skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean your feelings and experience and valid but following the same logic, no one should complain about anything because there's always someone who has been the through the same hell if not worse. If they could get some resolution, good for them, for the rest of us, oh well life is unfair.

(This is coming from a woman who grew up in a Muslim country and sees women around her complain about video game representation lol)
> Microservices are primarily good at scaling the human organization (#1).

I agree but this is what worries me about them; micro-services encourage team scale up and that is really difficult to do well.

In theory you'd have separate services with well defined APIs. You'd know upfront what behaviour belongs where and could get the right people to deliver changes on schedule.

The reality is often a form of disguised waterfall development and it rarely works out well unless you are very careful.

Instead you've gained the problem of refactoring multiple services, in multiple languages, owned by multiple competing teams, each with their own management and agenda. Productivity takes a nosedive and more bodies get added in an attempt to make up for it. The result is the opposite[1].

You're much better off striving to keep a small team as productive as possible with adding team members a last resort. Project management at scale is such a difficult task that if you can delay doing it, you should.

Startups have no choice but to use small teams. As a consequence they have good productivity and low barriers to communication without really thinking about it. The problem in larger enterprises is that the highest status project manager is often the one with the biggest team and not the highest productivity.

Personally, I'd rather have a few guys with massive servers than a massive team with lots of small services.

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1. This nothing new, it's what Fred Brooks was talking about in the Mythical Man Month back in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Using WordPress, I run a personal website (not public) to manage a variety of things for myself. This includes a daily journal entry, RSS feeds, habit trackers, and so on. I also have a Rolodex which functions the same way as your desired SRM. For that, I just use a forms plugin (Gravity Forms) and then display the data on a specific WordPress page. The form allows me to input name, photo, bio, etc.

Ideally this would not hold my data hostage but would instead hold a local database that syncs across devices.

Doing it yourself via WordPress more-or-less accomplishes the same thing.
You ever run into a situation with SQL where you're trying to do something that's sorta tree shaped, and it makes the code awkward even if you use say vendor extensions for recursive queries? Datalog excels at those sort of problems.
"My life sucked but I didn't say anything so you better shut up about your problems"

I never understood people who think like that. It's no ok and people shouldn't feel ok about it
https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el...
You can get the Abitur in Berlin without having a written or oral final exam in a foreign language in Berlin, that’s true as far as I know. You still need to take classes in at least one foreign language in the time up to the exam and the grades will be part of the final grade.
> if an exchange can prove they are reliable and reputable, which Coinbase has so far

I have no idea how Coinbase operates, so please forgive my ignorance: How do they prove that they are trustworthy?
Slush alumni building the future of European tech
Sifted has profiled 21 Slush alumni still active in the ecosystem.
> is likely facing a prospect of having to leave Canada (not familiar with work visa types there)

Unless it changed in the last few years, Canadian work permits allow you to continue to reside in the country for the duration of their validity, even if you lose your employment.

The vast majority of them are tied to an employer though, so even if you find another job, you need to go through the process again, which takes quite a lot of time.
>One problem is discoverability. GitHub lists forks in an un-sort-able manner.

This obviously doesn't solve the problem generally, but I recently found an extension called lovely-forks[1], that automatically shows the most starred fork for every github repository.

1:https://github.com/musically-ut/lovely-forks
If he managed to get hired at META he will find work elsewhere. This is not worthy of a story suddenly just because it happened at a META company.
Sure, I agree - but from Polish perspective UK movies are mostly indistinguishable from US ones.
Unlike US he might actually have a Permanent Resident status that he hasn't had to wait for his whole life.
People are free to complain however they want, it just really irks me that this is suddenly getting press now because "META."
Christian monastery, possibly pre-dating Islam, found in UAE dunes
I don't understand. That's unfortunately how it is, sadly enough.

Should they have fired another person instead just because of location?

I believe they should have not given the GO at all to the hiring manager, but hey... these CEOs nowadays like to take full responsibility accountability blabla-ility for their actions :)

Some years ago I worked at a company that had to fire 3 people. They picked one of the guys that was still on probation time (like ~10 days before the end of probation).

This person came from South America, and the worst part of it was that he decided to get his family here after a few months, because "you know, I came alone so that it's easier to find an apartment, to have bureaucratic things sorted out, etc.". Yeah. Then the family came and boom, fired.

Why did they hire him in the first place? I believe that this is what many companies do wrong.
Banks have a liquidity and term mismatch, but are required to be solvent. Ponzi schemes offer fake balances and are insolvent.

It's not clear at what exact point FTX became insolvent, but I think the CEO writing an $8bn disguised accounting entry for tokens he'd lent to his girlfriend may have been it.
As an avatar on twitter or wherever 100% would trick me, if I even clicked the image to take a closer look I wouldn’t know if it’s the compression by the social network or the image being generated…
I,too, have been impacted by layoffs. I myself was at a "unicorn" startup in my country and couldn't continue there once the pandemic began. I didn't get a story about me personally either (that being said there was quite a lot of articles about the events that happened where I worked).

That being said, its a little different for this guy cause

a)
as the parent commenter mentioned, the guy uprooted his life and moved to a new country and laid off almost instantaneously.

b) I don't think he asked the press to write a story on him, he wrote a LinkedIn post

c) this isn't the Time magazine doing a puff piece for somebody, it's just some person from Business Insider who saw a viral post on LinkedIn and wrote a story about it.
If we trust Mark Zuckerberg's message [1], and in his CEO position and responsabilities within a public company I think we should trust him, he wrote:

"Immigration support. I know this is especially difficult if you’re here on a visa. There’s a notice period before termination and some visa grace periods, which means everyone will have time to make plans and work through their immigration status. We have dedicated immigration specialists to help guide you based on what you and your family need."

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-mes...
It remains to be seen whether relocating someone will still be a thing as much as it is now. I mean, we have remote tools and most big companies have branches everywhere in the world.
Why bother with visas, lawyers and tragic cases like this. Sure for people who want to become a citizen somewhere in the West its great. For the companies I'm not that sure its better than the alternatives.
This is a very important distinction. With deliberate attention, you can indeed catch many fakes in this kind of scenario (to me it seems the background is often a giveaway, but you do need to focus on it)

But in passing, accompanying a news article, a tweet or an instagram post, are you paying as much attention? Those are the scenarios where the potential for harm is much bigger.
The page does not explain the why (unless I missed it). What is the benefit?
Not the same computer but OmegaTau have an interesting podcast about analog computing

http://omegataupodcast.net/159-analog-computers/
I was at the Jump Crypto hackathon during the terra luna depeging. Jump crypto has a unique structure because as part of their investment, they get a chunk of coins to market make with. They have no requirement to be on the long side of the market making so during the terra luna collapse they made an absolute killing (Even though terra/luna was one of their biggest investments). Also, jump has it's other business running HFT on the stock market that is much more profitable so it can always bail out it's other side.
Imagine twitter Spaces but with video. Twitter could unlock a whole new way of interacting on twitter.
I remember Kimdotcom hosting a very long Space on Saturday to discuss FTX bankruptcy.

Of course, this will require way more resources from twitter in bandwidth which I do not know if twitter Blue users alone can pay for it.
Java is probably the most self-reliant platform out there, it is almost completely pure, as in being written in Java or in another JVM language. Besides places where it is absolutely necessary (e.g. opengl), there is simply no JNI used, or only very rarely.
The earth seems to be doing fine with 7 billions, I bet 17 billions would be fine .. of course with many weird ways of doing things. If it's a market who dares to short .. the numbers within 200 years?
A 60 year old woman can't give birth. It doesn't matter what incentives governments will give in 20 years: you can't beat biology. The women who can give birth in decades need to be born today. Yet birthrates are at their lowest levels ever. _Every_ developed country and most developing countries have committed suicide already, it's just that it will take 40 years for anyone to notice.

The West is betting that immigrants will keep magically appearing whenever needed. The problem is that outside of a few countries torn apart by civil wars _nowhere_ are birth rates constant or let alone increasing. To put it in perspective: Bangladesh is below replacement fertility levels today. 40 years ago it had 8 children born per woman. Let me repeat that: Bangladesh today has fewer children born per woman than the US did in 2009.
I understand that but you can just brush it off to the media being the media and move on with your day.
The race to the bottom, this unwinding of civilization, should halt and rewind at some point after people realize this is unsustainable. Hopefully.

Seems like the nihilists, the "nothing matters" crowd, and the neo-libertarians (chaos is good) have been having a bad streak lately.
There is at least one person with five incisors between their canines in the real face camp.
'Jesus Christ' on Twitter – thanks to Elon Musk, I'm now verified
And how many times has that happened in the past with nobody batting an eye about it? Why does it only matter now that it's at a META company?
Why would workers from Eastern Europe not have passports?

"Eastern European" typically means EU-member states, with Ukraine being the exception even before the war (within reasonable distance, populous enough for recruiters to go to). EU-citizens don't need a residency permit, and they have access to the social system in Germany. They're often not informed about their rights and that should be improved, but "they end up on the streets because no passport" sounds like something that's not true for a significant number.
It's the background.
Mostly a guess, but:

- Releasing/acquiring the GIL isn't cheap. So you'd need to know in advance whether it's worth it or not.
- You need the GIL acquired to instantiate the resulting "match data", captures, etc.
god I wish
Tell me about it. After just a few years of high birth rates, it has now become virtually impossible for us to find a Kindergarten for our daughter, public or private, although the law clearly states that she is entitled to one. According to latest estimates, there will be a lack of 400.000 Kindergarten places in 2023 here [0].

Demographics predicted falling birth rates for decades, and politicians acted accordingly. Turns out even demographers cannot predict the future. The basic problem seems to be that it takes longer to educate a kindergarten teacher than for a child to reach kindergarten age. I fear a complete collapse of the school system here in 2026.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bildung/bertelsmann-studie-f...
> Clickbait

Hmm. By adding the word "children" the title comes across as some kind
of sinister, veiled threat.
They are actually very clever about it. There is literally 0 alternative in the Rust world: this is what the "gpl competitive advantage" is about.
The era of growth through more people and more consumption is over. It is not sustainable. It will stop either because we have managed to come to our senses and stop it or because the instability caused by climate change will make it stop.
It is funny that solution to problems of crypto is exactly the thing they were invented to fight against.
Not defending crypto in any form or this dumb move but that has happened before in traditional banking as well.

https://www.whio.com/news/trending/50-billion-accidentally-d...
The Bubble Question (2014)
If it was bound to happen, why was Meta doing it?
> Was borderline close to being forced to move back in with my parents. I never got a story written up for me about that.

Nobody was talking about your personal struggle so now nobody should be allowed to talk about anyone else's? I'll never understand that weird crab bucket mentality. You somehow manage to start from "These things have happened quietly in the background all the time in the industry" and instead of ending up at "I'm so glad people are talking about this more because I've been through it and it sucks and we should find some way to make these horrible things happen less often!" you instead opt for "Who cares about this issue! Things sucked for me once and nobody said anything about it so now it's annoying when the media calls attention to anyone else who is struggling!"

That's just weird.
The way PG talks about these companies on Twitter makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Mighty https://twitter.com/search?q=mighty%20(from%3Apaulg)&src=typ...

Mighty so obviously had no idea who its customer was. Can't afford good hardware to run CPU/GPU-intensive browser apps? Why not spend $420 a year on a browser. Is it for enterprise or consumer? Who knows. He spoke of it like a once in a generation company [1] and the fact they spent 3.5 years working a product that never even launched goes against what I thought his philosophy was.

Replit - https://twitter.com/search?q=replit%20(from%3Apaulg)&src=typ...

Replit I feel suffers from the same problem and, possibly not coincidentally, PG talks about it the same way. Is it an IDE? Hosting platform? Education platform? How have they not found PMF after raising $100M over 8 years [2]? I feel like every time I see someone talk about the company on Twitter it's about them launching some brand new feature in a new area. On that, I also only ever see the same few people on Twitter chatting about it and have never encountered Replit in the wild. It's almost always Codepen, Codesandbox, JS Fiddle or Stackblitz.

It makes me seriously question PG's opinions on individual companies as his bias is so clear and it makes him appear so naive.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1561473124389888000

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/replit/company_finan...
The dog meme with the fire around saying “everything is fine”, is really needed here.
Staking is a problem because it pretends to offer risk-free returns while investing in extremely risky assets. Or just straight up fraud.

None of the staking schemes have adequately explained who's taking the other side of the trade. Who wants to borrow a token for a very high interest rate? So far the only examples are "people putting it into an even bigger fraud" and "people providing soon-to-be-worthless collateral".
People put up with slavery and working 14 hours per day in the mine for a while, why did they suddenly start complain ?

Why do you defend megacorps while you've been victim of the exact same shitty behaviour in the past ? Stockholm syndrome ?
I think the joke is still good, because it's still a bad manner to have your phone ringing and buzzing in many situations (a concert, at the opera etc). I mean, it's actually an impressive comic, it imagines a possible future tech and correctly identifies some real misuses, 70-80 years before it became reality.
Maybe not. The German population is aging rapidly, our retirement model (young people pay for old people) is unsustainable and obviously unfeasible by the time I get to retire (in about 35 years), because there are too few young people to pay for the many old people. Right now about 30% of the German population is over 60 years old. I do not have the impression that the government is doing anything to improve the birth rates. If anything it's getting harder for many people to have children. So far the only time a low birth rate is being brought up politically it's to justify immigration, which might be a temporary solution, but whether it's good or not or how it should be done is a different discussion.
> Did they not consider matching liability and asset duration as a solution?

People would not be keen on 30 year notice deposit accounts to match 30 year mortgages.
Borland Turbo Assembler Version 5 User's Guide (1996) [pdf]
Eventually evolution will catch up. Surely there must be some gene that motivates us to have a lot of kids. If such a gene exists it will quickly wipe out any genetic competition.
It could also work indirectly, for instance a genetic disposition that pushes humans into fundamentalist religions that are opposed to birth control.
For those who are interested in checking out the "and you can too" part:

What you see in the demo is backed by a service called scriptable.run, which allows product development teams to safely accept and run untrusted code from their users and ecosystem developers. This can be used to make your product much more easy to extend, build upon and integrate with.
In the same organization. Therefore, it is insanity at the organization level, even if it might be sane at the individual level.
So, you enter a casino. Exchange your money for casino's chips. You gamble and win more chips. When you want to cash out, casino says: “Sorry, we won't give you money for those chips.”
When you say "read the core contracts", do you mean this?

https://github.com/safe-global/safe-contracts/blob/main/cont...
I'd say it's fair enough to expect not to hire when you plan to lay off... Especially when you make somebody to change their life upside-down...
Or, you know, we change our economic model. As far as I know incentives for more children have historically not been very successful. It seems that in a modern society human nature reliably settles on a birthrate below two per couple.

e.g. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-vs-hum...
If yes then you should be glad for that. Keep the normies away. Gatekeeping is good.
To the one who downvoted me, you are very silly. Please showing your argument.
Many do.

Myself I speak fluently six languages.
Nevertheless, these kind of complicated administrative processes should annoy anyone who hasn't lost their soul by too many papercuts already. From a technical perspective, even starting a GmbH could be as simple as going to a web page, putting "Declare GmbH" into the shopping cart (cost: 25000 EUR), filling out a simple form and pressing "Order." German governments, politicians, and authorities have been talking about digital innovation at every meeting and on every fare for the past three decades and have spent billions on it, but in reality not much has happened.

When I lived in Denmark 15 years ago as a foreigner at least there was already a citizen center where a super-friendly attendant asked me how they can help me, like in a shop. Moreover, almost everything could be done with a state-delivered ID (CPR number and a digital ID). I no longer live in Germany (or Denmark), but as far as I can see Germany is still far behind other countries in terms of simplifying and putting administrative matters online.
That’s a myth: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790.amp
No, I am saying things have sucked for people for years when it comes to layoffs. Many have similar stories as the person who this was written about now. Why is it only getting attention now with people who managed to get hired at a FAANG?
Psst, psst, there are domestic private contractors running domestic spy rings. Complete with think tank style private intelligence outfits, domestic “safe houses” and more complicated obscurity than our incompetent government can keep tabs on.

Forget the government. Everyone is spying on each other!
I can't see the article to mention if he gets this package, remembering a few situations from my life I'd expect him not to get any package since he only worked for 2 days..
It's painful but it keeps going. At some point it will reach the bottom and go up .. probably a new high?
Imho the real question here is, why is it that Meta keeps hiring right right until they do large layoff rounds?

The kind of issue that requires large layoff rounds is not something that just materializes overnight, out of the blue.

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).

Why do they go from hiring to firing in the blink of an eye?
This makes me realise the growth model is a sort of pyramid scheme.
They can turn to satire. There is an endless stream of public figures unwillingly creating scripts for them.
Imagine leaving the casino, so you cash out your chips, and then the casier says no. Do you leave without your money because it's a Casino?
It's not exactly opposition to birth control, it's more like indoctrination of women (some would even say brainwashing) into having kids like crazy.
Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on
I think the most likely late 21st C. path is the emergence of empires again, and great-power politics.

Rich nations will need to find someway of "finding" their retirement support from poor nations; and poor nations will, typically, experience more mass migrations from changing climate.

I suspect this will lead to large armies, high walls, and a certain sort of "human mercantilism" in which young immigrants are a kind of resource.
> banks are also unable to pay everyone at once, yet they typically aren't called "Ponzi".

There's a distinction between liquidity and solvency. Banks can run into liquidity issues, but in theory if they do their job right they should stay solvent, and will be backed by insurance / reinsurance and such. Basically a very different world from these yolo crypto outfits running out of offshore tax havens.
I'd heard Japan already has a mild version of this.
I would much prefer if Twitter does video, it's decoupled from the app. I didn't use Vine back in the day, I certainly never (and can't use TikTok) and I actively avoid Instagram Live/Shorts etc. And this could work because Twitter itself is attracting really bad press, but a resurrected Vine still could work (provided they are able to foot the infrastructure bill)
Back in what day? Java has been fast for more than a decade now.
In my country - if your child can't get into a kindergarten, the government pays you the equivalent of the monthly government fee that they'd pay to the kindergarten to you, so that you can use it towards a private kindergarten/nanny.