skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try idealist.org
But mostly there's not enough $ in non-profits to pay a s/w dev.
Another approach is to work hard, retire early, and then do the work pro-bono. I have been doing s/w for non-profits since I retired at 51 20 years ago.
One site I went to lowercased my password before storing it unencrypted in the DB, which I only discovered after failing to log in and asking for a password reset mail, so it helpfully emailed me my clear text lowercased password.
That's pretty easy to handle with freetaxusa, at least it was the last two times I did it
Sorry I assumed my question implied that was what was being asked. What is the complexity because I’ve done my own taxes for two decades, every year things are nuanced and slightly different. Never have I used an accountant.
They might have planned it before they made the decision to do layoffs, or different people planned it than those who knew about the layoffs. Once it was planned they wouldn't have stopped it because they tend to be business as usual to not tip their hand that they're about to do layoffs.
I've encountered several people who tried to do this... all of them were not as smart as they thought they were. I got 3 of the four to stop by saying "after we fire you I'll just have [the two smartest people they know] spend a month on your system do you think they'll figure it out"... they were like "yeah you're right" and became a lot more productive... the 4th we had to let go and it took about a month.
If this was preceded by running in circles on the beach that may have been me :)
The funniest I've ever had was an audiobook of Mein Kampf appearing as my top recommendation.

I think I've spoke about this here previously, but I do feel YouTube radicalised me in my early 20s. In my case though it was from the left, not the right, and ack then there was no real recommendation algorithm. There was trending videos and subscriptions, but if I remember correctly the only recommended stuff was basically just related content next to videos.

Personally I don't know if the current recommendation algorithm is any worse than the subscription feed. I think we humans might actually just be drawn to more extreme or "pure" versions of our own beliefs. At least I feel this is true for myself as it's something I have to actively fight all the time.

A good example of people being drawn to more extreme versions of their own beliefs is TV news. People who watch CNN don't watch Fox News and people who watch Fox News don't watch CNN. This self-selection of media content serves to amplify political division and radicalise people because most people will only watch and read what they already agree with when they have to pick the content.

So I think there's an argument to be made here that while not perfect the YouTube recommendation algorithm might actually be better than the old way of consuming content by personal selection. And I guess the fact you were recommended something you so strongly disagree with that you wrote this post you're kind of proving what I've been thinking. This recommendation clearly didn't serve to radicalise you, but for better or worse it might have helped you understand what people you wouldn't normally interactive with actually think on some subject matter. And sometimes you had the perspective, but I find I often that's not the case.

So yeah, while YouTube sometimes recommends me crazy stuff, I no longer have a list of 50 far-left videos waiting for me when I open the site. And while I find what I'm recommended is still biased to my personal preferences, it's less biased then myself.
So good you OWN the company is the only safe way. It's true. Build something awesome - build something people want.
Since when was ‘parent of toddlers’ a kind of socioeconomic status? (Not that I disagree with you that it disadvantages such people).

Also note that the OP said they found the coding questions were mostly easy/easier than they expected so maybe the amount of work required (for older/more experienced candidates) on preparation is not so high? I dunno.
They could name it Ƭ̵̬̊ and people would call it Prince.
> many of these tech layoffs have been done with little rhyme or reason - at least with regard to technical skill, individual contribution, and team cohesion. There's inklings of metrics that the suits decided on, but it is murky and unclear.

Maybe it’s even simpler. We all complain about the interview process, but it doesn’t end there does it? The management kinda knows what you’re doing but at a very high level. The management has no idea how productive John is vs how productive jack is, unless jack is actively unpleasant to work with. Maybe it just turns into another kind of social popularity contest.
If you played during the last 10 minutes or so, it might've been me!
Thats a good endorsement. I've seen those and wondered if they were a waste of time. I think I might consider one now if it was that beneficial. I have no problem paying for educational content. But I was afraid that stuff was just institutional fluff and internal-marketing.
I disagree. When someone gets laid off there’s different emotional responses. Sadness, anger, guilt, wtf, etc.

Look at it as a narrative of how someone’s journey in their mind progressed after a major event. There’s no such thing as “so good they can’t lay you off” - that’s the point. The authors conclusion is that focusing on what you offer versus what you can lose, you’re never lost.
For bus factor reasons, it could be considered better to make sure you get rid of 'irreplaceable' people at equal rates as everyone else.
So what? People play Factorio all day today in absence of UBI. You don't think those people could, given a newfound economic freedom, be better positioned to pursue real-life 'productive' forms of Factorio labor that they're passionate about like robotics, logistics...?
Most Schemes have a very large standard library, but you have to know that the standard library is referred to by SRFI -- a bunch of random numbers rather than names.

They don't list docs either. You have to know that you must go to the SRFI website and look up the API from the spec itself.

I believe this has single-handedly done more to hurt scheme than any other thing the language has done.
Of course! I was a commodities trader until I was blown up (financially) on 9/11. Then in the depths of despair I picked up software development as a profession. It was a straightforward transition since I had a physics/math(comp sci) major and, uh, dabbled a bit since the ZX81.
Facebook Container works by isolating your Facebook identity into a separate container that makes it harder for Facebook to track your visits to other websites with third-party cookies.
What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs
Oh please, don’t start using emojis on HN.
And who sits on boards? Current and former executives who have vested interest in the status quo.
Assuming the catalytic converter is underneath the car, making that particular area inaccessible would be a lot less headache than the engine bay.
Random layoffs seem more fair. Otherwise, everyone who leaves a company at a certain time gets stigmatized as a low performer.
> On average, casino players lose a little bit of money. But with a gambler mindset, you lose everything.

This isn't a casino.

> And yet two of the worst famines in the last century were not reversed.

That's actually not really the right way of looking at it. You're measuring the things that did happen without measuring the things that didn't happen. How many were stopped? How many were stopped by the Farm Bill alone?

I'm not actually sure which of the famines you're referring to but if you're referring to the Holodomor, it was intentional.
We aren't talking about regimes, though… Why move the discussion?
Also, semi-blindly firing based on some opaque metrics doesn’t open you up to wrongful termination or discrimination lawsuits.
Employee A: documents all work, delivers documentation, cares abour business continuity, helps others, thrives in transparency

Employee B: withholds information, accumulates information, excludes others, exploits information asymmetry, selfish fuck, thrives in obscurity

Who is more likely to be laid off? Employee A

This is why frequent layoffs create companies of parasitic unethical toxic jerks.

So a lot of people not being laid off are not "good", but rather just unethical parasites.
Genesis Owes over $3.5B to Top Creditors
> As one of the GitHub cofounders and the brainchild of this particular feature, I want to let everyone know that this is maybe the funniest thing I've ever done.

Obviously it's unimportant compared to the rest of the post, but, in case you like to know, the feature is your brainchild. You would be its brainparent, I guess.
This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_(TV_series)
I'm starting to check out grit.io for technical debt help
In this particular case, what is this quote supposed to imply?
For software engineering orgs, I try to push a practice of lightweight effective internal documentation.

Part of my argument sometimes -- to handle objections about job security from keeping info in one's head -- has been that people shouldn't worry about it hurtig job security, because the people who are conscientious about documenting will be recognized as too good of engineers to lose.

But when we're seeing a frenzy of layoffs across the industry (even by companies making huge profits), it's harder to say that job security isn't a concern.

(I'll still push on documentation, because it's important good practice for the team's success, and we're doomed if individuals start thinking they need to hoard the company's knowledge. But I'll have to be thinking of better ways that people's livelihood interests can be covered.)
Median American? Does this include babies and the elderly? Where did this metric originate?
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I sometimes wonder if these seemingly random layoffs at top tech companies, irrespective of whether they were high performers would cause reputational damage to a level where they would have to pay even more money the next time they need to hire talent.

I'm assuming top tier talent isn't going to want to work for you if you're gonna be randomly laid off, not to mention people on work visas who need to maintain a job to stay.
if you’re sooo good they can’t lay you off, that means you’re too good to get promoted too.
I haven't worked at Google. But I think that the level of infrastructure at a larger Tech company really shouldn't be disregarded. I've worked in a small <10 person shop, a large non-tech finance co, and a tech co. One really big difference is that the internal tooling, infrastructure, etc. are really well polished at a larger tech focused company compared to non-tech and small places. Even if there are a lot of open source tools, which may even be used at tech companies, when you do not have a team(s) who work full time integrating all of these tools, the developer infrastructure, CICD, etc. it is a big pain. And at smaller non-tech companies, debugging all of this stuff that Just Works^tm is a really big part of the job.
If you search for “snowflake map” on Twitter, the first search result links to the tweet where it was released: https://twitter.com/USGS_DataSci/status/1610316680579670016
I actually upgraded from this one to Shinobi. I still take it on the road sometimes but it's not even close to the quality of Shinobi even if you take away the mechanical keys.
> it's something closer to the TED Talks

This is blatantly not true.

TED doesn't make official agreements with governments:

https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2015/01/canada-joins-w...

https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2021/vol3/ds6/i...

https://ktdi.org/

> It's random executives networking and trying to make themselves seem more important than they are.

And government officials. Schwab bragged about "infiltrating" governments around the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhHmy9AQLBA

And when the government officials are asked about it they do not want to answer:

https://summit.news/2022/02/21/video-canadian-mps-audio-feed...

> Fun fact: companies that participate in the WEF underperform the S&P

That's irrelevant. What is worrying is that they are among the biggest and involved in all critical industries and have a quasi monopoly on their industries and as a whole. By collaborating together over political goals they form a plutocratic autocracy.
Prompt engineer salary range $250k – $335k
I'll reach out when I'm back at a keyboard
Tangentially related: I’ve only once had airline staff question a one way ticket at the airport. The power of the US passport.
First you have to make it to 2030
Check in the migrations
I can not answer your pressing question. However from what I've read from accounts here over a long while, Stripe has not randomly closed accounts down. There are usually reasons, and for some asking, it's resolved. The rest one could safely assume that whine their account was closed were doing something entirely dodgy, and one could assume their angry insinuations are just butt hurt.

I could expect if the business was obviously operating badly and befitting of such a list, it would be irresponsible not to add them in.

Disclaimer: I don't work at Stripe nor do I use Stripe, I'm just a twisted @rsehole who enjoys reading sad stories of when things go horribly wrong for deserving people.
Because the client-server paradigm means than an instance can’t be hosted by a mobile client (and even if it could, the system relying on DNS or a static IP wouldn’t work as most mobile IPs are dynamic) and thus should be provided by someone at a loss (or other user-hostile business model such as advertising if not outright extortion). The system needs to be as easy as Facebook/Instagram/Twitter if it wants to succeed. Having to manage a domain or a (stateful) server is a non-starter.

RSS doesn’t have this problem because it doesn’t require the client to have a static hostname, thus mobile RSS clients are totally possible.
Related: there was also a strong correlation between receiving some vaccinations and not developing dementia during the next five years. This included vaccinations against diseases that people normally do not get. This hints at a reason other than simply „avoided disease“.

Edit: I found the submission. Actually it was a study on influenza vaccination that included a comment about other vaccines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31899781

I wrote a summary in this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31900161
I did not see those markings at all - nor did I see the label indicating the square to jump to, until quickthrower2's explanation cued me to look for it!

(I see now that the target-square notation is much more prominent if you stretch the window horizontally, but I habitually use portrait-mode windows, where it's very small.)
But lots of people who don't win the superbowl do all the same things.
You can also search logs to recover a commit, besides the other ways mentioned.

> ok but then I lose it's nice handle.

Then don't delete the handle? Maybe rename it with a `deleted/` prefix?

It's hard to imagine what the expected behaviour is when branch names are just local convenience labels.
It blows my mind that this is so contentious and the only reason why seems to be that programmers think their job is unique or something.

Are there people who are 10x better than others at a skill? Obviously. This is blatantly true in every human pursuit to ever exist. Why is the idea that som individuals are 10x better at this one skill than other individuals so mind blowing?

Programming isn't unique, it isn't special, its just a skill like anything else, and like anything else there is a variety of skill levels.
Questionable things ChatGPT has already been used for
Where is the line that separates a 1P app from a 3P app? As tech gets higher and higher this will be increasingly hard to answer.

Rotary dialing turned every caller into a telephone dispatcher/operator.
Seniority has been the most consistent theme from what I've ve seen.
I enjoyed finding the secrets. My gf said “this person gets up” after finding a specific “rocky” secret
It matters because morale and perceptions matter during times of change.
And people vote for them.
What Is a Company For?
By this logic, there's no 10x any profession. This is all just semantics at this point.
> It seems like few to no people in any of their managerial chains were consulted.

From a worker perspective, line and middle managers look like bosses.

From an executive perspective, they look like workers. They are usually also cut in layoffs (often disproportionately, even: increasing management span of control in layoffs is common.) If you consult with them on coming layoffs they’ll either try to protect themselves and the employees they see as key (regardless of the corporate objectives of the layoffs) – or they’ll bolt and try to get the best staff out safe with them before the layoffs hit and they are competing with others for limited opportunities.

So, no, they aren’t consulted.
The original MetroPCS did get merged into T-Mobile and is now a value brand.
A good work environment will see only good from developers asking each other questions to gain a better understanding of the complex systems being worked on. I was pretty senior in one of my last few roles, and I regularly asked questions of the folks that had been building the system before me. And I always made time to support other devs (and QA and support folks) that came to ask me questions, be it about code I wrote, general questions about technical things or whatever. Being supportive to each other is what made it a really fun place to work at.
Synthetic ammonia will come from electric synthetic ammonia production plants. A few production-scale plants are already under construction, but of course hundreds more will be needed. Ammonia will not be, primarily, a storage medium, but a transportation medium and fuel, although it stores well under light pressure. Any tropical country can put up a solar farm and begin exporting ammonia to places less blessed with reliable sunshine -- for fertilizer, at first.

Insisting technologies that people are already spending billions of dollars on building out were not first shown to be viable is a peculiar position to take.
but in the same sense those two things seem substantially different, the trajectory of his late blooming career success is also substantially different from that of just about everybody else playing and also calls out for explanation.
A company can run itself without regard for anything but profit. That's been a winning strategy for quite a while now. There's no amount of money they can make that will prevent them being judged for it though.

No one owes a company good will.
I would love this to be turned into a text editor. You set up a target, e.g. 20K chars and start typing away. No formatting, no distractions. The program always just shows the current line, or even just the 10 characters, while previous lines fade out into black with no way to reveal them. Only after hitting the target is the entire text revealed.

Optionally with some reward animation/sound after every target/10 characters.
That's probably a good thing.

Citizens of Russia shouldn't be punished for their leader standing up to the United States.
Yes, I'm aware that many people selfish.
If you have a roof over your head, even if it's not yours but your parents's roof, fear of bankruptcy or other financial problems from buying a house is valid IMO.

A mortgage is a bigger commitment than marriage, I've heard say. Can't divorce the bank so easily.

Awesome you are helping your son though!

Otoh: personally I would hate to have needed financial help (if that's what you are doing, ie giving money essentially) and feel insecure for needing it. That could be weird of me. Also happy it's possible and my folks did well enough to be able to offer it. But i want to be independent.
Did a PhD half focused on verification and also very biased being an early Lean developer. imo the Lean tooling and everything is much better I personally would never use Coq again especially after writing 200kloc+ of it over a few years.

It has improved a lot but still I think Lean has many things going for it including a large focus on programming and using your Lean programs directly (versus extraction, which is roughly a really shitty compiler from Coq to Ocaml or another extracted language).
There is no way to lay off thousands of people with rhyme or reason. Too much to coordinate with too much secrecy/liability. So it ends up being really broad cuts, like:

- entire business unit or team
- everyone hired after date X
- everyone in geography Y
- everyone with some level and at or below a certain perf threshold

It's chops with an axe not incisions with a surgical tool.

Being really good can save you from that last bullet points but not the other. It can also help you find a new job that much faster.
How did you do this? Or was this done manually?
I agree. This is problematic in so many ways. So essentially 43 states (according to wikipedia article shared) have no fruitful division of political powers. If executive power has legislation power, how that can go wrong I wonder -- looks at history book...
I mean, I heard it put this way and it has always stuck with me: every conversation here is implicitly inclusive of @dang. He’s wholly responsible for the vibes at large, and in the past several years it has become blindingly clear that he has no issues or qualms with Rusticles overtaking any thread they choose. I could write a scathing 10k word treatise on any topic with a single pithy remark about Rust in it somewhere and he’d allow the discussion to be dominated by the Rust tangent that would inevitably multiply in the comments here.

The chilling effect is as you describe, that I often feel discouraged from contributing my knowledge, experience or opinions because of the blatant manipulation of conversations by Rusticles and the apparently contentedness by dang for that to be the defining angle of discussion here.

HN should have tags. Every article gets tagged by users with high karma counts, by some sort of ranked consensus (maybe a rust tag, python tag, database tag, politics tag, etc) and users could just list tags they want muted in their settings.

Instead, I’ll be told about the HN guidelines and some minutia in this comment that is somehow worse than a thousand idiots hijacking literally every conversation about a particular topic.

As they say, not my monkey, not my circus…
By that rationale they should open payday loan centers in low income neighborhoods, why not?
Well done, that kind of introspection can be hard to keep up.
This reminds me of one of the final puzzles in the 90s aventure game Gabriel Knight:

https://youtu.be/fPByLdCYPpo?t=33989

(spoiler alert, it's the last part)
> It's unusual that there can't be negative feedback about a website.

I didn't say that there couldn't be negative disagreement. Am I allowed to disagree with you and say that it's fine?

> I want to read the content, but I can't. The website is too distracting.

You can't read the text because there are little icons off on the side? I guess you can read it in elinks; it appears to load fine there. Someone upthread also posted a uBlock-style rule to filter them out.

> Is that a valid problem for you, oh great oracle?

No, it isn't; I'm not convinced that it's that bad to begin with, and if you really care the tools are available to it yourself.
I love India.

But I don’t understand why India is so dirty? I ask my offshore colleagues and some say it’s the population, some say it’s the culture and some blame it on politicians.
Many years ago Chris Espinosa (Apple Employee #8) gave a talk at MacHack about how to stay in a job at Apple for so long. (This would have been around 2000 and he had been there since the 70s.) His conclusion was that you should be obscure but irreplaceable. That is do something that nobody else understands, but that is necessary to keep things running. Seems to have worked for him!