skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of it depends on management, their views, and what they prioritize. I, too, have had really good experiences at orgs between 150 and 850 employees, but that may partly be due to not having been there during "belt tightening" times.

I've also had some good experiences at bigger companies, but the issues tend to be different.
Actually it’s 2 years. The probation periods don’t have much grounding in anything. 2 years is in law.

(It’s a common misconception that once you “pass” “probation” that you’re safe)
https://archive.vn/2WZUU
If now the Russias evacuated those children, from regions being shelled by the Ukrainian government, it would be similar as children from other parts of the country, being bombed by Russia, were evacuated to UK, France, etc...

The fleeing Ukrainian children being exploited, and the misguided attempts to adopt babies from Ukraine
https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/fleeing-ukrainian-childr...

Help rehome Ukraine's 100,000 orphans living in constant fear
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/help-rehome-ukrai...
My understanding is that all perceptions are done by temporal diff. So comparison of what has changed since the last sample.

So using comparison is probably our default way of looking at things. Which is what the studies say.
> Reddit has been moderated the entire time, at a per-community level. It was never a free-for-all.

Yes it was, as once upon a time Reddit itself didn't take down a whole lot. If the mods of a given community didn't do what you think they are supposed to do then there were no real, enforced rules.
> I've had all my friends and family ask me about this very point and I didn't know what to say.

How about something like: “Mastadon is decentralized, so instead of being one centralized service, it consists of many smaller communities. You can follow anyone in community, because they’re all interconnected. Moderation happens at the community level, by people who run each community. You can join any community that is accepting new members. This is more complicated because you have to pick where you want to join, but then you don’t have to deal with Elon Musk or whoever if you don’t want to.”

I haven’t joined Mastodon, but this is my understanding. Seems not that much more complicated if you’re already interested in not being locked into dealing with centralization. If you’re just looking for an alternative centralized network, then yeah this is probably confusing.
That's only worrying if they can reliably detect nuclear submarines. Until then, all it takes is a couple dozen torpedoes and their best ships get a free trip to the bottom of the ocean.
It's Amazon, it's not a startup.
I didn't say I agree, just that I've observed that ~95% of people who say they are "free speech", "maximum liberty" and so on it's quite easy to find something they would strongly want to censor.

On HN that would be speech against nuclear energy or against encryption.
Oops, thank you. One is “to”, and the other is “with”.
There has been free software to create your own on-line community for what, about 35 years now?

Certainly it's possible to get the software & tech wrong - but once we got beyond the "a natural monopoly, for all the kids who can't afford to dial into a long-distance BBS" era, the software was never the real barrier to success.

Quality long-term community members aren't like fake Facebook followers, where you can just buy 'em at $X per thousand from some clickshop in the far east.
You're writing this as if Bezos / Jaffy or anyone at their level is even going to read some random person's angry email.
How Not to Create Something
This is really a scandalously misinformed stunt. The chemical they released is SO_2 - one of the gasses and car pollutants causing acid rain.
Viewers are far from the only problem here. Indeed, part of is us, the nerds.

One giant thing that has changed since 2000 is how people consume media. The number of movie tickets sold peaked in 2002. [1] It's a declining market. DVD sales are even worse, down by 90% or more. [2] And perhaps worse yet, shifting video to the internet changed expectations from theater- and DVD-style pricing to free and/or all-you-can-eat pricing. All that plus YouTube and expanding video games created massive competition for entertainment dollars, further diminishing the competitive advantage of long-form film.

Given that it's not shocking that movie funders have generally become risk averse. Or theatergoers, really. The comparative effort between picking something cromulent off Netflix and hauling over to the mall means people are going to be less likely to take a gamble on a film than they were 40 years ago. And that's not going to change much.

So instead, I think we people in tech need to figure out better ways to fund and distribute good movies. That, or accept that the good stuff will be happening mostly in places other than the silver screen.

[1] https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/why-do-dvds-exist/
Has anyone tried to add special clauses to their initial contract along the lines of: "If the offer is rescinded before the start date, the applicant will be awarded 3 months salary. If the applicant is fired within 3 months of the start date, the applicant will be awarded relocation fees to previous location."
And you'd update that based on costs of moving, or possibly the state of the economy and your risk tolerance. If they don't agree to that, then they clearly aren't serious about hiring you, and you dodge a bullet.

This would hopefully reduce cases where they hand out multiple offers for a single job, or at least compensate applicants due to a change from management.
It's possible, but not through Mastodon, and nobody working on anything fedi-related put much time into simplifying that for any end-users, much less non-technical end users.
The better option would have been to hire him. How is that not obvious?

Amazon as a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company can absorb the expense of employing him. I’m the worst case, they can lay off an existing low performing employee to compensate.
Realistically, the nix community is made up of a lot of functional programmers. I realize the nix language seems confusing to many, but to fp programmers, it's intuitive and there's not a whole lot to say about it.
Just a general rant:

It didn’t become apparent to me how much this environment sucks for people here on H1B until I asked on HN why would anyone put up with the shit show that Twitter has become and they said a large contingent may be H1B holders.

My general advice to always have a “go to hell fund” is null and void if no matter how much money you have in the bank, you only have a limited amount of time to get another job.
also globalisation is about the only thing other than morals keeping us from fighting each other.
Sorry it is my bad that I was not being clear and forgot to add the location. Thanks for all the helps tho.
Thousands have already been in November and more are planned in Q1. Rescinding offers is honestly awful but it's by far the best solution if they want to reduce head count.
A company uses the visa program typically under the reasoning "we need this kind of worker so bad that we can't hire locally". So, if they are rescinding an offer, it's hard to support the original premise.

Also, "extra shitty" seems obvious to me. You're not only not hired, you likely have to leave the country. The company rescinding the offer knows this.
Can they protect the sea supply lines from the US navy? Highly doubtful. Without those China grinds to a halt and starves. They are highly dependent on the americas for their food.

Being an export economy losing your market is much more devastating.
Urls and some other fields are stored plaintext.
So yes, you’re safe from bruteforcing passwords. But still lost privacy / doxxing / spear fishing info.
Unstable per major macOS version? Don't those break a substantial fraction of working software anyway?
My bad assuming the USA. Though at-will firing does not exist in Canada, the way the labor market is handled is very much the same. The spirit of my comment still stand.
There are equivalent laws in most developed countries.
I'm sorry to hear that. Are you a refugee? Why do you say you will be on the streets? I hope you can figure out a temporary work situation to keep you housed, clothed and fed while you figure out what's next. I hope you can conserve the money you will receive and use it wisely, considering it's going to be a substantial amount of money and can see you through the winter perhaps.

It is very discouraging to be caught out in a bad market, and by an unscrupulous employer such as Amazon, but I hope you take some time to step back and enjoy Christmas. Companies often cut with no second thought, especially during recessions, but this is pretty capricious even by corporate standards. Best of luck.
Found Michael O. Church's HN account.
You can also find someone else who wants to become a better writer and offer advice to each other. Reading another person’s writing while thinking about how it might be improved, and discussing your suggestions with the author, might benefit you as much as the advice you receive about your own writing.
For this reason for my first truly made-from-scratch home NAS I went AMD64 with ECC UDIMMs. It was some very basic Athlon64, but it COULD do ECC. Since then I moved to Opterons and Xeons but I still remember that choice.
The last springer book I've had is so poorly written that there is absolutely no way it was proofread. It is not just one mistake here or there. It looks like a quick draft with incomplete sentences, repetitions all over. Looks like those "cheap" packt books.
Well played, thank you for the chuckle.
Unless you are a special snowflake with a unique skillset, why would a company the size of Amazon ever veer from their standard contract?
https://devenv.sh/ covers most of these points as none of the complaints mentioned are design flaws, but they are just something we have yet to reach.
This is what I have switched too. I hosted for years, but due to deliverability issues and the work required to solved it - in addition to the great features like masked emails - I have switched.
Yes, from the abstract:

> The book is entirely self-contained, and in particular no prior familiarity with type theory or homotopy theory is assumed.
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I think it goes beyond that. To the judiciary for sure, but further. The notion of what antitrust is for has really shifted over the years. Something like the Bell System breakup, which I think was a great choice, is inconceivable today. And that's due to decades of concerted and well funded effort from parts of the US right to be "business friendly". And the specific businesses they mean here are not the small players and the up and comers, but the relatively small number of very rich people running very large companies.
This site does that: https://explainshell.com/

Although I suppose it's not integrated into a shell
Is Canada more like the US or the EU in this regard?
> Russia will win the war

How do you define that?

I'm mostly asking because Russia's official war goals have changed so many times that it's hard to even know what it means to "win" it.

Like, control of all of Ukraine's territory is something quite different than Putin declaring that the goal all along was to keep Crimea safe, and declaring victory when it doesn't fall.
There are already tens of thousands of people that are being laid off in Amazon. The low-performers will go anyway, but clearly it seems like it's not enough.

Training new employees is not a worthwhile investment if you are in the situation where you're already firing thousands.
I was mainly interested in studying implementations of real time transcription
That’s the most 2020 thing
Hmm? I am saying in this case refining made it worse!
So you're saying communism can't survive in the real world where foreign intelligence agencies exist?
Implementation of RLHF on Top of the Palm. Basically ChatGPT but with Palm
East Asia after a period of sustained growth is experiencing serious headwinds.

Japan: Japanese bonds is taking a breather but a continued strengthening of USD will put serious risk of currency devaluation and its stock market is largely owned by the Japanese central banks.

Taiwan: Not good. DPP made a major election mistake by ignoring that many Taiwanese want to keep the status quo as the reality of their security situation hits-If the US and coalition wanted to defend Taiwan it would start building military bases, so far all they've done is the same approach to Ukraine-talk them over the edge and when conflict breaks out supply them with severely limited weaponry to not escalate risk by being directly involved.

Korea: Major 3ish sigma event coming to its household debt, pension pyramid scheme blowing up, municipal and government bonds tied to a rapidly deflating real estate bubble, the loss of China, its biggest trading partner, responsible for a huge chunk of its GDP. With increased competition from Taiwan's TSMC and its status as a sort of canary in the mine for global trade activity, all of this is creating a perfect storm. But the biggest punch will be its birth rate and it will be forced to turn to uptaking massive number of migrant workers, possible north korean collapse. I would grade Korea to be the first piece of the domino to trigger another Asian Financial Crisis. This time with much reduced bargaining chip as globalization is being phased out and you see all the investments being made outside their respective countries.

China: Major policy errors have put CCP in an impossible place. It's increasingly looking like Russia prior to invading Ukraine. Rapidly declining economy and aging population with accelerating low birth rate. They will not wait until Japan has finished building up its military. There's an angle to this lockdown system in that its a major way to mobilize and isolate large chunks of the population and unfortunately combined with the surveillance apparatus (the largest internal security on earth) and low morale amongst its people contribute to even more urgency to begin conflict.
Yes. Bet on yourself.
https://fosstodon.org/

https://mathstodon.xyz/

https://sigmoid.social
It's my bad assuming the USA, but it's a fair assumption. USA and Canada have very similar labour systems -- as I said in my other response. The worker treatment in NA is very much different it seems.

In Western Europe, if a contract has been signed, it's very hard for an employer to do what OP suffered through.
One near effortless solution is to oss-ify the code & IP of the failing startups (instead of selling it to patent trolls for pennies on dollars anyways). this way oss community moves forward and nextgen startups have something to build off of. at the very least it should help with some rentseeking via basic IP or slowly cutting features and moving them to higher revenue products. this could be done tomorrow with almost no effort if VCs want with early stage startups. Really its a shame to see some good startups fail but their IP locked up behind legal red tape for ever.
Would you please stop posting like this? You've done it repeatedly and we ban such accounts.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Not when you factor in the cost of living. Just house prices alone are drastically lower than in Silicon Valley.
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I think having a solid safety net and healthcare not dependent on employment would free up a lot of people to deviate and risk more. Same thing with cheap housing. I think healthcare, safety net, and housing never get addressed because the oligarchs and private school scions know this on a subconscious level.
He’s using what’s called an opaque projector—a super useful instrument.
China's first act of war will most likely be to seize some of Taiwan's minor outlying islands. There are several such small islands which are close to mainland China and only lightly defended. Then depending on the strength of the international response (or lack thereof) they might escalate to a blockade.
I am from a 3rd world country. I was kind of believing in the notion of “pursuit of happiness”. I studied hard worked hard to make it into a FAANG so that I can live a decent life in a developed country and support my family and parents. Now it appears that I have risked the livelihood of my family for my stupid ambitions.
Why do folks like the OP get more positive attention and revenue than folks like myself who bounced for years from community to community due to our persistent rejection of those ideals since childhood?

It’s almost like it’s better to fuck up then make a show of turning back from “the dark side”, in a way that I suspect leads to other forms of radicalizion.
Hmm... so poor defaults strike again. Makes sense if you know nothing that simple AES-ECB seems to work and has the simplest API of any of the modes.

But then I'd have to say... why is a company doing a secure password saver not employing anyone who knows the very basics of how to use cryptography? :)
> I think what you're seeing is in some areas they may be over running offers, and need to pull back and kill some post acceptance to correct based on the new reality of hiring forecasts.

There are times when you read something that conveys real depth of knowledge, sharp execution, and competence, but a complete lack of consideration for whether the thing done was right to do in the first place.

It does suck and it is a shitty situation, and it is probably a good idea to keep that framing in mind, as there is no recourse against a company the size of Amazon behaving like this towards someone without much power and influence.

But let's not lose sight of the fact that this is was an unethical action to take. If your forecasts include some risk, and your potential hires are taking that risk on (as H1Bs, no less), don't lie to them and tell them it's safe to quit their previous job when it's not.
A few weeks ago I tested a number of family phones using the online tools available and symmetric NAT was detected, some were very large UK mobile networks (Vodafone IIRC). That made me give up too.
This is an obvious demonstration, but I think still an important one. Lastpass has said this about the breach:

> These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture.

That all sounds great but the number of bits of AES and the cool "Zero Knowledge" designation is completely irrelevant here. It entirely depends on the strength of the user supplied password. So if your password is weak you are in trouble. The other message here is that if your password was installed before 2019 it is probably going to be a lot easier for an attacker to guess.

That's it, that's the whole thing, but it still needs to be shown...
I often use this as an approach to debating. Example;

Can we both agree that you should be able to purchase a kitchen knife without a special license? (in parts of China, you can't). Do we both agree that allowing people to have personal nuclear weapons is probably a bad idea and shouldn't be legal?

If we can agree on those two things, we're actually on the same side of the argument. The only difference is where we draw the line. I might draw it at "you can buy a sword but not a gun" - you might draw it at "you can buy a gun but not a bazooka". But we both realise that some things can be given to people and handled responsibly (like a simple knife) but other things can't (like large amounts of explosives)

Occasionally you'll meet a person that says "no I think people should be allowed to have nukes" or "no, we should ban all sharp objects" in which case you can dismiss a whole like of reasoning, i.e. arguing where to draw the line, because the person's made it clear there is no bounded limit, and they are not open to debating that.

Other examples of scales where, if you can't establish boundaries, there is no point debating that person;

- can we forgive a child for accidentally killing a small animal? If so, can we forgive Hitler for genocide?

- can I draw a caricature of a famous person? If so, can I make deepfake porn featuring my neighbour?

- can I push a burglar out of my house when he breaks in? If so, can I execute anyone who enters my property?
Good riddance. I have zero tolerance for that obnoxious dark pattern.
Well bear in mind your example completely fell flat before you claim it's easy to find one
I'm curious if there will ever be an inflection point where Amazon's reputation is so bad that they just can't hire the workers they want, even with competitive total comp.

My intuition is that there will always be enough people who are too desperate, or uninformed, to steer clear. I hope I'm wrong.
> every javelin and stinger missile they can spare

Are there any that many left?
The issue here is that publishers are raking up all the money and not even providing a good service anymore. The physical quality of my recent books, the formatting of the ebooks and the typesetting has gone downhill in the last 10 years or so.
Books prices are still high, publisher profits are skyrocketing and quality of product goes down.
It is time to setup a new way to support writters for publishing their books that doesn't involve those scammers. Not every writer can do their own typesetting and distribution.
Where does your faith in "AI/ML" comes from?

I'm hearing about AI being hot since probably 2014 and the biggest its impact that I think is close to me is search & recommendation and I don't think that's gonna change.

Autonomous cars aren'g going to be common (let's say >=5% market share) in my country in next 5 years that's for sure
I assume it's just the pop-up that requests you to sign up that is blocked, not when you explicitly want to sign up.
ChatGPT: An attempt to build URL into cross-platform Desktop APP using Tauri
ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux)

Tauri not only makes native applications with web technologies (html, js, css), but also packages the url into a desktop application that interacts well with the operating system (e.g. file reading and writing, system menus, shortcuts, script injection, etc.). It is easy to extend the limitations of web pages in the operating system.
Hum, no, the reasoning is "there are no suitable workers locally", which is very similar but still different.

The fact that you rescinded an offer doesn't mean that suddenly local people are suitable, it just means this position isn't needed anymore.
You mean greasemonkey?

I believe firefox got this natively after greasemonkey died, but I never looked how to do it.