skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Haaretz" is the radical leftist newspaper, and recently they fired a pro-reform writer/journalist.

The protests have nothing to do with judicial reform, but with the fact that the side that lost the elections refuses to admit its defeat. They are using this reform as a pretext for continuing the riots against Netanyahu, as their previous slogan "Just not Bibi" has lost steam, and didn't helped them to win the elections.

The protesters insist that the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) stop the legislation, and transfer reform to the backroom deals brokered by the President (a symbolic role) and the opposition. But the right never had that privilege. Moreover, a large part of the opposition in the past supported even stronger judicial reforms, but now they are taking advantage of this situation to score political points.

The self-appointed judges all came from the same background, and do not represent or even care about average Israelis. The Supreme Court of the United States has judges with diverse backgrounds, compared to that Israeli Supreme Court as diverse as the Ku Klux Klan.

You are right that the so-called "Supreme Court of Justice" (High Court) is "backdoor socialism".

From 1995, Israel officially became "judocracy" - a regime where only judges rule. The judicial authority holds all the power and makes all the decisions, and not an executive or legislative authority.

Additionally these judges disregard the Knesset's laws, and basically making their own laws.

The High Court is the way for the Israeli left to continue to rule, even when they can no longer win elections due to the long-term cultural and demographic trends in Israeli society.

Netanyahu brought Israel from socialism to capitalism in the early 2000s, and now he will convert Israel from a Judocracy to a true democracy. I don't like him, didn't voted for him, but he is the lesser evil, and the evil we already know.
Yes sorry. That's a good, (and obvious) point
Literally the worst take I've seen in years
personally I miss the vanilla html of the late 90s (unless advanced guis)

same went for emacs I stopped using themes
Weird thinking all around. The point of advertising is to grow sales. You don't have more money to employ people by selling less product.
The decline in work friends seems fairly attributable to remote working. In my experience, two things are the case:

1. It’s very difficult to make work friends at a WFH job

2 If you mention this in a comment thread, someone will inevitably retort with “Well clearly you should be making friends outside of work ahahahaha checkmate”(paraphrased)

It’s clear from this study that “work friends” have value, and it’s also clear that you’re not going to form lasting bonds over Slack chats.
> Hiring and firing people who are only seen as "resources" when needed is efficient from a business point of view.

1) To entertain this point, maybe? If your optics of the situation was efficiency for the company, but why would you not look at efficiency as a whole and for whom?

As a society, don't you think we should be structuring things such that they are efficient? Is the company that doesn't end up paying for large ecological disasters "efficient" because it offloaded the cost of the cleanup onto the people/government? Sure? But I think society as a whole would benefit from adding resources to maintain infrastructure to prevent these types of ecological problems.

> Hiring and firing people who are only seen as "resources" when needed is efficient from a business point of view.

2) If the companies involved in the current layoffs are, by your definition, "efficient", what would you make of Apple [1] in this situation? Super really efficient? What's their secret sauce? Are the in/efficient because they didn't overly take advantage of the hiring craze? What are the costs associated with engineering layoffs and how are those costs manifested in society?

Line items like headcount on a spreadsheet are easy to quantify, organizational knowledge loss, loss of trust/moral, impacts of layoffs on mental/communal health, are harder to quantify.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34466054
I've been thinking about building one. I currently have too many other projects though, so this is going to be my next one, when I'm more or less satisfied with my ActivityPub server. It's so strange that no one has even tried to fill the niche for a modern desktop multi-protocol IM app. The one I have in mind would be properly-desktop though — multiple windows, 100% native controls, complete ignorance towards touchscreens, etc.
Isn't the EU just a sum of the states' desires?
Influence peddling in the EU is a feature, not a bug.
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DoneStreet | 2 Different Devs: Golang Dev or VueJS/jQuery Dev | US Citizen or Green Card Holders | Remote

DoneStreet is looking for an intermediate or senior Golang dev to help build a tool in the ad-tech space that handles millions of http requests per day.

TLDR for golang role
-US Citizen or Green Card Holder
-Unable to offer Visa Sponsorship or hire non US citizens or non green card holders
-Ideally 3-4+ years of experience with Golang and some experience with -Clickhouse, BigQuery

We are also looking for a frontend VueJS engineer with jQuery experience.

TLDR for VueJS role
-US Citizen or Green Card Holder
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-Ideally 4+ years of experience with VueJS and some experience with jQuery,
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If interested in either role, please email as devjobs [at] donestreet dot com and include your CV and/or LinkedIn profile as well as your target rate per hour or salary.
It's actually unclear as to whether or not they have done all of the layoffs. From your article:

> The company has been reducing its workforce since November, when it cut hundreds of salespeople. In January, the company announced restructuring plans to lay off 10% of staff — roughly 7,000 people — and shed some of its office real estate.

> Since then, thousands of workers from that planned 10% cut have been notified of their terminations. Insider has also reported that remaining employees are feeling increased performance pressure, and some are being pressured to quit with severance offers that are not as big as those being laid off.

> Salesforce has not confirmed whether it has notified all 10% of workers included in the official restructuring plan yet. Insider previously reported that at least one person familiar with the matter said the company was evaluating last month whether it needs to cut an additional 10%.
The article covers that.

Russians were using DJI's own Aeroscope device to identify DJI drone and pilot locations within 30 miles. In response, DJI claimed DroneID was encrypted and inaccessible to those without the "carefully controlled Aeroscope devices."

This article exists because researchers recently released a public tool that makes it easier for anyone with interest to interpret DroneID data.
> As we learned that more and more infections were effectively asymptomatic, early numbers on what was happening are hard to take at face value.

According to [1], it's 40.5% of the confirmed population. It's indeed a high rate, but those cases are also taken into consideration wrt to mortality rate as far as I am aware. It also highlights just how transmissible this virus is, allowing it to eventually infect the vulnerable population.

We also learned that covid was a component in a very large portion of excess deaths. Yes, somebody may have died of cancer, but covid was also present. It's possible that the patient sans covid would not have died.

Plus, there is the inverse, long covid and its symptoms lingering and weakening the population making it susceptible to subsequent diseases.

The problem however, in all of this, is that any trust to certain institutions in the US is now gone, which will only cause more harm.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

> In this meta-analysis of the percentage of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections among populations tested for and with confirmed COVID-19, the pooled percentage of asymptomatic infections was 0.25% among the tested population and 40.50% among the confirmed population.
Thanks for sharing the work.

Tl;dr. autofz is a meta fuzzer that combines a group of fuzzers and outperforms each of individual fuzzers. Since each fuzzer shows completely different characteristics for each targets, it was cumbersome for developers to determine which fuzzer to adopt and to evaluate them for best fit. With autofz, it simply figures out -- based on past execution behavior and responses of each fuzzer, at runtime, and allocates the proper resource to maximize the output (i.e., bug finding and code coverage) of the fuzzing process.
I'm ok but please set the config docs cap to 1 A4 size. It should cover 80% of application with zero config. 90% with config. 99.8% with plugins.
If you're being serious, as a human being I want you to know I have compassion towards your situation. Even though I'll never meet you, I don't like seeing your message and thinking about the suffering that loneliness causes.

Easiest way to make friends quick:

Activities activities activities. In-person hobbies are awesome for meeting people. I met a big chunk of my friends by doing a highly social activity that attracts cool, laid back intellectuals: Brazillian Jiu Jitsu. Not your speed? Think of any kind of outdoor hobby that requires multiple people. Ultimate Frisbee/Frisbee golf, for example. Think Frisbee sucks? So do I! But meeting up outside and sucking at throwing a Frisbee is still fun, because of the people there, and your outside in fresh air and sun! Drone racing is another nerdy, fun, social hobby as well. Chess in the park, etc etc.
The companies are petulant as well.

Punishing and retaliating against union organizers is petulant and childish.

Hiring someone for 32 hours a week, and then refusing to schedule them for the last 8 hours to avoid turning them into a "full time" employee, is petulant and petty.

Harassment/intimidation is petty and petulant.

Punishing someone off the clock is petulant.

Requiring company-branded aprons while on the clock and then requiring employees to purchase and maintain the aprons is petty.

Antagonism is what you get when you treat workers antagonistically.
A single bad seamstress causing bad clothing to be delivered to customers is a process failure, the same way no single engineer should be responsible for Saleforce's production systems going down. And in most ways, implementing quality control on your product is a lot easier than controlling the personal life of your spokespeople.
Some people argue that social democracy (eg Sweden), as a real welfare state, is distinct from capitalism.
From personal experience things using propane refrigerant seem to make a high pitched noise, I'm not sure if that's a property of the refrigerant or how devices using it are built.
Or “I have to X, Y, and Z. To get the result I want.” Only to find out X and Y haven’t mattered in years and they only do it because it’s on the form.
Like piracy? It's ilegal and fines are often hefty so shouldn't it deter people from pirating movies or downloading roms etc?

I don't think it's a good comparison. It's pretty much unenforceable outside of apple cellphones and very hard to detect.
It’s great to read this. I dabbled and make demos from time to time (in other engines) and show them to friends.

Could you list some of those downsides you mention? Not just for me, developers sometimes also read things here on HN that are *not* on their Issues or on their radar at all.

Have fun!
Fair but I’m going by the first thing their CEO told investors:

> “For the full year we delivered $31.4 billion in revenue, up 18% year-over-year, or 22% in constant currency, one of the best performances of any enterprise software company our size,” said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce. “We closed FY23 with operating cash flow reaching $7.1 billion, up 19% year-over-year, the highest cash flow in our company’s history, and one of the highest cash flows of any enterprise software company our size.”
No one cares about middle aged people. They are also depressed
Seems to be a lot of different things that are on the 2035 timeline. It's almost as if ...
It's interesting seeing a joke as a top comment and someone downvoted for not getting the joke. I feel as though the voting would have been the opposite on this site years ago.
I don't doubt the results here, but I'm not sure they're as meaningful or predictive as it sounds. I think there's another dimension here, which not only distinguishes between personality tendencies but further reinforces the others as "bad".

I feel like the level of distrust and outright hatred is out of proportion to the simple conflict of strategies. If that were the case, we'd be able to find a way for people to live together just by explaining it. We'd be able to posit plans that minimize the discomfort of dealing with people who think differently.

Instead, people seem to go out of their way to antagonize their opponents. That tendency seems so strong that the actual difference in belief systems feels secondary. There may be an underlying mechanism that explains why the groups have chosen the positions they have, even when the issues feel orthogonal, but I don't think people are really deriving it from first principles. Instead, they copy each other, and don't seem to care much if it's really consistent with that one underlying belief.

Which is to say, I don't think it's going to solve our political and cultural impasses by understanding the underlying psychology of it. I think that the conflict comes down to the fact that people want to be in conflict. For many, it seems like winning the argument is more important than being right about any particular issue. We won't resolve that until we find ways to make people not want to hate each other so much.

I suppose it's possible that understanding the underlying world view might give us an insight into a strategy to accomplish that -- at least, that it would be different between liberals and conservatives. But this seems to be a very tough nut to crack, and I'm at a loss.
But email does keep a history. IRC didn’t push a history to the client until v3 I think
So you're basically conceding that the abstraction for those game engines is leaky... and it's not sufficient to make the program work without considerable technical work specific to the platform?

Guess we're agreeing?
Don't you think that the ppl deciding to hire like crazies just to fire a year later should be accountable for that? They're clearly making bad decisions. It's just that someone else is expected to pay for them.
I wonder if we need better role models for embracing uncertainty. If you're a low NFC person, there are a bunch of high status people that take public dogmatic stances, and demonstrate that you have high confidence in a worldview of sweeping generalizations without having to think too hard if only you adopt the Dogma. But I can't really think of role models where someone says "X, Y, Z are all complex and the thing that's valuable in my life is W, so it's healthy and intentional that I neither think about X, Y, Z or have an opinion on them" and that's socially validated or even celebrated.
That makes sense. It fits with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which connects Tacoma (urban economic hub) to the Olympic Peninsula (some small towns, mostly wilderness).
Currently you have to know all your timezones and do the conversions in your head if you travel a lot for example. Additionally the organizers of many events and conferences, even very international ones, do not use UTC. So no, UTC doesn't solve that problem in practical terms. If the entire world used UTC for their local time, then it would be a similar solution. I personally wouldn't mind that actually. It would take a bit to get used to but in the long run it makes much more sense in an ever more globalized world.

Same as the world adopting the metric system, and in science specifically SI-units. Surely you agree even though that was a bit of a hassle when countries changed over from their old unique units at the time, in the long run it was the right decision. Imagine what it would be like working in an international team always having to convert units of measurement. It's still an issue in engineering sometimes, because outside of science the US didn't make the switch and it's extremely annoying.
What makes you so sure it is reliable now? Or in the past for that matter? The same dynamics of trust existed before as exist now, it's just that we have a lot more sources than we used to.
Is there any evidence they where developing whiter paints for this purpose?
This was my reaction as well (though it might be closer to 100-200 jobs depending on what kind of jobs were laid off; not all of Salesforce is software engineers).

Though I think there is something to be said about companies spending money imprudently. It's never just that they're giving McConaughey $10M/year. Often times there's a slew of vanity expenses that aren't justifiable. I'm not saying that's necessarily the case with Salesforce, but companies spend a lot of money on things that have dubious ROI.

For example, GE advertised their smart electric grid technology during the Super Bowl and licensed the Wizard of Oz for it. That's a lot of money for an ad with very dubious ROI. Who is buying smart electric grid technology? A very small handful of companies who are going to have a competitive bidding process and are already going to be aware of their options. What was the point of this commercial? To me, the most likely explanation is executive vanity. They want their friends and peers to be impressed by their company and by extension themselves. If they're working on something invisible and behind the scenes, they aren't going to get the same recognition and acclaim.

Companies sponsor sports stadiums and sometimes you can't even really buy their product. Highmark sponsors the Buffalo Bills stadium, but most people get their insurance via their employer and don't have a choice. Xcel Energy sponsors the NHL stadium of the Minnesota Wild and most of their business is as the monopoly electric/natural-gas transmission provider in the area. Are they trying to convince people "you don't want to live off the grid! Life is better with electricity and heating!" And yes, these companies do have some amount of business that is consumer choice, but given how much of their business has zero consumer decision-making, it seems like their ROI on advertising and sponsorships would be terribly low. Consumers do decide on many things - what soda brand to buy, what smartphone to use, what clothes to wear, what car insurance to get, etc. However, we see companies spending lots of money on things that have really dubious justification - beyond the vanity of executives.

I don't know much about Salesforce and what they're spending money on, but I do think there's a reasonable question of whether McConaughey's $10M is part of a larger trend of imprudent, potentially vanity-driven spending.
I can speak to Detroit, and it's the same. The areas south of 8 Mile but not downtown would by definition be "suburbs" (and structurally resemble the outside of the city), but I'm used to people reserving the term for outside city limits. Now that I'm in Nashville, "suburbs" seem to usually still be inside the city, so I'm guessing it changes as cities grow/decay.
I wonder if these people ever talked to friends on the actual telephone. I remember spending hours in the 90s talking to friends there because I was so bored of the TV. Then in the 00s with voip we could talk to more than one person at a time.

Reading this I wonder if this is some sort of baby like forgetting or if I was truly so out there.
The seems to be an organized slow and steady push to turn computers into consoles for the vast majority of users. They use "privacy" "security" "protect children" etc etc as methods to move closer in this direction. I worry we will end up with one (or two) unified "approved" messaging platform and all sorts of tech will be added to your device as binary blobs that run scans on your device.

Looking and ChromeOS, iOS, and even direction taking by Windows 11.
> How do you feel about leaded gas?

I think it should be banned.

Sadly, aviation has enough political muscle that they're still allowed to use it. Which is amazing to me, given lead's extremely harmful effects.
I think it's that second piece that's important about wfh. You need to take advantage of it to do more things. I could commute to the suburbs, or I could work from home and leave earlier to hang out with friends.

Or I can go on a road trip and work part of that time doing things in the evening and weekends, taking long lunches, etc...

Working remotely is great if you take advantage of it
According to this wouldn't Microsoft have to open up Teams and LinkedIn Messages?
Kutcher works with Thorn to help reduce peodophilia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization)
There is no responsibility on the part of the company to do anything other than what they agreed to do.

If employees wanted to be kept on even in a downturn, they should have negotiated for it, but I suspect the price they would have had to pay for that would make the entire prospect unattractive.

You just want to eat your cake, and have it afterwards too.
It’s all well and good until it impacts your wallet. The hypocrisy is depressing but not surprising.

It could also be argued, )I hate the argument but it is true) that he has to oppose any and all unionization efforts because as a publicly traded company they are required to look out for the interests of their shareholders.

Which comes back to the same place ultimately. And I have no sympathy for him regardless of his excuse.
This seems like just another iteration of old people decrying technology they don't like:

Communication these days is so impersonal. Why can't they have a chat instead of public posts

Why can't they call and actually talk to each other instead of chat

Why can't they write each other e-mails instead of these superficial chats

Why can't they send letters instead of these impersonal e-mails

Why can't they meet up in person like we used to

Communication changes and life goes on. Don't really see much difference with phones. It's just the same "kids these days" and the same obliviousness as always that they've become the "old man yelling at cloud".
What's there to do 'differently' about a chat client? They haven't changed in the last 30 years or so. "Special features" could still be implemented by non-standard protocol extensions while still being able to exchange bare bones messages with all clients which accept the standard protocol.