skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We love to host and generally are the household that brings people out. Others seldom do and when it happens, it's somewhat lackluster. If no one steps up to be host, relationships fall to the wayside and people increasingly feel like you do currently. Be the proactive one because these are few and far between in friend groups

This is so massively critical, glad you highlighted it.
I think the relative isolation is one of the smallest challenges related to colonizing Mars.
Right, secrets are a means to an end: giving one entity access to another.

> To maximize security you need to treat secrets as being cheap. In fact they need to be disposable.

Maybe even take it one step further: secrets are invisible implementation detail.

It does come with it's own challenges, of course, and there are no widely adopted standards. You can use something like IAM within AWS, but IAM can't give your apps access to Stripe, for example.
8GB, works quite well, until you get into the business of virtual machines/docker or running heavy IDEs like Jetbrains.
My 16GB machine was doing quite great with the a huge number of programs and services running in the background but a few docker containers running in the background pushes memory consumption close to 15GB or so. I would suggest that you throw in a cheap stick of RAM and upgrade your laptop, or buy a laptop that allows RAM upgrades.
No, there wasn't a point. Making these accusations is the personal attack and it's a non-falsifiable claim anyway. Once you go that route you're on a complete descent into nonsense conspiracy theories.
Is there a good tracker of layoffs in tech with a breakdown of how many were software vs marketing vs service/warehouse/ancillary workers? I'm curious what the software engineer availability glut scale might be at the moment...
Yes, there's a lot more to the story. The modern developments in steel production eliminate the blast-furnace-to-basic-oxygen-process entirely, by using the direct reduction method (which has used natural gas as the hydrogen source, but it can also use water-sourced hydrogen).

Here's a nice visual (gif) comparison of the direct-reduction -> electric-arc-furnace and blast-furnance -> basic-oxygen-furnace method pipelines. They converge on the same point, the steel refining facility:

https://www.steel.org/steel-technology/steel-production/

That shows how the process has traditionally been used, and here's how it's modified to eliminate fossil fuel inputs:

https://bellona.org/news/industrial-pollution/2021-05-hydrog...
They aren't common for many (most?) employees in FAANG. This is more like all of Facebook's content moderators or Amazon's warehouse workers getting a $7,000 bonus. Certainly that would hit the news?
Ask HN: If you enjoy parties, why?
What do you get out of them? I could easily point out the negatives, not so much the positives: usually, they are loud and involve large groups of people, many of whom would not be very close friends. So you can't really have a proper conversation with anyone, have to keep things/activities fairly generic, and have to make sure you are pleasant and social with people you don't know well which is more work than pleasure. Nobody gets to do what they would actually prefer to be doing. People tend to go around with drinks taking photos of themselves and telling each other how much fun they are having, but it seems like they are more trying to convince themselves and their friends that they are having fun instead of actually having fun.

The only parties I have ever understood or enjoyed are ones focused on a specific activity. E.g. a LAN party playing some game a group enjoys would be fun. Or playing cards or a board game or even a sports game if you're into that. Otherwise, what do you actually do?

So - what makes parties enjoyable for you? What do you think people that don't enjoy parties might be missing / should try doing differently at parties so that they also derive great joy from them?
I have also received a speeding ticket clocked by aircraft, driving across a long empty stretch of highway in the daytime with perfect weather and visibility. I was going 20 mph over the posted limit, nothing outrageous or daredevil-ish about it, simply trying to make better time on a very long road trip. I understand this is primarily a revenue stream for law enforcement, but as far as my situation may have affected public safety (the spirit of the law, not the letter), I call BS.
https://hypothesis.works/articles/

They have a bunch of articles here including a variety that delve into the "how" of Hypothesis. Here is a 2016 article titled "How Hypothesis Works": https://hypothesis.works/articles/how-hypothesis-works/
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If you read the book he's very open about being a bullshitter!
Are we just looking at one year now? Shares of google have doubled in the past five years.
Considering that currently Hacker News is page after page of ChatGPT, I think this is an improvement.
Amazing advice. This technique is what got my PhD thesis across the line.

Word vomit and just concatenating together all my current work into a single LaTeX project. Once it existed as a single document and I could start to “see” it as a thesis, even though most of the writing was terrible, the momentum was there.
Breaking the law is not expedient in the larger sense. What I meant is let's not hobble the car by for example like the sibling poster says giving away free rides or having to drop off free meals. These can be better achieved by Charities or Soup Kitchens.
I find parties that revolve around a common interest work better than “come and speak drunk at me” events. Board games, painting miniatures, LAN games (which is basically just online games in the same room), or if you’re one of the normals watching a sportsball event, dvd watching night, or if you have kids inviting other kids over with their parents.

I imagine people without kids start having a really hard time. Parents with kids aren’t going to come to their “come and speak drunk at me” parties - it’s inappropriate for everyone, and baby sitters make more than tech CEOs these days. Those parents have tons of parties when their kids are playing together. And given the biological imperative to perpetuate the species, at a certain age an awful lot of folks are parents. The “come and speak drunk at me” folks sometimes end up in recovery and can’t be at the “speak drunk at me” parties any more. That an folks just get busy, form their own social network, are traveling for work too much, and all the other things, leads to a lonely existence if you need people to come and speak drunk at you.
The most favorable explanation is that they didn't really think it would be permanent. They just needed the headcount at the time, and they don't need it anymore. The rest is just marketing spin to not make it seem so bad.

Now if they all balloon back up to the same headcount in the next year, but with lower salaries, then we will see if the real motive was to lower salaries. Someone had posted on another thread that the federal reserve stated that the goal of recent policy changes was to lower salaries. It's much easier to layoff and rehire, than it is to give out paycuts.
I'm not sure if your reply is meant to be snarky or not, because I don't understand it. If I've missed a pun it wouldn't be the first time, but ELI5?
>"The best thing I did was become the shameless type of person who actively tries to create/join/combine social circles. It pretty quickly put me in touch with other people who do the same, and my social circle grew naturally after that."

Any advice? That's a hard thing to do!
"Safety in numbers" herd strategy. "Everyone else" is doing it, so they can "get away with it" now without as much "backlash" as they might otherwise experience.

You will also sometimes see people referring to "bets that didn't pan out", but the more accurate term for the situation of having TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE as "bets that didn't pan out" is gross mismanagement and active negligence.

Every one of these CEOs should be out as a result.
> Greater government control over wages and prices is not going to help low status workers people.

It has done precisely that in every developed country except the one with the most poverty, and an entirely unique class of people called the working class poor.

Why doesn’t that class of people exist in any other developed country?

Because of government control of wages.
> All of those things can be true, but then his ire should be with the police and the city management which have let SF (and larger California) descend into an unmanaged mess.

Sure, in an abstract, philosophical way that will get 0 steps closer to an actual solution. Is your expectation that he's going to launch some massive, expensive political campaign on the grounds of "I can't get this homeless woman to stop vandalizing my business"?

This wasn't the ideal outcome, but I would call it a measured response to the woman's refusal to stop and the government's refusal to intervene. She annoys him by vandalizing the business, he annoys her by getting her wet. Everyone involved probably deserves a small fine as a slap on the wrist and a reminder that this isn't how this was supposed to go.

I can't fathom how this rises to the level of misdemeanor battery and requires an arrest. It's a garden hose, children play in them all the time, the threat posed is basically non-existent. It's a nuisance for sure, but so is playing music too loud and we don't arrest anyone for that.

> That doesn't give you the right to spray anyone with water. Bad behavior by one party (short of violence) does not excuse bad behavior by another.

Philosophically, but not practically, I believe it does. The social contract effectively stipulates that the government gets a monopoly on violence in exchange for maintaining the peace. If the government fails to maintain the peace, they have failed to honor the social contract and have lost their monopoly on violence. That doesn't permit using unreasonable force, but in this case I think Mr Gwin used the smallest amount of force necessary to preserve his property rights.
It adds credibility without payment. We did that in the first year of our startup. More photos to our about-us page and people in the industry took us more serious. So mostly marketing though keeping in regular contact with advisors also helps long-term, e.g. when looking to hire. (We actually gave advisors shares but 2-3 years later paid them a one-time fixed sum instead as thank you. None of the advisors asked for payment though).
Some treacherous advice in the comments. I personally do not consider English literature and journalistic style guides to be applicable to primary scientific and technical literature writing without a diligent amount of scrutiny.

First and foremost, valid work needs to follow basic logical and empirical tenets. This is not easy nor does it come for free, and it is expected from primary scientific literature writers to take their time (or else risk engaging in low-quality work - or worse, pseudoscience).

Second, impactful work needs to easily connect to directly and indirectly adjacent literature. Truly impactful work needs to be relevant, correct, precise but understandable, comparable, reproducible and extendable, all in connection to related work. This is not easy nor does it come for free, and it is expected from writers to constantly check literature at every step before continuing (or else risk building on fragile ground - or worse, doing something that already exists).

Last, on doing something that already exists, novel work needs to not reinvent the many systems and subsystems it encompasses. Truly novel work needs a humble understanding of unknown unknowns. This comes at a hefty price of extensive learning and reading which is neither easy nor free.

Writing should be deferred to the consolidation of each incremental step related to primary scientific work.

Not writing should not be understood as procrastination of the scientific endeavor unless the work does not concern easing or putting you closer to steps' objectives.

My personal advice:

It is fine to reach blockers in scientific work. Other people certainly have reached similar blockers and not given up. Other people have also reached blockers and proposed alternative approaches. Work on: structuring ways to attack problems; attacking simpler or scaled-down versions of problems and formally classifying each version; mapping all different ways simpler problems can be modelled and attacked; strategizing how to reintroduce simplifications or scale; building solid foundations, sharing subproblems with colleagues or deferring certain knowledges outside the scope to the literature.

It is also fine to consider other lines of research if blockers are indeed unmanageable. Understand how the problem can be applied in other settings and consider pivoting to one particular setting. Understand as well that scientific work is not personal and you should not take inabilities as personal defeats.

Contributing knowledge to the scientific literature is hard, tiresome, and takes time and patience.

You want to run the distance, not sprint. You also want to make it to the end, not compete.
I googled "Amazon profit margin" and found several sources saying their operating profit margin is a low single-digit percentage at best.
The unintended consequence is super high youth unemployment across a lot of Europe. Youth unemployment, meaning people from working age to about 25, is ~8% in the US, ~19% in France, 38% in Spain, 23% in Italy, 11% in Austria (not terrible), and only Germany and the Netherlands have lower rates than the US by 1-2%.
Irrational investor expectations in a self-reinforcing feedback loop with economic policy decisions driven by core underlying beliefs that speculation can't destroy productive growth (i.e. if you create a bubble that pops, you'll still be net-positive compared to before the bubble) and that speculation is the best way to create growth in a population-constrained market.
Thanks for this. I didn't know about the incident and it led me down the rabbit hole. The article shared on the pilot's personal page is wonderful - it took me on a rollercoaster ride of emotions.

http://www.ericmoody.com/
> I think 10x developers, like world-class athletes, musicians, and authors, absolutely do exist. You’re just not going to find them with a coding test.

I'd like to see some data on how many of them have a backlog of 18 poorly-specified JIRA tickets per 2-week sprint and daily one-hour standup meetings along with two-hour weekly "retrospectives".
The current reality we live in where pretty much all traffic is technically speeding unless there's something preventing it (weather, congestion, whatever) has no less discretionary enforcement than ye olden days where there were no nominal speed limits on many stretches of rural highway.
> DoubleClick Inc. was an advertisement company that developed and provided Internet ad serving services from 1995 until its acquisition by Google

Checks out alright.
That's a nice chunk of change. Congrats :-)
You’re gotten old
€7,300 is chump change

Spoken like a true tech bro.

In most suburban areas of the US, that's ~3-4 months rent.

Or more than a year of car payments.

Or a year and a half of groceries for an average American family.

"Chump change" LOL.
Biden administration announces move to fight 'organic fraud'
The official client is just awful as well.

I tried it for about five minutes and just flat out had to uninstall it. The web app at least means I can adjust the text size and font a bit.
I've noticed exactly the same thing. Everybody is busy with their schedules.

In retrospect the COVID years were much better for my social life than the last six months. During COVID, people were really looking forward to interact with people, and would jump into activities as long as it was online, or if you did a quick test before meeting.

But now people went back to their busy schedules of solo activities outside the house and they're tired, and there's no time for concerts together, no time for going to a soccer game, no time for playing board games or going for a hike.

Unless you're willing to compromise and do something you're not really into (I'm not good with FPS games, Allan, sorry), people are gonna do their own things and "mandatory socialization" seems enough for them.
> Everyone wants something different, and if you just implement the "top 5 most requested features" you're going to end up with some frankenbeast of a language.

Very much this. They need a new question on the survey "does JavaScript need new syntax or can we just leave it alone and work on perf/tooling/etc. of the existing stuff without throwing a bunch of new junk in"?
I agree, think it was also a ripe time for empire building further within these companies. I’ve been at one of these companies for many years and the shift in hiring dramatically changed in the years leading up to covid. Covid just put things into overdrive until reality hit that this kind of growth isn't sustainable or permanent.
For those of us reading this who would like to genuinely and effectively offset emissions, is anyone able to suggest some really robust schemes where you can be confident the offsets are real? I'm especially interested in schemes where I can be confident buying additional credits has a marginal impact.

I've used an investment in the Solar Schools coop [1] for this in the past, which I'm confident is 'real', but there are probably much cheaper ways. One of the reason I liked the coop is that it (presumably) also helps kids to learn about renewable energy, and helps schools with their energy bills.

[1] https://schools-energy-coop.co.uk/
That is a good idea, we need then more developers! More jobs for all! :-)
Is it important?

It's news, but as the guidelines suggest, "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic".

The earliest and biggest lay-offs fall under the criteria of "new phenomenon", but posting every company stretches that credibility.

"Hacker news" is different to "Tech news", and hopefully the voting will reflect that difference and these
There is an excellent interview with Clara Mattei on The Majority Report, about her book The Capital Order. She has a similar point, historically supported.
When people lose confidence in law enforcement, you end up with vigilantism.

This seems to be case here.

Unless cities start enforcing laws and bringing order, you are probably going to see more instances of this type of thing.
Not a fantastic post, which is a shame as Supabase is quite an interesting company.

The answer is almost always "use biginteger identity", and almost never "use integer serial".

UUIDs have a place but are often better suited in larger, distributed and more complex data stores than postgres.

Using `xid` is such a poor choice I'm surprised it was even mentioned.

The "key" thing to remember is you don't have to expose your primary key to the world. Use UUIDs or shortcodes or whatever for external representations. Use bigints internally. This will prevent a world of pain.
I did. I reiterate my first comment again (which you responded to): all of that can be true, he still has no justification for spraying anyone with water. He needs to take it up with the city.

I'll also reiterate my second comment that you responded to: He needs to sue the city.

That list is no justification for assault.
You couldn’t pay me enough to work at 3AM. I suppose it’s up to each person to know what they will tolerate, but that one is a deal breaker for me and always will be.
This works when your language doesn’t have an implicit “return nothing” as it’s default. Nothing says “imperative” like “this routine may or may not take input, but you ain’t getting nothing back out of it.”

Ironically, OO gets thrown under the bus a lot lately because it ain’t functional. But in reality, early OO languages like Smalltalk and CLOS were much more functional in this regard, you always had an implicit return of self, which could be chained easily.

I (over)use the piping operator (|>) in Elixir a lot. I just like the way it reads. But one thing I don’t love, is that it’s not an easy sequence to type.
> Management only understands timely delivery.

as they should, because it's the only thing that matters to 99% of humans for any non-critical stuff (and honestly, even critical... even stuff that can kill humans, we are very good at saying "one chance of death in XXX is an acceptable risk" ; I'd wager that anything that is below the average death rate of car driving in a particular time / area is in general ok).

I'd rather learn a software that has bugs today than a perfect software in a year - by that time I've already organized my workflow around the bugs and already spent 1/30th of the time of my projected remaining future career around this software. I'm not going to re-learn yours even if it works better.
The History and Value of Land Records (2021)
I guess a cook can be hired for parties.
Considering how small these “record” bonuses are they probably do pay a very very poor salary.
I think WFH and automation gained a boost from the pandemic and while the pendulum will continue to balance back, the overall effect will be more WFH and automation than if the pandemic hadn't hit.

Large scale disruptions cause governments to print money, and I think the IRA (which I assume is what you refer to) was in a way predictable, because government historically do infrastructure spending to keep the economy afloat after large scale disruptions. That the Democrats would push infrastructure spending on tech and eco stuff is not particularly surprising. Asian countries have been pouring their R&D in solar panels, chips, batteries, manufacturing, for years. The pandemic very early on made bare the US' dire positioning, versus Asian countries relative advantage in that aspect. I wouldn't have predicted the IRA but it's predictable that an infra bill would have come. That's what happened in prior cases.

I didn't expect the war in Ukraine, but we could expect wars. Trouble times create incentives (disparity) and opportunities. I sadly expect more large conflicts in the coming years. I think the average pragmatic person probably also does.

As for the current economic crisis, I'll go on a limb and guess it'll probably maintain itself for another 2-3-4y horizon, like prior ones did. And the boiling pot it will cause will be fertile ground for conflicts (and innovation).
Big public companies need an excuse to fire as many people as they would "naturally" want to fire given 1. just how many people they hire, 2. how often those people turn out to be duds, and 3. how often they pivot strategies internally that no longer necessitate even better-performing people.

They can't normally fire as many people as they want to fire, without looking bad / "appearing weak" and therefore losing stock value.

But if "everyone's doing it", then they won't look bad/weak.

See also: raising prices. If one company does it, they just lose market-share. But if they do it because "everyone is doing it", then margins can go up vertical-wide without anyone having to explicitly collude in an anti-trust sense.
There are many class groups that have a potential grievance against capitalism. But pretty sure that FAANG engineers are not one of them.
You have nested backticks there. Is this really real code?
> Like immersion therapy for rejection.

Love this phrasing
Are the workers here on temporary worker visas like H1B the first to go? Or are companies taking extra steps to retain them and layoff people without immigration challenges?