skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as i said in another comment, for 90% of the world's population, the level of wealth fo the average facebook employee is unfathomable too. so it's hard to play the "oh he's wealthy so there are no real consequences" card just for zuckerberg
argh, to quote my favourite rougelike/hack'n'slash from the recent years:

THERE IS NO ESCAPE.

Edit: I just remembered I'm a cheap bastard and I'm not paying for Figma yet. yay?
The first dotcom crash was good that way: people make worse decisions when they have piles of VC funny money and anyone with a real business has trouble standing out when the field is full of competitors burning bright but fast.
I used to use Joplin, but I prefer the Obsidian way where all my documents are just markdown in a directory structure.

The plugin ecosystem seems more viable too, not that I'm using that many.
cost of living in those areas means these guys live at best above middle class unless you want engineers to essentially never have children and live in an apartment all their life, then even 200-300k in these areas isn't much.
Would telling the truth be better if the real truth was “We’ve been waiting for a good excuse to drop a bunch of people and boost the bottom line short-term so we can get some loans”?

p.s. I’m making up a scenario based on other businesses, I have no idea what meta is doing these days
You don’t want to be the first to pull back in these situations as it makes you look weak.

Stripe and Twitter took a lot of heat off of Meta; if they had done this in March it’d be a whole different story.
How’s the job market for elixir? It seems a lot of stacks are popular due to their employability.
To be fair, they said they'd protect your data, not that THEY wouldn't collect it. They want to be the gatekeeper of it.
I could do it in 50 lines or less of python, including sending the mail to the loosers.
Open Source developer Alex Pertsev arrested for creating code used by 3rd party
he lost 75% of his personal wealth, so there have been pretty real consequences for him already
build something globally accessible that provides at least one dollar in value, that's the only way I can think to overcome most of the hurdles you face with currency.

(maybe you can even do that cheaper than 8b.)
It’s layering, a money laundering term. You “clean” the money by hiding its origins and then returning it from a legitimate source.

In my example, Uncle Jimmy ain’t doing this as a favour for his nephew. Uncle Jimmy’s nephew appears to have a legitimate job so his salary is clean money, which he then gives to Uncle Jimmy. Uncle Jimmy can’t hire him directly because the money trail would be much more obvious. By making a donation from company A to the open source group (and probably through multiple other misdirections) the money trail is almost impossible to follow.
> Give me 10 motivated, aligned high-quality people, 5 years, and all of us room to focus, and I'll build you a better Google, almost guaranteed

Rrrriiight...sure you will...they've only thrown the best talent money can buy at the problem for 2 decades should be easy to beat...
I'm not a fan of crypto, but when I read things like this, I have mixed feelings. Porn showing homosexual acts is illegal in some countries. Abortion is becoming illegal in many parts of the US.

It's a conflict that isn't going to be ended any time soon: social control is used for good and for evil. We celebrate social disorder in Tiananmen Square and fear it at the U.S. Capitol. It's not like we can pick one side, order or disorder, and feel completely safe with our choice.
Interesting. How would deflation affect people with zero or negative assets, though?
I love Affinity, but why on earth there’s no Hand tool in Designer on iPad? It is so frustrating to work with mouse and keyboard.
Agreed. It was blatantly obvious that the cure was worse than the disease, and that at best the restrictions could just kick the can down the road a while. It was also covered up by printing cash at enormous scale.

Now when the economy starts bleeding, supply chains struggle and inflation moons, people try and pin it on Putin and deny they ever supported it.

It’s cognitive dissonance at best? incredible dishonesty at worst.
I wonder why the Euro bureaucrats are not doing anything about one of the biggest monopolies in the Europe. Guess they are just too busy figuring out another way to milk Google.
That does not do what you think it does: that’s the button to disconnect from currently connected devices, not to turn off radios. Similarly, the airplane mode button above it will maintain Bluetooth.
Meta/FB is an immoral company, so I have almost zero sympathy if you agreed to work there in the first place.
You're reading it wrong.

If you can do the work, awesome, no one cares how you feel about it. But that's the keyword: *IF* you can.

People who went into IT for the love of it are diligent by default (from my personal experience) and CAN do the work. Then you get people who enter IT for the money (nothing wrong with that) and not all of them can do the work.

Those are the show-stoppers usually which incur various debts (from tech-debt to actual financial debt) because you end up having to carry them.

Let's not pretend as if they don't exist, there's so many of them.
I'm pretty sure that's what Meta was doing 3-6 months ago, so it may still be coming.
Funny how Avril 14th is one of his most popular and recognizable songs while... not being anything like most of his works. It's a straight and fairly straightforward piano song.
Easy: get everyone on earth to sign up for Stripe connect on your platform 1dollarforyouandyouandyou…com and then API the shiznit outta that thing.
That’s super pessimistic. What do you want him to say: “sucks all y’all lost your jobs but wasn’t my fault. Haha you’re unemployed now”. Like sure it’s not much, but without owning your mistakes how do you get better and improve to prevent them from repeating?
You might not need it, but gcc/clang have __builtin_unreachable and msvc has __assume and both are used extensively for optimizations. std::unreachable is just standardizing existing diverging practice.
How do I automate UPI payments for personal expenses
I want to automate certain payments through scripts. mainly for personal reasons. what is the best way to automate ?

so lets say i want to send some money to some number, i can type in terminal

`upi send 9954312345 5000`

it should send without any password.

mainly looking for information on what API providers are there, is it only banking apps that can do this? can we have sandboxed version so it works for 1 developer or 1 account.
> NFT's for domain ownership makes a lot more sense than paying monthly

The cost of the domain is insignificant when compared to the cost of the site itself e.g. development and hosting.

You're solving a problem I can't imagine more than a few dozen people deeply care about.
Could be called "byte-wise reverse".
This is one of my top 10 albums. "Tha" is one of my favorites.

Also of note, Selected Ambient Works Volume II. I used to mix ambient tapes from a variety of sources in the mid-90s, and this was always features somewhere. One good mix was Autechre's _VLetrmx21_ over Aphex's _Blur_. None of it is in sync, some of it's dissonant, but it works.

I miss 90s Ambient and IDM. Em:t label of was a top one. There was a sound to all of it, and it probably had to do with 99% being produced with outboard gear straight to tape. Everything now seems to be so over-produced and "perfect".
But sex by that definition is a question of gametes, which cannot really apply to individuals within a species. Some people produce male or female gametes, but others develop the organs for both or for neither - they are truly intersex. That seems to be the point of, for example, the "gender unicorn" model that the author disagrees with: that, at the level of an organism, sex already is more complex than a simple binary state.
Are engineers the only people in tech with high salaries?
What an unlikely business model for open source. It would be amazing to see casinos contributing to a more thriving open source ecosystem. My OSS project [1] gets about 50k visitors per month but is far from being sustainable ....

[1] https://www.filestash.app/
“I want to take responsibility” vs “I take responsibility”.
Online community MetaFilter (est. 1999) is nearly bankrupt
Following the thread from last week about TomTom's new map and platform, there's more info here about how it's sourcing data for its new map.
German tech pay is fine. The EU does not strive for the wealth inequality of the US, and tech wages are more than enough.
They may as well take advantage of the enemy’s weakness.
What kind of GPU would you need to run this locally? (the training I mean)
I personally believe world would be slighlty better without motorcycles. Somehow most of them (or, at least, most of the ones people choose to buy) are much louder than cars, even though they have much smaller mass. Seems like the loudness is a design goal almost.
It was not very clear about the Universal License, but if you purchase it, using your Account you activate also iPad versions for free. So for $99 you get all 3 apps for macOS, Windows and iPad, that is really cool deal!
Most large fast going tech companies "predicited" this but that doesn't mean they really believed it. The alternative at the time was to say..."we grew 100% in the last two years but with covid restrictions limiting etc wr think that growth will be more like 80% and revenue down x%" that would have sent massive shocks to investors and stocks would have dropped overnight as companies like Meta had been setting a long precedent of "beat and raise" with their earnings calls. Essentially everyone was hoping it would continue as they didn't want to see equity and comp and valuations down. What's funny is that it all happened anyway over the course of the year. Believe me from first hand experience there were many people in these companies raising flags late last year that it can't continue but were essentially ignored. Hope is not a strategy!
i think they're talking about the dilution of your hourly wage, if you consider the travel time to be work
Protip for people trapped in an Adobe sub if you want to avoid the fine[^1]:

1. change your payment method to PayPal

2. cancel your payments in PayPal

3. add Adobe to your spam/archive filter

[^1] The "pay monthly" (small print: annual) subscription we all love and cherish
$8 billion comes out to $25 per person in the US. It’s nothing compared to anything.

Heck, it’s only four powerballs from last weekend.
They have to find a job willing to sponsor the visa, all within tight timelines. There's a 60 day grace period once you're laid off, but if the new petition is filed late, you have to leave and re-enter, etc. The timing is also difficult in this case, as hiring often slows down in Nov/Dec.
I interviewed with Meta in the summer and they cancelled my onsite interview. So even back then they had already slowed their hiring.
unless you spend a less time in the office than you would at home
I like that format, but the problem in my opinion with such courses is how linear they'll be.

When actually what a person needs when learning a subject is exposure through different methods and ways, and of course, time!

Otherwise they'll be a one trick poney. I know so many people that did different bootcamps and my experience with them is similar, they need a lot of extra training because everything they've learned was in a very linear way. Sometimes it would be better if they would start from scratch and forget what they've learned in the bootcamp.

Every entrepreneur is trying to find the next method that will teach coding to beginners in no time, but nobody is focused on actually building people from beginners to experts.

Some platforms like pluralsight tries that, but they are mostly boring courses.

In the end we have a lot of competitors in the same space, when exactly zero are worth to subscribe long-term(like pluralsight, but it's fucking boring).

Just my 2 cents.
The difficulty of coding plateaus. Algorithms that seemed hard to grasp when you first encountered them become second nature and after that there's not an ever-increasing tower of logical complexity to climb.

After that, there are three things matter a lot for your productivity:

1. Deep and broad stack knowledge is not learned overnight. Over two decades of career I've done everything from writing kernel patches and fixing malloc bugs all the way up to publishing state-of-the-art transformer research. I didn't have this in my 20s. I was a child who knew C++ and algorithms.

2. Seeing the right change to make is hard. This can be the right product (as a 20-something I had lots of opinions about this but most were contradicted when I actually got 5+ years experience as a PM). It can be about engineering design, where taste is still subjective but has long-reaching consequences. It can be about the feeling that that odd result is actually serious enough to look into deeply and not just excuse away.

3. Cross-domain knowledge. Deep competence in programming is powerful. Combine it with deep competence in another field and for the right problem set it's a superpower.

A 20-year-old prodigy doesn't have any those. You can have at least the third and arguably a head-start on the first two.

Pick an area to work in that overlaps with your previous experience and you've an excellent shot at becoming the best of the best in it.

Source: over 40, programming since childhood, better than I ever was and still learning and improving.
I'd like to highlight this quote from the statement:

> and ads signal loss have caused our revenue to be much lower than I’d expected

Apple decisions + EU regulations?
The new Fed interest rates did that, not Zuck.

But Zuck's pie in the sky metaverse shit contributed.
Unless someone investigates the open source developer or this platform - OpenCollective as to why casino's are regularly donating such large sum it will be hard to prove. Theoretically - the developers could be colluding with casino's so as to clean up the dirty money, take a cut and give casino back remaining money which now is clean.
pretty much everyone is a descendant of franz joseph
They thought it would be a paradigm shift and didn’t want to be caught out and dinosaured.

For them that risk was much greater.
Are employees able to “take” a layoff even if they don’t receive an email telling them they are among the affected group?
You being downvoted just shows even this community prefers emotional projections over simple facts.

There is no Twitter meltdown. Before Musk it was already in grave financial trouble and would have made 800m$ cuts anyway. Musk most certainly is clumsy in his actions and communications, but Twitter isn't going anywhere.

Likewise, Facebook isn't having a meltdown either. There's a dent in ad spent against a backdrop of 2 years of dramatic overhiring (same as Google, Stripe).

There's a 4% decline in revenue on a 27 billion quarterly revenue. Meltdown? There's a handful of companies on this planet being this profitable.
It's probably 8 billion dollars to build a solution for a single large country.
The best thing about Affinity is that Adobe noticed and I've been on "first year only" Creative Cloud promo €30/mo for a couple of years now, all it takes is a mention on chat whenever the promo is about to end.
So each time someone makes a mistake there should be a material consequence to the person?

Would this not create an atmosphere of fear and drive society towards a fixed mindset where everyone would in case of mistake try to hide their mistake?

AFAIK the biggest upgrade to global aviation safety happened when mistakes were de-penalized, and all stakeholders could honestly discuss what went wrong and how to improve things in the future.

IMO, the biggest issues is not punishment, but understanding that a mistake was made, and an honest attempt to avoid similar mistakes in the future.

If a perpetrator fails to honestly see the harm in their actions, and perpetuate the same mistake repeatedly, then yes, they should probably face secondary consequences to make it understandable to every stakeholder that such behaviour is not acceptable. The reasoning here, however, is not some sense of global justice, but to simply de-normalize the pathological behaviour (if you repeat something without consequences it becomes 'accepted way of working').
humanID:
> Creates a *fully anonymous, privacy-first identity* that enables communities to block bots and abusive users.
> Protects the identity of its users through an *irreversible hash*, generating an ID that is unique to each user and platform the user is logging into.
> Enables platforms to decrease the cost of monitoring and moderating content, eliminates the significant business risk of data leaks, and appeals to a growing audience of privacy-focused consumers.
> Replaces invasive tools such as 'Login with Facebook' or Google's ReCAPTCHA
> you absolutely have to show why you’re better for this role than a bunch of other people you’re competing with

Of course. But let's define "better" and question your assumptions.

It is definitely not your sloppy heuristic: that heuristic is ageist and should be discarded.

Is it "interested in the field" vs. "interested in money"? That's highly debatable and depends on the company. For a big corporation that moves slowly and has a lot of grunt work, I'll most likely choose "interested in money" over someone who is going to get bored with the work there and focus on their side projects instead. For a startup early hire, probably "interested in the field". But I'd have to keep a very close eye on burnout.

There is a reason most engineers hate the interviewing process and one of those is the endemic abuse of heuristics. Consider improving your interviewing process instead of defending it. Some of your competition already is improving it, and they will hire the excellent folks that you pass by. Ineffective tricks in an attempt to shortcut an actually thorough process are probably never going to go away. But that doesn't mean you need to continue to participate in that. You could in fact "show why you're better".
I would do the opposite. They should do what they did in Japan and remove artificially curated trending topics. Let users decide again.

Increase API usage for tools that leverage Twitter. It will benefit the platform if others build upon it.

Let users without account read tweets too. Perhaps separate business and private accounts and add filters. Usually professional and private user accounts do not mix too well. I wouldn't want to follow my employer on Twitter.
What’s Capture One or DxO missing to replace Lightroom?
Pretty sure they are asking for a citation on the usage and not on the LTS schedule.
You treat recently conquered people differently from the people you have governed for many years.
It's honestly pretty risky. I imagine quite a lot of confidential information is in email.
That would be "bitreverse" I guess, plus their description of byteswap[0] is exactly that:

"Reverses the bytes in the given integer value n."

I would expect the description for "byteswap" to be something like "swaps the given bytes of an integer value n." and be called like byteswap(x, a, b), where a and b are the indicies of the bytes to be swapped.

[0]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/byteswap
I have an opinion on the pricing of higher end mountain bikes - I wish they were less expensive. I don't have an opinion on how they (or any bike) are used - bank robbery notwithstanding. You stated that bikes should only be used for transportation.

Suggest reviewing the following links regarding argument construction, how to avoid fallacies, etc.

https://www.oxford-royale.com/articles/construct-compelling-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
You can compromise by using abort in debug builds and std::unreachable in release builds.
I’m looking for (and haven’t yet found) any mention of v1 to v2 discounts? Am I missing something or is it an entirely new purchase?
Really nice products and a pretty amazing price. I've used the version one for maybe 8 years and think it cost me $49.
The article reads like an ad and doesn't mention whether other phones can crowdsource locate your item like iPhones can with AirTags.

One of the drawbacks to Tile was that other users had to have the title software installed and running constantly in the background in order to help locate your lost device.

It's not nearly as effective as Apple's approach where all iPhone users are opt-in when it comes to helping locate missing AirTags.
also `old.reddit`
If a code path that's supposed to be unreachable is reached then the program is already broken. Unless it has a bug, a compiler will not make a program more broken. At worst (or best, depending on how you look at it) it will only make any bugs it already has more obvious.
"1. Create a website where I promise to send money if you send me your bank account -- doesn't sound shady at all."

Strange for an American perhaps, not for an European, i give and receive payments to my bank account routinely thanks to my IBAN; and it's safe.

p.s.: can you send money?
Of course not, because it was pulled from his ass. Google had 120k employees in 2019, and 150k in 2021. Even with churn, the OP is way off
And who else is accountable? He's the top dog. And apparently well paid to state the obvious.
At sone point “I take responsibility” came to mean nothing more than “My bad”. It’s as if the act of saying it was your fault is all that’s necessary.

Ive noticed it used this way more and more, presumably as people realize it’s utility as a get of jail free card
I'm sure you already know: Kim Kardashian will pay a fine of $1.26 million for not disclosing to her Instagram followers that she was financially compensated for promoting EthereumMax

https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/10/03/kim-kardashian-f...
That seems a bit unfair. Every successful founder is irrationally optimistic about their own business — that's partly how they became successful in the first place. It doesn't seem at all unlikely that Zuck, Lütke, the Collisons, and many, many others all made the same wrong directional bet and ended up over their skis for perfectly sincere reasons.

In case one has trouble recalling, way back in the dark ages of 2.5 years ago, when these investments were first being made, neither the duration nor the outcome of the pandemic were at all clear to anyone.
Original author here. C worked on VMS but it was not a good match. VMS used complex data structures and async for kernel comms ($QIO) and the C standard library was built with other expectations. Setting up and handling syscalls was cumbersome and the POSIX style library was slow.

I still remember picking up VAX Pascal for an other gig and getting a decent taste for the delight that VMS systems level coding was. Yes, Pascal was better suited for that than C on VMS. Fun times :)