skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty damn sure if I didn't waste tons of time as a kid in front of TV and even more in front of computer playing highly addictive games my IQ score would be higher, I would have much wider breadth of knowledge and would be a more complete person.

I caught up on that later on life, but no thanx to this addictive media, but rather by cutting them off and spending time better, much better.

Let's not normalize addictions, human brains for some evolutionary reason we don't grok completely yet have this weakness, which was probably a strength in distant past.

Have you seen many kids these days where parents don't curate their access to internet? My friend there is no big difference between rock-bottom heroin addict and them. Trying all kinds of mind tricks, extortion, fists, lying, stealing (devices) just to get more tiktok time, watch more streams, play more online games. It is a sad view, and normalizing it hurt those victims badly.

My kiddos are too small for this (1 i almost and another a bit more than a year) but I can already see how addictive screens are to those, even if we play them old bedtime tales from youtube that we used to watch as kids. Now active screens are on completely different levels and kids have no way to defend themselves. Heck look at how many adults are addicted to that. Many even refuse to admit it, like word "addict" means failure, rock-bottom, needle sticking out of forehand instead of spectrum of impairments, ie higher restlessness, being more nervous etc. Just like sugar of nicotine withdrawals.
The writing is usually on the wall for a while before the layoff actually happens, so there's time for you to let your manager know that you wouldn't mind getting the boot.
My guess is a conservative reading of the applicable laws, if anything.

Turn off amber alerts; they're entirely useless and you can now turn them off without turning off the tornado warnings (almost entirely useless, too).
Who said anything about fair? When has fairness ever factored into business?

If a company sees an opportunity to make money, short or long term, they take it. That's just good business, right?

There is a cold calculation that happens.. If we do this, will we come out ahead at some point in the future? Yes? Then do it.

If "this" means hiring a ton of people that you might have to let go in the future, then so be it. That's how all companies operate, all the time.

The difference here is that the time between hiring and layoffs has compressed, and the bets that companies make are shorter term.. Hire thousands of people, drive massive quarterly profits for a while, then let a bunch of them go. Thank you for your service.

This is how a lot of existing industries work already.. Warehouse/factory work, seasonal work like construction and farming/fishing.. That's why those industries have unions too, because if this becomes a repeating pattern, the average worker suffers from poor job security and constant upheaval for the sake of corporate profits.

I said this in the discussion around Shopify's layoffs as well: as a worker in tech looking for a job, you need to start thinking about how much your role contributes to the bottom line, and also about the timing of your hiring.

If you are hired during rapid growth, then assume your job security is much lower, because your employer is making a bet, as opposed to planning for a calculated and safe long term expansion.
Collapsible comments are available with JavaScript enabled, and the setting is remembered for two weeks, if I remember correctly.

This is little consolation to someone who doesn't have JS available, but if you are able to selectively enable JS just for HN, I have found it to be more helpful than not.
I'm sorry for that. I had to enable disposable email check, as there were a lot of people abusing the website.

I am using third-party service that must have recognized your email as disposable or spammy. If you'd like me to dig deeper into it, to fix the issue, just send me your email/domain via DM on Discord (or via email address in the website footer).
Longtime GIMP user, never spent much time on any alternatives.

This hit all my checkboxes:

- No arbitration clause in the ToS
- Rest of the ToS, PP is a breath of fresh air (comparatively speaking.)
- One-time payment, not subscription based
- License across all platforms is surprising and good, and is what made this an instant purchase.

It's nice to know I'll have Affinity 2 forever, even if Adobe (god forbid) purchases Affinity.
Thanks for the parent shaming.
The GINI coefficient for Germany is about 32 vs 41 in the US with the global average being 38. That's not so far apart, and the US is skewed by have a chunk of the world's wealthiest people.
In a real codebase, this would be wrapped by a macro to abort in a debug build but gain the optimizations in a release build.
In situations like this, it's usually too late.

Sometimes voluntary layoffs are announced, but really you need to be able to read between the lines and smell that something is coming before the layoff is announced. (The reason is that layoffs are usually kept confidential because no one wants to incite panic.)

What I did a few years ago was have a 1-1 with a VP and basically implied that I was ready to do something different. I ended up with a great severance package right as the pandemic was taking off.
My 2 cents is that it's going to be mostly recruiters, sales, customer success, and other misc operations folks. That's the pattern I've been observing since the post-covid layoffs have begun.
Full disclosure: I pulled this information out of my arse, but perhaps it's to avoid the situation where you leave them connected without realising? If it plays at max volume through the headphones you have a better chance of hearing it even if you're not actually wearing the headphones
I want to be able to silence Amber Alerts but still receive them. On Android, my only options are completely off, or full-blast obnoxious tone.

I CANNOT have my phone making noise, so it has to be fully off. If there was a choice for silent notifications, I would choose that.
> A typical use case for this function are switch statements on a variable that can take only a limited set of values from its domain. For instance, an integer that can only be between 0 – 9. Here is a simple example with a switch that checks a char value and executes operations. Only a limited number of commands are supported but the argument is checked before invoking the function so it shouldn’t be possible to receive other values than already handled in the switch.

This is a bad practice. Parse, don't validate - https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
I think it's great!
Ha, this is brilliant!
Without those soulless entities who over hired by a large numbers those people may not have their job in the first place. So sympathize, but with perspective.
I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There is a glasses retail chain here called Gassi which sells 2 pairs of glasses (frames + lenses) for around 40 USD.
Yeah, I was more comparing an 11B with binoculars versus a TC using all his sensors. When you add in the difference in communication suites, networking (is Blue Force Tracker still a thing?) the infantryman is at a serious disadvantage.
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You definitely needs more than $8 Bil, but I would break it down to

- Create a verification platform tat verify Bio-metrics of the individuals, it can be do with blockchain too.
Challenge: A lot will refuse due to concerns of having a db of every..single..person on earth that can be used in a lot of evil ways.

- Create your decentralized currency or use an existing one, you can't easily distribute that money going through the usual banking system with all policies around that, either sanctions to a whole country, or even within the country itself as some individuals have their bank account restricted to start with, so no banks.
Challenge: all the challenges that comes with Defi crypto, and the challenges with the the fact that there are people who doesn't even know the crypto exists let alone using it, some don't even have access to technology at all.

- Create a referral-system-like where people are encouraged to bring in there friends, family, others in the villages, etc., that will spread the word faster and more efficient as you only need to convince few and they will be your ambassadors on the ground, but also they might take care of the no-access to tech (or lack of knowledge) with others. This also can be used to have a hybrid system where ambassador1 get paid for X individuals and then they pay in local currencies, need some sort of verification mechanism to ensure they actually get paid too.

I would say personally the biggest challenge is having a system/DB that contains every individual on earth.. that would be nearly impossible, and honestly, I don't think it is even a good idea to start with.
Why are they useless? I grew up in an area with tornadoes and when one came ripping through my childhood suburb and destroyed some houses I was happy to have forewarning.
The dish detergent seems to get under coatings and ruin them, in my experience. Glass cleaner is fine, though.
They could simply move. It's what normal people had to do because these overpaid engineers outpriced them.
I like Firefox’s better for CSS, particularly flexbox and grid debugging, but Chrome’s network tab is better.
More like a crab bucket
Daft Punk is fine, it's fun pop music extremely well executed, but it doesn't transport me anywhere. Listening to Aphex Twin always felt like I'm taking a journey somewhere.

It requires some focus, but doesn't need a massive cultural decoder ring like many kinds of contemporary Western art music. (I mean the post-WWII music by classically trained composers.)
You can collapse the comment thread by clicking the minus in brackets next to the comment time.
Re 3), all the <bits> instructions can be expressed in high level code, and compilers have been able to convert high level code to the actual machine instructions for a while.

The issue is exactly which code pattern is detected by which compiler varies a lot, so to avoid having to rely on that there was a strong push to add all these explicit intrinsics. Also std::bytesewap is more readable than the longer reverse+as_writeable_bytes.
I do the same: Affinity Photo + Photopea + GIMP

A combination of these usually gets the job done.

Adobe products are boycotted in my work setup. I'm voting with my wallet!
If you do only a couple of iterations it will not optimize it. Loops can be now optimized in-flight thanks to on-stack replacement feature which should help with startup time and also allow to apply Tier-1 compilation with more optimizations should the loop become hot (e.g. can't elide static initialization checks if you go straight to full optimized without Tier 0 -> Tier 1). To get more representative data it is best to either use BenchmarkDotNet or profile code close to real life case.
Could the title match the post tile to follow the hackernews guidelines?
> Somalia in the 90's.

Or Lebanon right now, which has USD as a competing currency rather than crypto. I tend to agree with this perspective--that all states should see a private economy as an adversary--but there are a lot of states that can't effectively resist forces like this.

That said, is there really a proven use case where people are using cryptocurrency to buy burritos? I think the private economy meme is out over its skis. I have seen places where you can buy a six dollar latte or a bag of cocaine with Bitcoin, but these are use cases which are heavily predicated on a functional underlying fiat currency.
Like for example Daft Punk has a crystal clear sound that seems to have a certain warmth to it, and their seeming high production values, their good diversity of sounds in their work.
Google's grown its workforce by about 15% every year. Which adds up to a lot of people nowadays.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/numb...
You cannot explain it though.

I could say I'm drawn to Aphex Twin because it all sounds really diverse but someone else would say they disagree and prefer rock music because Aphex Twin sounds really samey.

The problem with conversations about personal preference is it's not a rational decision. You either like something or you don't. Someone could try to intellectualize why they like something but ultimately that reasoning only applies to them.
I haven't really kept up with it, but I didn't find it in a cursory check of 6.0.7. Linode used UML when they were first starting, before eventually moving to Xen and then KVM.
For how long it is, it's incredible how high the hit rate for jokes were.
To the people downvoting my post- would you care to explain what possible alternatives could exist that would fulfill Facebook’s mission - “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected”?

I sense a deeply cynical and dismissive tone from many commenters and I sincerely wonder how many of you have given any honest thought to Facebook’s mission- or the many great products and features that support that mission. Given the importance of the mission, I find it hard to believe that cutting the workforce by 13% will have anything but dire consequences . Akin to the Middle Ages, or AI winter, humans will almost certainly suffer from being less connected. But what I haven’t heard is calls governments or ngos stepping in to provide funding to lighten the shockwaves of this disruption to connectivity. Surely, this must be considered. When comparing Meta’s mission to that of- say- automakers, or financial lending institutions- isn’t it clear that creating a more connected world should take priority?
This was one thing that annoyed me about Affinity as well, no AVIF or WEBP support. There are a number of threads on their forums asking for it, but Serif staff stopped responding to those a while ago.
Makes me wonder if there’s enough layoffs coupled with a recession, corps would use this to get people back in the office and eliminate WFH.
I do some hobby projects in Rust.

One gotcha that I hit was using ? in sample code in documentation. It didn't work, so I had to replace all of my ? with .unwrap().

I generally consider .unwrap() a poor example, because it encourages writing code that could crash a program unnecessarily.
I mean thats a slight inconvenience at the cost of not letting people be confused that they are not actually having an encrypted conversation. I still stand by my original statement and don’t understand how people are so mad about that. Sure “it sucks” you need another app now but the comments about this in the threat are treating it like signal is doing something malicious
Well, I'm really curious, if you could try to describe it. It is just interesting you get this. I am not here to defend Obsidian in any way, rather interested in understanding what it is all about.
I always see this comment on here but never once seen or heard this in real life interactions with people
and please, don't install kernel 6.6.6
The world runs on certain types of software. I doesn't run on social media, or video streaming, or "AI/ML", or search. So it doesn't actually run on FAANG companies. It is no surprise they are shedding workers when the free money runs out. But if you are willing to work on "boring software" that provides actual economic value - logistics, HR/Payroll, or really anything people actually pay to use because it boosts their productivity - I wouldn't worry too much.

This was true during the .com bust, 2008 dip, and it will be true now.
this is a flawed understanding and mischaracterises the situation. Europe’s middle class will be broke if they lose all their money. They still have institutional supports and community to fall back on. This is as true in the poorer european countries as it is in the richer ones. Not being able to afford a home is not in the same ballpark as not being able to eat.

India’s middle class will fall into poverty if they lose their money. the critical difference is that the indian middle class is without government or societal support to help them out of poverty.
FB started sinking money into the Metaverse long before that.
If we're going on analogies, I'd be a crayfish. Happy to go as the river takes me, but I'll migrate if pickings become scarce. Avionics took me far until COVID. When the weather got stormy I was quite happy to jump ship.
Very cool, thanks. I don't know a lot about other MUDs besides LambdaMOO.
The core of Libgen is indeed 33TB. No idea where you get your 7TB from. The content difference between it and zlibrary is marginal from what I understand.
DreamBooth works with just 4 input images.
> Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended.

I mean people who had financial gain on the line (like yourselves) pretended this was the case so you could cash in at the time and then pull the rug once it wasn't working any more (as you're doing now), but everyone with half a brain knew it wasn't sustainable.

Literally how could that acceleration be permanent? With the insane exponential growth inflated by covid in 2020/2021, you'd have a few years before these big tech companies would have to be gaining more users than exist on earth.
I would design the algorithms so that they tended to amplify accurate information and civil discussion. Here are some essays I have written on the subject:

https://deliberati.io/give-truth-the-advantage/
https://deliberati.io/moderation-as-consensus/
Sure. But it's only "taking responsibility" if you demonstrate you're actually intending to either a) actually be accountable in some fashion and/or b) actually lay out how you'll change to make the bad thing not happen in the future.

"We need to layoff half of the company. I'm sorry and take responsibility. I have failed our employees and shareholders. Because of this, I am stepping down". That's taking responsibility.

"We had a major F-up. It was my responsibility. And here are the concrete steps I am taking to ensure it never happens again, along with the mechanisms you all have to hold me accountable. If these fail, the following bad thing will happen to me." That's taking responsibility
What did they lie about?
I may be showing my filter bubble, but what fraction of highschoolers get to first order systems of linear differential equations? We heavily covered them in BC calc but I guess I don't know if that's the curriculum or my teacher going the extra mile
What configuration is necessary for editors to insert spaces in code like this:

https://lore.kernel.org/keyrings/20221109025019.1855-2-linux...

If HN mangles the link, it is the addition of the `key_create` function in this thread: https://lore.kernel.org/keyrings/20221109025019.1855-2-linux...
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Yeah seriously, I read the meta announcement and thought "Did you just steal Tobi's letter and do some find/replace on it?"
There's now also gVisor
The good news here is that Adobe suite is not really threatened by Affinity products, as they're ahead in terms of features and enterprise presence.

They acquired Figma because Figma was quickly becoming the go-to collaborative UI design tool in the workplace, something Adobe did not have with AdobeXD. If they were to try to acquire another company in this space, it would likely be Canva, rather than a comparatively small player like Serif.
Philip Glass is one of the post WW2 composers whose music does not need a cultural decoder ring. His music is distinctively Glass-ian, I think very few musicians have carved out such a distinctive musical identity.
Turns out adding "on a BLOCKCHAIN!!!!!" doesn't make issuing unregistered securities anything different, it's so cOnFuSiNg
The argument goes that IPs are PII (at least for google). The data leaves the EU without consent and into an unsafe state (EU definition). For this The user must consent.

Oh and promises from Google? We won't close Stadia?

Also this point is moot since the transfer itself is illegal.
We get them every single time a thunderstorm sniffs at anything in the tricounty area.

There may be a way to turn off the "Watch" alerts and still keep the "we are gonna die" alerts. The one time we got the green sky of doom the phone did explode in a way not normally seen, so I assume they know something about crying wolf.

As for amber alerts being useless - something like 90% (?) of the time it's a custody dispute where one parent hasn't returned the kid at the appointed time.
True but there are exceptions. At a previous job of mine, layoffs were happening and my manager was tasked with laying off one member of my team. He sat us in a room and told us about it and the severance package and basically asked for a volunteer. A more senior engineer volunteered and went on his way with a good chunk of cash.

Oh how I wish I had volunteered cuz a year later basically everyone including me had quit anyway.
These are obviously complete trash. Waking people up in the middle of the night for some random child that was abducted half a Belgium away with no real call to action even if it were in the same very small town.

What we need is political pressure for a pay-to-play solution. You fire an alert at my phone, that's $100 deposited within a week against my phone bill or offered via mail for the pay-as-you-go burner phone types.

Then if the phone goes off I know its something real. Right now it's just a waste of resources and annoyance, probably killing more people than it is saving via sleepy or distracted drivers or medical professionals.
I know you're probably just making a point but you realize this isn't true right? He would have to liquidate meta stock to make this happen, resulting in the price dropping and requiring him to liquidate more etc. etc.
The founding vision of the US was one where the further away government was from the people, the less impact it would have on their lives. The Federal government was to have an extremely limited role in society, largely tasked with things such as international relations. Your day to day would primarily be affect by your state, and ideally on downward with a further delegation of responsibilities getting closer and closer to you.

This also helps curtail corruption. It is ostensibly easier to coerce/bribe/etc a state than a nation, but you have to do this for every single state and then try to keep them all under your thumb. A federal government may ostensibly be harder to corrupt, but once corrupted they can affect your whims on a national level and be relatively easier to maintain control of.

This decentralization of power seems to be the easiest way to have a functioning political system. It's always the same decision. Centralization paired with selflessness, benevolence, and competence will trend towards utopia. Centralization paired with selfishness, greed, or incompetence will trend towards dystopia. Decentralization will always just trend towards mediocrity as a mish mash of the averages of society.
But the site's still up, still available over Tor, and still has domain names (in other jurisdictions) that point to it.
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It means he's not trying to scapegoat a VP or the board or say "It's not my fault nobody foresaw this economy."

It doesn't mean anything in terms of action or "self-punishment" but nor should it. The dude has already lost many more billions of dollars than you or I will ever see.

I'm no fan of the guy, but some people won't even take responsibility verbally. So at least he's not descending that low.

And the severance seems decent so it all seems to be handled fine. Not sure what more you're looking for.
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Ask if there are VRIF (voluntary reduction in force) options open to you. Most of the time there are unless you have some kind of "special" status.

I've never known a company that is in the process of layoffs not jumping at the chance to VRIF an employee because it is a far cleaner termination and honestly less stressful and upsetting for all involved IMHO.