skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I faced that issue as well. I had three kits, IIRC:

1. Radio Shack crystal radio. That was relatively simple, but I don't think the manual explained how it worked too well.
2. Radio Shack 10-in-1 Jr Electronic Lab Kit. I don't recall how good the manual was, but I didn't really learn much from that.
3. Some unknown brand 150-in-1 kit. IIRC that basically just had circuit diagrams, and didn't really explain anything.
Telling the truth is always better.

"I bet the company on metaverse and I was wrong." Or, "now looks like a really good time to lay everyone off because all the other companies are doing it too"
Layoffs have become so normalized these days, I'm sure they have templates.
Thank you, i was not aware of the Horde package. Definitely worth looking.

I was also thinking what should happen in case of ‘electricity disappears’ scenario, but came to a conclusion that it is good old ‘save the state you care about’
It could mean people left after the re-brand.
Great way to do some money laundering
Wikipedia does say Bill Joy wrote chroot, but the unix history in the article says that it was DMR or Ken Thompson depending on which file you look at and chroot is listed in the V7 manual. So I think it predates the BSD Kernel.
If you have NixOS already installed you should enable flakes more like this:

{ pkgs, ... }: {
nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
}
Yes, perhaps for legal reasons, but what does using a template that feesl like GPT-3 tell the people about management that are still with the company?
I can’t imagine coding in C# without ReSharper. It was invaluable.
Real Inflation Cycle Theory
I've always found math to be very difficult, but programming is much easier for me.

I can conceptualize software is concrete terms, but I can't do that with math.
I can see a massive difference. And more visual space is always welcome.
Interesting. Is that because payments are much lower margin than ads? Surely investors would be smart enough to see the additional revenue, and likely additional benefit to the ads business, as being worth it?
I used a 1yr severance as a seed fund for my current company.
How do you downvote ?

I only have an up arrow.
Did you use your technical skills as leverage for your career in law? I heard that it's very common for ex-developers to work on IP, patents, etc.
Startup idea - layoff mail generator using GPT-3.
Did they hire 11k people during the pandemic? If not then the given reason for the layoffs are clearly not the full story.
Honestly I think GTP-3 can generate a much better human-touched message than the template
Not necessarily. There may be business opportunities that Meta, Twitter and Stripe are not interested in.
Findings from the Jamstack Community Survey 2022
there is a huge new market for crypto currencies that you are missing: ransomware. it's billions of dollars, new players every year. and cryptocurrencies work great for it. it's a killer use case.
In my last summer vacation I travelled abroad and forgot to bring my sunglasses.

Looking for a new one in the stores I found that prices for regular Ray-Ban (owned by Luxotica) were too expensive for my taste (~120 USD). So I decided to get a Polaroid sunglasses instead, for a third of the price (~40 USD).

My only concern was wether the lenses polarization would be up to standards. So I Googled it and found out that Polaroid was in fact the company that invented polarized lenses :)
> [...] they don’t even manufacture a toric lens for at any usable tolerance (the FDA allows a +/-0.50D tolerance to all lenses including torics)

I tried a quick google search but couldn't immediately verify. That seems horrible. Really production/specification tolerance, or just eye-correction tolerance to determine the need for a change?

I feel tempted to replace the lenses when eyes have changed by 0.25 (though delaying until 0.5 off). I have returned glasses which were mis-manufactured with the cylindrical axis for one eye off by 10 degrees.
How would that work in a memory safe language? Rust does have (named) untagged unions already (using the `union` keyword), but they are unsafe to use because there is no way to know statically which of the possible variants a given value contains.
Which is why both of us deserve way more than that.

(But for what it's worth -- things may be different in your country but $100k for a house hasn't been a realistic possibility even in the most rural parts of the US for a very very very long time.)
Maybe a consultant came up with this scheme many years ago, nobody has revisited it since, and the marketing department just keeps paying the bills because nobody at the casino knows if it’s important or not and it’s not a lot of money for them.
God, another generic-sounding non-descriptive already-existing and not-applicable service name. Gotta love the creativity /s
I've read a lot of material about leadership, but rarely have I read on how to follow, something that is just as hard to do effectively.

I've come to a more complex position, where the task needs to align with the team for them to be leadable. With the right amount of incentives, any group can be pushed to deliver, but those incentives might differ by task (shit work needs different encouragement and support compared to creative work) and sometimes the needed incentives cost more than the end result is worth.

Understanding this alignment between task and team helped me triage how to approach the situation, or if it's even possible with the given people.
Corporate robots are the same, that's why corporate mistakes are also the same :/
Affinity 2
I would also believe these lay offs are mainly in recruitment and other HR roles and light on the hard core tech roles.
If anything this is testament to the failure of previous solutions to popularize it.

Docker invented absolutely zero on the OS side and reused what LXC did but the invention here is not "putting things in containers" but "making it easy to put things in containers" and "making it easy to run those containers. Every solution before that required a bunch more knowledge.

> Running Docker on non-Linux platforms requires a Linux VM to run in the background. It's not as cross platform as people make out.

Which people ? I never seen anyone saying Docker makes it easy to run cross platform stuff, and it was always one of it's pain points.
That's not exactly how I'd read that EULA. To me it's asking for payment if you use it for work not at work. so someone recording personal notes on a work system wouldn't fall into that category, but someone using it for product development at their company would...
Exactly! My #TF2 nick is "Sheep with a gun"!
C-x M-c M-land-aircraft
That wasn’t my memory from early 2022. It seemed like much of the economy today was impacted by the Ukraine war. But maybe that’s just coincidence. Lots of people also felt that tech companies were overvalued.

But my memory may be playing tricks on me.
Why is it unrealistic? There are people who function fine without a phone at all.
yeah I could likely automate it if needed but generally I'm ok with manual sync for now.
Your assessment is similar to mine, set aside any cool features of the language, maintaining an Elixir app is the problem. The constant API shift with each LiveView release, not enough people maintaining hex packages, not a large amount of hex packages available forcing some things to be built, etc. Adoption in our organization was halted because of the messiness of upgrade path in Elixir as a whole. Projects that were built on earlier versions suffer the most pain where developers will spend like a week sorting through code changes needed to update. There are some neat aspects of Elixir but the maintenance trade-offs aren't worth it in management's eyes.
Surely they're not all engineers, many are sales and admin positions. But the number is still large tho
having lived in both the US and Europe for over a decade each -
I'd rather have happier poor people that happier rich people.

The sign of a first world country isn't having a bunch of billionaires - you have those in Brazil and Russia. It's when the poorest people in your country still can have healthy, meaningful lives.

Honestly, from my point of view, the US is a 3rd world country, but I expect that viewpoint to be very controversial.
That's not money laundering, lol.

Read, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering.
Lot more than that for pretty good websites. During the heydays of the early blogging years, there was a thing called the Pagerank and my personal website had 8 out of 10. So, a website paying me north of $200 each month just to link to them from the "Sidebar" was a common thing. Casinos and gambling websites would go for $500 or so.
Why stop at HR, the whole c-suite is a massive cost center and ripe for disruption.
It’s not unheard of for some outside force to result in surges in profits that last much longer than 2 years. Unfortunately, it can be really hard to tell if say the Among Us surge in popularity from streamers was going to stick around or not. Someone in the company was trying to figure out if it would be an enduring hit like Minecraft or just another fad, and as frequently happens they chose poorly.
No, earnings have been going down because Apple fucked Meta with Apple's policy change on asking for consent to be tracked. Meta has even stated as much in various earnings calls since this happened.

This has severely hurt Meta's ad revenue, i.e., earnings.

The metaverse stuff is a bad bet, you are correct, but is not likely impacting earnings in any significant way.
A link if you need to keep track of. https://layoffs.fyi/
I've made a bookmarklet to toggle between the website for the instance you use and the one the post/user used:

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/mastodon.html

It's maybe easier to just use a separate app though, and avoid the faff of separate webpages entirely.
There are not. I don't believe they've ever been thoroughly proposed.
Very good lesson here for both Twitter, FB and any other upcoming startup. Never treat your 3rd party developers as shit. Look what WeChat achieved with their superapp and developer ecosystem. Twitter and FB tightened their rules a lot over the years, when they had a potential to become super app for West
Not surprising. I've been a part of a team that developed these memos.

When it's bad news, it's never about the truth (well, rather it's not about accuracy), but about the simplest explanation you can give that people might somewhat believe.
Why were "they" wrong? Is it because the issues of each successive development in mass media made those of the previous iteration look quaint? It's easy to look back on (for example) TV as a harmless diversion, but it was a radical development in the dissemination of visual information.
I just don't buy that they naively thought that everything would keep growing like it did during the pandemic once the pandemic was over. It seems like a welcome excuse.
I thought this problem is less related to vr and more related to ads revenue that dropped because of apple. vr was just a way to create a platform from the ground where ads will continue to be their business model
A small aspect of this may be the FDA banning diet pills made from ephedra in 2004.
> $180K per employee for years is not sustainable.

By what metric? Metas profits the first 3Qs of the year totaled ~$17B. They would have been higher if not for Zuck's insane spending on the metaverse.

As the letter says, Meta clearly over hired around covid to the tune of 30k+ people. It's normal to pull back some.

Engineers at these companies generate so much economic value, I would argue they are still underpaid at 180k.
The answer to that question is quite likely to lead to the answer to the problem. There usually are a multitude of different possible causes, and the answer to "what have you tried?" eliminate many of them, and the second valuable thing is that when they say what exactly happened when they tried that thing (other than that "it didn't help"), you may have different conclusions from that observation that they did.
> To confirm that the VLFs were not consciously detectable, 17 new participants (one of whom participated in the concert experiment) completed a two-alternative forced choice task using the same VLF speakers in the LIVELab. On each trial, participants heard two pairs of 3.5 s excerpts from the concert audio and indicated which pair’s excerpts were different (all excerpts in the trial were identical except for the presence or absence of VLFs in one excerpt). Participants performed at chance (mean 49.8% correct, SD = 4.56%), and a Bayesian t test on participants’ rates of correct responses indicated substantial evidence for the null hypothesis — that participants could not detect the presence/absence of VLFs (n = 17; prior = Cauchy distribution centred on 0 with width = 0.707; BF0+ = 4.36; Figure 1F).

Do I have to quote the whole article for you to read it?
> Considering there have been decades of investment in console screen readers

Do you have sources/research to substantiate this claim?
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that there’s a money laundering aspect to this. For example, you give $100K in donations and the open source project then hires Uncle Jimmy’s nephew as a designer.
I wonder if discord can now be the subject of the EU interop directive. Namely, core communication functions should be available in open, simple (but good enough to do the job) and stable in time protocols. I guess, some core subset of xmpp should do the trick (or maybe even simpler, namely without xml?)

The bit which is troublesome is account creation. Namely, it should be possible with a noscript/basic (x)html browser.

Now I wonder how they "filter" click farms (with humans or human trained mouse/keyboard AIs on blink/geeko/webkit) via swarms of compromised devices or via public VPNs.

A wild guess: post creation account behavior should give in enough hints at an account being "fake" or not. People with false positive won't be happy though.
It changed a lot over the years, but I've definitely seen periods where Google responded well to schemes that looked like obvious paid links, spam, etc. And there seemed to be a distinct change when Matt Cutts left, where they cared less about organic result quality.
Meta Lesson 1: Corporate Governance
Allowing access to email until the end of day also seems an improvement over other US companies practices

> We made the decision to remove access to most Meta systems for people leaving today given the amount of access to sensitive information. But we’re keeping email addresses active throughout the day so everyone can say farewell.
They literally serve billions of people.
If I wanted to send you $50 worth of assets, literally right now, what alternatives do we have apart from crypto? Certainly nothing that does such a good job of preserving our relative privacy to each other. I don't want to, but it is still an interesting question.

There are capabilities here that have never existed before, it seems likely that something radical will happen in time. There is already a lot of money sloshing around, and it takes a while for innovations to sink in.
Doing maths that depend on paper worth is pointless.
Plummeting SSD Prices Show No Signs of Stalling Out as More Storage Deals Loom
Exactly, Docker is great - until you leave the beaten path. At a previous workplace I set up a VPN solution around Wireguard and Docker. We wanted to start off by integrating one physical box into our network, where containers would be spawned with a client and a customized MAC addresses to sort them into individual VLANs, which would then be accessible through the VPN.

It took a number of tries to set up correctly, especially since documentation on these areas mostly consists of reading through various issues on the Docker issue tracker. Some necessary features weren't even supported in the current Docker-Compose file versions. And best of all - 3 clients worked without a problem in parallel, any further clients were not visible in the network. No error logs or anything, just no network.

Of course this wasn't using everyday features, but it would have been nice to have a bit more of an introductory guide into the subsystem. This way it felt like I was fighting against Docker more than it was helping me.
Point B requires trust, which users shouldn't give to developers who collect as much analytics as possible. If you can't trust a company to respect a reasonable expectation of privacy then why would you expect them to not profit off of it? It's just all very quiet and down in the Ts & Cs, but that doesn't mean it isn't the logical conclusion if given exposure.
BTW, I do have unique selling points including schedule assist for flexible group meetings and booking for external users using AI.
I wrote this and the consistent feedback I've gotten was that people hate the title, so thanks for changing it. I'd pick 'What chroot taught me about containers' but this also works.
I think a good way to summarize it is:
The life in the EU is good for everyone,
In the US its great for the rich and high earners, but hell for everyone else.
I like what the error handling achieves, it is actually readable way to understand the divergent control flow paths (and probably majority of code is read more than written), but I do not enjoy writing the initial boilerplate, so that's good to hear.
A handful of people have made a name for themselves covering crypto from a critical point of view, largely because they filled a vacuum for that sort of coverage. Crypto press has generally not been self-critical, and mainstream press is mostly confused by it. So there was a latent demand for this sort of coverage, and people like Molly have filled that void.
It's better to make many small bets and when they start to take off, THEN put the foot on the pedal. Zuck has been notoriously bad at creating new products, so betting the company on that he'll manage it this time seems like a very bad idea.
School of Haskell: Basics (2013)
this is great. For those who have a similar workflow we've built a tool[1] around daily documents which on provides full fledged tasks and calendar that can be synced with Gcal or any other calendar via .ics.

[1] https://acreom.com
Have you tried mirroring?

For context, see Chris Voss’s ‘Never Split the Difference’

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De...
Romania? Poland?
I pretty much use Affinity Designer every day since their Windows launch (2017?) . This saved me hundreds of euros or more in comparison to Photoshop. I will 100% buy this!
I don't think it can, because all those serious things already exist and require the kinds of governance that the crypto promise rails against.
I was with you right up until this part:

> The fact that it's 2022 and there's still people that are going "hur-dur Solaris zones, BSD jails amiright" as if any of those technologies have any relevance is ridiculous.

Having diversity in the computing ecosystem is a good thing, not bad.

I'll take your point that Docker brought containers to the developers (frankly, I made that point myself) but that doesn't mean that Jails doesn't solve some problems that Docker (currently) struggles with. Nor does Docker's success mean that a little competition isn't healthy for the wider industry.

Dismissing the stuff that went before it as "systems administration garbage" because it was targeted at a different audience to yourself is a really poor attitude in my opinion. Especially when there are countless examples of when audiences different from developers also need to make use of software. Frankly, I thought by now we were past the sysadmin vs developer flamewars. But clearly not.

Aside from that minor rant, I do want to thank for your post. It was an informative read.
Duke Nukem 3D was a huge hit. You must be thinking of Duke Nukem Forever, which would have been the fourth game in the main series.
That's a version of this which doesn't stress out employees so the best ones don't jump the ship at first occasion.

Our org went through something similar some 6 year ago, and it was a stark contrast with previous frequent firing rounds when nobody would be secure, sometimes even best within given team were let go (ie due to current allocation issues).

But this can replace small firing ie up to 10%, not when you are doing stuff musk-style.
Do you know why in nathell's link the first t does not stop at mov bp,sp? It stops at other lines but not that one. Could that be a buggy emulator too?
So you're implying only people who are passionate about tech should be allowed to work in tech? This does not hold water for almost any profession. Tech pays extremely well, and if you can do the work, who cares how you feel about it?
This sounds exactly like the crypto universe, which seems to be mostly controlled/manipulated by a small number of (crypto) billionaires and their shadowy corporations.
As someone who is currently in the process of untangling a 10yo+ Rails application that engulfs a still fluid business domain and process, my first intuition was to look into clean/hexagonal architecture. These (promise to) also facilitate handling business events coming through various channels, e.g. SSR, API, workers, an event bus etc.

The article adds an additional option, which — like the others — looks good in theory.
I think they mean for any new protocol, defining it as little-endian.
I would absolutely love to see this attempted.

In order for a user for flag a post. They must highlight the portion of the ToS that is violated.

This has the added benefit of requiring people to actually read the frickin ToS to use the app!!!!!
I think the whole "many predicted" statement that several large tech companies have used to thin out all the pandemic hires is cover for the fact that they boom-hired during the pandemic knowing full well they would very likely have to shed those hires when things went back to pre-pandemic levels and the opportunity for short-term profit was over.

Shopify called it a "bet", which was a surprisingly honest way of framing it, by at least admitting to the risk and uncertainty that existed around all their growth.

Also saying "many predicted" is less culpable than saying "we kinda knew we'd have to eventually do this, but hey short-term profits, right?"
I don't know. I've put out an album largely driven by modular synth, meaning that I've got many percussion elements driven literally by a machine, defeating the need for me as a human to play drums in perfect time (which I'm not good at)

But in doing that, I've spent years learning how the micro-timing of musical grooves work (some of it's very obvious, like how a heavy snare backbeat will lag slightly behind what the perfect time is, almost to the point of being a 'flam')

As a result, I was able to make an album that conveyed certain kinds of groove not immediately accessible to novice musicians (or drummers)… but given the same information, any schmoe could push a button and have a preset in his DAW produce the same effect.

I think to some extent if the person doesn't really understand the purpose or need for such an effect, their grasp of how to implement and craft it will be pretty loose. If you don't know why you're doing the effortless thing you're not going to guide it very well and your results will be kind of generic.

Rather than thinking of years of skill, maybe call it years of focus, or years of purpose? To some extent, we collectively respond to creations with a profound sense of purpose. If that purpose comes out of AI it will have to be something from the AI, and not simply a blind reflection of us and our crudest drives.
Christ, this an impressive album... I revisit it every few years and it continues to blow me away.
Shottkey 7th Path. Holy smokes.