skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Penalizes shrinking revenues, not shrinking firms. Shrinking firms who maintain revenue (layoffs!!) do well by winding down tax liability.
Counterpoint: tomatoes
Probably also a bit dystopian to assume that normal attrition happens in a way that's favourable to business operations. You are defending personal attachments of individuals (livelihoods), while simultaneously referring to them as commodities (bodies in seats).

It's not an enviable position to be in, but it's naive to believe you can build a functional organization around natural turnover. If you were told you had to lose 36% of your body mass in a year I bet you'd want to pick where it came from over a random 3% per month extraction.
Ask HN: Is there a Ruff for Python static type checking?
Maybe I misunderstand, it's definitely possible to sort by name and select to apply it to all folders? That feature has been there for several decades...
> Did Twitter need to be more than keep the lights on?

In my view (early Twitter user, briefly worked at Twitter years ago), definitely yes. Twitter spent years bumping along and riding on their network effect. But that can't last forever. Twitter should have been energetically using their strengths to expand beyond their core product. For basically the same reasons that Google needed to be more than a search company. And toward the end of Jack's reign, they were finally showing signs of progress toward a decent level of product experimentation, so I had real hope for them.
Slaves had it way worse than migrant workers. But slaves costed owners more than migrant workers cost employers.
The thing for 'sounding like (whatever)' is, a chance to practise. The thing that Duolingo does not provide is the live with real people forum. (Well it does, sort of, but it would feel like sending FB 'friend requests' to strangers.) So I'm not surprised that DL learners sound like three-year-olds, I'm actually impressed that there's the courage to speak at all. Give them a couple of beers, that might help.
Is Windows actually customizable? Ever since they removed the Windows Classic theme the most you can really do is change the "accent" color, which barely shows up anywhere.
> I cannot fathom how anyone in government or the police believes this (whatever they asked him, whatever they were told) is anywhere close to ok.

Something along the lines of: It's okay when I do it, because my motives are pure, my cause is just. The ends justify the means.

With this sort of mentality, people have committed mass murder and earnestly believed they were the good guys. Millions upon millions have been murdered by people who were utterly convinced they were on the right side of history. Compared to that, police officers convincing themselves that it's okay to violate the civil rights of a publisher is child's play.
I like that instead of listing maximum speeds (which is always provided with a disclaimer) the provider is listing typical speeds, which should give the consumer a more general sense of what to expect.

I don’t love the “read our policy” lines, as it just continues the practice of hiding behind the complexity of legalese.

This is good, but is mostly useful in a place where you have enough competition to compare providers. Otherwise it’s just a simplified listing of how terrible your limited options are.
I think if we constrain it to scripted television (and a fair number of movies now, too), they did.

House of Cards was a big deal for being a streaming-first big-budget TV show. That's commonplace now. That wasn't that long ago. Since then, all of the major players have joined the table, sunk audacious sums of money into developing new projects, and there's more high-end TV made in a year than I can watch.

Cue the flip "but none of it is any good" comments but nevertheless, Netflix blazed that trail.
4 engineers for an entire phone company sounds scary. I’m sure your engineering is robust enough such that outages are minimal, but that still sounds like a lot of on call (rotation of 4 = once a month?). Even if you only get paged once every few months, you still need to worry about getting paged until your shift is over! Even if you don’t worry in the psychological sense, you still have to schedule around it.
I don't know why you keep arguing here. You clearly know nothing directly and you've just read some stuff. Maybe in 100 years someone with your level of studiousness will have some credibility, since all the participants will be dead.

What were you doing then?
The data in my link is from Feb '23. Pretty recent - and relevant since we are in a downturn - values.
Government needs to be sued for the ASVAB.
Cybersecurity Nightmare in Japan Is Everyone Else’s Problem Too
Starlink now available on lakes, seas, and oceans all around the world
I don’t find colors that helpful. A little goes a long way, and it’s easy to go overboard IMO.
None of these attacks involved the baseband, they're exploiting bugs in iOS.
The tl;dr: is that David Z. Morris from CoinDesk, author of "Bitcoin is Magic" and owner of "Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana" calls the New York Times' article about Bitcoin's energy usage, carbon output and effects on the energy grid and price biased against Bitcoin, not because any of it is untrue, but because of how the article was framed and other industries also need electricity to function and therefore crypto miners are not worse than them.
Check the link - it's up to Feb '23, well within our mass tech layoff window.
https://archive.is/x749r

https://archive.today/x749r
There is no universe in which Klaus Kinski is better than either Max Schreck or Christopher Lee.

There is a universe where Lugosi is better than Lee; just not this one.
No, but the prevalence of such accounts has overwhelmed all forums and social media. There’s no good way to differentiate you from a troll.
Another in a really long list of issues that need a clear differentiation between human consumption and machines. So many things that were innocuous or even useful before the age of ubiquitous cameras, other sensors, and computers, are now a big problem.
> Children are simply too expensive.

These days? HELL, YES. Modern capitalism (including the education-industrial complex) has learned that kids are just about the ultimate leverage to squeeze money out of their families. And has gotten far too damned good at doing that.
Well, there are thousand spots based on thousand opinions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._VidAngel
Fewer and fewer places actually respect DNS TTL.
More than once I've been to see a film and it's being shown in the wrong aspect ratio. I find this intolerable. The circles aren't round! Yet when I grumble to the friends I'm with they haven't even noticed. Most people will put up with any old shit.
I used to get dvd cases, burn the disk after using dvd shrink to make it for on the disks I used then print out a coved and labeled the disk with the name and IMDb rating. I amassed quite a library but there were many I burned and never watched. These eventually moved to binders and have probably been over 15 years now. I wonder if they would still play.
> cult-of-toxic-positivity

I would love to hear details on a handful of instances of how this manifests. Toxic positivity, I don't know if I am to read that as like burying ones head in the sand, ears plugged singing la la la, ignorance is bliss or what not. What exact behavior would aggregate into a phrase like that? Very fascinating characterization of something interesting I'm sure.
Twitter was basically break-even before: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

> And they are not as funded by advertising which is a win for many

That is "pony in there somewhere" levels of optimism about Musk wrecking relationships with Twitter's major source of revenue: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/17/advertisers-see-elon-mus...
The company is run for and by shareholders, it’s not a charity so all of this is pretty understandable
WeWork receives non-compliance notice from NYSE
This sent my anxiety through the roof.
I honestly appreciate this bit of twisted propaganda. It's like you put up a barbed-wire fence with a gate in it, and people objected to the barbed-wire fence, so you put up a 1meter brick wall that people have to climb over. Whenever people complain about the wall, you say "Hey, the fence had a gate in it! But nobody wanted to play ball..."
Right the senate is kind of like how in the UN each country only has one vote. It’s by design that Luxembourg and China have the same votes.
Two options:

1) Copyleft licenses

2) Abolish copyright law

I am one of the few arguing for #2, but I think #1 is a good short term option.
In trying to normalise search with no warrant nor oversight in the UK one would definitely expect its use against someone who is "us" but not really.

One can't imagine this being done on a member of the house of commons, house of lords, famous bbc actor or personality or even a non-famous British subject and you might get rather a lot more pushback than doing it against a Frenchman nobody has heard of.

I think it would be horribly naive of us to not assume these kinds of considerations were discussed extensively prior by the police involved and their superiors. Remember when it was said repeatedly by politicians that just this sort of thing would never happen. When the power exists it will find a way, every time.

There was a time when a publisher being kept in jail for years on a mere accusation in a country he's not visited that he may have breached a law universally regarded as utterly absurd by legal scholars would be something for which the air of the UK was too free to even countenance, whatever one's views of the man but that man is Australian, you know and he was also accused of rape, which seems a very, very weak accusation all this time later and also antisemitism, for which we haven't seen any evidence. Take out the support of the person and personality when doing a power grab. Is it policy or simply repeated coincidence?

The person and personality does not matter - they can be as big a scumbag as possible and that should be of zero consequence. The principle really, really, really does.

Now we watch for leaks and stories about just what a reprehensible human being this previously anonymous French publisher really is so no matter that you're losing your rights against warrantless search because you're not a French publisher accused of something, nor an Australian... Don't you worry about it, just leave it to the police who are never corrupt, never criminal, never abuse power, never rape, never murder, never derail nazi thug murder investigations because they're friends with one of the thugs drug-dealer parents. The British police want no oversight because they clearly need no oversight. Although I'm sure Osama Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein or (insert current object of the hate) would agree with any dissent on the matter.
Have you used Teams? It's worse. It's shockingly bad.
No mention of https://sqlitestudio.pl/ in the comments which is cross platform ...
>What management? Small boat like that, everybody senior is likely a co-owner.

And probably on the boat when it capsized and high on heroin too.
Makes me wonder if creating a plugin that makes your browser pretend to be the Google indexing bot would give you secret access to all paysites?
I doubt it's going to show you anything that interesting, since what was published in the PQ competition was simply an academic team's submission.
Well, if twitter was bloated by a very big team it needs to be shrank first to become a smaller product.

All this bloated legacy code is still there and would have to be rewritten.

The teams that over-complicated the simple app wanted to show that they do something. When they are gone, their bloated code will not magically become small.

And no I dont think that Twitter layoffs were performed well. Just observing that those two things are not a contradiction.

On a side note: after upgrades of many apps or programs or websites that do them worse I often think that a lot of people complicate things or change things for the sake of showing that they are doing something.
If you want to see a real filibuster in action, go to Nebraska!

Machaela Cavanaugh has been filibustering the legislature for weeks! 12+ hours a day, weeks on end. She has monumentally impressive resolve.

Actually, I think you missed it. The Nebraska legislature finally passed a bill today.
> Instead, these pieces all rely on the implicit but unstated argument that Bitcoin has no fundamental utility. This unstated premise is intended to sneak entirely past readers’ critical defenses, as taken-for-granted as oxygen.

Bitcoin is great for money laundering, tax evasion, and market speculation, why does NYT ignore these social benefits?

Meanwhile, BTC is like money except less safe and even FTX only pretended to do basic safety like not keeping hot wallets. If the large companies can’t figure out security how can everyone else?
It's not feature complete, but Data Studio felt like a breath of fresh air compared to SSMS being all the slowness of Visual Studio coupled with about 1500 places where configuration might be.

(Of course, what do I know. I use DataGrip for my databasing these days. It's fine.)
You added a note to try to cover yourself but no, slavery is not comparable, not the same as migratory workers. Migratory workers have it very hard & it's to the shame of America how we treat those vulnerable people at our borders. For migratory workers, generally no one kidnaps their children, rapes them as part of their job, forces them to carry their children to term, murders them, sold them off. It's basically one step away from the classic "black people had it better as slaves" comment.
There's no better thinker IMO on this topic than Stephan Kinsella. (C)opyright law started in the 1500's as a form of censorship. There is no reason for it, other than censorship (or if you are in the top 1%, a great way to extract monopoly profits from the rest).

https://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol236-intellect...
Even the updated pyramid was replaced with MyPlate in 2011.

for an article: https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/guide/myplate-food-groups...

an actual image: https://www.myplate.gov/
SIMT control flow can get tricky. Unconditional jumps are fine if all the threads jump to the same address (e.g. a function call or return) because they're still in lockstep. Data-dependent conditional branches cause divergence (some threads branch and some don't) which requires special handling mentioned in the paper.
And let's not forget this classic from October 2019: "Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road. The fleet wakes up with an over-the-air update. That's all it takes."
Intentionally entering wrong pins to lock out is probably destruction of evidence, and pins are so short I would not trust them. Just have an at least 15-length base32 password that's randomly generated with `echo "$(openssl rand -base64 20 | base64 --decode | base32 | head -c 15)"` or whatever. You might want it to be lowercase instead, or base64 for more entropy. That command should be secure on OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later, and combined with argon2id over 4GiB of memory and 12+ rounds, should be pretty much uncrackable.
Testing, and now permissions might hit LTS in October! The velocity of dev while maintaining an arguably stable API after over a decade now is just admirable.
> Ironically enough, port and starboard markers which are the red and green buoys you see near to ports (yes!) need to be considered in reverse when going out. The green ones are called starboard markers and if you are in a big enough vessel, you should keep them off your starboard (right) side when approaching a port from the open seas. On the way out from port to the open seas you should keep the red ones on your right instead. If you don't you will hit the seabed and sink.

Just to keep things fun, that's the european convention. In the US it's "red right returning", the exact opposite.
AI takeoff speeds: slow takeoff vs. fast takeoff (2018)
Yoga for Skeptics
Housing for people and office space for corporations are very different issues. I agree that companies buying all the personal homes is problematic, mostly because people are not business entities, they live in communities and they have needs and desires beyond "this makes the most financial sense". I agree that some legislation might be enacted to curb the problem, although I suspect it would go away on its own if communities facilitated the process of building houses. Greatly increasing the housing supply would make buying large numbers of houses a bad investment.
Neal Stephenson isn't under obligations to reveal which specific sources prompted his creative writing. I've read comments that other authors dread subject matter experts un-announced suggesting things: it kills the idea for them, in a way ASKING for information doesn't.
https://nextrenaissance.art/society.htm
Limited connectivity and limited space. If you had the space, you could just use a disc. Although, boats and jets also do deal with a lot of motion. Not sure how well discs would do in that environment.
It’s intentional so not a typo :)
When I took tax law, one of the things that blew my mind is that it can be retroactive.

An exemption might expire, but then be retroactively reinstated. This happens all the time.

There is the tax law that applies to your 2022 income now, and then there's the tax law that will apply to your 2022 taxes in five years.
Very good points. Deno is first and foremost a cloud business who happens to offer a Javascript runtime of its own making.

It made us see a world where javascript can be (much more) secure and typed without a compilation step, and this is an important contribution I would like to still acknowledge.

Now the fact that NodeJS is learning from Deno and making strides to support capabilities (are you related? lol) is extremely exciting to me and it will surely improve the state of the Javascript/Typescript ecosystem and pull along a lot of projects/devs who would never have moved to something like this purely due to inertia and dev cost. One can dream.
Sounds similar to Aereo [1], which provided remote access to TV antennas but was sued and forced to shut down.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo
https://archive.md/Lt1Wz
What I think I'm reading here is that the abstraction is misplaced.

How then would one leverage 9p filesystems to solve the containerization problem?

I've had vague intuitions that Plan9 would have elegantly solved some of our problems that Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc. were all created to be solutions for. But I'm unsure as to the proper shape of the solution.
Sure, but so was everything else the states did at the time and they did eventually clean up their act. It's hard to say whether direct electing the senate was good or bad because it's not like there's a control country we can compare to. It certainly gave the states as entities less influence which is probably not great.
https://github.com/ober/zone-matrix for some real candy and zone.
Last week someone here said that some of the big VPN players use botnets to residential IP addresses. I assumed they got residential IP addresses from ISPs but maybe not all ISPs in all parts of the world offer that.
This is not the same explanation that I was familiar with. The one I heard was that long ago boats didn't have the rudder on the centerline, but was to one side. Because of this configuration you also had to have the dock on the other side. The rudder was called the a steer-board (eventually pronounced starboard). And the dock was the port so that became the port side. So now we have starboard and port sides of the ship from this old boat type.

Reminds me a similar bit about some dimension of the space shuttle being limited by the width of a horse's ass [0].

[0] https://dwanethomas.com/roman-chariots-and-the-space-shuttle...
Express. Same as it’s ben for a decade.
>>> Toxic positivity is the pressure to only display positive emotions, suppressing any negative emotions, feelings, reactions, or experiences. It invalidates human experience and can lead to trauma, isolation, and unhealthy coping mechanisms.
https://www.betterup.com/blog/toxic-positivity
Facebook felt culturally incapable of building good enterprise software products. Which is weird for a company that makes 90%+ of its revenue B2B.

I’m not sure it’s a bad thing, though. I’ve never seen an engineering-first enterprise software group. The business is just so sales-and-relationship driven.

Look at Amazon: you can plot the enshittification of their retail business with the rise of AWS. That’s not coincidence, it’s culture.
I'd say it undoubtedly that is Nest.js (https://nestjs.com/)
Callbacks in JS aren't really dated, just many of the patterns associated with them are. The Promise constructor itself takes two callbacks as its arguments. Async/await are just syntax sugar over that constructor. Express supports promise-based mw callbacks just fine.

So I'd still say Express is the main choice. Personally I've never loved the Express API as it encourages a lot of heavy mutation (Koa does too), so I tend to be on the lookout for good alternatives - I haven't seen any that seem to be sticking (gaining significant enough community to bet on) more than Express.

There's a few things like Next/SvelteKit that cover all bases in one, from your web app backend -> SSR frontend -> client states, but if you're looking at pure backend for e.g. an API, Express is still going strong.
What good is that high advertised speed if you can never get it during most of the day or peak times? We should skip the bullshit and only sustained minimum speeds should be allowed to be advertised. It would at least give the ISP the incentive to invest more their infrastructure.
I have a very similar Nyancat progress bar plugin for IntelliJ that I love. I'm a Cursive guy for Clojure but also always wanted to spend the time learning some emacs
So what? Why the obsession that whether need be or not, a tech company should and must have every tech trend that is viral?

Having a strategy, communication of a strategy, announcement of strategy and execution of strategy are all very different things. Many will put-communication-announce and fail at execution, some others execute and reveal like OpenAI. No one spoke of it 365 days ago, and now you wake up hoping you don’t read another post on ChatGPT
> You are defending personal attachments of individuals (livelihoods), while simultaneously referring to them as commodities (bodies in seats).

Not at all. Voluntary quitting on your own terms is very different from involuntary firing. And it's a fact that people quit a company regularly. There are ebbs and flows, but using natural attrition to your advantage as a company is a lot more humane an action than axing people in waves of layoffs to the same effect.

> If you were told you had to lose 36% of your body mass in a year I bet you'd want to pick where it came from over a random 3% per month extraction.

This assumes they are making highly considered choices for what talent they let go. Everything points to "they're not". Regardless, we're talking about a healthy, growing company with a good profit margin and outlook. There's likely no need to set such explicit numbers or timeframes unless you're looking to manipulate your market value.
That sounds pretty horrible. Am I correct in assuming though that once you get over the five year hump, you're OK? Also wouldn't startups mostly be paying devs out of VC funding rather than revenue the first five years?
Nope, those are not all responses to subpoenas, warrants, court orders, etc. Apple specifically lists the requests they're legally obligated to respond to in one section, and then lists requests they choose to respond to with users' private data in another.

That's to say that Apple regularly hands over users' private data when simply asked, even if there is no legal obligation to do so, as there is with warrants.
We'd be so much better if there were no environmental rules, wouldn't we? Medical regulation, who needs it?