skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was laid off from a FAANG company I won't name on January 20th. I was, however, given the opportunity to look for a new job internally for three months. Some people got cut off hard, a small number got either 3 or 6 months before their final date. Luckily I found an internal position in a different group. There were few choices, I it was just two positions I had to choose between. But I got to see my layoff package - it was good, I have been here a long time, but I have been through the job hunting process too many times before to be very eager to do it again.

I'm sure a lot of HN readers would tell me I should have taken the package and found a new job elsewhere, but I've worked at startup companies before and I don't think the grass is any greener out there. And perhaps unsurprisingly my new team was happy to have me aboard since hiring has been very limited lately compared to my company's historical norms.

I've been flat-out fired before from other jobs, although not with cause, and it never really affected my job searches before. I think most people believe that their interviewing process works and having seen a lot of smart people come and go I don't think getting either fired or laid off necessarily says anything about anyone. It might, but you need more than that one data point.

I don't feel like I've every faced any social stigma around being either fired or laid off. People have always been pretty sympathetic and supportive towards me, for which I'm grateful.
New software detects money laundering faster than ever before
Quadlets are very much a welcomed integration but last time I tried to create an users Quadlet in .config/containers/systemd/ with a linuxserver.io image I ended up with all sort of files owned by strange UID & GID.

So I had to add --userns keep-id to my container unit what caused all sort of problem because of podman apparently.

So you always end up with the kind of investigation & fiddling that shouldn't be necessary after 10 years of docker & containers.
“If you do show up and refuse to argue your case, you will lose.”

If a defendant in a civil matter shows up and the plaintiffs case sucks, there is no obligation for the defense to put in a show and the jury (hell, even the judge) could rule in favor of the defendant who is presumed not liable.
I think it's more about protecting ourselves. I believe people have the capacity to change but I weigh that against the FACT that there will be people who don't. 20 cheaters (of which 19 would have changed their ways) not getting to compete is preferable to the damage that 1 cheater would inflict.
> I do want to thank everyone who sold me back my NFTs (including the thief who we bought quite a few from). Many people sold them back to me at their cost when they heard they were taken from me. I really appreciate that.

> It was a lesson that I learned the hard way and it was worth every ETH that it cost me to get them back.

Is this satire? I'm almost afraid to ask...
This reminds of of a passage from Neal Stephenson's Anathem, some of which is quoted here:
https://mastodon.cloud/@root2702/109894483520616284

I expect the Internet will be hopelessly poisoned with nearly human quality spam and malicious propaganda. It largely has been for many years, but it was still possible to filter through the noise using just human capabilities. Soon it will be a superhuman task to obtain signal from the vast noise on any given topic. Google is clearly beginning to fail at the job.

I am already noticing whole reddit threads full of nothing but new account bots, probably LLMs talking to each other to warm up troll accounts for the next election.
Looks like ChatGPT agrees to the forum thread one way or another...
> News outlets are simply government mouthpieces.

It's dismissive to say 'simply'. In many cases yes they are, and in many cases they aren't. It's just as likely the journalist or agency is self-serving their own political or activist agenda
How many years have you been waiting? Tether was launched in 2014...
Sodium ion was the $40/kwh and LFP is $70/kwh
Microsoft Seeks to Power Datacenters with Small Modular Reactors
Non cooperation did not preclude Iran from being sued for example.
At atmospheric pressures it would sublimate rather than melt, so it’d be even worse in vacuum. You’d need a reducing atmosphere with high pressures. Carbon is not that easy to oxidise, but there is some oxygen in the egg. So you should be able to do it in a container filled with argon, with an oxygen getter. You’d need to bring it to 106 atmospheres (easy) and 4600 K (really quite hard). The good thing is that at these pressures you should not have issues with the water expanding too much. It’d be better to have a hole in the shell, though.

That is ignoring any interaction with the shell, which should melt around 1600 K.
Getting data from NSA would take “days” so another agency bought data instead
A federal counterintelligence agency tracking hackers has bought data harvested from the backbone of the internet by a private company because it was easier and took less time than getting similar data from the NSA, according to internal U.S. government documents. According to the documents, going through an agency like the NSA could take “days,” whereas a private contractor could provide the same data instantly.
The news is yet another example of a government agency turning to the private sector for novel datasets that the public is likely unaware are being collected and then sold.
Try downloading Gboard. Been using it for years. Dramatically better than iOS built in, which makes horrible decisions about when and how text is corrected and has worse gesture recognition.

After a relatively short time, I stopped having to look at the keys or think about letters. Touch typing from keyboard transfers over well.
States passed net neutrality laws.
Google Maps has become significantly less usable of late
1. Yes, twice.

2. My first layoff actually helped me in several ways. First, because I was laid off from a place where the owner did his best to have a toxic, bullying environment. Second, because I got a new job pretty quickly, much better paid, with a much better environment and much higher impact.

My second layoff was much more stressful. I got to say goodbye to a company that was very nice to work with but that had money problems, in a period in which finding a new job was harder. I did get one fairly quickly. Lower pay, but still ok, potential to be very interesting, although we're not there yet.

3. I did not suffer from social stigma directly, but I suffered from the fear of social stigma.
They are great for "what is the weight of XYZ car in KG" or similarly simple ones.
> Ngram says toast almost vanishes from the English language by 1980, and then it pops back up.

The Ngram plot does not say that. It shows usage dropping ~40% (since 1800). It’s indeed a problem that the graph Y axis doesn’t go to zero, as others have pointed out. But did the etymonline authors really not notice this before declaring incorrectly what it says? I would find that hard to believe (especially considering the subsequent “see, no dip” example that has a zero Y and a small but visible plateau around 1980), and it’s ironic considering the hyperbolic and accusatory title and and opening sentence.
Dutch Senate rejects Work from Home bill by a single vote
Anaconda's 2023 State of Data Science Dataset
I tried EFF's version* and it also said my Firefox browser was unique: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 179,689 tested in the past 45 days.

However the fonts listed looked to be only system fonts so there's that.

*https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
This sounds just like the VAT rules in the UK. What I don’t understand is why a company buying the services of a freelancer who isn’t consumption tax registered would be an issue in Japan.

In the UK it’s very common to buy services from non-VAT registered businesses. You don’t claim the VAT back because no VAT was added to the invoice.
That still makes you a "social drinker" in this context. We need to hear from the 30 rack a night folks to get a fuller picture.
Ask HN: MinIO vs. SeaweedFS vs. any other suggestion?
Hello,
At Ubicloud, we are trying to develop an object storage system service. It will be initially used for our own needs such as backups of varying services. In the longer term, we will also productionize it for our customers.

While looking into MinIO and alternatives, I realized there are different viable options.

Is there anyone here with experience on running any of these services professionally and how do you feel about it? Technically, would you trust to anyone of these projects more than the others? There is already a comparison document in SeaweedFS repository but I want to hear about the operational side of the things.

Thank you so much!
The main Waffen SS and ethnic units in eastern europe were two different things.

You're thinking about SS units formed in Nazi Gerrmany-proper. Ethnic units, while technically a part of Waffen SS, were quite a different story. At least up here in between Nazis and Soviuets. Recruitment was mostly about defending from Soviets. In most cases leaders were well-known figures from interwar era. And usually those leaders did a lot to make sure their units ain't used for stuff you typically think of when you hear „Waffen SS“. At the end of the war, those units were the starting point for post-WW2 anti-soviet resistance. Both people and guns/ammo.
It's probably supposed to be "and" instead of "DVD". Both words have a similar shape on the keyboard, especially if you're doing swipe-style smartphone keyboard input.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think a clarification is warranted. MDMA was first synthesized in 1912, trialled for non-psychotherapy uses then and again in 1950s, and Shulgin synthesized it in 1965.

From Wikipedia:

> MDMA was first synthesized in 1912 by Merck chemist Anton Köllisch. At the time, Merck was interested in developing substances that stopped abnormal bleeding.

> Alexander Shulgin reported he synthesized MDMA in 1965 […], but did not test the psychoactivity of the compound at this time.

> Shulgin occasionally used MDMA for relaxation, […] and gave the drug to friends, researchers, and others who he thought could benefit from it.[…]. When [Leo Zeff, a psychotherapist who had been known to use psychedelic substances in his practice] tried the drug in 1977, Zeff was impressed with the effects of MDMA and came out of his semi-retirement to promote its use in therapy.
On the levels?
Matt Levine has an article on Tether and how tether is the perfect business except for them loaning crypto to customers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-21/tether...
Believe it's a FF problem because of the default DoH settings they use, unless something changed.
Right, which is why I had my second paragraph. It is far too easy to assume the pedal is completely moved to one end.

I think it is fair to question judgements of people. Even judges and article authors.

Do we have any way of assessing how fair these judgements were? Do you have any way of showing that the DOJ was trying to get a "free ride" on revealing trade secrets?
ISPs have already gotten around anti-data cap laws by locating content servers within their network and only charging caps for data that travels outside their network.
Belgium also has a 50% marginal tax bracket starting at 42k.
If you’re looking for somewhere outdoors without people may I suggest you not choose a hiking trail…
Vitally, net neutrality is an actual law in California. It can't be overturned arbitrarily by some bureaucrats.

Since Congress won't do anything at the national level, this is going to be re-hashed out by the FCC every time the president's tie changes color.
VAT, not income tax.
I don't pretend to know what causes people to change, so I can't answer your question where it seems like you're implying that he would only change if that was the case.

All I know is that he admited to it, so if that's "getting caught", I imagine he has receicved consequences from his admission.
If you use my theme and set a few things, it looks pretty good.

- https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/Show-Off-Yo...
Perhaps but this thread and discussion might add up to a year's worth of that waste.

Just saying every little thing counts can be very misleading, even though inarguable in theory, and result in non-obvious inefficiency.
I understand that the patch is correct. The point that I am trying to make is that the correctness of this code relies on non-local reasoning (the allocation/reallocation of the table before it is used). I believe that non-local reasoning raises the chance of error (and is likely one of the reasons why this bug existed in the first place).

By adding length counts and explicit bounds checks locally you provide local reasoning to back up this non-local reasoning which is much *easier* to make and maintain correct. I think that would result in code that is less likely to have similar bugs in the future.
Every big software will end up with open bugs as old as itself
It's your responsibility as a citizen to be able to multi-task, because there's always going to be a more important issue to worry about.
Most contracts I've seen have clauses that specifically say that you are agreeing that the contract is limited to the terms in the contract itself and waiving everything else so you are probably out of luck there.
> We really need the equivalent to unions but for representating the rights of users.

You mean like https://eff.org?
It's not like it wasn't explicit strategy of the US to try to work on two fronts -- defeat the NAZIs while also containing the Russians. At the end of the war a giant rush to prevent Soviet takeover of swathes of Europe and the far east, and some historians have spent whole careers analyzing how seriously the Americans considered opening a new front against Russia right at the end of the war. And there were certainly strong voices in North America pre-WWII that saw Hitler as a fairly useful bulwark against the red menace.

Despite the way popular history paints these things, the game that folks in the allied command played was not some grandiose good vs evil fight with two clear sides. It was complicated and dirty and awful things were done by everyone including the Americans.
Im surprised the responses to you are in disagreement, this seems like the obvious and clear takeaway to me. Climate change and other issues of habitat destruction and pollution are very interconnected, but they're not the same. Carbon is not the only environmental issue.
Ask HN: How does your company balance test coverage and deploy speed?
On one side good test coverage on PR's going into master and again when master goes live helps reduce incidents. But with enough tests, they become a bottle neck for releasing quickly.

So just curious what strategies you've seen in the wild for balancing test coverage* and deploy speed?

* By test coverage here, I mean how often to run the tests you have, not avoiding writing the tests in the first place.
It's predictable from the title. HN is an intensely conservative site.
> such Nutritional Facts labelling didn't start being required on packaging in Europe until the late 90's

Do you or someone else happen to know which directive made it mandatory? I found Council Directive 90/496/EEC of 24 September 1990[1] which harmonised labeling, but only made it mandatory when there's a nutrition claim on the label/advertised. Otherwise it was still optional.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:31...
From anecdotal cases here in Sweden I can say that adjusting to a more "socialist" way of life is not always easy. Few American colleagues, all young healthy and unmarried, left after a few years because they couldn't handle the high taxes and more expensive prices.

But as other have mentioned this is a very theoretical question. A software engineer will do just fine, like I did, while a restaurant worker might find it harder.
Software is engineering.
What engine is Firefox using under the hood for translations?
… or do everything in person. You know, like before computers existed.
I think the problem is that they do use the internet so they think they're doing the right thing but most of the time get bored after reading the 2-3 sentence Google snippet about it. "Ok, yeah you can melt an egg! See?! Google says!"
You can always add vertical tab support. What you can't do is turn off the normal tabs across the top. So any side tab solution (I use TST) also needs some userChrome.css.
Google cut off my Chromebook about 8 months back but still pushes what I'm assuming are security updates (although they've slowed as of late).
> There are many books…

You should list some, since right now the only source of information I have on the subject (the wiki article you posted) has your theory listed under “Conspiracy Theories”
I worked for a consulting company that was acquired by a much bigger fish. About a year and change after the acquisition was finalized, I was laid off.

To be completely fair to the company (not that they particularly deserve it) I was a very ripe target. I was working on a team which basically did POC development to help with sales - we'd do some initial legwork and demos on various ideas, some directly related to a potential client's project and some based on internal ideas. As a result the percentage of time I was billing to an actual client was very low (but this was by design).

The net result for me was frankly fantastic. I got out of an unfavorable environment, got 6 weeks of severance with some extra money thrown in for COBRA (which I didn't end up needing, so that was just free cash). I had a job lined up almost immediately due to some lucky circumstances, and that was at a brand new consultancy that was still in the spin-up phase, so I essentially got a 6 week paid vacation during which I had no stress about finding the next gig.

No illusions here from me that getting laid off is even close to always being a good thing, I can imagine a dozen ways in which it could have been horribly stressful and financially ruinous, but I look back on getting laid off very fondly :)
There's some countries that enforce making the % of payouts publicly available for apps. Hope that goes global at very least.
I’ve gone down the air quality monitor rabbit hole and, after building my own, have settle on just buying/recommending the Awair Element.[1]

Interestingly, it’s not in the table in this article.

[1] https://www.getawair.com/products/element
He also specifically asked if he used "anal beads", which are a specific thing, so even if he did use a different sex toy to cheat, he could've answered that honestly.
I tried French to English and it worked well. Anyone know how big the translation data is?
> Still crashing like crazy on my system

I'm guessing Manjaro (my immediate guess) or nVidia (much less likely). Which actually makes me really curious which distro it is, because the maintainer for the distro presumably should have caught it.
> The printing press led to the renaissance. The internet is now leading a new one.

The first printed western book was the f'ing bible! Art and science lead the renaissance. The content matters, not the medium!

> The fall of monarchies was not without bloodshed.

Back then, the power gap in weapon technology was waaay smaller. We will not overcome anything beside a landslide election victory.

> clergy, government, media, and corporations

Consider AI a tool of the ruling class and tell me in which direction the overton window will move.
Inside Apple’s Plan to Change the Way We Watch Sports
36 Days and Counting: The Never-Ending Odyssey of Google OAuth Verification
You might just as well wait for the 'obvious scam of the FED printing fake money' to implode.
The thing with fiat money is, fake or not, as long as enough people believe in it, it functions well.
There is generally going to be a lag between a breach being reported in the news and the breached data being processed & organized for services like Monitor & HaveIBeenPwned (this also assumes the breached data is posted publicly rather than being sold privately or held for ransom).
Semi-unrelated, on bundling: about 20-25 years ago, there were a bunch of these tiny hyper-local ISPs in Russia that would wire up several adjacent flat blocks with a LAN, get an internet uplink and start signing customers within those flat blocks (your only other option at that time was dial-up). The uplink was probably expensive and so they charged per Gb (or had a very low cap) but... "a free local share with terabytes of warez, mp3s, movies and porn is included in your base fee!". I think it might have even been in the official ads, in a slightly less blatant form.
Notion is behind a login.

So not easy for everybody here to look at and discuss.

If there is not a single public website out there which benefits from frontend frameworks with data-biding components, that probably tells us something.
from Olesya Khromeychuk's "‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians: Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division" on the Deschenes Commission:

"These conclusions were based partly on the assumption that the Division underwent a thorough screening by the UK authorities while in SEP/POW camps in Europe, although that screening, as will be discussed in Chapter 3, was far from thorough. This, however, did not discourage the Deschênes Commission from relying on it, as is evident from the conclusions which cite the screening report of 1947"

"The confidence of the Deschênes Commission in the British screening report’s conclusions seems to imply that the Commission was either ill-informed as to the meticulousness of the screening of the ‘Galicia’ performed by the UK authorities in the aftermath of the Second World War, or that it chose not to subject the report to close scrutiny. According to Rodal, a key explanation for the Deschênes Commission’s collective exoneration of the Division is what she refers to as the ‘ethnic factor’,28 and ‘persistent lobbying efforts and backing from a demographically significant Ukrainian ethnic constituency.’29"

"While lacking conclusive documentary evidence, the assumption that those Ukrainians who joined the ‘Galicia’ Division in its post-Brody recruitment phase might have participated in war crimes in the earlier years of the war is highly credible."
A phone released in October 2020 is about to stop getting security updates?!
Ffs... I am a really good predictor for what Google is killing next. I just started using it because it was preinstalled on the pixel and I was lazy.
Did you actually read the final decision [1]?

The case was dismissed by a federal court because the plaintiff failed to show a plausible Sherman Act antitrust violation and because the remaining defamation, libel, tortious interference, etc. claims should be litigated in state courts.

They didn’t actually determine whether the cheating claims were true or not. They didn’t even consider the question.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.moed.19...
to underline your point.

Looks like regular Coke has 140 calories / 12oz serving.

A random sampling of my homebrew recipes (brewersfriend.com); 136 - British Golden, 163 - table saison, 215 - West Coast IPA, 307 - Imperial Stout.
Seems to be Bergamot: https://browser.mt/
Firefox never crashes for me. I use it on Windows, Mac and Linux. I'm using Developer Edition on aurora update channel, so I'm already on 119.0b1.
Theoretically it is, but on one Linux computer I have it freezes from time to time, whereupon it stops redrawing frames, resizing the window results in gray rectangles etc. I think it’s caused by a slower disk, which is sad, because I don’t think that’s a legitimate reason for a UI to stop working. I can accept having to wait when opening a file, but the UI completely freezing is unacceptable. I typically close and open it again in those situations.

It still has a faster fuzzy file search than anything available in Emacs, which is why I stick with it.
I know you're kidding, but it surprises me how often I hear the idea that an organization the size of the FCC can't multitask.