skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a Bayesian perspective is helpful here. 1) How likely is it that Zuck makes that statement if he feels like he is responsible? 2) How likely is it if he doesn't feel responsible? I think the answers to those questions are quite similar, in which case hearing the statement doesn't actually tell us much.
I believe you are talking about amazon hiring 100000 warehouse workers, not google
I hope this will suffice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33531436
One thing I think needs to be looked at a little bit more deeply is that the AI is not stopping where it is today, it's going to get better and if it targets the lowest part of the market now, what's it going to do in 10 years?
Do something that increases the absolute wealth of every person on the
planet by at least one dollar.

You could invent something.

Perhaps it is just something you say that brings wealth to the
world. Ideas can (rarely) have bare value, and can travel around the
world in a day.

If you make "improving the lot of every single person by a dollar" the
centre of your life philosophy, you'll reap that back many times over.
This occurred before the device was submitted for its first 510(k) approval.

Also, companies have some discretion in what changes they re-submit to the FDA and what the decide to just document internally. There are guidelines, like if you change the OS you better resubmit, but there is a wide swath of gray area. The FDA is not looking at every code/hardware change request. They audit your process.

Edit: typos
‘default’ is there by default anyway. This new feature allows to explicitly state that there isn’t one.
Ten Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role (2018)
Lots of over-hiring. It was a competition for scarce talent with a thinking that talented head count is a prime metric. I think it is, but it only works if that talent is contributing to the bottom line.

Poor HR management plays a big role too. I believe that capitalism requires ongoing "culling of the herd" - like 5% every year. This happens in many other businesses. Perhaps tech will now follow suit.
A bit off-topic, but giving everybody one dollar wouldn't change a thing in the world. However, investing that $8bn in a project/org that's effective at improving the world, would change a lot. Not sure where I'm going with this, just an interesting thought..
Crypto "web3" is to VC's what Semantic "web3" is to universities.
My review on Shadi Hamid's new book on democracy and american foreign policy.
There's a person who comments on some of the z-lib posts and they are the ones who archived z-lib (and some other sites). If I can find it, I'll edit this comment.

Here. Her name is Anna.

http://annas-blog.org/blog-introducing.html

http://pilimi.org/
I have used Affinity products for years so this was a no-brainer buy. It is a pity though that V2 products can't be activated offline; they require you to login with your account to activate.
Pedantically, it's more than that as there's replacement too.
Global Borders of Our Times
Very interesting and Awesome! thank you.

I assume the client (Mush Client) have screen reading plugins?
German laws are a holy godsend for abusive patent, copyright and IP trolls, plus the music record and film giants. GEMA and Alex Springer come to mind. Plus the bazillion scummy Bavarian law firms that act like the mafia and make a living by shaking down people who torrented an MP3.

Honest question: Can't we have an unified EU set of sane IP laws that supersede the shitty ones from Germany and make them illegal?

We abolished roaming charges and have a unified border across Schengen and a unified currency in the Eurozone and soon the whole consumer industry including Apple will be on USB-C.

If those were possible, surely we can fix EU IP laws.
I published my Obsidian vault template in Github more than 1 year ago [1]. It has some templates and tips that I use regularly now. It may help others.

[1] https://github.com/tuan3w/obsidian-template
https://imgur.com/fftDs3q

I don't have heating nor hot water as said, it's basically light, laptop, rice cooker, fan in summer sometimes (hence +1€ there)

You probably have leaks or plugged devices
You can do:

![[Pasted image 20221028163039.png|500]]

If you want to adjust the width and height, then you can do this:

![[Pasted image 20221028163039.png|500x700]]
Directives are attached to functions, like abort() has the [[noreturn]] attribute, so compilers don't have to emit any code that would run after it returns, or save anything on the stack.

std::unreachable() goes a step further, and tells the compiler that it doesn't even have to emit the call instructions or any instructions leading up to it.
True, but these aren't ordinary engineers who'll settle for ordinary salaries. These are the top paid engineers in the industry - there are practically no places that can hire all 20,000 of them at their current salaries.
Café Jana: Interviews with OGs in open source
“Establish a very large NGO with offices in every country in the world”

This reminded me of what the non profit Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is trying to do with Anchors around the world.

https://stellar.org/blog/stellar-anchor-basics-webinar-recap
That's not money laundering either :) If anything, whoever is donating the 100k now needs to explain where that money came from. Uncle Jimmy's nephew needs to declare the money on his taxes.
Using AI to Write Fanfiction
"GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts", 624 comments, 9 months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135264 .

Also, "Court Rules Websites Embedding Google Fonts Violates GDPR ", 97 comments, 8 months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30527427 .

The latter links to https://thehackernews.com/2022/01/german-court-rules-website... which starts:

> A regional court in the German city of Munich has ordered a website operator to pay €100 in damages for transferring a user's personal data — i.e., IP address — to Google via the search giant's Fonts library without the individual's consent.
“Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended.”

It’s not over yet.
Nothing is ever "as convenient" in emacs, and I say that as a fairly die-hard user of OrgMode.

I'm pretty curious about my ability to migrate to Obsidian and away from Org/emacs, mostly for reasons of polish. I'm not ever going to become a lisp hacker, but I ended up in Org because it was the ONLY thing I could find that allowed me to keep notes and to-dos intermingled, while giving me a great ability to pull out and collate those to-dos in a dynamic view.

Obsidian can do that, too.
Fun fact: you can wire a GPU via m.2
The problem then becomes that some of those dollars end up going to one person rather than 10 million people, and government effectiveness at distributing the money across their population is inversely correlated with where the people that would benefit most from receiving a dollar live (this correlation exists within populations of countries with good banking systems too: your working person that wouldn't pick a dollar up if they saw it on the street probably gets a dollar automatically paid to them via the same system they receive tax rebates from, but many homeless people don't)
When you want somethin’
And you don’t want to pay for it…
It does mean that a lot of folks will be looking for work, expecting really big salaries. Because they have become used to a very high standard of living, these salaries will actually be required.

MANGA companies pay ridiculously well.

I suspect a lot of "Reality sh*t sandwiches" will be in people's lunchboxes.
Because FB missed owning the smartphone platform with their FB phone (apple + google), and so they want to own the next one in their opinion (VR-Oculus).
Demand is always growing in some markets. I predict major growth in the defense and agriculture technology markets over the next decade.
Anyone else find the music of Apex Twin not appealing? Like in comparison with for example, Daft Punk, what makes some people consider Aphex Twin as interesting music?
What It Means When Gap Quits China and the Market Just Shrugs
Which of my points are you replying "no" to?
100 years ago, you could have just set the money on fire and had a pretty similar net effect (reduce the money supply, increase the value of the remaining money for everyone else). There are some caveats. Money burning benefits aren't distributed evenly - rich people gain more than poor people since they have more of the remaining money. You also have to already have at least some money to benefit from it.

Still, it's possible the low overhead and fraud risks of burning money compared to distributing it might make it a more cost effective way to equitably distribute the $8 billion globally than any other route.

Modern finance is unfortunately more complicated. Burning money doesn't necessarily have any impact on the value of money.
Revealing Traces in Printouts and Scans
Revealing Traces in printouts and scans: We investigated printouts from 101 printers for Machine Identification Codes and provide tips on how to handle metadata.
Recruiters and hiring companies :

In this trying times as founder of https://sunnyjobs.d1algo.com/ I am happy to offer 5 free job postings. Just send me a mail at contact.d1algo@gmail.com mentioning your username & job posting links. You can use all the ATS features including setting up tests , track applicants and jobs etc.
Do you have a source for the Biden funding remark? Open secrets suggests about 11M in donations came from SBF controlled entities but that’s pretty far down the list. The top contributions were from Bloomberg at 93M.

Those are for company controlled pacs as well, so not just SBF.

For individuals the best info I could find doesn’t list SBF as a major donor.

https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/joe-biden...
I'd say destroy your $8b and take it out of the money supply, making everyone else's money slightly more valuable. No overhead.

Except it wouldn't evenly distribute the value and most of it would go to rich people.
No, it won't change the diff in hiring postings from month to month. If anything, it might make positions more difficult to find if the posters from the hiring companies don't keep up with the threads.
In which case, the DEI training is right to point that out, correct?
Not really written well, but I presume it's the fact that people download assets from Google's servers without user consent (and a ping to a Google server involves tracking and whatnot).

Would it be legal if downloading the fonts off Google's servers was behind a cookie wall, along with the tracker codes and the like?

The time of CDNs like that is past, in part due to them not being effective, in part due to hungry data collection schemes. Don't use CDNs, reduce or avoid 3rd party communications on your website.

Legitimate tracking is fine, just don't share it with 3rd parties like google. I'm sure there's analytics options that can be installed on your own server.
This sounds like a similar challenge to the one The World Food Programme faces[0]. In their case, they pick from a number of disbursement mechanisms on a case by case basis. Sometimes they physically deliver food or arrange in-kind aid via vouchers, sometimes it's direct bank account or Western Union transfers to individuals.

[0] https://www.wfp.org/cash-transfers
Yeah this is what I’ve seen at previous companies. Basically, they need enough headcount for it to not eventually proceed to full layoffs. It actually seems beneficial if you meet the tenure requirements, are still relatively young, and have a good network. I saw several people make out like bandits from those types of offerings.
To be fair, I had a dentist who was technically an oral surgeon but would sometimes even bump the hygienist and do the cleanings himself; because they were easy and he was bored. Same cost to me so I didn't mind.
Facing repercussions on the level of those he's laying off. If he's responsible he should be the first one out the door.
Can't even signup using my email (with my domain), reported falsely as "disposable email"!
Hiring in the law sector has been trending down for some years now. Law is one of the only sectors of the economy that has a thriving market for services that help lawyers get out of legal work. It can be good for some people, but it can also eat people alive and cause burnout in ways similar to tech. Would very much recommend caution when considering this path.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if 11,000 employees is 13% of Meta's workforce, that implies they employ close to 100,000 people? Excuse me while I involuntarily spit my coffee over my keyboard.
Not to mention getting anything into the hands of off-the-grid homesteading hermits – or even finding them to begin with.

(Or getting a buck into the hands of every Sentinelese)
It can also improve codegen and is a building block of building an assume like macro to convey preconditions to the compiler and optimize potentially on that. The other is at the end of a function that can be guaranteed to never reach that point so that the compiler can know. Its a low level tool and shouldn’t be used without caution
What about the writing is entertaining? Not trying to be dismissive. I found the writing style authentic, factual, a very reporter-style writing. I did not find anything particularly entertaining. What am I missing?
Yeah that’s about it. He’s lost about $90b in net worth. I suppose you can debate whether that’s punishment enough or not when you’ve got another $38b left or whatever.

But I’ll tell you this from experience: lasting people off because you chose to grow too fast is really, really hard. I’ve done it, though in my case it was a lot fewer people and I actually knew and loved them all. If I had to lay off 11,000 people I’d lose a lot of sleep over it.

I can’t imagine life is fun for him at the moment. But, just like every affected employee, he will get through it.
I love Molly's work on web3isgoingjustgreat. I like following this slow moving train wreck, but just don't have the time or energy to read all the news reports on these projects. There is a lot of lazy "reporting" on crypto/web3 that seems to be lifted from marketing materials. Good critical analysis is out there but you have to hunt it down.

Molly's succinct write-ups are interesting to read. They are critical of the industry but never unfair. I drop by every few days to catch up. If a topic bears additional investigation I can dig deeper. Molly's work helps me easily sort through an entire class of news that I would probably just ignore. I hope she keeps up the good work.
Zenni needs a "send in old glasses and we'll match" feature added.
It can help both optimizations and static analysis. For example in the switch case in principle the compiler can avoid doing bound checks on the switch jump table. For static analysis it can help flags paths that can actually happen as erroneous.
Yeah obviously it's a compiler intrinsic.

That's not what I or the person I was replying to was saying, and wasn't the relevant point.

We were saying how else could you give the compiler an intrinsic, without a call of some kind? Like what other syntactic mechanism is there you can treat as an intrinsic in the compiler.
> I couldn't understand what is illegal from the article.

See the link in the first sentence of the article and, if necessary, scroll down a bit to the "English Version" heading:

<https://rewis.io/urteile/urteil/lhm-20-01-2022-3-o-1749320/>

In short, importing a remote font exposes the user's IP to the font provider, which (that court has ruled) is a violation of the GDPR:

> The disclosure of the user's IP address in the above-mentioned manner and the associated encroachment on the general right of personality is so significant with regard to the loss of control over a personal data to a company that is known to collect data about its users, and the individual discomfort felt by the user as a result, that a claim for damages is justified.
The linked-to judgement is in German, but it does not mention the word "Google" anywhere, so I'm pretty skeptical of the claim that it somehow renders Google Fonts "illegal".

The Google Fonts FAQ pretty unambiguously states that Google does not use fonts for tracking individual users:

The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to only what is needed to serve fonts efficiently. The use of the Google Fonts API is unauthenticated and the Google Fonts API does not set or log cookies. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com. Font requests are separate from and don't contain any credentials sent to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_...

If that's all true, I don't see how GDPR would come into play.
Home Invasion – Mastodon's Eternal September Begins
This is actually something we're not super sure about ourselves yet. I think AI art is quite interesting and has a lot of potential for use cases like this course (where we can affordably create hundreds of highly specific illustrations). Of course, the tradeoff is that you end up with illustrations that give off an uncanny vibe, for example the face of the monkey in our hero.

My greatest fear is to make the course too generic when using stock art images. Do you know a (low-budget) way of getting many interesting illustrations?
I wanted to buy the Roost V3 as it seems a better product compared to the Nexstand K2, but went with the Nexstand as the Roost isn't a 5-times better product($90 vs $16)
Those are in <bit> as of c++20
Rounds at the same company.
This license, and alternatively the JetBrains licenses, are awesome. I will always try to support them!

Being given the freedom to install this on whatever computers I own, regardless of OS*, for one very reasonable fee, is amazing compared to the standard guard of “only one OS and only x computers”, or worse, “subscription based and you lose it all if you stop subscribing”.

I’ve been living in Linux using GIMP for what I’ve needed, but I’m definitely buying and supporting this for when I need a little more than GIMP.

* sans Linux in this case, sadly
The crappy "vision insurance" we got "for free" was still more expensive out of pocket than a Walmart optometrist visit + 5 pairs from Zenni.

It's entirely a racket; would be like selling oil change insurance.
Verdict "LG München I, Az. 3 O 17493/20".

As a result loading google fonts via <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/XYZ"> is problematic. Instead better host them yourself.
There was a lot of commodity-inflation in the early 2000s, the second biggest rise in commodity prices after the 1970s[1]. Unlike the 70s (supply shock), this was primarily a demand-pull out of China/Asia, so the net impact to the economy was much more positive.

[1] https://www.investing.com/indices/bloomberg-commodity
Does it seam reasonable that Apple a multi-billion dollar company would choose to contact you via SMS and send you to a .support TLD rather than say use iMessage or your proper email address and an apple.com or at worst a .apple TDL?
> It was blatantly obvious that the cure was worse than the disease,

That's not how I remember it - governments locked down to prevent health systems collapse while a vaccine was created, tested and scaled for mass production. After successful vaccine deployment restrictions were lifted.
What's New in October 2022
Question from a non web developer: Wouldn’t it make more sense to bundle a large amount of fonts with Google Chrome itself? For instance when you install the browser and its updates you also install something like the top 100 most used web fonts on your machine. Would this be a viable thing to do?
Oh, I know about this. I did rinse them thoroughly. Then I used a few drops of Dawn dish detergent to wash them. But what I found was that even if you clean plastic lenses thoroughly, what counts is how you dry them. If you use paper or even a towel it can scratch them incrementally over time.

It's so much more convenient (or maybe I'm just lazy!) to be able to dry glass lenses with a towel, paper towel, a t-shirt, or anything absorbent.
why is eesmith being downvoted? Seems to answer and provide context for the parent
This is all true but note you've still started grinding in your 20s. I'm thinking more like if you take a teen or early 20s and they grind 10k hours on leetcode and you take a 30s or older and they put 10k hours too who would come ahead? My bet would be on the young ones.
I am very suspicious of Freemasonry, and the more I look into the organization the stranger it all seems.
Let’s say you are an employee at a company that does mass layoffs. They do not lay you off like everyone else and keep you on. What is the best course of action to take at that point?
And Vice is still alive? That's half-victory at best...
Yes that's what my comment was. Often it's 100 people below them. The % of time managing any of these people is low.

FYI twitter seems to be moving to a low manager high employee count. Musk himself said that a ratio of 1 manager per 10 coders is way too high. I suspect he wants it at 10x that amounts.

My current manager has 31 direct reports.

Sorry if this is confusing it's a hard subject to describe over text and I think there is a lot of nuisance lost over text here.
> Also, he's not a conservative

Yeah he's a regular old leftie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_and_unions
Microsoft is not FAANG, at least not part of the acronym i was strictly referring to.

The world needs a search engine, but the moment a new, competent, one pops up all you need to do is switch a URL and you are done with google. All other services google provides are replaceable.

Amazon is a cool marketplace, infested by scams and low quality products, an alibaba of the west. It is an integral part of the economy by I manage to do just fine without it. AWS is a wake up call away from trending out of fashion.
> Do you think that great, world-changing, folks go to Facebook to sit on a big salary?

Yes, have you seen the salaries recently? an E6 can make nearly half a million a year in total compensation.
Now that's the kind of inequality I can live with.
Is even the social part dying though?
Good advice, I have done this and it has worked.
Unless that location was working on a particular problem that meant fewer LoC.
WEBP and JPEG-XL yes, AVIF no.
FWIW I’m currently working on a startup side project with someone at Meta. I don’t know that we’re going to “change the world” but I think we’re both awesome and I can see us building something awesome.

We both have jobs because we need to pay our bills.
Cruise ships as well.
- hey, can I copy your homework?
- sure, but change it so it doesn't look like a copy
Musks was the "press conference outside 4 seasons landscaping" equivalent
Ask HN: Perpetual Licenses vs. Monthly Subscriptions?
A few companies do "forever" licenses in addition to monthly/annual subscriptions, like Plex and Jetbrains.

Plex offers their "lifetime" license for the equivalent of 24 monthly purchases.
Jetbrains lets you use their IDE forever upto the version you purchased, and you can pay each year to get the newer version.

As a consumer, I like the idea that I can own the software I bought even if it is a higher price tag.

Do you think these perpetual licenses are a good idea from the business side for SaaS if the cost of running a service is low enough?
I don't see what this has to do with Google Fonts, it's an aside at best. What's illegal is causing a user agent to send an HTTP request (to a third party) without the operator's consent.
At German car manufacturers? Absolutely not. The maximum compensation that an IC can commend at BMW is just above 100k€ -- and that would require more than ten years of experience.

Compare that to a new grad at Google Germany making 130k€. Somebody with ten years of experience there would be making closer to 300k€.