skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Shareholders are also pension funds,

We don’t forget that. It is simply a reality that we can’t avoid. All the profit is siphoned into the stock market, if you opt out of it (if you are even allowed to; in many European states, these funds are mandatory), you’ll loose your savings to inflation.

Could we have a better system? yes. Does it make sense to add this caveat every time we complain that shareholders are exploiting workers for their own profits? No, that would be a waste of nuance.
Mmm...fiber.
I'm really interested in different points of view.

I guess you mean the kind of trunk based development? But still some sort of CI happens, maybe locally.

Never worked in a different way than using a local / remote CI pipeline, that's why I'm curious.
> If it isn't productivity (or morale) driving their decision on "putting their foot down and demanding no work from home", what is it?

Unfortunately, my background is in data science. I would say the field of psychology is better suited to answering that question.
Perhaps not the case here, but there are a couple of things I would add to this sentiment.

First, if you love Rust uniquely, I'd argue it might still make sense to use Rust to build your first product iterations. If your initial team commonly loves Rust, and can't agree on "love" for another common language, perhaps Rust is the best language. Burnout will happen exponentially faster if developers are lamenting the language (n.b. Rust is commonly lamented). I think there are enough language/platform options these days for this to be an unlikely scenario, but this is to say don't discount your passion for a language because it doesn't iterate fast enough.

Second, if the problem your startup is trying to solve is solidly in the performance and security realm, it makes sense to start in Rust. If your pitch is something like "pandas but fast and memory efficient" it also makes sense to start your project in something like Rust.
> and you feel like you're a day-one white belt getting ragdolled by someone having fun and going at 40% of their competition-level intensity.

You reminded me of a nice memory. I never trained competitively, nor very far, but was fortunate to see some people with amazing ability.

As a young teen learning Aikido, one time, our great sensei (at a local public school auditorium that was converted to a dojo in the evening) had a very high-ranking person from Japan visit. The visitor was middle-aged and jovial, and his family was also there.

At one point, the visiting sensei was demonstrating throws in the middle of the mats, and would indicate a student who was to attack. Then he'd do some subtle, conservation-of-movement whole body thing, and the student would go flying.

I received the technique myself, and the students weren't just being polite or trying to show good rolls/breakfalls -- the technique was surprisingly powerful, and you were definitely getting thrown, whether you wanted to or not. But done gently enough that you wouldn't get hurt. He would smile and maybe give a good-natured little chuckle each time.
on HN, you could be asking this question to a student, a worker, a VC or a stock analyst. They'll all have a different answer.
I've heard this a million times, but isn't that a sunk cost fallacy? They don't get their money back when people come back, and they can either stop renting or sell. They aren't charging employee's rent for using the offices.
Absolutely nothing. I'm the team lead and I bug people all the time for their questions and ideas. Quite explicitly so, like "why aren't you reaching out to me with questions?" But it's like trying to squeeze water out of a rock when they're online. But when I call them into the office to chat in person, then they have tons to talk about.

With few exceptions, juniors are in the default mindset that they're bothering people when they have problems. My job is to socialize them out of that. I accomplish that by bringing them into the office, because the alternatives very rarely work.
I frequently hear the notion that remote work makes it impossible to train juniors/next generation.

Where I struggle to fully accept that without data, is that even my own leadership frequently espouses that line... but I've been largely remote for 20 years and so have all majority of my colleagues. We've built relationships and mentorship and coaching and shared knowledge and friendships while being various kinds of remote for two decades. It's not rocket science. It's doable.

Now, an argument can be definitely made that some people don't learn or motivate well in remote scenario, and I will BUY that... as long as we in the same breath/sentence also acknowledge that some people don't learn or motivate well in busy in-person open offices.
There are quite of few of these amateur radio balloons aloft at any given time. It cracks me up that so much money was wasted taking one of them out.

You can track them real-time here: https://amateur.sondehub.org/ (zoom out and look for the balloon icons)
Cf. C. Northcote Parkinson’s essay ‘Plans and Plants, or The Administration Block.’
Most SWEs don't work at Amazon, Google or Meta. Maybe they'll just keep rolling along while their companies reap the advantageous reach into the national/global talent pool.
This is about the theory that it was the USA who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines.

Hersh is referring to Seymour Hersh who, according to the youtube headline, is a reporter.

OP: This is interesting, thanks for sharing. It's unfortunate though that due to the lack of context info in your submission this is probably reaching a far smaller audience than it could and should.
They did two layoffs in a row, one of 20-ish first and then another one, so that must be the total number I imagine.
Is there an easy way to import from authy to bw? Or do I have to do one at a time.
$100/flight * 3 flights/week * 50 weeks/yr = $15,000/yr.

The interesting part is the seems like a deal compared to cost of living of San Fransisco/Seattle and the salary slash of working in Phoenix/Las Vegas/Denver/Salt Lake/Boise.
I was curious if this was the kind of thing that lawyers do just as a matter of course. (If you can skip the trial, so much the better; if not, you've lost nothing.)

Quoth Wikipedia:

According to Federal Judicial Center research, summary-judgment motions are filed in 17% of federal cases. 71% of summary-judgment motions were filed by defendants, 26% by plaintiffs. Out of these, 36% of the motions were denied, and 64% were granted in whole or in part.

So no, they don't automatically do it. They do seem to expect a decent chance of it being granted when they do.

I'm surprised that it would happen in a case like this, which would seem to be a judgment call. Though I wonder if it has to do with a recent filing saying "Even if we did do the bad thing, we didn't do $1.6 worth of damage". Which does sound a bit like "skip to the part where we appeal this".
FTC Launches New Office of Technology to Bolster Agency’s Work
As a taxpayer, I think the AF using a $100 (or was it $12) balloon for target practice is way better than say the $570K BQM-167 remote drone that they'd normally use!

https://dronedj.com/2021/03/24/the-air-forces-training-drone...
If you lay off 11% then lay of 17% of what's left that's only a total layoff of 26% of the original number, but yeah.
[ Disclaimer: Author of the blog here ] I knew this blog was very polarizing so this is a fair comment. I have called out advantages and disadvantages in the first scenario ("The pros of this approach is that the customer is decoupling heavily from the infrastructure underneath thus enabling better portability of their entire platform. The cons of doing this is that the customer is signing up for a high amount of work.") and, in retrospect, I should have called them out explicitly for the last scenario (I have just assumed readers could infer they would be the opposite). I did mention towards the end that "customers [that can benefit from the third model ] are coming from an Amazon ECS background, they are all in into Amazon ECS and AWS" but I take to heart the suggestion that I should have been more explicit. Thanks.
That's fair. (Though I certainly haven't argued it either way previously myself.)

I do think it makes your statement that cannot, "be linked back to you personally", a little less absolute.
Double-especially true in TOS that aren't even properly negotiated. There's a bit more leeway if it's, say, two businesses hammering out a real contract, a true meeting of the minds, but, in a display of uncharacteristic sanity on the part of the US legal system, these kinds of boilerplate take-it-or-leave-it "contracts" usually aren't allowed to get as out-there as the real thing can (though even in those cases, something like this would be pretty damn iffy)
you didn't read.

it wasn't customer data - it was Atlassian employee data, which is exactly what is required to use Envoy
The estimation is on the front end of the contract, not the back end -- the amount offered to a creator whose videos average 10M views is 10x than what is offered to one whose videos average 1M views, in general. If you think about it from the advertiser's point of view, this is the only sane way to manage the risk of a video going viral and exceeding expected number of views, while still providing a reasonably constant valuation of a view event.
Oh yeah!

SHRM.org is not biased on this topic at all, and their coverage of the topic is 100% objective! /s
How is that any less disruptive? When I was a junior, as someone who was very hesitant to disturb a senior, it helped that I could actually just walk past their desks while getting water or a coffee, and could tell whether they were deeply engrossed or more relaxed just by looking at them at their desks. Sometimes I could even time my coffee break based on when I saw them getting theirs so I could ask them a question without disturbing them.

Now, I’ll submit there are people who are not considerate at all. And to be honest, a lot of people have become way worse since the pandemic. It’s almost like they’ve forgotten basic human decency. And those people can be far more disruptive in person than they can be remote. But there are ways to resolve those issues (basically by telling them that you’re busy and not indulging them when they’re disturbing you, and very quickly they’ll get the hint).
I've seen this exact same problem apply to the war in Ukraine for armored vehicle identification. There's a blurred still of a video showing an abandoned unrecognizable tank, and some guys arrives and say: “look I enhanced the image quality and now we can clearly see that it's a T80-BVM because we can see [insert the appropriate detail here]” where the “details” are by design completely made up by the neural net.

This kind of image transformation is cool when all you care about is esthetic quality of the image, but if you want to see details, then Mark I Eyeball is the best tool you can hope for, because if the thing is unrecognizable, you'll know it and won't make things up to pretend it is not.
I don't really like the idea of TOTP and passwords in the same place. If it gets compromised someone has both your password and TOTP code.
Inflating the layoff percentage doesn't serve anything except to sensationalize an already editorialized headline. The number is 17%, not 28%.
That sounds fantastic, and it mirrors my (brief & shallow) experience with such tools. It quickly becomes too much of a drawing project, and too little of a data-capture/tabulating one.

But please please please show the resulting picture somewhere, it was incredibly frustrating to read through your page's wonderful build-up towards the goal, and then not get to see the rendered result? Poor me.
^ This. Twilio and Sendgrid are outright criminal in the way they handle their own fraudulent customers. Twilio makes money on every single one of those bogus communications and does nothing to proactively prevent that fraud because it would impact the bottom line. When your business is based on mostly fraud you need to find a new business.
Who’s Responsible for the Toxic Train Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio?
I totally agree, and that's how, for example, the rich Oxford and Cambridge colleges are funded. I think it might be a big ask these days, though, especially with returns on investments relatively low. Sadly.
Indeed, shouldn't patents be checked to ensure there isn't any risk here?
Even if so that takes benchmarking on the target systems. Linking can be fast compared to reading a few extra MB from disk.
>As far as I know you can install any addons you want, you just have to create your own collection.

I'm also very interested in bypassing the mobile limitation. Does creating a custom collection require an account? Ive never seen the option and have tried everything to back to 2019-2020 Firefox plugin capabilities.

Update: For anyone in the same position, I just saw this solution in another comment. Its unfortunate that such basic functionality requires a whole user account.

>For reference, to work around mozilla's artificial restrictions, you have to use nightly. Once you activate the debug menu (about firefox > tap logo 5 times) there's the option to set a "custom add-on collection". You can make a custom collection on addons.mozilla.org using a firefox account. The two fields are the last two parts of the URL on your custom collection.
This article was from 2022. The bill died after the congress adjourned.

I handle litigation for my company. The far majority of it is someone looking for a payday. We blow millions of dollars on lawyers fighting BS lawsuits. It sickens me. I'm a lawyer and litigators disgust me (for the most part). It's 90% bottom feeders.
did I or do I?
I'll cover up their rhetorical technique with statistics:

Women have outpaced men in Bachelor's degree completions since 1981, and Master's degrees since 1986. At present they are 57.7% of Bachelor's degree recipients and 60.7% of Master's degrees [0]. You might argue that most of the advance women made was prior to the year 2000, so it isn't reflective of trends today.

Women have a "struggle for reproductive rights". Abortion and contraceptives are "critical reproductive healthcare services", according to the White House [1]. Men cannot have abortions, cannot take birth control pills, cannot receive birth control shots or implants, cannot obtain IUDs, and (mostly) cannot choose to have a child without the support of their partner. I suppose, then, men do not even have a chance at having what is a "critical reproductive healthcare service" and are thus inherently deprived.

Women are the heads of four out of five single parent households [2]. Put differently, four out of five men do not obtain custody of their children in situations where the parents do not live together.

Male life expectancy is more than five years less than female life expectancy in the US [3].

The bigger issue than all of this, to me, is the psychological aspect of this discussion that I cannot quantify with large-scale statistics. When men's disadvantages are brought up, society generally shouts "shut up". Since I left my original comment, I have been told that my post was a "hollow unsubstantiated rant", an "incredibly sexist framing", "disingenuous" and "not constructive", "combative" and "alienating". Can you imagine similar attacks being levied against a woman arguing in support of abortion? I sure cannot. Again, I do not know how to quantify this, but the experience of never mentioning an issue which impacts men for fear of being similarly shot down is in the back of my mind every day, and I'd imagine many men face similar thoughts. The thought police hold far more sway over my discourse than I'd like.

[0]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_318.10.a...

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

[2]: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr71/nvsr71-01.pdf
It seems incorrect to call generative design AI. Isn't it just an implementation of a genetic algorithm? It would be more apt to compare it to natural selection and evolution.
> Sure, if you're going to throw away your early prototype there are better languages. But nobody ever does that.

You can’t be serious. I’ve seen prototypes get thrown away all the time, especially at startups. In fact, I’d say that’s more common than not.
A GoDaddy spokesperson was not immediately available for comment when contacted by BleepingComputer earlier today

As someone who has waited on hold with GoDaddy support for over six hours on multiple occasions, this does not surprise me.
This is why they're holding it, but it's also part of how BH is just becoming an index fund.

Originally they would invest in high-value companies that they could grow steadily by supplying them with cheap cash. That's not AAPL.
ive always correlated zero-trust with that which was recently on top of HN: https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-02-11

treat your employees like cattle; see how far that will go
> But once people head back to the office, teams and companies that have more physical presence together will outperform and put the other people out of business.

I'd love to see data if you have it. Many studies show the opposite.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...

I understand that companies have expensive real estate handsomely equipped with the finest of cubes, and that it comforts the old guard to see an army of business-casual-attired employees staring at screens, but it seems extremely unlikely that this costly and anachronistic model is going to outperform virtual competitors.
He's dead. Poison under the thumbnail. His assassin confessed to an associate of mine. The assassin now resides in a hole in the desert. Interesting guy. No, you don't have to believe me. True though.
> You can't write a method that takes an instance of Foo and says "my method throws whatever Foo.bar() throws" or even "my method throws iff Foo.bar() throws".

If you could it'd mean altering the implementation would automatically alter the API, which would be rather unexpected.

That's why the Java approach is to wrap exceptions and propagate causal chains. The underlying errors thrown by the implementation can change but the advertised exceptions don't, but no information is lost.
TikTok plans 2 more European data centers amid privacy fears
I migrated to Aegis a few months ago and would recommend it.

Exporting the configuration was a bit tricky, but I found a guide on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...
Yep I agree so I use 1Password only for passwords and Bitwarden only for TOTP.
More like unwilling, but sure.

Honestly your tone this entire thread isn't conducive to any sort of constructive discussion. It seems like you're just having a bad day and lashing out at this article for whatever reason.
+1 for Buildroot!

I haven't done much with Yocto, but I had very good experiences with Buildroot, particularly with getting helpful answers to noob questions I posted on stack overflow. One was answered by Thomas Petazzoni who, I think, is one of the main people behind Buildroot.
Hey there! I'm an old fuddy duddy, too.

Continuous deployment has been around long enough that even IBM (remember never getting fired for buying IBM?) talks about it.

https://www.ibm.com/topics/continuous-deployment

"Dark deploys" and "feature flags" are often used to keep customers safe from incomplete features while still giving all of the advantages of CD plus allowing testing in production.

I'd never heard of Flagship, but this is a nice writeup on that (kudos, Flagship.io):

https://www.flagship.io/glossary/dark-launch/
Maybe for you but not for everyone. I’ve been driving for almost 30 years, consistently speed well above the speed limit, text and drive, and probably all of the other no nos that some people preach. Still never been in an accident or been pulled over and I pretty much am zoned out whenever I drive.
Linux foundation has BILLIONS of dollars and hundreds of global companies supporting it. You're telling me there's no way they can even see if they can mount a DISK or even DISK IMAGE in a specific format? I simply don't buy it.

I could buy "It's a waste of time, nobody's using the code, we are pruning legacy code for the Rust rewrite, etc." But not that it's impossible to test. That doesn't seem truthful.
And yet you still understood what they were saying. It's not that serious.
Here in SF Lowell High School used to select students based on academic credentials. Activists now created a lottery system [0] and it's already lowering the bar for the material presented in class [1]. I guess now kids with money will just go to private school instead, and the smart, motivated students not picked up by the lottery will have to study "racially equitable math" [2] at the local public school, where advanced classes won't be available since they are deemed not equitable [3].

[0] https://thelowell.org/11314/features/lowell-freshmen-face-st...

[1] https://thelowell.org/9346/news/a-new-era-begins-the-controv...

[2] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

[3] https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke...
Your comment perfectly describes how managers live in their own bubble, make up narratives from excerpts, and don't understand anything about what their reportees do.

I never said I don't answer people asking for help. I said working remotely allows me to decide WHEN I answer people asking for help.

If someone cannot wait 30 minutes for me to finish whatever the hell I'm doing, and try to solve or at least understand their problem on their own in the meantime, they should be fired.
None of whom are affected by any of these.
US Air Force's $570K training drone washed up on a Florida beach (2021)
I also have a low opinion of most of his movies and find that in reworking them, he has overworked them. My favorite remains THX-1138. Just bare bones and mostly quiet performances.
The vast, vast, majority of the population lives within biking or public transport distance of some shit corner store for a kid to work in. Right now most of them are hiring. 10 weeks of part time labor is enough to buy a fairly old 49cc scooter, which in many states requires no license.
Is it? does the .com really matter now as it did 20 years ago?

If you can afford $1m for a domain name, you can afford to advertise your site on search queries that specifically name your competitors.
But there surely are many ways to incentivise founding of companies (we want) that do not look suspiciously like tax handouts to rich people.

I get the idea no-one has managed to reproduce silicon valley. But that started life as decades long military investment in future tech. it's hard to argue that motivated governments could not repeat for green tech, bio tech etc.
Well, according to the article we're discussing, your guess is wrong.

"approximately 10% of employees ratings indicating they are underperforming, the people said. That proportion wasn’t unprecedented in the years before the pandemic."
The old "oops laid of the wrong people" gag. Never gets old!

I say that jokingly, but wow does it suck. I've been on both sides. I think it's actually worse to be not laid off and left picking up the pieces for incompetent management. One time I had to get admin rights and log into a "shadow IT" developers machine (who had been laid off) to get his Eclipse workspace directory and get the code and decipher what the state of his 5 apps were. Good times.
It wasn't the FBI, it was the USA for Floria, Alex Acosta. It's been thoroughly reported on and investigated by the DOJ. The prosecutor's discretion is so broad in whom they choose to charge or not that there isn't much that can be done. No quid pro quo was ever uncovered. It was considered a very generous deal for what was a very serious case, but if the prosecutor says he doesn't have confidence in getting a conviction, then they can kinda do whatever they want.
Regardless, the editorialized headline is inaccurate. If 11% happened months ago, that should not be included with the "6 hours after" bit.