skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used wordpress from ~2010, on 2022 still had it with 15k articles :) totally unmanageable, I switch to Xenforo PHP forum (self hosted), I wrote an appication doing the migration for the articles, operation done! https://bit.ly/3WFzhJD
he’s setting up conditions for FEDcoin (CBDC), which will be how new economic stimulus will be delivered.

Spending free fedcoin will require recipient to signup for FedCoin also. Then, the real fun begins.
Yes, 8gb is enough to do dev with.

Although I suggest not using Chrome, but another Chromium browser that can sleep tabs by default, or Firefox instead.
These comments show up on every one of these layoff letters, but what do people actually want to see?

The CEO resigning would only send the company further into turmoil and tank the stock (which is a significant portion of employee salary) even further down.

Taking accountability doesn’t mean someone needs to suffer drastic consequences.
Yes - cryptocurrency ideology has always been heavily skewed by right-wing ideology but that was also reinforced over the years as many of the people who were extreme enough to get kicked off of platforms like Patreon found alternative funding mechanisms. That of course doesn’t mean the average cryptocurrency person is embittered but the ones who are tend to be extremely vocal.
If we applied this rule to each CEO that laid off people, there wouldn't be any CEOs going forward.
i think there's probably a correlation, sure. will we find adhd & ocd are symptoms of a "puzzle gene"?

i don't need an e-diagnosis from a few sentences of mine though, thanks.

i know what i make and what others make and how easy it comes to me. the label doesn't matter.

i tamed my mind and my environment long ago, any thematical "adhd" attributes concerns me not...
"A series based on “The Last of Us”, a post-apocalyptic game, seems to be a critical success. Sonic the Hedgehog was among last year’s biggest films and Mario is likely to be among this year’s. Nintendo is opening a new Mario theme park next month—in Hollywood, no less."

For a second, I just imagined how bad would be the Disney version of Mario or Rocky Balboa. Disney is one company that probably few of us were going to miss if they go broke... unfortunately.
There is no wrong time for that. You did the right choice.
Yes actually. Porn is already available and the average person feels no need to "push" it on facebook (maybe some people want to advertise their Only Fans?). Nazi or other terrorist propaganda, and conspiracy theories are ALL about recruitment.
This is keeping me from installing extensions.
They are no german invention though, they just scaled them way up, compared to what has been done before, and elsewhere, by other players.
When I cross the road I mainly use my eyes, so I should ignore my ears if they hear a car coming because that signal should not be needed.

I normally spot fire with my eyes by seeing the smoke, so if I'm lying in bed at night and I smell burning, I should simply ignore it because that signal should not be needed.
You really care about exposing a serial number scheme for a list of books your company publishes, or the identifier for each of the various hotels you own, or the cities you have an office in or something?
> you could employee someone and have this as part of their responsibility

Someone that calls in sick. Forms a union. Demands high wages for menial tasks. We need far fewer government employees.

Why not literally just ask the first one in and the last one out to handle the lights? This isn’t complicated. Someone locks the doors right? Can they not turn off the lights?
I get all that but it still sounds bad to me. Like saying I'm saving you 3 hits on the face by hitting you 7 times instead of 10.

I won't be thanking you for saving my life through digging a trench correctly if you put me in it.
You must be rich from being able to predict the future so well.
Give me a break. Everyone knew it wouldn’t have lasted, sure, in the same way we all know China won’t be the manufacturing hub of the world forever or the dollar may not be the primary currency.

When will the transition happen? If you knew exactly, like you seem to be indicating, you should make some money off of it. Otherwise hindsight armchair CEO is dull.
My issue with the 10x is it's overapplied at a programmer "macro" level. What I mean by this is I think every average programmer is 10x at _something_; but I've found that that something is not necessarily what a company wants, and even more tactically, not even the programmer can know ahead of time what that is. It feels (for me, anyway), kind of transient too.

Most of what I've written I'd consider basically average. I'm an average programmer, I'd like to think anyway. But a few things I've done I think are well above that. Maybe not 10x, but a couple things I knocked out quickly, got praise for, solved a real problem, and (AFAIK) are still in use today - even maybe decades later.

But did I know "this is my time to shine!" ahead of those? Not a clue. Things just clicked. And the things I thought I'd kickass with... some worked to varying degrees, some just sucked.
AWS to deprecate boto resource abstractions
The AWS Python SDK team is no longer planning to support the resources interface in boto3. Requests for new changes involving resource models will no longer be considered, and the resources interface won't be supported in the next major version of the AWS SDK for Python. The AWS SDK teams are striving to achieve more consistent functionality among SDKs, and implementing customized abstractions in individual SDKs is not a sustainable solution going forward. Future feature requests will need to be considered at the cross-SDK level.
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Size also matters. If you are running cheaper instances on cloud, they have limited IO and can be short on memory.

Smart data types for keys, enums instead of varchars etc helps to keep indexes small.
Yes, as I acknowledged generally in the end of my comment.
> or you need to run it as a container (which may or may not have significant overhead depending on how it was built)

What overhead are you referring to? It runs, prints the cmdline and exits.
I'm a 10x developer for a few weeks a year and a 0.1x developer for the rest. It averages out to about 2/3 of a developer which ends up being good enough for my job.
They got too big for their own good. 7 Marvel movies will be released in the next 19 months. Peak capitalism but I guess there is always a crowd for that. Also I'd assume the whole production is basically so streamlined now they can "just do it". Put out as many movies as possible and the meantime lower production costs, I guess in the future AI will be a big help here too especially in the CGI part.
I'm not sure.

As much as I like and admire the spirit of your comment; the game is capitalism.

Just because you can afford something, surely you would sanction doing it unless there's need?
Paramount and Skydance's “Top Gun: Maverick” was the highest-grossing domestic release in 2022[0], generating $719 million in ticket sales.. I think there is more than that on this equation.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/10/top-gun-maverick-disney-top-...
I would advise against 8GB, its really low even for lightweight work. You mention "dev' work: Imagine you have:

- few browser tabs

- IDE

- compilation

- maybe virtual machine or application under test running

its very easy to run out of RAM in this scenario, just parsing the source code and providing code completion can hang a pc these days. you can swap to disc but you will be hurting

if you buying 8GB is only option make sure the laptop has free RAM slot(s) so you can upgrade later

more tips:

- forget about GUI, look up i3

- if you can, install arch, or some other distro that lets you manually pick packages, if you go for ubuntu, be prepared to be disabling a lot of services after first install (not a huge pain, you can google how to do it)
That was one example in a long line of data points
So if I buy a bunch of stock in $RAND because conditions favor their business, and then conditions change and I sell the stock, I’m lying when I say I changed strategy because of changing conditions?
Where did you read this? It's something I haven't heard before
I’m a bit out of the loop. What is the drastic eco-legislation you’re referring to?
> more likely an eventual move to a single pronoun that applies to everyone

Oh god i hope. As a german, we have pronouns for all nouns. So far no societal backlash against those, but they just seem totally useless to me (beside maybe a teeny tiny bit of "forward error correction"). You just have to learn them. Surest way to spot an immigrant. Then there is job titles. In the US, "nurse" seems to be used for both genders, but the words origin is female. Yeah, we have that as well for many jobs. Others usually have suffixes. Ofc we want to be welcoming to all. You can imagine the job listings...
>But some things I see as being highly important:

>

> 1. Education in active participation in a democracy 2. Education to be able to take care of their physical and mental health 3. Education to be able to be empathetic towards their peers. 4. Education to create jobs rather than inhabit them

Some of these things, or some aspects of these things, are quite heavily prescriptive, i.e. values that you think people ought to have as opposed to descriptive, i.e. facts people ought to know. And I don't think education ought to, or can meaningfully, instill values in people that is different from the society they inhabit.

And to the extent that these things are not prescriptive, but descriptive (i.e. how to take care of your own physical health), it really should be done before university, and way before post graduate education.

> I don't see it as a error per se, that a lot of people in Denmark (My country of origin) do a masters degree in-order to take a normal subsistence job afterwards.

If a masters degree implies 5-6 years, which I think it does for engineering, then I do see a problem with it, because it is not free.

Also from what I understand people do past the 1st year of higher education it really has little relation to any of the things you list. So even if it was the purpose of having people spend 5-6 years at university, I don't see it working out.
Headline is confusing. It makes it sound like there will be 18k new layoffs, but this is information that has been public since November and the cuts happened two days ago. (Or at least the bulk of them did)
Yep. I have 10x weeks - sometimes months. Then I have weeks like this one where I do basically nothing.

I think the total output is still quite high compared to other people, but I’ve spent most of my professional life torturing myself for being “lazy” because my work patterns don’t look like other people.
> It is more recently that false sexual accusations have become a concern and (mostly irrational) fear among young men.

Why are you of the view that this is an irrational fear?
They all get the tooling wrong though because none can stand the idea that you might want to mix languages, or add their new language to an existing project with existing tooling.
I find the 'work from home' final comment strange.

Is he saying employees can work from work, because he's equating working from home as an easier ride?
> These a companies with globe spanning businesses the touch much of the world every single day (I’d put Stripe in this bucket too). They’ve got much greater and earlier visibility into the state of the broader economy long before governments do.

If that were true, I'd expect them to have hugely profitable proprietary trading desks, which does not seem to be the case?
This is going to sound ridiculous but I’m serious: if you can’t even type a whole bunch of stuff, type just a basic (terrible) outline and then feed it to chatgpt to expand on.

The output will be laughably bad, most likely, but you’ll know why it’s bad and you can fix the obvious mistakes and then go from there.
It's never personal, it's always business. Do you think Sundar personally picked each of the 12'000 laid off employees?
What's a PTA/PTO?
This varies in the EU IIRC for example here in Sweden if you plan to fire more than 5 people you need to alert the public employment agency and employees 2 months in advance and the union which the company has collective bargaining agreements with. There is usually a negotiation between the union and the company on the forms of the fireing.
> I like it so much that I pay the utterly economically irrational Youtube Premium monthly fee just to skip ads.

I use uBlock Origin and haven't seen an ad on Youtube in years.
Severe ADHD, uncontrolled for 30 years until recently.

I’ve been the 10x programmer several times in my career. Interesting positions that kept me hyper focused. Built out entire product lines, saved or made companies millions.

I’ve been 1x or much lower on uninteresting projects, or ones where I couldn’t get management to deal with blockers.

Some of these have been at same company. Just depended on the project.
This very might well be their one thing already... but the risk of failing your "one thing" is so paralysing because then who are you without that?

In that regard the second part is good advice: "diversifying the portfolio of who you are as a person". It might not help finish the thesis, but will help life feel more whole if they don't.
The current flood of layoff news from FAANG level companies is surprising, sad, and pathetic.

As others have posted, they could keep the people on but they aren't, probably because it isn't financially optimal in the short term to do so. The two problems I see with that are (1) the loss of institutional knowledge, morale, and attractiveness as a place to work mean it is financially suboptimal in the long term, but companies right now are only thinking 1 quarter ahead (maybe 2); (2) it takes time to ramp up, get acclimated, and execute a vision - that clock resets for each position when someone is released and the a new hire is added back later.

It used to be that when you worked for one of the new big corps (FAANG and those like them) it represented some security.

Now I am saddened to see them adopting the big consulting corp model, where you can get released at will and staff is constantly being optimized for the current task set/direction/clients.
I haven't seen any of those. We know that most people haven't seen any particular one of those three, because we (vaguely, with a huge effort) know how many tickets they've sold.
Depending on the distribution, yes. Fedora Linux does, for example.
Feels like a waste of their resources
List of 350 Pre-IPO AI Startup Job Boards with Weekly Mailer
This is really cool. I wondered if there was anything like this for generating docker-compose files, and it turns out there is: https://github.com/Red5d/docker-autocompose
One thing I don’t see being mentioned in this thread (I only skimmed the article, so I don’t know if it’s mentioned there) is that you can run out of numbers when using serial, as they have a max, so if you are planning to have a table which will have over 2147483647 rows, then you might look into other types to use as a unique identifier.
TL;DR - The company fired PAID SCRUM Masters - however it didn't necessarily do away with Agile/SCRUM so much as it simply forced the defacto role of SCRUM Master on someone already being paid as a developer and when you give a person with one full time job an additional full time job neither of those jobs get done well and wheels start falling off in all manner of places.

Sorry if I wasn't clear but I've seen this happen at a company I worked at. Cost Cutting became a thing and our division was asked to "contribute to the cost cutting" and our only real option was to reduce headcount. The production demands on our team were such that cutting a developer already highly experienced in our domain wasn't deemed smart (they were too hard to hire in the first place).

The solution arrived at was the the developers themselves were familiar with SCRUM enough that perhaps full time SCRUM master roles were not strictly necessary. The devs were accustomed to the process enough that hands-off, far above management types reasoned devs could just go on as usual in the absence of a dedicated SCRUM Master.

Fast forward a few months, it's not going well. Sprint planning is out the window. Predictability is in the proverbial toilet. Code reviews are getting rubber stamped. Tickets with properly planned subtasks? F-that, we're just going to start coding! Defects you ask? Yeah, there were a lot more of those too. Missed sprint commitments were the new norm.

To asses their wild success in saving so much money the far above, hands-off managers all had a meeting and looked at sprint metrics and damn were they skewed. Some teams that were averaging 1.6 points per dev before were now averaging 6 (story point estimation went out the window with the SCRUM masters), Velocity was now insane since story points were now just a manipulated number (a 3 point normal story was now an 8 and a lazy dev got to park his or her ass on one ticket for a 2 week sprint). I could do this for an hour and still not fully express how badly things turned out.
I'd still bet we avoid a recession in the US, even if certain industries (like tech) contract sharply.

It's easy to forget tech is not the economy at large. What I think most people would classify as tech jobs — working in “internet publishing and broadcasting and web search portals” — are less than 0.3% of total payrolls employment.

But tech makes up ~26% of the S&P 500 market cap, so tech gets a lot more media attention because the companies are so valuable.

Layoffs are terrible for anyone involved. But even with the roughly 200K layoffs at public and startup tech firms in 2022 and 2023 so far, that's .001% of total US payroll employment.
> fiduciary obligation to maximize shareholder profits.

This is kind of true, but not really.

To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html
I agree, it has definitely been a "lucky decade" in more than one way.
Now that the cost of money is non-zero, I expect to see changes in multiple regards.
I am sorry but I just get annoyed reading opinions on what 10x means.

See for yourself by how much you miss.

Read the quote from Fred Brooks work:

*Programming managers have long recognized wide productivity
variations between good programmers and poor ones. But the
actual measured magnitudes have astounded all of us. In one of
their studies, Sackman, Erikson, and Grant were measuring perfor-
mances of a group of experienced programmers. Within just this
group the ratios between best and worst performances averaged
about 10:1 on productivity measurements and an amazing 5:1 on
program speed and space measurements! In short the $20,000/year
programmer may well be 10 times as productive as the
$10,000/year one. The converse may be true, too. The data
showed no correlation whatsoever between experience and per-
formance. (I doubt if that is universally true.)*
How can you count on that? I haven't seen either of those nor do I know anybody that has. There's too many movies going through to be able to see them all. Maybe for people that are super into them but not everybody is.
That’s it. It just means that they are making a point of not blaming their reports (“today is a tough day, especially because Bob over-hired in marketing and Kate talked me into that engineering expansion”)
> It was written in the sky since April 2020. Anyone with a semblance of understanding could guess that the COVID-fueled situation and artificial economic prop up would come due in the medium term.

Can you point to any comments that people with a semblance of understanding made back then in which they were able estimate the rough time window when things would come back down to earth?
Tangential to the discussion in the thread, this is a nice reminder of some of the nice things from the blog era:
- medium form essay that's not SEO optimized
- simple, fast loading websites
- real discussion in the comments

It's too bad distribution for this type of content was never really solved.
It is often much cheaper to upgrade than buy a package. Can you upgrade the ram later if you need to? I have a very old Thinkpad that I upgraded to 16gb ram some time ago and it works fine for everything I need, except editing gigapixel images (files sizes in multiple gb). I have a 64gb ram workstation for that.
> The one who is 10x at the expense of their colleagues (they run fast and break things and leave to others clean what is broken, which is part of the reason that they are fast).

In that case they are not 10x. They are not producing 10x value if they are making it harder on their coworkers.

> The one who really is 10x, knows it, everyone that worked with knows it, but they are just obnoxious about it

In that case they are still not 10x because if they aren’t reined in, no one wants to work with them and work still gets done slower - again not producing 10x value.
Take 16gb at all costs. The time will come when you have to run some weird software stack in a VM taking up 4G. Additionally your IDE clocking in at 1-2GB and suddenly you find yourself at the limits.
Saving here is not worth it.
>> Exposing predictable identifiers to the world is never a good thing.

Sometimes it doesn't matter. Example below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451344
At $10/ticket, that's 72 million people. About 1 out of 5 people if those are the US figures and not worldwide.
I admit I don't understand it fully either. If you want to read about it from more famous people than me, it is called "self-sampling argument". I'll try explain what I think I know.

Why some group is not empty is different from why it is me who is in that group, when I could very well be in the other one, like almost everyone. When the other group is much larger, then most potential "me"s will observe that they are in the larger, more typical group. The others will be surprised because they get the less common result, but most will not.

There are more intuitive examples than being human versus insect. Let's say, vast majority of people are not members of a royal family, so, knowing nothing else about myself, I should expect not to be, either. (Fits, afaik.) There are also some counterexamples, like that most people live elsewhere than in my town, but these are often tailored to me.

Going back to the plankton problem, I observe the equivalent of being a prince. Someone has to be, for sure, but is there a reason why me?
> Greater government control over wages and prices is not going to help low status workers people.

That's an assertion, not an axiom. It seems to work in the favour of low-paid employees in other developed counties.
I would be surprised if 1 in 10 drivers are good drives in the sense the ml learning model is required to be!
He could resign. That would be "taking responsibility." Just saying you take responsibility isn't actually taking responsibility. Not in a way that matters to anyone anyway.

If he wasn't planning on resigning, he should have just left that bit out of the statement. It comes off as empty and tone def.