skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why not moving on (For those laid off)
Hello !

I'm not living in the United States, but I've recently read a lot of articles about layoffs at companies like GAFAMs and Tweeter.

I've also read a lot of comments about former employees looking for jobs in the same area and field, and who are sometimes struggling to keep a H1B visa.

Why would you keep a H1B visa or stay in the same place after a layoff ?

I had myself been caught in layoffs in the field that I originally studied, in 2020. And jobs that still existed back then were not well compensated.
So I decided that I would not play that game with companies. I changed of field, as well as city, and I'm now doing a snazzy job in a place that oozes companies and lacks engineers.
(I don't know how recruiters dealt with not hiring new engineers in 2020 in my original field, and don't care, as I'm well compensated and in a lovely area now)

So why do you all struggle to stay in California, despite its peak being behind ?
Why don't you move to Europe, India, Canada, or any place that is still hiring a lot ?
Also, why would you stay in IT ? I'm myself in IT for the previously mentioned reason, but I would have gone back to my field if massive layoffs were considered (or I would just move to MTL)

If companies say they don't really need IT engineers in a place, just move where they are publicly happy to hire, or change of field !

EDIT : I must add I'm not advocating for layoffs and I'm not blaming workers. It's just some kind of mutual workforce destruction deal. "You companies really don't need engineers ? Fine, we will just work in another field and loose our knowledge"
> Despite being a staff engineer, managing 12 engineers, and having a solid revenue stream tied to my current team - I've mostly gotten rejections without interviews

How do you expect the HR folks to validate (or even to have read what you wrote) these claims? A lot of people put the things you’re putting on their resumes.

They’re also getting resumes when from Meta, Amazon, Stripe, … engineers. Is it really surprising you’re not getting a call back?
>We should not buy anything that is internet connected from a country we cannot trust.

We should not buy anything that has non-dumb components from a country we cannot trust.

We should not buy anything that is has high-performance materials that cannot be non-destructively tested from a country we cannot trust.

Overall, we should not be buying ANYTHING AT ALL from a country we cannot trust, as literally any trade merely supports their working against our well-being.

The grand experiment was done, and it failed miserably. We all thought that increased trade and information flow would bring free markets and democracy to the autocracies of the world. We could not have been more wrong — all we did was further empower expansionist/imperialist regimes. Russia is now waging a genocidal hot war in Europe and China is more actively threatening Taiwan than at any time in at least decades, and putting Uighurs in concentration camps - all funded by our purchasing. It is past time to embargo them.
This is an area of the law I find problematic. It seems to me there should be a way to tolerate access without assuming any liability.
> I appear to be a well-educated, over-confident know-it-all.

Don't we all?
Yes. But that is where non-Faangs are hosed. IMHO Small companies see a Faang on a resume and toss the other ones out. Even though the Faang company tossed these people first layoff.
Google Says 60% of what they scrape needs to be filtered for duplicates?
> The winner, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, “depicts a strange scene that looks like it could be from a space opera, and it looks like a masterfully done painting,” Matthew Gault writes for Vice. *“Classical figures in a Baroque hall stare through a circular viewport into a sun-drenched and radiant landscape.”*

Curious, has someone with access to Midjourney tried using this exact description to generate a new image? I'd be fascinated to see the AI-generated result of a human's description of an AI-generated image.
In a commercial setting, unit test coverage inevitably becomes a KPI that needs to be driven upwards regardless of whether rank and file engineers consider it worthwhile in particular cases.
I don't think that's in dispute. Moral speech is not always protected speech.
There really is a massive gulf between small-town friend-making strategies and big-city friend-making strategies.

In a small town you can form a friend group by osmosis, because there's exactly two churches, exactly two bars, exactly one grocery store, so you see everyone regularly and, furthermore, you have no choice who to socialize with, and you know everyone else also has no choice who to socialize with, so you all might as well socialize together and be "friends" even if you don't really actually like each other all that much. You'll be cordial with everyone, but gossip runs rampant and even your best friend might be cruel to you when out of earshot.

In a big city, it's the opposite. You can be desperately lonely despite being surrounded by throngs of people at all times. To make friends, you have to really try and put yourself out there. It's hard. But once you do, you may find it more fulfilling, because instead of settling for people who were merely there, you've filtered the city to people who share your interests and found people who you actually want to be around, and you know the people who want to be around you aren't just doing it out of a dearth of options. Higher risk, higher reward.
If it's truly manual it could simply be a mistake.
You don't know what she thought. And maybe she's worried about other forms of violence too. You also don't know the type of people who walk by.
False positives become an increasingly difficult problem the more and more potential authors you introduce. If I had wrote a fancier model it probably wouldn't be as much of a problem but what can you do.
Ha! We usually play that with family around Christmas. It's fun with all ages.

In France we also have a variant of this where you only see the last line of text until you've added your part, which makes for very whacky stories. Maybe a fun variant to add? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse
> The problem is a simple lack of supply not evil landlords.

both can be part of the problem. It's not an one dimensional problem.

> In fact, fewer than one-fifth of rental properties are owned by for-profit businesses of any kind. Most rental properties – about seven-in-ten – are owned by individuals, who typically own just one or two properties, according to 2018 census data. And landlords have complained about being unable to meet their obligations, such as mortgage payments, property taxes and repair bills, because of a falloff in rent payments.

Oh, so sad they would have to sell the property that was previously just provided stream of passive income at no (many private landlords use companies to manage their properties) effort to them at all..

I'm also so sad for them to only earn a good amount on their "investment" of "being well off enough to convince bank to give the mortgage for an investment property" /s.

More than that, this absolute disaster might actually lower the housing pricing a bit and we can't have that now can we ?
The other side of that coin is that saving for a post work life (particularly at normal retirement age) is a good way of spending all of your life working hard for a retirement which never comes. There is something to be said for spreading those retirement years across your lifetime rather than saving them all up for the end.

Different of course if you have a plan to retire at 45 or something.
It’s certainly fun seeing Citroen going back to being absolute weirdoes.
You are confused. Your brain went fight or flight as soon as you heard someone talking about white men, and you didn't stop to think about whether any of this is responsive to what I wrote.

I didn't call anyone names.

I in fact did point out a flaw in the argument. The flaw is thinking that the status quo is apolitical. The people I talked about on my comment (a real, literal group of people who exist and whose behavior can be empirically observed and analyzed). I commented on them. I am not talking to them.
I interviewed years ago with someone who let me know that they use a pseudonym as an employee and their chosen name even got posted as the author for articles they wrote for the company. They were very concerned about their privacy.

I know their blog, which is their HN username, and this tool found their other account.

Perhaps ironically, this person stood out a lot because of this and I didn't forget them.
Based on the actual news release[1], this is the FCC's formal statement of rules for compliance with the Secure Equipment Act of 2021[2].

[1]: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-389524A1.pdf

[2]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3919
If it’s 70m that’s still very close to my house. Americans have a way of pushing the boundaries of every law, we’re a litigious country we follow the letter of the law not the spirit. This will probably result in a chain of homeless people that stay in your backyard for three days and then move over to the next backyard.
We put together a bundle, mostly engineering soft: https://resources.youteam.io/bfcm-bundle-deals-youteam
It's my understanding that means-ends unity is central to the critique of state power and broadly shared by anarchists. Anarcho-capitalists reject basically everything in anarchism except anti-statism, so you can't really compare them to other flavors in a sensible way most of the time, and I regard the name anarcho-capitalists as a misnomer and I call them libertarians or anti-state capitalists or what have you (though I respect their right to label themselves as they please). I don't know that anarcho-capitalists reject means-ends unity as much as they have different ends in mind.

Anarchism may not be a single set of ideas but it's certainly a distinct lineage that descends from certain critiques of capitalism, hierarchy/state power, and Marxism (means-ends unity being essential to the critique of Marxism, eg, that a proletarian state will become oppressive for the same reason any other state becomes oppressive).

For instance, it's broadly held by anarchists that a society should be voluntary and not based on coercion. If someone called themselves an anarchist but was, say, in favor of aggressive policing, I'd wonder what the heck they meant by "anarchist".
Because just giving out land numbers is pretty useless?

How much of that land is where people actually are? Most of that land you need to drive to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33754907 mentioned it, and I addressed that "run pipeline locally" claim, which has 100% not been my experience

Now, the asterisk to that claim is that I have had good success running gitlab locally, with local runners, such that I can do whatever crazy thing I want to the CI variables, to the repo, to the branches, and can run the runners in "debug" mode (although usually not necessary since I can "docker exec" into them) but the idea that I can just tell my colleagues to "brew install gitlab-runner && gitlab-runner exec some-job" is for sure false
Oh, they can do far more than just quit. The threat of a strike is one of explicit disruption of work and distribution of products.

Potentially even including violence against strikebreakers.

There can be other threats against people responsible for salaries and work conditions directly.
CCPA Sounds right - even searching for his name results in a different header of his son Patrick
https://www.google.com/search?q=arnold+schwarzenegger
This found an alt that I created specifically to see if I could write artificially to defeat this kind of analysis. I have seen other tools like it posted to HN, but none before had found that account. I guess I need to up my game.
Why that is the matter ?

The problem is in bad project management, technical leading and outcome management instead.

Solve those issues first, and there will be no overrated people.
We’re pretty close me and you — closer than my actual alts
Yes, but the idea is that it could be better at long term bulk storage of power than eg. Batteries. Now the question is how it measures vs pumped water.
Sure you can make up definitions but that's not a persuasive or responsive argument.
This sounds like you're suggesting people work for free for the hope of potentially being hired by an employer. I think that is pretty pathetic.
Google Says 60% of the Internet is Duplicate.
> So now you're on a road with a 90kph speed limit and this guy pulls in front of you. Maxing out at 45.

Oh yeah, the horror. Which doesn’t routinely happen. Because license-less cars didn’t exist. And neither did farm equipment with a max speed of 30.
Which is why carbon pricing is the best option in terms of economics. If something's worth going dirty over, let people pay the price.
the author is evidently pretty unskilled and unaware of it in a lot of ways, this being one of them
Well I didn't see another way to gloss your question:

> would it really be too expensive to invest some time to learn it?

I'm entirely happy to take your word that I've misinterpreted the question. Back-and-forth in comments about intended meaning is rarely useful. So my apologies.

But the general attitude in the Rust community (of which I have no idea whether or not you're a part) absolutely is "Rust is not hard, and if you find it so, that's a measure of your dysfunction, not a description of the language".
You're ignoring the Russian Civil War, which killed millions more. It's not like the October Revolution was a clean stop to the violence. And even after the end of the Civil War, the political violence didn't end.
A few people have tried that e.g. https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs224n/cs224n.1184...
>We are a public urban university _dedicated_ to teaching, learning, and research _rooted_ in equity, environmental sustainability, social and racial justice, innovation, and expansive notions of excellence.

Swap these words above and your mission statement is not standing on its head.

This type of control over words and the nuanced replacement of priority is NewSpeak. Anyone dismissing the importance of this subtlety is either a proponent of the concept or ignorant of the far reaching consequences. Neither is acceptable.
How about this for countermeasure:

As you're typing out a comment the software gives you a list of accounts you're becoming similar to. That way you can adjust your writing as you type.
Where did he make the connection?
Sure. The problem is, who is “us” and who is “them”. Unfortunately the 20th century shows what people are capable of in pursuit of protecting “our” stuff, whatever that may be.
Just a heads up that for everyone who doesn't like to link their alt accounts, maybe not use this tool to see if it works.

Unless the author would run this against all HN user accounts, no need to flag the ones "of interest".
What does this have to do with DeFi?

(Just Kidding)

Seriously though. Happy to see something that begins with "crypto-" that's not trying to push someone else's random bits on me.
OP links to a paraphrasing tool on their website.
It took me a few attempts. What eventually worked was just getting used to one major feature of it, barfing and slurping, and after that it all clicked.
I went to look at the off-site facebook history on my profile. Its truly scary the amount of data they have. The worst part is this:

https://imgur.com/a/A8JVQOR

So Mozilla, which is one of the companies behind the effort to understand the Meta Pixel, is also sending data to Facebook? I was not a member of the Rally study.

What the f** is going on? Is Firefox itself tracking me too? Or maybe some extension? Which extension? How am i supposed to tell without hoping that the right person magically sees this comment or going 100% technical and running packet captures and Wireshark?

Why can't we just get access to the _RAW_ data being sent or stored about us?

As of now, VS Code will send encrypted data to Microsoft when you use it. So my machine, OS, applications all send data about me to companies, and I'm not even allowed to know what it is (not to single them out, VS Code is just one example I have inspected myself). I don't claim to understand SSL all that well, but i think they used certificate pinning and pre-master secrets that makes it impossible or very difficult for anyone outside MS to decrypt the data in any way...

This is all completely normal now. On mobile devices its even worse. Its not even possible to completely inspect the data a phone/tablet sends without rooting it and many are already impossible to bootloader unlock or root/jailbreak.

With certificate pinning, on an encrypted smartphone volume with a hardware key, that is only unlocked just in time by the OS (the way android works now), it is LITERALLY impossible to know what data is being transmitted or received over SSL on your own device. You are not allowed to know.
It’s literally not classified as a car, and driveable by people who can’t drive cars, how is it pretending to be a car? Because it has 4 wheels and is fully enclosed?
Worse than unlicensed, they just lie and say they have certifications that they don't.
I wrote a specific criticism (it's a mistake to believe the status quo is apolitical) AND I noticed who it is that this criticism usually applies to. Your brain got short circuited and you instead tried to make it personal against me and my approach to critique.
That’s why I always use throwaway :) everywhere. Reddit. HN. Twitter. Everywhere. I’ll spam every site with my throwaways.

Long live throwaways.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33753442
Yes, this wasn't a criticism of the tool. It is crazy good.

But I don't think people should be making the assumption that bolded results are definite alts, which sillysaurus' comment reads like.
Actually I just double checked and it turns out I misremembered; it does tell you how to install the library. But it didn't work properly when I tried to run it, I just got a blank window. A few people in the Nim discord had had the same problem and nobody could figure it out.

I don't want to take a picture because I already wrote in the book and I don't want people to see my handwriting. But here is some verbatim text from that single page:

>In this chapter we will show the basics of Nim language

needs a "the" before Nim

>(types, for loops, if and case statements, procedures, etc.) while using basic graphic primitives to create shapes

needs a comma after the close parenthesis

>The premise is that the `putPixel` proc exists and we can use it, ...

"proc" is a nonstandard technical term that has not been defined properly yet

>All we need to know is: that proc takes the x and y coordinate of a point ...

colon should not be there, and it needs a "the" before "proc"

In and of themselves these are fairly minor problems, but the whole book is like this. All are forgivable in say, a blog post, but this is a book I paid good money for. It's shoddy work, evincing a lack of care. Not to mention, the print quality is poor.
This 1 weird trick of doing free work and hoping they 1) have headcount 2) pay attention / see value in your free work.

> … you are test driving each other.

Unless you think the way they run their open source projects is the way their entire company works, you’re really not.
I use animation quite a bit in presentations i put together. Usually the 'transform' type to show thw relationship between two consecutive figures like zooming into a more detailed portion of a system block diagram.
If you search for arnold schwarzenegger, there are results about him, but there is no infobox. So it seems he is gone from the "clever parts" of search, but not from normal results. Amusingly, one time I searched for arnold scharzenegger I got an infobox about his son Patrick Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger, but this was once-only thing, I did save a screenshot to prove it though.
> Around two-thirds of the 110,000 traffic victims treated in Dutch hospitals in 2021 were cyclists, according to VeiligheidNL.

www.techtimes.com/amp/articles/274249/20220413/e-bike-injuries-rise-despite-safety-precautions-according-dutch-organization.htm

And that's in a place with top tier biking infrastructure.
Free until you do anything against the company policy. The point stands, the employer controls ever now of your livelihood making the cost of disobedience and switching employment higher.
> just move where they are publicly happy to hire, or change of field

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518496

You're describing big and difficult changes so obviously they won't be most people's first choice. I also have no idea which fields you think are willing to hire so many differently-qualified and differently-experienced people right now, and are offering remotely similar compensation.
I just recently took a year off to study, do side projects, and take care of family. It was a much-needed break following the many stressors of the covid era. Some things matter more than money.

Having worked for 10ish years beforehand, it was financially easy. When I was ready to work again, I responded some recruiter emails and was hired again fairly quickly, at a position better than the one I left.

Living in a low cost-of-living area helps a great deal, as do the excellent salaries US devs make.
> > To deconstruct the social relation as such, one would need to catalog federal, state, and local code to identify which clauses establish houses, apartments, condos, etc as private property and remove them

> So if I purchased or built a house with my work, then it is not longer mine?

Well, the criterium to become landlord is not "purchased your own home" but "convince bank to give you mortgage" then just charge more than mortgage costs you. It is essentially passive income with little to no effort put once you get above certain level of wealth
I have a gigabit connection, docker hub just won’t give me the bits fast enough :( thanks for the link!
I'd normally just listen to the podcast version, while doing something else. I finished through Lex's interview with John Carmack in several installments.
I'm old enough to remember when 4chan was self identifying as the Internet's hate machine, before xkcd referenced it as such: https://xkcd.com/591/

Sometimes people insist that's all role-play and irony; others insist that if it ever was, it certainly isn't now.

But regardless, I remember pre-2005, and it wasn't all like what I saw the two times I looked at 4chan. Bits were. Bits were much worse. But mostly, mostly, people were kinder… at least, unless political tribalism came up.
I haven’t seen “grooming” used in a homophobic way? Instead it has been extended to mean “any relationship whatsoever with a vaguely unusual age gap.”
Gets into really weird edge case of how much do you have to change before the new AI isn't the same person and doesn't count as "stealing" their identity. i.e. if you train an AI with real conversations, real voice recording etc from a real human and release it, that's one thing. But if you modify it enough to be like a different song...
No, I've never tried to make it do that. So in Python paredit-kill will not kill a function definition, whereas it would in a language that uses braces for function bodies.
Metaverse is (future thing that will succeed) (amount of years too early).
Vellum looks excellent, thanks for mentioning it.
I like the way some usernames are only 0.9999999 correlated with themselves.

Perhaps 6 or 7 digits is enough?
> let's buy a car and fuck the planet

There’s currently football matches being played in Qatar in stadiums with AC set to 20°C in 32°C weather. Thousands of people have travelled there by plane.

Me having a car is fine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750825