skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company's yesterday's internal discussion of impending layoffs immediately jumped to "hey, maybe we will get some really good React developers out of this".
reminder this is a country where there were weekly riots in the streets when gas prices went up. (yellow vest movement)

A carbon tax would make sense. Let's not pretend this is easy and viable to implement.
Seconding Sublime Merge. I've been using it since it was launched and it has been a solid tool.
Dude literally waited until the Olympics were over, basically on the request of his ally.
A better link might be to https://www.semafor.com/article/11/09/2022/ftx-legal-and-com... which has some news:

> Most of FTX’s legal and compliance staff quit Tuesday evening, people familiar with the matter told Semafor.

>

> Their departure will likely complicate a still-tenuous rescue of the crypto exchange, which yesterday agreed in principle to sell itself to a rival, Binance. That deal remains subject to due diligence by Binance.
The refusal of Russian leadership to withdraw their forces from Ukraine is a problem for Ukraine because it means Ukraine has to kick them out the hard way. Surely you've noticed there is a war.
Well, yeah. But I think that mechanism is pretty awful.
Twitter engineer fired by email using meme
Facts should matter more than opinions.

If you think the statement is false, you could provide evidence-based arguments. For example, it should be possible to check whether NATO provided safety guarantees or not (it is an objective statement).

Obviously, given military, economic, media, etc superiority, NATO can do whatever to whomever with impunity.

If you think, there are no plans to dismantle Russia, why NATO refuses to make it official? (however little it might mean, given the history)

Look into who made a fat profit on all this tragedy. Cui bono. Make your own conclusions based on the facts.
> Capitalism stops working when monopolies take over markets.

It is an inherit property of capitalism that it works towards this goal. There are forms of capitalism that exert more regulatory influence to help prevent this, but the way capitalism works is that it constantly tries to erode regulation and trend towards monopolies. We see this constantly and nonstop in real life.
Feigned retreat is a known tactic so already accounted for by leaders
It is absolutely idealized.
TVCs are temps, vendors, and contractors - they aren't typically considered hires. It's covering things like mat/pat leave backfill to kitchen staff.
Wow exactly what I am looking for right now. Congrats on the launch.
They aren't really in the business of fixing up a home, as other people have already said. The analogy for what they are trying to do is more like high-frequency trading (as the amazing and invaluable Matt Levine has pointed out for years).

When you want to sell 100 shares of Company A, and someone else wants to buy 100 Shares of Company A, sometime you do so at just the same moment, and you can directly transact with them. However, almost all of the time you are selling and they are buying a few minutes apart. So called "Market Makers" (aka "High Frequency Traders" aka "Flash Boys") take the other side of both transactions, and get a very small cut (generally less than 1% on the modern stock market). They are basically in the business of time-arbitrage. Their goal is to almost always be net zero on the market- to have roughly the same number of buys and sells at any given moment, so that the market floats along smoothly and they make their tiny cut whether it is going up or down.

And so the home buying version of this is, it is a real pain to have to find a buyer for every seller at the exact same moment. If we could similarly have a market-maker who can buy houses and sell houses when someone comes along looking to be the other side of that transaction, wouldn't it be awesome? You could take a tiny cut of the transaction, but what a big transaction! Just for some time arbitrage. Of course, the differences are stark: shares of stock are fundamentally fungible, whereas houses are almost as non-fungible as one can get. Stock transactions are quick and painless, and don't require months of work by teams of mortgage originators, with inspections and appraisals etc. It is difficult to be net-zero as a market maker in houses, since your inventory sits on your books for months and months, either appreciating (yay!) or depreciating (boo!). All of these are serious problems with the business model. The current wave of companies attempting this basically said "what if we fix this with <waves magic wand> Artificial Intelligence?" The actual answer is that they have once again found themselves in the business of picking up pennies in front of a steamroller- the fate of all arbitrage attempts that blow up.
I think I get that, but I wonder if all artists make art with the explicit intention to instigate social change, or if some simply express their dissatisfaction and others pick it up and run with it? That’s a funny thing about the subjectivity of art, people can run in unexpected directions. See Republicans using Bruce Springsteen songs at rallys.

I also wonder about the inevitability of people who wouldn’t lift a finger for a social cause anyways. I don’t think it’s inevitable so I agree that there is danger in pulling more people into potential nihilism.

I really seek out and admire those artists that seem to just not care what others think about them or their art and engage in a purely self-indulgent expression. I don’t think people will just stop that, it might go more underground though. I wouldn’t be surprised by that as a reaction to this centralized, always-online trend we’re in the midst of (and previously, gameshow fame like American Idol).
> I blame the federal assault weapon ban and 9/11 for ...

Small picture...kinda maybe. Bigger picture - I'd say it's far more due to widespread social / economic insecurity. And the culture wars that a lot of American "leaders" have found it personally profitable to whip up.

For many people who feel insecure - talking about guns, handling guns, firing guns, etc. can provide neurochemical "benefits" that you probably couldn't match with any sort of pill. But the downsides, either over time or at scale, are probably as bad as mass consumption of mood-management substances would be.
Ukraine is perfectly invadeable without the Crimean Bridge. Syria is no less likely to flair up now than it was then. Belarus was never going to oppose Russia on this. Covid is not severe enough to impact military readiness. This is all cope.

If Putin had a puppet in the White house he would have invaded. The US could block all NATO support. No one in Europe is going to against the US on military matters. This is the biggest advantage he could possibly have.
Are there any good reading on modern work being done in telecom networks. I enjoyed this comment and have had a passing interest in the industry, but have been unable to understand modern networks so far.
"fail fast, fail early, fail often" applied to cars.
Cutting bonuses, for example?
I still have two of the PCI G4 model at work, mothballed but not yet evicted in case I ever need the data on them! (I also have a G3 which did many years' service as an imagesetter RIP!)

I never particularly liked the aesthetics of the tower case but the practicality of the design is nothing short of breathtaking.
When a thing actually happens, the story comes with details that are seeds for substantive discussion. That's important because when there isn't significant new information, we end up with generic discussion which (almost by definition) is shallow and repetitive.

Also, rumors can turn out not to be true.
It's really just daydreaming, but in any case, I'm not convinced that corporate buyers of used houses increase the quality of housing stock. Corporations building new houses likely do, and that's where their money would go if they are truly interested in real estate investment.
> I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.

I wonder what this means in practice? Nothing? Ok, great.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305234708/http://pyxisinc.c...

> We've known since the early sixties, but have never come to grips with the implications that there are net negative producing programmers (NNPPs) on almost all projects, who insert enough spoilage to exceed the value of their production. So, it is important to make the bold statement: Taking a poor performer off the team can often be more productive than adding a good one. [6, p. 208] Although important, it is difficult to deal with the NNPP. Most development managers do not handle negative aspects of their programming staff well. This paper discusses how to recognize NNPPs, and remedial actions necessary for project success.
maybe, my parents are in the middle and they'll probably stay in their house for another 5-10 years I guess.
Antitrust lawsuit says Apple and Amazon colluded to raise iPhone, iPad prices
Yeah, the Swedish elections were two months ago, and took 6 days for the official results to come in.
I’m a bit puzzled by this question.

My main goal was to approach underlying social norms. I didn’t mean to point out that others do not know them and I do. I’ve tried to generalize examples that we all might notice and reason with.

How could’ve I done that better?
People are multifaceted. I'm sure he is good to his employees, like people are describing, but that ain't it.

He's repeatedly betrayed user trust, and eventually what goes around comes around.
It's the idea that most structures in math can be put upon a foundation of a structure consisting of objects and the relationships between those objects.
Anyone else have experience with Id Software Studio Director Marty Stratton? We don't want to ruin his reputation unnecessarily either. But if he really did commit defamation to this degree, it should not be a footnote.
Beige...
Internally, definitely. But open sourcing things has a (dollars/time/opportunity) cost that Facebook may decide to no longer pay, or can no longer afford to with a smaller team.
Love it! Awesome work! I love seeing software made by people with ADHD that have an understanding of their ADHD for others with ADHD.
It's a joke, pretty sure he's just a comedian and never worked for Twitter.
A company is bound to fire people in a well functioning economy or the alternative is every single employee will lose their job when the company goes bankrupt. Some people would rather bring every company down to the ground before firing a single person. In a well functioning economy what you then want is a short worker reallocation time.

Also if one of your options for "taking responsibility" is quitting, I guess your view of the world is that you would also fire any of your employees when they mess up, when whole industries have recognized the need for blameless cultures where making mistakes is part of the learning process.
Well... you get what you pay for.
at a certain point you have to ask why someone simps so hard for a brand.
Zed-turbo-patrioting

What does that mean?
Figma is the most recent. Behance and Frame.io are some other high-profile Adobe acquisitions.

FWIW, Flash is still very widely used in the 2D animation industry, as Adobe Animate.
I am an "artsy" person myself, both digital (3D, photography, vfx, animation, manipulation, digital drawing, infographics, etc.) and traditional (drawing, craft, sculpting, etc.), However, it's just as a hobby as others mentioned here, it will be a struggle when it comes to financial support even if you are top of the line. What I did instead is going into engineering (electrical one, yeah sounds far even with software devs), but you would be surprised how your artsy skills play a big factor in your work, because at the end of the day, your data/info/ideas/etc. needs to be presented and communicated, either internally or with clients, and it actually most of the time put me ahead of my colleagues/competitors.
Agreed, this is actually pretty scary for me (living in the US for a decade now) - bankruptcy is potentially one accident away (especially if it takes away the ability to continue doing the high-paying job).
Tim Cook, Sir Jony Ive KBE, and Laurene Powell Jobs
Awesome. Hope you like it!

And if we can help with anything, I'm at shri@metlo.com :)
Those are really good! Thanks for sharing. Curious to see the others. Are they available somewhere?
I learnt Erlang when it was still cool. And more recently (but not that recently) dabbled with learning Elixir.

Most resources are targeting those who don't come from Erlang (mostly it was from rails). And my word are they being deceived.

I don't think the Japanese/Latin analogy quite works it's like elixir is rhyming slang and Erlang is english.

But everyone insists you can get by with rhyming slang alone. Errr. Nope!
An open source economy–built by developers, for developers
Yeah, I shorted during the pandemic but missed the drop several times. Everyone knew to short, it's the when that nobody could fathom.
quite a lot of people do and have seen obesity as an urgent issue needing addressing. People at many levels of government, in both political parties, and for many years....
Interactive 68K programs were usually fast. The 68K programs would still call native PPC QuickDraw code. It was processor intensive code that was slow. Especially with the first generation 68K emulator.

Connectix SpeedDoubler was definitely faster.
This seems like it's probably not real, but it's very telling that I'm not 100% sure.

It's unimaginable that any other company would do this, but a Musk company? Hard to say. His sense of humor is certainly not... universal.
Surely, then, you also call the president "Beijing Biden" for all the deals his family has done in China? Or maybe it's not a good idea to just believe whatever someone's political opponents and their propagandists come up with.
This is the kind of workflow that makes me headdesk. Those fixup commits weren't obvious, and will be useful context if a future maintainer ever has to go back to these - they shouldn't be squashed.
I thought Texas roads were bad, and then I moved to Oklahoma for a year. Yeah, I was wrong.
That's good to hear about Mark as opposed to just the bad stuff.
I dunno, think Zuck losing however may billions of dollars of net worth is a pretty stiff consequence. He didn’t have to take responsibility but did. He also literally paid for the consequences.
IN RATS
Is it just me living in a bubble or are most of the recent layoffs in tech only? It’s been a massacre.
IIRC it wasn't a generic A/B test but an experiment intentionally designed to manipulate the emotion of users and measure their reactions.

In research, these types of experiments typically require consent..
Then identified war criminals must be surrendered as well, and very harsh sanctions must be imposed to Russian govt and its supporting oligarchs in order to force them to pay for the destruction they brought. To me, just returning land and prisoners then saying sorry isn't enough.
I'm pretty sure that there's some multi millionaires left at FB. Chris Cox is still there, he's likely a billionaire. There's potentially one or two others left...
Well, I wouldn't say i'm being selfless here, I benefit as a user lol :)
Indeed, civilian targets get much cheaper guided missiles and now "drones" /s
I think there's a not insignificant amount of the Russian population that has been fed, and thoroughly believes, this was something they had to do and Ukraine is full of literal Nazis.
> and then attack again with fresh forces

Can they afford fresh forces? Can they afford to replace the hardware they've already lost?
Russians paint "Z" on their combat vehicles
I don't get why people aren't arguing to just convert jails instead of shutting them down. If there is a lot of demand for people with mental health issues and not a lot of people who truly need to be behind bars, then just convert the jail property into an asylum. Whether you operate with mainly jails or mainly asylums you still need public land and facilities and jails are frankly a good site to store sensitive people. If you shut down jails before you build these asylums then you now have to go to the market and try and get land together for these things, and we have seen what an enormous hurdle that has been for governments undertaking those efforts

At least with the subway in LA the way the cops currently patrol it is pretty useless. I've seen four cops talking amongst themselves about 100 feet just on the other side of a stairwell from where someone was using a creme brule torch to light up a glass pipe for their buddy in the middle of the train platform. I see hard drugs smoked probably once or twice a week and I'm going during the 9-5, I can't imagine how much more is smoked during off peak hours when the stations are much more dead.

It seems like subway security is better solved by just having someone sit in a room looking at all the camera feeds in the station (there are already cameras everywhere on every corner but evidently they aren't used for much), seeing when someone is clearly hitting a crack rock or prying into a maintenance power outlet, and sending someone down to respond to what was seen on the video feed just now. Otherwise, people aren't dumb, they will just quiet down when they see a cop and start acting out again as soon as the cop is out of sight or earshot. Cops will also not care to do anything unless they literally saw it occur in front of their eyes, so having them be directed by a video operator at least serves as a record.
NSA is also probably a great place for hackers, but their mission is trash. Someone once drew a 2x2 grid for me. One dimension was competence, and the other was right mission. I was then asked what is the most dangerous square on the grid. The answer is competent with the wrong mission.
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In addition to the sibling comments, one simple opportunity available to a JIT and not AOT is 100% confidence about the target hardware and its capabilities.

For example AOT compilation often has to account for the possibility that the target machine might not have certain instructions - like SSE/AVX vector ops, and emit both SSE and non-SSE versions of a codepath with, say, a branch to pick the appropriate one dynamically.

Whereas a JIT knows what hardware it's running on - it doesn't have to worry about any other CPUs.
The original Rosetta was written by Transitive, which was formed by spinning a Manchester University research group out. See https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2016-09-30-heroes-software-e...

I know a few of their devs went to ARM, some to Apple & a few to IBM (who bought Transitive). I do know a few of their ex staff (and their twitter handles), but I don’t feel comfortable linking them here.
What I'm getting at is that Germany isn't some paragon of equality, it's average. The US as I pointed out is skewed by the high number of staggeringly wealthy people and a trend of people moving from the lower to upper levels of what you might call middle class. In the US wealth held by people form 50% of the distribution up to 99% represents about $91T vs $18.2T for the top 0.1% and $4.4T for the bottom 50%. The coefficient really hides the vast middle and upper middle distribution in the US.

Also this obscures the fact that it is far better to be poor or working class in the US than somewhere with a similar Gini coefficient.
Those guys who print their "Z" and "V" swastika everywhere.
Then the next major milestone for the early ones then will be assisted living and death, both of which will free up homes and other assets.
To those of you that are interested in following the war in greater detail, check out the daily updates [1] from the Institute For The Study Of War [2]. There's even a map that updates daily [3].

[1]: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-confli...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Study_of_War

[3]: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641...
The hope is that the Abel Prize becomes the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics", as it is directly modeled after it.
Letter Z
A reference to the Z symbol Russia has adopted in support of its military invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60644832
Eeeeh… yes?
The most bureaucratic and toxic cultures I've ever seen up close are flat or describes as "family." Personality and power take over in the lack of clear ways of working, huge wastage financially and emotionally.

Perfmafrost is unhealthy and unsustainable for an org, so in permathaw where everything is perpetually fluid.

Leadership isn't power and control. Leadership is the ability to drive change with others. Leadership is an act, not a position. Flat organizations tend not to be leadersless teams and rather leaderless organisations.

There are many good leaders, but the tend to be in the middle not the top. Based upon research evidence.
Of course those are ads.
> The article was unhelpful. Is Tesla's stock decline really attributable to Musk's Twitter shenanigans?

Accurate attribution of stock movements is difficult, and any “this one thing fully explains this movement” is probably wrong, but it seems plausible that news of Tesla engineers being pulled to review Twitter code plus Elon’s attention being visibly heavily on Twitter contributes somewhat to the negative pressure on Tesla.

OTOH, “the Fed actively slamming the brakes on the economy makes people less confidence in the intermediate-term performance of luxury car brands” could be a factor, as could lots of other things.
> 60s and 70s, satellite [...] recon would find this kind of trap

After the mid 70s. Until 1976, American recon satellites relied on dropping film canisters back to earth so they had limited tactical relevance.
Oh yeah, Plastikman's Sheet One was an amazing example of minimal Acid. _Glob_ still feels fresh today. Everything you mention I probably have a copy floating around somewhere. Bunch of Orb, Orbital, Future Sound of London, etc.
For instance

https://theobjective.com/economia/2022-08-04/espana-carbon-g...

"energy crisis force Spain to increment 108% coal electricity generation"

or for Germany, in English

https://reneweconomy.com.au/in-germany-a-wind-farm-is-disman...

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/germany-reactiv...

And also

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220620-dutch-join-ge...

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-energy-u-turn-coal-instead-of...

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220627-france-may-restart-coa...
Do the people who get these alerts really act on them at all? I know the second after I read the license plate number that its gone out of my head, and I usually don't know what the make and model of the vehicle would actually look like since I don't pay attention to what most cars actually look like.
I think the words "meaning" and "calling" are a bit strong. They all kind of imply the notion that there is one thing that will make you happy and that you have to find it.
In reality, I think there are lots of different (company, position) that can make you happy.

You also used the word "value", which I think is more on point.

We all have a different set of values. If you do things that are in conflict with those values, you will feel bad. So finding a job where the most important values you have are fulfilled is a key point to being happy.

I don't have any particular resource, but I think there must be a lot of books on how to find and understand those values. I personnally worked on that with a therapist.

My example :

I was working in a 45k-employee engineering service company (not sure of the english translation), where I was working on an ERP software for (military) aviation. The tech stack and the human organization was terrible.

It conflicted with some of my values (knowledge, peace, creativity, autonomy...) and was starting to make me feel anxious and angry. I also felt that what I did had no real purpose.

I knew I needed a place where kindness and knowledge were important. When I finally found that, working in a place were I feel the end product makes the world better, my life really was better.