skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t work for me. The Continue button is only enabled once you enter an email address. Furthermore, activating 2FA requires a verified email address.

Edit: It works when using the right URL, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34742134 below.
Outlook is very slow for me, but I only use it on my work laptop.
Thunderbird is almost as slow, and that's on my own desktop.
Even something simple like mousing over emails in the list is slow - there is a noticable delay between the mouse reaching each email, and the grey highlight.
This is exactly how it is in the rock climbing community. People still die, including very experienced people. You only need to mess up a rappel weight transfer once, but you have to execute it successfully thousands of times over the course of your life. People cope by saying they're careful and it's the irresponsible people who die. It isn't true. No reasonable safety system can rely on you acting perfectly every time. A low-probability-lethal-failure activity that you many many times can get you eventually, no matter how careful you are.

I don't say all this to disparage GA, or rock climbing. I rock climb and intend to do so well into the future. But saying these sorts of things mean you aren't treating your hobby with the seriousness it deserves imo. It could happen to you; thinking otherwise is self-deception.
My takeaway from this is that it somehow costs less than several hundred CHF/EUR to fly to Ireland and back.
> the whole economy is doing massive layoffs because of the recession

"U.S. reports blowout job growth; unemployment lowest since 1969" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-job-growth-accelerates-j...
>You typically are asked to work longer hours to make up for missing staff

In my country that would be illegal
There are many different approaches and some may be good and some may be bad?
this comment serves
the fact we might have got sick of your evangelism and lies hasn't crossed your mind I guess

>It’s basically a compiler enforced set of C++ best practices

Its not, its a whole different programming paradigm where the compiler dictates how you write your software. You dont let your creative facilities to drive you or whats best for your domain - you just obey the language rules...
It's not immediately obvious which has the greatest net benefit, if one can even think in those terms. Is it worse to make hay when the sun shines and then cut back later? Didn't the good period provide a productive exchange of money for work, that would have been absent in a company that just sat on the sidelines?
I’m confused what you’re asking for (and why) but it sounds interesting.
Based (how closely ?) on the 1971 black humour science fiction novel "The Futurological Congress" by Stanisław Lem !

(For those that would not know, he coined the term "robot" from the slavic root "work".)
Apple's underlying economics haven't changed, so they have not had any reason to over-hire in the first place.

Amazon, Google, Meta, Shopify and others are all e-commerce based. There was a clear trend that e-commerce had shifted up due to the pandemic, and looked to be permanent. That bet was wrong, so they all had layoffs.

Other companies were willing to hire lots of developers because the ROI on devs was good compared to low inflation and low interest rates. Then both of those things changed, so the ROI on a dev compared to investing in other things became much worse- so there's less money for developers.

Meanwhile, Apple has a mostly-stable massive chunk of the consumer device market and has always had a profit margin that is startlingly high. Not much has changed as far as they're concerned.
The problem is that XML is a markup language, which is entirely incompatible with the way data is usually structured in programs.

Your example is simple enough, but consider the following:

<root>
This is some text.
<type1 attributes="yes">
This is content with <i>markup</i>.
</type1>
<type1>
Another element of the same type.
</type1>
<type2>
And this is an element of an entirely different type.
</type2>
This is more text.
</root>

How the hell can I map that to my data model? My application data will, at worst, be a graph of class instances with named fields, containers (lists, sets, etc), and primitives (strings, ints, etc).

The fact that XML has both attributes and subelements is already a huge impedance mismatch because classes have a single namespace. But what do I do with the repeated element? With the text interspaced with tags? What's the API to navigate this mess?

I'm pretty sure that's why JSON won: it started from the application data model and just simplified it (no custom types, trees only). A deserialized JSON object doesn't even need an API, it's just a nested structure of built-in types found in any modern programming language.
There was a push towards renewables and heat pumps after Crimea too (and before, for general climate change reasons)

There was also push to do the opppsite to neutralise that threat to fossil profits e.g. Bjorn Lomberg the skeptic saying that we didnt have any tech that could replace gas, so the only response to Crimea was to frack or invent totally new tech, not rolling out renewables and heat pumps faster.

"Fracking Could Free Europe from Putin"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bjornlomborg/2014/06/23/frackin...

> Still, many EU politicians talk mostly about expanding renewable energies as a way of making Europe independent of Russian energy. Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action, said the Ukraine crisis should be a “wake-up call” for European countries to make the switch from Russian gas to clean, renewable sources of energy.

> But this simply ignores reality. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Europe gets just 1.3 percent of its energy from renewables like solar and wind, whereas it gets about 75 percent from fossil fuels and most of the remainder from nuclear. Even an extremely optimistic scenario from the IEA suggests that by 2035, Europe will only be able to generate 8 percent of its energy from these renewables. Focusing on them is simply populism without realism.

At that point, climate skepticism was strong enough politically to prevail. They tried to use this latest annexation to promote fracking etc. too but it seems to have largely failed.
> Apple, meanwhile, was more cautious. Its headcount increased just 20% from 2020 to 2022

At Apples size this is still pretty huge. At least, I thought it was until I saw that Amazon, Meta and Salesforce basically DOUBLED in 2 years.

If this data is correct isnt that insane? How can you effectively double orgs of this size over a 2 year period? Its not like a startup with 50 people or something. I guess I was out of the loop on just how big the hiring was over the pandemic. Not that layoffs are good for employees and workers like me, but these companies must still have retained tons of the hires as RIFs in tech seem to be about 7-20%.
I wonder if this was something Linus from LTT suggested. I believe he is an investor in Framework + huge Steam Deck advocate
Start an LLC. Now you're a company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law:

“Brooks' law is an observation about software project management according to which adding manpower to a software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer.”

I also think they’re doing research, not development most of the time. Such projects can’t be time-estimated, so they can’t be late (managers or outsiders still might call them late, though), and often can’t be parallelized well (“9 women cannot make a baby in one month”), so starting out with a larger team may not have helped, either.
Disney CEO Iger’s potential willingness to sell Hulu is a reversal in strategy
I’ve got a mid-range Amana heat pump and even that has a COP of 2.1 (2 watts of heating per watt used) down to 0F.

Heat pumps require different system design than a traditional setup, where the cooling load is usually the driving force. You might need a bigger heat pump to handle the heating load in very cold weather accounting for the efficiency loss.
You can ask ChatGPT which artists it’s able to emulate, and it’ll tell you. I asked for a few sample lyrics from its list and they were all as good as you’d expect.
I've generally found that if you can't measure something well, large American companies act extremely poorly with regards to that thing.

Its well understood that layoffs destroy the morale of your employees, and that they drive out a huge percentage of employees, and specifically the ones who have the best alternative options.

But I imagine that measuring the impact of brain drain from a layoff after a subsequent overhire compared to potential growth losses from not overhiring during the boom is one of those things that is extremely hard to measure.

Good on Apple and Nintendo for having strong enough and competent enough leadership to make that call, instead of the typical metric based CYA.
Hybrids don't have to be patented, but if they're new varieties, they certainly can be. Similarly, new varieties that aren't necessarily hybrids (eg, once were hybrids and now are stable) can also be patented.
> But it finally broke the illusion that users own their comments. That’s all it ever was: an illusion.

Makes me wonder about all what else about reddit is an “illusion”
This person literally says in the 2nd tweet of the thread that people offer 60-70% of their income to landlords, decides to grace us with the source in the last tweet of the thread, and his own article that he links:

https://www.cityam.com/londoners-spend-up-to-72-per-cent-of-...

states that this 60-70% figure is inclusive of utilities, transport, food and clothes, and that for London the rent figure is more like 40-45%(dunno about utility costs in UK).
>I can never remember who to be mad at.

It's so exhausting too.
> Does anyone know if this works in Lenovo WWAN slots?

Doubtful. M.2 slots for WWAN normally have different keying than M.2 slots for storage.
The problem is that this scales poorly as the depth of your module tree increases — your browser needs to download and parse a module before it can start downloading any modules it imports, which causes a waterfall effect.
He literally says "you can never say never"

Every CEO says its a last resort, they tried everything, etc. Cooks statement isn't any different
The diversity training and other efforts like that are definitely a thing. my referral bonus for getting a POC hired to a peer position is 5 figures ( and it doesn't start with a '1'). It's taken pretty seriously at big companies.
That’s it. Thanks!

Edit: id/idref
> the story they want to tell is that they were sued for cultivating seeds that accidentally wound up on their fields, but the facts established at trial were that, however the seeds ended up there, the farmers deliberately exploited the patented system.

I don't understand the distinction you're making. "cultivating seeds" and "deliberately exploiting the patented system" mean the same thing in this case. Spraying them with Roundup is how you cultivate them. Do you mean that it's illegal to buy Roundup if you haven't already bought the seeds that go with it, or something?

Edit: I think maybe you're saying that Monsanto has patented the very act of applying Roundup to a Roundup-Ready crop. So not only are the seeds and pesticides patented, but the method of applying one to the other is patented. If that's the case, that's a dumb patent that shouldn't be allowed to exist.
Part of the increase in the size of trucks is that people want big vehicles... for reasons... but part of it is just safety. Crumple zones, force deflecting shunts, and attempts to lower the weight / improve gas mileage lead to lots of foam and plastic -- which makes it look larger.
1) There are multiple herbicides and multiple pesticides and different ways to skin a cat, not all of which are patented, or for many, the patents have expired.

2) Your second point is more applicable. Who is going to grow these seeds? People underestimate how much agriculture is devoted solely to seed crops.
these photos make me anxious for unknown reasons
Why is it lazy when journalists compare Apple and Google, and yet it's rare to go even a few comments before FAANG being dropped into any tech discussion?
At a unicorn I was paid 1.5x for every on-call hour, even while sleeping. That makes 40 hours in a week and 128 on-call hours worth 1.5x for a total of: 232 paid hours in one week with on-call.

That's almost 6 weeks of pay in a single week. Yet we still had to pull teeth to get people to be on-call because of how much it sucks.
USA. I planned on freelancing my whole career. The cost of health insurance ended that about 15 years ago.
A green comet is passing by Earth. Here’s how to see it
> I quoted the part of your comment I replied to. That part was no question.

You did, but the next sentence you conveniently left out however is a question: "Do you want users asking you to recover their private keys?"

Together in their context they make my point. The so called complexity is a result of the features. If you want simple E2EE chat-like encryption you can have that, but then you need to manage your users keys and so on. And that's a valid use, but is it for engineers? As soon as functionality other than simple E2EE enters the picture explaining the concepts becomes a necessity.

To put it another way, I don't think it can be simplified without sacrificing security (for the user and their data) or features. It is important to understand how it works, but not necessarily being able to explain the algorithms.
But my point is, you're not getting a payment, in any form. Most of the time, you are not taking courses. You're being charged a fee to do your job, and then having that fee "waived". Now, with the remission "withdrawn" for the strike, you have your employer demanding you pay them to be considered their employee.
... Which still doesn't really show any gameplay at all.
In a certain range of company sizes, this works. I have been contracting since 1998 and have had a C corp since 2000. I'm currently doing work for a Fortune 100 company and they were quite unwilling to hire my company; I have to work through an agency as an individual.

My experience is that when a company is big enough to have a legal department, they invent a bunch of terrible scenarios and then create policies to protect the company from the things they imagined. Yes, there can be real problems hiring contractors directly (but I think it's fairly rare), and it's a lot easier to have one or two agencies that you pay instead of dozens (up to thousands like the company I'm working for now) of separate contractors.

Billing the big corps (when it's possible to contract corp-to-corp) has been a pretty awful experience too. Adobe wanted to see my company's client list, tax returns, and marketing materials AFTER the work had been done, for an invoice under $20k. I said no, and it took over 2 months to get them to pay. That was a while back though, so maybe things have changed.
This has helped me a lot to (what it feels like) take care more about what I spend my time on.

As extra help, I have a printed page from https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html of the final "Your Life in Weeks" image which I fill out every week. Puts yet another perspective on the very same thing.

Some people when they see it feel like it's macabre or stressful but it has the opposite effect on me, especially when dealing with problems that in hindsight are trivial.
Most layoffs are happening in growth businesses that aren’t even profitable on paper. Apple, make things, things people want and quite often need. they are a solid business that are unlikely to suffer much in a short term tightening of people’s finances interest rate rises.
Lyft stock is getting punished, down more than 35% after weak guidance
> this is a no brainer in milder climates which is why I have a heat pump and no gas furnace here in FL even though I have gas to the house for other uses.

They're a no-brainer in every climate. Newer heat pumps can handle fairly cold temperatures (-13°F) pretty easily, there may be a loss in efficiency but in the majority of the world it doesn't stay that cold. A few days of lower than normal efficiency, and at worst plugging in a few space heaters if it gets extremely cold for a day or two, does not change the overall math of heat pumps being a better solution.

Hell, that's just me talking about air source heat pumps. No reason for new construction to not use ground source and get better efficiency and not worry about ambient outdoor temperatures.
This is one of the things that the UK could have simply vetoed on.
>Also that workforce is now doing the same work amount with fewer people.

Not always.

Sometimes projects are killed, so amount of work stays the same, or even better - some people are moved to help other teams
I do understand what you mean abou complexity creep, and hope it doesn't happen, but also fear that it might in due time.

The thing about GAT is that it was never meant to be a feature. It just removes a non-obvious limitation from the language. I remember when learning Rust, I expected "GAT syntax" to just work, and was surprised when it didn't.

So, for me it makes the language less arcane.

> Perhaps I'm worried I'm just not smart enough to be a Rust programmer.

I think everyone can learn anything. It's just a matter of finding the right angle to understand a concept. If something hasn't click, force yourself to use those parts until they do.

> Off topic: I also find the Rust community unwelcoming and very clique-ish, I get the very strong "you're not apart of the cool gang" vibes and I'm too old to care to navigate this.

Ah maybe. I've not experienced this personally, but I've seen others make similar claims. It's generally aways very welcoming from what I've seen. There's the occasional smartass on their Discord, but that's just... Discord Things(TM). People ignore them, and if they're obnoxious they get called out and asked to chill out a bit.

Out of curiosity, what are your main interaction channels/places with the community? Maybe you just accidentally navigated into ones that don't suit you personally
> Specialization and different roles is helping improve productivity immensely, which means less land is used by farming, and more land can be maintained, or returned from ag use for ecological restoration.

There are three problems:

- the most obvious, concentration of market power. Just look at the stranglehold large corporations have over politics - Walmart is for example famous for getting away with underpaying their employees so much they have to apply for food stamps, and local politicians or unions are unable to do anything against it because Walmart can at any time decide to just close shop and leave an area completely without access to groceries (made possible in the first place because Walmart systematically undercut local stores on pricing). And people (i.e. voters) would not blame Walmart, but local politicians and unions. No one wants to add yet another mega-corporation to depend on for survival.

- second, concentration of genomics. When everyone and their dog sans a couple eco activists and seedbanks raises the same variety of crop or the same breed of farm animal, pandemics have an incredibly easy game. The best warning sign what can happen in such monocultural environments are forests (where bark beetles and other pests run rampant and completely destroy them) or bananas (Gros Michel famously got wiped out by a fungus and Cavendish is at the cliff from another fungus).

- third, the impact of pesticides as a whole. No matter what kind of pesticide, they all have serious side effects - most notably, they cause bees to die and as a result, all plants depending on bees for pollination can't reproduce any more. And ffs it's not just bees. All kinds of insects suffer, just compare your windshield after driving a car in the 90s and today through a rural area. And all these insects were part of the food chain for larger animals... leading to an ever growing loss of biodiversity further up the chain.

> But we must also abandon pastoral aspirations of converting farming back into a hugely labor intensive activity as it was, say, 150 years ago. Except for the few that want to do it as a hobby, our backs will thank us.

We don't need to go back that far in time. Like half the food produced is wasted instead of reaching a human's mouth - spoiled, rejected for missing quality benchmarks, never sold because stores require an overabundance of choice for the consumer, wasted because restaurants prefer to deliver too large portions because they are afraid of bad Google/Yelp/... reviews... the list of causes for food waste is immense. Cut down on food waste, produce less food in total, and maybe avoid the need for intensive agriculture in the first place.
Until people figure out the metrics and start gaming them and produce crap to satisfy the metrics. I’ve seen that movie twice already, though LLMs weren’t the savior tool du jour yet.
All of these "company X has avoided layoffs" articles are pretty foolish, are all the big layoffs done? Are we even sure there won't be second rounds by summer?

Apple could layoff 4% in a week and these same analysts will try to explain why there was no other way
Tech management has such a hard-on for headcount it is sickening. It is like the managers brag about how many people are under them.
Yeah. You're right, that is a bit of a problem. On first load, this is 272 files. I'm checking it now for the first time and most of them are loading sequentially rather than in parallel, which is taking 3.7 seconds.
It just demonstrates how patents are a form of rent seeking. You own the product of your labor but you should not be able to assume you own the accidental products that are related to your labor (ex. buying tools from a tool smith which then you use to make your own tool smithy).
A portable machine to provide heat and cooling via heat pump technology.

For cooling this exists in many forms: there are the window air conditioners, and "portable" window air conditioners which have a duct that connects to the window. The problem with the latter is that they're loud and the ducts result in a lot of heat loss.

For heating there are some portable air conditioners that use a heat pump but they're subject to the same issue described above. More common is resistive electrical heat in the form of coils or an oil filled container that radiates heat.

A portable mini split, where it connects through the window would give you a similar advantage as a portable air conditioner, but with more efficiency and being less loud.
> I think I will buy my first iPhone when they move to USB-C.

I bought my first iPhone (13 mini) last year and you're 100% right to feel this way. Having one special cord for this one stupid device is awful. We should throw a worldwide celebration once Lightning is 6 feet under and we can all finally just use one damn cord for everything.
You don't get to be a big business without being a small business first.

I agree with you that it's in Walmart's interest to not want employees to discuss wage. If I was in their position I wouldn't want my employees talking about it either, even if I'm doing my best to be "fair". That's just because there's no such thing as "fair", especially at Walmart's scale.
Indeed. Give a model some kind of autonomous sensors, make it stateful with memory and continuous retraining, make it possible for it to act and learn from its actions, maybe even model some kind of hormonal influence etc. and I'm pretty sure that at some point an actual Theory of Mind will actually emerge and we'll be debating what kind of legal rights such a model should possess. We're pretty clearly not at that point yet.
A cable is at least one wire which is a conductor, they use the term conductor because the standard applies to more than wires and cables.

Claiming a conduit is just a convenience doesn't change anything.

Where did you get the 170/325 numbers? In residential applications it's 220-240v for most of the world. North America uses split phase for most outlets but major appliances still run on 220-240v.