skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additional context: https://twitter.com/TheTranscript_/status/165269146916406886...
Agglomeration effects are real. And you are better off building space for people in highly productive cities like NYC and San Francisco, then to force them to toil in obscurity in Appalachia.

They wouldn't be paying exorbitant amounts of money to stay in NYC or SF. They haven't in the past, before America stopped building. The distribution of rents used to be fairly 'flat', without the crazy spikes in productive cities we see today. See eg https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/the-consumption-basket-w...

Yes, many people have a preference for single family homes. If the people who are ok with density were legally allowed to enjoy that density, then there would be more space (even relatively close to city centres), left over for the people who prefer single family homes on large plots.

That also applies for your concerns about rich people taking up land: legalise density and building taller.

> The retrofits are major capital expenses that my mention later on. They get more expensive the bigger the house is. You still have larger costs on things like a new roof or flooring since there's simply more of it. Yes, they themselves generally wouldn't become a limiting cost. But neither would the property cost nothing.

Maybe, but you'd expect homes meant for rich people to have nicer than average roofs and flooring already. So your concern is a bit weird.

The vacancy rate doesn't seem particularly outside of historic norms: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/rental-vacancy-ra... So I'm not quite sure what you are on about?

In any case, even with your much higher estimate of 10% it's not a big deal. Even if you magically went from 10% to 0% vacancies overnight, you'd still only increased the effective housing supply by about 11%. The shortfall in building is much larger than that.

Again, please have a look at https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/the-housing-shortage-is-... and perhaps https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/random-notes or https://www.amazon.com/Shut-Out-Shortage-Recession-Universit... for a book length treatment.
And you're welcome to address what I just wrote, instead of trying to dictate that I use an argument you find more convenient for your position.
Super apps or everything apps solve a problem the US doesn't have. It's related to conglomerates... which is a business structure that creates financial efficiencies that in financially unsophisticated economies can overcome the inefficiencies created by a single firm operating in a wide range of unrelated industries.

To rephrase: if it's difficult to barrow money, then a large company (that has money from other ventures) can use that money to create a business that is less efficient than a focused competitor.. but will survive because the focused competitor will have to expend a lot of energy attempting to get adequate capital.

The US used to have conglomerates.. and they died as the capital market developed. But they still exist in other countries, like India with Tata and Reliance.

Super apps solve a similar problem, and Elon is right that payments are the central service of the app. If you look at countries where super apps became popular, payments were the problem being solved. Consumers in those countries have difficult access to credit, credit cards are non-existent, and paying your electric bill may mean going to a physical payment location and waiting in line to pay in cash.

It's a two sided problem: most consumers don't have credit cards (or electronic payment options), and since consumers don't pay with credit cards, businesses often dont accept credit cards. Even the payment networks are underdeveloped and often unreliable (to what extent they exist), and things a company may rely on to extend credit often don't exist: like credit scores or credit reports.

So super apps solve the payment problem on both sides of the market: consumers get access to credit (or the ability to deposit cash at least); and they signup businesses so consumers have a place to spend their money. Consumers like it because it's much easier/faster/efficient, and businesses like it because it increases sales/customers.

The US has the most sophisticated financial market in the world. This isn't a problem the average american has... and that's why even though its been over a decade since WeChat, there isn't a super app in the US. Even the super apps in Europe have poor traction compared to those in India and other markets. The popularity of the concept is directly related to the stage of development of the country's financial markets.
Most of them are also also speaking a foreign language (English), even during a domestic flight.
Even if you have no trouble remembering a seven digit code, there's nothing to stop a malicious actor who determines that code from entering your apartment. At least with physical keys you have absolute control over who has those keys, and don't have to worry about somebody spying on you as you're punching in the code.

The fact that it takes two seven-digit codes to enter your apartment (one for the lobby door, one for your apartment) only makes cracking the code more difficult; it doesn't change the basic problem that control over entering the building (and your apartment) is freely available to anyone who determines the code.
In California, you sometimes have to announce layoffs. This strengthens a class action lawsuit that this is a layoff and not a termination for performance. There will be penalties associated with that.

You can simply say "We are terminating your employment." However, that generally means that you cannot demand back relocation, bonuses, stocks, etc. and you're going to have to cough up equivalent severance to everybody else--otherwise you're staring at a discrimination lawsuit.
The specific criticism I heard my friend rant about was a colleague who did very little because they felt slighted, and they could never be fired for anything really, so because he wanted to move on with his life he just did all that other guys’ work.
This is actually quite common. I've seen a variety of situations where a person was fired or laid off, but allowed to stay on for some time - usually a week or two, although the most extreme one I personally saw was a guy who stayed for more than 6 months. (Nobody could figure out how to get him to leave and he was known and respected in the industry so they were reluctant to force him out.)

I think the "escorted out by security" might be something that happens more in the movies and maybe some very large and impersonal companies. Haven't seen a lot of layoffs up close, but I kind of doubt it's the norm.
Their website says keycards /can/ be offered, just like physical keys (mentioned in the article). Apartment complexes opt not to support those things.
If you search C2C you get Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal too. Who's right?
No need to dehumanize anyone
APU is a marketing term. The GPU's in them are still integrated GPU's. Intel didn't have anything that held a candle to them until the Iris branded parts, and even those lagged behind.

> integrated GPUs of the 7000 serious (not APUs) are maximal minimalist to a point I think they couldn't have shrunken them more

Right, because these are meant as a backup display output in parts that are aimed at the gaming market, where they will almost always be paired with a GPU. Comparable parts in prior Ryzen generations didn't even have an iGPU. Intel offers you the choice (no GPU in the "K" SKU) which is nice.
For short term unpredictable demand it is likely that batteries will outcompete gas in the next couple of years.
Exactly. Highly entertaining and revealing for us to watch, but I don't think she did herself any favors moving forward.
Can't wait to "peer-to-peer" with the thousands of bonkers political idiots and hardcore porn stars who have sprung up with blue ticks and Twitter gladly/desperately took money from.
> Presumably these Cloudflare HR employees do have the data for why this person was laid off, and they might even have it in front of them, but yeah legally they can't give them any more specifics.

HR only talked for 21 seconds before she said "I'm going to stop you right there" and started talking over them.

She goes on to admit she closed zero sales, even past her ramp-up period.

It's unfortunate, but if they sorted people by sales performance she's at the bottom of the list (by definition)

I think a lot of people in this comment section are responding to the emotional nature of the TikTok and ignoring the fact that she had zero sales during a downsizing.
https://incredible.pm/ is better
Yes and no.

Layoffs are “supposed to be” non-performance based. “Our widget didn’t sell so we’re laying off the widget makers”. That’s the generally accepted idea.

In the US you totally can sue if they fire you for a protected reason (“we noticed you were missing meetings on maternity leave, men would never do that”). Some people would sue over anything I’m sure.

If you’re a salesperson and you didn’t sell anything for 5 months, that’s performance based and it’s “reasonable” to fire them. They’d probably not sue. You can tell someone they were a poor performer without legal repercussions, assuming you’re not being shady. Typically HR and legal put together some sort of evidence just in case.

It’s just mean, but maybe fair, to lay off the entire sales team and call each person and tell them they were a bad performer. Bad look to do it after the Cloudflare CEO went around a press tour last year bragging about how they won’t do layoffs and now’s the time to invest in talent.
> She cut them off after 21 seconds and then went into a heated complaint, including calling what they're doing "bullshit"

It was Bullshit, textbook bullshit : https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on....
Sure, that’s about right. 60 miles a day was a bit conservative. GPT thinks you can get 100 miles per day.
Sad. Well, I've lost a lot of admiration for Cloudflare. Shame.
Even worse, some companies will terminate you at some point during the (customary two) weeks before you quit, throwing off your schedule and potentially pay.
We are in a weird space right now where individuals can get super cheap batteries and inverters, but what's getting installed for grid scale is somewhat more expensive and meant to be cycled fully daily 5000-8000 times. Residential is much less likely to see discharges as deep and frequent as the large grid installs.
This doesn't seem to me to explain why the layoffs are happening now. AFAIK Google has never done a true layoff until last January in the entire history of the company. Now it seems to be already routine.

As someone who grew up in the 80s-90s, my historical sense of layoffs is that they were a response to economic hard times, whether industry-wide or company-specific. Companies laid off when profits fell or disappeared, which then drove a need to search for ways to cut costs.

But the major tech companies are all seeing continuously growing revenues and profits within the context of very healthy general economic numbers, yet they are all laying people off.
> I don't think it's likely

Whether it's likely and whether we should expect it are different questions. Don't let them normalize lower standards, as if customers should support some right to higher profit margins. Unless they are giving you a cut, profit margins are 100% not your problem.
> storage is 100x more expensive than nuclear.

Please don't make things up out of thin air. Storage is cheaper than nuclear.
This needs to change, no more notice
I've been using CotEditor for a while and I really like it: https://coteditor.com

Mac native and open source.
What a load of nonsense.

People sacrifice a lot of personal time to ramp up in a job. This is why she is emotional. Then she was told she was doing well..by her manager. Now her investment is bogus and it sounds like she will not be compensated at all for it? I mean you're advocating she asks for compensation, when they tell her no? Then what?

Not sure who you are but you're delusional if you think this is ok.

"Go get drunk?", ok
I'm an old guy, advice for young people.

Companies do not give a fuck about you. Companies do not appreciate any sacrifice you make for them, so make none. Never do more but just what they pay you for. You owe them 40 hours and they only owe you a paycheck. You're employment is temporary. HR is there to protect the company from you. Save your money, Network and have a plan b.
Every state except Montana is At-Will. You can for the most part be fired for anything at any time except the usual discrimination topics.
My pet peeve about BT in cars is that it can interrupt phone calls when your spouse starts the car or arrives home. I guess it's nice that cars have good BT range, but it would be nice if it could sense whether the phone is in the car, or perhaps 30 feet away, in my bedroom (and I'm on a call!).

For now, I stick to wired USB...
I get that this type of situation is emotionally difficult, but advice for anyone willing to take it: if the point is getting information, a confrontational "you can't do this to me" type tone is probably less helpful than a curious "you owe me nothing but if you want to brighten my day a little here's what I'm curious about" attitude.
They're not social platforms that enable/encourage communication and running scams. They also don't have a leader who will YOLO decisions that cause SEC investigations.

PayPal also got away with a lot for its size and keeps fighting being classified as a bank. Regulators may not want to risk that grey area again.
Rented a model y last month from them and drove nearly 6,000 miles round trip to visit family out of state. Had to stop more than I did when I’ve previously done the drive in my ICE car, but other than that, very smooth experience. The supercharger costs were more than I expected, but basically a wash with gas. More chargers of course are needed (looking at you SE Arizona and West Texas), and it’d be nice to see EVs have a useable range of 300+ miles of highway driving between charging stops.
> an engineer-led culture made it more difficult to compete in a cost sensitive environment.

I know this is a common sentiment, but I don't quite get it. Engineering is often about optimizing multivariate functions, and cost is just another variable to optimize. If you frame it properly to engineers, they can solve cost problems too.
The five Star Wars movies she oversaw from 2015-2019 made $5.92 billion at the box office, but let me know if that's not enough money for her to be considered successful.
they probably make a sizeable amount of money on people returning cars without enough gas and thats one less revenue stream if they dont do the same for charge
That's a common comeback - and again, it's doing nothing, spinning wheels, talking on the sidelines. The distractions are endless, but there's only one thing to do - get in the game.
I do not know any company that would hire this person after this viral social media video. Employers do not like aggressive candidates who record and share on social media when they are angry.
In some circumstances there absolutely is a difference in the amount of money you will be entitled to in the case of being fired vs. being made redundant. It can be on the order of several months of pay. You will also see employers simply make the working conditions incredibly miserable for their employees on the hope that they'll quit instead of the business needing to make them redundant.
Don't forget the CO2 price.
They aren't. Even though many people use Codeberg, only few become members. This is a problem. Passing Join + Donate pages from archive.org. According to their November newsletter:

> More than 100.000 projects as of late on Codeberg. Codeberg e.V. has 401 members in total, these are 281 members with active voting rights, 113 supporting members and 7 honorary members.

[0] Joining: https://web.archive.org/web/20240106140505/https://join.code...

[1] Donating: https://web.archive.org/web/20240106140512/https://docs.code...
Named pipe for animated .plan for current sysadmin status and/or sms messaging to on-call person.

Works until non-computer manager misunderstands give sysadmin the "digit".
To some extent, but your airplane customer has quite a bit more flexibility than a grocery customer. I'm probably not going to buy French perishables but an airbus is a different story.
Wrong. The WARN act does not differentiate between mass firings and mass layoffs of full-time workers. Requirements change once certain firing thresholds are crossed. Firing enough people to cross those thresholds, telling them individually that they are being fired for performance reasons, and not giving advanced notice would be a clear violation. https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/Layoff/pdfs/Worke...
That’s interesting. I wonder if it has to do with size. I work at a really large company and the commissions are apparently lower but the sales jobs appear more stable. The companies my family member has worked at all fall in the 500-1000 range. Not small but definitely in the sort of high growth phase.
Netherlands you could have 3 month probation (I think??) or most companies may start employees on fixed-term employment contracts (6/8/12 months) before becoming permanent which is very common

(Netherlands had a rule where you could have 3 fixed term contracts, up to 24 months total, before becoming a permanent employee)

so they could've hired her on a 6 months contract and simply not renew it :)
Being antagonistic from the start, barely letting them say anything, isn't a good start. The further through the video the more I wonder if it was personality rather than performance or anything else.

Also our layoffs were done similarly, HR picked the people, we never found out the exact reasoning, and it was handled by our manager's manager instead of our direct manager.
Expanding on GP a bit, ssh is not just a core feature for SourceHut the _only_ allowed method of write access to a repository[0].

sr.ht does not support pushing to git repositories over HTTPS with a username+password — SSH keys are mandatory.

HTTP access is restricted to read-only operations (clone, pull, etc).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20231225152845/https://man.sr.ht...
My understanding is one of the folks on the call is the Global Head of GTM Business Partners. Not exactly junior.
Instagram is cutting management levels, allowing impacted workers to reinterview
It was a big deal at the time in 1993. Everybody in the music and multimedia and press industries received a copy of his floppy disk in the mail with his "Princely" font, with instructions on how and when to use it. And people on the cutting edge of digital technology could even download it from CompuServe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38964005
As was mentioned and shown off earlier in the thread, I feel more websites would benefit from proof-of-work rate limiting. It doesn’t solve it entirely, but I’ve heard it can handle around tens-of-thousands of connections.
they're wrong. Employees in California have the right to request their HR files including performance reviews and anything used to determine their termination. https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_righttoinspectpersonnelfiles...
I don't think it's a mass layoff. Only new hires are probably affected.

Cloudflare did a layoff in sales that impacted ~ 100 underperforming people in May last year. It was discussed on investor day by their CEO ( https://softwarestackinvesting.com/cloudflare-net-q2-2023-ea... -> section profitability ).

They actually hired 100 other people to get average sales people around the same time, instead of underperformers. The expectation was that those new hires ( ~ May 2023 ) would see results that year => december 2023.

Probably the new sales hires were also being graded and those layed off were underperforming versus their peers.

The only thing I'm wondering, is that the performance review was fair for newer hires, but that's speculation. There are a lot of other ways to know if someone is underperforming ( eg. Feedback from 1 of the 3 sales she didn't close, too little general IT knowledge since all of Cloudflare products are very technical, ...)

And if you're in sales, there's only 1 metric that counts...She mentioned to have 0 sales...
Everyone says this as if it's not also considered rude/bad behavior for a company to lay off people with no notice. It's rude either way. Both employer and employee can opt to do it without the usual graceful phase out, but they risk backlash from other employees. Either team members getting a bad impression of someone leaving suddenly, or getting a bad feeling about the company after unexpected layoffs.
Here is what I have observed. The use of various procedures (like asking someone to immediately leave the office) is actually mainly driven by managers' and HRs' fear and/or inexperience with layoffs. Basically, these people get together, it's a tough situation for them and not one they have any personal experience handling, and they sort of convince themselves that it's safer to do things in a very cold and impersonal way. By the time the next recession hits, all of these people will have moved up to higher management rolls where they aren't doing the laying off themselves, so the next "generation" starts from scratch and again convinces itself that it's safer if we do everything in a cold and impersonal way. I think this is how you end up with all these silly procedures.

I've seen people react unpredictably and emotionally in the workplace, but the layoffs I've seen have actually been entirely smooth. The typical laid off employee is either thinking about the vacation they're going to take (Silicon Valley good times thinking) or how they're going to find a new job (any other industry at any time). The last thing such a person wants to do is trash their own reputation by behaving unprofessionally, and they certainly aren't going to sabotage the employer. But since the managers doing the laying off typically have never done it before, you end up with the kind of weird outcomes described here.
It'll be interesting to see how this one goes. A lot of this falls under obviousness. Hardware parallelization of NNs will follow similar paths that anyone skilled in the art would follow. Such paths can't be protected by patent, at least, not for long. If Google is forced to invalidate this patent through obviousness, then this could open similar designs to anyone who can afford an ASIC production run.
It is a knock on EVs as longs as the missing/lacking/very deficient charging infrastructure is what literally makes the EVs work or fail. No suitable (and fast) charging means EVs are meant to fail, and deservedly so.
AFAICT from recent quarterly reports, the big tech companies are still seeing double-digit YoY growth in profits and revenues. So from whence comes the pressure to tighten belts?
You're kinda talking about fixing shitty human behavior in general and that is really just incredibly hard. Adding a union wouldn't fix that.
So what, I could get a list of any free open source product contributors and get even longer list.

They dont work fulltime 40 hours per week on a single movie, do they? Its more like few hours here and there, as needed
This is if course highly subjective, but for all this investment in content I, as a consumer, seem to find less and less content I like. Maybe it's just because I'm not part of the demographics that Hollywood cares about any more, but I personally would like to get much more "good" content.
Zelle is supposed to be that in the US. My bank uses Zelle for free transfers. It's not marketed well or feature complete at every bank though.
While I was not aware there are state level laws for this, she appears to be from Georgia.

Not sure how this would work with inter-state conversations.

Georgia is not on the list:
California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.