skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2008, a woman I was dating worked for a subsidiary of
PepsiCo and was laid off by Indra Nooyi's decision to create
"financial breathing room" in response to the economic storm
clouds that were gathering.

The Financial Times described it as "just 1.7% of the group's
global workforce."

Meh. 1.7%

Because of the economic collapse of 2008-2009, she didn't
find another position for well over a year and a half, damn
near lost her home, and had to draw very deep from the well.

Nooyi's characterization has stayed with me ever since as
a metaphor for just how cold the wind blows in those meetings.
I have a copy of Enoch 1, 2, 3; but I have not seen it included in any Bible. It is not part of the Apocrypha -- you don't find in the Orthodox Study Bible or a Catholic Bible. What Bible is it in? I would like to get it.
I've also seen plenty of serious journalism and comments about ChatGPT destroying Google search, writing, journalism, art, education, and on HN the usual bits about countless programmers thoughtlessly copying/pasting buggy code into production without testing/QA/getting fired after the 3rd time, or even people shoving pills down their throat because they read some health stuff on ChatGPT without second thought.

There's a lot of people getting hysterical about it... just like there's the usual true believer audience (see: new age/conspiracy/etc in the past and now crypto). Every major new change generates these extremes... and no its not unique to HN or crypto bros.

Personally I'm skeptical things are getting worse because we still have the same reputation and social critique systems to keep these groups in check.

But it's always good to keep on top of the current things these groups latch on to... including both doomers AND culty/conspiracy extremes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/
Even in smallish teams the probability that all members are excellent (or terrible) is almost zero, imho. In a bigger selection it's just closer to zero.

In fact in any sample the distribution of "excellent, average, and terrible" will be more or less the same. Namely more or less like the distribution in the general population. (Otherwise we can stop looking at statistics in general as they would be worthless).

The probability for the most unlikely event (namely a result that is maximally far away form the expected one) may be a little bit greater given smaller sample sizes (a result of broader variance), but this is irrelevant as the probability for such outcome is in almost any case infinitesimally small.

Looking at the verges of a distribution to draw conclusions is misleading, imho. You need to look at the middle of the curve as there are the most likely outcomes of some selection.

So, if I put some random people in a group the most likely outcome is that the ratio of excellent people to others is similar to the ratio of excellent people to other in the general population. This is the most likely outcome, independent of sample size.
How to Befriend Crows?
In the Bay Area you can find people flying at the model airplane field behind the Oakland Airport (https://goo.gl/maps/TBJTFuUoWhHapCwk7). It's quite a spectacle.
Is 'platonic parenting' the relationship of the future?
https://twitter.com/sanitybit/status/1610829345676996609

>I've been investigating the use of a @ThinkstCanary AWS token that was improperly accessed on December 27th and suspected as much.
I’m impressed that you could locate that email after a decade!
How can he be laid off without a severance letter? Wouldn't that make him still employed and not being paid?
A few comments:

(a) America and Germany were both unmatched industrial powers from late 19th century. Two world wars later and US emerged as the sole industrial power. The article is arguing for US to rejoin the industrial powerhouse set.

(b) V. V. Putin and "partners" have set into motion a sort of historic locomotive. So far the thing has arrived if not departed from the station of 'burning bridges for EU'. If you read the article, it notes that Germany had prudently applied a two pronged approach for dealing with globalization: retaining component level (parts) manufacturing, and comprehensively (re)training its workforce for a new economic regime. What the article doesn't mention (though hints at by recalling Angela M's "we still make things" remark to an apparently confused Tony Blair) is the third prong of what was actually a trident: an energy 'stream' that did not require the services (or good graces) of United States Navy and client friends. That prong is gone now, and higher energy costs coupled with "Plaza Accord" type of "negotiations" (a scene from Godfather comes to mind) they enable, should make for a responsive set of allies. That said, the article advised negotiations with the Chinese, which does not compute on my end (unless the author is privy to information not available to the general public).

(c)above
With my rose tinted glasses on I would start to agree, but then I remember all the excess HTML it involved trying to do anything. Once you become accustomed to it you can get a pretty quick flow going, and I appreciate what it did at a time when the space was young, but I definitely don't want to go back to bootstrap in 2023.
> losing repeatedly

> bankruptcy due to legal fees.

Don't the legal fees get paid by the losing side?
Yup. And basically the day the bankruptcy acquisition closed they nuked the support website and took the drivers offline.

Creative is an incredibly scummy company. I don't know anything about the founder but generally have found the fish rots from the head on issues like this.
The article's title currently reads "over 18,000" - can we get this updated please?
HL:A is a masterpiece. VR was made for that game, not the other way around. I spent like 3k buying the Index and building a new PC just to play it and it was absolutely worth it.

I've never felt such a consistently visceral adrenaline response from a game before.
It has improved! What happens now is it prints an error:

$ o//blink/blink /bin/ls
error: unsupported executable; we need:
- flat executables (.bin files)
- actually portable executables (MZqFpD/jartsr)
- statically-linked x86_64-linux elf executables

Blink really isn't intended to run the binaries that come with your distro, because you're already able to run them. Blink is intended to let you transplant x86-Linux executables onto non x86-Linux systems.

For example, I like to build programs on my x86 Alpine Linux machine and then scp them onto my M1 MacBook, Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD, and Windows machines. Blink lets me run them once I do that. Copying program files only makes sense if the program files are static. Linux distro executables can't be distributed to somewhere other than the distros that created them, unless a tool like Docker is used which recreates the whole distro.

Blink is for people who want to be able to distribute Linux software without having to be in the Linux Distributor business too.
Honestly I think that would make me more interested in the story, not less.
This is called “having your cake and eating it too.”

Simply don’t pay office rent and let them sue you and drag your feet forever until they negotiate for lower rent or go bankrupt.

If you know commercial real estate are about to go bankrupt if they can’t collect rent, then you have a lot of power. Wait nine months without paying and they will be too busy being bankrupt to afford lawyers to sue you into submission. Musk seems to know it so maybe they cave and he gets 1/2 price commercial space.

Announce everyone gets a giant severance then … just don’t pay. While claiming you did on twitter or will.

I have less sympathy for land lords.

I think they did an effective job completely Turning public opinion against twitter employees. Painting them as dead weight and woke stooges for the FBI.

Now we find out - Yeah they aren’t getting paid for being laid off as promised.

But now they are so painted unfavorably he might be calculating no one will actually care. The ex employees can’t do anything? They never even “got laid off.”

Watching this play out it’s clear that musk is playing total hardball with the legal system and exploiting the loop holes and edge cases.

It’s shocking to see it play out like this. And for whatever reason he can somehow : is likely to somehow walk out of it with his reputation intact since so many people are cheering for it.
I had an employer tie a forced arbitration clause to a stock option refresh.
I've had to sign sort of sub-contracts, e.g., during option awards. I think my main employment contract might have been updated once, when the employer I worked for was acquired, but it was a while ago so I could be mistaken.
It could be, it also could be adjusting to large calorie deficits, electrolyte level changes and dehydration.

I don't know, but I'd be fine gambling on it. You don't seem to be, which is also fine.
The main motivation for job hopping is that it's usually easier to get a raise or promotion than staying around for too long at your company.

A lot of employers have the unfortunate tendency to see their most loyal employees as furniture.
Dang.... since the title didn't create enough outrage, wsj changed it to "more than 18,000 workers"

I think that the title should be updated per the rules of this community
As a sibling mentions, we have this windfall of cheap GPUs in the economy. They are not used to mine crypto anymore. So we can put them to use to ... train ML models.

This can still be more productive than crypto was. But hopefully the ML models trained won't be used for face recognition in dictatorships or for finally replacing all software engineers with a beefed up version of GPT.
The sacrifice encourages people to be extra careful about marrying the right person.

The reward encourages people to not be careful and to rush into marriage without testing whether they have the right person.

> Unrestricted sexual promiscuity with whoever is fundamentally incompatible with that kind of commitment.

I'm not suggesting that married people use prostitutes.

Also allowing prostitution doesn't imply there are no restrictions.
Why couldn’t 1 person be terminated for cause, even in the midst of a layoff?

Imagine a company going through layoffs when it discovers an employee had been embezzling funds. Does that employee have to be treated the same as the ones who are simply being laid off? What if that employee WAS going to be laid off, but then the embezzlement was discovered? I guess that’s what the lawyers help to decide…
> Wouldn't you think that there was more anxiety and stress in the Cold War among the civilian population than in WWII?

No. I lived through part of the cold war.

In WW2 everybody knew families with dead sons or sons that came back in pieces or sons that just disappeared. My neighbor in the 60s was a paratrooper, who came back missing a leg.
I find it interesting that the penalty for violating the WARN act basically seems to be paying the amount you would have had to pay if you followed the WARN act, and nothing additional. Seems like an incentive to ignore it.
Also, TDP is a spec point with a lot of BS. Intel's TDP is widely mocked for being far under the actual maximum power draw of the chip. I don't know how Apple is working out their TDP but it's almost certainly different to Intel. But then if you have accurate numbers it's still not a great measure because cores are at their least efficient when maxed out (like desktop CPUs usually are and laptop CPUs usually aren't), so it's a comparison which is unfair to intel and you should really compare the real power consumption of an intel CPU when clocked to get equivalent performance to an M1. So the data is basically useless as a comparison.
Musk is known to be dishonest, but something tells me the person making this claim is an ideological opponent of Musk. I would hesitate to believe this until more information.
The parent post said:

> everyone, even the skinny folks, should be on GLP1 drugs

But as a skinny person, I can already easily reduce caloric intake as much as I want to. My body is "blessed" with weak food cravings and solid blood glucose levels while fasting.

So while I do recommend these drugs to people who need them, I don't think they'd help me at all more than merely deciding one day to monitor and control my weight to a very narrow target range. It's like the opposite of "its easy! Just eat less!" ... you guys are telling skinny people "Oh but eating at a maintenance/deficit will be too hard for you to do just by thinking you want to! You'll need a drug!"

I can easily lose 20-40 lbs just by getting lazy and not cooking myself food. It's literally no challenge at all. But neither is gaining 20-40 lbs when I want to. I know this is relatively unique, I don't blame obese people for "lack of will". I know they have different biochemistry because it doesn't take me any willpower to gain or lose weight on demand. It's literally as effortless as deciding to wear more dressy clothes this year. I'm 6-foot tall and I can set and indefinitely maintain almost any weight I want between 145 and 200 lbs within +/- 3 lbs, with very little effort.

Over 190 lbs gets a bit hard to maintain, under 155 also gets a bit hard to maintain. Supposedly "normal" BMI for my height goes all the way down to 136 lbs but I think that's probably total bullshit -- that's very, very, very skinny.
My favorite interview question was "Do you know Leetcode?". I said yes and prepared my brain for the problem-solving portion of the interview. But no. That was the question with no follow-up. One of the two got sent back to the offshore team and even eventually to the offshore's offshore team, and the other guy got sent back but then somehow returned to the onshore offshore team.
Seriously? That's disappointing. They've been my go-to for years since most other (non-weather hobbiest) weather sites have become basically unusable due to ads.
Fat and non-satiating carbs in combination (e.g. chips) is bad because you will consume loads of calories without feeling full. Most seed oils (i.e. fat) actually seem to be quite unhealthy. If people avoid that shit when being told to avoid fat in general, I think it's actually a net positive.

Apart from them seemingly equating fat and sugar as equally bad, the comment was spot on.
Ruby on Rails is declining in popularity (we have data)
McLuhan cameo in Annie Hall (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROIrLRQi-m0

"The scene encapsulates McLuhan's theory rather neatly. McLuhan is famous for the claim that the medium is the message. What he meant by this is that the way in which radios, TVs, or phones address us is more important than what they say when they do. In this case, Allen is alluding to the fact that film is an interactive medium: we are being addressed not as a remote community, as in a radio broadcast, but instead as direct visual witnesses. Before turning to McLuhan, Allen's character has already made his case, that the guy behind him is a nuisance, across the fourth wall to us filmgoers.

The scene in Annie Hall epitomizes how readily available McLuhan's ideas were in the 1960s and 70s. Unless you were an Oscar-winning filmmaker, you couldn't pluck the literal McLuhan out of thin air, of course. But you could certainly invoke his ideas with about as much (apparent) ease. Its safe to say laypeople are less familiar with McLuhan's ideas today than they were then, and its also safe to say that many who regurgitated his theories, like the gentleman in Annie Hall, didnt actually understand them all that well. And given the line the actual McLuhan speaks in the scene, we, the viewers, will likely fear we're misunderstanding him as well.

Did that mean his whole fallacy was wrong? In a way, no, since knowing to invoke McLuhan was perhaps a better proof of his theories than actually understanding those theories. Maybe that is also why Allen left McLuhan's odd line in the final version of the script and the final cut of the film. After all, the point of the scene is that Allen is able to pull the actual McLuhan from behind the standee and have him settle a dispute directly -- not what McLuhan actually says, which in no way resolves the dispute. And this was true in the sixties already: invoking McLuhan was a way to show you were switched on, tuned in, vibing, or whatever other media metaphor you want to use to show you've grasped what's happening. You got it, and if you couldn't quite say what it was, that mattered less than that you got it."

- Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking (2020)
Why on earth haven't I received an email from Circle about this??

I guess the answer is, why on earth am I still using Circle CI....

Thankfully all of my secrets/env variables are just dummy data for tests, and already using OIDC
If you eat enough protein then your body will make glucose from it and keep you out of ketosis

Cite for this, please?
Count me as a world leading expert as well then.
In the business world the engineers are like the Wehrmacht.
There's a big difference between NFTs and most DeFi, and LLMs and other generative AIs. NFTs and shitcoins clearly had no actual non-scam usecases - they didn't actually enable anything genuinely interesting to be done that was previously impossible (except for breaking the law in some slightly new and interesting ways). But LLMs and friends... these bring things that were impossible, or impractical, or unscalable, into the realm of possibility. There will be genuinely important things built on this tech. Figuring out what is going to be properly hard work though.

But of course, there will also be a ton of lazy ill-thought-out crap, too.

And the danger is that NFTs and cryptoscams created a bunch of random lottery winners who think they got rich off their genius insight into how to apply innovative tech, but who actually only proved they know how to generate ill-thought-out crap, very quickly, at the start of a hype curve. So unsurprising to see them moving in. But without the obvious get-rich-quick scam opportunities, and the likely massive compute fees doing anything interesting in this space will involve, it's less obvious how long those folks will stick around.
> Once a severance agreement is agreed to

Where did you see it was agreed to? Not saying it's legal, but it seems like to me like that's the wrong angle. The angle is more in the "lying publicly about giving severance to all employees", and since IANAL I'm wondering what can be done about that.
For an ecommerce business, products. For SaaS? Maybe the time saving aspect. For direct to consumer focused brands, other things... This varies so much and there's really not a lot in common between different products, services, markets, etc. I'd suggest testing – running testing with users, find what they're missing.
There also would be less innovation as there would be less cross-pollination.
What's the point of this story? That your government is failing at social welfare so people are relying on PepsiCo for charity?
This is Elon Musk 101. He lies and commits fraud after fraud for more than half a decade now. But tech crowd used to see him as a mix of Jesus and Ironman, and gave him a free pass, because he's cool. Luckily, it seems he ran out of luck with Twitter tho, and tides are turning.
"Potato chips are bad for you" is a noncontroversial statement. "If you want to lose weight, avoid fats", on the other hand, is deeply controversial and probably wrong.
How was he even informed in the first place, that he was laid off?

Was he verbally told?

EDIT: appears this is the email people received. I can’t find an example of the severance email though.

https://www.kron4.com/news/today-is-your-last-working-day-at...
Ark – A tool written in Haskell that manages the themes of your system
I've been learning Haskell for a little while now, and I figured I would try making a program that I wanted for a while. Syncing themes can be difficult when you don't know the location of every configuration file, and Ark aims to solve this problem, plus generally make it easier for beginners to get into theming their system.
Sounds like Musk laid off HR and Legal departments. (I'm not trying to be funny)
Sorry but I'm not sure I understand your comment, I think you would gain some benefit in trying to make it clearer and more structured as it's quite long and feels more like a rambling.
It wasn't "at least one" person - it was his whole org, everyone his manager managed, his director, etc.

I'm saying that if Salesforce has employees in this situation, they are making poor hiring decisions and it's no wonder they had a spare 10% of employees to lay off. I certainly am not glad anyone got laid off, but we wouldn't be in this position in the first place if Salesforce knew what they were doing.
Have you read the linked post? Did you look up who the guy is who written it?

Calling Mr. Harper a "troll" is quite a strong statement…
Thanks, you're right and my memory was fuzzy. But the strong claims like that in the paper are about trying to completely erase the local/remote difference, which neither E nor Erlang did. Instead they reduced the pain in a way that this paper leaves an impression is not worth pursuing:

> Rather than using those resources in attempts to paper over the differences between the two kinds of computing, resources can be directed at improving the performance and reliability of each.

> ... it is a
mistake to attempt to construct a system that is “objects all
the way down” if one understands the goal as a distributed
system constructed of the same kind of objects all the way
down.

(E.g. in E the objects are the same kind; it's the references to objects that have two kinds.)
It’s critical of a government and the intelligence community, so yes most likely
Who are "these guys"?
It must be that the whole field of ML/AI is a scam then /s
Yes, I wasn't commenting on thinking and memory in non-verbal humans or non-human animals, for that matter; it seems obvious, to me, that these are present. I'm just not sure thinking in images and other sensations without words can be called language?

While writing this, I was reminded of some children (ages 6 to 23), I used to interact with at a job (many years ago), who could hear but were non-verbal and communicated with fingerboards. They would string images together to form "sentences", and overload images on their fingerboards to use as names for people around them (and these image names often made semantic sense, describing an attribute of the person being named e.g., the person who drove their school bus referred to by a picture of a bus). They did understand varying amounts of spoken English which makes it ambiguous if this is really support of language without words, though.

The concept of a language of images and other sensations without words as we know them is intriguing. Thanks for inspiring me take a few minutes to think about this more deeply.
In my opinion, something was clearly awry when they decided to part ways with one of the best & most instantly recognizable corporate logos I've ever seen. I'll never understand it.
> Losing weight was extremely challenging and socially isolating

This line alone tells me you're legit be a use nobody talks about this aspect of doing what needs to be done to lose that kind of weight.

From everything I've heard, I'd take this class of drug in a heartbeat if I thought I had any chance at all of getting a prescription. It is apparently a double edged sword that all of my health metrics peg me at above average health, except that I'm a bit overweight again after the COVID times.
Amazon Will Lay Off 18,000 Employees, CEO Andy Jassy Says
It's fighting fire with fire. Spammers and malicious attackers often brigade and/or use bots. It's easier for them to overwhelm moderators than to be moderated. Shadow and heaven banning are countermeasures. They aren't perfect and can be detected by determined attackers. Yet they raise the bar for abusers.