skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t Reddit. Do better.

The article referencing this and Airbus is rather sensationalized and cuts off half the quote. This was said in reference to Airbus bribing foreign officials to buy from them. The full quote reads:

"When we have caught you at it, we haven’t said a word to the U.S. companies in the competition. Instead we go to the government you’re bribing and tell its officials that we don’t take kindly to such corruption. They often respond by giving the most meritorious bid (sometimes American, sometimes not) all or part of the contract. This upsets you, and sometimes creates recriminations between your bribers and your bribees, and this occasionally becomes a public scandal…"[5]

[5] R. James Woolsey, "Why We Spy on our Allies," Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2000.

The source unfortunately is locked behind a paywall so admittedly I don’t have the full context either.
Doesn’t look like a layoff, but more like she was fired.

Depending on the law that is either allowed or not.
Alexa has been most reliable when a command does not require a third-party cloud service.

For Amazon Basics WiFi smart plugs, the device type can be configured as "Light" instead of "Plug".

Echo 4 works as a Zigbee hub, avoiding dependency on a third-party cloud service.
> She's asking for an explanation that they can't give her

True - and instead of admitting that, they hemhaw about how her performance was bad.

Agree the appeal to emotion isn't really helping, but on balance it's Cloudflare that looks bad here.
I have several friends who work in construction and trades and their opinion of unions is very negative. This is a blue state and blue city. A lot of HN loves unions but the blue collar opinion of them is negative, from what I’ve seen.
Yeah fair enough, they were/are the beating heart of the scene. I always assumed usenet was somehow 'closer' to the source than the public trackers, but :shrug:
I don't know why Hertz is making a big deal out of bringing the cars back charged, other than as an excuse to make some extra cash. The cars probably sit there long enough that they could plug all their Teslas into 120V outlets and charge them fully; their only expense would be a little bit higher electric bill.

Now whether they should charge them fully is another story. No higher than 80% is best for long battery life, unless they know the customer is picking up the car today, in which case 100% is fine.
I don't mind being asked for a source on a difficult to research topic but this was covered in the mainstream press and you clearly didn't even attempt a google search.
I work for a company that is 90% remote and I think there's a lot of nuance to this conversation.

Yes, if your job mainly consists of staring at your computer all day and you work primarily with others in the same boat, you are probably going to be more productive at home.

If you work with a large cross-section of people and/or your work is dependent on relationship building, you are probably going to reap benefits from going in.

If the majority of your company is remote, all bets are off and going in to an office (if one is offered) isn't going to do much for you. I'm the exception to this rule - I prefer to be in an office even if my work is semi-solitary; it's where I'm at my best.

And most importantly of all, the most effective environment depends on the person. A majority of people understand that and know what is best for themselves - we should respect that. The benefit from making most people more productive outweighs the cost of the few who take advantage of the situation. I wish more managers understood that.
It was her performance, but she didn’t agree
Driving an EV in the EU is way more enjoyable than the US because you’ll know that you’ll find a CCS2 connector, at least.
It's illegal to record others without their consent! Thats the law. Definitely sucks being laid off but doing such and then posting it online showing your face not very smart!
We are humans but to HR, we're human resources.
None, as she was fired in the standard 1-2 month trial period
... Yes you do? You won't if you get fired for _misconduct_, but you definitely do get unemployment for perf, etc. in a vast majority of states.

You won't get severance if you're fired in most cases.

You won't get unemployment if you voluntarily resign.
But you only quoted the first part of my statement and not the proof, which I did state:

> All business [...] relies on hiding and externalizing costs of production unto the environment, a vulnerable population, or other forms of legal/tax trickery.

Are you aware of a business which does not have any externalized costs of production which have a negative impact on someone or something?
Your custom instruction is good, I mean.
What will stop me, or anyone for that matter?
Eh, I cut Forbes some slack. It's easy to accidentally swap the purchase value with the current value.
I think they have a fully featured demo you can download. BBEdit is a great tool set to have.
I've literally never heard of anyone using google pay, zelle or venmo or cashapp. My prediction is that whatsapp will add payment functionality too if they dont already have it
Nope it’s not. It’s illegal to record a conversation where no participant is aware of the recording.

She is aware, so it’s all fine
to make the typical emotionally-dead but overly emotive HR people squirm
Can someone explain in simple terms what this article was saying? I tried, and thought I knew, and began to realize how little I knew about anything the further I read.
Good luck finding a new job.

Going viral against an employer, where she acknowledges to have 0 sales...

And pressing to give details multiple times, while they can just remind her about a, just scheduled, upcoming meeting. Since they don't have the details at hand ( probably related to internal policies from the legal department)

I do agree that they could provide more info though. But they repeated multiple times about a new meeting with more details...

She was the only one that knew it was being recorded and she acted accordingly...
Considering Drew’s history with being an unrepentant antagonist, I feel it’s far more likely that he’s the target rather than some random employee.
Oh I was looking for that bro that will claim ai is to blame and sure enough here it is. You people are obsessed and need to rest a bit.
Different vibes, but this reminds me of https://www.lofiatc.com/ where you can listen to airport radio tower with some lofi added to it.
I think of it as similar to independent movies or independent bookstores (back in the day). Yes, it’s still a company/organization, but one that isn’t controlled by one of the big studios.

So in this case, that really means that it’s not controlled directly (or indirectly) by a FAANG.
Hertz is ditching their Teslas, not their other EVs, apparently. I don't blame them when the suspension keeps falling apart randomly.
> It's illegal to record others without their consent!

That's highly contingent on jurisdiction. I don't know where she's recording this. I'm assuming that she's US-based, and even in the US, the laws vary by state.
Outcome, perhaps. But a union would have likely a) given a better timeline than a 15 min call with notice sent informally around colleagues, and b) a concrete mechanism for prioritising roles for elimination that should feel fair in some way, rather than an opaque "bad performance" reason that does not correlate with the employee's experience.

They had no signed contracts, but with onboarding, the ramp up, and holidays, it sounds like this was explicitly not an issue for their manager.

You're right that tenure is a common way of deciding who is going, but if HR had come in and said "we're really sorry but we're letting go the most recent joiners, no reflection on you other than your start date, you'll get a good reference based on your ramp up performance", that would have gone over much better.

People don't like things that don't make sense. In my experience, between individual advice and collective bargaining, unions do make things make more sense in this way.
The only airlines that are Boeing or Airbus exclusive are low costs (like Ryanair or Spirit Airlines) and tiny airlines operating a handful of planes. Otherwise it's all mixed fleet (Delta, Air France, JAL, ANA, Lufthansa, UA, etc.). If you separate wide-body and narrow-body then your statement is more correct: as going narrow-body Airbus and wide-body Boeing (or the other way around) is not rare.

The threshold I've read on airliners.net is at about 30 frames. Below that costs of a sub-fleet are too high and you should aim for commonality. Above 30 frames you should pick the best plane for your routes, regardless of commonality.

So for example running two fleets of 30 A350-900/1000, and 30 787-9/10 would be perfectly rational. But having 50 A350-900/1000 and introducing a sub-fleet of 10 787-10 is unlikely to be a wise choice, even for routes where the 787-10 would beat the A350-900.
This is amazing video for making a legal case against Cloudflare.

Cloudflare took a stupid, unnecessary risk here by trying to put this on performance when they haven't documented it.
That is quite the tautology indeed! Well if it pleases you, dig in your heels and howl at the moon.
lol and Umm have you ever been on a zoom call before ..ones that's being recorded. Before you join you must give your ok that you are going to be recorded. Everyone has to do the same who joins. You probably haven't been on a business zoom call yet!
(for on-site workers)

You are losing out on promotions based on:

- personality

- the soap you use

- looks

- your accent

- other non-protected statuses
Absolutely terrible way to handle it Cloudflare. Their CEO is quite adept at social. IF they're smart, they'll advise him to directly address this, apologize for the way it was handled. Nevermind her recording of it, probably not the best move, but neither is being fired on the grounds of performance, only to later (seconds) come out that is not at all the reason. Any reasonable person and future potential CLoudflare employee would be pissed too.
Nitter: https://nitter.net/WhatLayoff/status/1745429342551777406
I'm currently playing with Pharo Smalltalk and everything is very accessible. I wonder why Smalltalk Environments did not catch on as operating systems, let alone just as languages, where everything can be tinkered with and modified on the fly.

Apple sounds like the kind of company that would successfully build a smalltalk device, yet they go the opposite way of locking down their devices hard.
Adobe Air, anyone?
The right reasons in a union are how long have you been part of the union. I don't support protecting certain groups. I don't agree with forcing fairness which is a personal judgement anyways. I don't even agree layoffs are necessary here. They are easy.

A union doesn't stop layoffs it just costs everyone more. Your best representative in a layoff is a lawyer and a place with better employment notice pay.
They would've ensured she had support and representation, someone in that call who was on her side. Even if that doesn't change the numerical outcome, it can make a big emotional difference.
> It's illegal to record others without their consent! Thats the law.

Depends on the state.
I'm willing to bet that beyond a certain threshold there's no use for an incremental backup. You either would use (delayed) replication[1] to have an 'incremental' copy or would take full backups. I don't think any large database users rushing to use incremental backups when they have full redundancy.

[1] for example https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/02/13/delayed-replication...
Only true in some states.
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It's been at the top of r/sales for almost 2 days now and the comments section is just savage. Real shame, I like cloudflare a lot and it makes me sad to see stuff like this.
They literally reply that it was a higher level thing that had to do with her team. So a layoff. The initial text seemed like filler.
It's such a fun hobby, and easy to jump into with just knowledge of nodejs or web-dev based Python. It was my first serious foray into working with any kind of hardware at all.

And you're entirely right it's an unstoppable gateway to learning how to code arduino's and then esp32's, and then eventually hardware projects that aren't even smart home related.
That entirely depends on the state. Most are 1 party consent states where as long as 1 person on the call knows its being recorded its legal: https://www.justia.com/50-state-surveys/recording-phone-call...
True, I don’t remember the details for writes, and the complexity of managing high/low water marks makes it even trickier for optimal code. And large kernel send buffers here mostly avoid the performance problem here anyways. But on a short write, I am not sure I see the value in testing for EAGAIN over looping through epoll and getting a fresh set of events for everything instead of just this one fd

Right, for reads, epoll will happily tell you if there is more data still there. If the read buffer size is reasonable, short reads should not be common. And if the buffer is huge, a trip around the event loop is probably better at that point to avoid starvation of the other events
Call me a sonic boomerist! I eagerly await the return of FTS travel:

https://boomsupersonic.com/
One party consent states exist (in fact, most US states are this way). So no, it’s not illegal.
I serve the output of SingleFile on my home network. It generates html, so I just push it to my file store. That said, my use-case (archiving a paid Substack course that is well worth paying for) is definitely only for personal use.
Federal law (18 U.S.C. § 2511) requires one-party consent, which means you can record a phone call or conversation so long as you are a party to the conversation.

The Federal Wiretap Act

This law prohibits the secret recording of an oral, telephonic, or electronic communication that other parties to the communication reasonably expect to be private. However, if at least one party to the conversation consents to the recording, the recording is lawful.

Want more slaps? Enjoy your malware rootkit zoom calls which had nothing to do with “the law”
It's a possibility
WARN act only applies to layoffs, and doesn't apply at all to firings.
I think what the OP probably really wants is something like Germany’s workers council which is given a chance to weigh in on layoff decisions like this to make sure they make sense
With the US the law varies. A minority of states require both/all parties to consent (California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington) the others only need one party to consent.

There's no basis for believing that AI took her job beyond scaremongering
I only recently started sticking with Hertz because I can reliably get a Tesla from them. It's easy to be a gold member, I walk in, get my car without any hassle at all, scan the QR code in the car, all of my settings magically appear, and it's like I'm driving my own car at home.

On the other hand, I think it's insane and a real shame that they just handed unsuspecting people who booked the cheapest car an EV. That's a flat out deception and a major hassle if you aren't ready for it.

As is usually the case, Hertz may have raced into the trend a little too quickly, and now they will back off for a period of time. I don't think this says much about the long term trend under which we all end up driving EVs in another 15 years.
I've been lightly car shopping in the past few weeks, and from chatting to salespeople, that does seem like the trend that's coming.
On top lossing your job, get drunk and loose your kidneys too. :(
I worked a unionized job in my first position with CUPE and we ended up going on strike after an open vote (2 against, my coworker and I, everyone else for) which is illegal. After 3 weeks out we went back to work for 1% more in the first year and 1% less in the second. Our union attempted to ruin the reputation of folks in my union who I personally knew crossed the picked line to teach so as not to violate the terms of their contract teaching positions (along with their union position). The union was stupid, corrupt and ultimately everyone who went on strike lost money.

Unions are not the answer.
> What do you do when it runs down, because it's unusually cold or you have an extended period of low generation, or both?

I'm not talking about going off grid, just energy price arbitrage. You still have the option of pulling power from the grid to heat your house, although potentially at a higher price.

With storage, you could also coordinate grid loads during the night so that at any given time the total load on the grid doesn't exceed the grid's generation capacity.
I will save this so i know what to say just in case
It's January and she said she was hired in August. How's them math skillz doin'?
Maybe where you live. A lot of places only require single party consent.
Revival of brand attempted*
I think there's a huge difference between the ideals of what a union can offer, and the practice of entrenched unions in some specific industries, particularly in the US.

As a well paid software engineer who wants to work with high performing colleagues, nothing my union has said has suggested they aren't supportive of this. They are about holding companies to account, not entrenching poor performers or normalising salaries around some middle ground.

Bear in mind also that there has been a near century long war of propaganda against the idea of unions. There's a lot of negative connotation built up in media, discourse, expectations, etc.
do you know if ADO has any caching mechanisms for pipelines doing builds?
According to another comment she'd been there over 4 months, so longer than the maximum legal probation period in the Netherlands.
Show HN: 48hr.dev, Y Combinator at TikTok's pace.:3
this is an open-source project.
the MVP to end all MVPs.
made by me, a teenage developer angry at FAANG employees for creating a soulless, consumer-oriented world.

The future is in creation, and the future is in teaching people to slam shit together with ChatGPT. Welcome to the start. :P
I'm sorry that happened to you. I can say that having an EV in a place you know and as part of a familiar routine is a very different experience.
Witnessed stuff like this many times.

HR exists to protect company interests.

Kudos to Brittany (OP). Her countenance and braveness will most likely reward her in the long run.
Wow. Might as well rent a place for the grandparents and have them take care of the kid. And if you have two kids, it would be a huge savings. Something seems broken about the economics here.
Doesn't that make sense though? Most Gen Xers in China grew up with Monkey King from Taiwan, not Star Wars from America. Japan has its own culture that has largely invaded America rather than the other way around, Korea is starting to do the same.

Europeans are completely different. My German co-worker (well, when I was working in China) reminisced about the Original Battle Star Galactica, which was featured as a movie for his East German market. Star Wars of course, was popular, it helped that Lucas cast a lot of stars from the UK.
Tangentially -- pretty weird world we live in where a video of someone going through a huge personal moment in their life lives two clicks way from them dancing to JACKBOYS with their cousin... https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanypeachhh/video/68375862566925...
The Christian calculators are finally biting back.
This tracks, seems people like Tesla for the zoom zoom factor. In my experience everything else about Tesla is F-tier.

Personally I care more about an elegant ride than a fast, jerky one.
Who said anything about unions stopping layoffs?

GP said they can negotiate who gets laid off and what happens to those who do.

Unions can be an entirely appropriate and reasonable party.
Yep that would also be a positive step. I think unions, when implemented well, might be a bit better, but it seems like Germany gets many of the same benefits I'm thinking of from their workers council mechanism.
Not gonna argue against "when it comes to competing he's done squat" because I think we're saying the same thing.

But on the other hand... the money machine keeps printing money. https://companiesmarketcap.com/alphabet-google/earnings/
Layoff usually means the positions no longer exist, and cannot be refilled.

Firing means that the person is removed from the position.
I'm making non-fiction books that summarise historical events. No manual editing is necessary, as it automatically goes back through and cleans up any errors.

I can't share my exact prompt style since I believe I've found a reliable way to generate these books en masse with minimal factual errors.
Virginia(where she lives) is a one party state, so it's certainly legal.
I have personal wiki pages for companies, where I record things like interesting HN posts about them, notes about their products, and a log of recruiting interactions. All on one page.

Were I to pull up this company's wiki page while talking with a recruiter, this video is like, on a first date, someone being rude to the waiter, while they smile at you. Strong signal about what they truly are.

In this case, a stereotypical big corporate-bureaucratic drone company that absolutely doesn't care, and will toss you aside in an instant, in a Kafkaesque manner, while blaming you. With the effect of beating you up and stressing you more, on your way out -- disrupting your job-hunting, possibly unemployment insurance, and health.
What if you like the company you work at? It's no small thing to feel comfortable with the work that you do and the people that you work with. Even if a promotion comes with more responsibility and modest pay bumps, that's often better than rolling the dice on a new company in the hopes of more money and the same comfort level.

Many people also don't have hundreds of employers lining up at their door to hire them. Even if they are, it's not necessarily for a bunch more money.