skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Balancing the books (books which are, mind you, awash in black ink) using people's livelihoods. How very dystopian.

Normal attrition rates, which are about 3% per month† for our industry, should be enough to manage even the worst hiring imbalances in a matter of months. Perfectly reasonable for a healthy and growing company like Facebook.

Specifically, a 3% monthly attrition rate would take Facebook from ~85k to ~60k in under a year. Maybe a bit longer to replace positions which they couldn't afford to downsize. Voluntary layoffs would help speed that up if necessary.

There's little reason for a healthy company to do layoffs unless their goal is sudden spikes in stock prices.

† https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t11.htm
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This is a topic I know very little about but doesn't this type of "absolutely insane" thing happen to other small businesses due to estate taxes too?

For example:

- Your uncle owns a farm for the last 50 years
- Over the 50 years the farm's land value has risen to $1,000,000
- The farm itself only generates $20,000 a year in profit which is spent on living expenses
- Your uncle has no savings
- Your uncle dies
- A 40% federal estate tax is applied onto the farm's current value from your uncle's death (state taxes might also be added)
- Whoever owns the farm is now responsible for coming up with $400,000+ or you're forced to sell the farm to cover the tax bill

I might be butchering this so please correct me if I'm wrong but this feels like a system that helps larger companies because it prevents a smaller business being able to exist multiple generations.
This might be Pyflow, written in rust: https://www.github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow
> Hopefully, NodeJS learned from the whole Npm Inc history and tries to remain more independent from for-profit companies.

This. Microsoft owns NPM so it basically owns Node.js ecosystem.
Just like with electricity or fluids.

This stuff is pretty easy for someone to demonstrate with electricity or fluids, so show me it being done with light.
I have a Microsoft account (an ancient one even, anyone remember Hotmail?) I use everyday, but I refuse to use it with Windows 10/11.

Why? Because I don't want sync.

I treat each of my computers as separate, individual, unique machines. Synchronizing the data on them is fucking insane to me because I can't rely on a given machine to be the computer I expect it to be.

And yes, I have separate Google accounts for my phone, tablet, etc., because I do not fucking want sync.
Professionally? -- Couple hundreds... well, probably more than average programmer: I worked in HP as Ops, and a big chunk of my job was to help Java programmers to cope with their programming environment. I.e. we (the ops) supplied them with Maven build, and they didn't know and didn't learn how to use it, so every day I had to go cubicle to cubicle fixing the same problems for these people.

You learn to despise people like these for not being able to perform basic stuff on their computers... stuff like look for a file with a particular text in it or opening a file with an extension not recognized by their editor of choice.

So... the campus I was on at that job had three buildings. Two had five floors and another one had I think a dining room on the ground floor and like two more floors, but mostly non-programmers there. A floor had like... four cubicles on the short side and maybe a dozen on the long side. Some cubicles had two occupants, but obviously I didn't visit every one there... Still, just in HP I must've met more than a hundred. I worked all in all in 13 companies over my career. Two of these way too small (<5 people) to count, beside HP, I also worked in Google (through acquisition) and I work in a company of a similar size today (also, through acquisition). Two more companies were 100+ employees (of course, I didn't meet everyone), and the rest are under 100. That's over something close to 25 years.
Zuck actually posted about this on his Facebook[0].

Short answer is the first layoffs (seemingly) were rather random as far as who was affected. This new round is a lot more deliberate by

1. Cutting projects/efforts that don't make the cutline

2. Letting go the surplus of people previously needed to execute on those projects

> Since we reduced our workforce last year, one surprising result is that many things have gone faster. In retrospect, I underestimated the indirect costs of lower priority projects.

> It's tempting to think that a project is net positive as long as it generates more value than its direct costs. But that project needs a leader, so maybe we take someone great from another team or maybe we take a great engineer and put them into a management role, which both diffuses talent and creates more management layers. That project team needs space, and maybe it tips its overall product group into splitting across multiple floors or multiple time zones, which now makes communication harder for everyone. That project team needs laptops and HR benefits and may want to recruit more engineers, so that leads us to hire even more IT, HR and recruiting people, and now those orgs grow and become less efficient and responsive to higher priority teams as well. Maybe the project has overlap with work on another team or maybe it built a bespoke technical system when it should have used general infrastructure we'd already built, so now it will take leadership focus to deduplicate that effort. Indirect costs compound and it's easy to underestimate them.

> A leaner org will execute its highest priorities faster. People will be more productive, and their work will be more fun and fulfilling. We will become an even greater magnet for the most talented people. That's why in our Year of Efficiency, we are focused on canceling projects that are duplicative or lower priority and making every organization as lean as possible.

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/pfbid024Q9h2gvnYGmU6czAH...
> The line is sometime after early 1981

FALSE.

"1979 March Jef Raskin proposes the original Macintosh project to Mike Markkula..... 1979 September Macintosh project formally begins, although some preliminary work was done as early as late 1978." [1]

"The early Mac team members in 1979 consisted of Jef Raskin, Brian Howard, Marc LeBrun, Burrell Smith, Joanna Hoffman, and Bud Tribble."[2]

"The former head of publications and quality assurance at Apple, Raskin had proposed the project to Mike Markkula in 1979."[3]

"The Macintosh project started in the late 1970s with Jef Raskin.... In September 1979, Raskin was authorized by the management to start hiring for the project, and he began to look for an engineer who could put together a prototype.[4]

"Parallel to the Lisa's development, a skunkworks team at Apple was working on another project. Conceived in 1979* by Jef Raskin, the Macintosh was envisioned as an affordable, easy-to-use computer for the masses, with the Lisa's graphical interface."[5]

Raskin started hiring for the Macintosh Project, and it began in earnest, in name, and in an official capacity at Apple nearly a full two years before Jobs took over the project and three months before Apple famously visited Xerox Parc. And Jef Raskin was far more contributive to the development of Macintosh than Steve Jobs, who took the project over in the late middle of its development with only a stark handful of changes, requirements and specifications. Nevertheless, development of Macintosh was intimately intertwined with that Xerox's demo of Alto and the co-development of Lisa at Apple. For example, all of the early Macintosh software was developed on Lisa, and they both shared the same product design language. The Lisa was ultimately rebranded as a Macintosh XL before it was cancelled. The development lines are clearly blurred and Macintosh development is far more complex than you have asserted.

Your facts are in error and your timeline is off by a couple years.

[1] https://www.apple2history.org/appendix/ahb/ahb2/

[2] https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-the-macintosh-4072884

[3] https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/earlymac.html

[4] https://history-computer.com/macintosh-by-apple-complete-his...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_(computer)#1979–1996:_%22M...
Youtubers who rise to the top seem to satisfy their viewers even if there's hard monetary incentive
He is hardcorezz
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That's for out-of-print copies.

I snagged a used copy for $70 because I wanted to compare it to the newer 2nd edition which is way more affordable [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Read-Linguistic-Clarence-Barnhar...
Wasn't Germany actively supporting Russia despite US warnings before the Ukraine war?

https://elamerican.com/germany-mocked-trump-dependence-on-ru...
It benefits VCs because it makes it impossible to sustainably self-fund a business.
How is this relevant to one year old companies?
Gary Oldman is #1.
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I wonder if they'll try to bring in Pyflow¹, a rust-based python package manager, under the Astral banner. Could make a lot of sense!

¹: https://www.github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow
That's a hugely biased source, of course.

Assuming you're in the US (as HN is biased in that way, and you're using HN as a source), the unemployment rate seems to hover around ~3.5% for the last year, and it was ~6% two years ago. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
Your “when the government asks them to” should read “so that the government doesn’t shut them down.” The two things you mention are not at all comparable. You’re trying to associate them for rhetorical effect, but there’s no analogy here.

Thing 1: Apple complies with US law. How do you think it would work if Apple said “Fuck you” to US law enforcement requests? Can you provide examples of other companies that have done this, or are doing this now, and had it work at all? I can’t think of a single US-based tech company that doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement. At least Apple is transparent about it.

Thing 2: Apple markets privacy — https://www.apple.com/privacy/ They make a bunch of concrete statements, most of which are empirically verifiable. What is wrong with this? Again, can you point to any at-all-similar company that does it better, or more explicitly?
Colors are surprisingly helpful!

Vim+Python might be more popular than Emacs+Lisp, so here's my rainbow mode plugin to help with Tabs: https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow
Koa's great, and I use it for just about every server. It's simple, fast, supports async middleware great, and has a big middleware ecosystem.
This makes much more sense now, thanks!

But I suppose that SIMT-oriented cores also need to disable some instructions, like most jump instructions, and especially jumping back, correct? Also, I suppose, there ought to be an easy way to look into the memory "to the left" and "to the right", but likely it can be preset by making a constant offset available to every thread.
My feed is absolutely filled with Musk/Tesla posts since the takeover. I had no idea so many people/accounts were “fans” of Tesla until my feed started filling up with it. No matter how many times I mark the tweets as not relevant I still get them. I’d consider that a bug. I also often refresh the feed or get a “scroll to top for new posts” button, action it, and get the same posts that were already on the feed. Also a new issue for me.
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IANAL but it sounds like this defense would be received about as well as "Your honor, the defendant was in grave stress of being arrested and threatened with years in prison. That's why he completely forgot why and how he parked his car next to Crosby Lake and was walking in the shallow water, carrying an identified bag, at 3am."
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I read once Reddit is just one big sql database
We used to have a header for this but the tracking companies refused to play ball.

DNT: 0
I love when people on the Internet tell me I've been doing my job wrong for a decade...

It's research (as in new knowledge) and development (as in new products based on existing research and knowledge). Software generally falls into the latter category. A scientific process is not required but does make it easier to document qualification for the R&D credit.

And yes, a carpenter developing new cabinet designs absolutely would qualify for the R&D credit (and their salary could fall under the scope of this rule change).
I gotta say, Marginalia seems like the best search engine I've ever used specifically for food recipes! All the links are to personal, readable, HTML websites with the recipes obviously front and center. Finally I've found out how to escape from corporate recipes on the web!

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=spanish+rice+recip...
You can get pretty far with Next API routes as a replacement for a seperate Express backend.

https://nextjs.org/docs/api-routes/introduction
Windows is dysgenic
Poverty is not eliminated in China, at all. The fact that they lifted a lot of people out of poverty doesn't necessarily mean they can lift all people out of poverty. Nobody else has achieved that. It's not as easy as you make out.

Also: the way they lifted all those people out of poverty was basically by freeing them to lift themselves out of poverty, by adopting an essentially capitalist system. You could say: they simply stopped holding people in poverty.
You can if you raise debt or equity to pay salaries.
I’m very out of date on this stuff, but I thought the more relevant thing was that you’re not supposed to keep permanent copies of stuff around. I believe the original court cases were about recording live TV to watch later, presumably under the assumption that the video tapes would be recorded over quickly (as was common in those days). In that case I don’t see why doing the same with a rental wouldn’t also be fair use.
Horrible how people want to be compensated in some manner for their full time work...
1. mistrust
2. disdain
3. anger
4. rage
5. fury
I really have a problem imagining what 86,000 employees do, even at a company like Meta
There isn't one yet. It's a facts and circumstances analysis.
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Other thread from earlier today: "Brain images just got 64 million times sharper"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615778
This is nonsense talk. How do you differentiate between compliance with the regulation, and a "workaround" to the regulation? I guess it's at each of our discretion, right? It's subjective? Or are they the same thing? You can keep calling them "workarounds" but that distinction only exists in your own mind.
Two things that still really matter in the (dire sounding) scenario you are painting: PEOPLE and RISK. SO here are my two recommendations -- they somewhat conflict, but depending on what kind of person you are (and are becoming!) one will resonate so just follow it:

1) PEOPLE: The relationships you make early in your career can end up being the most valuable thing you take away from your first couple of jobs. Go places where a) you like the people, b) they challenge you and you learn from them, and c) they share your values. People that were throwing up in the back of my car in college became lifelong friends -- now they are industry leaders, and we'll never lose that bond...

2) RISK: Take as much risk as you can stomach. You literally have nothing to lose right now, and you can try and fail at a bunch of things before other priorities (mortgage, wife, kids, whatever) make you risk averse. If you go to a startup right now, and it totally bombs, so what?! You just dust yourself off and do it again. It would be a shame to take a "safe" job early in your career, there will be lots of time for that.

Here's an example of how they conflict: if you go to a big company, there will be lots of opportunities to meet people, but no risk. If you go do a startup, there are only a few people, but lots of risk/opportunity.

For the next 10 years, expose yourself to as many experiences as you can, at some point something will click and you can run down that rabbit hole.
Great, now we have to ask tax accountants how long the Microservice of Theseus was officially in maintenance mode while we rewrote it.
I do a fair amount of python scripting but I don't work on code bases or anything.

Can someone help me along what this tool would help me with? I think I've been stuck in the scripting world for far too long.

Edit: .... oh I've been using one of these for ages and didn't even realize it.
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That’d be “3 points abaft the starboard beam”
I think this is a fascinating effect seen in almost any hobby. I wonder if there is a word for these sort of sub-hobbies or pre-hobbies. I think you can find it's parallels in cars, aquariums, 3d printers, wood working, etc.
Spending resolutions are more important than budgets. So much more important that they're usually just called "budgets" because nobody cares about the thing that is actually a budget.
> I don't think there is a shift to the right, but rather a shift towards authoritarianism.

In my opinion, that may be a fairly contrary-to-fact opinion to hold.

Take the contentious issue of transgender human rights, for example: the HN discussions that I’ve seen quite heavily tended towards right-wing principles of distrust of intellectuals [0] (vis-a-vis completely discounting readily available scientific information). I presume that much of the indignation towards trans topics also stems from a the right-wing principle of religious traditionalism [0].

Granted, that’s just based on my experiences in the comments. I’ve not done any sort of in-depth analysis to arrive at the above opinion.

Alternatively, perhaps the latest stage of right-wing politics could be defined as the replacement of democratic law-and-order with righteous authoritarianism, rendering the quote somewhat nonsensical, in my hypothetical opinion.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics
I do feel we get quite a lot in return from this state of affairs.
Yea, I don't remember if it was the outside or the inside honestly. What I do remember is that it was the side where the end of the movie was!
> First, Stack Overflow contributions are licensed under Creative Commons. So monetizing them is explicitly allowed.

The evolution of any human legal system can be described as follows.

1. Hey guys, here is a simple set of rules we have agreed upon, to make sure there are no conflicts. Please follow them in good faith.

2. 95% of people follow both the letter and spirit of the agreed rules.

3. Some bad actors come in and only comply with the letter of rules, hacking and exploiting the system to their obscene advantage.

4. The complexity of the rules is increased to shut down the bad actors. The new rules increase costs for everyone, good and bad actors.

Repeat steps 2-4 continuously till the system is completely broken and we are all much worse off. The bad actors, "We did nothing wrong, we followed the letter of the law."
Lol. My friend and I did the same with a local DVD vending machine. If you brought the disc back within a few hours the price was ridiculously low, so we had the laptop in the car with a cigarette adapter and ripped 700+ ISOs.

The irony is this was around 2002 to demo a video on demand over the Internet system to some execs at Microsoft. It was a really, really nice UI and nothing like it would be replicated for years, really until Netflix launched their own product.

The idea was summarily rejected as "people like having things on their shelves." A weird response because the same folks were paying me to destroy the CD market.
Probably the closest you can get for now: https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/ferrofluid-clock/
> regarding an unspecified portion of our listed digital assets

I believe that's the first link. Most (if not exactly 100% of them) cryptocurrencies are securities as per howey test. Tron in particular, matt levine calls out, is clearly securities, among other things. Coinbase also listed a lot of other tokens that were also clearly securities.

I don't know why this is not clear.
> Also, your belief … is irrelevant.

This is true everywhere and always.

I agree with you, lots and lots of software definitely has the properties of an asset. There’s also plenty of software that’s hastily written, untested, and basically not fit for use beyond a short expiration date. More like a jug of milk with a shelf life than a fine grand piano with resale value.
I’ve been surprised that these types of labels are not required more broadly, digital health is another that’s needed. That said the nutrition labeling has gotten a bit too complex imho. I suppose it’s easier to add than subtract, but seems easy to include an QR code to mandate links for more information.
There's also the approach taken in some Australian native languages, e.g. [1], where they use absolute directions instead of relative directions, so they would call what we call the port side of a boat the north side if the boat was heading east, and call it the west side if the boat was heading north.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuuk_Thaayorre_language
There are some in the 'slow takeoff' school of AI speculation that disagree.

For example what if there is a five billion dollar supercomputer data center that can simulate a single intelligence that is say in the top 10% of smartness of people and it outputs one word every five seconds.

In that example, even though it is superintelligent there would be a limit to how fast it can make more of its own data centers. And even if it can research its own development to make itself more efficient, there is probably some lower bound on the hardware required. Like no matter how smart the superintelligence is, it's probably not going to be reducing its own size to fit into everyones pre-existing phones. And even if it can do its own hardware research it would still have to be implemented, by some kinds of workers or robots. And those robots don't get made instantly.

Probably Eliezer Yudkowsky has a galaxy brain reason why this is wrong?
> Lisa was already underway then.

It really wasn't. While technically the project slightly predated Apple's visit to Xerox Parc, that demo drastically changed the the project's direction and goals to produce a product entirely unlike initially conceived, which was effectively an Apple ][ geared towards business, but to claim it was "underway" is false.

> while you apparently just read a couple articles.

This is an ad hominem argument. And his statements are false as I have proven with supported citation in another comment.

Just a friendly suggestion, but if you can not tolerate criticism in any form, and are sensitive about acknowledging mistakes, immediately going on the offensive compelled to make personal attacks out of a sensitivity to pride, which is no virtue, and I am saying IF (I don't know you), then this behavior is classifiable clinically and often solvable through therapy. These symptoms in and of themselves aren't really the problem, it's the other symptoms, that go along with them, which causes those you care about to suffer, that are.
wow, so cynical!
With testing built into core, I’m looking forward to the reduction in complexity and number of external testing frameworks.

I generally chose tape/ava in the past and vitest these days, but it’s awesome that now a very simple testing mechanism is available in core
I would love to be running Mac or Linux, but the accessibility story for both of those is pretty dire. I have to have voice/eye tracker input, Dragon only works on Windows, and the other options are hobbyist quality at best.
There's also nothing stopping a website from showing a cookie banner, getting a user who clicks on "no cookies" and tracking that user anyway. Making the user click a button was always a dumb solution.
I have to say, I like the concept.

Especially the "This is an introductory deal that lasts for <time>" portion.