skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the chances that these casinos actually just use these products and donate to them? Everyone here immediately jumping to SEO conclusions, but maybe its a bit less nefarious than that?
Apple is at least partly to blame here for stubbornly refusing to add paid upgrades to the app stores, despite developers calling for it for years.
That seems pretty standard to me.

Here the law mandates a three months notice. Then severance depends of how long you have worked for the company. It is a quarter of a month per year you have been employed for the first ten years and a third of a month per year after that.

But this lay off would most likely be illegal here anyway. You have to face a downturn or unforeseen events impacting your ability to compete to do mass layoff here and Meta is still hugely profitable. This is putting your shareholders before your employees.

Generally when you want to downside here, you compensate people who agree to leave and the sums involved are more generous than what Meta is giving.
A place with more TC in cash.
Articles like this are useful to see what's possible. You don't have to copy his workflow 1:1, you can take ideas from many places and design a workflow that works for you.

Guaranteed the author didn't start "structure first". It's something that developed into its current form over a long time of experimenting and refinement.
If you require that level of privacy you are either

-Buying drugs or illegal porn

-A terrorist

-A libertarian that opposes taxation

That's not how society works thank god.
the problem is job market flooding
"moves to runtime" exactly means to lose typesafety though.
I migrated to Affinity after Adobe put the last nail in the coffin for me.

I have to admit that even with some experience, Affinity doesn't get close to Photoshop in terms of shortcuts and ease of use ("getting in the flow").

Sometimes I even resort to using photopea web, rather than open affinity.

That said, I really appreciate their pricing model and hope they stick to their guns.
I know that this is a common wish, but anonymous sum types have pretty catastrophic impacts on type checking and lead to all sorts of bizarre corner cases like the following:

let a = if cond {
1
} else {
1.0
};

a + 3

Now, the error would be pushed to the `+` operator because there isn't an `Add` for `f32 | u32`. Granted, this is a trivial example, and a programmer can easily see through it, but in general this can get very overwhelming and cause errors to leave their 'root cause'.
How do you guys handle images in Obsidian? I can't zoom or see detail on large screen shots for example. Pretty new to the application so maybe I'm missing something
> very old styling

Correction: Original styling. These were the guys who invented that styling. The problem is, they've hardly innovated styling at all for decades.
I was referring to the firewall functionality already present in windows, not the GUI called "windows firewall".
Was that the game that monitored your kinetic/microphone to make sure you were hiding quietly?

I never played it but that's got to be an innovative way to stress out gamers!
Yeah, fly ‘em all to a “small central EU country” which shall henceforth be known as LuxemValley. As a bonus, ‘errbody working in LuxemValley shall be known as the SiliconBourg and be issued a mug, backpack and Chemin de Fer paddle. :D

Seriously, under current law, H1B workers will be even more locked-out of US jobs until these newly RIFed US workers land somewhere, but India doesn’t really depend on H1B contractor revenue like it did during the mass RIFs of the “Dot Com Bust.” No, now Indian citizens can work comfortably, efficiently and economically from India, like many of the far more expensive (and now RIFed) US workers had been doing from their US homes. For those RIFed US workers to compete with more economical India-based workers, they’re going to need to either get very small and crawl under the door to struggling US employers (by lower their salaries while abandoning remote work) or maybe they’ll need to cut expenses by moving to a “small central EU country” and get paid in Euros.
I like this game, I consider it as intellectual challenging and I appreciate that kind of rate which really helps in approaching to the right word.
The structure is there, it's just not in the file / folder layout, but in the wikilinks and whatever else Obsidian can uncover (ie. unlinked mentions, orphaned file output).

I guess I learned how my own learning and memorizing works, and managed to match it better with how Obsidian works, and now I don't have to think about silly file / folder structure anymore. Your experience maybe different.
Your say best practice, I see apologies for doublespeak and the attempt to normalize unaccountable dehumanizing statements from corporate lackeys.
More than Facebook?
I am talking best employees. People who will find good job no matter what. People you need to keep because they are actually the ones who make the show going.

You got hired thinking you will get some amount of money (salary + shares) now those shares are worth little even before they got vested.

So you cut your loss and get hired at some other place that will give you more of your comp in form of salary than shares because you feel burned.
> it should be possible to buy a phone and not have it phone home without permission. And you should be able to use the phone without ever contacting the vendor again.

don't connect it to the internet.
Show HN: Covalent – distributed computing for ML, HPC and Quantum (open source)
Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees
Stable Diffusion is probably far from the state of the art, but good $DEITY did it open the floodgates! Just watching the open source scene evolving as a bystander is interesting.
TIL what ControlFlow is. This is super interesting and solves some problems I thought were impossible.

Error handling has gone from uber painful in 2018 to pretty decent in the latest editions.
I discovered a gem yesterday in HBO. The Outsider. Ben Mendelson and a small role from Jason Bateman. Feels like a true detective season well done like the first. How is this show not front and center in the homepage?
Their income and operating margin has almost halved, compared to 2021. Their free cash flow is 1/50th of the previous few quarters. Those are truly horrible results.

FB was a money printing machine, but they trashed it.
I understand why it's there, but I do find it fun that when many people are trying to reduce undefined behaviour in their code, std::unreachable is literally defined as "this is undefined behaviour, use that to optimise".

I suspect 99.9% of uses of std::unreachable would be better replaced by abort. (There will be those times when the code is correct and the optimisation gains are worth it -- but they will be rare).
Where / how do you save a HN shitpost that is definitely not worthy to be part of the atomic note of `Kubernetes.md`, but is still relevant / insightful and related to it?

I would add it to either quotes.md or the daily note with #kubernetes tag.
True, if you assume time is perfectly fungible into money. For most of us it’s not.
I think most actual work will be done via img2img, outpainting and inpainting, and an real artist can actually give an important contribution.
(with tongue firmly in cheek) From here on out I'm referring to MS-20 mini as the 7/11 MS-20, to distinguish. The kit is obviously the Ikea MS-20.
Looks like the terms of the layoff are very generous. 4 months of pay, accelerated vesting, etc.
I've seen Tiktok described as "what happens when you give the illiterate a platform"

I'm sure hoping this short attention span, no time to think sort of content doesn't become common
It seems to do an awful job.

Input:

"At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth."

Results in:

"When Covid first launched, the world was moving quickly online, and the e-commerce boom caused an astronomical increase in revenue."
It seems the only reason given is "some clients are broken"?

They mention latency but I wonder what the real world impact is. On a home network, most users are using ISP supplied DNS which /usually/ has pretty low latency and will have a huge cache already built up. Corporate users will have DNS cached to all the common host they're visiting.

Anecdotally, AWS ALBs (HTTP load balancers) have a CNAME with a 10 minute TTL (maybe it is 60 seconds) and can have their IPs change 100s of times a month and this works fine as a default configuration for many use cases.
I think people are just tolerant. I've used it on an M1 MacBook and a Ryzen 2600 and I've been using it on and off for years. It always feels a bit slow and sluggish, and I still open sublimetext first out of habit because of how much more performant and fluid it feels.
Why is it called "byteswap" and not "bytereverse"? "Swapping" can be done in any number of ways, but only one way to reverse.
Can you not download them from your purchases tab?
You can obviously only call common methods or have to pattern match later and have a way to tell them apart. If you can't tell them apart, the compiler will tell you and you need to tag them somehow.
He should be out of day to day running of twitter. Hire someone. Hire an adult. He can use twitter (he did buy it) but pay an adult to deal with it. He is clearly out of his element.

Bring back vine or some other short video type thing.

Back out the dumb pay for a check mark idea. Or at least change it. As it sits anyone can get a check mark. Blue check marks should mean the person is verified not that they paid 8 dollars.

Support creators. Give them a way to use the platform to extend their reach. I would have to think more here

Journalists love twitter. Given them useful tools and you can charge them money.

That is where I would start.
> I'd say TikTok is a way for China to mitigate the threat coming from the west's upcoming generations, by ensuring their collective capabilities are as limited as possible.

I wonder how much the flavour of commentary would change if you swapped "China" with "Israel"...here comes the deep water.
Someone did crib the Stripe layoff notice at Meta. Strange, but yeah, obviously someone at Meta did base it on this Stripe one.
With the holidays and re:invent coming, it would be pretty insane for them to cut jobs right now
Fed raising the interest rate is hardly a good time to start a startup.
Personnally I use tags for this usecase, I tag every single note in obsidian and I use a plugin called Tag Wrangler to show my tags as a tree. Tags then act like folders (for example a tag #python/pip will be under python > pip).

Pros :

- A note can fall under as many tags as you want

- The map view is pleasing to watch because tags can be shown but folders cannot, it also helps to categorize orhpan notes visually

Cons :

- You have to maintain the habit to tag each notes you write

Finally, Tag Wrangler allows you to rename / edit tags in bulk so that it is close to be as fluid as moving notes between folders.
These severance packages are very generous
There are already reimplementations of the client side of some of their protocols (which are just JSON HTTP requests), including account registration, without running any JavaScript (parsing the JS is needed though). These are of course against the ToS and can get you banned though.

https://github.com/taylordotfish/harmony/
https://github.com/taylordotfish/librecaptcha/
https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord/
Programming isn't young mans game but a career doing programming is young man's game.

It is a young man's game in the sense that your priorities in life change. Just lose your motivation to

* learn the next hottest framework on the weekends,

* doing leetcode puzzles to change jobs

* 25 yr old nitpicking your PR that you didn't organize your imports in alphabetical order.

* plateauing at L6 level while your peers become directors. Why would you want to make 250k while your friends make 450k.

Sure you if are really good at programming you might get the respect and become a wise sage staff engineer. But most ppl and organizations are average where its hard to distinguish your self writing crud apps or data pipelines.Effort required to increase pay becomes exponential in coding after a certain point to the point that its just not worth it.
What they really meant was for an online-only app
Correct me if I am worng, but hasnt Twitter has seen more growth in the last week than it has in some time? 15 million new users isn't a meltdown, nor is thinning a bloated and wasteful enterprise. Also, if twitter goes completely belly up, Musk would still be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Grave? I'm game for some hyperbole, but not this early.
No journalism is self-critical, that's the whole point of journalism, like Taleb likes to say. It's entertainment for whoever wants their own bubble justified, not information. Of course the pro-crypto journalism is much worse in this regard, but that doesn't change the fact that journalism on both sides is useless for anyone who wants actual information content.
Let's start talk about all Zuckerberg, Mcafee, Steve Jobs, and any other unfair acts committed by any tech millionaire? Let's talk how Jack Dorsey influenced the whole political engagement for the democrats (including the moderation process) at Twitter? Or maybe we can simply agree that people do questionable things when they have money, power and influence?
I've always interpreted web 2.0 as

"we finally found a way to make money with this shit"

through advertising money. Old tech.
I don't see how I would buy drugs or conduct terrorism on HN. And while avoiding tax on $50 might be a win, it is a boring part of the scenario.

I don't want to post PII info publicly from this account. But, in practice (ie, we're long past theory) if I want to accept payment as roenxi I can. And if I use something like Monero, it'll be extremely anonymous. There'll be a use for that sort of tech to someone and for legitimate purposes.
> there's a governmental report about how this country is missing 150k programmers

You shouldn't take these governmental reports at face value. In my country, we see a lot of these reports too, and for all kinds of professions. Most of the time it just means that the corporate want more people willing to work for less.
Apple doesn't even allow users to turn off Bluetooth or GPS (easily in a straight-forward way, it prevents you to make it easy). And while some of it is to provide a better experience to you, major reason is to provide service to other Apple customers.
I’ve been here long enough to have seen the countless comments lamenting the current state of qualifications and ability in the industry. Here’s to hoping that meta and stripe laid off under achievers that would be wise to get into a different industry where they’ll perform better. Musks layoffs ignored since it seems clear that his were indiscriminate and hasty to the point of negligence.
Show HN: Novel Goggles Integrated story planning and writing for better stories
Does Netflix have 11,000 open positions?
Hi HN. My name is Lionel and I’ve bootstrapped a project called Novel Goggles. It’s a web app that helps writers with their story crafting by integrating story structuring, outlining, world building, character progression, story arc visualisation and manuscript writing.

I started working on it in mid-2020 while learning JS. It’s my first web project (although I’ve got lots of other software development experience) and first time working on a UI directly, which has been interesting. It’s written from scratch in JS on the client side and using nodeJS on the server side. I decided to avoid React/Angular or similar since the initial scope was quite limited.

Scope creep has since ballooned the feature set but I find that I quite enjoy working on the code propping up the UI, event handling, syncing with the server, etc. so I don’t plan on adopting a front-end framework any time soon.

Features:

- Story structure and outlining.

- Character development.

- World building.

- Create and visualise story arcs.

- Your scene outlining and world-building information can
pop up while you write and character information is
available in the context menu.

It’s in beta at the moment and I’d love some feedback if anyone is interested in trying it out.

Unfortunately, it requires sign-up to try the app since I didn’t foresee a scenario where I would need to decouple the front-end app from server-side authentication.
Methods for cheap fully custom made lenses are also coming to fruition.

Both SLA and FDM 3D printers are now able to make curved surfaces with 10's of micrometer precision across the lens surface, and local 10's of nanometer smoothness (usually via a surface-tension based smoothing process).

Usually you then use that as part of a two part mould to make the lens out of polycarbonate or some resin which has optical and hardness properties you want.

The whole lot, if done in ~10M quantities should come out to only 10 cents or so per piece (with each piece having a custom geometry).

There are really big opportunities available for doing this to contact lenses, since the lens can then fully compensate for any unevenness in the eye below, and could possibly lead to superhuman vision if done right. The same can't be done for glasses since the eyeball moves - instead the best you can do is a best-fit approximation for looking ahead.
People play chess even if they don't have a chance at winning against an AI. And in Art there is no winning anyway.

People will continue to paint, like they did after the invention of the photograph and photoshop. Same for music, films, etc.
https://archive.ph/voTpD
Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?
Let's assume that:

* I am a billionaire with 8 billion dollars on my bank account
* There are 8 billion humans on Earth
* Around 6 billion of those humans have a bank account
* I would like to send 1 dollar to every human on Earth

How would I go about doing this?

Some challenges that I believe I'd face:

1. Getting the bank account numbers of the people who already have a bank account
2. Getting 1 dollar to people who don't have a bank account
3. Verifying that I'm not sending 1 dollar to the same person several times
4. Building or finding some kind of service that makes sure I don't have to do 8 billion manual transfers
5. Making sure I don't break any international laws in the process
6. How do we handle children?

Some ideas for how to perhaps deal with these challenges:

1. Create a website where I promise to send money if you send me your bank account -- doesn't sound shady at all.
2. Use the same website to also allow people to send their address instead of a bank account number, and then simply send 1 dollar through regular mail? How would postal services in poor or corrupt countries deal with this, once they know there are millions of dollars being sent through the mail?
3. No idea.
4. Would a simple script that iterates over 8 billion rows and sends Stripe commands do the trick?
5. Am I allowed to send money to North Korea? What happens if I send money to a known terrorist? No idea.
6. No idea.
The US has given over $8B in aid. Also natural gas prices are going to hurt this winter. Gasoline prices hurt this summer, both directly and in transport costs.
It does not cost 20% of a FANG salary to commute even if you are doing in in a Hummer you bought off military overstock .com.
HN is full of not-so-subtle Apple marketers. Every other day I see a post about how privacy-first Apple is, but when the truth actually comes out the narrative instantly shifts to "well who cares, everyone else does that, stop noticing things"
If share value is down everywhere, it’s in many employees’ best interests to reset their grants at another company (at a lower grant price).
You might want to check out NReal Air then - the headset is super lightweight, has adapters for prescription lenses, and works really well as an alternative to a monitor. Usual disclaimers, happy user etc.
Leverage them and get wiped out in the process.
Yes but devs usually leave the old version on the MAS and don't remove it entirely.
> As these interventions are made widely accessible you can bet that there will be significant numbers of people that regret their decision, but in many cases the effects of medical intervention will be partially or fully irreversible. Imagine how many people may have such regrets if this is done at scale without long and careful study.

There's quite a lot to unpick here.

1) Rates of regret for transition are lower than most other medical treatment. You're applying a lot of scrutiny to regret, which is fine, but you're only applying that scrutiny to trans care. You're not applying the same scrutiny to eg cancer treatment.

2) Why is regret such a horrific prospect to you? You see someone going through gender affirming care, and then regretting it, and then being forced to live with the result, and this is horrific to you. I don't understand why you don't apply the same standard to the people who are denied access to gender affirming care - the people who are forced to live with the results of not getting the care they need. Why is one situation so terrible and the other is good?

3) In general we allow capacitous people to make choices about healthcare. We tell them what's involved, we tell them about the risks, and then we let them make the decision. We allow people to make unwise decisions, even if those decisions will cause their death. If a person has a necrotic gangrenous leg their doctors will say "we need to amputate this or you will die" but that person is allowed to say "I'd rather die than have you amputate my leg". Why are people okay with bodily autonomy unless it's a trans person getting trans healthcare?

There's also quite a few points you've made that are based on out of date, or misinterpreted, information. Stuff like bone density has been debunked - trans people have reduced bone density before they start gender affirming medical treatment. At the moment people think that the bone density problems are caused by lack of access to sport and exercise.
That's a lot of words to say nothing in particular.

Ownership is an interpretation - I agree with that. It may be an interpretation of the blockchain (Namecoin). It may be an interpretation of the land deed (house). It may be an interpretation of records that a registrar stores (DNS) or at RIPE (IP addresses).

I don't see any reason blockchain is any different from the others. People either respect the underlying data storage or they don't. Algorithms have nothing to do with it, nor do computational costs. Moving paper isn't cheap either.
I was an early creator on TikTok. Had a few viral videos, reached a modest sized audience before quitting cold turkey after feeling "wrong" about hijacking people's attention.

I wrote a very similar piece about TikTok in a book where I felt so fed up with the state of technology addiction (especially my own with smartphone & apps like TikTok). This article covers one component that I find especially interesting:

> This narrow focus enables a “flow state” to open up between the platform and spectator, as attention is entirely channeled to the content at hand.

Using similar theory from Csikszentmihalyi's flow state, TikTok is the middle path between anxiety and boredom. Thus users feel like they're in a constant state of flow because if they see anything that is "boring" or "anxiety" inducing, they can "easily" and in a "capable" fashion scroll to a new video or search for something that does interest them. The personalized infinite scrolling feed concept emphasizes staying in the center by tuning your content preferences for what might be too much of one of these extremes.

This isn't different from previous social media tactics. This explore and exploit technique is used everywhere by say showing you a cute baby video vs. someone violently being attacked. The dopamine or adrenaline you produce keeps you engaged while algorithms are being personalized when you disengage.