skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, we started having parties around October 2020 with other libertarians that were fed up with Covid restrictions. Our house became known as a bit of a party spot, we’re in our mid-30s and spent some money to make everything nice in our basement for hosting guests. It also served as sort of a semi official “plot to take over the state libertarian party” event, as the official party stance was curiously mum about lockdowns (despite acting as if they were always against them now, revisionist history).

The parties stopped happening after two things. First, they got a bit too raucous. We’re 30 somethings with kids and didn’t want drunk people who have decided to play strip poker in the basement when our five year old is asleep upstairs. What the heck. The things we are looking for in a part are very different than the slightly younger single demographic, and telling them to behave gets their brains to short circuit. All that drama we’d left behind flooding back. So we had to ban a good number of bill headed people who thought they’d done nothing wrong. This caused grumbling and the network effects fell apart since “well so-and-so is banned so we can’t go there”. Second, once restrictions were lifted people stopped showing as much interest as we weren’t the only game in town. It’s easy to have parties when you have essentially a captive audience.

Then I tried running a regular D&D game by soliciting from a local Facebook group, and met some of the most entitled and rude people I’ve ever met (also some great people). It was such a chore managing everyone and people’s weird personalities and expectations that I eventually disbanded it.
Reminding CBP/ICE of something like that in a confident way is a good way to get a thorough anal cavity search and/or all the carpets and upholstery in your car destroyed.
Being able to do things like change it based on certain conditions, like switching it off if I open a window and not activating it if I'm away from the house over the time it would normally turn on. I can also remotely turn the heating up when I'm heading home, so the place is warm when I arrive.

In my case though I'm using Home Assistant on a local server and Tailscale for remote access, so nothing is connected to some company's online service and the actual devices are all offline only.
“Computing is evolving again. We spoke last year about this important shift in computing from a mobile-first to an AI-first approach. … In an AI-first world, we are rethinking all our products and applying machine learning and AI to solve user problems.” —Sundar Pichai, 2017

https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/google-goes-ai-first-io...
This reads like the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
People saying it is deferred PIPs or house cleaning are deluded. At Meta and Amazon I know some senior people who were laid off. People got decent severance so not too much negative comments, but I think it is a blood bath. 10% is not a small number and these are not boot camp employees who will switch out to different careers. It is a bonanza for smaller tech firms, but I think this is going to feel like the dot com bubble :(

I went to grad school during those days and have to say, it really sets you back. It will also depress wages in tech for the next 2-3 years.
Yes, it looks like modern Prolog systems using ".pl". I checked Ciao, GNU Prolog (which recognizes ".pl" and ".pro"), SICStus Prolog (also ".pl" and .pro"), SWI-Prolog, and B-Prolog.

The documentation for SWI-Prolog 5.10 (2010) even says "Tradition calls for .pl, but conflicts with Perl force the use of another extension on systems where extensions have global meaning, such as MS-Windows. On such systems .pro is the common alternative." https://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable/doc/SWI-Prolog-5.....

Thing is, I can't confirm that tradition predates Perl 4 - call it 1993.

Turbo Prolog used ".pro" in the late 1980s - https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturOwnersHandbo... .

So did Prolog-2, according to the 1990 book at https://archive.org/details/advancedlogicpro0000unse/page/80... .

VPI Prolog from 1991 has an '".hc" file name extension (which stands for Horn Clause, the logic upon which the PROLOG language is based).'.

I even found one Prolog system from that era using ".txt", at https://archive.org/details/programminginpro0000cloc/page/26... .
I would guess he means that they use AI algorithms to perform some of the tasks that are performed manually at most companies. If so, most of Google's customers wouldn't really consider this to be a win.

ML-driven account suspensions etc are universally hated and seem to have damaged Google's image, at least in the tech community.
If you have access to 'dirty water' (like a puddle of muddy water from a dirty area... or seawater) and a laser pointer, you can make a DIY microscope at home and see the stuff inside yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYEuo3j2Ly0

(not a "real" microscope, but more like something for the kids to try out and see actually living, moving microorganisms projected on the wall)
We're hiring full stack and devops engineers! (EU)

https://career.anyfin.com/
It's correcting a decade of over-hiring, and a shortcut to a slightly higher stock price.
The original Panzer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_I) was only 4 meters and 2 centimeters long.

That’s large for a tankette (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankette. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carden_Loyd_tankette shows how small these could be) but small for a tank.
Shame on Twitter for turning on its allies. This is yet another sobering reminder on why you should think twice before building a product on someone else's platform. They can--and will--pull the rug out from under you and leave you in the dust.
My BiL is doing a PhD in CS in in a minor uni in UK (scholarship from the uni + TA/RA -ship or whatever it's called).

He gets to be an indentured servant, but in the end hopefully he will have a piece of Paper from a 1st world country that will certify his already substantial CS skills. (also possibly, a Foreign nationality down the line, providing yet another piece of paper, a passport with respect)

In addition, my sister and nieces get to live in a good country, and I have been very impressed by their education, even a state school in UK is miles ahead of any private school we could afford here.

It's a trade he made, despite knowing he was being made a sucker, because the Upshot was going to be worth it in a decade's time. He was going to spend those years in academia (at a uni in my 3rd world country) anyways, why not get something for it?

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I think that's how the assembly line will work in developed countries. As local citizens (like you and other commenters here) realize the two letters (Dr) are not worth the effort, uni will turn to academics from other countries, instead of actually reforming the system.
Hiring managers have attention span of 1 year max. So if some departments were doing good due to pandemic and now are flop cause times changed and you need to align costs with revenue.
The correlation between how much you're being "hounded by recruiters" and how many open positions are out there, is either 0 or negative.
Lots of sources were predicting 11K before the actual announcement.

I thought it was 11K too, had to look it up.
The concept predates both of those, Burroughs B5000 was one of the first systems using the idea, and is still being sold nowadays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems

Mostly safe systems programming language, no Assembly, all Assembly like operations are available via compiler intrisics, UNSAFE code blocks, admin clearance required for modules tainted with use of unsafe code.

All of this in 1961.
I saw a comment on the recent MS layoffs of 10k, after they hired 40k in the last 2-3 years (iirc), so they were still up 30k jobs...
I'm from the UK. I got laid off in the first week of Jan and accepted a new contract role yesterday. The market was extremely quiet last week, but it seemed to pick up quite a bit this week. I'd guess it depends on experience and stuff, but there does seem to be stuff out there...

What I did notice was less tech companies seemed to be recruiting. Almost all of the roles I was approached for were in industries like finance, retail, healthcare, etc.
> As part of that, if you are just starting your work day, please feel free to work from home today.

What a generous offer.
most good ceos, and definitely ceo's at this level, know not to overreact to stock price which is very macro and short term driven, when they should be playing the 10-20 year game.
Ask HN: Game Theory of the Space Race?
I'm watching "For All Mankind" on Apple TV (pretty good so far, just 1 episode in)...and I'm wondering two things:

1) Does it really make sense that after going to the moon a doze or some times (6 times perambulating!) 53 years ago, we...just...stopped?! We never went further into our Star Trek future than that? Like it was Really just about "Being The First" and once we had defeated that, well, heck, I guess we've done all we came here for. I mean, can you really believe that, that all the benefits of technological & manned space exploration would yield to: economy and industry; human society, culture and metaphysics; US soft power; global unity and esprit de corps--we just stopped!? Seems kind of hard to believe that after those heady days there was it seems a steady wind down to our situation today, where: our commercial airflight tech has essentially not step-changed in 50 years; we haven't put people onto any other celestial body (or even further out than Earth orbit); space propulsion is still based on rockets (now they're...not like condoms!--I guess that's something?); and as Peter Thiel (I suppose, love him or hate him?) has said: "We were promised flying cars, all we got was 140 characters" I'm sort of not buying it and thinking either (and this will surely gratingly rub some folks greatly the wrong way and be likely explained away by the simple mundanity of bureaucracy and the incompetence and short-sightedness of government, and "low real-world utility" of manned space flight): our culture is way more pathetic/deceptive than it appears, or there was some secret space program that doesn't get shared with the proles.

and

2) Was it, therefore, really better that we were "First" and not "the Soviets". If there has been two poles competing continuously for title of "Biggest Pole In Space" {heh ;) social trope I guess?} then...might that constant state of State competition been better "for all mankind" than one where the game was quickly won and over and done?

Thinking on this as watching. Interested in what you think.
> I have 4-5 close friends I can hang out with every other week or so

Is that so abnormal? I have the same experience after graduating a few years ago but always thought that was what happens to most people.

Other than the friends you made in college, you can always find new people through hobbies or work.
Cost of employees has gone up as stocks drop due to such high RSU compensation. Stock is 40% off its highs which means they have to make up that difference in either cash or more stock, and neither look good to investors at the moment so smooth the financials 10% layoffs is the go to for large tech here.
Wait until everyone realize there is no AI but a really large statistical string concatenate machine.

Edit: I forgot /s
so are there any repercussions for hacking US entities from switzerland ? Not that I think there ought to be.
> In real world we have Germany which used natural gas for base load power generation which resulted into explosion of energy prices. Now they are using "expensive" coal and have manageable prices.

Funny that having a corrupt leader who is literally employed by gazprom led to sabotaging the renewable rollout and putting it behind by 5 years. In spite of this renewables still replaced every joule that nuclear would have produced were the reactors refurbished at greater cost and 10% or so of the fossil fuels.

> France restarted its nuclear power plants and guess what? Prices for energy went down! How is that even possible when renewables are so cheap and nuclear power can't compete with price?

This is so laughably stupid that it rebuts itself.

> That's because renewables by installed capacity looks like a big source of power, but by actually provided energy they are negligible rounding error, especially in winter.

So 40% of electricity in Germany being produced by wind, solar, and byproduct-derived biogas is a rounding error but producing 2/3rds of that via nuclear in the 90s was significant?
Ancient Rome was filled with unsound residential development that yielded a lot of profits to anyone with means and influence to erect buildings. They would regularly collapse but common people had little access to legal protection.

Now we have strict building codes and thousands of buildings with dozens upon dozens of floors that can resist hurricanes and earthquakes.

Software development is barely 3 generations old. One day we will have sound engineering and fairly solid systems on a scale we can't even fathom today. But it will take a lot of collective learning. For now rickety systems can hoover enough value for their owners that they are still getting built all over the place.
HN doesn't take too kindly to jokes.
oh hello my brain teaser, and algorithm puzzle loving friends. Welcome to the job search market!
Does anyone know what "Outside the US, we’ll support employees in line with local practices." exactly means?

In Germany I could imagine it to be "You're fired. Go to the Arbeitsagentur and find a new job". Of course within the legal forewarning period.
It is not lying, it is not conscious. It is just displaying whatever it says using confidence filled sentences.
Will Your Job Be a Victim of the Fed’s War on Inflation?
I also remembered the 11k number and just did a search in my browsing history. Turns out there was a rumor saying 11k, with Microsoft said it was not true shortly before they announced the 10k layoff.

Since it all happened in the same week, it is pretty confusing. At least to me.
> So I am 100% for a fully predictable sshd random-relink kit, producing unpredictable sshd binaries, but only as long as there is an instruction how to check that the sshd binary that allegedly came from it indeed could have come from it, and was not quietly replaced by some malicious entity.

You can easily verify the integrity of the object files that are used in the random relinking - they are included in the binary distribution, and are necessary to perform the relinking.

The debate of static vs dynamic linking is still going on, and a very strong argument against static linking has always been that upgrading vulnerable libraries is made difficult. But think of it: package managers already hold the meta-data of what links to what; object files can be distributed just as easily as shared objects; the last necessary step is to move the actual linking step from the kernel to the package manager.
> Leaving aside why someone is still using RSS in 2023

What do you propose instead?

> Reddit does it, Instagram does it

One website known for its hilariously broken performance and a Facebook subsidiary. Nothing anyone should look up to.
I guess someone has to write this comment:

> I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here

As usual, he says nothing more what the consequences for him are.

It seems like all of the FAANGs have made severe strategic cockups when it comes to hiring lately. I wonder if it will affect their longterm attraction as employers.
> doing it with javascript is a felony

Wut
How can you tell if a recruiter that hounds you is legit or not?
This is a strange rant. It has zero things to do with Powershell.
I'm having the same success with Google IAM, and I agree it completely solves the problem, except for one thing; It only works with compatible services, within your company boundary, within the same cloud provider whereas API keys or oauth flows work everywhere.
There's one thing I couldn't find in your post: do you WANT to finish this PhD?

Also, have you talked to your advisor about this procrastination problem, your fears, and the possibility of quitting? He sounds like an approachable person.
When I spot someone doing a video call while walking, I am always expecting them to bump into something.
> I guess this means the end of nitter.net as well...

Bitter already uses internal API endpoints and couldn't care less about the rules.
> companies are the ones that decided to overhire, overpay - based on covid demand, cheap money that was floating around

But this concept of over-hiring and overpaying doesn't make sense.

There is no way to predict whether a positive economy will last 10 years or 10 months, and if you don't follow the economic growth you will lose bigger than if you follow it and have to make cuts later.

Everyone is quick to blame companies for "over-hiring", but they would also be quick to blame them for being too careful in a positive economy, and the market would punish them.
This is true; my VPS has some kind of problem updating a FDE machine and I've procrastinated doing something about it for years. The answer is probably putting everything on tarsnap and reinstalling.
Not sure if it's just me but the audio is completely unsynchronized from the video, maybe it's related?
> the war effort

...which definitely included motorized vehicles to carry troops, cannons, etc. It's the same world as ours with the same technology in existence. Winston and Julia did ride a train to the country, if I recall correctly, at one point.

Cars were, as you say, both recreational and utilitarian in 1948, and yes, of course they existed, I am aware of the Model T and so forth. What they were not, though, was culturally central.

Driving was still (aside from professional use, as I said) a recreational activity practiced by the affluent - look at Mr. Toad in The Wind In The Willows, for instance, a rich dilletante given to manias who has discovered motorcars, to his near financial ruination, at the start of the novel. They were personal thrill rides, more like owning a speedboat, or else a means to some end, like feeding one's family by trading in heavy goods. A middle class family living in London would buy a car so they could drive to the country every weekend, but not to practically get Mr. Londonman to work on time.

That's 1908, but I would argue that the place cars occupied in the public imagination forty years later in 1948 would still look a lot more like that, with the car (for those able to access one at all) a central family asset like the radio or the dining table, rather than an individual's personal accoutrement that served to signal their attitude and affluence.

Not that that paradigm didn't exist at all - hot rod culture had already started also, as had biker culture. There were already people who had taken on automobilia as their raison d'etre all over the world, without a doubt. But they were outliers: fringe groups, 1%ers, speed-obsessed engineers and dangerous (to themselves, mostly) amateurs. If we were talking about computers, things were at the Homebrew Computer Club stage of things.

A poor person working a job classified as "unskilled" in North America today is just as likely to own a car as a computer programmer, by necessity rather than inclination, which is what makes the absence of them in 1984 feel strange to a modern reader like OP. This is a thing that my urbanist friends get very hot under the collar when we start talking about it, and it's a cultural shift/ripoff that took effect long after Orwell wrote 1984.

I think his non-mentioning of cars in 1984 merely illuminates the mindset and world from which Orwell was writing, rather than representing a conscious choice to say to the reader, "these poor wretches don't even have their own motorcars!"
> [0] personal experience

Uhh, can you elaborate?
Maybe it's not such a good idea to run so much critical stuff through systems built in weeks...
I like a lot https://signalsandthreads.com/.

Also, Lex Fridman https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman when he interviews people like John Carmack.
Quite possible (ChatGPT related).

Considering this was the Tweet that he sent yesterday.. https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/1615820298305118221

As a followup to AI blogpost (which is clearly in response to ChatGPT) https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/01/google-research-2022-beyon...
If we're asking where are all the parties, I'd also like to ask what are we missing out on by not having them? What is the draw? What are some of the reasons for making the effort to host or go to them?
The big companies hired so many new engineers over the past fee years, I wonder how many of them just abused the remote work to score multiple jobs? Like where did all those jobless engineers come from on such short notice?
How to disrupt Quora using OpenAI's GPT?
What are some of the ways to disrupt Quora using GPT?
or the concept of sleep: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3CRpqI4rd0wx8RndZA2dKr?si=...
> "we were doing AI before ChatGPT was cool"

definitely google is on the defensive right now[0] and just this week they had jeff dean do a "here's all our AI credentials" recap [1]

0: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/google-vs-openai

1: https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/01/google-research-2022-beyon...
I'm also in the same boat. I've been trying to complete my Bachelor's degree since 2011. I've been working on a pre-thesis assignment since 2021.

However, I recently found a solution that works for me:

I commute to work for one hour every day. In May 2022 I had a car crash and wrecked my car. Not having the money for a new car left me stuck with using the train to get to work. After a few days I was already looking for something useful to do with my daily two hours I spent on trains. It was a hassle, too, because I have to change trains 2-3 times.

So, I installed Linux on my laptop and configured it for maximum battery life and, more importantly, making bootup, hibernate and resume as quick as possible.

I did that, so I can pull out my laptop even if I'm just spending 15-10 minutes on one train, and do something with my time.

So every day, before and after work, I make a little tiny progress on my thesis. And it quickly became a habit, too. I can't avoid it, because I can't avoid going to work. And there's not much else I could do with that laptop.

So, even on days when I don't feel like it, I always think: "might as well work on my thesis"

It worked so well, I even missed my stop once because I was too focused!
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It might be because there are fewer companies that hire at your current level of compensation - a few international big tech companies and some trading firms - and all of those are clearly slowing / freezing hiring or laying people off. Most cold messages from recruiters right now will be for positions that pay less than half of what you're making.
The BPF instrumentation is quite cool! I wonder if uprobes have a performance impact. Does it roughly compare to a single syscall?

https://github.com/keyval-dev/opentelemetry-go-instrumentati...
Nah FSA to pay copays is tax free as are standard premiums. So you can pay your copays tax free the problem is you have to get your utilization correct since it is use it or lose it.
> In the US:

> We’ll pay employees during the full notification period (minimum 60 days).

Weird flex. Would it be legal not to?
A lot of people seem to be chalking this one up in the “memetic imitation among tech execs” column. However, in the case of Google, I’m not so sure.

Google is an advertising business. And advertising revenue is extremely sensitive to changes in the economy (Companies cut ad spending when there isn’t as much demand to soak up). In the last recession Google was still rapidly stealing ad share from old media, but now they’ve won the game and are the market.

So this one makes complete sense to me. I’m sure everyone still thinks Google only hires engineers, but they actually employ A TON of ad sales people.