skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to keep an open mind and engage with people who don't agree, but you're not making it easy for me here.

You're suggesting that when Russia cut off the gas, and Germany didn't immediately capitulate, that's evidence the leverage was worthless? It wasn't even winter yet.

Also, blowing up your pipeline just as a competitor comes on line? Whatever you think of Hersh's article, it's undeniable that Norway made a lot of money on the sabotage. Even if Russia had stayed firm and sent no gas through the pipeline, the fact that they could have alone would have kept prices lower.

Third, you're suggesting that Sweden/Denmark would have kept it secret if they found evidence of Russian meddling? They absolutely would not. In fact, if there was even evidence exculpating the US, without implicating anyone else, they would have blasted it to the heavens.

NATO-aligned think tanks have gotten better at this - something I view as a good thing, despite that I am not a fan of them, and I don't think they did it willingly. But with the rise of Bellingcat, they're now routinely publishing embarrassing material on Russia that they would have LOVED to keep secret as a bargaining chip, in earlier decades.

In fact, if there was a Russian team that blew up the pipeline, they would have left a trail a mile wide in public data and the countless leaked databases (another huge one just a few days ago, from Roskomnadzor). Bellingcat, or anyone interested, could have given you their damn cell phone numbers, if it was a Russian op. Yet they have instead remained utterly uninterested in the question of how the pipelines were sabotaged.
Really? You think any employer “cares about their employees”?

A job is a transaction a way for me to trade labor for money and support ny addiction to food and shelter. It’s my responsibility to save accordingly always expecting a lay off.

This has been my mindset since I was 22 years old making 11/hour as a computer operator saving my overtime pay until today at 49 where I stumbled into a role at $BigTech three years ago and save/invested all of my after tax signing bonus and divest my RSUs once vested.
Sunshine. Awesome movie
I found the article extremely informational by explaining what the situation could look like for my aging parents.

In fact it even motivates me to start planning out costs with them.

Sometimes the point of articles can simply be to relate one’s own experience to other people.
I mean, it does instill some fear though. Knowing that a lot of companies are going around laying off 5-10% of their folks means I'm a lot less confident I can get a new job if I'm laid off or quit my job. Which means I'm going to keep my head down and do my work and not rock the boat at my current job as much.

Yes, I'm paid well, and yes I have more of a cushion to land on if I got laid off, but I know folks who got laid off last year who haven't been able to get a new job for months. I don't have 6 months of all of my living expenses just laying around in a bank account, and even if I did, that pretty much wipes out my savings.

"Other people are doing worse than you" doesn't mean there aren't rational fears. Making an engineer's salary doesn't set you up for life within a few years.
Cover.

If you target specific people, even if they do garbage work, somebody somewhere will find something to sue you over. If you do a less targeted layoff, you'll hit some of that target group anyway, and some will leave over their own volition after. Yeah you'll lose some good people but the whole point of this charade is that in management's eyes the engineers and knowledge workers are cogs in a machine, so collateral damage is okay and it'll all come out in the wash over the next few years with new hires.
How sensitive of you, wishing death on a person just for not having the same opinion as you do.

The whole world is by now familiar with the Canadian death programs and how the government uses economical reasoning to justify them. That has nothing to do with your grandparents.
Companies like this drop-ship new laptops to new employees.

The laptops everyone has are COVID-era and about to expire for warranty, and would just be binned anyway. So there is no point taking them back.
Incredibly, opening this link on Firefox on my iPhone crashes the phone. Happens every time - click the link, phone restarts.
On a Kareem tangent, his cameo in Airplane! is hilarious.
If they did that, then even neutral organizations, like the ACLU and the National Academy of Sciences, would call out their poor practices. There are plenty of examples of that.

Turns out, well-written articles get input from all interested parties and include any opposition research so that readers can look at the information presented and decide what the report means. Please note that Mr. Sailer elided all of that and, instead, used a singular study (which he plainly admits) to attack a philosophy that he and his funders are on record trying to dismantle. This isn't complicated, it's just barely disguised.
That’s really irritating. Though I guess with the news today, maybe a bullet dodged.
It's important to prioritize self-care and manage work-life balance to avoid burnout and finding ways to enjoy life beyond your computer screen.

Transition to contracting can provide a change of pace and allow you to have more control over the projects you work on and the clients you work with. This could give you the time and help you determine if you'd like to stay in the tech field or venture into something different.
It's weird because I've seen job posts for them running for 6 months now and still not be filled.

Are they running job ads but not hiring?
It's incredible how submissive these companies act to capital.
Purely for SEO and social media surfacing purposes, I can almost guarantee it.
Any subreddits in particular? Seems like I miss those
Trying out various shells (and converting my various scripts) has been somewhat of a hobby of mine for the past several weeks. Long story short, I settled on using fish both as my shell and as the language to write my scripts in.

nushell is really, really great as a shell but I find it far too limiting in some cases to use as a scripting language. For example, you can't build a non-external command from a string and run that command. I'll definitely come back to nushell in the future.

elvish is also really great, especially as a scripting language (being able to pass around lambdas is amazing), but ultimately fish has so much community support and so many nice plugins that it's hard to justify using anything else at the moment.
Yes, PoW crypto is now a much more concrete example of the potential damage from poorly aligned utility functions, as well as the challenges in containing a system once it is released.

I'm finding the current hype cycle very frustrating from both sides. On one side there is frequent overplaying current capabilities, and cherry picked examples given as it they're representative. On the other side there is an over simplistic "AI is evil" reaction. It's hard to deny that progress in the past few years greatly exceeds expectations and could make a significant improvement to individual creativity and learning, as well as how we cooperate but so much of the discussions are fear based.
Plural - An open-source alternative to managed services
Opening in safari, its a completely blank page

Edit: a couple people said that’s because someone set display: none, so likes unrelated?
Nope, bash isn't a programming language. It's a shell - a shell is a program whose purpose is to launch other programs.
Mary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted
Non-JS Archive [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/uah9K
Own your hardware or just rent it in the cloud?
Oh, we do have royalty these days too. But think something on the lines of Serene Doges and Italian Signorias of the Renaissance era. Private citizens amassing enough wealth and power to control governments not only during their lifetimes, but the lifetimes of their children as well, not unlike Sforza in Milan or the Medicis.
AI summarising articles written by AI. Productive use of everyone's time.
I have read this and I don't have it handy around with me as a reference book (this type of book should become a reference book). I think this was not as good as I was hoping for. Ok to go through once but wasn't something I would re-read or say I found anything new/worthy. Sorry about that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34711244
I thought both books were entirely too generous in their depictions of humanity's ability to coordinate for enormous, earth-saving efforts. I have a feeling that a real extinction level crisis would be much more like Don't Look Up or Greenland(extra optimistic ending scenes not included) than we'd care to admit. Bureaucratic incompetency and political infighting leading to a tragic and preventable end in both cases presented in the books.
> Why do you think people are still entrenched into mode of thinking these days?

I dunno. Familiarity? I mainly use Windows because it's what I've used for 23 years, even though I have a dedicated SSD to Linux. Maybe for many people, it's not worth unlearning decades of muscle memory and re-learning PS just so they can get object-oriented shell scripting.
> It cost my mother $150.

Sure, but by being taxpayers, your parents already paid a substantial portion of the cost forward by paying for the healthcare of other people. Perhaps they were net takers from the system, but presumably people on HN have parents that are net contributors to the system.
A brief history of User Defined Field patterns for CRMs – Part 2, NoSql
This reminded me of one of our society's most twisted and grotesque norms, forcing people on their deathbed to die "naturally", meaning to starve and dehydrate to death while being pumped full of opioids, instead of mercifully and humanely ending their life.

We treat animals better than this.

I hope by the time it's my turn my family is able to end my life once the outcome is certain instead of watching me waste away day after day in a hospital bed until my body finally fails.
Laying people off in harsh economic times is both bad for the employees laid off and bad for the shareholders.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee...
That seems normal for vice.com, does it not?
Seems like we’re mostly finished with denial and we’ve moved on to anger. After that comes bargaining, then depression, then acceptance.

(Whether for good reasons, evil reasons, or stupid reasons, the public trust in “public health” has been broken, and the public health institution is naturally going to grieve that loss)
Essentially you're looking for something like that: https://de.ecoflow.com/products/river-2-max-portable-power-s... - but the price point is in a similar range, and the package is substantially more chunky (inverter, ...). The issue is that I could not find any charger for bosch bike batteries that would work of USB-C PD. That would essentially cut down the package - no need for an inverter, ...
Take a look here as you may be able to get some help from the NHS - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/...

Also, check with your local council as there's a lot of support that is not well publicised (particularly for making modifications to your home - which can lead to reduced council tax bills). Unfortunately GPs often don't seem to be aware of what is available - it could be worth talking to your local hospice (even if you aren't end of life) as they tend to be much more clued in.
> Why give good severance? Why not give nothing?

You lay off hard to instill fear and legally-depress everyone's wages, but you give good severance so that when you inevitably want to hire people in the next two months (as GitLab is likely to do), they're aren't too terrified to accept your offer because of all the layoffs you just did. 7% of staff as "layoffs" comes out to about 150-ish? people, but they are also currently hiring for over 100 open job position at GitLab on job boards right now. GitLab is also up 74% year-over-year in quarterly revenue, and had their highest sales quarter ever just four months ago, according to their own PR department (https://ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-release-details/git...)

It's a pretty transparent process, frankly. Lots of companies are doing 'fake layoffs' (layoffs they don't need, done solely to appease the executive class, who strongly desire a recession), but unfortunately for them, the truth is that the economy isn't anywhere close to a recession, so they simultaneously have to keep hiring open, to keep labor incoming, to keep up with all the new business growth or increased sales they're experiencing right now.
I never thought of this, but now that I see your idea of the "two levels of state", I find it incredibly likely and clear that it's going to work like that eventually, yes.
Don't drive class division. Even the highest paid engineer is closer to being homeless than being any of the people deciding these layoffs. If the primary economic force you have is the sale of your labor, you are labor, and need to act like it.

Our "high" salaries could quickly evaporate if we're not paying attention while the owners of capital are taking advantage of excuses to wage class warfare.
The difference is the people on r/antiwork by and large have menial jobs, and/or are students in that very predictable/boring pseudo-socialist phase of their life. People on HN are making like $200k/yr typing JavaScript into a computer.
Your thoughts mirror my own, however I should point out that thinking this now and making that choice when the time actually comes are quite different things.
Amateur and unlicensed spectrum allocations have also grown over time as technology has allowed for tighter bandpass filtering and more efficient digital transmission…but we haven’t seen an amateur resurgence, and mesh networks are actually dying off. Nobody cares.

And legal access to experiment is already free and available to everybody. It’s called a Special Temporary Authorization. Corporations use them all of the time for various purposes, including experimental applications. Citizens are allowed to apply for them too, but nobody ever does.

I don’t really care about hypothetical future scenarios that will never exist. Unlicensed and amateur spectrum has its place, but it’s not exactly deserving of any more bandwidth than it already has.
Goldilocks.
> Are they all stupid? I find it hard to believe.

I find it very easy to believe. A lot of executives appear to have a prime motivation that is "number goes up" which IMHO makes them extremely susceptible to the same levels of groupthink and other cognitive fallacies as one would see on /r/wallstreetbets.

I appreciate that isn't necessarily the case for all executives but given that executive's fallacies are mostly disproved by a slow to react and sometimes illogical economy as opposed to a nearby cold logic machine, it makes cliff-marching much easier for them.
Most user data is not worth anywhere near enough to keep the "entire tech infrastructure" running.

User attention is worth more but even then I would be hesitant to say such a grand claim.
Very curious, what if you had a 10gbe symmetric connection from your ISP? How would you modify your deployment?
Maybe not interfacing directly with a LLM ala ChatGPT but as an extension of vector search using word embeddings. It offers users a much more flexible interface to explore different combinations of dimensions vs a rigid facet UI interface. Well you can argue that the engineering has shifted to making the model, and that is true, but by keeping it fuzzy there is more room for creative prompt engineering. One challenge will be teaching the user what one doesn't know.
Unless you're making a pun about your reluctance to suffer in the winter of life, I think the word should be spelled "eke".
Yeah you can't use it for academic research, it's really, really terrible at it.

It will even claim it can generate citations for you too, which is pretty messed up because when I tried it just fabricated them replete with faked DOIs.

Where it shines is at squishy language stuff, like generating the framework of an email, paraphrasing a paragraph for you, or summarizing a news article.

It really is revolutionary at language tasks, but unfortunately the hype machine and these weird "AI sycophants" have caused people to dramatically overestimate it's use cases.
Sadly TeamViewer is the only thing that works on old Android Point-of-Sale devices which are still numerous. And since Android requires the manufacturer signature to do screen sharing on older versions and those manufacturers are either dead or too big to care, it will remain to be so.

I can't wait though for the day the place I work for decides to drop support for them and stops paying for that... thing as it's not only extremely expensive and awful from a security perspective but also from a general quality one: some days their server just decides to not log you in, they have a nasty crashing bug that often happens when you resize your meeting window that has been there literally for years, among other things.
> 100% anonymous, aggregated, and open to the public

I don't believe the "100% anonymous" is a thing with AI anymore. When AI can identify/fingerprint you by your walk pattern[1], you can't really tell what data can and can't be used to fingerprint you.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8275035
> perhaps we were never as intelligent as we suspected?

Yeah, I think you're right. Intelligence is just something our species has evolved as a strategy for survival. It isn't about intelligence, it's about survival.

The cognitive skills needed to survive/navigate/thrive in the digital era are very different than the cognitive skills required to survive in the pre-digital era.

We're biologically programmed through millions of years of evolution to survive in a world of scarcity. Intelligence used to be about tying together small bits of scarce information to find larger patterns so that we can better predict outcomes.

Those skills are being rendered more and more irrelevant in a world of information abundance. Perhaps the "best fit" humans of the future are those that possess new form of "intelligence", relying less on reason and more on the ability to quickly digest the firehose of data thrown at them 24-7.

If so, then the AI we were trying to build in the 1950s would necessarily be different than the AI that our grandchilden would find helpful.
Sources welcome, and also can we please start criticising all those other people just trying to get shit done when in the middle of an emergency. I think those firefighters are doing shit jobs too, because you KNOW they could've put that burning building out better than they did!
That would work for anything MS considers diagnostic data, but that is not a complete picture of what it's sending and why.
If your plane is gonna crash without dumping some excess weight, killing everyone on board, what do you do? You throw a ton of stuff out of the plane in an effort to continue on. This is what layoffs are. It’s a survival mode tactic. The cost of lower morale is smaller than the cost of complete failure.
"It’s as if I won a billion dollars in a lottery and 39 years later someone won two billion dollars. How would I feel? Grateful that I won and happy that the next person also won. His winning in no way affects my winning."

What a great quote and general outlook on life.
But for a newcomer… god. Is Microsoft tied by law to only a limited set of names for their products? Why is everything called the same even though they are completely different?

Asp.net, asp classic, asp 1234567, Net core, core only? Net framework, just “.net”, Asp webforms? Asp razor? What is going on?

Also the fact that you go to Microsoft and you’re on a page of non core documentation, then you click on a code example and you end up in core docs doesn’t help.

Then there are 4 different ways of making an HTTP request and you have to be a net enthusiast to know which one is a wrapper on which one and what is the current one vs the old stuff.

Idk, I guess it’s good if you know it, but it’s pretty icky to get into.
I spent a decade working in a nursing home before becoming an epidemiologist, so definitely have worked with elderly patients. Not to mention my own experiences with elderly family members.

> but it's not like the doctor is in any way responsible for verifying that information.

Yeah, that's the exact point. Everybody does things that the doctor says they shouldn't, but that doesn't mean we withhold care as a result.

People stop antibiotics before the scripts are done. People smoke and drink too much, some even drink and drive. People don't take their blood pressure or cholesterol or even HIV meds as prescribed. Some people take half a pill because the pill they were prescribed is "too big" -- people are weird and do all kinds of things.

Paxlovid is no different. The provider can be checking drug interactions, making adjustments as needed and counseling the patient. That's their job. They can't babysit the patient all of the time. If it's clear the patient doesn't understand and can't care for themselves, then there are larger conversations to be had.

My point is that deciding not to prescribe a medication to a qualifying patient because it generally has too many drug interactions and patients can't be trusted with their health is not ok. Patients don't need to understand that ritonavir is a protease inhibitor that was incidentally found to inhibit cytochrome P450-3A4, which subsequently boosts the levels of many other medications. They just need to know to stop taking their cholesterol pill for the next week. That's all. Some, like your elderly relative, may not be able to follow that direction. But there are millions of high risk people who are able to do that, and shouldn't be denied care based on the assumption they're incompetent.
ah yeah, I was just thinking about that firefighter demo and couldn't understand how the topography was correlated with the surface. (It seems like it'd be super cool if you could scoop out lakes and stuff... I've never seen or played with something like that.)

The tactile aspect of the sand is neat. I can see it as a good learning tool as you described for thinking about wind patterns and road cuts.
I used to "collect" icon sets, even though I only ever used about 1% of them
What happens if the redistribution of power no longer reflects liberal values?
I don't mind the companies that got a temporary bump from adding blockchain to the name.

I'm more concerned about the Twitter hype-men and women adding '.eth' to their name and singing DeFI praises all day long....and then quietly removing it without so much as a word, once the hype is dead and keeping the '.eth' makes you look like a sucker.

BTW a lot of influential people were on that train, current CEO of YCom being one of them.
The State of the Culture (2023)
I have made the code available on GitHub, The code was developed on Windows and makes use of some Windows specific functions. But I think that dependency can be removed.

https://github.com/FransFaase/ReadingQuarkXpress
It is only in good taste to express gratitude. I would expect nothing less.

Indeed, speaking of gratitude, it's nice that this announcement even exists. Many companies don't even tell their employees that people are getting laid off, much less tell the public.

And calling it a euphemism is only confusing. A euphemism for what?
> As a clinician, I’ve been trained to explain hospice to patients as “an extra layer of support” at the end of life.

Offering advice on the provision of goods and services without cost information is stupid. It’s like one grade schooler telling another “yeah, you should totally buy that real life Ferrari.”

> The problem is that the bulk of the hands-on care in hospice — including changing diapers, feeding and giving medications — still falls to the family.

Amazingly, she acted as a salesperson for services whose service level she didn’t understand. On top of that, instead of learning a lesson and sharing better approaches with others she promoted additional subsidies to the existing dysfunctional system.