skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Some Signs can tell you to take an exit with make 20m of notice and it's a 90° right turn and you also need to go from 120 kmph to 30 in that span.

There should be a sign for this situation, for example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6277564,-122.3289325,3a,73.1...

Also FWIW: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2c.htm#table2C...

Europe does tend to have better signage in intersections. But the concept of a national speed limit and then not marking the speed limit when it's in effect seems brain dead. How are you supposed to know what it is if say you just rented a car from the airport?

The other thing that kills me is not using a different color for separating lanes that run in the same direction vs different directions (white vs yellow in the US) How do you know at a glance if a road is one way?
I somewhat agree that layoffs are copycat behaviour but this misses the mark a little. It's virtue signalling to the market. It's telling the market "we are going to cut costs". That is the prime reason so yeah, there's some copycat element in that message.

It's worth noting that advertising spend tracks GDP pretty well. In a recession, GDP shrinks and so does ad spend. Companies like Google and Meta are highly dependant on ad revenue so a recession quite literally signals a reduction in revenue is coming.

But here's why this is all so much posturing. Meta laid off what? 17,000 people? Assuming an average of $300k pa each (they're not all engineers) that's around $5 billion a year in savings or $1.25B a quarter on revenue of $17B+ and net income of $4B+. So the cost here isn't zero but it's certainly a cost the company could bear if they wanted to. It's a choice to get rid of these people.

Also remember that while these people were costing $5B/year, they were still obviously producing something too. It's not like this was 17,000 people sitting around doing nothing. That value is also gone.

Lastly, for Meta in particular, they're spending a literal fortune on the Metaverse, something that's unproven in any kind of product-market fit and doesn't seem to be a thing anyone actually wants. That's costing way more than the laid off workers.

If Meta really was batoning down the hatches, they'd kill the metaverse and cut down their expenses to support their core businesses: IG, FB, WA and ads for all of these.

So copycat? Kinda. Posturing and virtue signalling? Absolutely.
You may not like it, but my nodejs server with nearly all the code in a single file, and most of the business logic in inlined SQL, is what peak swe looks like.
In my last three roles I've gone from:

- Fixed allowance, which included sick time in the bucket, but you could sell time back each December

Shortly after I joined HR decided to just merge the 5 days of sick time, and whatever the vacation allotment was and tell people they have one big bucket. eg. 25 days a year. Nice idea. In reality everyone came in sick didn't want to touch that time. It was easy to watch colds and flu spread through teams then across the floor. It was brutal for productivity. No remote work at the time didn't help there either.

But, at the end of each year you could sell unused days back to the company (I think it was in blocks of 5). This was a really nice feature, prevented rolling over time, and was paid out in early Dec, so a good time to get a bonus of sorts. Given I was on-call and accrued a lot of comp time, I could typically sell back 10 days and just get an extra pay check each year, while still taking vacation.

- Unlimited

Never felt this was a PR scam or any sort of malice, but it did make it necessary to encourage people to take time. In the end I set a minimum number of days for my teams and tracked it, encouraging people to take off time.

This comes down to hugely cultural issues, and whether the leadership can make it clear that time off is necessary and expected.

This is definitely my favorite situation, as long as it's genuinely there to encourage employee well being, and people are judged on delivery and impact, and not on time off. ie. if you do a good job, take off the time you want without being micromanaged for it.

No, you don't get paid out though when you leave, which is a bummer.

- Regular fixed with no sale, and no sick day cap.

Going from unlimited to a standard fixed amount was oddly jarring, suddenly having to worry about counting days off, considering more when and how much vacation to plan for. In reality I've never really needed much extra time, but just having to consider it feels odd after years of constantly encouraging people to just take more time, and never worrying about counting days myself.

Encouraging people to be out/remote when sick is a huge improvement over job 1 too. People can be remote or off, and not feel there's a negative impact on their vacation time.

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Something I've not seen mentioned here as well is that at several finance jobs I've had I've been required to take 2 weeks mandatory leave each year. This is a compliance rule impacting people with the ability to impact books and records, or edit trading and account data. Employees are required to be out of the office and not transacting business for 2 consecutive weeks. It's a silly idea that if you're cooking the books that'll come to light if you're out for two weeks. I've seen this implemented in different ways at different firms with different limits, but it's all the same idea.

Especially for junior employees with limited vacation days being mandated to take two weeks at once can feel pretty harsh and limiting.
Do you have any evidence of a technical glitch? Or evidence that there has never been such a technical glitch since 2001?
You can't fathom a situation where a German website would need or want to have a drop-down for English speakers in Germany? Because that's clearly where this came from.
I'm not positive I see your complaint. Ecto is supposed to be exactly the translation layer between your business logic and your storage layout. Adding another translation layer on top of that just results in a half-baked implementation of half of Ecto. If your Ecto structs aren't useful throughout your application, then maybe you need to do a little more translating in the schema itself.
The phenomenon regarding "gender identity" is real, but the underlying concept is incoherent, as I've said. This doesn't stop anyone from studying it, just in same way people study moral theories or theology.
"False - Independent fact-checkers say this information has no basis in fact."

oF CouRSE thEy would sAy tHAt!

https://i.imgur.com/3s8zYWj.png
out of pocket and out of network specialists. There was one specialist that wasn't in my plan and that cost me about $10K. Frankly it's worth it to me to get the best person I can find and pay for it than getting someone sub par but covered by my insurance.
Industrial Controls / Instrumentation Tech

Biggest downside is the field environments you can find yourself in. Depending on your industry you can be in some horribly smelly/disgusting facilities or dangling off catwalk way above ground trying to adjust calibration on some silly sensor. There's good ones though too.

I'm a Software Eng in the industry so I don't ever really have much for field duty, but I work with several coworkers who are able to get their hands dirty when we're doing a site install: wiring panels, tracing faults, installing/adjusting sensors.

But talking about pay scale is a bit iffy based on where you're at now. I don't make FAANG wages doing what I do, but I do make somewhere in the 80th+ percentile for my geographical location (Saskatchewan) so its all relative
If we have near 2 percent unemployment it almost begs the question that do we need more people to seek employment ? And I don’t mean large layoffs or pushing people to go into trades school or disregarding going to college. It seems like all of these articles are saying we need more X people doing Y but doesn’t look at the whole picture that either people don’t want to do it because of risk but instead just are doing another job.
That’s it, thank you!
Anandtech sadly only tested 2 games in a fairly narrow set of parameters. If you look at 13900K reviews, such as this one by techpowerup: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-13900k/22.h... you'll see gaming loads where the 13900K uses well past 120w. Civ 6, for example, sits at nearly 190w.

But also again remember the 13600 non-K has much less L2 than the 13600k. It's not just a power/turbo restriction.

But we'll see for sure when the 13th gen non-K reviews happen. That Intel didn't sample these to reviewers isn't a great sign, though.
I think you should try actually saying that out loud. If I don't pause after the word "wheel", I can say that at a reasonable pace in two seconds.

Just "Warning, take the wheel!" gives you time to pause between each repetition and still say it 5 times.
Failed crypto exchange FTX has recovered over $5B, attorney says
I disagree, a few notes.

Most carriers haven't switched all services yet, sms haven't converted from 4g to 5g; some phone call processes haven't. If phones have to be connected to both 4g and 5g few of the benefits will be fully seen yet (congestion, battery life, coverage)

TMobile relaunched mobile broadband as a high-speed service, t-mobile announced a wireless video service.
Not Semantics. It shows how Wayland forces a Gnome/GTK and KDE/Qt duopoly and cuts out the long tail of hobbyists and power users. The latter is the interesting part about the FOSS/Linux-Desktop ecosystem. With Wayland the FOSS-Desktop will be 100% corporate controlled. If essential things were properly standardized this wouldn't happen. Therefore it's obviously done on purpose as means for sabotage.
Haven't there been studies that people without ADHD do not benefit from amphetamines? Not to mention, there are meds that aren't amphetamine- Ritalin isn't one!
Most of the CAD applications have a proprietary source format and can export into more portable formats. I’m not sure I’m aware of a single, portable “source format,” do you know of one?
Awesome content! Very interesting how the process of a tool deal with the wires behind the scenes.
I realize that I have been using shell scripts for this. I just copy-paste commands and add a selector. It has the benefit that I didn't need to learn a new syntax.
As a suburban white kid a few years younger than the characters, my first watch through the Breakfast Club saw it as a subversive film about cool, rebellious teens making space for themselves. Later, it seemed like a time capsule of the oddity of our society trapping kids in a liminal space between childhood and adulthood and punishing them for their reactions. They're all helpless, even the "bad one" who makes his escape attempt.

The light read is that we are not merely our cliques and labels.
You are responding in a discussion about a lengthy article about the unexpected deepness of a movie, written by a professional author. Your response is that the movie is "bland, very shallow" etc, without evidence, and without discussing or refuting any of the points of the article.

I wonder if:

1. You simply didn't read the article. Your decision to comment in a discussion about this article without even reading it suggests that you might be someone who finds things boring and shallow because you simply don't engage with the material deeply (in this case not at all). So the problem might be you.

2. You did read the article fully, but yet don't have any counter points, or couldn't be bothered to share them. The article provides significant and convincing arguments that the movie is rich, deep and funny, yet you have no rebuttals. It may be that things seem shallow to you simply because you are incapable of deep thought. So the problem might be you.

3. You are just a troll.

4. Some other reason.
One thing I find missing in every such platform (except Retool) is a user editable code library. It's one thing to be able run code in query transformation and widgets, another thing to be able to organise common code patterns into functions and use them in multiple query transforms and widgets. Once an app grows large enough, this becomes really important. Otherwise, there's always a build-up of copied and pasted code that's a nightmare to update (or even use) later.

The best I could find was just this: "ToolJet allows you to internally utilize the Moment, Lodash, and Axios libraries". But what if that's not enough? What if I need another library to use? I know, I can add it to a fork I self-host, but that's still not "user editable".
You know we're in a recession if even Microsoft is changing their vacation policy
Yeah that was such a 'social media hot take' kinda thing I didn't even feel like getting into that conversation. Misaligned interests make it a good idea to get into a project, slash things to the bone, cut a fat bonus check due to savings achieve, cut and run. That's how we got the supply chain mess of 2021...
If they could get back on track without changing their leave schedule, then the performance plan was well-written.
> Hispanic/Latino is classified as an “ethnicity” not a “race”

Hispanic/Latino (and not-Hispanic/Latino) are the only ethnicities in that context, and it exists specifically to enable categorization that reflects the social construction of Whiteness at the time it was created while not obviously breaking the (bogus, in any case) biological rationale for the construction of “racial” categories, which is why most categorizations of data using that ethnicity treat Hispanic/Latino as another bucket alongside the racial buckets, from which everything of either White or every race (usage differs) is transferred if Hispanic/Latino ethnicity is also indicated, leaving the effected race buckets with only the non-Hispanic/Latino elements.
>Hold off on appliances

I'm not familiar with your utility's challenges with delivering electricity, but it is a very solvable problem to greatly improve reliability.

Vermont's Green Mountain Power does great work, perhaps you can fire you utility commission and get one that will reign in your utility's incompetence.
It seems like a sensible choice that mobile isn’t your focus - I’m just chilling on the sofa browsing HN after work… I don’t think I know the product well enough to comment on a mobile use case, but I’ll let you know if I think of something when I take a further look
Ask HN: Putting aside your political views – do you support the Fair Tax?
To be fair, a lot of "professionals" aren't super competent, even to the point of reading the manuals of things they're installing, and it's difficult to find people whose work isn't sloppy and half-assed. In these cases the only advantage hiring a contractor brings is their liability if something goes wrong, and their ability to deliver a whole crew on short notice.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-xpm-2013-apr-07-la-...

Understanding the above article is very important. Instinctively, we want to help. But figuring out how to, without "dumping in" is critical.

If you are worried about a person in the situation like the one I was in, figure out the right way to help them. If they say don't call. Honor that.

As for "chewing out" my wording was strong there for what I did. Though I'd support someone chewing out someone there. I pointed out that my team could make choice X without me, and that I'd left clear directions on who could do what. I referred them back to that person, and reaffirmed my teams choices, which either good enough or the exact choices I would have made.

Yes, the person was doing what you suggested. But that's not a good thing to do. If they want to help me, not interrupting me is important,

I'd also left my personal e-mail... so an e-mail was much more appropriate, and would have been received better. Also it gives me time and space to think. Which are precious in moments like that. I may not know how you can help me today.... but I may tomorrow.
> Unlimited PTO is a negative signal to me honestly, and would put me off a job.

This is exactly my experience. The last company I worked for with unlimited PTO did everything to prevent folks from using it.

It's one of many negative signals I look for. I interviewed at a firm once that was proud that their cafeteria offered "free breakfast, lunch, and dinner", which sounded great until you realized they expected all employees would be working there through breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
That quote is talking about the Foundation type named Calendar (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/calenda...), not Calendar.app.
Wrong Georgia!
I think my house has 2x200A. It was zoned multi family but the previous owners had a separate service for an electric car, and there’s still bits of electronics in the attic from where they tried to do crypto mining.

I’m sure their equipment overheated. The roof is not insulated and the attic fan is pushing against a louver that’s the wrong design. It gets hot up there without any equipment.
Extension cords are a bad idea. Especially since you can buy 10A rated cords that can be plugged into 15A sockets.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-55-ft-16-3-Green-Outdoor-Ext...

There's a really good explanation in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q-xnYRugQ
Great answer thank you!
I think if you're an investor and you value companies not just on how they are doing today but but how you think they will do in the future you will be more successful than if you just look at today's numbers.
Great answer! One minor point, I agree it’s not the motivation but it _does_ provide a unified workflow across service providers, which is valuable!
Free text?
> It doesn't even make sense to do layoffs today when you expect trouble 6-12 months later.

It makes perfect sense. In fact, it would be crazy to wait until a bad thing happens to prepare for it.
Calendar/Date is the foundation for all time handling in iOS apps. If you see a string with a date in it it was probably handled by this system.
Major Layoffs 2023: BlackRock Reportedly Plans to Cut 500 Jobs
There is an extremely long and brutal history of systemic bias against groups people who look a certain way. Pretending it must have stopped and is now no more worthy of societal introspection than blondes vs. brunettes is laughable to me.
100% agree but maybe who took the photo didn’t know about that a flash can kill a fish. I didn't know that either, maybe they have to use some signs with written”Your flash kills the fish”, this would be more effective!
I didn’t think the server was for DRM, but I don’t know for sure. I like both GOG and Steam.

I’ll probably be kicking myself if Valve ever gets sold, but I’m pretty happy with it for now.
GPT-4 Trained on 10x More Data, Can Write 60k Word Books
I still remember the day when it dawned on me that everyone, like even cool people, could get SMS messages. It was that tipping point when enough people had phones 24/7 and suddenly it wasn't a very nerdy thing to do. Pre this time, the idea of sending an email to ask someone out for a date for example was just laughable. But a txt? It was very different. Still to this day if you meet someone new and get "their number" it's the way.
Wikipedia page for the incident - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Texas,_UFO_incident
Everything I like is a human right
If I wanted to set up a botnet, bundling malware in a dumb game and then putting the exe on the internet for free seems like a decent start
We'll see, if you need a heatsink for this here is one I bought which should fit: http://www.enzotech.com/cnb_s1l.htm

Not going to debate the gflops/w yet, but Raspberry 4 cores are also around 1W each and they kick ass compared to even M1 (much worse OFC, but per $/openess they still win imo)
Having just downloaded and poked at it, it looks very nice and familiar for those who want a Dark Sky type interface. The "oh, that's a feature I'd like" comes at a bit of "that's behind an IAP", but I suspect I'll be adding it to my weather section.

Thank you for introducing me to it.
Things will get even slower.
The Artist: Richard Ankrom https://ankrom.org/

The Public Service: Guerrilla Public Service 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clgl63CWOkM
Amen to that!

At least talking to people who went through 2001 and 2008, it looks like there are more opportunities across the board now. If you got laid off from $randomYCStartup as a SWE or SRE, you can still land a decent paying IC role at one of the 100s of upper market companies that exist. BoA, Honeywell, Target, etc are still hiring SWEs and paying decent salaries, as are the hundreds of upper market B2B tech companies (eg. Okta, Meraki, Oracle, etc). It may not seem sexy like working at Google or Meta, but it ain't a bad living either. Sadly, a lot of my peers have this sense of hubris that anything less than FAANG or a late stage startup spending tens of millions of dollars in PR is career suicide, which is honestly stupid in an industry as skill oriented as ours
https://archive.is/474mc
> The annoying part is when I plug in some faulty device that is not immediately dangerous

Do you mind, re-reading that statement? I don't even understand that argument. You should not be plugging in faulty devices in the first place...
I haven't asked once yet. Consider this the first and only time.
I think the blog post should point out very early that Onehouse is a Hudi company. There are some other recent benchmarks published in CIDR by Databricks that might paint a different picture: https://petereliaskraft.net/res/cidr_lakehouse.pdf
Anyone know how verification works?
Multi-Step Workflows in Airplane
Where does RCS fit into this?
Making employees manually fetch products is not a solution. That's way too labor intensive, and there's no excuse to make people waste their time doing menial labor like that in today's world.

I like what Amazon has in their Fresh stores, where you use a credit card to enter and an automated system tracks what you take and sends you the bill.
Didn't recent research show that's it's usually not a simple case of "chemical imbalance". So, antidepressants on their own won't do much. Maybe getting kicked out of this "unhealthy homeostasis" by medications helps some people find new ways of coping/perceiving their life, but AFAIK that's not the default case. So, they should be administered with therapy (and no, I don't consider therapy seeing them once every two months to renew your subscription lol)
Attorney General Expands Civil Rights Investigation to Fairfax County Schools
I remember that feeling, watching John Hughes films as a teenager in northern England. Though sometimes part of his gift was that the sense of adolescent angst was so universal, I could identify with some of the characters despite the exotic setting. And in some cases (e.g. Pretty in Pink) Hughes managed to show us this world of spoilt rich kids through the eyes of someone less privileged.

Tangential, but I think part of the genius of the more recent Sex Education (Netflix) is that the setting is definitely British (accents, landscape) and contemporary (smartphones, fashions) and yet brilliantly evokes a British kid's fantasies of what a High School should be like after watching too many 80s American movies.
The American colonies supplied the Brits with cotton. The system was setup to do so by UK. UK was buying the slave picked cotton well after they abolished/outsourced slavery.

The UK even continued slavery in Indian colonies until 1843. They only abolished sugar plantations because it was not profitable anymore.

If the American colonies didn't rebel from the UK, they may have not abolished the cotton plantations themselves because they highly depended on it.