skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a new system that has annual reviews rather than biannual reviews. It slightly changes the expected rating distributions and introduces a "meets most" rating that is between the old "needs improvement" and "consistently meets expectations" ratings. There is no expected PIP rate. It was developed in 2021 and rolled out early in 2022. The ratings changes were small compared to process changes, which are intended to make the entire system take way less time for everybody. The rollout and tooling was a disaster but it will hopefully improve over time.

People then leap off a reasoning cliff and assume that this means that everybody who is rated "not enough impact" or "meets most" in February will be fired. This would have required some pretty legendary economic foresight by the execs and it would require them to have done a lot of unnecessary work to redo the entire performance review process rather than just changing the ratings system.

I have no idea if Google will do layoffs. But the idea that GRAD was created to facilitate layoffs is fucking stupid.
Some companies operate differently too. Obviously they still watch the bottom line, but some aren't as reactionary and are willing to take more pain to keep employees because they understand the value of that goodwill. More commonly private companies with a strong-willed founder/leader.
I missed this too, took three readings to de-conflate that Rachel's talking about some other unnamed scummy service, for the bulk of the writeup not certbot/LE.
That’s true and a lot of enterprise customers are similarly cutting spending in anticipation of the recession which I’m sure is having impacts on these companies now. But again I believe that is based on fear as opposed to a strict need to cut spending.
Pay a lawyer for an hour.
From the article:

> “In its complaints, the FTC said the restrictions constituted an unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act. In each case, the FTC has ordered the companies to cease enforcing, threatening to enforce, or imposing noncompete restrictions on relevant workers. They also are required to notify all affected employees that they are no longer bound by the noncompete restrictions.”

Here is the full excerpt of section 5 as it currently stands in the United States Code as section 45 (15 U.S.C. § 45(a).) [Text in square brackets are my own]:

§45. Unfair methods of competition unlawful; prevention by Commission

(a) Declaration of unlawfulness; power to prohibit unfair practices; inapplicability to foreign trade
(1) Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.
(2) The Commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, partnerships, or corporations, except […a dozen exceptions…], from using unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.
(3) This subsection shall not apply to unfair methods of competition involving commerce with foreign nations (other than import commerce) unless— […insert paragraphs of exceptions…]. If this subsection applies to such methods of competition only because of the operation of subparagraph (A)(ii) [“on export commerce with foreign nations, of a person engaged in such commerce in the United States”], this subsection shall apply to such conduct only for injury to export business in the United States.
(4)(A) For purposes of subsection (a), the term "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" includes such acts or practices involving foreign commerce that—
(i) cause or are likely to cause reasonably foreseeable injury within the United States; or
(ii) involve material conduct occurring within the United States.

(B) All remedies available to the Commission with respect to unfair and deceptive acts or practices shall be available for acts and practices described in this paragraph, including restitution to domestic or foreign victims.

Notes:

Why we are reading section (§) 45 of USC, not section 5:
“Almost every provision of an act that is classified as a section of the Code is assigned a designation that differs from its act section number. For example, section 401 of the Social Security Act (act of August 14, 1935, chapter 531) is classified to section 601 of title 42. Most Code sections are based on an entire act section, but a few sections,[…], are based on less than an entire act section.” [3]

Citations:

[1] The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-388/uslm/COMPS-388...

[2] Current United States Code (of law): (15 U.S.C. § 45(a).) https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prel...

[3] A guide to reading US Law https://uscode.house.gov/detailed_guide.xhtml
This seems like the barest of minimums, yes. I conceptually understand wanting to ensure an employee can't use their connections at your company to then "cut out the middleman" and deal direct for a better cut. But obviously if a company lets you go, they are no longer choosing to invest in that employee's skills.
Why not just order something with no calories. If I go out for a meal and I'm not hungry, I'll get a salad. It's like 50 kcal.

I eat, get a bunch of vitamins, and socialize.
That's true of many illegal things. Trespassing is illegal, but people still put locks, gates, fences, etc on their property because people will still trespass if they want to. The purpose of the law is to dissuade people from doing it because there are consequences for that action.

If you're talking about trade secrets, I believe if there is evidence in the product/products that a former employees company is releasing that seems to be operating or working in a similar product they could gather publicly available evidence, hire a PI, and ultimately attempt to subpoena additional information if there is sufficient evidence that the employee is actually sharing trade secrets from a previous company.
Has anyone who is a part of the sales org (AE or SE) been impacted as part of this layoff? I saw a huge number of post-sales/HR roles laid off but haven't heard of people as part of pre-sales that have been laid off. Not sure if more layoffs are to come at the beginning of Q1 in Feb.
Amazon has over 300,000 corporate employees. It's not just software engineers getting laid off.
The "E" in ICE means engine.
DragonFlyBSD is Dillon’s FreeBSD. It’s a fork because of personality disagreements between Dillon and other developers in the FreeBSD 5.0 timeframe. It does some interesting experimental stuff like HammerFS but isn’t really suitable for general use.
Whatever, I was never a fan of private trackers anyway. The whole point of P2P is that it's power scales with more users.
> "list the plates of blue Hondas in this area at this time, that have [...]"

I think this shows a significant misunderstanding of what chatgpt does fundamentally. It will never be able to do this unless also fed a description, location, and time of cars in a certain area as context beforehand(either as training data or a prompt). In either case you have access to the data and just need to do a simple search, so chatgpt is providing negative value since it's capable of providing results that don't exist in the dataset.

Similarly for your Goldman Sachs example, you're imagining that chatgpt is greater than it is. It is capable of providing something that would likely follow a given text on the internet at its time of training(aka it's training set) somewhere. It can't reason about new information or situations since it's incapable of reasoning. To believe that it could generate business strategies is to believe that effective business strategies don't require any intuition or reasoning to progress, just statistical recombination of existing strategies.

> By increasing GDP, you elevate the standard of living and add to the comfort of life.

How do you reach this conclusion from the information presented? Why use GDP, a measure of the profitability of corporations, as a proxy for the standard of living instead of measuring the standard of living and seeing how it will be impacted directly instead of through many layers of abstraction.
Not surprising from them. See this for more on their history: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
> Every animal will engorge itself given the chance.

Not every animal. Mice given semaglutide don't gorge when presented with food to feed on freely, to the point where their weight drops >10% compared to control after a month.
Tesla semi is almost triple that (around 900kWh) and charges to 70% in 30 minutes with their megawatt charger. So it should be able to easily handle that use case.
> If you're not eating every other day you can still go to the eating place and sit with folks.

It sounds like you can't really sympathize because you haven't experienced this, but I can help you empathize if you're interested. Context, I've moved from between 16% and 30% bodyfat several times in the last 15 years, I've struggled with weight my whole life.

For some overweight people, like me, there's a high willpower cost to avoiding food that's present. A strategy for weightloss that's worked for me is to simply remove all snacks from the house, and when I order food, order an appetizer only, or, if I'm with someone, slide half my food onto their plate. If I have to, I'll try to eat half, and then right away ask the waiter to box up the rest or whatever.

Seems silly, right? Why not just take a look at my plate, make a rational evaluation of the calories there, and only eat until I hit within my calorie budget? I'm perfectly capable of making that calculation, I've been counting calories for a decade, I'm pretty darn accurate at this point. So why don't I just do that? Why don't I just work out every day? Why don't I just study my mandarin flashcards every day like I know I need to? Why don't I always put my clothes away as soon as I take them out of my dryer?

I don't have a catchall answer, all I know is that for whatever reason, some or all humans have gaps between their ideal self and their true self, and sometimes you gotta do silly tricks to jump those gaps. A silly trick that works for me is keeping food I shouldn't eat, out of site.

So TLDR when I'm hardcore dieting, going to an eating place with the intention of not eating is an extremely exhausting exercise. There's many opportunities for me to fail there, from when I sit down everyone's looking at the menu (maybe if I just get something small, maybe if I just eat half it's ok) through to when food and drinks come (well I can snack on some of the shared appetizer, that's no big deal). I will quite literally catch my eyes darting from whoever I'm conversing with to a plate of fries again and again. Every single time it happens I have to tell myself "no," with the full list of rational reasons why that "no" is more important than my impulsive desire borne from both hunger and just like, mouth boredom or whatever, to eat the fry.

So knowing that about myself, when I'm hardcore dieting, I just try to avoid setting myself up to fail like that, and thus, it's a socially isolating time. Especially when I lived in the USA and outside of like, rock climbing and motorcycling, there was basically no time people got together that didn't involve food, cause you had to drive or whatever and your hangout time would probably overlap with a meal or two.
I know it's not that rare. But it is problematic.
FreeBSD focuses on performance moreso than Net or OpenBSD.
There’s an exploit in the wild that can extract information from some torrent trackers.
I'm 40 and I can't pinpoint when my metabolism changed. I can pinpoint exactly when I moved in with my girlfriend, who cooks delicious food, instead of me ordering a salad a day as my main meal, but my metabolism itself seems to have hardly changed at all.
When the fed commits to hiking rates to slow the economy, it almost always leads to recession. You'd have to be a hyper optimist to not plan for a recession, as an individual, or a business.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/29/federal-reserve-rec...
I think you editorialized the headline. It’s not an issue of “powerful enough”. Electric motors inherently have more power and torque.
> and found an easier business to start.

That's true, then again hindsight is 20/20!
lol he should have watched the whole movie, he would have known the theft was detected
> but it hasn’t hit Amazon pocketbook now, has it?

I'm not sure if this is the way a company thinks, even if they wouldn't have pressure from investors or worries for future survival (they would, BTW). Instead, some companies, likely Amazon too, view such cut as necessity for two reasons: bloated organizations slow everyone down, while diluting the company's culture; it's a great chance to trim the low performers. Not saying this is good or bad, just trying to explain the underlying logic.

> people started treating companies they way companies treating people and we are starting to see the results

Reid Hoffman wrote a book, The Alliance, which advocates that employees and companies are not family, but for an alliance. When they both have the right goal, they work towards the goal. When they don't, they part ways. Similarly, Netflix's Reed Hastings advocated that companies are like professional sports teams. A professional sports team is brutal when it comes to trading its players, but it does not mean the players will not pull their weights. I personally think the two views are more realistic and help employees advance their careers.
What about pastor or shaman?
Modern v8 does on disk byte code caching, things have come a long way since Palm. In many cases PWAs have faster startup than native apps (also the on disk size of a PWA is usually an order of magnitude smaller than a similar native app.)

https://v8.dev/blog/code-caching-for-devs

https://github.com/thlorenz/v8-perf/blob/master/snapshots%2B...
What do you dislike about MuleSoft?
FreeBSD doesn’t have 50 active core developers so it’s hard to imagine how Dragonfly could be 1/50th the size.
To any contributors: add screenshots to the readme, they’re fun to look at.
Even the current state is still ridiculous. There is still high demand but back to normality is preferred. The quality of highly-paid/low-experience-knowledge-quality engineers was toxicating the market and I’d say hurting the good ones instead.

If they are not really into tech (and just making money, which is fine by its own right), then they’ll land somewhere else.
And Free Agent for UseNet...
This is not correct, swarms on good private sites are way better than on public trackers.

With real world torrent clients, you’d much rather have a swarm with 100 dedicated servers on 1gbps+ connections than a swarm with a million Indian residential connections.
Not that bright a plan.
I mean, then it's more than half of corporate employees. I don't think that's particularly feasible either.
> Generators are a thing that pretty much every one of these services will have. Because you can't have a fire station, EMT dispatch, etc go dark because of a grid down situation.
ex-AAPL senior software engineer here.

You generally only get good at interview problems when you're entering the door. After that, interview questions generally have nothing to do with your job.

Also, as you move beyond entry level positions, political skills, communications skills and connections becomes more and more important. Unless you happen to be at some massive growth teams at the right times, it's basically impossible to move beyond ICT4 or L5 unless both you and your boss have very good grasp of politics.
Could be also an age thing. I don't know how old you are but maybe ten years ago most of your colleagues were twenty somethings and now they are in their thirties or forties?
Alexa is a bit of a mystery. The plan apparently was:

1. Sell millions of devices at cost. Unrelenting sales on Echo devices

2. ???

3. Profit

And Step 2 was never filled in. Maybe it was "if people can re-order paper towels by shouting at Alexa, we'll sell more paper towels". But that plan has its limits.
It has always been, in Dutch (it means 'fun'). And the Dutch have been very early and influential on IRC (where the acronym stems from).
Wait til you hear about the DHT!
Fat guy here: these side effects are pretty scary for somebody like me.

3 months of noticeably extra fatigue on top of my current baseline level of exhaustion seems to threaten serious psychological effects.

3 months of brain-fog sounds like a great way to get fired and really fuck up my life.

If my "gastro situation" was noticeably worse than the unpredictable wildy-swinging nightmare it already is, I honestly have no idea how bad the consequences could be for my social life (I would be the flakiest person anybody knows and everybody hates that guy) and ability to make plans / focus long enough to do any work.

For some reason, I don't know why but I've always been this way, there's nothing my body hates and wants to avoid more than throwing up. I dread it. I'm not so sure I enjoy life enough to get through 3 months of nausea.
As long as "full salary" is defined as your total compensation. Financial firms set base salaries low relative to total compensation (bonus can be 200-500%+ base) so that your TC drops dramatically if you leave. Sometimes the next job will buy you out, but with 18 month non competes being common, sometimes you are just screwed.
> Though you should not build an illusive and false picture of the country it is today.

I'd argue everybody does that, it's exceptionalism. It's a natural response to being in a group. A tribalistic behaviour you can observe with countries, but also political parties and even k-pop groups. FWIW exceptionalism is mostly associated with one country in particular, but it's not Russia.

> Sure, but better not to follow propaganda, which uses that heritage to build a basis for war while manipulating history.

I wholeheartedly agree, but you should not underestimate how difficult access to non-propaganda is for everyone in the world. When you believe in propaganda, everything else looks like propaganda.
iFanny
I think it has more to do with the fact that @i_have_an_idea's blinders fell off. Also, at the same time, due to COVID and consequently mandatory WFM, many other people had the same epiphany, leading to so-called quiet-quitting.

Honestly I also feel there's another factor of a lot of depression as people look around and see that cynical view was the truth all along.
Pretty sure we'll see it happen this year. But they may be hoping just to avoid it through attrition, by slowing hiring drastically and turning up the heat in performance reviews and goal setting.

I am not there anymore, but I hear perf process has been drastically reformed there. I always hated it, but one thing it did offer was a thorough paper trail and process and gave low performers many opportunities to improve their game. I understand now a lot of the red tape has been cut and the process is more intimate with the manager and their report. This would have been good for me and people I knew, at times, but I can also see it being a good way to just sort of quietly push people out.

My observation was that in many areas, productivity was super crappy during at least the initial stages of COVID. I think many companies suffered from this. There will be long-term fallout from that.

Anyways that single cash cow continues to be a money printing machine. When ad revenues drop significantly many quarters in a row, then you'll know there's trouble brewing.
Megawatt diesel generators are reasonably sized and could work as a backup for critical infrastructure. There's also things like the Tesla Megapack.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ Stars Sue Paramount over Teen Nude Scene in 1968 Film
Wow that is some BS
I really like this idea! Using email to synchronize RSS feeds is an awesome abuse of email!

> "It is a rewrite in Go of the wonderful, but unfortunately now unmaintained"

Is it still working? If not, I might need to read up on the IMAP protocol... Could be cool to hack such a thing together.

One feature I would suggest is to import an OPML file to help those (like me) with insane numbers of existing RSS feeds.
The “ADS” part of MANPADS stands for “air defense system,” so kind of a malformed analogy.
I don't know what to tell you other than that I was once skinny and young, but then I got older and fitter and my desire to eat changed. It apparently changes quite a lot as different factors in your life influence you, according to the article you're commenting on. It's a good read, I recommend it (and others)!

What factors do you think are influencing your desire to eat more or less? Do you think those will change at all during your lifetime, or do you believe that those factors are entirely genetic?

Additionally, what do you think of the folks who were fat, who then got healthy, and remain healthy? It sounds like you don't believe they can exist, since "metabolism" is just different for everyone, or that if they do exist, they're doomed to failure, since it's encoded genetically and therefore only a matter of time until they "revert" back to their unhealthy state.

Finally, what should we do to the people who have these genetics that cause them to eat and/or gain weight with little or no control? If we could remove those genetics or alter them pre-birth, should we? As for the living people, they obviously cost more to provide healthcare to, so should we split them out from the non-obese-predisposed pool of people?
Oof. Thank you.
sadly he got into an accident/some other medical issue a few years back and hasn't really been seen in public since
No they ought not to be a judge.
Often a 1 year cliff, then quarterly or monthly.
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Ghidra may be pretty good for some binaries (or for some audience?), but my experience trying to get it to reverse both golang and rust-lang binaries has been abysmal. It fails to correctly identify string literals (which is my #1 go-to for finding "points of interest") and the decompilation output is ... well, maybe it's helpful to someone but not to me. I regret that I let my Binary Ninja license lapse in order to see what it would have to say about the same binaries, and I've never had an IDA license to know what that's like

As a point of comparison, I fed 10.2.2 a copy of gojq 0.12.11 that I had lying around and this is pretty representative of its output

if (DAT_0075c6c8 == (code *)0x0) {
ppuStack_38 = (undefined **)0x45ecd7;
FUN_00462ee0(&DAT_0075da28,local_10,iVar3,iVar4);
*(undefined8 *)(in_FS_OFFSET + -8) = 0x123;
if (DAT_0075da28 != 0x123) {
ppuStack_38 = (undefined **)0x45ecf8;
FUN_00460dc0();
}
}

for further comparison, I fed it actual jq and it did much better about the string literals

if ((((((iVar6 == 0) || (DAT_00108018 = DAT_00108018 | 1, local_58 != 0)) &&
((iVar6 = FUN_001045a0(pFVar20,0x72,"raw-output",pcVar13), iVar6 == 0 ||
(DAT_00108018 = DAT_00108018 | 8, local_58 != 0)))) &&
((iVar6 = FUN_001045a0(pFVar20,99,"compact-output",pcVar13), iVar6 == 0 ||
(local_5c = local_5c & 0xfffff8be, local_58 != 0)))) &&
((iVar6 = FUN_001045a0(pFVar20,0x43,"color-output",pcVar13), iVar6 == 0 ||
(DAT_00108018 = DAT_00108018 | 0x40, local_58 != 0)))) &&
(((iVar6 = FUN_001045a0(pFVar20,0x4d,"monochrome-output",pcVar13), iVar6 == 0 ||
(DAT_00108018 = DAT_00108018 | 0x80, local_58 != 0)) &&
((iVar6 = FUN_001045a0(pFVar20,0x61,"ascii-output",pcVar13), iVar6 == 0 ||
(DAT_00108018 = DAT_00108018 | 0x20, local_58 != 0)))))) {
iVar6 = FUN_001045a0(pFVar20,0,"unbuffered",pcVar13);