skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean yeah its true. In fact I recall going to DEFCON this past Aug and they had a handful of Starlink engineers there. I tried to get them to discuss that whole Twitter saga, they absolutely were adamant that they did not care one bit. They really emphasized how they are doing cutting edge work at starlink and it definitely showed in the town down equipment that they brought to demonstrate. Tesla/Spacex get so many applicants thats its insane.

This leads me to want the OEMs to succeed, we desperately need a counterbalance to Musk because just shaming his employees won't change a goddamn thing but if there was another place where A players can be embraced well that would put a massive chink in the Musk armor. Hell I remember there were a whole group of furry employees at Tesla as well. Tesla has also participated multiple times in pride parades. I wonder where they are now...
> I believe it’s your duty on the earth to provide value in some way.

I agree to some degree in an ethical sense, but not absolutely. Some have more ability and opportunity to contribute than others. And, the devil is in the details. Additional, I am not necessarily willing to extend such views of one's _ethical_ duty in such a way to _operationalize_ them as a political philosophy or to state them as _normative_ on the economic level.

When I hear simplified statements along the lines of "if person X (or category of people Y) can't pull their weight, they'll get what they deserve" I don't hear anything resembling ethical insight nor wisdom; I mostly hear the fearful rationalizations of short-term thinking.
Smaller PR hit when bundled
In my experience, it's not always 1.5-2x the cost of a full tank to pay up front. The last time I rented, which was a couple years ago, it was only 10% more, well worth the potential BS, and I returned the car with like 10 miles remaining on the dash, no worries whatsoever.

That's not to say rental agencies don't universally suck, they certainly do, but, I wouldn't really say that's a major sticking point. Really the biggest problems seem to be them under-provisioning their fleets, and going after you for damage you didn't cause, both are far, far too common.
The claim isn’t exactly “Boeing can’t make a good plane anymore”, though.

It’s more like non-engineering culture resulted in a push to create a new plane as quickly and cheaply as possible. In other words, the execs at the start of the process created an impossible task that the downstream employees couldn’t follow through on. In this sense, it is consistent that under “normal” conditions, Boeing could still produce a good plane; the problem is that nobody wants to or is able to enforce those conditions.
A few employees... starting in the C-suite focused on a critic with a newsletter that looks like this: https://www.ecommercebytes.com

(nothing wrong with the content, it's a good trade rag but c'mon, you gotta be thinking about it day and night to sign off on a plan to go through with what was done against that)

Business models can be changed/improved. eBay has been quite stagnant.
Yup individual employees are definitely on equal footing with companies and health care is very affordable when purchased individually. The free market is very good and fair and everything is going just fine!
legit or fake?
Amusement parks are part of the inefficient monetization Hollywood is built around. The video games that make the most money give gameplay away for free too, but the difference is you can sell infinite skins and pay only 30% to assholes like Apple. It remains to be seen if even that cost will remain.

Disney lost not due to streaming, but due to its failed interactive division.
Surely, the Federal Reserve has a good reason for everything they do. Surely.
Coral Dev Board Micro
I laughed darkly at the pinball metaphor -- somehow the word "activate" is exactly right.
“Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.”
Animals eat each other. They feed other animals. They spread seeds to propagate plant life. Their decomposing bodies fertilize the earth. There is an ecosystem that exists.

Humans don’t have any predators. We’ve created a society where everyone feels entitled to exist. Animals don’t feel entitled to exist. They fight daily to survive. We fight daily to play the game that us humans created. It’s not real, it’s all fabricated: 401k’s, board member seats, search engine optimization, globalization, offshore manufacturing, advertising revenue, taxes, traffic lights, the NFL, American idol, TikTok dances, Prada clothing, Stanley cups, business casual, country clubs.

We have created the mess we are in. And there is too much momentum/inertia to shift course. We (as a society) will keep running on this treadmill until we collapse from exhaustion and hubris.
who's actually buying the etfs though?
Statement from the victims:
https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2024/1/170...
They probably wanted to avoid the sharp criticism if they laid them off just before christmas... So that's all over, time for the chopping block to come out.
Some of those were released only on streaming services (Soul, Turning Red, Luca) so the box office numbers are really skewed.

They’re coming to theatres now, years after they were released.
Might have been Poly Bridge! So much fun and it's available on steam.
Like any highly driven CEO he "needs" whatever he can get. When he gets comfortable I suppose he'll retire... or go race yachts against Larry Ellison.
If we compare US to Germany that has 1000s of km without any speed restrictions then it has roughly 2 times less deaths. Even France, where people drive like they have a death wish has 1/3 less deaths. It is even slightly higher than Belgium that is the only Western European country where I have experienced potholes on highway. Perhaps US is not strictly sucking at it but it is as such clearly on the high side.
That’s great to learn, thanks
That’s been my experience. Death by a thousand paper cuts from iOS reminding you how it isn’t a “real” OS like Mac or Windows.
Yes, and US has therefore more traffic deaths by design.
Even in those times, the women were paid very little. Going back far enough (when women were property), the women weren't even paid, but rather the money was given to the husband. And, of course these things vary for other cultures/countries.
David Bowie and his Apple computer in 1994
Same here ( shares) , this was all mentioned last year around q1 on investor day for improving the sales department and firing underperformers:

https://softwarestackinvesting.com/cloudflare-net-q2-2023-ea... section: profitability

The idea, a year ago, was to replace underperformers by average performers in sales. That was the first round of layoffs that Cloudflare had and impacted ~ 100 people.

The girl in the video mentioned she didn't have a single sale. It seems consistent to me, I just hope the metric is fair.
Reputation is an asset like anything else. It's probably economically rational to build up a reputation for good quality while you're small, and then switch to extracting as much value as you can from that reputation once you've gotten big. (I don't like it but I don't see any way to prevent it being the most profitable course)
The papers title makes a stronger claim than the abstract. The abstract makes a stronger claim than the paper. It is like they couldn't decide what paper to write.

Edit: Thinking about it, this is exactly what you might expect from a paper written by a stochastic mix of experts.
Yikes on that second link, I seriously hope she told them she was recording the call or she may run into some two-party consent issues.
The guidlines ask you not to comment about downvoting.
Not working as a PM anymore, but it is happening. Within 5-7 years most Cybersecurity PMs will end up being in Israel+India, along with Eng staff. All that will be left in the US is PMM and Sales Engineering.

This is the model the newer gen of Cybersecurity Startups are following (eg. Wiz, Cyera, etc).
Correct. The animal kingdom as a whole self regulates. We are effectively playing god every day and circumventing the natural processes of the world.
I think Stuxnet was much more sophisticated, and the pump (along with VFD) could be an entry point into their network.

The centrifuges that were destroyed are not driven by pumps. Motors, yes, but not pumps.
> Animals eat each other. They feed other animals. They spread seeds to propagate plant life. Their decomposing bodies fertilize the earth. There is an ecosystem that exists.
Humans don’t have any predators. We’ve created a society where everyone feels entitled to exist. Animals don’t feel entitled to exist. They fight daily to survive. We fight daily to play the game that us humans created. It’s not real, it’s all fabricated...

This is moral confusion. Nature does not set the ethical standards to which we aspire. See the naturalistic fallacy.
I would much rather get a risky tech job in the US than in my current country (UK) where we get paid half or even less than half..

Btw its not just the money either, imagine the kind of companies/opportunities that can survive such extreme collectivism and think about what becomes of the culture/practices/mannerisms in such an environment.

One thing I always wondered about less developed parts of the world like Asia and the middle east is how did they devolve so much? South America and Africa makes sense, those regions didn't develop complex advanced civilisations but India did, China did, Middle east did.. and they did it thousands of years ago then just devolved to pitiful lows. Now it makes sense..

Europe and her children deserves everything that coming to them. The arrogance of these people to think they can play god with humanity and be arbiter of who deserves what..
Possibly stupid question - why are so many companies laying off?

According to Wallstreet, the majority of the recession scare isn't a scare. Inflation, while not fully at target, is getting better. Unemployment is at an all time low.

So many companies are laying off like it's the worst times ahead. Obviously layoffs aren't taken lightly so there must be some internal signals that really push them to take these measures.

It just seems like Feds+WallStreet vs companies actions are at odds with each other?
I keep this clip open in a browser tab so I can go back to it from time-to-time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NASGb5m8s

It's the same basic message from Jobs, but this time about Xerox.
It's a lot to learn, but Nix solves your issues precisely.

You can build lean, layered Docker images with ease with it. And deploy those to container services like any other.

But you don't have to use those containers for development. You use Nix to set up your dev env (a lot will come for free after you have your code packaged for the container).

Nixpkgs has support for most mainstream languages nowadays, with varying levels of popularity. The more popular ones will have more polished Nix integration.

Now, if you _do_ want to use the container locally, you can do that too. And it will benefit from non-fragile caching thanks to Nix.

But tbh, if you need to replicate prod precisely locally to do local dev, you should probably consider..figuring out how to build and test your components with confidence in isolation. Local simulation of prod can be useful sometimes but if it's your default, you can do better.
Playing with browser developer tools and always seeing obfuscated JavaScript makes me sad. I'm not a web developer, but I suspect the security gained is low enough to fall within the author's "unnecessary constraints."

On the other hand, there are projects like https://github.com/rxi/lite
Its scope and layout makes it extremely tinkerable.
No that is their slogan, the demands here were clearly to let more aid into Gaza.
I honestly thought the jig here was lying about the 96k. If the bottle actually costs 96k then I don't begrudge the 4% risk for hauling to the desert.
I regularly must sit and wait for vscode to catch up rendering the text I just typed. I suspect the main culprit is the vim extension, but unfortunately that's one of the few extensions I cannot go without.
How many were laid off? I can't find an article online about the layoffs. Do we only have her word or something I missed? Cloudflare stock doesn't show any movement. Usually, I see a big dip when something like this happens.

I saw the video posted here and all I see is an intern getting fired. Is it something unusual? I know companies with less than 50 employees hiring and firing a bunch of people every month. For Cloudflare to fire 2 new employees, is it too much?

The video from the other reply: https://twitter.com/BowTiedPassport/status/17451497589921956...
Ok, here’s something you probably don’t know. Prince’s album Purple Rain literally changed the face of music (at least in the US). All those Parental Advisory stickers on the front of albums with “explicit” lyrics are basically the result of Tipper Gore (Al Gore’s former wife) overhearing her daughter singing along to a track on that album, Darling Nikki (don’t listen to it without first listening to Computer Blue (one leads into the other)),in which Prince describes meeting the titular Nikki while she masturbates with a magazine in a hotel lobby.

Tipper wasn’t a fan of this, got together with some other senators’ wives, and now we’ve got those stickers everywhere.
because in America a job is the difference between life or very dangerous homelessness and death.

if we didn't have such shit social safety nets here, it wouldn't be that personal.
Calling them "houthi rebels" is such nonsense, they are the de-facto govenment of Yemen and the people love them. The Zionist/US/Saudi puppet regime never had real support.
The Venn diagram is of “entities that pay lawyers to send cease and desist letters” and “entities that launch DDoS attacks” is pretty non-overlapping.
what if some fast-food company in texas called, branded, and advertised their choc donuts as english muffin?
When Turo worked it was great for me. However, in my most recent experience with Turo my reservation was cancelled by the other party while I was mid-air and I landed with no car and no recourse and had to scramble. It was miserable, bad enough that I’ve gone back to renting Teslas from Hertz (where my experience has been in contrast to other anecdotes here—pretty seamless).
Pixar famously spends quite a lot on compute for their render farm.

https://nofilmschool.com/why-pixars-24000-core-supercomputer...
Me arguing for copyleft does not prevent users from choosing to use alternative software, either. It does encourage them, though (which I can only assume is your point). I also didn’t write that every ‘FOSS’ project should use GPLv3.

The freedom I care about (because I think it’s very impactful and extremely important to preserve) is the freedom to use, know, share and modify software. Licensing is a useful tool to help ascertain that freedom, but beyond that, I consider the freedom to choose a licence nowhere near as important.
They fire on random ships that have nothing to do with the conflict.
Ask HN: Are there any PWA stores to promote off-appstores?
i found a few but they all look abandoned.
Nvidia Parabricks: Free software suite for secondary analysis of sequencing DNA
> The company wants to try and make more money and one way is eliminating your job. Why is that so personal?

God forbid we expect people to be treated with a bit of dignity and given the opportunity to actually say goodbye to their friends and colleagues.

Millennials grew up being told over and over “be loyal to a company and they’ll treat you well” and have largely began their careers in an era where it’s clear companies couldn’t care less about employee loyalty once it comes anywhere close to negatively impacting their bottom line.
I'm also interested in the responses to your questions, but I would ask something else: are non-tech companies also doing layoffs? I'm not in the US so I'm not really up to date to that.
They didn't bankrupt themselves, the US government (at Boeing's urging) bankrupted them.
> We (as a society) will keep running on this treadmill until we collapse from exhaustion and hubris.

This is false certainty. You don't know what will happen; you haven't even given a handful of possible future scenarios. Society could go on for some time with rising inequality with tragic consequences, sure. Or we could grow out of this phase in hundreds of different ways. Or we could obliterate ourselves in nuclear war. There are many possibilities. Don't fixate on one.

Will humanity (or some creation or derivative of ourselves) outlive our solar system? Now _that_ is a fun question to explore.
As the commenters on that forum already say "It was some clickbait last month saying 30k could lose their jobs". I've seen the number, too, at https://www.storyboard18.com/quantum-brief/google-announces-...

It was a 30k business unit affected, not 30k fired.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-plans-ad-sales-res...
The remaining 25% is thrown out by the recycling company.
You have what is a common misconception. That the actual IP/Content is ever what has made money. It is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media...

Look at the totals broken out by area of revenue. Pokemon is a big offender, the games and movies might as well not exist from a revenue standpoint.

Pokémon $88 billion Licensed merchandise – $80.8 billion[b]
Pokémon mobile games – $6.13 billion[c]
Box office – $1.156 billion[26]

Now you know why everthing has to have some sort of T-shirt, hat, pen, keychain blah blah.
That's why you employ a good "Steuerberater". They fist the Finanzamt rectally.

When in Germany, do as the (successful) Germans do.
Legally, I’m not sure that’s true. I think discriminating against out of staters for health insurance could well meet the compelling interest standard of Shapiro v. Johnson, similarly to how states are allowed to discriminate against out of state students for public universities. And if it were challenged, I suspect the current Supreme Court wouldn’t be so inclined to further extend the broad “right of travel” found in Shapiro.

Putting that aside, the theoretical prospect that states would have to accommodate out of state moochers doesn’t seem to be the actual reason that the California and Vermont universal healthcare efforts failed. It seems like those programs failed because voters don’t want to pay for it.
38 states (and DC) require one-party consent, so, depends.
Interesting question. ASML?
I'm not an expert by any means, but this is almost the opposite of what I've heard, and the fact that most airlines are either Boeing or Airbus exclusively supports that idea.

In particular, I've heard that maintenance and pilot training are big issues. If you've got half your pilots on the 737 and half on the A320, you're much less resilient to scheduling issues than having all of them on one or the other. Similarly, I believe maintenance facilities tend to be one or the other, so if you've got half your facilities for each, at the margins you're going to have more scheduling issues for maintenance.

There are economies of scale with anything to do with scheduling flexibility, and dividing like this essentially halves those economies of scale.
What is an "EU novel"? Kagi & urbandictionary are no help. (I'm going out on a limb and guess it's not the European Union.)
This seems to be consistent to what was mentioned last year ( May 2023 ) on investor day.

https://softwarestackinvesting.com/cloudflare-net-q2-2023-ea... section: profitability

The idea, a year ago, was to replace underperformers in sales by average performers, this impacted ~ 100 people early 2023.

Fast forward today, this seems to impact those that were expecting to reach average sales, they probably were also underperforming ( just a educated guess).

I just hope the metric is fair, but I wouldn't expect otherwise from Cloudflare.

Edit: One of the videos posted here, said she didn't have a single sale and most of the new hires were done ~ 1 year ago...
If every door has NFC why don't they just make physical cards like employee access cards or hotel key cards? They can still be logged, revoked, etc, the only "feature" lost is the Face ID/mobile phone passcode.
These things you mention are honestly more examples of fabricated concepts. Are you a religious person by chance?
Alternatively, the bosses can get rid of the guilt, by choosing to believe that unfettered capitalism of the most extreme kind is the natural and correct order of things. Converting costs into externalities (in this case, unemployed people) becomes the new religion.

The boss's morality doesn't enter it anymore; the market made them do it.
She's in Virginia (according to LinkedIn), which is a one-party consent state.
Next thing you know, you're learning how to flash ESP firmware and how Zigbee protocols work.

The cool factor is maybe 25% of it for me. It's mainly an obsessive hobby.
Four quick solutions, there may be more!

(1) Transmission: When it is night somewhere, it is daytime somewhere else. All you need is transmission lines. Shipping electricity is so much easier than shipping fossil fuels, 40% of all shipping[1]: https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-c.... With vertical panels we can capture power early mornings and evenings, reducing the duck curve, but also for transmitting power long distances. There are long undersea cables being deployed, Denmark Wind to England recently, Morocco to Europe, Singapore to Australia. These can be bidirectional.

(2) CSPs with molten salt storage: In addition to solar panels, we could also leverage CSPs and provide 24/7 power. Hopefully, CSPs follow the same learning rate as panels: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16012018/csp-concentrated...

(3) EVs: EVs can absorb power whenever it is overabundant. Power prices go negative 200 million times a year, EVs can charge at that time. Eventually, we'll have 100 - 200m cars, this is a gigantic, distributed and resilience battery. Cars are parked 22 - 23 hours/day, their primary purpose is energy storage, we get to take a ride on them for some time during the day.

(4) Wind: Wind is not daytime only. We can overprovision wind also, which complements with solar. "Offshore wind farms generate electricity from wind blowing across the sea. They are considered more efficient than onshore wind farms, thanks to the higher speed of winds, greater consistency and lack of physical interference that the land or human-made objects can present.": https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16012018/csp-concentrated...

We switched from circuit switched networks (the dominant network since 1850 telegraphs till early 2000, about 150 years), to packet switched networks. Packet switched networks transformed telecom infrastructure which led to all the developments we see today and the cost reduction to zero, which was unimaginable to anyone until early 2010s. Telegraph/phone used to cost a lot! We can imagine similar trajectory with electricity, the legacy grid being the equivalent of circuit switched network, which will be replaced with a new grid, with EVs taking the role of energy "switches" (store and forward switches enabled packed switched networked, store energy and supply the grid back with a few hours latency is the role of EVs)
The inability for an individual to guarantee payment for necessities cannot be the fault of any company. Each capable adult must be held accountable and responsible for themselves in this world.
Antimony Pill
Thank you so much! Ive been needing to set this up for a project of mine and this helps a ton.
It smells crypto-ey but there's Radicle (https://app.radicle.xyz/)