skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They are shedding employees, cutting back, watching their financial valuations shrivel - even as the larger economy chugs along with a low unemployment rate and a 3.2 percent annualized growth rate in the third quarter.

One largely unacknowledged explanation: An unprecedented era of rock-bottom interest rates has abruptly ended. Money is no longer virtually free."

"Unacknowledged" likely because those "tech" companies are effectively controlling the channels through which people communicate and read news. The channels are flooded with neverending "tech" hype. The latest is ChatGPT.

"Tech" companies are like a leeches sucking on the rest of the economy. How many thousands of employees were working for companies that cannot turn a profit, their salaries being paid year after year not from revenues but from the investment contributions of outside parties.

Hollow, unsustainable and short-sighted. Driven by pure hype.

The "tech" company "business model" is using a position as an unnecessary intermediary, aka a middlemen, to conduct surveillance and sell online ad services.

Silicon Valley VC have sponsored countless grossly inflated valuations and even fake money ("crypto"). All focus is on "the future", while ignoring the problems they are creating in the present. Big Tech produces no content, instead farming that work out to unpaid computer users. Like some giant lottery, they distribute significant ad revenue only to a small, selected group of "winnners".

None of this activity is anything an economy really needs to prosper. It never has been. These "tech" companies have been fortunate that their middleman rackets are still mostly unregulated. Regulation of interest rates. Regulation of cryptocurrency. We see the immediate effects. Any regulation of online advertising could reduce these companies to nothing. Increased regulation of VC is coming.

There is no solid foundation to these "businesses".

Big Tech and all its wannabes are not the lifeblood of a new economy. They are bloodsucking leeches. They feed on "dumb money", where there is a lack of research, due diligence and monitoring, whether it is advertising spend, "tech" venture capital or cheap debt.

I will be shocked if the media continues to portray these middlemen as the "best place to work" or "best jobs for the future". Look at how they treat their workers and the sheer misery of the "work".
> to get the tax deduction as if the company gave that charity

This should be illegal.
That's why the super-rich have ranches in New Zealand now. When the revolution comes, they'll flee to safety far, far away, and let their pet politicians go up against the wall all alone.
Nice that he plugged his de-anonymizing service in the store. "We take away your privacy, so that you sisters won't be stalked"
Well, legal cigs. There is a healthy black market in NYC.
> $400 isn't low-end. The Samsung phone I got from T-Mobile for a one-time payment of $40

Are we pretending that T-Mobile won't cut you a deal on an iPhone SE?
Accept Failure, Learn Lesson and Get Up
I appear to have failed last week. Yep, it is unpleasant to understand, but need to accept that fact and be ready to learn what needs to change to prevent it in the future. Let’s talk about it today.
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France is an interesting comparison. As I understand it, smoking is highly class correlated in the US, but much less so in France.

I have a PhD and studied for a time at one of France's premier universities: my advisor smoked, and one graduate student in his lab smoked. All told, probably 10-20% incidence. In America I've worked with or around close to 100 physicists, and only one of them was a smoker.
Get "canceled" in your own work or social sphere, or in social media in a way that filters down to your work or social sphere for saying, writing, being recorded doing (or saying) something that doesn't fit the dominant ideological narrative of modern culture, and maybe you'll rapidly find out just why and how some people get scared of cancel culture. Sure, Stalinist show trials or Maoist purges these things in our modern western world certainly are not, but examples abound and in a non-lethal modern context, they can be very damaging indeed.
There's some things that are obviously bad: popular movie quotes, slightly less bad (but still bad): any quote from anything ever produced in any medium.

Some things that are obviously good (you can calculate the entropy easily): diceware style schemes, generated with dice or a secure random generator.

Anything in the middle it's quite hard to say. Humans are really bad at being random, so words you pick out of your head I'd be fairly suspicious of. But it's hard to prove it's a bad idea.
> when the company is taken over by MBAs and activist investors

I really get tired of this sentiment because it’s become a lazy stereotype.

Activist investors come around because of bad management. Bad management is irrespective of the MBA.

Satya Nadella of Microsoft is a much better CEO than Sundar Pichai, and both happen to have an MBA.

For reference, over the last 5 years, Microsoft stock has grown over 150% (not counting dividends) while Google has grown about 70%.

Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco, has a degree in Math with a concentration in CS, but no MBA and has only grown the stock by about 12% before dividends.

Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, studied CS at Harvard, but Never graduated. He has lost about 25% for investors over the past 5 years.

I choose stock returns because they are what fund most people’s retirement accounts (usually via a mutual fund owning them). The companies are all significant tech companies of roughly $200 billion or greater.
> Median salary is $300,000. Average is higher.

Cry me a river. This is coming from someone paying himself 6 times this yearly salary... PER DAY!!!
As much as 2400 Googlers make. I guess he is THAT special.

https://fortune.com/2023/01/23/christopher-hohn-rishi-sunak-...
Wow this takes me back. I went to the Boy and Bear in Culver all the time back when it opened. Eventually my tastes grew beyond their coffee quality, but still some good memories there.
Same here, but it has not been a problem with good job and finances. Buying a car or renting apartments.
Don't forget:

- Asking for a tip for takeout orders

- Asking for the payment including tip before you've received service, often via one of those stupid QR menus that does who knows what with your order data that is now tied to your phone

- Not having 20% as a tip option, but something like 18%, 23%, 27%

- Looming over your shoulder while you enter the tip

I want servers to make a livable wage. I'm willing to pay more. I want my prices transparent, and I don't want the mountain of guilt and social pressure.
Yeah that would definitely be a bug if that’s the case. Thanks for the report, I’ll put it on my todo list to look into over the next day or so.
I guess it's a thing. Happens in America too. Optional though.

Tipping is a societal defense mechanism to rationalize & justify gross inequality.

People will leave a 5 dollar tip, but they won't invest in helping change someones life by giving them knowledge and experience they don't have.
And it would start to come online in 2035. They would burn coal the whole time until then, while renewables cost continued on down below $10/MWh.
> as opposed to having to use whatever hand-me-down device found its way to you

Given that Apple just issued another security update for the decade old iPhone 5s, your ability to hand down an iPhone is greatly extended, especially compared to the support policy you get with a bottom of the barrel Android device.
US NGO Consumer Reports on C and C++ safety for product development [pdf]
So what differentiates the matrix of numbers in the AI model, vs digits of pi?
This is a duplicate, but HN moderators memory holed the previous one, and will probably do that to this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34476909
git-subrepo is a lot nicer to use than submodules.
That’s not necessarily the date it was published on the web. It looks to me like it was pasted there from Usenet or a mailing list.
That's good advice when migrating. I'm sure 99% of the currently running servers and services will be migrated (or updated, upgraded) before 2038. Most don't store future timestamps, so there's 15 years to plan migration.
I work at $BigTech in cloud consulting. I’ve liked the idea of “putting myself out of a job” for the last decade as I bumped around between smaller companies before 2020.

My job gives me the chance to do that - I see a problem, I work with the customer to come up with a solution, I design and develop an MVP, I teach their developers and DevOps folks and I move on to the next project.

Even though I work at a huge company, my project teams are small and focused and I get to wear a lot of hats - pre-sales, project management, developer, architect, Devops, etc depending on the project.

Working remotely is a huge plus.
Sure. Is there any evidence this investor has done so?
I'm constantly frustrated with techies on HN and other social media claiming my rooted phone is somehow not secure. I've always rooted my phone ever since Android was a thing and have never had any issues.
Can this be more overengineered? Wouldn’t cron jobs do the job just fine?
Most of the engineers likely got their shares or refresher grants issued at the higher stock price and are making less than they signed up for already. They take a pay cut when the stock goes down and make more when it goes up. Replacing key talent could easily be more expensive.

However, with stacked refreshers etc… the math might get kind of fuzzy. But I’m just saying that it isn’t an obvious choice to think a pay cut won’t lose some of your better talent. And replacing them isn’t guaranteed to be cheaper. Not to mention the ramp up time and how it will take a lot of time to operate at the same productivity as someone who has been doing the job for years.
Stacker (YC S20) is hiring a strategic Product Designer
> what are they supposed to do

Just because I haven't been repeating myself enough, the first thing I'm suggesting they could do is publish their credit scoring methodology.

Your comment is irrelevant to what I said.
Not on general sales, but things that are functionally sales tax exist for things such as fuel and tobacco products.
If I Venmoed you $10 would you tease him about it this weekend?
Check out Max Planck's principle of "Science progresses one funeral at a time"
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Well, then just read the book by John le Carre and then compare it with the Wikipedia Article about John Philby.

"The first novel opens with a 14 hour walk across Moscow to be sure that there is nobody on his tail. Just to have a short meeting with his source."

But yes, that is realistic. What I said what is not quite realistic in the books, are the levels of schemes and their complexity in the books. In reality they are usually not that complex because reality is boring and humans act dumb too much, it is just not worth build up 5 layers of conspiracy, when one idiot messes up at the 2 layer (just read about Kim Philby). This is where Cornwell took artistic liberty to spice up things, which is allright and I enjoy the books, but my point is, there are not gods at work in the agencies.
It's like they don't realize that we have the a gui version of sudo where we have to confirm that we allow a certain app to run something as root.
Cash is a terrible gift. It shows you don't care.

The best Christmas gifts were actual things - not an envelope with $60 in it.
This biased post pollutes HN.
if the author truly buy-in the idea of new cold war, then holywood, youtube, and facebook are weapons too. the author even try to use blog platform and public forum like HN as weapon as well.
People are downvoting you, but you are correct.

People believe all sorts of weird thing about tax deductions (almost always _income_ deductions).
Massages too (massage envy)

The tipping there is kind of stupid since they tip at the base cost of the massage even if you get a discount for the membership.

Probably going to cancel it given how expensive it's getting
But 55 year olds died all the time from smoking: heart attacks and strokes are smoking deaths too
Feynman would be proud. The ability to take a complex subject and break it down in such a way that nothing of value is lost but a child can understand it is rare.
Most of your "only species to ..." are outright false or responses to problems humans created in the first place or have very nasty analogs.

It may bother you or make you feel uneasy or make you not want to believe it, but humans bring an immense amount of suffering into this world.

> Only species to care for our environment. Living in equilibrium with your environment isn't the same as caring about it.

For example, this is so strange. So the only way to care for the environment is to first destroy it and then try to fix it?
Amazon? Not so sure about that one. This chart shows a loss in 2014 and in the 2000s they were always at a loss but doubling size.

https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/amzn-wo-...

Microsoft: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/tech...
I’d argue chrome, android, gmail, maps, drive, and Chromebook OS are pretty dominant in their respective markets, and objectively these products defined the future of their industries many times by popularizing features that went on to become mandatory for competitors. A lot of these started before 2013, sure, but I think it would be hard to say any of those products have been stagnant, and I think most SWEs recognize how hard it is to maintain and update such huge products.

Additionally, they’ve definitely met wall street’s expectations, with profit and stock price growing steadily for many of the last 10 years, which is what these jokers care about.

All of this is, of course, on top of the part we take for granted: they still completely dominate search and defended their total control over many parts of the Display ads industry.

My point isn’t that they’re necessarily geniuses, but I think your bias against giant evil multinational corporations (which I share!) is clouding your judgement. I’d say they control the internet more than any other company, and the internet is the home of the modern economy.
> while computer hacker Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch is brought on to keep news of the pending disaster or the attempt to restart the core from the Internet.

Sigh.
They are all photospheres. Some are created by Google themselves while others are user contributions.
> Minute differences in the score (573 vs 605) don't really impact you

Don't they, though? How do you know? For a person who gets refused access to some important service or product because they're just 1 point under some arbitrary and unknown threshold, yes there's an impact.
Good manager (treats us like adults, leaves us alone, trusts us to know what we are doing), good coworkers, good pay, good benefits, 401k match, lots of paid time off (11 holidays, 1 week off in the summer, no work Fridays during the summer, 1 day of PTO each pay period that rolls over year to year, and 6 week sabbatical every 5 years), beautiful campus, challenging work (never bored), good work/life balance.
Why don't you contribute?
The goal is to decide beforehand with the community how to steer the project rather than having an implementation that was built by a single person
Perhaps, but I haven't seen any real evidence of a causal relationship between high compensation and market dominance. An alternative hypothesis is that their market dominance is due to the founders' initial disruptive innovation of the Pagerank algorithm plus the later acquisition of the DoubleClick advertising network, and employee compensation was largely irrelevant. Prove me wrong.

From what I've heard talking to people who work at Google, most employees generate zero business value. The same as any other large enterprise.
Also, you have an HR department throwing random variables (while trying to hire the best) that's not going to help you getting a random sample.
It is when it's optional. Charity with a guilt trip.
It is even better than that. Smokers used to sit and smoke in "non-smoking" to be away from the stale smoke.
What alternative do you suggest? Should we use Matrix / IRC instead?
What an awesome film. A lesson in absurdity, for sure.
It's a stock setup for certain sorts of probability problems.
> But the reason the outrage is easy to whip up is because schools have been ignoring good taste and common sense for desire of some teachers to impose their value system on young generation rather than leaving values largely to each family. And kids suffer because of irresponsibility of both sides.

One side is teachers, the other side is politicians drumming up outrage. This isn't a both sides thing. These people making these laws know they can get their base pissed off at some culture-war nonsense so they're going for it.
I could have rewritten this my self. Same story here...
We live 50-80 years and have writing. I'm not sure there's an argument for us not having enough time or knowledge bases to grow out of infancy.
R/Haskell – Blow my mind, in one line
This collection's editor has a recent book on Kuhn that's really interesting: Kuhn's Legacy: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism [0].

The author's project is to fill in the gaps in Kuhn's later writing. His later work has been explored much less than his early work such as Structure [1]. I appreciated the author's sincerity with extending Kuhn's theory rather than trying to give a more gimmicked interpretation e.g. the Wittgensteinian Kuhn.

[0] http://cup.columbia.edu/book/kuhns-legacy/9780231146685
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
Right on, thanks Jake!
And then you have Coldplay co-opting the term "Scientist" for a song, further muddying the waters.
All of these are very good points, and as such they should be decided together by the community.

Maybe the first thing I should start looking at is a voting / discussion platform, so that we have democratic ways of proceeding towards a goal.

In any case, the initial idea exposed in the "About" page and some other project pages is that we'll first pay for the infrastructure and then divide the money equally based on the contributions a project member did.
We hope to be as transparent as possible and most probably the best way to handle the money situation (if we'll ever come to that) is to have a foundation behind - similar to Wikimedia
You're missing the point. The existence of that line or that jar will change whether tipping exists, even though your relationship with that person hasn't changed at all.

So maybe it's not really a three way relationship in any of these situations.
It gives me money to pay the bills, save for retirement, and buy fun things. The work has challenges and matches well to my skills and experience. There are concrete outcomes I can point to as significant projects I've taken to fruition. And it isn't so stressful or annoying that it negatively impacts the rest of my life too much.

I don't love working and think I would retire if I could afford to do so. But it's not too bad.
Google achieved market dominance in large part due to its decision to hire very talented people in coordination with the other members of their wage-suppression cartel. How do you reconcile that with "compensate very well"?
It depends, some banks offer services through the app that can't be accessed on the web.

But I am aware that some apps work just fine, 4/7 banking apps I've used just work on aosp. Still haven't ridden a scooter via aosp though.
He manages the fund to pay himself the highest annual compensation in the UK, $200M-$450M+ a year.
I wish all smokers were as considerate as you are.
> but why can't I have password + (security key OR single use code)

That’s actually pretty close to what they support, except that the OPTs are only sent to your trusted Apple devices (you can’t use an arbitrary TOTP app).

> since if I lose all my Apple devices I'm locked out

They also support a 28 digit recovery key you can print out and a method for trusted contacts to help recover your account.
Stack ranking is irrelevant to all that and doesn't solve that "problem". If you want to protect yourself from lawsuits, just have a documented policy for evaluation/incentives with a papertrail showing you adhere to it and your decisions. Stack Ranking can have a poor papertrail too. Consider how you would respond to: "This ranking board was all men, and all the women were ranked low. Why?" That's when you want something more substantive behind the ratings.
It’s amazing how a few bad bananas can negatively impact a culture, isn’t it. The most attractive thing to me about entrepreneurship is what you described. FAANG companies so often have a few bad actors that set off a series of actions and reactions that lead to political, emotional turmoil. Better to make a culture yourself.
> Edit:but for sure there's no such thing as second-hand-sugar and that a Huge difference between the two.

Obesity can cause epigenetic changes that are passed down to offspring.
Thank you for the feedback! Really appreciated!

Unfortunately some of the points you talked about assume that the MVP is available (which it is) and that someone should decide everything beforehand, reach a point where the product is good enough to be used by anyone and the project is basically bootstrapped.

This goes a bit against my idea of a community-steered project, because the decisions taken at the beginning might be wrong to the point that you'd have to re-build everything from scratch to correct them.

Do you have a suggestion here? It's also true that a community like HN doesn't like projects that aren't ready to be used (see some comments here).

I sadly think we'll end up having an MVP that wasn't built by the community and start asking for ideas / contributions at that point - which as stated before goes entirely against my initial ideas
Ah, that's reassuring. So some bugs on Apple Silicon, but not game breaking. Thanks for the detail and filing an issue, Jacob.
No. I don't go there, and I'm hard of hearing and usually use self checkout any time I can. And perhaps you're perceiving my post as being supportive of "tip culture", whatever that is.

I don't condone tips, but I realize it's more effective for me to "help" those who live partially on tips than to try and change that culture.

I go to a few select places I like, and I tip well there. I also put money to artist and others who's work I appreciate.

I don't want my name in their credits, I don't want a shout out, I just want them to keep doing what they do because they are good at it.
Short lived because the population will decline until it reaches a sustainable level. Lets say 30-40 years.
You can just change the system time :) Would be better to mock the time provider, but it's not the end of the world.
You can't crowdsource starting from 0, unless your goal is absolute chaos.

At this point this project is nothing more than "I have a cool idea, now I just free need devs to implement it..."
Oh my… my kids would freak out. :D