skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How am I "defending megacorps" right now? I am literally knocking them down because people are worshiping them and focusing only on the people affected by them instead of writing about this type of practice that has happened literally everywhere at this point. What you wrote is straight up double speak nonsense.
> I'd personally like my Starlink to use its real GPS for calculating which satellites it needs to talk to, but only report a truncated (or no) location to HQ, so that SpaceX doesn't have my meter-resolution location every time I'm online.

That’s actually what it does by default. Unless specifically activated for debugging reasons, the terminal does not send its lat/lon, so the most they know is what cell you are in (~10km-ish resolution)
You are correct in a strict technical sense. However in most media, and in this article in particular, state and civilization are used interchangeably. The author is not discussing education as a parent might teach their child but rather as to how a state institution indoctrinates its students.
CINW (then XWA) was arguably the world's first long running true "radio station" as we'd think of one now – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CINW – but the BBC's influence upon radio is indisputable. 1922 was a huge year for radio across the world, so I just thought it was nice someone is celebrating the centenary of such an important technology.
Just relocated shouldn't protect them, but just hired should. Wouldn't it be smarter for Meta to cut one more far-below average employee, and give this unknown quantity a shot at succeeding?
You said he shouldn't complained because it happened to you and you didn't complain. You should be happy people start complaining
How is starting up an application faster in i3? There is a fundamental problem of slow GUI startup on desktops solved by mobile OSs, but not much faster desktop PCs.
> I suspect that over the next few decades we will see the countries with the lowest birth rates start to push massive incentives for having more children.

With what money? Babies are seen as a liability more than a investment among young people. No amount of money the government can afford will change that. It's a consequence of ultra-individualism driven by mass market societies and the disintegration of the nuclear family in western societies. The other extreme is of course gender imbalance where females are deemed worthless, you can't fix that with money either.
In Austria the limiting factor you are running into will be the actual teachers. You can get a nanny just fine, but public and private Kindergartens alike are running into staffing issues. From what I have heard, that is a shared problem in many countries.
We have labour-saving technology though.

Automation leads to higher productivity, so those fewer people can earn more and spend more.

The economy will do just fine.

I think it'll be a rocky time though, we're facing a new Industrial Revolution - where the existing capitalists would prefer to drive down wages and destroy trade unions via mass immigration, and ordinary workers want to reverse their worsening standard of living. Brexit was just the start of this, but I think we'll see more radical movements until this is resolved.
Implementing contract management software is an efficient way to improve the operations of your legal department.
They can just literally quote real-life dialogues instead. Rick & Morty featured a whole court session that really happened.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bjDkQR57fA
Fair enough - I stand corrected! It does look like that could probably handle those things.
I think you answered it yourself, right? MAANG are the poster children of Big-Tech and that invites clicks and views. That being said, if people are more aware of such things, there is a chance we can ask for better conditions in the future.
I don't have the ability to downvote, but you're making a bold claim with no arguments yourself. It's strangely worded as well. I'd assume this is why you're getting downvoted.

Calling people silly because you're getting downvoted is against the rules and will result in more downvotes.
> So why does their management - which should be able to read the writing on the wall, since that's part of their job - not issue a strict hiring freeze (in addition to other measures taken to try and avoid/reduce the impeding layoffs).

Hiring freezes are an internally visible sign (which may lead to critical people jumping ship at the wrong time or uncontrolled ship-on-fire quittings that end up larger than the original plans), but most importantly they are externally visible - and at that point they're market relevant, because early knowledge can be used to time the market as a serious headcount reduction will at least cause a significant volatility for the stock. Since there are specific disclosure requirements on potentially market relevant news, it makes sense to treat hiring freezes and layoffs by default as market relevant to keep the SEC and other market regulators away. And often enough, it's only highest level leadership that knows about plans, with not even HR being involved until the very last second, much less some middle manager with hiring authority.

It absolutely sucks for everyone involved, particularly new hires, but I don't see a way around that for a publicly traded company. However, companies should be mandated to cover all costs of relocation and half a year severance for breach of contract in bad faith for such cases.
5 days later:

I was tragically wrong...sorry for the comment.
Do you happen to know if there is any way to apply for this process later?

I had tens of bitcoins when MtGox went down. But I have no proof of the transaction or even a proper memory of my account name, and I missed their stupid deadline for applying for the payback program.
That sounds great. Even without this financial help, we would happily pay hundreds of euros out of our own pocket for a private nanny or kindergarten. We have lost half or our net income already because my wife stays at home now. But there are no free places. None. And we have been looking for 1,5 years.
Facebook should put hiring freeze first.

Setting up situation where "something like this was bound to happen" is FB fault, and makes it worse rather than absolving them.
I'm horrified by so many of the comments here that seem to lack even the most basic of human decency. Allow me to fill people in for those who have never uprooted your life and moved across the world for a job. It is a massive commitment on the part of the employee, where you sell the majority of your earthly possessions, property, cars, etc. Then you go through an immigration process which even if its handled by FAANG involves a ton of work. You get to the new country, find a place to live and start to adjust.

So to do that to someone and then days later be like "we actually don't want you" is beyond shitty. This persons visa is dependent on their employment so now they get to go into a city they don't know and try desperately to find employment with an employer who is interested in sponsoring someone from abroad (which is a small fraction of the total employers).

For all you budding Elons, here's a shorthand for it. If you ask someone to move across the world and don't need them anymore, give them three months on the books to find somewhere else that don't count against their visa. It will give them a chance to get settled and go on interviews. Or don't recruit internationally.
It’s like that scene from the Margin Call. All is well, until you notice the calculations you did before make no sense.
> Its only usa that has the problem you describe.

The grace period can vary wildly by country and, often, by the type of visa or work permit you hold. Just in my own sphere of experience, for example:

- Hong Kong GEP holders can stay for the length of their original permit, while people on domestic help visas get only 14 days

- EU Blue Card and Japanese work visa holders get 90 days

- US H-1B holders get 60 days

- Singaporean EP and Chinese Z-visa holders get 30 days

Of course there are ways to extend all of these (and some are much easier than others) but you can't legally work unless and until you find a new sponsor.
Stand up comedians are saying this while they're...performing standup?
In Canada, one can stay until it expires but they aren't allowed to work for anyone else in that time. (some will let you look for work for varying times)

It isn't the same doom, but doom nonetheless.
Then the only alternative is nuclear war.
Infinite growth is an obvious myth. The fans of "global economy" better find something to replace growth with, or they will be pretty disappointed in a few decades.
Whenever you hear that, add the whole quote: “ We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%”
Televisions should have dual screens, and when turned off the e-ink display should show an image. Make black mirrors obselete.
And now they need to deal at the same time with relocation AND with being fired at the same time.
Bloomberg Data Dash on climate change
Pensions certainly are, public or private. Old people use to rely on their kids to provide them when they retire. Now the kids can't even make a living for themselves or buy a house, because the "market" needs to yield enough for pension funds, no matter how. This system will collapse, sooner or later.
> At the very least we need widespread on street charging for the half of people who don't have the option to charge at home.

Where I live there is already a pilot scheme in operation that implements this. It does need to be rolled out more widely, but I think the technology is relatively simple, so it might well be doable. 8 years to roll it out doesn't sound ridiculous (although we probably ought to get a move on). Also, remember that 2030 is only the date for halting new car sales. Most cars will still be ICE for at least 5 years after that.
Inspired by this excellent video I just built an visualization to dig further into the relation between short time fourier transform and wavelet transform. [1]

Its not quiet done yet and misses some polishing but I find it already helpful rightnow.

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/time-frequency/
That is pretty cool.

Yesterday I set up a read-write deploy ssh key for one repo to have an ssh key that only has access to one repo instead of my whole account.

The tinyurl link piped into bash is a huge red flag though, I instantly expect some questionable magic behind that.
> If what he's saying is true, there isn't really anything to worry about

I don't believe that is entirely accurate. Coinbase used to have a pro account with margin trading. Unless they managed to clearly unwind that business there is a risk that something went wrong at one point.
Indeed, the recruiter he was working with could very well have been laid off as well.
Its not uncommon for people to turn the company upside-down (by leaving or other ways), why should the company care?

The company is a subject to the categorical imperative, but it is also a subject to the seven deadly sins (metaphorically). It does what the law allows in order to preserve itself, and rarely more.

In some companies I honestly think that all decisions are made with good intentions from each individual, and yet the emergent results are horrific.

(playing devil's advocate)
Or, I can complain about for a few minutes into the void before I have had my coffee this morning.
And people wonder why billionaires want to settle Mars so urgently. Screw these puny walls, we've got one hundred million miles of vacuum to separate us from the poor peasants!
Accidentally moving money to a wrong account, sure.. mistakes happen. But in this case, it was during a reserve audit.. and the address was of a 'whitelisted' exchange. This brings suspicions crypto wallets are covering their asses, that they share currencies to proof false customer reserves..
> I find the breath work to be more useful than meditation. Now any time I find stress I immediately recognize my breath and start controlling it, almost sub-consciously.

I'd just like to note that you're literally describing mindfulness meditation and its effects, there. That's what interoceptive meditation is all about - focusing on your internal state - and breath is an excellent medium for that focus.

Anyone that believes that Wim Hof breathing is woo should literally just spend the three minutes to do a round of it and see the effects by themselves. It is immediately obvious that there is a clear effect on the body from just breathing the right way.

For anyone wanting to try, here is the video I used when I started getting into it: https://youtu.be/lwlEJ2O-6HM

(Don't necessarily pay too much attention to that creator's other videos, he's not very science-based overall.)

Just do the first round and you'll see an undeniable effect on your body and mind. I mean undeniable, not something subtle and small.

Now, the specific effects of it all can be debated. I'm rather doubtful of some of the claims made of it, and it's very clear that a lot of non-skeptical people flock to this sort of thing, so that's expected. But there's something to it, for sure. Try it the next time you're about to do something high-stress, such as public speaking. The difference for me is night and day.

I also recommend people check out NSDR. Here is what I use: https://youtu.be/AKGrmY8OSHM

It's a bit subtler, but there's a definite effect. Supposedly it has similar effects on learning as sleep. Whether that's true or not, it's a tool you can try out yourself and decide whether or not it's helpful to you.
Layoffs are a fact of life in running a business. Treating people poorly is a choice.
This year, like so many others I'm sure, I found Peter Zeihan's books, which have been really eye opening in terms of what has happened and what's coming.
It's not perfect, and at times it comes out a bit gloomier than expected, but it's certainly illuminating on a lot of topics. I highly recommend his books and videos as much as possible.

Edited to add link. And also, I'd say that even though climate change impacts lots of regions of the world, fossil fuel is what has enabled our massive growth this past century. And renewable energies are not even remotely close in terms of providing the energy for that kind of growth. Not just because there's not enough of them, but because we'd need more mining than this planet can provide us with in order to meet those needs. So what I'm trying to say is that if you're concerned about falling demographics, better start embracing fossil fuel more. Either that, or come up with a different economic system in which there are fewer of us and we still manage to avoid famines and reduce poverty around the world.

Demographics: https://youtu.be/xD-pj6i4b8A

Here's one on agriculture: https://youtu.be/myjLrulhMzk
They can't even be bothered to learn the language ...
That is the thing: They can stay, but they can't work for someone else. No income makes it very difficult to stick around and look for a job. At least they get a severance package: It'd be worse without it.
Apart from mass extinctions, habitat destruction and alteration, spiraling environmental chemical accumulation, and depletion of economical reserves of many minerals and petrochemicals, and greenhouse gas pollution?

It's still pretty much a ball of stuff in space that orbits the sun though so I guess it's doing fine if you look at it that way.
I kinda agree. That does require everyone buying high-spec laptops in the first place though. Many people were buying laptops with 2gb or 4gb of RAM 10 years ago, many of which will be useable now if upgradeable to 8gb, but not otherwise.
In Go, I create a struct with two properties: err and value. When err is set, it returns that, else returns the value. In the test, I create the fake and set its err to whatever and then verify handling. As needed, you can add properties and add a delay to the response if set.
Of course, my point is just that saying "it's non-ionizing radiation" isn't a magical rule that makes it safe. You can absolutely have dangerous or even lethal levels of non ionizing radiation too. (I think I should have used a simpler example - your microwave uses non-ionizing radiation too, yet would most definitely burn you if you put your hand inside it).
There is no evidence that the Russians were anywhere near the pipeline around the time it was destroyed.

There is massive evidence that the US and its allies were operating in those waters, and up to something, leading up to the day of the attack.

The idea that the US wouldn't jeapordize its relationship with the Baltic states in order to cut off a vital supply of economic resources to Europe is very, very naive. The US has done far worse to its so-called allies.
This story doesn't pass the smell test. Appears OP is from the netherlands, not a friendly country towards east europe, but I still don't see how people can end up on the streets in a country where by law they have equal rights (or is very cheap to return to home countries, and sue the abusive employer).
Here's the important paragraph (I made it bullet points):

... reeled off a list of digital tells that he believes show the Jones photo was created by a computer program, including

- inconsistencies around Jones’ eyes,

- the ethereal glow around her hair and

- smudge marks on her left cheek
Beanie babies don't have a history of half a dozen of recoveries after similar events.

To use your metaphor, Bitcoin and Ethereum are more in the [schemes] class, rather than two specific schemes.

Now of course nothing is eternal, but years-shorting crypto is too much of a risk for me.
I was surprised to learn that there is an actual shortage regarding RPis... I remember the days we were hording these things. "Maybe I have an idea some day, so I better buy two of them." was the motto. Wild days to remember.
The pediatric system is under a significant strain at all levels
Picking nits while skipping how we don't have off-world colonies or replicants?

In that case, the comic got things wrong too.

You'll be hard pressed to find people wearing those clothes these days, especially the nurse's headgear. Canes and briefcases are also rare, though I suspect that those rare few wearing a bowler hat might still use them.

Also, few people use a bell as their ringtone.
I guess you have a point.
MEGA65 – Evolution, Part 2
>I think there’s this transformative opportunity in payments. And payments really are just the exchange of information. From an information standpoint, not a huge difference between, say, just sending a direct message and sending a payment.

That's the uninteresting part about payments though.

It's like saying "Well, writing is just putting words to page, so since I've written a dictionary and a phone catalogue, I'm qualified to write a novel".

The important part and the really difficult domain part, is all the regulations, money handling rules, everything from exchange rates to returns, and so on...
> So why does their management - which should be able to read the writing on the wall, since that's part of their job - not issue a strict hiring freeze [...] Why do they go from hiring to firing in the blink of an eye?

They did have a hiring freeze, and didn't really go from hiring to firing in the blink of an eye:

* In May they froze hiring for engineers and low-level data scientists.

* In July they announced that there would be restructures, and asked managers to start identifying weak performers.

* In September they extended the freeze to all areas and announced that they would be reducing labour budgets for teams, and restructuring.

In all probability, this engineer was probably considered 'on-shoring' rather than a hire so slipped through the hiring freeze (headcount figure stays the same, we are just moving someone on-shore) but then didn't escape the corporate redundancy. Although this individual story is awful, at the scale of 12,000 layoffs unfortunately there will inevitably be instances where the circumstances are poor.
...Which is nothing to do with the grandparent comment which blamed it on not building more reactors and claiming it was because they were the same age.
Like I said - no point in continuing discussions if you just dismiss medical facts that don't fit your narrative.
MSVC guarantee ABI compatibility between different versions of MSVC, not with the inter-compiler ABI mentioned by parent comment.

But the parent comment's point is that, even for those different compilers that do follow that inter-compiler ABI, the standard libraries have different binary layouts from other compilers. Your final two links show that GCC and LLVM standard libraries each have the same binary layout as itself between different versions, but not as the other.
More on that quote: https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...

>... there's a bit more to the story than that, as evidenced by Jeffrey Friedl's exhaustive research on the Zawinski quote. Zawinski himself commented on it. Analyzing the full text of Jamie's posts in the original 1997 thread, we find the following:

>Perl's nature encourages the use of regular expressions almost to the exclusion of all other techniques; they are far and away the most "obvious" (at least, to people who don't know any better) way to get from point A to point B.

>The first quote is too glib to be taken seriously. But this, I completely agree with. Here's the point Jamie was trying to make: not that regular expressions are evil, per se, but that overuse of regular expressions is evil.
As someone who started his own company fifteen years ago I can relate.
Being german, the process itself was not that much of a hassle. But the financial aspect of having to pay for so many things i do not need or want (IHK membership, Genossenschaft membership) was mind boggling.

There is a joke they tell you in Germany when you think about creating a company:

How do you make a million Euros in Germany?
Take two and create a company.
> This would be like a casino claiming its chips as assets.

This phrasing is a great way to get the idea across.
Their NextConf presentations are insufferable
Taxes have never been as high as now in recent history. You dont have to worry about them going away.
Here in Germany even the private options have ran out
That part is also known as "we had a very large post-production budget to consume so we decided to create a hell-ton of work out of nowhere". I've worked on a few digital-to-film-to-digital jobs back in the day and all of them were done not for the actual "look" properties of it but for transacting more money through the workflow.
Perhaps. But for me it's more that the LP is a great format for popular music. I don't really care how the recording was acquired as long as it sounds good.
I don't understand the recommendation:

If you want the darkest pencil then you want a Mitsubishi Hi-Uni 10B.

When the picture at the top of the article shows that this particular pencil is the second least dark tested.
Capitalism requires infinite growth. It will collapse without
This sounds like a google search result (in that it can very likely have been found almost verbatim in its training set).
Ah ok, because CEOs never make a public statement and then the next day literally the opposite of what they just said happens. Not saying that this will happen with Coinbase, but I would not believe that Coinbase is not at risk just because their CEO said it isn't.
And a Krispy Kreme or a Dunkin. Tim Horton's donuts suck donkey nards
>The insane conceit of a "cash-less society" has already created situations where you cannot physically force someone to take money from you.

You'd be very very surprised...
I agree with your conclusion, but not for those reasons.
It'll be over because the cheap resources that enabled that growth will not be there anymore (unless there's a major technological change like cold fusion or something like that).
Substack badges? What a rotten idea