skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife recently pointed out to me that cars from 15-25 years ago all have "happy faces" and newer cars (late 00's to current) often have "angry faces".

It's silly at first, but the more you think about it, the more it makes sense why driving has gotten so miserable. Our little monkey-brains see angry faces all around us, and we act more defensively. We feel the need to defend ourselves from all the scary metal boxes, leading to buying scarier looking boxes. It's an angry-headlights arms race.
It's not really about the cost though, is it? If they were donating to the KKK or literally setting cash on fire, I doubt you'd have the same outlook. Wasted or misspent money is never something to overlook, particularly when you could have justified keeping a few more employees on if you'd just stopped setting money on fire.
On the one hand, I tend to agree and I dislike making JS syntax even more complex than it already is.

On the other hand, it works well in F# (and the ML that then borrowed it from F#) because it’s just a standard infix operator there and everything is already curried which is definitely not the case with JS. It means you will nearly always have to use a lambda when piping in JS which is honestly a bit tedious.
> People getting high together or partying is not going to make the next generation processor or programming language or improve battery technology.

neither is coding yet another crud website and yet that's what 90% of us are doing in their job
Is doas safe about this exploit or does it have the same problem ?
What you say is true: investing in employees attracts top talent. However, that's only one side of the equation. The other side of the equation is that such policies cost money. So in order to say that this policy is a "benefit to shareholders", you'd need to demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the cost, which is of course impossible to quantify. Over the last 5 years, stock in Mercedes Benz Group is down almost 25%, so I wouldn't say that, generally, Mercedes has been good to shareholders.
Sorry to hear, I hope you find your feet (if you are even a little off balance) again quickly!
Pretty much any effort to constantly monitor everyone's behavior at all times is dystopian, yeah.

Safety regulations are just the justification for why it's necessary.

The income from fines is the real reason it's done.
Seems this story only applies in Germany, but their US tech workers also get a bonus at the same time that is partially based on company performance. My bonus last year was very nice because they've been doing so well (in the ballpark of $50k as a senior dev), and it looks like it'll be similarly nice this year too.
Which shouldn’t come as a surprise. These people hate you, and they hate you getting any leverage. If it were up to them they’d own you.
The proposal is not finished yet (and might never been). Pessimism aside, there is a whole issue on why it was decided on following up with Hack's implementation [1].

You can always give your input on such decisions, the % token is still being "bikeshedded"[2] (is that a word?), and there's still a possibility of making follow-ups proposals that could implement some F#-esque implementation

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator/issues/22...

[2]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator/issues/91
>On top of that, Mercedes Benz has a corporate Supervisory Board with 1/2 of the members representing the employees.

Absolutely love that, and stuff like that would never be allowed to form here in the US. Labor having an equal seat at the table should be seen as a good thing for the purposes of long-term sustainability, not a bad thing. Can it have drawbacks? Sure. However, the flipside is that currently in most places, such as the US, Capital has all the seats at the table, or sometimes Labor will given a symbolic place at the proverbial kid's table, with no real ability to enact change or make their voices heard. I applaud what Mercedes-Benz is doing here.
The Sundance Film Festival Loyalty Oath
I see you've read my other accounts of experiences with CBP lol.

I got put on CBPs shit list many years before that because I helped some people in a scary country which made some dumb uninformed government worker sad face. They do that stuff no matter how nice I am. Finally I learned they will treat me like shit and break my things even when I am nice so I should at least be assertive about my rights in the process.
>I think this is important because I think it's more economically productive to give 1% to offsets that are supporting the correct technologie

I don't think anyone disagrees with the general sentiment. The problem is that it isn't clear what the 'correct technologies' are. For example, you don't want carbon offset money going to 'bullshit' initiatives like funding already growing trees - but I've seen compelling arguments that even planting new trees is generally a colossal waste of time.
It's a shame that Google is so good at hiring top talent, and even better at under utilizing them. The company had a hypomanic vision of greatness by throwing everything to see what stuck, and still can't get a new idea that is profitable besides marketing & advertising due to their virtual monopoly. I'm very curious what the breakdown of positions will be. This is a failure of leadership and Sundar should resign.
It depends a lot on which jobs they cut though. Do they know which departments & work groups are the least necessary? Or are most of them needed, but with fewer people so they cut X% of each team?

Cutting the fat at any company is worthless or even catastrophic if the strategy for implementing those cuts is crap.
I think I get what you mean now...
IIUC you still think there's value for that (even for a not long-ish term) but not for the VERY long term (?)
They are being downvoted for what could be interpreted as an implied criticism of remote work, on HN.
There is an increasingly large population of "programmers" that have never known anything other than Javascript and don't understand the concept of "different languages for different purposes". They want Javascript to do everything so they don't have to leave their comfort zone.
How about weekly articles about companies who aren’t doing layoffs to celebrate them?
Also, if you haven't seen it before, read this seminal procrastination post by Wait But Why[1].

Of course it's just a theory, but one that clicked for me and many others. It gives some helpful names to many of the things you experience when procrastinating. Afterwards you'll be able to recognize, "oh, I'm in the dark playground again" and possibly be able to do something about it.

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...
And in those localities people still tip the same amount they would if the server made $2/hr
TC39 proposals often have rubbish real world examples that should never see the light of day in a JS codebase.

It makes me really question the judgement of the people that are working on this language, and it explains how some of the shittier proposals manage to slip in and why the good ones are misused all over the place in every real world codebase when this is the kind of guidance devs have on where to use fancy new features.

In a few years everyone is going to collectively lose their fucking mind once again and decide that ternaries are now the devil and every React component should be chock full of do expressions. I can see that coming clear as day. That might finally be enough to get me to throw in the towel if the also incoming decorator hell doesn't do it.
Cull the bottom 10% takes a very long time (and effort) in a big company.

You still have to put the "candidate" on PIP, wait 6 months for the PIP to fail, then run the ejection process (ranging from 0-2 weeks in the US to a few months in EU).

and you have to sacrifice a senior eng to mentor the PIP'ed (else they can sue you for not giving them a fair shot).

The whole thing is much more expensive and slow than a company-wide layoff.
The headline is better than I expected, and it looks like the article also frames it that way - 30% are good estimates compared to the guardians claim that only 4% are.
What you've got there is legacy wealth and power, obtained by violence no less, using it's wealth and power to build local indoctrination centres that help sustain the legacy. If that wealth and power built MtG play centres or I dunno milk shake shacks, you'd now be lamenting the value that chilling milk has on communities.

Edit: this sounds way more antagonistic than I wanted. I was aiming for cheeky. Happy Friday, fellow beneficiaries of historical violence!
People get married, have kids, and have elderly parents they need to help.

My friends and I don't have the same amount of time anymore for parties that we had even 15 years ago. Most of the time I see my friends is at lunch and even that was destroyed by covid and work from home.

An older friend of mine died last week and his funeral will sadly be the first time I see the majority of my friends at the same time.
What is the distinction between excuse and justification for a public company? We always know their motive, which is to maximize profit. If they believe growth is going to slow/end, then it makes sense to slash some people. An occasional culling seems like a healthy thing for a huge company to do. If we knew how to predict future needs perfectly and how to hire quality people perfectly, then sure we could avoid this, but that is impossible.
That's a constitutional right, and rights belong to citizens, not persons...
Q&A w/OpenAI researchers on RLHF behind ChatGPT and InstructGPT
Temporary variables are often tedious? I have found that well named temporary variables are the only clear way to comment code without actually writing the comment. The version with temporary variables is much easier to understand without having to read the rest of the code.
The tie-fighter infix|> <|. |>(+)<|

Then there are ||>, |||> and <|, <||. As well as >> and <<.

Would be nice to use computational expressions for async and generators. (https://es.discourse.group/t/add-computation-expressions-fro...).

This proposal reminds me of Scala with anonymous parameters '_'. Could I use more than one '%' for curried functions. xs.reduce(_+_)? Though I guess for perf reasons it might make sense to keep things as tuples so it would be xs.reduce(%[0]+%[1]).
Sure, that wasn't really my point though. My point was that there are some cases where sequential identifiers would cause security concerns and some cases where they would not.
Platform Engineering Benefits Developers, and Companies Too
Ah, I didn't realize. I guess that would work for the case of 2-row tall statements.
> I suspect they aren't getting rid of the talent.

If you just announce a layoff, you are already getting rid of talent.

> It's more likely to be a fat trimming exercise.

Large companies can't lose fat in large strokes. There is simply no way to organize a mass layoff that results in "fat trimming".
> Not spraying a homeless person with water is the solution to the current issues he's caused.

You're clearly avoiding answering the actual question. The question is what is the solution to the issues that the homeless person is causing.

> If he has not sued the city for damages, he has not "exhausted the appropriate legal/government avenues for solving this issue".

You know this costs thousands and thousands of dollars, plus it takes years, right?

If he doesn't have thousands of dollars and years to wait, what is the appropriate solution?
I've never heard of Jane Street before. It's kind of hard to have awe of a place you've never heard of. How did you hear of Jane Street?
Second most after spreadsheets
Which euro countries? It's been a while since I worked in .de. Then the government didn't set a minimum wage. Did that change?
Assuming you are only calling one function - if there are more you get into a bit of a mess!
yeah i have a macbook pro 13" that work got me. M1, 8gb of ram and for what i'm doing i've not even noticed a slowdown.

rails / react / arc browser with tons of tabs, spotify, slack, vscode, obsidian, etc all open 24/7 and it feels as snappy if not snappier than my personal laptop. plus it's plugged into a 4k monitor.

i've been seriously impressed
Isn't "they" wholly inclusive? It is a genderless pronoun.
This is a fairly normal structure for large German companies, fwiw.
Space leaks exploration in Haskell [pdf]
What is the root cause in your view?
Just because pipe's aren't the ideal solution for that convoluted example they decided to list doesn't mean they aren't still extremely useful for a consistent set of problems. Like anything they can be abused to make code less readable.

I also have a feeling this doc lists every sort of usecase, not because they are advertising it as "always the better version", but because it's a design doc that needs to factor in edge cases, such as using a pipe following chained function calls.
If such a thing were actually the case what would you do at that point? Go to the front desk and ask security to escort you to collect your personal things?
Bonuses are cheaper than pay increases.
Is there any precedent for the success of such lawsuits?
Platform Engineering Won’t Kill the DevOps Star
Because they're big and 10,000 is a very small (~5%) percentage of their staff, and is entirely routine and normal housekeeping. Investors want to hear "layoffs" hit the newsprint.
This is how you keep the parties going. Get single and travel to a place with a lot of travelers.
fwiw as a fb dev, I use this operator every day to await expressions in a repl.
N+1 is the number of <things> you need.

Bikes, snowboards, surfboards, guitars, etc
The only way out is through.

It was true for me in the '80s, it's still true now.

Just finish the bloody thing.
My girlfriend facetimes her friends pretty frequently, and her 70-year-old mom every day. They both hold their phones in their hands but the image isn't all that blurry or shaky.
Didn't know you could tell someone's age by their comments.
It happened in two waves. 10k back in November and 8k this week.
Wouldn't it be better to use '->' as the operator? This is about dataflow so an arrow would represent that nicely. Whereas '|>' doesn't really "mean" anything. An arrow means that something flows in the direction of the arrow.
Price's square root law states that half of the literature on a subject will be contributed by the square root of the total number of authors publishing in that area.

It seems to play out well in the teams I've been with too. If you have 9 people on your team, 3 will be responsible for half the work. If you have 25 people, then 5 will be carrying half the weight.

Extrapolated out, on a team of 100 people, 10 will do half of the work. That would mean 1 of those 10 will be doing 5% of the total project while 1 of the remaining 90 will be doing 0.5% of the total project.

Thus, I believe you can say that 10x developers exist, but only at the large team scale.
> Business and management courses are not necessarily good.

I suspect it's a sort of "penny wise and pound foolish" thing. You end up optimizing the small stuff (cost cutting, etc) and you lose the ability to drive big innovations.
> You are not entitled to microwave solutions.

No one is entitled to stand outside of someone's business screaming obscenities, but that's what this woman is doing. If people should be arrested and prosecuted for engaging in illegal behavior that they're not entitled to engage in, she should be arrested and charged, correct?
Depends on the country.

Mine was founded by some overseas family that can still come over and start telling us what to do as they please.

So uhhh, yeah, can confirm, Canada’s laws basically revolve around keeping old money wealthy without providing any value to anyone.
But the comment I replied to was mentioning serial though.
Yep! I just spent a few weeks in my wife's hometown in Argentina. Did as much partying/socializing in that time as I probably do in six months of regular life, even accounting for being out of commission for a bit with the inevitable bout of covid.

Being more on the introverted side, I actually found it to be exhausting after awhile, even though another part of me loved it and I could feel my overall sense of mood and wellbeing improving substantially. Something in the realm of 50-75% of that pace would probably be ideal for me.
The limits that municipalities deliberately set lower than the road can handle so people are more tempted to speed because they feel safe doing so.

This isn't some conspiracy theory. Governments all over use speed fines as part of their budget, it is absolutely within reason to think that they also set up the rules in such a way as to get the outcome they want.
Yet, all the research seems to indicate that speeding reduces the occurrence of accidents, it just increases their severity when they do occur (more fatalities). The primary cause of accidents is inattentiveness (usually someone on their phone) and after that alcohol-related accidents. Speeding is not a primary cause, only a proximate cause of the accident, something else caused the accident, speed is only blamed because it exacerbates the result.
You're completely missing the point here. If you are transpiling something, you don't need to worry about syntactic sugar in the base language you are transpiling to, only what you're transpiling from.
I thought mark told us already, the parties have moved to the metaverse. There’s a great #hottub and everything.
Hey, I know exactly where this is :) I lived around a ~30s walk from here until I moved to Boston proper a year ago. I lived in Somerville for ~6 years during school and after graduating, and I miss it sorely. Great little neighborhood. Would have happily stopped by and grabbed a brat if I were still there; funny how the woodwork is so full of interesting people, though we rarely stop to look.
They are not very standing out, all big german companys have that model?

Also that model swings both ways. Employees will usually remain loyal to the bitter end.
We do still have some handguns, such as single-shot flintlocks, muzzle-loading revolvers of 1850s design, and some modern handguns which have been extended with long barrels and counterweights to make them >= 60cm in length (IIRC).
I think that these aren't very common at all compared with shortguns and rifles though. From what I've heard, when modern handguns were banned some shooters switched to modern reproductions of the mid-19th century models only to find that they didn't much like the cleaning (black powder makes a lot of mess), fiddling and slow loading that goes along with these guns.

https://www.henrykrank.com/guns/muzzle-loading-guns/
But corporations can't exist without their employees. If they don't see the value in retaining and building good employees, what kind of business do they expect to build? It should be a more symbiotic relationship.
Sounds like a blast. We've been thinking in moving to Thailand and was curious what the expat situation was like.

Do you have problems finding expats and making friends there?
For me not. In the Pipe example you must read first that something is done with the object and that it will be output at the end.

If i read a code and i want to now what it will do, i wanna first read that it will output something. If that is what i search for, i read the nested code.

With the pipe style i waste more time, even if the code looks clearer.

I not overused example could look like this:

console.log(
Object.keys(envars)
.map(envar => `${envar}=${envars[envar]}`)
.join(' ')
|> `$ ${%}`
|> chalk.dim(%, 'node', args.join(' '))
)

If i don't care about console.log, i don't have to read the nested code.
No, but it's a thing that happens. I keep mine on zfs raidz2 with weekly scrubs.
I have no idea what I am talking about, but for complicated system analysts would it not be better to use markov style statistical systems.
We place so much emphasis on what we believe as a prerequisite for belonging to a religious community. Maybe its enough just to be hopeful those beliefs are true and suspend our doubts for a little while.
I fully agree, although in my case it's not advertising per se. I'm on YT Premium, I don't get ads as such. But they're still trying to "sell" me engagement, of course. There is very little doubt in mind my that extremist content is maximally engaging, especially for the many people who actually fall down the rabbit hole and get their filter bubble permanently modified.

While YT staff may not actually hold these extremist views themselves, my guess would be they're nevertheless actively pushing it for commercial reasons. Just like it turned out that the supposedly liberal pre-Elon old guard of Twitter had special protections in place that made accounts such as LibsOfTikTok immune to getting banned, I am quite certain Youtube has the same protections for extremist channels that would otherwise run afoul of its T&C on the daily.
While what you are saying is true, sometimes 10x is 10x. They push that feature and it secures an investment round. They push that feature and it secures an important client. They push that feature, don't commit it to the main branch, write tests, commit tests to the main branch,and help the team kill that debt over the course of a few months.
I'm starting to wonder if you even read my comment. So let me just repeat for you:

>Gwin has lived in San Francisco for 45 years. He said this confrontation was the result of multiple attempts to get the woman help, after he spent days cleaning up her mess and letting her sleep in his doorway. He added that she often knocks over trash cans, and her behavior has scared off his clients.

>Gwin said he and other business owners in the area have called SFPD and social services more than two dozen times in the last two weeks.

This person had:

- frequently made messes (i'm guessing defecating) outside of the business

- slept in the doorway of the business

- knocks over trash cans

- scares off clients

- had the cops and social services called on them multiple times with absolutely no action
In the UK, there's John Lewis[0], a company that is owned by a trust on behalf of its workers (who are known as partners, not employees).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership
Interesting; there could be a standardized format for the terms of the layoff too similar to the hiring threads
I take an optimistically cynical view of this pattern. As a rule, we tend to solve things wrong the first few tries. Carbon offsets and credits and the policy and technology and market pricing soup is going to be an absolute shit show before it can hope to get past that point, so on with the shit show. First the visionaries over promise, then the con artists do, then the marketers do, then sales, then product, then engineering does, and then it works.