidence" and one of the things mentioned was the significance of our startup as our tax returns showed a net loss.

Hoping to get some insights:

How do I educate USCIS to understand the significance outside of the tax returns?

How do I convince them that in tech startup a CTO is a critical role?
I think it's more that we ignore common sense a lot as a society and only believe things that are empirically backed by data and have been published in a journal somewhere with reproducible results that can be cited.

This is essentially the "no shit" answer from the author. I would be lying if I said it wasn't also my initial thought to the productivity news when I read the headline recently.
They compare its cost effectiveness to lithium electrochemical storage batteries, but it seems much more apt to compare it to large-scale flow batteries, which also use relatively cheap, easily available materials. How does it compare to those?
yes - and on top of that, which shot to take might be completely unknown but effective if you just knew what to do.
Analyzing frequency of email addresses would be enough for what GP posted here. Questionable, but not as egregious as reading peoples email. But hey, gmail has done it for years so.... meh.
It is probably the right time to finally install a PiHole :)
Can we please fix the title? Not only is it incomplete and makes no sense, it also got butchered such that it is now wrong. Original:

"Twitter faces a class action lawsuit over mass employee layoffs without proper legal notice"

At least replace the "with" with "without".
To be honest, I'd have to do some digging around to get exact versions of a fair amount of my software on my latop- much of it isn't immediately surfaced in the UI, and where it was installed from could be from several places.

In android, every app version is found in the exact same place on my phone:

Settings > Apps > (select an app) > very bottom has version number. App details takes you to the full details page in the play store, which shows the full name of the app and the publisher name.
The major cost is on the AV1 side, which is there for video and which JPEG XL can't replace. The extra cost of recycling existing MP4+AV1 code to handle AVIF is minimal, smaller than JPEG XL can be.
Why would you need a satellite connection in an urban environment?
> Users of dating apps are often warned that they should do due diligence and use caution when moving from the moderated, patrolled environs of the app into another mode of communication or encounter.

> Of course, yes, a dating app's ultimate goal is meeting in person and striking up a real relationship. But anyone crossing that boundary had better be very sure that they've gotten to know the person and they really can trust that an encounter won't turn into a craigslist murder.

Too much caution and delaying IRL encounters for too long can be dangerous, though.

Disclaimer: I'm married and it's been long since I last was in the dating market, so these are quite old recollections from when Tinder wasn't a thing and people hooked up in ICQ, IRC and the like. This is also purely subjective.

I remember many women were extremely cautious, to the point of not dating in person until they had talked to a guy online for literally months, in some extreme cases even years. But the problem is that they talked to these guys without meeting them IRL for so long, that often idealization kicked in very hard. Because they didn't see the guy, they built an extremely rosy mind model of him and then trusted him too much when they finally met, when they shouldn't have. Sometimes they would even fall in love online. Manipulative guys often took advantage of these things: it's easier to get away with all sorts of shady tactics if they can't see you and everything is asynchronous.

So my advice as an internet dinosaur would be: sure, don't meet IRL before having at least some nontrivial conversation, and sure, take basic precautions (meet in a busy place, don't go to a total stranger's house, etc.). But don't go overboard postponing meeting in person, thinking that this will let you know the other person better and reduce risk. That can easily backfire. Once you've talked for 3-5 days, I think the risk mostly goes up from there, not down.

Perhaps no one is so cautious anymore so this doesn't apply anyway.
Maybe Audi's next ad can be "Buy Audi cars, our CEO isn't a bumbling fool who blew $44B on a toy and then decided to sledgehammer it to pieces."...
I just voted on the same type of system in Wisconsin. It’s nice to have the paper trail. When I voted in Minnesota, I made my selections by filling in bubbles and then feeding the paper into a machine. Either way there’s a physical piece of paper with my selection on it.
Not necessary, the problem is similar as what can be seen with garbage collection (latency vs. throughput).

For example if you give more smaller time slices to threads then you have better latency but worse throughput as it means more work when switching the time slices and more cache invalidation.

.NETs test suite is tuned for Windows. Windows is focusing more on desktop use-cases and is more tuned for lower latency then throughput on the other hand FreeBSD is mainly for servers so their scheduler is more tuned for throughput. This difference could very well explain the failure in the test suite.(Independent of weather there is a bug or not.) To test what I think it does test you have to be very thigh about the expected latencies, thigh enough to make the test suit fail if used on a more throughput optimized system.

Similar on Linux in some distros you have an alternative official kernel for media applications (e.g. gaming) which changes kernel parameters to be a bit more latency focused. E.g. linux-zen in case of arch linux.
> If they transfer money out and it turns out it was fraud they can easily compensate the original account holder by putting the money back in their account and there's little harm done, especially if the sums are small.

But, once he'd learned that all of the other ½ cents are left floating around inside the megacorporation's database, Gorman hacked into the company's computer system and funneled them all into his next check, accruing the amount of $85,789.90, (a crime that would be later be known in slang as "salami slicing").

https://superman.fandom.com/wiki/Gus_Gorman
> Google will have to allow alternative app stores on Google Play.

Play is a store. It's used on Android, which allows other stores, of which there are many.
Fully agree.

Additionally, many of these devs are arguably masters at vanilla JavaScript. Some learned JS before modern features became available. They probably don’t need ES5 features to be productive, let alone the newer features or for that matter TypeScript.

The frustration is that they would probably benefit from using TypeScript in the long run.
I am appalled by this. Thanks for sharing. I clearly am lucky!
On the other hand, Brazil have been electronic voting exclusively since ~2000 with no evidence of fraud/mistakes since then, AFAIK.

If it seems to be possible in a country like Brazil, why not in Canada/UK/USA?
There are absolutely other levers left, the Fed just doesn't want you to know about them. Some large portion of inflation is being driven by unjustified price increases, price gouging, which is driving spectacular record profits in some sectors. Nixon arguably ended out of control inflation with price controls. The same could be done today. Another lever would be an excess profits/windfall tax.

Edit: As I see I'm already being downvoted let me just say: you can't complain about inflation, and the unemployment that's resulting from it, while ignoring one of inflation's key drivers and pretending nothing can be done about it.
No, it’s more about getting those pixies out of your closed garden and into the big open net to be processed.

As long as you’re going towards the cloud I bet they’ll affirm it.
> either the people who have wealth and control media are completely disconnected from my reality, or, are absolute sociopaths

Why not both?
I gave up working hard when I turned 24 years and my friend passed away due to an alcohol battle.

Since then, I realize working long hours; countless hours wasted at night solving and fixing issues isn’t worth the time on earth.

Working hard and looking like a 40 year old man when I was 24 years old. I started to see gray hair show.( I’m not exaggerating, I looked like shit)
3 years ago, gray hair was showing.

Not worth it being called “ the main man”

Not worth it.
Jack I think blamed the board for a lot of the inaction which is why he was supportive of Elon taking it private.
I live in the UK we are defiantly in recession but there is still more tech jobs than there are people to fill them. I got two job offers in two weeks of searching both paid more than the job I am in. I nearly didn't bother looking because of all the fud.
Does anyone know of a neural network that is written in C and GLSL and that runs on normal OpenGL?
When ruby on rails launched it had a presentation thingy to do it. Then it started appearing everywhere.
> SpaceX and Tesla have no 'resume cachet'.

Among hiring managers at big companies, they absolutely do.
Yep, sure. We all know how humble Elon is and is absolutely not the type of person who would sell this “self-made men” image of himself to the public to look better? “He came to the US with a few hundreds dollars and everything is his accomplishment”…

Even if family wealth only helped him through insanely good relations to other people in the top 1%, it is still all that much more than you will likely ever achieve/get. And I frankly don’t buy this “daddy doesn’t love me” BS.
> because there are no other levers left.

That the government is allowed to use.

Cost of living in cities is sky high, rent and property prices are a huge part of that. The solution, rezone and build crap tons of housing, is politically untenable due to a vocal minority.

Increasing corporate taxes, or just taxes in general on the upper brackets, another lever that isn't available in the current political climate.
It may not be violating "twitter rules", but it's likely violating company policy not to expose internal dealings (even as trivial as screenshots of slack emojis).
I feel you.

Over the past 3 years, I've had to face

- New job (with the slow burning leetcode nonsense as a precursor)

- Dad's court cases (he has a lot going on)

- Wife's immigration woes (USCIS is hands down the WORST agency in the world)

- Wife's job situation (made tenuous by USCIS)

- Mom's covid

- Dad's admission to hospital because of diabetes symptoms

- 2 Failed IVF cycles

- Inability to travel outside the country because US consulates don't function for my wife

- Promotion and management issues

- Inflation

- Recession

I am spent. Each one of the above is its own bureaucracy with insurance and/or slow government. US government truly is obnoxious to deal with.

Honestly, I don't give two rats ass about work any longer. I used to be strategic and effective engineer. I don't think I can keep up with bureaucracy any longer.

The only way I've managed myself through this is by sleeping well ( with a low-dose 1mg melatonin every night) and cutting off all social connections (which really sucks). I also try to do small tasks at a time but I don't know how much longer I can sustain this for.
Most have DHCP-fixed IPs.

The IP lease never changes but it's assigned by DHCP - check your settings (mine was in /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml

dhcp4: yes
The recession isn’t happening yet. But because there’s anxiety it might happen, we are making it happen.
It appears they did not file a WARN notice:
https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN
Direct link to the list of recent WARN notices received:
https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets/files/jobs_and_training/warn/w...

I am not an expert on these things, but I believe this notice is required. I am surprised there is not an easier way to receive this information, this is certainly something I would want an alert set up on.
It's entirely possible for both things to be true at the same time. Tons of developers prematurely optimizing things that don't matter because they make assumptions about performance. Those assumptions can also mean an epidemic of not optimizing things that *do matter*.
Just use F-Droid y'all. I promise it doesn't bite. FOSS software on a much more open distribution platform, which can be extended with more repositories if the base selection isn't enough... what's there not to like?

Use Aurora Store for those few irreplaceable proprietary apps, or apps you previously purchased that are linked to your Play account.
How to Develop a Better Personality to Get into an Elite University
Twitter suffers “massive drop in revenue,” Elon Musk says