skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Functionally, the touch controls make the whole thing much easier to clean, but I agree they are harder to use.

As with the touchscreens in cars, I'm sure it's also about marketing a sleeker product and lowering the bill of materials and labor - hence cost of manufacturing.

Just wait a little longer and a manufacturer will start offering physical dials on an induction stove as a high-end feature, but also realize that it will still be control by wire like a computer input device, not a mechanically coupled control like a (dumb) dimmer switch - since it would be ultimately controlling the inductor in the stovetop via software.
> We lay pipes to deliver a flammable gas to houses to which a noxious smell has been added so that we might notice if we're being poisoned by it.

Now do electricity.
What's wrong with Unherd writers? Anecdotes about annoying people at q&A panels and friend-of-a-friend agents don't signal the end of literary freedom. I can't understand the mentality of writing murder fiction and then demanding that your fan mail be 'good vibes only pls'.
What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’
That's not actually a rebuttal to my point.

Discounting NPV of future cashflows affects stock price, and increased interest rates mean a greater discount. No argument there.

Okay.

So what?

Why would a dropping stock price motivate layoffs?

The GP's claim is that it's because it makes debt more expensive (which it does!)

> when borrowing money becomes more expensive, these companies can no longer fuel business expansion or stock buybacks with cheap debt

But unless you're funding your operations with debt, that just doesn't matter that much, and in fact it can have a positive effect because it makes stock buybacks cheaper (looking at you, Apple).

Now, you could make the argument that maybe shareholders see a dropping stock price and push for layoffs to protect their investment.

Okay.

Except a lot of these companies have dual-class shares. Meta can (and does) simply ignore their shareholders. If they're laying people off, it's because Zuck decided they should.

The best explanation I see is bad long-term projections of the fallout of COVID, combined with social contagion as tech would rather sell the idea that there's a major recession imminent and they're cutting proactively, rather than admit they just screwed up and over-hired.
Similar post by Michael Tsai with some quick summary points of the impact of this:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/12/12/the-swifty-future-of-foun...
One decent rule of thumb is to have one service per 1-3 closely grouped SWEs, like Conway's Law, then likely split them up more to ensure no two services share a database.
Could you elaborate? Facebook won't show the video without logging in.
Naming this concept a 'data lake' bugs me. Turns out when you get old, you read things sometimes and you're thinking "ah, so that's where my line was. Interesting."
Yes, that's the way. Just need to build modularly so things can eventually be broken out.
"Pavement ends" normally means the road is going to be a dirt road or gravel road. Pretty common in rural areas
You said:

> Obviously companies should not care about the their stock dropping massively in the last year, rates going up and consumer spending reducing. The layoffs is just copycat behavior.

I agree that the article seems overly dismissive about the macro changes, but I think your argument (like so many other comments dismissing the article itself in this thread) is orthogonal to its point, which is arguing against the concept of layoffs itself. If you actually read the article, its whole point is challenging that layoffs should be the hammer that companies reach for in the toolbox whenever recessions (or at the present, rumors of recession) loom.

The social contagion theory in the article applies both to whether there's a reason to do layoffs at all (which you and many others disagree with, that's fine) and whether layoffs are the appropriate response (which I'm not seeing many responses to, other than the discussion of doing company-wide compensation cuts as an alternative to layoffs).

If you actually read the article, it's mostly arguing against using layoffs even if there might be something to respond to:

> Academic studies have shown that time and time again, workplace reductions don’t do much for paring costs. Severance packages cost money, layoffs increase unemployment insurance rates, and cuts reduce workplace morale and productivity as remaining employees are left wondering, “Could I be fired too?”

> 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.

And so on. The article definitely cites more than one source for that, even some of it is anecdotal, such as Southwest not doing layoffs after 9/11, or the words of this CEO or not. But the point is that your criticism misses the point of the article.
> I have seen lots of near-fires/melted things from under-tightening, but I have never seen a single near-fire from overtightening.

That depends what you see as near-fire ;) I recently helped out a friend whose lights had issues after she installed a more powerful fixture, turns out that the person installing it overtorqued the wire in the switch so much it nearly sheared off probably already during installation, and came completely apart when I took the switch out of the wall.

Better be safe than sorry and use Wago clips.
It's been an entire generation of cheap or free credit. There are people who are now adults who have lived their entire lives well beyond their purchasing means because financing was close to zero, letting you live in a bigger house, drive a fancier car and all lifestyle aspects beyond what you could purchase outright. This is not a judgement call but just an observation, and now that interest rates have risen (quite modestly IMO) we're seeing the impact on just about everything. VC funding was not immune and despite the article downplaying cost savings, when employees are your major cost by a margin of 5-10x, lay-offs make an big impact on how long you can stay alive. The costs of lay-offs are overstated here based on my experiences on both sides of a lay-off.
Isn’t the reason most companies switch is that if it’s discretionary they don’t need to pay out for it when you leave?

I thought it is quite common to accumulate a fairly large number of paid leave days and cash them out.
C23 technically has to support namespaces for attributes. It'll be interesting to see if they get adopted into the core language at some point.
Haha. The FAA isn't using any software developed in the last 20 years.
I really like how easy it is with Just to make it self-documenting.

There's some good things about Makefiles, yes, but there's also a lot of weird legacy functionality. Make was meant to create files and directories, and the .PHONY functionality seems to be a workaround added to make it usable as a general-purpose task runner.
No, you can export STEP to local files, or f3d's. f3d's open from the filesystem, so you can send that to another person.
> As somebody trying to get into mechanical engineering

As a career? I'll assume "yes".

Go to college for ME. Not one of the big brand-name schools. The local one that services the regional mechanical engineering industry. Tell them you want a career change. If you're serious about it, they'll bend over backwards to make it as feasible as they can. They'll also be brutally honest about whether you've collectively reached the point of feasibility yet.

I'm saying this as someone who is very outspokenly critical of universities as unnecessary gatekeepers.
Ask HN: What are white collar workers supposed to do in the face of LLM/ChatGPT?
Most computer-based office work is taking some input, making sense of it, and outputting some more human-centric transformation of it. Which is what chatgpt/LLM does.

Financial analysts, lawyers & legal aides, accountants, content creation & marketing, sales, customer service, programmers, etc. etc.

This is most of what the middle class does, no? What are people supposed to do instead?
Man I was hoping this wasn’t from DeepMind.. come one, one cutting edge paper, one!
Super cynical take-

Is this preparation for layoffs?

With no hard-set PTO, do they still have to reimburse outstanding time off as required by law?
I'd say that to the end-user it doesn't matter (which is why it's not mentioned on the linked store page), but to the HN crowd it's interesting because lisp is a nifty hacker topic and seeing someone manage to write a game in it is pretty cool.

(It's probably more interesting than all the "X, a clone of Y but in Rust" posts, at least.)
Heaviosity is how much the depth of the film has been embiggened.
"Offloaded decoding takes more CPU than non-offloaded decoding" doesn't make any sense - clearly something else is going awry here.
What has increased homelessness is communities restricting new building. The homeless have no means for buying the typical AirBNB property.
In the movie https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/87502-flight the lawyer (Don Cheadle) successfully gets a blood alcohol test removed as evidence because the machine was not calibrated within the official time frame of proper calibration. A total technicality. I wonder how a lawyer would get a client out of a voice recording?
The official weather notifications (METARs/TAFs) can be displayed in more modern ways, but many pilots like the brief coded weather messages because they can be easily skimmed for an entire route of flight.

In my mind, AIRMETs were a bigger problem - they had limitations in terms of how they were geographically defined, time range, and lack of flexibility (e.g. differentiating turbulence vs LLWS vs strong surface winds for AIRMET Tango) - but that's been fixed with the newer G-AIRMET feed[1], which is based around BUFR[2] instead of plain text.

The catch being you can't easily convey G-AIRMETs via voice or in an non-interactive environment, so we still keep the legacy text-based AIRMET feed around in parallel.

[1]: https://www.aviationweather.gov/gairmet/help

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUFR
> When you change function signature it doesn't compile until you fix all the call sites. Maybe after you see all the broken call sites you think that's too much work maybe there is some other way to do what I want.

Improperly versioned dynamic libraries want a word with you!

Perfectly possible to foot gun yourself with compiled code and broken API boundaries.

> When you change anything about an endpoint, it compiles just fine no matter what clients there are or what they are doing.

If I am exporting a DLL, same thing happens. Working on a true monolith, the entire app is compiled as one giant executable, sure, then I get compile errors.
I have never heard the term "gametic sex". How is it a useful distinction, when it normally changes throughout a person's life, unlike sex in any other interpretation of the word?
Again, see above - it's not about 400 amps per se ... it's about putting in bigger wire because we can't predict the future.

It's spending a small additional amount now (on wire) to avoid an enormous expense (trench digging) in the future.

Oh, and you know that 3" conduit required for the 400amp ? Make it 4".

Oh, and you know that trench you just dug ? Throw in double 1.5" and double 3/4 conduits right in there with it.

Oh and you know that first two feet of dirt you filled in ? Now throw two more 3/4 conduits on top of that because you never know when a common carrier on that same pole will have fiber up on it ...

Future you will be very happy you did.
We are definitely going to have a subscription. :)
This is an alpha version, still we will keep the service stable. More features and a paid tier will be announced next month.
> I’ll be writing my representatives asking this language be changed to “sibling or stepsibling of the taxpayer.”

Good luck with the present Congress, and particularly House of Reps.
Chop first, cook second. "Mise en place".

Unless you forgo a cooktop entirely in favor of microwaving/baking everything, your objection applies to every cooking surface - electric range, gas range, induction cooktop. At least here it's a dual-use surface.
Yes, standard growing pains for an industry that is doubling in production roughly every four years.

The rate at which the industry is scaling is absolutely amazing.

But even as in the original post about electricians, skilled workforce labor remains one of the bottlenecks.
I've got an electric radiant cooktop. It has a number of those features such as easy to clean (just a flat glass panel) and won't heat without detecting a pan and will turn off the element if the pan is removed for more than a couple of seconds. It does get hot itself instead of just heating the pan, but when cooking I don't know that would make much of a difference. You've still got a very hot pan sitting on the cooktop imparting a lot of heat for probably a while.

Don't get me wrong there's other pros/cons to induction but you don't need to get induction to have those benefits.
Fun fact: most latinos are white.

Several South American countries have more European ancestry than does the US.
Joe Biden op-ed: Republicans and Democrats, Unite Against Big Tech Abuses
Todd, you owe me $20.

(Todd said this would never happen)

Also, this is great news, and it will be interesting to see what kind of real-world changes in performance this has.
I know that the differences between sexes is very relevant in a multitude of sciences. I'm not sure what gender identity is relevant to other than behavioral science and psychology, primarily applied to marketing. I would like to know more, though, so please share if you have any insight.
As I recall, when I was there 5+ years ago, people didn't actually report vacation days taken in a lot of teams. It was pretty informal.
And they don't need a reserve to cover that accrual either.
Interface, GR is too cluttered
The article might be over-arguing that layoffs are always bad, but it definitely raises responses to the idea that layoffs are always a good tactic:

> 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. [...] 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.

Certainly it's a case-by-case basis, but I definitely remember companies such as Patreon doing layoffs in early 2020, only to be hiring again a few months later in the year.
We don't run an instant water heater. It's all gas or electric boilers.

For the stove I wired one phase to all the burners and the oven. It had one, two or three phase options. They're on a separate circuit with a 16 amp fuse. It's 2200W I believe. The breaker has never tripped.

400V is just not very common for residential in the Eastern Europe, maybe in your country you have instant electric heaters and other powerful appliances. My dad has recently upgraded his house to 400V 3 phase though, although he didn't need it but it's nice to have.
Mass market junk is cheaper to make in China and ship by the containerload than it ever will be to produce locally no matter what method you use to manufacture them. Personally I wished people would stop buying these things whose only real goal seems to be to end up in landfills.
“A reimplementation of Calendar in Swift is 1.5x to 18x as fast as the C one (calling from Swift in various synthetic benchmarks like creation, date calculation).”

I’m sure it is, but this is not solving the right problem at all. Calendar is all UI. It needs to be lovingly gone over, not this.
My org did this, and it ended in disaster because that monolith was shoving everything in the world into a single database the whole time. This created horrible APIs: one team writing into tables that another team is expected to read. They tried to split this later on and created an even bigger mess.

There are reasonable places before then to stop and say, we need to keep X new features in a separate service.
"Slow the fuck down now, speeder—yes, you!—or be very unhappy when, a few seconds from now, you try to brake on gravel at high speed and spin out"
Last time I had an electrician who was going to be doing work requiring disconnecting the meter - so I called, and it seemed like the easiest thing was for us to just cut the seal and someday later the electric company would come by to replace it.

I live in a small town in Michigan; the amount of fuss probably depends on location & density.
As a physician, I don't have to be gay in order to understand diseases that affect primarily gay communities, how those diseases spread, or how to treat them. There's a big difference between a group you study and a group you hire. The two groups can certainly overlap, but they don't have to.
So if my manager doesn't want me to take time off I have no vacation?
Do you see the implications of what you’re saying? The reason that speech is cherry-picked to be the cornerstone of public school education — the reason it’s the “breakthrough hit” — is that it allows people to avoid confronting the radical and uncomfortable aspects of MLK’s demands.

This is an example of survivorship bias. MLK obviously didn’t anticipate when he made the “I Have A Dream” speech that he would have only a few more years to live. It’s seen as representative not because he thought it was a unique opportunity to make an impact, but because it’s what people chose to highlight once he was gone.
So the criticism here is when talking about "The NHS" as a free-at-the-point-of-use system, I didn't also go into variety of contractors that are now involved and specifically the NHS Trusts that exist in NHS England which I have never encountered having spent 25 years of my life in Scotland so I can't really talk about personally?

And how exactly would that have improved this discussion with "phpisthebest" who seems to be against the very idea of insurance altogether, given that they have the means to take care of all their healthcare needs in cash (for now), and who thinks that everyone else should really see bankruptcy as a sort of spiritually cleansing and enriching experience?
I saw that, but it doesn't provide info about what other are suggesting at first glance
https://i.imgflip.com/774cji.jpg
Network effect and market capture are a thing. Being dominant in a market is far from being evidence of having the best product, despite what market leader may have you believe.
Yes, but conversely, therapy, self-examination, habit change, etc can elevate the gloomiest of dispositions. The point is that we are mutable.
Works for me. You sure it's not downloading a file? use the view-source option in your browser
ADHD and Hacker News- 47,650 Citations
I just searched HN for "ADHD". There were a phenomenal 47,650 citations. I have often suspected there was a relation between ADHD and folks with a high interest in technical maters. Sure seems like I was right.

Edit: There are 897,303 comments including ADHD
Ask HN: Tech Stack Visualization / Monitoring Tool?
Same as title. As a full stack web developer who sometimes procastinate my full-time job to create my personal projects, I wonder if there are any tools out there to visualize and monitor my tech stacks.
I want it to be as lightweight as possible, and quickly see the server status (sometimes simply down or up) at each layer (e.g. front-end, back-end, database etc)

I have seen the tool CloudCraft, but it seems to only work with AWS, but I’m running my stacks almost entirely on Netlify / Vercel, so it’s of no use to me.

Any input is hugely appreciated!
This is very cool! Added to my list of stuff to play with next time I have some cycles
I don't understand this comment?
If climate change is a focus, we collectively should stop buying x86 chips and focus on RISC-V and ARM chips.
How did a candy crush link reduce malware infections?

Also as an aside, that link _kept coming back_ on my laptop (but not my desktop oddly).
It's useful for determining fertility.
I was working on a function to deduplicate (preserving order) collections in python. Very straightforward: take the next value, see if it's in the set of already-seen values, put it in the output list if not. Since it uses sets under the hood, the values have to be hashable. Testing was almost equally straightforward: I favor property testing[1] and just asked for examples from from_type(Sequence[Hashable]).

Except. It turns out that Decimal is a hashable type, but there is a specific value that isn't: Decimal('sNaN'). Which of course the tests found pretty much right away (yay prop tests). sNaN: not even once.

[1] specifically, using hypothesis
Isn't it two phase? AFAIK in the US you have 240V two phase with 180° between them.
"Operational Technology" -- what IoT wants to be when it grows up.

PLCs, custom electronics, servos, consoles with switches and knobs, very expensive printers (probably running Windows unfortunately).
I'm saying that if you've been kicked out of Fusion 360 or it no longer exists, you won't have anything to open the file with.

As opposed to locally installed software which will run indefinitely.
> What's going on? I don't believe the "technical glitch" narrative. I'm sure there have been many glitches since 2001, and yet FAA never felt the need to do this.

Are you saying the FAA is not telling the truth? What evidence do you have to believe this is a conspiracy, rather than simply an unusual event?
Thanks, made me laugh out loud!
Or rather, as times get tougher, no one will dare to take any time off in fear of layoffs. An easy win for the company.
>the mad performance per watt of the 4.

More like bad than mad.

This SoC is far more efficient, using just 4.4w on full load and achieving some 80% of rpi4's cpu performance at a much lower power, with no need for a heatsink.
Facebook is a monolith backed by a relational database. What scaling problems do you have that they don't have?
I recently installed some new circuits and was able to find them, but strangely it was $20 or more per circuit cheaper to get an AFCI/GFCI outlet and a regular breaker instead of combo breakers.
What's what with Wolfi, the Linux “undistribution,” and ARM
The "farewell address" from the WAITS machine included a reference to the event.
Man you look more depressed than under cognitive decline. Maybe you should look around this issue, or seek assistance and try to see why you're feeling so low.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt-as-...
Ask HN: What are fair ways to structure a deal with anchor client?
We're a tech company working with large customers (~Fortunate 500). We came across a new software idea but prior to building it, we need one anchor client. We need them to provide access to their data and need them to test out the processes. We recently found one interested client. They are willing to give us access to their system, their data and have us develop a solution.

We need this initial client (their data, and their buy-in), but we also want to own this software and resell it to other Fortune 500 Cos and do not necessarily want to develop this at a complete loss.

What are some fair ways to structure the deal with this initial anchor customer?
Did I say anything about a "conspiracy?" It's not like any government agency has ever lied to the population to prevent a panic.