skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s also healthy to get backlash from the public and investors for layoffs. Personally I don’t think it’s ever right to layoff employees for leaderships mistakes. It should be used as a last resort only when the entire company is at risk of going under. Based on their post it doesn’t sound like that’s the case, they even bragged about a “positive earnings report”.
Price gouging is the practice of increasing the prices of goods, services, or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair.
We're currently focusing on a full shift-left approach to policy creation. Using AWS/GCP logs to create policies would work very well but it would need a few things to happen:

1. The service needs to be deployed
2. To produce an actual result, the calls that make use of the sdk need to be triggered

This is something that would be better included as an addition to monitor policy usage and adjust.
Don’t forget all the “oh yeah I’m not allowed to fix that, that’s a CSS bug and I’m a JS Developer. You’ll need to bring in a CSS development team to look at that one”.
“But but misinfo!”
Man I hate where we’re at for free speech in the West.
What's with the comments giving angry boomer energy? Just because you don't know something, doesn't mean you should be proud of it. Word of the year has been a mix of popular culture and slang for decades. Rizz is a great addition.
Decent article on the matter,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/04/joan-do...

https://archive.is/oKsbi
The British/US comparison seems a bit hard to line up, though.

The British Empire had a whole planet to keep an eye on, losing in NA was of course not what they wanted, but it wasn’t existential or anything. America was a far away colony for them, long way to go to hold on to, basically, a resource extraction colony.

The US was a lot more motivated to take the South back. It is a big border, right near our population centers, far too risky to have a hostile country there.

If, like, Wales had tried the same strategy as America, I bet they wouldn’t have beat the English.
"No, I didn't try to break Companies House"

https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...
And how does that help them make more money if they still have to always give the record label more money?
> Developers need to make progress; overly difficult reviews can discourage future improvements.

This, to me, is the most important aspect of code review: get out of the way.

If you are putting in nit picks, asking for changes that aren't related to a bug or bad architecture choice, etc, then get out of the way. If you are holding up the approval because you want someone to rewrite the code the way you would have written it, get out of the way. If you're saying anything that isn't directly related to a necessary change to the code, get out of the way.

When I review, if there's no bugs, and nothing that's going to affect performance, and it passes tests and works, I approve it. If somebody wants mentorship I'll add my thoughts in a comment along with my approval.

I don't have this kind of authority, but I would also recommend just not requiring a PR for certain changes. Create a guideline so that changes which a person couldn't improve by reviewing or that have no impact on the working product are just merged. More merging, less useless blockage.
> Recent UK and German revisions radically changed the economic narratives.

The article and discussion are about sentiment about, and behavior and general conditions in, the US economy, so that seems to be a non-sequitur.
Agreed; after > 20 years of coding successfully, got hit by a storm of subjective feedback; it totally ruined any joy in development
Old article about it - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-ho...
They justified their point by saying the research was "emergent". My point is that almost all pre-modern research was "emergent" by their usage, and a large amount of contemporaneous research is "emergent" as well.

That would be slightly annoying, but they did this to then justify points about how the resulting model is "emergent". The research process, and the resulting output, can and (my main point) almost always do, differ as to whether they are truly emergent.
Wait... this looks like Gerrit with extra plugins

The experience can be nice sure, but Gerrit is not something I'm too enthusiastic about

(and yes, Github is better in some aspects, Gerrit is more configurable though and it seems it is smarting tracking "non official" merges)
sorry to dither your ego, but it's not; prove it, but i guess lying to yourself is easier than accepting you're wrong
I'm middle-aged and still dealing with what "simp" is.
Good point. Making renames a suggestion, not gating (unless it contradicts the name in some design doc somewhere that another team is relying on not to move) may be the balance point there.
How does dark room, reading in bed, and sleeping when you are tired go together with a partner?

Does the first person to get tired sleep with the room lit enough for the other to keep reading?
Thanks for sharing. This is a great thread.

Since X now hides replies for non-logged in user here is a nitter link for those without an account (like me) that might want to see the full thread.

https://nitter.net/BrendanBycroft/status/1731042957149827140
This is what happens during periods of economic uncertainty. It's like counting cards with a freshly shuffled deck: nobody can tell what the state of the game is, so you place a minimum bet until you can get a feel for things again.

The movie is meh, but the boardroom scene in Margin Call has a great line:

"I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. I'm here to guess what the music might do a week, a month, a year from now. That's it. Nothing more. And standing here tonight, I'm afraid that I don't hear - a - thing. Just... silence."

Consumer confidence is down three straight quarters in a row. Nobody feels good about what the music is going to do next.
It could be read that way; but it could be read as a simple temporal sequence, no? In either case, this is a press release from an organization which is advocating for the aggrieved party. I suppose any journalist who wanted to pickup this story would have to decide for themselves whether the language used in the press release goes too far or not when writing their story.
I don't disagree. When asked why we insist on sending troop on every freaking conflict out there especially in africa, our (past) defense minister answered that experienced troops still trumps everything else, it's not enough to train and equip them. France might not be a world superpower or not even close to it anymore, but our troops have fought, and everyone who knows what they talk about says it makes them better than most.
In Norway it is an offence with penalties per infringing call to cold call anyone who has registered their number with the Brønnøysund registry more than 30 days ago (the equivalent of the Telephone Preference Service).
Yeah but the dismiss button has to be directly tethered to the machine learning analytics that is also tied to the retention team, so if too many people trigger it, the retention team is alerted to a potential user-retention risk. You need to write the API to hook into those two services, then make sure you have benchmarks before your pull-request will get approved.

You could do this, but I think the profile pictures would look better with rounded edges.
Take your company up on their offer! Work with the existing product people.

The big thing is setting up the process to find opportunities that are triple win: win for the business, win the customer, win for technology (which is really a win for the business, but it's helpful to call it out as a unique dimension that needs to be won).
This is the company in question:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

And a post from the person who registered it

https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...
!Al menos cinco! All joking aside, great story @fipar.
I don't the answer to rent-seeking publishers is Mastodon. It's sites like Arxiv and libgen.

Mastadon is the answer to Twitter.

In general, I think a lot about hyper efficient marketplace companies. Like craigslist which is still have less than 50 employees.

Suppose we had a goal to connect consumer to producer and have the lowest fees, provide a well ranked marketplace that consumers and producers could trust.

1% fee w a $100 cap. A super app like WeChat - Umbrella to Uber, AirBnB, Expedia, MLS, Amazon.

With rise of AI, it could be possible. "The most efficient way to provide for human wants"
All of the old US gov't/mil funded education films are pretty good.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7CRAIGXow
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agznZBiK_Bs
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4rc62KUKnI

Etc.
Probably was changed because of:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/joan-donovan-...">
A decade of Have I Been Pwned
Presumably it’s different because the point of the cash was to support people whose livelihoods were disrupted by the pandemic?
I consume hundreds or thousands of creators' content that I value more than this particular channel. If I felt the duty to donate to each one, let alone subscribe, I would consume much less of it and live in a smaller world.

Perhaps it is a rationalization, but I don't feel that consuming content that someone offers to me for free creates an obligation on my part, whether I love it or not.
I mimicked the comment merely to demonstrate how childish the tone was. But I agree it's tacky.
Universities have been dirty since they embraced price gouging on tuition in the 90's. There is no way what they are providing can be considered fair or reasonable.
Mine too - Vue and django, and the django rest framework, it’s super productive - no writing all the crud views manually for the hundreds of models I have, the django admin interface is very helpful like you say, and backend is running (a very highly customized) django celery mix,

Django + REST framework takes a little more to learn than something like FastAPI, but once you understand how all the middleware, permission and query classes work, you can be hyper productive
A casual reader may infer the same for both words, but "following" is much stronger. If I may take some liberties with usage: Following someone to a faraway place is much more likely to involve causation than going to that same place after they do.
Only my opinion, but it’s all about the opiates. The few European cities that I know of that have had a similar scale homeless situation also had a similar situation re: healthcare and pharmaceutical industry - they’re all in Switzerland.

The Swiss “solved” the issue by cracking down on pain killer issuance (like we did in the US) but also by sealing their borders off to drug smuggling to a degree that is impossible in the US. Zurich ~10 years ago looked a lot more like San Francisco than you’d think.

As long as the scary part of any city is where you go to buy, use, and not be arrested for using, that’s where the scary part of the city will be - it’s a self sustaining sadness loop. As far as I know there is no fix besides removing access to the drugs, and for better or worse, that’s not possible in the US. The only “solution” is police crackdowns, which doesn’t cure addiction.

The real “freedom is slavery” argument isn’t too many choices in the grocery store: it’s the ability to choose heroin a couple times when you’re sad and stupid and young.
Kindness Is a Choice
They selling a blockchain coin?
Her actual whistleblower declaration contains a lot of the evidence some may be looking for:

https://live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/up...

To sum up the first few pages after skimming it, Facebook tried to bribe her (well "fund" her research), she refused. Later she had a meeting with the former head of comms at Facebook, who was now on the Dean's council, where he became incredibly angry with her research (page 4, 13). Following this, she got an email from the Dean of the Kennedy school which sounds very much like someone tattled to them and they now want to "review" her research (see page 5, 15). It continues from here.
What are the pros and cons of those lamps vs those sold as "grow lamps" and those sold as "UFO" high bay lights?

Is there any >=100W (actual, not equivalent) sunlight-like bulb available that is dimmable and programmable via ZigBee or other means?
I didn't live in SF, but I flew there several times a year for over a decade. Market Street definitely saw a huge decline over that period. By the end, coworkers were refusing to walk it anymore for safety reasons.
Is this an appeal for a different form of governance?
People want to be seduced, it's why you said 99%, some percent of advertising works on all of us, and a major decision like "this is my job and how I spend most of my waking hours on this earth" is ripe for the employee to accept the seduction.
There is no shortage of small towns in cold places that have been devastated by meth and fentanyl where crime is hopelessly rampant.

In review, your two glib panaceas of moving somewhere cold or moving somewhere less dense are hopelessly inadequate.
In the US, roughly a million people died of covid during the pandemic. That's ~1 in 340 people, or roughly two Dunbar's numbers (150). Meaning that every 1 in 2 people was 'close' to someone that died of covid. That plus the restrictions and all the other jazz. It was a lot.

Personally, my family lost 5 due to covid. And we lost another 3 during the pandemic that we had to digitally mourn too[0]. The family is still not processing all of it very well, as a fair few members are still at very high risk and travel is still restricted for us. It's as if those years didn't really happen. Personally, I have a hard time remembering 2020-22. There are just gaps in my mind.

I'm not the same person I was after it. My spending is a, to be honest, a bit more free now. There really is a sense of YOLO in my life. Not a very large sense, but a sense all the same. Seeing so many close family members die, sometimes at their bedside, it affected me. I know now, in some very small way, how short my life is. How precious it is, how frivolous it is. I'm personally still dealing with a lot of that memento mori.

[0] I will forever hate zoom because of those horribly dumb, mismanaged, separated funerals. Fuck's sake, digital cruelty.
People forget that private universities are for profit businesses.
You're half right. The podcasting and audiobook areas already had layoffs before. This is now layoffs across all areas of the business.
A TUI Interface to Django
Forecasts need to have error bars
English vocabulary will decrease until culture improves (or something like that)
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Using the Github contributions calendar to display a message. Slowly but surely
Lefkofsky and the underwriters butchered the IPO for personal gain. I don't think it was a viable business model but they could have at least tried to steer the ship.
"I'm just a Beastie Boys fan."
Linux is explicit about their governance model...
Omnia vincit pecunia
The "Facebook Whistleblower" media circus consumed a lot of Oct 2021.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/20/tech-billionaire-ai...

I wonder what the grand total spent was here? "PR expenses"
imho, you're wrong:
it may not be "human nature" as much as it is prisoner's dilemma.
few, but some, humans are just as inherently averse to corruption as someone may be inherently prone to it. it's a matter of "if I don't take this bribe, someone else will"
Yeah but even those of us on Fun Fedi don't want Meta around.
Perhaps we can rely on a capricious unaligned AGI to run our universities.
It's their name for combining oxyfuel combustion with amine capture.

Oxyfuel is where you feed the combustion process using pure oxygen mixed with exhaust gas, instead of air. Since you're not pulling in all that nitrogen gas from the air, the exhaust is much richer in CO2, which is then easier to catch.

Amine capture is where you use an amine solvent liquid that is sprayed as droplets into a large column, where the droplets fall down and absorb CO2 into the liquid, while the exhaust gas flows up and leaves the column free from CO2. Then the liquid that collects at the bottom is moved to a stripper cylinder, where the liquid is heated up and the CO2 is released as pure gas.

Specifically for the cement process, using both of these technologies together, it turns out you can do some cool process integration where the byproduct of one is the requirement of the other, and vice versa, so you can make the whole setup a lot cheaper in both CAPEX and OPEX.
Yeah, Miami is going to be way better for crime...
I wonder if this is easier or harder to do when the system you're messing with is an LLM. I doubt it would work reliably, but you should be able to show prompt injection working.
It's probably the same in my case as I don't even have a tiktok account.
Believe me, I have very very close experience with what it’s like to go through layoffs, and I feel for those who have just now realized that nothing in this world is guaranteed.

But griping that management should have kept paying salaries when the money wasn’t there won’t get anyone anywhere. Take your severance, hone your skills, apply for jobs. If you can, maybe take some time to go on a trip. Life will go on.
I don't know enough to even answer to that, and it's not the issue.

The issue is phrasing a statement as a question like you did is passive aggressive, and unconstructive.
The price of a good is determined by what people are willing to pay for it.

I personally think that’s a perfectly reasonable and fair approach.

The cool thing is that if lots of money can be made with a good, supply will increase and people will be able to demand lower prices as a result.

Whereas, if you artificially cap the price of a good, you get a shortage. Always.
More details in the whistleblower complaint, which is linked from the post.
https://live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/up...
A tiny part of Spotify's headcount is product & engineering.
That (deque) is actually one of my favorite features, and something that had tempted me in the past. I have to relearn some behavior on queue creation though. I'm use to just clicking play, rather than adding to queue, so I end up with a bunch of songs in queue that I didn't intend (because I played a song from a longer playlist to start).
verita$
I’ve been visiting SF quite a bit recently and it’s very much overblown in my eyes. Andrew in the video even says that he’s purposefully in the tenderloin, and explains what that is in the video.

I guess here’s what’s overblown: that SF is significantly worse than other large cities in the U.S. ever since Covid. Have you been to certain areas of downtown in Seattle? It’s pretty comparable. Andrew touches on this in the video but essentially when tech workers moved to cheaper cities in America, they left these huge downtowns empty. And what’s going to fill those in? Drugs, unhoused people who used to work in those buildings, etc.
Are there any examples of successful organizations, maybe even with SOC2 compliance, that don't have code reviews?

From my research, I think Netflix might not have them, but I'm not sure.
> Taxi driver used to be one of the country’s most dangerous professions. Uber changed that.

I'm not sure thats right. Taxi drivers used to be paid mainly in cash, and a driver sitting on a pile of cash is a robbery target. Uber arrived shortly after ecommerce became pervasive; I've never taken an Uber ride, but I'm assuming that payment is nearly always electronic.
If I read this right, the UK is planning legislation to allow company registries to reject company names that contain "computer code", on the basis that it could be done for the purpose of SQL injection.

What's being debated is what is "computer code", and whether this legislation makes any sense at all.
Good job digging up, transporting, and then burning oil has no side effects
Advent Of (One line of) Code – Solving AoC using only "one line" of Python
On the other hand, I was at the other end of Market by the ferry building last week. It was pleasant and clean, and no one stole our car. We parked in SOMA last night for a concert, rode Muni with hundreds of normal people, and came back later to find our car in the same condition we left it in.

Yes: avoid the TL at night. No: the city as a whole isn’t Mad Max with a guarantee that you’ll be assaulted and your car will be broken into.
That's a quote from the whistleblower, not something the article itself is asserting.
This is very true. I spend a lot of time thinking about work problems. On the one hand it does help me in some ways because those problems are there whether I like it or not and I don't seem to have the control to stop thinking about them. So it does help that sometimes I'll settle on a vague solution in my head before I fall asleep at night, but of course it would be better not to have to do this at all.

I have at times had idle daydreams about doing a job that ends at the end of the work-day and you literally do not have to think about it again. I'd say those sort of jobs are not well paid these days.
It's worth noting that. Sweden, where Spotify is based, still does that whole pension thing, so culturally, relatively, actually yes.
Admittedly, it's been several decades since I took theory of comp. I left the comment hoping someone would teach me. My understanding is that recursion and non recursion (implementations) are equivalent, but my feeling from the article is that they are not. I vaguely recall having assignments of rewrite the two in the other forms.

- edit I think I see what you are saying, I must not really understand the concept of primitive recursion (or non-, not sure which I don't understand)
You should do this even if you use Dropbox or some other service provider. There’s still data loss potential. Google has lost entire Gmail accounts for example. The durability isn’t 100% after all… those extra .9’s aren’t to cover durability issues in the architecture, they’re to cover “oopsies” where the provider loses your stuff.
To a limited extent, we do. There are some studies in which research groups try to enhance the regenerative capabilities of mammals in a way that resembles the regeneration seen in amphibians. See the journal article linked below, as an example.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152998/

It is important to keep such research in perspective. I see it as "proof-of-concept" research - studies with biologically intriguing findings that might amount someday to something effective, treatment-wise. For now though, regenerative therapies are underwhelming IMHO.
Very true, however this hits the first time job seekers the worst - can’t ever build a network if you never start working (maybe through open source contributions?)