skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man nobody reads the articles anymore. I think the Prof is correct. This is a social contagion all the way from Wall Street. Arguably the contagion trigger was the Fed raising interest rates. But that doesn't mean layoffs are eminent especially in cash rich businesses.

I remember being in high school and some girl freaked out about not getting the grades to get into Stanford etc... Guess what, that anxiety spread through the class and it was never the same again.

As smart as we are, we do not think for ourselves and let social cues manipulate us.

From the article:

"What are some myths or misunderstandings about layoffs?

Layoffs often do not cut costs, as there are many instances of laid-off employees being hired back as contractors, with companies paying the contracting firm. Layoffs often do not increase stock prices, in part because layoffs can signal that a company is having difficulty. Layoffs do not increase productivity. Layoffs do not solve what is often the underlying problem, which is often an ineffective strategy, a loss of market share, or too little revenue. Layoffs are basically a bad decision.

Companies sometimes lay off people that they have just recruited – oftentimes with paid recruitment bonuses. When the economy turns back in the next 12, 14, or 18 months, they will go back to the market and compete with the same companies to hire talent. They are basically buying labor at a high price and selling low. Not the best decision.

People don’t pay attention to the evidence against layoffs. The evidence is pretty extensive, some of it is reviewed in the book I wrote on human resource management, The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First. If companies paid attention to the evidence, they could get some competitive leverage because they would actually be basing their decisions on science.

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Not arguing, just contributing with my personal non-expert experience.

I am using Terraform because using AWS directly was too cumbersome, and I'm happy with it.
> The question "Do we really need multiple databases" is one of the main culprits that spawn distributed monoliths.

It's true the lack of bounded contexts is a big problem. But I also see a lot of orchestration services with multiple dependencies on other services, some of which are themselves orchestration services. This quickly cascades into dependency hell only you don't get the benefit of a compiler to alert you to the problems.
By what metrics? Just ads? Even with the deterioration of Google Search it’s still WAY better than anything from the AltaVista/Ask Jeeves era.
It's not much that we learned it at the 90's. It's that it became true at around the 90's. It used to be false, but computers became faster, memory more plentiful, and the fundamental physical limitations of networks didn't change a bit (well, fundamental physical limitations never do).

It has become more and more true each passing year.
I agree that yard work is phenomenal for mood, but it is sort of captured in the article's list. I see yard work as a combination of light exercise, time spent in nature, and meditation. In your case, it's a personal hobby too!

As an aside to your last thought, there's a local teacher in my town that offers to paint home interiors in the summer time. He expects customers to do all the prep work and acquire the paint, but he will show up with brushes, rollers, etc. He does charge a fee, but it's much lower than any professional. When I asked why he does it, he simply answered that he loves painting and finds it relaxing, so he decided to do it on the side to help locals out. Maybe you could do something similar for yards in the neighborhood.
Also impossible to outsource overseas.
Infrastructure by it's nature won't be deterministic. Fighting it to me sounds like wanting to use "assume a frictionless plane" in a real world physics solution
Thank you. It's odd that Amazon puts two entirely different routers on the same page.
In most single-family dwellings, it'll probably be cheaper to add a range hood, even if some duct work is necessary, than to get a 240 volt 40-50 amp dedicated line for an induction stove that's as powerful as a gas range. Electric work is not cheap.
Anything approaching an explanation resembling the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle would probably be persona non grata to a good percentage of people on HN, but I'd strongly suggest looking at monetary policy in the last few years for clues. Due to the (IMO extreme over-) reaction to Covid, governments spent money and made it available like drunken sailors. Businesses overhired, were able to get insane valuations, and a lot of excess cash made its way into the markets and overinflated everybody's valuations.

The problem is, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Now we're reaping the predictable contraction.
It's not that Make can't work as a task launcher, it's that it's not designed as such.

The simple fact that a build target isn't executed if the build file already exists, requiring a workaround to run it, points to the difference in purpose and philosophy. Those little details, together with the more modern design, accumulate to make Just a tool that is simpler to use for that purpose.
Fully in sync.
Dunno the technology behind it specifically, but the various types of fast charging has really unlocked the potential in EVs, IMO. Making an EV act more like an ICE car is what made them pop in terms of viability.
- the embedded controller (EC)

- the CPU core in the chipset that runs the ME/PSP

- if the TPM is not an fTPM, it has a CPU I'm sure.

- if your NIC has offload engines, it has a CPU or two.

- each storage device has a CPU.

- each Wi-Fi device has a CPU.

- thunderbolt controller takes firmware, it has a CPU. I'd bet USB3 and 4 do too.

- any USB device has a CPU on the other end accepting and interpreting commands.

- same with any SCSI device.

- monitors have a CPU or two, one for the OSD settings and another to drive the display I'm sure.

- I think any nVidia or AMD graphics card has a CPU in there (in addition to the GPU).

- The following portable media has microcontroller firmware: SD cards, Memory Stick. (The now defunct SmartMedia and Olympus XD were raw NAND).

- your optical mouse has a CPU as well to process optical data.

- obviously printers have CPUs and firmware, probably separate ones for the web UI and the part that drives the actual print mechanism, and I'd bet a separate one for scanning and image processing.

- any keyboard has a microcontroller and firmware (there are open source keyboard firmwares)

- SIM cards for cellular connections have their own CPU and firmware.
Computer Scientists aren't particularly good with computers either.
This is a project I would love to be involved in. I still have my BeBox!!
Just check gmail using lynx ;)
The data about death and the data about who died not due to covid comes from the same place. If they can "quite adequately explains it" why would they release data that suggests they do not know the reasons for large parts of the excess death?
That is what the data releases all over the western world shows.

Also hes not a journalist and he does not do investigations he just explains medical stuff and hes unable to explain the given data. If you can explain it then you should probably do that. But its seems like you just want to attribute the rest of the excess death to COVID as well so you actually question the data. Wrong data is a perfectly valid reason for why the data can not be explained.
I always forget the size difference between US and UK homes (I assume toomuchtodo is speaking from a US perspective). Here, in my three-bedroom UK house I'm on a 60A service fuse and considering updating to 100A in the future (amusingly, as part of a solar PV / electric vehicle charger install).

I've never heard of a UK house having a larger than 100A service (although I imagine they exist here and there - it's certainly not common).
AFAIK Dave Cutler is still there but he's been moved off the Windows team -- first to Xbox of all places and then to cloud, maybe?
Something to keep in mind is that most homes, if they haven't been constructed within the last 10 years, likely have some non-compliance with the current electrical code. For instance, I needed to install an exterior disconnect which wound up costing me more than a thousand dollars on top of the existing electrical work I needed done. The electrician also needed to replace my existing ground wires because they are supposed to be cables sheathed in green. The electrician also had to disconnect all of the wires from the circuit breaker in order to replace a plastic joint and replace it with a galvanized one.

I understand that these regulations exist in the name of safety, just be aware that any electrical updates to your home will likely involve a lot more work than you initially think. Depending on what you are getting done, the inspector may need to recheck your entire home. And, you're probably going to scoff at a good number of the required changes.

Context Edit: I'm located in Texas, and I ultimately had to have the electrical panel replaced entirely because there was a safety recall associated with it. Even after the replacement was complete the electrician had to come back and redo the wiring connections because the inspector said the PVC joint at the top of the box had to be metal instead.

When I first saw the estimate I made sure to shop around and to get multiple quotes in order to make sure I wasn't being taken advantage of. Thankfully, there were a few things I was able to remain grandfathered in for.

Update: I now know that "fuse box" is not a synonym for "circuit breaker".
Well, most economists don't study how to get rich. Nonetheless, many study poverty, and since almost none of them live in poverty, your point stands.
Some of it is overdue, but most of it is spending slowdown, driving by the rapidly increasing inflation, which is causing interest rates to go up. But should you be worried? Not at the moment, US unemployment is still very low, a lot of tech people being laid off are being snatched up fairly quickly at the moment.
I remember when Google/pagerank first came out. My experience at the time is that Google was dramatically and undeniably better than the other search engines of the time (ones that many people can't even name now).

The catalog/directory style sites were instantly made almost valueless by Google's better mousetrap. Google gave better search results than the previous leader, Altavista (IMO).

Whether Google results of 1998 were worse in some measures than Google results of 2023 doesn't say much about whether "giving great search" gave people a super power that they didn't have before. I think it did (though I agree that someone else would have eventually done so, obviously).
Not at the language level but at the component or binary/lib level.

And without requiring you to switch all of your work to this language in order to gain the benefit.
It may be 'screaming into the void' for you, but for people that want to read and comment, the opportunity is there, which is my point.

One problem is, if an 'expert' says it's legit analysis, why should I believe them?
> Problem is, money is no longer cheap to borrow and real revenue is king now

Real revenue and no profit or real revenue that leads to profit?

The narrative seems to be that the day of awakening for "dump money with no expected ROI" style projects/companies is here when https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/interest-rate-de... is 4.5-5%
I like to use changesets for form validation, for example, but those changesets are different than the ones I use in my public API functions. Most of the time what I present to the user don’t map 1:1 to my Ecto schemas and it doesn’t have to.
The critical path of "install more solar panels" is not at all gated by the cost of solar panels these days.

It is the electrical work (both within in the home, and "interconnect") that is the expensive bottleneck.

(( also batteries are also a bottleneck. but a different one. ))
Some Microsoft Teams features will move to new Premium edition
And identify them from the picture with the AI feature!
It is people who provide service. If the (micro)service produces 4-5 products as part of the service they provide, that's not beyond Conway's Law at all.
I remember COVID when tech stocks shot right up, probably because everyone was stuck having to use tech and other companies looked in free fall

Then COVID ended and now we’re going back to normal, and tech stocks are also going back to before

If you change your lifestyle because you got a $100k windfall, you are going to realize that your income never changed. Companies that hired because they thought their COVID-inspired valuation was permanent were mistaken

I’m currently working for a tech company that was negatively impacted by COVID, did not get a random influx of cash and so did not hire and so currently does not have to lay anyone off.
I had to do a little bit to avoid insane amounts of consing, but honestly not a lot. And the optimisations I just did after the fact, gradually.

I use CLOS a lot for everything. The event system is literally just an array of handlers and a generic function called HANDLE that takes the event object and the handler object, for instance.

The source code for the engine, Trial, and the game, Kandria, are both on our GitHub under Shirakumo.
Auto Text : Can schedule texts, including reoccurring ones. Also great for reminders in the notification bar. Use it every day.

Joplin : Notes

Macrodroid : mostly to keep my files tidy. Way back in the day of SD cards in phones it helped transfer things over nightly in preparation for my sync job with...

Syncthing : Magical and finicky software

Loop Habit Tracker : Notification pops up, "Did you exercise today?" You answer yes or no and it logs it. I have several questions throughout my day, one of which being how I felt for the day. It's interesting to go back and see which habits improve my day.

Tasks.org (app) : simple to-do app

RaspController : manage local raspberry pis

Wireguard : Selfhost a VPN to "remote" into my home network

Quickimgur : this one is hard to find now. Adds a simple option to the "Share" button on photos. It uploads to imgur and copies the link to my clipboard. No account required.

Aurora Droid : A nice skin for F Droid

YouTube Vanced : Removes YT ads and enables background play. Also restores dislikes and works with Sponsorblock

Privacy.com (app) : Let's you spin up temporary credit card numbers when purchasing things online.

Zone Launcher : shortcut launcher. I swipe from the bottom right of my screen from anywhere on my phone and release over the app I want to launch.

Probably others but I don't even know if these are "special". Just some of my first downloads on a new phone.
You can find the source over here: https://github.com/Shirakumo/kandria
> Effektskatten" peaked at 7 öre per produced kw/h. That's a ~40-50% tax exclusively for, and on top of existing taxes when prices were a fraction of what they are now.

And if you sum up every cent they ever paid per GW including the capacity charge, you get roughly $1-2bn per reactor or a bit less than the bill that the taxpayer gets left with after decomissioning and waste management is underfunded.

It's also significantly less than insurance would cost without the Vienna convention and Paris convention.
This notion that money isn't cheap doesn't make sense to me.

If interest rates are 2% and inflation is 2% - borrowing money is free.

If interest rates are 10% and inflation is 80% - you get paid to borrow money - which seems cheaper than free.

We're obviously not in that situation - but we had interest rates at 2% with inflation at 10% - this was the cheapest money was in a long, long time.

Now we have (short term) interest rates at 4% - and inflation is >4%.

I get that it's not as cheap as 2021 - which would be necessary to maintain the asset bubble. But we still have negative real interest rates (at least short term). So money is still cheap, right?
Previous search engines couldn't really find shit. Google was miles better. That it devolved into ad-rotten mess is different topic.
Perhaps by wasm?
I use an Oura ring currently.
Looks pretty good opensource-wise, right? Some linux fork with ton of patches but hopefully most of that will get upstreamed, and except that I found no weird blobs or proprietary crap.
There are 2 main things that make us not happy:
1. not accepting the past.
2. fear of the future.
One can't change the past, so being angry, having grief, or whatever emotion one has where one is not accepting of the past feeds negative energy; just accept what has happened in the past because it can't be changed. FYI - think of life as a movies that one has a unique view of; nobody else has the view you do, appreciate it and be greatful for the experience. Also, one can't predict/control the future, so spending time being fearful of it also feeds negative energy. Accept that the future will bring exactly what one needs to grow. Be happy by accepting the past and not worrying about the future.
So, like Benghazi, we can look forward to 2 years of enormously hyped nothingburgers designed solely to score political points.
Is it though? Google has dropped so much from its index these days it is no longer "just put that phrase you wrote ten years ago in quotes and the forum post will come right up". Smaller search engines obviously also suffer from this, but I do believe that peak previous gen are better than this
The source code for the engine, Trial, and the game, Kandria, are both on our GitHub under Shirakumo. It's all zlib licensed.

The code base isn't great for learning though, I'd say. Game development usually does not leave the time to architect things neatly, rewrite large chunks, or document stuff deeply.
Blind spots is a really good suggestion. I'm going to use that during my next 1:1. :)
>If interest rates are 10% and inflation is 80% - you get paid to borrow money - which seems cheaper than free.

You still have to generate that 10% return.
I believe the answer is that induction is more efficient at getting heat into your food.

With electric, it heats up a coil that heats up your pan (and the air around it) that heats your food.

With induction, it skips the coil and simply heats the pan. The pans are specially designed to contain a heating coil in them which implicitly is closer to your food.

It also means the work surface tends to cool quickly (or never get hot in the first place), making it safer.
An Interview with Mike Carter (YC Winter 2023)
Glimpses of an autonomous future, cultivating insight, and tackling existential problems
That's a fun way to do OCR. Next up: Classifying memes by subjects and themes to build something like KnowYourMeme's gallery, but for every meme.

Bonus: Index from a lot of sources to help track a meme's origin.

This type of thing is on my long list of "can somebody else please do this already".
Perhaps some time away would be a good idea. Thanks for mentioning it.
I really disagree with the article’s conclusion. This is not simply about being a copycat

We have tech layoffs because even the tech giants are reliant on new startups. Startups in general are suffering because leverage is no longer cheap, and startups are extremely cash hungry. Demand destruction affects everything and not just consumers
> my wife won't accept an ordinary electric range

She's right. Induction has the speed and response of a gas cooktop with the precision a resistance electric cooktop.

> and an electric water heater.

Make sure it's a heat pump water heater if efficiency and operating cost matter to you.
> Plato and happiness scientists generally agree that eudaimonism is the best route to long term happiness.

I think you're misconstruing this a bit. Plato and some happiness scientists see eudaimonia as superior to "affect" (the actual emotional state of "happy"). One is not a route to the other.

Daniel Kahneman is, as far as I can make out, a hedonist and so, fwiw, am I. To me eudaimonia is just smugness
inference can still be a bottleneck i think since you usually load the whole thing into memory which is 32-64GB+ usually?
About 40% by coal here in Colorado.
Thank you. I do continue with the therapy every day.
> can someone tell me what this is? this instinct to "one-up" posts?

That’s not at all what I said. I just said that the fundamental idea here is already available for everyone at the component level for your entire system. Unison just takes this idea down into the language. A new language that you’d have to convert 100% of your work into in order to benefit from, and then you’d STILL suffer from the same things outside that ecosystem in your software, that Nix solved.
Would they pass up an opportunity to blame something on a hack? Our country is a tad obsessed with foreign interference. If it was a hack, they would have said it so both sides could immediately start politicizing.
I think the surprising thing is that you can learn how to do it.

As for that, it depends on your what your social circle looks like. I learned how to cook a couple great meals and how to make a couple fancy cocktails. I invited a few friends over that told my other friends. I slowly integrated different people from different areas of my life and now I'm that guy that throws fun cocktail parties.

It's not the same sort of social status as driving a fancy care, but it has increase my social status amongst people I actually care about.
The article is touching on the important issue of homes but is missing three very important related issues.

1) The network that delivers power to the home. It's not able to handle everyone electrifying everything. If you electrify everything (electric stove, electric car, air conditioner/heater) you are going to be hard pressed in many locales to be covered by at home solar.

2) Electricity generation. We need a lot more.

3) Dealing with problems in regions. Like power outages in areas that deal with lots of snow and freezing. How do people have heat to survive? How do things work so that we don't have destruction to homes from frozen pipes? Stuff like that.
Wow, that series looks fascinating!

Only watched the first video yet, after initializing itself the CPU actually runs this code (because D8-D15 is wired to zero):

addr opcode
FFFFF0 90 NOP
FFFFF1 00 90 00 90 ADD [BX+SI+9000],DL
FFFFF5 00 90 00 90 ADD [BX+SI+9000],DL
FFFFF9 00 90 00 90 ADD [BX+SI+9000],DL
FFFFFD 00 90 00 -- !! general protection fault

You can see it read and write the same address three times, then fetch the interrupt 0Dh vector and push flags+CS+IP to the stack :)
Mathologer – Why don't they teach Newton's calculus of 'What comes next?' (2021)
Do you crawl telegram channels?
I presented the new dispatching feature at PyData Global back in December. The first 30 minutes of the follow video:
https://youtu.be/pd-Sbm8lHTc?t=46

It shows how to use the feature, some benchmarks, and how other graph libraries can become plugins to the NetworkX dispatching mechanism.
I am confused about this:

> Haiku, like BeOS before it, is not a Unix. If you actively like Unix, and what you want to do already works well on Unix – any Unix, and that includes macOS, as well as Linux and FreeBSD – then you probably won't see much appeal here.

Don’t they support the same set of terminal command as in other Unix-like systems? From what I saw [1] there aren’t much difference. Well that is what what people care about unix, right?

[1]: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/list...
There's a lot of aspects that are extremely Lispy. The best example is our dialogue scripting language, Speechless: https://shirakumo.github.io/speechless

You can run arbitrary lisp snippets to form conditions, branching, and effects in the game. This makes integration and extension very easy, and I don't have to constantly extend some special purpose scripting API to expose new bits.

The heavy use of CLOS is another good example, and of course the interactive development. Shaders, assets, etc can be reloaded while the game is running, not to mention all game behaviour.