skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately I've never had to invoke blanket headcount cuts.

But, as an employer, I've been given the advice "cut once, cut deep" many times. The theory (which I understand) is that employees get skittish once you get to a second or third cut.

The author suggests some companies could stand a 50% cut if that is what is needed.

This month though we've seen twitter cull 50% and twitter users, and customers (advertisers) became equally skittish.

Do twitter employees feel safe? Does the "cut once, cut deep" have the desired effect here? Are customers reassured [1]?

Maybe twitter is a unique case because of other factors - Elon? The fact that people can make their opinions heard on, well, twitter? The fact that other media are reliant on twitter traffic and buzz?

My guess is that employ confidence after a round of layoffs is dependant on their faith in management to begin with, and the clarity of communication between management and staff. Perhaps a transparent financial reality helps employees understand that what they do affects the bottom line, and that line pays their salaries.
You can also rotate the fan...!
Chinese government propaganda?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/global-times-china/
This is why I fucking detest two factor authentication. I have to 2fa probably 30 times a day for work and it just constantly puts my phone in my hands and I end up habitually wasting time
Fun fact: if you zoom out a ton, place the bubble machine at the outside edge, and then zoom back in to standard, you get a crap ton of bubbles very quickly
Is this an Iran/Contra type operation? They got the money out - mixed it with legit knife holders - and now they pull out and burn the evidence
I think if you only need to get rid of say 3%, then you can probably just do a hiring freeze and wait for natural turn over. If you need to get rid of 40%, doing it all at once is probably too much of a shock to the company (too difficult to figure out who to transfer responsibility to). So 10-15% is just right: enough to be worth it, not too much to cause excessive turmoil.
Only if you can show a population dense country like Japan spends comparative amounts on infrastructure to supply the gas than a population sparse country like Australia.

In other words, only if you're lying is it corruption. Costs are not like for like, not even close. The gas itself is relatively cheap. The infrastructure and OpEx is not.
I believe that they mean "300k per year with 5 years experience"
Right this way! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33550020
I made a super simple iOS app to confirm AirPods connection
My AirPods Pro always fail to connect to my device, even if it shows "connected". This can sometimes be embarrassing, especially when playing video in a quiet setting. So I made an app.
Because those people do not have access to something that someone is stating as censorship resistant, when in fact not having access to the funds to pay for something is in fact suppressing people with alternative views that cannot otherwise participate.
IMO, it's a lot like building a house.

It's okay to have someone else manufacture the bricks for you. However, you still have to lay them by hand. It's tedious, repetitive, and labor intensive, but gets you the exact result you want.

The second you try to pre-cast bricks, you end up with something harder to work with.
I work on a Python/Django project, and frankly, that hasn't been my experience at all. Poetry makes per-project dependency management using venvs a breeze. There are a few deps on native libraries, such as libjpeg, so you do need to make sure those are installed, but the needed libraries are quite easy to find on most systems, and our Dockerfile only lists a dozen or so apt packages. There are also a lot of Mac users on our team, and they don't have any issues either.

Sure, it's not as nice or compact as a single binary, but "you'll be lucky if you can run on any non-Ubuntu/RHEL system" is massively overblown.
Does the gas station check what car is pulling up, or do you choose based on what you think works best for the engine?
Tech Emails – Sam Bankman Fried Makes an Offer to Elon Musk
Yeah, true. Was deceived by the check domain field and mixed them up.
> Remote work

> Anticipate more mid-size and smaller companies will go back more fully into the office as times get tougher. This will not be one size fits all, but will be an increasing trend.

Up to this point in the article, whether you agree or disagree with the points, the author offers some arguments and reasoning supporting each. Here, they simply assert that small and mid-size companies will go into the office, with no supporting argument. Why? Won't many small and mid-size companies have come up under covid and not have an office lease in the liabilities column? Why would they pay (insert large city) rents to save money? How does it help?
This reminds me of a story I heard about Steve Wozniak's time at HP: They were going to lay off 10% of the staff, but instead they decided to reduce everyone's pay by 10% and give them an extra day off every two weeks.
The recent story of the crypto industry is that everyone has been leveraging up hard on a negative sum game.

Therefore the expectation has to be that almost everybody is insolvent, but most of them haven't been found out yet.

It seems reasonable to expect both tether and binance to implode over the next few years, but it's hard to predict exactly when.

As far as adoption goes, blockchain tech is practically useless and has gone nowhere in 14 years. There is no reason to expect that to change, so for all intents and purposes real crypto use (outside of crime and speculation) will remain as basically nothing and no industry anywhere will be 'disrupted' by it.

The price will randomly go up and down and more people will continue to get hooked into different scams. Crypto is here to stay in the same way that pyramid schemes and timeshares are here to stay.
I once got a call from a sales representative (SR).

SR: "So, what shows do you like to watch?"

Me: "I don't watch any shows because I don't have cable."

SR: "How about you subscribe to our cable service then you can watch some good shows?"

Me: "I can't...I don't have a TV."

SR: "Why don't you buy a TV so you can watch some good shows?"

Me: "I can't...I don't have electricity." (I lied)

SR: (dead silence for a second or two...)

SR: "Thank you sir. Have a nice day."

They never bothered me again.
Most users will have stored their deposit addresses in other exchanges and wallets rather than look them up and enter them each time.
Remember the people who told us two week to curb the spread?

They have a new catch phrase.
AFAIK, you need tags at least for read/unread.

I don't really use tags, but have a few searches to archive email from mailing lists without seeing it in my inbox.

For other usecases, I do as you suggested.
I like fdupes/jdupes for finding duplicate files:

https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes
https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes
Sorry if it seems flippant, but I provided just as much justification for my argument as you did.
MiniLesson: An introduction to Linux in ten commands (2004)
He did it before he was at bell labs
I eat shelled hemp seeds pretty much every day at this point, but even when first trying them I thought they tasted pretty innocuous, and very easily overpowered by the rest of the dish. I put it in quinoa salads and butternut squash stews all the time (at the point of consumption, I never cook them into the stew). Have never had anyone tell me there was a rank flavor in the mix either.
Fully automated indoor grower: Grow fresh produce on demand
I'm sure every executive is calling back to their days studying roman history when they decide how much of a layoff will balance the books/turn the company profitable for its stakeholders.
yes, could. in practice even functioning exchanges opt not to bother. it is a poor practice we should call out, this is definitely something that a regulatory framework could address and carve out procedures for. (people could do spam attacks, so there is a line on how much to bother)
You made up a statistic, what good does it do to spread misinformation?
This is technically true, but the issue is that it essentially keeps us form progressing technologically. Therefore, it's fine to ignore their rules.
link no worky
Off-topic rant: Why is it so hard in 2022 to go from your blog to your main page?
That really depends on the distribution of the layoffs.

The 10-15% percent aren't necessarily all bad performers but might just be people working on teams that are to be disbanded entirely.
And it doesn’t do a super great job at it - often times the underside of a table, or sofa cushions will trigger it
That proves the explosion was deliberate. But who did it, is something that every state head says they know but no one is talking.
yes, sure why not? if its 1:1 it doesn't matter what they hold. it doesn't matter if shiba inu imploded in value, the exchange will function fine. now if they were merely collateralized by shiba then we have a big problem.
I worked both in the military and the military industry in the early 2000 and we never printed out any code for review.

We did have very thorough design documents and manuals and all of them have been printed (including documented function headers) as the contract dictated, but we only used the original word documents and the version control system to review our code.
Yeah, this is why all the experienced people bail even if they don't get laid off
> Won't many small and mid-size companies have come up under covid and not have an office lease in the liabilities column?

Were they started during Covid? Office leases are typically at least 5 years, so most existing companies will still have them, hence return.

Edit: removed assertion assertion
The link you gave says emergency operation is provided preferably for a length of 12 months. That's it's meant to be a temporary measure (which is self-explanatory by the "emergency" in the name).
… positions where, within 5 years, you'll be making 300k as a software engineer.
I don't get the hate this is getting in the comments. Everything in it rings true. There absolutely is such a thing as non-chemical addictions. Gambling addictions being the most notable. Being a work-a-holic is another. It should come as wholly uncontroversial that there really is a large fraction of students addicted to the grade-game. Hell we've all seen this. The type who shamelessly asks "will this be on the test?". The type who is not even pretending like they care about the content or like they will bother to retain any information after passing the class. The grade game is no better nor worse a game to be addicted to than a casino game.

What is the difference between the addicts society looks up to and the ones it looks down on? I don't know either.
You also get completely glitched bubbles, [briefly] self-intersecting bubbles, and bubbles within other bubbles depending on how you position stuff!
Sometimes its team specific. E.g. Recruiting team if you plan on a hiring freeze for 12 months etc.
A child receiving maternal immunoglobulins from breast milk during the first year postpartum who is exposed to RSV might not even become noticeably ill or present as a mild cold. Nevertheless the exposure will help teach their developing immune system.

None of that is to downplay the potentially fatal seriousness of RSV. The immune system is imperfect after all. The NICU is maybe the most depressing place I’ve ever been in my life and my heart goes out for every parent who has or has had a child there or in any pediatric ICU.
Show HN: Static site generator for JS playground demos
I definitely see where you're coming from, but I think what gets me is that a lot of these comments don't actually know much about the specific tool being discussed; they just talk about a related tool instead.

If the parent commenter had said, e.g., "Zuo seems to have chosen to do X to address issue Foo, but this other tool took approach Y instead, and I like that better" — well that seems a lot more constructive, and on-topic. But just saying "I use <other tool>" is like... it doesn't belong. It's off-topic, in a way? Not strictly speaking, but enough so that it makes me a bit uncomfortable. It gives me vibes of, like... questioning the subject tool's "right to exist", so to speak, because "why would I use <tool the article is about> when I already know <other tool>!" without actually showing any effort to understand the differences.

I dunno if I'm explaining my thoughts here well. It's not a huge deal, and I definitely have also found some of these comments to be useful in the past, but their general tone rubs me the wrong way just slightly and I thought maybe it was worth commenting on.
because that's roughly the amount of ESG dead weight.

nobody's firing productive workers.
I’ve had a great career mostly because of the people I’ve worked with. I’d say a huge motivator getting to where I am now has been the chance to gather those people and work with them in a team again.
Blockchains are not really of any use of an authority of any type can be identified. If it’s not going to be decentralised, then it doesn’t add anything but complexity.

Looks like somewhere else people will try to crobar it in.
not really. there aren't that many TLDs. So many good options are left for the young bitcoin billionaires to spend their money on.
> I guess I read comments like those as if they started with an implicit "if the topic interests you, here are related things".

Hmm maybe I should try to read them that way and I'd be less bothered. Still, I wish they would actually explicitly say as much. It's only a few words, but (in my opinion) it feels like it completely shifts the tone from "the tool this article is about is useless, use this other tool instead" to an educational/helpful thing, which is much nicer.
I found the context interesting, but this line addresses the question nicely without much overthinking.

> 10-15% seems to be the number that reflects “big enough that I can tell myself and my investors or board I am doing it, but not so big that it causes truly uncomfortable conversations for the team”
It seems like it is common for military vessels to turn off their AIS regularly, presumably to hide their movements.

The USS Fitzgerald had its AIS turned off right outside of Tokyo, another busy shipping lane, when it collided with a container ship. [0]

Interestingly, the corresponding Wikipedia page of the collision is omits the AIS factor completely. [1]

[0] https://maritime-executive.com/article/fitzgerald-made-20-kn...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Cr...
It breaks Google Calendar badly, almost unusable due to missing icons and spacing problems.
FTX was widely considered to be low risk amount crypto investors. Clearly incorrectly, which has spooked investors since they now don't trust anyone.
This is a minor nitpick, but it was a question, not an assertion.
Firebase (the old one, not their new database) gives unlimited kv storage free. Just don’t upgrade to the Blaze plan or some fella from HN will spawn 30 wget loops to maliciously charge you a few thousand dollars, which is what happened to me. Never had to pay it, but it took the service down for a bit.
> It went up, but slower.

Prices went up. Inflation is the rate of increase in prices. So slower increase means lower inflation. No increase is 0% inflation, decrease is deflation / negative inflation.
Over $400M worth of tokens drained from FTX accounts
It's simple: There's federal law governing mass layoffs: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/layoffs/warn
You are calling it false, yet you haven't provided any citations either.
And it wouldn't still be around if not for your incredible efforts -- not only on the software issue, but also on the OpenMPT community.
Friends and family special sale?
It's become a self-perpetuating memeplex. How could all of those thought leaders be completely wrong?
Can't they just track the ships backwards in time to see wherever they left from? Or find the last time they used their transponders and see what they were flagged as?

I also don't really understand the practice of calling it a "mystery". Yes, after Biden threatened to unilaterally end the pipeline, and Blinken reiterated the threat, "someone" blew up the pipeline. But wait! Even more mysteriously the US (and allies) is the only party with a clear benefit from blowing up the pipeline. Yes, I wonder who could've done such a thing...
yeah I think Twitter isn't useful here. Having a dramatic change of management + a layoff + serious product upheaval is definitely different than just a layoff.

Now Elon is ending a policy literally called "Work From Home Forever" and with no flexibility -- back to the office 5 days a week.

Why would an employee feel safe when literally everything about Twitter changed overnight?
It's pretty ingrained in management culture whether they know it or not - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
10% is just the right amount, that has been proven empirically over few millennia, to stiffen discipline and improve results
Even the trains have been automated, which I assume has been historically difficult only because of unions and safety regulations. A bit easier to pull off in the remote outback I suspect.
For anyone who finds this, here's a much faster ytsearch:

ytsearch
========
#! /bin/bash

nresults=$1; shift
query="$@"

yt-dlp -j --flat-playlist ytsearch${nresults}:"${query// /+}"

I now also have

ytgetlist
=========
#! /bin/bash

yt-dlp -j --flat-playlist "$@"

which is handy for listing entire channels. The downside of using --flat-playlist is that the upload_date ends up null, so `ytplaylist` is modified to cope:

ytplaylist
==========
#! /bin/bash

jq -r '"\(.upload_date // .playlist_index) \(.id) \(.duration)\t\(.title)"' "$@" \
| sort -k1n | uniq \
| fzf --bind "enter:execute(ytplay {+2})"

The playlist indices so far reflect the order one would get by sorting on upload date.
> it is refreshing

I recommend exploring the top-right link and poking around this person's site. It felt like an old flash website and took me back a couple decades.
FTX Investigating Abnormal Movement of Funds
What a pointless TLD. They didn't even bother adding SSL to the site.
I would be surprised if even the execs ordering the cuts thought they weren't firing any productive workers. A percentage based layoff is a broad brush to paint with that has a lot of collateral damage.
VCs, as usual, dumbest guys in any room. (But rich.)
Meanwhile vercel is literally “now”. Like all you need to do is cd to the directory and type “now” and press enter.

https://docs.ycombinator.lol has been running for years without fail. It’ll probably shut off someday and be lost to history, but I’d bet on it lasting a lot longer than that ec2 instance. Free, too.
A Year with Notmuch Mail (2016)
This is exactly why I _do_ options trading. I used to only put money into index funds. But it's really boring, so recently I've allocated a very small amount to wheel strategy on a couple stocks I'm interested in. I know it's likely that they'll lose me money, but it's fun.
In general a few dozen or even thousand techies on HN doing this across the US isn't going to change anything, but it's obvious that we'd eventually have a huge problem if everyone moving into a new apartment or house decided to forego wired internet and instead stream exclusively over a hidden tether to their phone. This is why, when actual fully-supported home internet over 5g is available in an area[0,1], availability tends to be limited and people still sometimes get deprioritized.

0: https://www.t-mobile.com/home-internet

1: https://www.verizon.com/5g/home/
The numbers are literally made up by an organization called "The victims of communism memorial foundation", that was literally started by the US government with the express purpose of spreading propaganda.
10% is already a mass layoff for unicorns.
*lisp image
Yeah, in the age of covid lots of things have changed. Add to that the skyrocketing costs of flying, companies are trying to cut back on non-essential travel for the rank-and-file. (The C-suite still goes on "business" trips on the company's dime, of course)
>I'm saying it caught actual bugs in my code.

It did so 5 times, versus how many times it gave a false positive where you just had to delete the import or underscore the variable?

Warnings are intended precisely for this type of "hey, you probably made a mistake here". Errors should imo be reserved for cases where the compiler is more or less sure you are wrong.

Rust has probably the biggest possible focus on "making sure only correct programs compile", and rustc does not error on an unused variable or import; it gives a warning. Precisely because it does not know if it is a bug, or just, I don't know, "commenting out the code that uses it to try something".

Also, in the case of an unused variable, you CAN blow it off, by using _. In fact, this makes it far easier to forget about it later compared to a warning that can be silenced in the same way, because if it's a warning you'll only do it if you're actually sure, while with an error you might do it even if you're less certain, because it's absolutely necessary.
He made an estimate of dead weight based on his experience. I think we can all agree it's >1% and <99%. Of course, "dead weight" is a ill-posed, incompletely defined notion, so definitional issues abound, too.

The next step is to discuss the usefulness and your own perspective, not to mock.
People should not elect governments that allow such inane profit margins on products subsidized by taxpayer money. But y’all do.
Or do a counter lmao
Dude saying less than 250000 civilians died is not the defense you think it is
Will Sawin on Peter Woit’s blog points out that Zhang is making a weaker claim than non-existence of Siegel zeros:

> The “no Siegel zeros” conjecture is that the distance of any real zero of L(s,chi_D) from 1 is bounded below by a constant times 1/log D. The result Yitang Zhang claims is that this distance is bounded below by a constant times 1/(log D)^2024. So both involve the claim that there are no zeroes too close to the point 1, but one is stronger than the other by a large power.

> However, Yitang Zhang’s stated result is a big improvement on what was known before – the only effective estimates had a lower bound for the distance of something close to 1/sqrt(D).

> The situation is very analogous to the twin primes paper where he improved the bound from the previously known infinity to 70,000,000, and it was expected that optimization of the method would rapidly get it down further, though falling short of the conjectural value of 2.

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13137#comme...
Drag the ringy thing.
Recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862227

Further search also shows up a metric shedload of usual conspiracy theory stuff, so be aware of that.
10-15% is a lot to let go of in one go, but hopefully no one would do something as idiotic as laying off 50% of their workforce, though right?
it is

now its harmfulness is in levels, the higher freq. is, ie. higher G, the higher the harmfulness is

some believe there's some improvement in its mitigation by H/W design, but most think that can only do little

all we should do is: must absolutely have routine scheduled to go to open clean nature space some hours in a day or week

just google the detailed correctness in applying it completely
A few of my buddies were able to change out 1000 or so dollars each to BTUSD or something like that. Not really into crypto so I don't know the details but they just exchanged 100$ at a time or so and it took a few hours for each transfer to confirm
"I'm in the Ponzi business and it's pretty good" was fantastic.