skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day you still want something that sticks out, and artists are trained at that.
Remove $8B worth of carbon from the atmosphere.
100%. I do think there is room for another company though... but definitely not Facebook.
Nice one!

Reducing 8 billion problems to 195 problems.

Additionally, some further improvements are possible. Eg. Redirecting to the EU, instead of associated countries.
Interesting. I just wrote a very similar shell in Go.

http://github.com/codazoda/goshell

I also recorded a “live coding” style video of it. I haven’t released that yet. I plan to start releasing weekly video’s in January and I’m trying to build up a few so that I’m not rushed. I’m sure they’ll be terrible at first. :P
As much as “thoughts and prayers”. It mainly makes the CEO feel better.
From what I understand they would other drop other projects or literally not leave the office until the new feature was built. Again, from a book, you might want to fact check this.
What org were you part of?
Well, we'll see who wins.

My prediction: after a rough period, the situation stabilizes and a pattern emerges: most white-collar workers will try to land a job with companies offering remote and hybrid work whereas the rest will have to have a stationary job and work their way up to upgrade to remote/hybrid.
The one that says “There are numerous other definitions and viewpoints.”?
The two companies probably hired the same consulting firm to plan their respective layoffs.
As a non-tech guy who follows the tech scene:

87000 people to run Facebook sounds a little ridiculous.

These tech companies sounds like colleges these days where the number of administrators has grown 10X and the amount of teachers has stayed the same.

Use your money to hire people that directly contribute to your product. Use profits to "do good" after.
> I have no idea what meta is doing these days

What you said, but in a Second Life clone.
hmm, maybe, but it seems like a golden age for tech where it was hard to fail from a strong starting position. MS, Google, Amazon, Apple, have all done much better than Facebook.
Or, the dynamics behind the two events are very similar and there’s only so many different ways to describe it, so you shouldn’t expect significant variation in how they’re described.

Not everything has to be 100% brand-new and unique.
It definitely can, see my other comment.
Yes, I don't even have very advanced needs but there are surprising omissions or ill thought of workflows throughout the software. I'm the most confused by the "personas" and sometimes feel like I need to go "back" because I need some tool, but I think there are some other strange design decisions too even in fairly basic tools.
> those (chinese) companies largely exist thanks to their state barring competition from the outside

> (...)the United States government will clamp down on them hard.

In the same sentence, nice one. :)
Note that FB isn't giving a flat 4 months (for US employees); the email says that severance is "16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service".
Harsh reality Python Newbies and intermediates need to understand
The bubble has popped for unprofitable software companies
Just 4h ago I went to affinitys website because I wanted to download photos for my work laptop and I got a page "we're working on something big. stay tuned".
And now I'm seing this. I'm hyped.

Edit: Looks like there's no discount if you already own a license which is a bummer considering they advertised with selling you a lifetime license.
Counter-anecdote: When I was at school, we had an aging computer lab, an IT teacher who was learning the material about 1 lesson ahead of us from the other IT teacher, an IT course that consisted of MS Access, and (non-actionscript) Flash. The only really creative subjects that could be taken were Design Technology and Art.

These days that same school has a full-on photography studio, modern computers, an actual computing course, multiple extra language courses, bigger and significantly better equipped classrooms all around. Just better in every conceivable way.

And they're no more surveilled than we were.

In almost all cases, home-schooled kids are significantly worse-off. Both in terms of attainment and social development. You are not going to be an exception to that.
you're right and it's a pain point for YEARS

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/42372-file...
OK, but what do you do then? Its not really helpful to say "this bad", if you don't offer a "this good". Of the maybe 10 approaches I have seen to Rust error handling (including using external crates, gross), the "enum idiom" is the most elegant and flexible to me, and coming from another language feels the most natural.
Google didn't innovate in the last 10 years and it's very alive and vital. Maybe doing good one thing is enough. Like Google doing ads.
I used to borrow a friends book and photo copy the entire book. It wasn’t ideal but it was often an order of magnitude cheaper than buying those crappy books.
You're right, I find that point of view to be very controversial. I've been to rich and poor parts of the US and Europe, and currently live in a US state that's in the bottom quintile of per capita incomes among states. There's absolutely no comparison to actual third world countries. I'd love to hear your supporting arguments for your position.
I feel like from my point of view there were too many eyes on this battle.

At 27% reporting, Fetterman was at 84% and republicans were ecstatic. Happy to be losing.

This is super odd and I also understand why. Fetterman had all the heavy hitters campaign with him and a huge budget.

But he also came out against roe v wade, fetterman celebrated the demise of roe v wade. Biden and him announced a huge economic destruction in PA. By all measures it should have been the opposite. Fetterman should have been crushed.

I have to be missing something.
Only a fraction of that $8B in aid was direct cash payments to Ukraine. Much of it went to US defense contractors and was recycled into the domestic economy. Higher fossil fuel prices hurt US consumers, but most of that value is flowing to US energy companies and ultimately to US investors. The vast majority of fossil fuels burned here are also extracted and refined here; we only import a little.
I think you’re right. Something about this is certainly dishonest.

I am struggling to figure out what exactly.

Fake newspaper websites are also a scourge, typically pushing some particular product.

But interestingly, in this case I struggle to see what exactly the difference is. Perhaps it’s because I have such a low view of newspapers in the first place…
it means its harder to say that this advert lead to this click on the page.

This means the quality of the analytics coming back are much poorer. so its harder to optimise for a market segment.
Integrating a language server (LSP) in a VS Code extension
No. TikTok just has a better product compared Facebook.
Or VRChat, which does everything Meta is trying to do years ago
If 11k employees are 13% of the workforce, then Meta employed roughly 85k people.

Holy moly, what do all these people actually do all day long?

Also, assuming an average annual wage of 80k USD, that would mean 6.8 billion USD of wage costs every year. That's quite something.
It's the same thing. Just the latter implies you're identifying an assumption or two as variable and modeling outcomes of some of them changing. They're all forecasts. To argue otherwise is semantic pedantry.
This is certainly sometimes true, but when someone is explicitly asking for help, making suggestions that are too "obvious" may come off as condescending or, if the other person hadn't tried it, put them on the defensive. For instance you might suggest something like "turn it off and on again" and the other person might say "duh, I already tried that and it didn't work, I wouldn't have come to you otherwise" or worse they might not have tried it but the way you suggest it as a blindingly obvious course of action makes them feel bad for not having tried it.
Even the issue you mention, training without consent, won't stop this.

Chances are really very low that this will become illegal and enforceable. It would require some very draconian laws, whilst copyright legislation is low priority in government circles, even more so in these times.

Even if somehow this would be outlawed in the US, nobody cares internationally. Right now, on Amazon you can buy knockoffs of millions of products from China that violate IP/copyright. Nobody cares. Do you think they will care about something as worthless as a digital image? A digital image that can't even be reliably detected as being AI generated?

And there's yet another work-around. Scrape images that don't require consent or make consent part of terms and conditions. Google made Google Photos free for about a decade, and trained it for free on all your stuff.
Contact them first and explain your situation to be sure.
>Distributed ledgers are not a scam, and our true best hope for anti-corruption.

They are not a scam, but they are almost completely useless

>I would like every elected official to have all their income and spending listed on a public ledger.

A public ledger is not necessarily a decentralised ledger. This could be accomplished by any bank account controlled by a US politician to send the payments made to a US goverment controlled webapp that's then publicly accessible (by FOI request, if necessary). No blockchain, no decentralised woo needed. What you have stated is a POLTICIAL problem, and those require POLITICAL solutions. No new or speculative technology, of any sort, is needed to accomplish the problem statement.
Getting laid off during a tech crash often leads to smart people deciding to finally follow the dreams they couldn't justify during the tech bull market. There's probably no shortage of people working at Facebook who have dreams of quitting to build some idea they have. But quitting a job paying 350k or whatever is just not in the cards.
I am now reading The Grug Brained Developer for the first time, and thoroughly enjoying every minute of my time. Thank you for writing this!
So does version 2 of Affinity Photo add support for AVIF? Can't find it listed on https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/full-feature-list/ (rather hard to search, since sections have to be uncollapsed one by one).

Strange price model where existing customers do not get an upgrade discount.
All platform is a lie, IIRC a long time ago they actually promised a Linux version, but never realized that.
Sometimes voluntary buyouts are offered before the layoffs. And they typically will make it seem like the buyout option will have better terms than the eventual severance package, to entice people to take it rather than risk getting fired down the road.
A SPA can be built with traditional server side tech to populate the page. When the user interacts with the application the state can be updated. Isn't it still a SPA?

Never liked the JS bandwagon. Funny to see them coming full circle.
Genuinely curious why Meta (other big companies) hired so much during the pandemic? Did one companies make a strategic business decision to hire more based on project needs, and other companies followed on in a copy cat way? I guess maybe meta was thinking “VR will take off during pandemic and folks won’t be able to put the goggles back down ever”. I could see some companies copying it just to hedge against other companies over-recruiting and snatching some of their employees. Seems almost like a similar copy cat effort is happening now, unless they are all just admitting they over-hired.
Ha, that is damn clever
Give it to me - I'll take care of it.
That would make it very simple for real AI bots to take its place.
I couldn't understand what is illegal from the article. Is it illegal to use font as service?
Corporate-speak aside, Meta and Stripe couldn't be more different:

+ Meta is funding a new business. Stripe is funding expansion of current business.

+ On existing revenue, Meta has new threats which had little to do with C19 (Apple's changes, Tiktok etc competition, ad budgets moving to influencers). Although Stripe is not public (so less numbers to analyze), it doesn't seem like they have similar pressures on revenue.

+ The main similarity is they are both subject to the impacts of inflation and rising interest rates. However, that is true for almost every large company right now.
If not exchanges, what entity would you suggest as a way to change crypto into fiat?

Using the most successful fiat currency the world has ever known as a goal seems a bit lofty. In your view, how much time should it have taken to surpass the dollar?
A company I know fired 50% of their devs 1 day before Christmas without any prior notice. Many people got a message during their daily meetings and some were just outright blocked when they attempted to login without any explanation.
Ask HN: Tips for learning how to type properly at a late age
Hi HN!

I'm an engineer and I've always typed very poorly since I was young. My parents tried everything to get me to learn properly when it became apparent that I was predisposed to spending a lot of my life doing it, but it was already too late. I can still hear the lizard from Mavis Beacon eating the letters as I typed them.

Now that I'm getting a little older, my hands don't appreciate this very much. In particular my right index is objecting to having to smash the spacebar every word (yes, I'm that bad).

Does anyone have any tips on how to approach a transition to typing properly (or better) in ones mid-thirties please?

Thanks HN!
Conclusion from a brief reading: Staffing cost is far too high and whoever is making decisions has failed to act before it became a crisis when the money reserve was nearly gone last month.
Become a freelance war journalist.
There was a really great talk at ElixirConf 2022 with this tip + loads more. [1]
Definitely check it out!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BotVs6TXR-c
This is the most likely route I can think of which could actually work
> the truth is always better

A favourite Mr. Robot scenes has everybody at the AllSafe office
wearing a giant badge with their most fundamental truth written on it.
It mocks a "post-privacy" some fools advocate, via the cynical eyes of
Esmail's hacker character Elliot.

Point being; human relations don't work on "truths" but on carefully
managed mutually secured fictions and personas to protect us and
preserve power relations. Traditionally we call those "manners"
(tactical lying so others can save face etc). But for the comedy of
unexpectedly volunteered truths, who wouldn't enjoy a Mufti Day, where
everyone at work gets to speak the unvarnished truth with absolute
impunity for a day?
it's not just facebook... they have oculus, insta, whatsapp, they were exploring mapping, and self driving cars at one point...
> All in all, it feels like AI is a danger for people at the bottom of the profession hierarchy, but will elevate people at the top, whose work cannot be replaced.

The question is whether it not rather puts the people in the middle under pressure, when it helps the people at the bottom to produce better quality.

I can observe such a shift in translations. Deepl is not perfect, but it allows me to improve my own English texts considerably. Even if I were to give my text to a professional to polish, she or he would have much less to do than before, when I was not assisted by Deepl.
Thanks for pointing that out, the p/h3 letter spacing really was a bit too tight - fixed now
Also, IIRC Excel only ever had 256^2 max rows before .xlsx.
The small redis instances sound interesting. The dyno sleep makes them less useful though. Serving anything on the web with cold start is a non starter
" no one really _needs_ them"

Facebook? Sure, people can live without that. But Microsoft, Google, i'd argue even Amazon are integral parts of the economy. Trying building a modern business without the business software Microsoft maintains. Try doing work without Google. Amazon is a part of our modern shopping habits.

Do they need to be as big as they were? Probably some room to go down, but they're an essential part of the economy now.
My guess is all email activity for the remainder of the time will be closely monitored and audited by their security/compliance team
Cryptocurrency as Money–Store of Value or Medium of Exchange?
Social media is dead, long live social media.
UK startup's fusion gun will fire a 1B-G projectile at a fusion fuel pellet
This was common on what a lot of people did when the dot-com era crashed to an end. Almost all my software engineering friends went to grad school, most for their MBAs and law degrees, a few stayed their course in software engineering and bit-twiddling.
Which are smaller than various US States, so I think categorizing them as small is reasonable.
Well wherever the HBO execs end up landing will become the new home for quality TV. It'll unfortunately only be clear in a few years.
Mine was on a couple of dozen floppies from a BBS.

Downloading them over my 28.8kbps modem was so expensive and tedious and unreliable that I put my PC in the car, along with a stack of floppies and the 15" CRT monitor, mouse, and IBM Model M keyboard, drove six hours to the opposite side of the country, to where my friend who ran the BBS lived.

We spent the weekend copying floppies and installing very early Slackware on a couple of machines.
I would accumulate shares slowly, not be an asshole, and work to get a seat on the board and communicate with the other big institutional / activist holders who control the board seats. I would use my experience and reputation as a technologist and entrepreneur to do deep dives with the CEO, who was the former CTO, to get a feeling for what has been tried, what has been rejected, and what future strategies are being considered.

it is possible that twitter isnt really amenable to being a growth company, and this is borne out by the stagnant stock price and the lack of top line revenue growth. in that case I would definitely try to gradually reduce the workforce to support more of a lean mode of operation, and try to entice young, smart programmers and product managers into kind of an incubator to see if anything really new with a wider or different appeal (like TikTok) could be built and rolled out on the cheap. the new ideas that take off are not necessarily different in kind than the existing social apps, they just have something that makes them ergonomic and addictive, and you have to try a lot of things and maybe they will take off.

I think instead of trying to add new products into existing apps, it might sometimes be a better idea from a marketing POV to instead roll out or aquire a new idea as a distinct app. See insta vs Facebook. You cant make Facebook cool by just cramming instagram inside of it.

This measured approach would allow him to pay maybe half what he did in terms of valuation, and gradually increase his stake from the 10% range to something controlling if and only if the internal governance situation was suited to it, and the business prospects could be ascertained.
TikTok is a contagion. It just happens to infect it's users more effectively than it's counterparts.
> ...`std::unreachable`. But shouldn't this be a compiler directive?

Probably "committee pragmatism", a stdlib change might be easier to get approved than a language change, and compilers already have builtins for this, they're just not compatible (but the differences can be wrapped in a macro, and since C++ doesn't like to expose macros, it's probably still a macro, but hidden inside a stdlib template).

FWIW it looks like C23 will also just get a macro:

https://thephd.dev/ever-closer-c23-improvements#unreachable-...
ff devtools are alright, but chrome's are kinda the industry standard
I'm not going to waste my time arguing with you. You seem to have a firm belief. It's not objective and factually incorrect.

I'm not going to say Israel is innocent, far from it, but it's not a terrorist state. It's also not an apartheid state. Words have meaning and you're not using those words according to their meaning.
I’m going to take a wild guess that since GDPR is mentioned, it’s somehow related to the fonts being fetched from google by the browser and leaving some tracking trace behind (without consent).
I think it's more about not being recognized for the amount of work that one puts, not necessarily the absolute (or relative) pay.

How many times I've worked all-nighters to build core parts of a system, only to see the guy who talks the loudest in meetings get promoted.
For Europe, Ace & Tate [1] are affordable and pretty good quality. Frame + lens go for €110, or €120 to include blue light filter coating.

Frankly, unless we're talking about real designer pieces, glasses have been a completely utilitarian/commodity item for the past half century. The real achievement of Luxottica (which also reflects in their brand name) is that they still manage to sell them as premium/craft products.

[1] https://www.aceandtate.com/
Have you tried sending money across the world in 10 seconds, to somebody outside of the EU? Most answers to this are PayPal, Wise, or another multibillion dollar private enterprise.
Which it's a pretty fair assumption: you would create all of those files through generators, eliminating the need for writing boilerplate. And make the name explicit if, for any reason, your template is located somewhere else.

I am not a huge Rails fan, but in this particular case I see zero issues with how Rails does things.
Thanks, Influx does provide recommendations but it seems to require prior snippet in the notes; I'm thinking about live recommendation without prior action from the user apart from just writing notes.
That doesn’t happen because most people can’t or won’t participate in government. This is because many government meetings are held during the day, during working hours, usually in places far from the individuals affected.

The people who do show up are independently wealthy, retirees, and people being paid to represent an organization. Representitive government doesn’t, and cannot represent the people.
I don't have a problem with the original vendor. If the vast majority of users don't have a problem with a relationship like this, and think it's acceptable, then I don't see a strong argument for making it illegal.

As for making the product unusable, they can do that anyway through OTA updates, which are applied at the user's discretion. If you think that's a problem then you should regulate that, not some other technical issues that may or may not be related.
I don't believe I said the Chairman was from a different company. He was from the same company. He certainly could have had me fired, at the expense of destroying their schedule. As I stated at the outset, I left out details as to not identify the company (although there is enough here for a former colleague to put it together). Medical devices are a small world with often only 2 companies seriously competing per type.

Your due diligence data is largely correct and I complement your research. I repurposed this twitter account from one I created in 2017 and used as read-only in the intervening time. Also worth pointing out my HN account is quite new.

Wasn't great to cross the wires of my advocacy and technology, but I used the account I had. Didn't expect my twitter comment to be noticed.

I didn't promote my blog at all in this post, but since you mention it, if you read it more carefully I think you will find I take care to distinguish the Ukraine conflict from prior US interventions. Namely, one is a defense of a democracy which invited us whereas others (Iraq, Afghanistan) were not. US troops are not marching into Ukraine. It's even less direct support than the French provided the US revolutionary war.

I don't take issue with your questioning except - the presumption that someone is lying before they have even had a chance to respond to your information.

Edit: removed redundant sentence
Likewise it's amazing what one can do with Termux on an Android device.