skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of people aren’t going to make the association. Even in the HN demo.

I think people are vastly over estimating Microsoft’s ownership over ‘Teams’. Even within a tech context.

Plus, everything we’ve seen from Microsoft in their partnership with OpenAI has been Co-Pilot. Which is why I use MS Teams daily and did not make the connection.
That reminds me about the time when I used to run a similar website but focused on quotes from the IRC run by Flashback Forum (one of the larger/the largest? discussion forums in the Nordics).

Apparently I put the source for the site on GitHub (https://github.com/victorb/Flashback-Citat [12 year old PHP code!]) but I cannot find any actual archive of any of the quotes nor the running website, sadly :/
That sounds fine to me. I always found working with people much more fun than pretending to be friends with them.
Being ready to retire at 50 would be a good thing, but getting laid off in your 40's is not a death sentence. I'm 63 now, still working as an engineer, and I was laid off in my 40's, twice. In addition to the emergency fund, another great way to build some security is to keep learning new stuff. In my experience the older engineers who get into trouble are the ones who try to rest on what they know and inhabit a niche they've built for themselves. In our business knowledge evaporates and niches crumble.
Tiny Deep Packet Inspection Daemon&Toolkit based on libnDPI
They said it has been disabled by default for years. There is a cost to maintaining it and a security risk for untested code. I agree with this removal.

> those systems cannot be fixed (old network hardware, doing V2V conversions from old RHEL, etc)

How old are these old systems? V2V conversions? What version of RHEL?
I am planing on creating the next unicorn startup, cashing out for $10bn and flying to the moon in a converted mega-yacht.
at Alphabet he[0] most certainly is

[0] well, probably not he alone, but he is the figurehead of a group that put him there and keeps him there, and at Alphabet that group shits the wind
So next time you walk down the street, if someone crosses your path give them you wallet, phone, laptop, sneakers, jacket because "hey they may pull a knife on me"(?)

I say that where money can be made, money will be made. But we have laws and regulations, and when the Metas of this world play dirty, you can stick it to them. (in most cases it will be too little - too late)(but the solution is not to roll over)
When is the last time Microsoft released an AI product that wasn’t branded as Co-Pilot?
Ask HN: How do you document your hardware projects?
I'm curious to learn how others are documenting their hardware projects? I tend to use a combination of OneNote and Google drive, but I think there must be better alternatives. I've seen a number of others documenting their hardware projects with GitHub, and it would be interesting to learn if people have had a good experience and if they have guidelines/workflows to share.
That's not true I'm afraid.

UTAW and CWU specifically are unions for tech workers in the UK. At big companies especially, like BT, a sizable proportion of the workforce is unionised.
Are you seriously saying that people should express gratitude for being fired without ceremony, whilst the company at hand makes record profits?

All the "wind", "sails" and boat metaphors won't change the fact that loyalty is a virtue that fits very poorly on both sides of employment.
Introduction to Testing React Components with Vitest and React Testing Library
Once you get into late 50s/60s, I know quite a few people in tech at that point who have had reasonably well-paying jobs (though certainly not top-level FAANG salaries) who have presumably managed their finances well who are pretty much ready to wind down at that point--whether forced or otherwise. They mostly haven't classically retired but they're working part-time on often IT-adjacent types of projects.
Really good benefits. Just in terms of vacation, we get 11 vacation days a year, a paid week off in the summer, paid Fridays off in the summer, 6 week paid sabbatical every 5 years, and 8 hours of paid time off every pay period (26 times a year) that we can bank and roll over from year to year.
Very cool, I tried a few searches and found a lot of interesting images.
Can you elaborate what is the role of a core developer?

From my understanding core developer is somebody who works on something fundamental, like build system, general monorepo structure and architecture.

I would be curious to hear insights if anyone has understanding or experience in these roles.
Knuth would approve of this literate programming?
NASA Animation Sizes Up the Universe's Biggest Black Holes
At this point Mastodon is a certified obstacle in the face of wider ActivityPub adoption due to all the warts and quirks of their implementation that ripple into the wider ecosystem.

I wish they would dedicate a modicum of attention of being a better Fediverse citizen now that they have people they employ.
So many tech layoffs in the news.

Any idea if this was just over-hiring?
Twitch grew during the pandemic didn't it?
Now viewership is going down.

Is it isolated case of a business normal ups/downs, and not some general "oh my god the tech sector is crashing".
> Bosch officials emailed a statement that included the usual lines about security being a top priority.

This is my new benchmark for quality journalism: calling out half-arsed boilerplate press releases. This requires a journalist who genuinely understands the story, which is exceptionally rare outside of industry-specific journals.
This is good and realistic advice. Companies exist to make profit and returns for their investors/shareholders and ultimately they will do what this necessary to make that happen. Layoffs are just another (unfortunate) business transaction.

I was once in a meeting with an SVP who was going over what he was going to say in an upcoming all-hands meeting. He kept referring to employees as “resources” and I told him he should call them people or team members as resources was dehumanizing and made it sound like we’re just line items on a spreadsheet and pawns on a chessboard. He looked at me and said you’re right - that is how they look at things, but thanked me for reminding me of his audience. He was candid with me only because I was also high up in the org.

Companies are not your friend. The people above you in the org are not your friend. You are not special or different or immune or safe. Ultimately, you do have to look out for yourself. If a company is able and willing to terminate your job for financial reasons, you need to be willing and able to terminate your job for financial reasons too - on your own terms and with a better higher paying job lined up. It’s just another business transaction. Loyalty is dead. Act accordingly.
Famously it ends with the server being behind drywall or something after some construction project.
The crypto bros turned to AI bros. I have a close friend that fits the profile and he's now a distinguished author of multiple books published on Amazon.
I suspect that more of these layoffs happen in the US, both because it's the most expensive location, has the most staff and has the least friendly redundancy laws (for employers, that is)
An early effect of AI programming "efficiency"?
No, the naivety is in the belief that paying offers any privacy protection. It's not a seat belt; it's homeopathic snake oil.
The title on the submitted webpage is "ChatGPT Team", singular.
Genocide is never acceptable. It's never justified. Never.

That's explicit in the Genocide Convention, which Israel signed.

The murder of ~700 Israeli civilians was an atrocity. That doesn't justify Israel's disproportionate, indiscriminate, and wholly illegal ongoing series of atrocities in response.
Bash_IRC_quotes · Unoffficial of cleaned IRC quotes from bash.org
Hah! I see you've never dealt with Rackspace hosting.
NOYB is not inherently opposed to Facebook and other social media. It does fight against unlawful (and arguably unethical) tracking. If a company can't find a solid business model that works within the bounds established by law, that's not NOYB's problem.

NOYB is perfectly fine with companies making money by placing ads (as long as they preserve your privacy).
> You can't trust anything anyone above you in the management chain tells you

See a recent HN thread: "Signs that it's time to leave a company" _ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38943040

When you see that management people can't be direct, plain-spoken, and authentic with employees, you should realise that there is a cronyarchy... and you are not in the special club.
One system checked if it was a valid int by running `int(x)`, deciding that it was, and passing it to the other system. The second system ran a python version BEFORE this change, while the first system was a newer version. BOOM.

That was the first issue. But this made me extremely fearful in the general case, as parsing a number incorrectly can have quite dire consequences when dealing with money for example. So suddenly accept any random string of numbers interspersed at random places with underscores is a Bad Thing, and not a tiny little implementation detail to push through the most popular programming language in the world without any discussion.
Why is it hard to believe? In a group of my professional peers (about 12 people), there's one pilot (to be clear, one person who has a pilots license, and flies regularly). Just like there are also rock climbers, mountaineers, weightlifters, marathoners, CCGers, OCRers etc.

If anything, I would think we are more passionate about our hobbies, since it allows us to get away from thinking about work all the time!
I’ve been thinking about the future of this type of “AI fatigue”. Microsoft 365 Copilot has embedded this feature in Outlook, Teams, Word, etc.

I’m concerned that people’s desire and ability to read content from coworkers will significantly decrease, because…why spend my life reading something that “Bob” didn’t even write?

I’m not the only one thinking about this. M365 Copilot even has a “Make it sound like me” button…
Anything to back this up outside of tweets from "influencers" that tell you they are 100x more productive?
Indeed...
There are plenty of unfilled jobs.
Steve Mould did one with water: https://youtu.be/IxXaizglscw
The majority of designers I know prefer tile case. Whether it’s a printed poster or in-app UI.

Look no further than “Add Comment” at the top of this page.
> Or are things like Rust and embedded AI going to bring in a bunch of new blood?

AI product dev hat on for this comment. My take is AI will continue to give solid first drafts, and expertise, creativity, and curiosity are required to take it the rest of the way. Maybe, just maybe, we get beyond the GPT architecture and embed a reasonable state of the world for wider use cases similar to a CoPilot.
Reddit's Linux Group Hits 1M Members
AMEN to that brother !
Imagine being this paranoid. I believe you and your money are safe. Have a nice day!
Substack Realizes It Doesn't Want to Help Literal Nazis Make Money After All
I also find it charming. Have a nice day, friend!
This is only a recommendation by ICAO where international traffic is expected. Towers and pilots speaking the local language is common outside the busy international routes.
I think that the Godot UI editor is written with Godot, so it should be possible!
I get this, but I will admit to missing the camaraderie I got from working in person with people. I miss grabbing lunch with someone or a drink after work. But thats in the past now, and a job is just a place I exchange life hours for dollars now.
> While the reported practices have long been legalized in the US and Germany, they are very likely illegal in Switzerland and are therefore subject to legal challenge. It would not be entirely surprising if this got overturned by the courts.

Mass surveillance without reason ("Anlasslose Vorratsdatenspeicherung") is illegal in the EU (and Germany), just like it hopefully is in Switzerland. But declaring a law illegal takes time, so Germany simply creates a new law to continue their mass surveillance until courts declare it illegal again.

So I don't know how mass surveillance being likely illegal in Switzerland changes much. Until today it wasn't even publicly known that mass surveillance is a thing in Switzerland, and I won't be surprised if a similar story will make news in a decade again.

German: https://netzpolitik.org/2023/bundesverwaltungsgericht-vorrat...

English: https://www.reuters.com/technology/indiscriminate-data-reten...
This one uses gravity though! Not the same thing as friction causing wear and tear, but still a similar dependency on a force as the springs/elastic bands. Plus use of gravity means a lot of force is needed to operate many of the gates at the same time
Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
Evil manager from hell: nope, you can still reconfigure the <thing> to use telnet. At least it would be then plain obvious that there is no security, instead of the current security theater with DSA.
I think what a lot of people who don't do software development don't understand is that the majority of software is developed like this:

- Weeks, months, or years of being incomplete and full of bugs. Gaps are filled and bugs fixed continuously, but new bugs are being introduced all the time.

- At the end -- where the end is a predetermined date and not based on the state of the software -- the software is deemed good enough and put into production

So most software is just barely working, at best, and full of gaps, issues, and bugs, both known and unknown.

This scandal is a case of egregious lack of leadership, both at the post office and at Fujitsu.

But it was also enabled by a belief in the reliability and credibility of IT systems, which is profoundly undeserved and inaccurate.
The cool thing is that swarm can form a half sphere mirror halfway, slowing one probe at the center down.
Output will not be much higher compared to the Unity store's asset flips. AI still gives you less types of content compared to Unity store (which provides you with whole game mechanics/features/scenarios that you can use). AI will lower barrier a little more - you will not need to buy a lot of resource packs anymore to finish a game.

The only thing that will change is that it will be little harder to detect if the game is just asset flip or something more.
We don't know the name, the article states that the org is putting itself in front. I am not surprised someone doesn't want to get entangled with Meta and use his/her own resources to fight this beast.
Let us not throw around baseless claims and tarnish the image of individuals who you deem to view in a certain light.
Can you elaborate on “new printed Bitcoin?” Are you referring to the block rewards or the new ETF shares?
OpenTofu Is Going GA
Carry on up the iron age.
I think no moat vs moat is a false dichotomy. They have a moat (better researchers and data) and are about to make it even better (network effects).
> the "as easy to withdraw as it is to give" setup would be kept in such a situation I think.

Debatable. Let’s say the base fee was 1€ and premium was 1000000€. Not many people could afford the latter. Even if it were 25€, or 10€, or even lower, as long as there’s any price discrepancy, one is not as easy as the other.
When has an arms race ever gone well against people making money off that arms race? I think spam is a fact of life going forward unless we go back to the pre-industrial age.

It’s all fun and games when we’re spamming Model Ts off an assembly line, not so much when the marginal cost drops to zero. We just have to make sure that the benefits outweigh the spam.
uk.railway archives from that collection only go back into the early 2000s, whereas I know Google had posts going back into the 90s. (But unfortunately Google is currently blocking access on account of too much spam, maybe facilitated by Google Groups in the first place…)
Porque no los dos? While I truly appreciate your OP and could grok it even though I don't know the tech, the summary and rewrites saved me a ton of googling. I hope one day we have a 'see vernacular/original' button for all thought and communication so people can choose what level to engage in without the author having to change their communication style. Translation for personal dialects, so to say.
> It's all a matter of perspective. From my perspective, if you can sit on your sofa, build a website, and pull in €80k, you're doing just fine.

Where do you put the sofa? For locals who inherited and apartment somewhere in Stockholm or Berlin, or have been living in rent-controlled apartment for 20 years, sure, 50k after-tax is fine-ish. What about expats who didn't inherit a 500k Euro apartment from their late grandma?
They have had a democratic government, and controlled their claimed territory for decades. Longer than East Timor has existed for example. And East Timor broke away from a functioning state, while Somaliland is breaking away from a FAILED state, which cannot militarily control even the non-somaliland parts of its claimed territory.
Breaking: Hacked Internet-connected wrenches lead to loose parts in Boeing airliners
Twitch would probably be profitable if it wasn't required to:

* Pay retail prices for AWS

* Required to use AWS

But of course, Amazon's CEO (ex-AWS CEO) sees no problem with raiding the coffers of a subsidiary to boost AWS's profit. And blaming them for it.
Sorry about broadening the scope, but even in the narrow one Ribbon broke stability in a big way consistency when it was introduced, so that's not uniquely stable

Vim is stable in a close-to-tautological "if plugins respect stability, they're stable", otherwise vim ecosystem has a lot of packages wildly departing from the default (it's definitely uniquely customizable, though)
> But it was also enabled by a belief in the reliability and credibility of IT systems, which is profoundly undeserved and inaccurate

I don't think this is a real thing. The individual system was vouched for by senior people. That's why it wasn't questioned any further.
Over-hiring adjustments is something I think was more common last year. By now, all companies "needing" layoffs to compensate should have already done so.

This feels more like Twitch just really struggling financially, as mentioned in the article.
"They have previously been wrong, therefore they cannot be right" and "I do not know what they are doing, therefore they cannot be doing the right thing"?

I think that clearly marks the end of any useful discussion.
Building 3D Rooftops and Bevels with Straight Skeletons
I wouldn't put "loyalty is dead" so starkly. But certainly lifetime employment from either side of the fence is absolutely not the norm. I've generally stayed at places a reasonably long time (arguably too long once or twice) but I still haven't made it much past a decade.
> If you've built up a 1.2M a year lifestyle

If you're living this way, feel free to reach out. I have loads of advice you don't want to but need to hear.
As relaxing as this experience was, I thought of resolving the itch to write trivial code to control the emojis and creatures with left/right clicks.

let clickCount = 0;
document.addEventListener('contextmenu', event => { (clickCount == 0) ? clickCount : clickCount--; event.preventDefault() }, false);
window.onclick = function (e) {
return clickCount++;
}
function random(i) {
let emojis = 20;
let creatures = 14;
if (i == 1) {
return (clickCount % (creatures + emojis) < creatures) ? 0.02 : 0.03;
}
else if (i == creatures)
{
return index = clickCount % (creatures + emojis) ;
}
else if (i == emojis)
{
return (clickCount % (creatures + emojis)) - creatures;
}
}
its just the perfect time to cut fat(even if you don't need to) because when things are good, it looks worse to do cuts
Also that the post office outright lied about having remote access to users' systems and the ability to change numbers.
Did Cory Doctorow write this? It seems almost too on-the-nose.
They do not use 第一 (dai ichi), they use ナンバーワン (namba- wan).

Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240109/k10014314211000.ht...

Also it seems like this is a temporary measure (seeing NHK says "対策では当面、事前に出発順は伝えずに離陸許可を出すとしています。" )?

Perhaps it will come back once the non-civilian traffic goes back to pre-earthquake levels?
It’s a bizzarely opaque statement since the population of the EU is over 400M. (Meanwhile the US population is over 300M.)
You 100% certain your system won't false? Playing a loud horn/sound on final is a good way to overload the crew and needlessly cause a crash.
This still translates into being a worse state of affairs for the store, and for the consumers who now have to contend with more scams that are harder to detect before pressing "buy".
For convenience: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
> All this has left an intriguing question: how has a TV show achieved in one week more than investigative journalists and politicians in more than a decade?

My answer is that information can easily be buried by the media, courts, politicians. The purpose of media is to guide not inform - there is nothing natural about the news.

The more interesting question in my mind, is why is this news now? It can't be that a genuine issue has filtered into the public consciousness via a dramatised TV show.

Is it that the show and surrounding dreams is intended as a distraction? Is something in the drama 'reframing' reality? Perhaps it is intended to show how 'the justice system may be slow, but still calls people to account' ie an attempt to shore up faith in our system? Is the loss of someone's CBE (an honour) intended to be a lightning rod to channel popular discontent down a cul de sac?

This event requires a media analysis.
I’m only here to see the acrobats continuing to claim Bitcoin is a fraud, only for criminals, and “going to die any day now.” Have a nice day everyone! What an awesome achievement for the crypto community!
const pTags = document.querySelectorAll('p');
pTags.forEach((p) => {
while (!p.textContent.includes('EMOJI')) {
p.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('mouseover'));
}
});

Need to replace EMOJI with what you want

Can't be bothered writing code that could add a delay so it would look like a pokie machine.
I was born in Poland and we moved to Germany when I was a kid. As a child I learned it quite easily (and fortunately I was on a school full of migrant children - today you would call it "Problemschule" here in Germany, I guess - so nobody laughed at me), but my parents still don't get used to it after more than 30 years and struggle with it on a daily basis.
I work in Core Eng at google. Woke up this morning and saw my director - who we all loved and had been at Google for 20 years - is gone.

One concerning thing that I haven't seen reported is that my leadership chain is almost entirely Indian, all the way up. And they've announced that they are starting to offshore entire core products to India, primarily in bangalore IIUC.
> the competition can reasonably catch up in the next 2-3 years.

Then how long after that for similar levels of adoption among devs?
And then people wonder why stuff like the 737 Max happen. Hint, it is not just MBAs and bean counters...
And why would they care when this will result in a fine that is less than they generate selling their user's lives to whomever.
those who believe the above are mutually exclusive, and those who develop social infrastructure
Glad you like it! That's also my favorite part of the page, don't know how many people will discover this fun little side effect though. ;)
Yeah, this is something I've been saying as well. Their true "moat" is their network of people who know and understand how to know use their tech.