skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You are a company. The system we have demands growth. Even very stable and reliable profits are seen as failure. There must be growth."

But take a software company like McNeel. They make a popular but extremely niche market product called https://www.rhino3d.com. They've been around for decades. They have extremely low turnover. Many developers have worked there since the beginning.

They are used around the globe by architects, product designers, industrial designers, etc.

What are they doing right? Why/how do so many others get it wrong? Are humble software companies like this unicorns? Why?
Google makes me kind of sad. They used to be so cool, pushing technology forward, making it accessible to the masses, doing things that seemed almost impossible and making it mainstream. Ads were the money stream but they did it tastefully. Now the main page is all ads, dark patterns are everywhere in everything Google does. They've basically become one of the ethically worst technology companies around.

Is it inevitable? Will the allure of short-term profits kill every good company? IANAL but it seems to me it should be possible to have a company "constitution" that prevents it, somehow. "If the profit margin of operations exceeds 10% the CEO has to be replaced" or whatever.

So far I've only seen companies be decent until an idealistic founder leaves or dies, then the MBA's take over and the worst possible way to make the most money takes over pretty quickly.
Thanks! Intuitively this sounds like it enables what at one time would have been called bad programming (widespread reliance on RTTI), but on the other hand a lot of rules have turned out to be arbitrary.
Something quite close to this was done after the 30's depression and after WW2.
I mean if you use ssh with password auth and a weak password in production you kinda deserve it.
On one hand we have:

sabarn01> We don't have access to that data internally. We can't access customer data outside performance metrics about the service. At least for the normal dev there is no real way to get access to what the customer does.

On the other hand we have:

Microsoft> We and 7xx Third Parties access Outlook data on user devices.

Taking both you and Microsoft at face value, we seem to have two fairly different assertions.

Customer concerns could be allayed if their shared data was fully auditable at any time by the customer. This would include what buyers of this data can see.
The norm in US companies. Note that other places manage to lay people off with much more humanity.
Not true as a general statement. May be true in certain cases. And certainly, in the case of a layoff (such as this one), with a severance package, a non-compete could be part of the severance agreement.

(Or not, depending on locale. For sure not in California.)
But why are they not also getting into the 737-size market, if that's such a huge market? If even the questionable 737 MAX is sold out for decades, that sounds like a pretty lucrative market to be in. It sounds to me like if you build something that works, you will sell as many as you can build.
Interesting that Kagi is listed as available for blocking results. Interesting because Kagi already has a first-class feature for managing that sort of thing. Is there something this can do that Kagi can't that I'm missing? This would replace the requirement to configure it in Kagi which is a plus.
It's more about inflation. The Fed has stated that they don't get those low interest rates back until they fire a lot of people and drive up unemployment.

EDIT: from the Chair himself

> We’re never going to say that there are too many people working, but the real point is
this: Inflation—what we hear from people when we meet with them is that they really are
suffering from inflation. And if we want to set ourselves up, really light the way to another
period of a very strong labor market, we have got to get inflation behind us. I wish there were a
painless way to do that. There isn’t. So, what we need to do is get rates up to the point where
we’re putting meaningful downward pressure on inflation, and that’s what we’re doing.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/mediacenter/files/FOMCprescon...

This is hardly just his opinion either and has been pretty widely covered across the media.

https://time.com/6253699/federal-reserve-inflation-interest-...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/perspectives/inflation-jobs-r...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/10/12/does-the-f...

https://www.businessinsider.com/jerome-powell-fed-jobs-unemp...
Even if we assume that what you think is true then it is still solely the companies' fault. Because if the prospective employees are so shit why would you hire them in the first place?
I'd recommend reading Mike Bannister's book on the Concorde if you are interested in its history and operational details: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60032319-concorde
> It implies you are not living in a communist society, and therefore allowed a measure of control over your own life

OK red scare calm down. I think you overestimate how much control capitalism gives you. Criticizing the economy does not make you a commie. If you wanna lay down and accept oligarchy because you are afraid of communism be my guest, but I would highly suggest you fight for slightly better circumstances for yourself and your neighbors.

> STOP GIVING THEM MONEY
If oligarchy was limited to Bezos, Zuck, and Musk that would be easy! But billionaires kind of own everything? Our food supply is controlled by a handful of megacorps, our communication network is administered by a few others, real estate is a game for giant investment groups, health care is a fucking joke... It's impossible to elect to not participate in the economy, or at least its impractical for everyone to live off the grid.

Listen I know you think that communism means the goberment controls everything (it doesnt), but at least I can vote for my gov reps. I don't get a fucking vote when Blue Cross Blue Shield is deciding where I can go to the hospital.
TIL that "rebus" is a word. Thanks!
Nearly every measure you can think of for standards of living, health, education, etc. is negatively affected by the increase of wealth inequality.
Kind of a miss on the title. The quote is: "Now that I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything, I've got this nice position...". The title is slightly taking the quote out of context and isn't the title of the article
Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google's Cookie Killing
An Interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas
Sean Hodgson warned authorities about the Maine gunman
They probably didn't get to the point of making $18B a quarter by keeping on a bunch of organizational dead weight.
> Windows is not dead

I think that's exactly the problem. It's too alive, so they can bastardize the experience in any way.
This pains me so much, I can't even imagine how that had to have felt :-(

I sure hope this blows over quickly.
Majority of stocks underperform T-Bills (source: Finvest US Treasury app)
This is precisely correct, ironically downvoted. The 90%/10% is a distraction, the pool of wealth is nearly unlimited as long as we have natural resources (energy, materials).

This trend will continue until resources are no longer exploitable, or people trying to enrich themselves created artificial scarcity or restrict their trade.
That is not necessarily true nor does it negate the point.
> On the other hand Apple's success for the last 15 years has relied on a single device.

That "single device company" makes just half of its revenue from iPhones. Recurring services revenue accounted for almost 25%.
> and you can get a new fender on a Malibu in under a day.

Is that because Chevy makes the more available or because they're much easier to find at a part reseller?
You need to distinguish "hardware" and "consumer hardware".

Google wouldn't exist as you know it if they didn't didn't build great data center and network hardware.

Their problems in consumer hardware are not about the hardware specifically. It is about product management and go-to-market.
Settle down. A lot of the U.S. doesn't have time-differentiated rates.
Much of the work I'm truly proud of, I did when I was playing. It's an absolute mystery why I can't intentionally put myself into that mindset no matter how hard I try.
It was mentioned to be a 20B in a comparison table in a paper co-written by Microsoft, but they've since claimed that it's just an error, and I mean, they'd need to be sitting on some really impressive distilling techniques to shrink a 175B model down to 20B with only a slight drop in performance.
This wasn't a pump and dump. If they wanted to, they should've posted about a rejection when it was 95% surely going to be approved and with a long squeeze happening along the way, they could've easily gotten a 10% movement down and back up.
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Haha that's funny. I'll consider that.

> Tip 2: the screenplay looks nothing like a screenplay

Is it because the lack of middle alignment? I was thinking about that. At the end of the day it's all plaintext/markdown underneath, so I need to come up with the right syntax for that.
hn is a good example.

build on one server and when you hit gold pay for a hosted solution and pray your solution scale vertically. or use the newly found profits to hire someone who can fix it.
This made me laugh haha.

I get pushback when I say "If something is too ridiculous, assume it is a joke." Because people are insistent that there are people who really believe dumb shit. They're not wrong, but if they are sincere, why treat them as anything but a joke? It's not like you're going to convincingly correct them when they make such grave errors. So why not a joke? What's the old saying? I'd rather laugh than cry.
Pensions don’t increase their payouts when the market is booming and you can’t include them in a will. So is it’s really not stock ownership as you just get the downsides without the upside.
You are mistaken. From https://hub.docker.com/_/docker:

What is Docker in Docker?
Although running Docker inside Docker is generally not recommended, there are some legitimate use cases, such as development of Docker itself.
...If you are still convinced that you need Docker-in-Docker and not just access to a container's host Docker server, then read on.

This makes it pretty clear that it's a different copy of the docker daemon (which eg. allows you to test changes to docker itself) and specifically says it's different from "just access to a container's host Docker server".
Since any argument after one or more "**" must be a keyword-argument, perhaps f(pos_a, pos_b, **kwargs, kw_a, kw_b, ...) or even f(pos_a, pos_b, **, kw_a, kw_b, ...).

This would make the proposal's first example read:

my_function(**, my_first_variable, my_second_variable, my_third_variable)

More readable IMHO. They do mention f(a, b, *, x) in the proposal and present some objections, but arguably ** makes it easy to understand that these are keyword arguments.
Google.org didn't lay anyone off
That's weird, that's not what they tell our politicians when they ask for more leeway through new and improved labor and business laws.
Can it integrate with other productivity apps?
Multiplayer and games requiring anticheat are still troublesome, some don't work at all.

When the games run however, I agree they typically run better.
Great tool! will definitely use it to practise soon
Well Bill Gates is the biggest private landowner in the U.S., so it likely correlates highly.
Google doesn't innovate anymore. The last attempt at an innovation I saw was Stadia (RIP). But, most Google products have a replacement now; Google can finally die.
That's a separate company and legal entity, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Yes, but I'd be much more concerned about the SSH server.
Was hoping I'd see some Post.10 footage
"The system" is either the stock market or VCs. McNeel is privately owned without VC funding (AFAIK.)
I don't understand the point of this comment. Are Google employees not workers as well? Do they not experience suffering or what exactly is the point you are trying to make here?

Your insensitive comment is probably showcasing the fallacy of relative privation, but these are real people you're talking about, some are on work visas or are from single income families. Their lives have changed in an instant and instead of empathizing, your reaction is a sarcastic 'those poor ex-Google employees'? Shame on you.
If you write a document and store it in sharepoint online we have to keep that data as does any online offering.
Why not treat collateralization the same as a sale? Bezos puts 1B worth of AMZN as collateral? Sure, but now treat that as a capital gains event and trigger appropriate taxes.

When the loan is repaid and AMZN is uncollaterized, treat it as a new buy event with a new cost basis.
Should be relatively affordable for modest deployments - I would categorize Neon and Airbyte as "bang-for-your-buck" products (Airbyte vs Fivetran, + Neon's solid free tier).
A lot of this has changed with the No Surprises Act, that specifically covers Emergency situations and others where a patient would be "reasonably expected" to believe that a service was in network.

Surprise billing protections apply to most emergency services, including those provided in hospital emergency rooms, freestanding emergency departments, and urgent care centers that are licensed to provide emergency care. The federal law also applies to air ambulance transportation (emergency and non-emergency), but not ground ambulance.

It also covers non-emergency services provided by out-of-network providers at in-network hospitals and other facilities. Often, the doctors who work in hospitals don’t work for the hospital; instead they bill independently and do not necessarily participate in the same health plan networks.

Doesn't mean your insurer might not deny coverage or apply a deductible that you have to fight.

You also cannot waive certain rights. Like some hospitals will try to get you to sign waivers around balance billing, and in/out network discrepancies. Some of these will vary by state, so be aware.

> The No Surprises Act (NSA) establishes new federal protections against surprise medical bills that take effect in 2022. Surprise medical bills arise when insured consumers inadvertently receive care from out-of-network hospitals, doctors, or other providers they did not choose. Peterson-KFF and other studies find this happens in about 1 in 5 emergency room visits. In addition between 9% and 16% of in-network hospitalizations for non-emergency care include surprise bills from out-of-network providers (such as anesthesiologists) whom the patient did not choose. Surprise medical bills pose financial burdens on consumers when health plans deny out-of-network claims or apply higher out-of-network cost sharing; consumers also face “balance billing” from out-of-network providers that have not contracted to accept discounted payment rates from the health plan.

Source: https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/no-surprises-a...
Right, because other people—who are also free to choose what they value—are pushing back.
Apple sells six or seven different subscription services including tv, music, photo storage, and fitness.

They obviously don't think that selling subscriptions is a bad idea.
I don't agree with the last point and I think this thread is evidence of that. We cannot make sense of the myriad of bills we get from all the different providers, particularly since many or all of them are also being dealt with by our insurance and may have already been negotiated by the time we get the bills in the mail.

To that point, I went to the ER a few months ago and I've probably received ten or so mailings for unpaid bills, only one of which I actually ended up owing, but my insurance didn't make the claims visible until they were settled which was months after the fact. To make matters worse, I can still log in and pay bills which were settled by my insurance. And I've received bills in the mail -- late I assume -- after they were paid by me or settled by insurance, confounding matters further.
Sorry you lost me. Can you please clarify?
There's still a cost for transitions even if it's not list calls. That might be cheaper I haven't looked in a while.
Meta reportedly laid off 60 technical program managers at Instagram
>Any errors could then be addressed as bugs with the systems provider.

Were bugs actually involved? I could only find this sentence in the article and it leaves it open if it was a bug or an user error.

>Many of the Hertz cases involved customers who had called to extend their rental agreement, but the extensions were not properly reflected in Hertz's computer systems.
How are people still paying for this when blender exists?
The greatest barrier to EV adoption is the obstinance of early adopters that lack the capacity to understand why someone would use an ICE vehicle. Consequently, it hampers improvement in areas that need to be improved upon for wider EV adoption. It's quite ironic.
Really cool tool, will definitely give it a go next time I pick up the axe
See also Self-Play Fine-Tuning (SPIN) https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01335 that (per authors) tunes as well as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO).
It's shareholder capitalism. On one hand, you get stock options in your comp that might be worth a lot. On the other, you could get booted if it means that the company's earnings per share beats Wall St estimates.
Why do people zero interest rate? Wasn't it just low before?
You talk about how others 'want people to feel bad', but have you considered that you are expressing the most desire to belittle others and make them feel bad? Your abrasiveness and need to triumph in what should otherwise be a genial conversation must really make it difficult to engage with people without them disliking you. Have you considered self-reflection?
I've done some math on residential solar in Ireland, on east-west facing pitched roofs, and it looks like a 4-6KW system would be break even in 5-7 years, given the current prices (44c/KWh) and the current subsidies (~2k for a ~8k install cost all in).

It's a little complicated because of time of use, and it's unclear if net metering or feed-in rates will continue.

While Ireland has a good chunk of renewables, mainly wind, our electricity rates are still driven by gas import prices, so they're 2x what they were a couple years ago.
So, when the interest rates go up, you shrink the production because it shrinks your gross earnings which makes it easier to pay off the interest— wait, it doesn't. And usually the interest on the loan already taken doesn't change, does it?
> The last attempt at an innovation I saw was Stadia

What. This was a product that had many prior failed predecessors from other companies.
What was innovative about Stadia?
McNeel is not a public company. Public companies are driven towards prioritizing revenue and growth much more than private companies because growth is a shared goal of all shareholders. I suppose it could be said that companies with outside PE or VC funding would also prioritize growth, but that would be in the same vein of getting to an exit or IPO rather than just making the stock go up.
> until an idealistic founder leaves or dies

At which point they're more interested in maximizing the value of their shares, so they can do other things.

Therefore, they specifically leave their company in charge of profit maximizers.

It just takes a subsequent decade or so for the track record of decisions to finally make that unavoidably obvious to employees and the general public.
Doing that a bit in my spare time (hoping to get a game into Steam early access later this year, and I should be able to get a small mobile game released, it's already about 2/3rds of the way done).

I'd consider going full-time indie, but then there'd be zero incomes in the family, instead of just one (partner is quitting her job and taking a break soon).

Best of luck to you!
You actually can, you have to preface your emoji with a backslash.
If the companies understood macro trends they would not have hired just to fire everyone later when their growth plans didn't correspond to reality.
Capitalism bby!

It probably a combination of interest rate risk, post covid sorting, greed.
Good points made but you linked to corporate bonds held

> [edit] Found the source numbers:

> 50-90% https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN40172

> 90-99% https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN09145

> 99-99.9% https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBS99T999258

This is the series I think you want.

Share of Corporate Equities and Mutual Fund Shares
why? this is why (kinda). https://www.axios.com/2024/01/10/wealthy-own-record-share-st...

The financial beast demanding growth feeds on increasing gains in the value of stocks and other financial instruments. One of the easier ways to fake growth is layoffs.

Your 401(k) is part of that beast, and your investments in stocks, etc., contribute to the system that drives layoffs.
> I might upgrade my 2400G, but I'd want 8 cores in 65W which is sadly not an option.

5700G is 8 cores, with graphics, 65w tdp, released in 2021. This release also includes the 5700 (no letters) with no graphics at 65w tdp. Looks like 5700X is also 65w tdp? Also, you can usually set a 65w power limit on a cpu with a higher tdp and get most of the performance.
And yet, the engineering interviews still typically revolve around Leetcode algorithms instead of the messy but hardly CS-intensive day to day work that engineering typically involves.
What about legal issues with recording others?
Source:

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-5600-ryzen-5-5000-series/... $150

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709%20601394871&Order=1 starts at $210 indeed.

People might argue the 5600 is Zen 3 where the 8700G is Zen 4.
And don't forget the ultimate flexible load: electric vehicles.

In 2023 near half of my (relatively well insulated all electric home) energy use was charging my EV at home.
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Protecting whom at what fee and cost privacy? I would still go with the 'unregulated exchanges' I guess.

I get your point but without bitcoin being an actual real thing the whole ETF thing won't last either.
Losing an at-will employment position is suffering? It's unfortunate, maybe, even a little sad. But to say this is "suffering" borders on entitled lunacy. Especially considering ex-Google employees can land virtually any job with it on their resume.

The risks of working at-will are well known, and one would be well served to understand them to avoid disappointment. Actually, the shame is on them for failing to adequately prepare for an obvious inevitability, especially if others are depending on them for support.
Depending on the state you are in, balance billing can be outright illegal, and, in many cases, despite facilities potentially trying to get you to sign a waiver against your protection from balance billing, that right can't be waived except in limited circumstances.
Is this using RAG to collect memories and have the LLM query through it? How does data privacy work in this case?
Thanks for that feedback! We are still pretty early on discovery so we don't support cities other than the cities listed there for public discovery.

We do have many events happening in Seattle tho so we should add discovery there in the next couple months .