skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This risk is a bit overhyped. Things can happen, yes, but it's pretty rare, and if you're doing regular weekly offsite backups to your safe deposit box, you're not going to suddenly discover that it's gone.
I received the same email after the first time I posted to the monthly “Who wants to be hired?” thread. Gross, really.
Nim has GC and runtime and Linux kernel developers do not allow third party runtimes in the kernel. Even meager Rust's "panic" runtime is a contentious issue. Can one disable runtime in Nim completely -- no GC, no exceptions?
Spotify works on like a million different devices for one thing.
I wonder how different the recruiting process for the Romans was from today's modern recruitment efforts. 1) start with prisons, 2) offer service to those facing prison, 3) look for the unemployed, 4) tell potential recruits that they will experience the exact opposite of what will actually occur
I really appreciate your generous help. It came at a crucial moment when I truly needed it, and it made a significant difference for me.

It might sound a bit odd to say this from the receiving end, but I hope more people become generous like this. It goes beyond just helping others. When someone who has faced tough situations gains social influence, their perspective on society depends on how much help they received along the way. If they've struggled alone without much support, they might believe they succeeded on their own and harbor resentment toward society. On the other hand, if they've experienced substantial assistance, they're likely to feel a sense of responsibility to give back to society, recognizing that their success wasn't solely achieved independently.
Spotify has been around for 15 years, and its IPO was 7 years ago. They are well beyond their "explosive growth" phase, and anyone working for them could not be faulted for expecting to join a mature and stable company.

I can definitely agree with the "bet big" argument for startups - but Spotify isn't a startup and hasn't been one for years. It's a billion-dollar multinational!
In the U.S. the WARN act does mandate 60 day notice for layoffs over a certain size. In practice, (at least with many of the recent tech layoffs) you get 60 days on-payroll during which you don’t have to do any work. Severance after that is optional but often still paid, again at least among tech companies. ~2 weeks per year of service is common, although some have offered more than that.
That sounds like a sunk-cost fallacy to me.

Note: For all I know, they really could be making that error. Or perhaps someone inside Spotify feels the need to make the Rogan investment at least break even, consequences be damned.
Did you read the article? Nowhere did I say that, but I called out social media because the article focuses on social media, and mentions it as being problematic multiple times.

The ‘mild cognitive impairment’ now being observed in younger generations may manifest in, among other things, not reading articles and books because they require a longer attention span and it feels too burdensome compared to reading and writing 1-2 sentence blurbs on social media...
> we ARE human resources, and it's very likely none of us are irreplaceable, none of us matter really all that much to our employers

Now, remember this the next time you’re tempted to lose sleep, sacrifice family time or leisure for your employer and then act accordingly.
I think you're wrong to expect community outreach and low-effort involvement from a demoscene event.

> It seems like a great tool for active communities

Yes. And to a degree, those who are not active are not needed or wanted at every single event. A little gatekeeping preserves communities for far longer than gates-wide-open does (speaking from experience). Having said that, the barrier is still immensely low - if you care then go on the discord and check every few weeks. Seems like a small ask...
What else can one do? South Texas, where I live, seems to be going through desertification. Giving up on the future doesn't seem like an option for many.
Top blame is on middle-management (100+ reports), because they set the rules-in-practice for how the organization actually operates, and second blame goes to top management (C-level), because their job is to keep the middle-management in check.

The line employees are just responding to the incentives that these two groups create, they aren't the ones steering the ship into the ground.

Any significant layoff that doesn't have a disproportionate number of people from those two groups thrown overboard is ass-covering. They are the ones who screwed up.
"still below European averages" is the only thing that matters here.

If the decriminalisation doesn't lead to increased drug usage vs its neighbours, what's the problem exactly?

Also, funding was cut like 65-70%. Any program that loses 65-70% of funding will face issues. That seems self explanatory.

No one said decriminalisation would decrease drug usage, just that it would keep it in check while avoiding - building more jails - criminalising the population - and keeping infectious diseases in check ie HIV, which was a huge reduction.

So what is it exactly that bothers you about these stats? That drug usage didn't go away? I don't believe the program was sold as doing that at all.

The idea was never that we would reduce drug usage. We were just told that the problem wouldn't become significantly worse than our neighbours, which it didn't.
You are helping the troll string up a straw man, no one has mentioned blacks aside from him.

And the left is completely ideologically unable to be around a black person without first acknowledging their privileged presence by an oppression tirade of apologizing blithering woke-double-speak.

The left and the right are equally racist for similar reasons, for example; they both think blacks should had gotten the vaccine first.
It isn’t the worst thing in the world to occasionally take a moment to be like “okay… we made some progress. Cool.”

As long as people know we have a whole lot more to do shrug is it coping or just stress management?

It can be fatiguing to perpetually feel screwed.
Nuclear fusion, the process powering the sun and stars, holds immense potential as a clean, virtually limitless energy source. The recent advancements made by various companies in achieving nuclear fusion are groundbreaking. This progress not only symbolizes a significant scientific milestone but also heralds a potential paradigm shift in how we approach global energy needs. I'm highly optimistic about the prospects.
Black life being so different in the south is the contours of the confederacy.
> I feel like I've woken up to the nature of the employer/employee relationship with all these layoffs. I was blind but now I see, we ARE human resources

I think that's just a normal process of growing older. Also: yes, of course you are a resource to your employer. An annoying one (stell or laptops don't usually talk back and has demands). I also don't think there's anything wrong with companies behaving this way. By all intents, purposes and employment contracts, it was always meant to be a "work for payment" type deals, nothing more. Of course, ideally your interests and the companies' align beyond that narrow scope; e.g. you're both interested in you becoming an expert in X, or in solving problems in area Y. But it really comes down to you being a resource for the company to produce stuff. Thinking back I realized that my elders and mentors and everyone worth listening to always tries to tell me that (e.g. by telling me "you're not your job", "look out for your WLB, noone else will", "a job is just a means to an end", "HR protects the company, not you", "always keep in mind that you're disposable"...). And yet it seems to be a lesion that everyone needs to rediscover for themselves eventually.
Of course drugs given by a doctor are better and safer than drugs given by a street dealer, but the main point, which this series of replies seemed to ignore was this:

> In my opinion people are just medicating in other ways, but life still sucks.

Whatever the source of the issue was, we haven't fixed it. We just got better at dealing with the accute issues created by the hard street drugs, minimizing drug related crime and so on. But the answer shouldn't be to just pump all the would-be drug abusers full of ADs. Or maybe it is, what do I know.
For me, it works. By the way, I did not know about it, how is it different than https://libgen.is/ or https://www.gutenberg.org/?
> But actual necessities like housing are becoming more and more unaffordable.

That has to do with supply restrictions with NIMBY and environmet regulatory capture by nimbies. Blame your local boomer neighbor not a billionaire.
Yeah I agree, I don't think that's true overall.

Maybe in some very small senses, like many of the poor today have iPhones, which are way more capable than even the middle class phones of mid 00s. But yeah middle class in the mid 00s owned a decent house. Most of those houses haven't changed much since then.
Thank you I did it !
Sure. There are all kinds of things that could be done to increase their consideration of moves like this and simultaneously benefit the people affected.

E.g., rather than considering only percentages of unemployed/employed to set rates for Unemployment Insurance, they could also add a "capriciousness" factor for events like this. Or, they could also require funds be provided for continuing education for those laid off. Heck, they could also just make a basic adjustment for the inherent bias in the Unemployment Insurance rates against small biz, where a single layoff/firing has a huge negative effect on your rates, more than firing 100 people for a medium-sized company.

But of course, for the "libertarians", this is evil regulation.
That's so messed up when companies do that. Curious what your separation package was?
> This is stuff which was available back in 2003 -- that's when I first used techniques.

It was available already in the 1980's, so I learned at the time when I was manually disassembling computer games hoping to be able to crack them.
>As long as they were hired in good faith

I think that's the OP's point. They were not hired in good faith and I agree. This mass hiring/firing cycle is playing games with people's lives and, as always, the people at the top are unaffected by it, and in fact maybe rewarded for it. This isn't a game, this is people's lives. It's a little less horrible if it's a remote position but people upend their lives and move for jobs all the time.
I agree. The employees got a lot out of the trade. Money, experience, connections. In addition, anyone participating in the tech economy should be aware of the boom/bust cycles that have plagued its history. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that a tech company had a large round of layoffs. The employees should have been aware of the risks when they signed on.
A step closer to a production-ready Rust-only kernel!
I mean I put an email adress on my profile !
Note that on the last time through the loop you are doing a wipe() that was not actually necessary to accomplish your cleaning goal, and thus wasting some paper (unless you note that it came out white and set it aside to use on the first iteration the next time you need to clean, but I doubt anyone does that).

Some people were once trying to come up with the most useless possible superhero or supervillain, and I suggested "Exact Wipe Man", with the power to look at the result of a wipe of anything and know if that was the last wipe needed.

While on the subject of wiping one's derrière, I once read a question in an advice column where the questioner said that for some reason that subject came up among a group of people and someone asked what direction people wipe. It turned out that in that group of around 10 people 9 went one way and one went the other. That one wrote to ask if he was a freak or if he was normal and surrounded by freaks.

The columnist of course had no idea what the answer was, and asked around the office. She found that nearly everyone in the office went the same way as the questioner's friends, and informed him that he did appear to be unusual.

It turns out that I am also in the minority group. It had never even occurred to me that anyone might go the other way as it seems completely unnatural to me. Most people wipe in private with not even people they are in intimate physical relationships with watching and it is almost never a topic of discussion so you can be doing it completely different from everyone else and never find out.

This raises the question of what other things do we regularly do in private but might be doing in some way different from most other people? Maybe I'm flossing or brushing my teeth in some weird way, or maybe the way I turn on under the shower head always misses one particular spot and so I've got some section in the middle of my back that's never washed, or something like that?

I was tempted to subscribe to a month or two of one of those "voyeur" sites where they have a house with cameras in every room so you can see everything the residents do, to see how my flossing, showering, etc., compared, but never got around to doing so.
> Don't they get feedback from users that we hate these annoying things?

I suspect they don't care.
I didn't know about this. I'm writing bash scripts in the scripts-to-rule-them-all fashion for work and this can help DRY things up
I really do think more of us should be focussing on the "reasonable person" approach to this tech. Yes, it feels like magic. Yes, it's an amazing technological leap forward. But going all-in on the hype and seeing every world problem as a nail in need of the "AI" hammer doesn't feel like the best way to treat it.

Methods like those in this post that leverage the real-world useful-right-now aspects of GPTs are genuinely useful to a lot of people. I'm pretty sure that treating it "reasonably" and with a healthy does of scepticism is what's going to yield the greatest productivity boosts.
“The graveyards are full of indispensable men(/women)”

It doesn’t matter how important or irreplaceable you think you might be - life/businesses/people will carry on without you.
It won’t matter. They don’t need to know about the room mates. They know everybody now has $1000 which means they simply raise the rent.

I would wager that minimum rent becomes close to if not $1000.
A business by definition is not a valuable and transferrable business if every single person (including the C-suite) cannot be replaced without the business collapsing.

No one is immune to this or an exception. Top to bottom.
> In my opinion they did these employees a disservice by hiring them in the first place.

These people got a high(er)? paying job during the period, have a well known company on their resume, and are being let go during a layoff such that no blame is assigned to their exit. What’s not to like?
I remember comments clamoring how great Spotify was going to be because of their European roots compared to Apple (Music) a U.S. company.
Progressives result in social regression is sad but funny.
It wasn't pointless. Spotify's whole existence depends on moving from background listening to active foreground use.

It would be pointless for them to stay an passive background app. Might as well shutdown the company and cut the losses.
"When I change the way I look at things, the things I look at change."
i feel like this is a pretty hard thing to assess without access to internal metrics
on the contrary. open source (or free software) doesn't mean that every dispute has to be out in the open. there must be room to handle disputes privately, and the actions by some of the people involved here seem to show that they do not want to handle this in public. (whether that is justified or not is a different question, but again, without details we are unable to make that judgement)

i find that dragging disputes into the public is often used for one side to draw support in their favor. i don't think that this is happening here, as the statements made are to vague. but in general i am not a fan of making such things public as it prevents people who are involved from opening up and sharing their concerns in the internal discussion for fear of having them made public too.

we need to give people in dispute the space to resolve their issues without forcing them to face the court of public opinion.
Incidentally, both the rock stacking robot and this sustainable-concrete resarch are at ETH Zurich.

https://rsl.ethz.ch/robots-media/heap.html

https://sc.ibi.ethz.ch/en/
I tried looking it up but don't fully understand. What exactly is the OxyCal hybird process?
Why startups needs to spam for candidates? Is it too hard to find good engineers, especially now that your pool is almost worldwide (if you accept remote)? Consider the amount of layoffs lately, I'd say startups should have it easy.

The explanation is probably that I don't understand the market at all...
They're pretending to safeguard objective knowledge, and that Basecamp is following some kind of sinister "playbook", while blatantly singing from the woke songsheet, and following the established woke playbook.

- Call it a "discussion" when it's a unilateral demand with only one acceptable, pre-determined outcome

- Give favorable treatment to some groups based on race, demand that others do the same, and adjust language rules and writing style to enforce this top-down

- Try to control the frame of a political event ("mostly peaceful protests") instead of acknowledging the plain reality of arson, looting, crime and murder.

- Completely misrepresent and misunderstand the very real critique that people have against the DEI movement as a parasite on and disruptor of tech companies.

- Pretending to be even-handed and objective while accusing others of "mendacious language of extremists" to refer to a riot as a riot.

It is just never ending projection with these people. They are intellectual midgets who don't understand the first thing about the enlightenment they pretend to defend. They think of themselves as empathetic, well-informed listeners, but they are surrounded by an ideological bubble that runs on gossip epistemology, bullying, forced consensus and shoddy social "science" that isn't.

And it all gets heaped and mashed together into one big pile of crud where race, tech, climate and god knows what else is claimed and defined by them as Good, whereas the other people are doing Evil.

At best they will grant you are "unknowingly" or "naively" collaborating with it, in which case they regard you with self-assured pity and a sense of moral superiority.

The possibility of being wrong does not occur to them and they think they are on the side of civilization.

What cunts.
It's neutral. For example, it was used with metric system definitions: at some point the "kilogramme-étalon" was literally an object weighing 1kg (by definition, the kg was this object).

You can see here a kilogramme étalon: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Standard...

and a mètre étalon: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Mètre-ét...

Edit: for completeness sake, a litre and décalitre (10L) étalon: https://portail.polytechnique.edu/musx/sites/pf_191/files/ac...
A lot of people would "shop" at brick-n-mortar stores with a mobile comparing prices online. They would look at the physical item right then and there, but purchase from online. At least, that was the early days of online when people were still actually getting off their couches.
Of course. I'm just saying that if our charger broke tomorrow I don't think I'd pay £900 for a new one, it's just too much money imho, but our personal situation works even with the slow 3 pin charging.
That's not my experience. I tend to see more younger people engaging in the moment and older people tethered to their phone.
Microsoft ha introdotto una nuova sezione nel Microsoft Store, chiamata "Arcade", nelle versioni di anteprima di Windows 11. Questa sezione consente agli utenti di accedere a una varietà di giochi istantanei senza doverli scaricare. È stata progettata per offrire un'esperienza immediata e senza interruzioni.

Il tab "Arcade" si trova proprio sotto la sezione Gaming del Microsoft Store. Gli utenti possono navigare tra una selezione di giochi e avviarli direttamente con un semplice clic su "Gioca", eliminando la necessità di scaricare e installare i giochi sul proprio dispositivo.

Questo aggiornamento mira a semplificare l'esplorazione e l'accesso ai giochi, soprattutto per coloro che cercano esperienze simili ai giochi Flash dei primi anni 2000. Tuttavia, è importante notare che la sezione "Arcade" del Microsoft Store non va confusa con Apple Arcade, poiché il servizio di abbonamento ai giochi di Apple non è disponibile per i PC con Windows.

Inoltre, Microsoft ha reso noti altri miglioramenti all'app Microsoft Store, come un notevole aumento delle prestazioni e la possibilità di selezionare l'unità di archiviazione per i giochi in fase di download.

Se sei uno sviluppatore interessato a far parte della sezione "Arcade" del Microsoft Store, Microsoft ha reso disponibile un modulo per segnalare il tuo progetto.

In conclusione, l'introduzione della sezione "Arcade" nel Microsoft Store rappresenta un passo significativo per migliorare l'esperienza di gioco su Windows 11, offrendo accesso rapido e immediato a una varietà di giochi senza la necessità di scaricarli.
COBOL -> Misses the entire point of a legacy codebase. COBOL is not the problem.

The actual problem is the missing knowledge from the engineers the CEO downsized and sent their work overseas. This boils down to three things:

1) figuring out the call patterns

2) figuring out the architecture

3) figuring out the business logic

This is also why cowboy coders are dangerous in your organization, while having corporate standards and making your codebase self-consistent (aka "Clean Code") is the most valuable thing you can spend your time on.

source: I made a bunch of dollar bills working on Java / EIS COBOL systems that needed to interact at wire speed, while not paying Big Blue for their EIS Gateway Software.
I think reporting to the FCC is a waste of time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34570065#34570669). Following the steps on this site - reporting to the responsible carrier - is nowhere near perfect, but sure beats pretending like the FCC might do something.
How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools?
so, when this happened on 9/11 the actual investigation found a stock picking newsletter that had simply called the stock sector for technical analysis reasons

this paper only compares volume to prior campaigns in Israel, and draws a conclusions based on that

additionally it has the bias of saying these are “gaps in enforcement of insider trading laws”, seemingly not understanding that an insider trading law would not cover things occurring outside of a company. nor should it.

its short selling of an ETF over a geopolitical event

so its just as likely any random stock picking newsletter could have called it. there’s even a guy on reddit that says Gaza attacks are based on the moon phase and tried to warn Israel, he happened to be not-inaccurate this time but its totally based on correlations only