skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the biggest public tech companies in Germany announced a layoff today, 400 people effected: https://new-work.se/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-ad-hoc-E...
My furnace broke after 15 years. I called a business to fix it. They replaced the dead pump motor and it worked again. The repair guy was paid well and I was happy to pay. What exactly is inherently unethical about this?
Should I believe you or my lying eyes! :)
The original Dutch language reporting: https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/sabotage-in-iran...
That makes sense, but the ah ah ah this isn't the US card comes unexpected on an analogy developed specifically alongside a US based topic.
Man, companies involved in crypto currencies trading getting into trouble is about the most common news out there. Making sure I am not exposed to this risk is just basic due diligence not being paranoid.
You may disagree but the view that crypto currencies are toxic assets is pretty popular so the question is worth answering for people who subscribe to it.
If society ossifies into classes with landed gentry at the top, it’s not going to end pretty.
The UN is unfortunately not a credible source when it comes to this issue. Hostages have been held at UN employees' houses; the UN failed to condemn the October 7 attack for months; and they denied that rape occurred for months.

While you rely on authorities, I'll do what enlightenment thinkers do. Ask questions like "how" and "what is their method."
At least in Germany there are strict rules for what is called a pretence of self-employment. A freelancer needs to have more than one client, the client cannot set working hours, access to systems also cannot be the same as for employees etc. US has something similar AFAIK, I would expect most EU countries to have it too.
Quite fun. I find it a lot simpler and more intuitive than other UI frameworks I've worked with (especially front-end webdev), but I understand it's very opinionated. Once you get accustomed to using Control nodes in Godot (that's what they call UI components), it becomes super easy to rapidly prototype and design anything you'd like.
My impression is that RSA was covered by patent (from 1983 until 2001). DSA was attractive in part because, while patented, the primary patent was held by the US government and royalty-free.

I have vague memories (from circa 1995 comp sci undergrad coursework) that discrete log and integer factorization both appeared similarly difficult as mathematical/algorithmic problems.

Thus, if you had to choose between a patent-encumbered protocol and a royalty-free one, it would make sense to choose DSA. That said, it seems to have never offered a particular advantage, and the modern view appears to be that DSA is weaker in practical terms.
United States is one country. European Union is not a country, it is a collection of many independent countries with separate laws, languages, cultures, governments. You can also live and work from any corner of the same country in EU if you want, provided that your job is also in the same country, just like in the U.S. This is not any different.

What you're saying is like can you work for a Canadian company while living in the U.S? Or an Argentinian company while living in the U.S? I don't think so. So I fail to see how U.S is somehow better here, and you're comparing European Union to 1 country, which is just ridiculous, since EU is not a country. European Union "states" are not the same as U.S states. They are actual countries.
I think the issue is more that power laws distributions have a lot of negative externalities. Inequality is correlated with a lot of societal problems.

> People see these power law distributions and are surprised? But like, do you actually want enforced uniform wealth (communism)?

This is a really all-or-nothing take. A handful of people are arguing for enforced uniform wealth, most people are just pointing out that our current economic system is marginalizing a growing number of people each year, while enriching a handful of giga-wealthy individuals.
> There should be no debate over sentient software

I honestly don't know if you are implying its obvious software _can't_ be sentient, or its obvious software _can_ be sentient. The fact that I can't tell which you mean proves that there is and should continue to be a debate over sentient machines.
> I'm surprised medical billing scams aren't rampant, considering it's 100% normal to

The difference between honest-to-god scams, and just these meaningless me-too bills that accompany every medical procedure or test... well, is there a difference?

If a scam is some scheme or trick to get you to pay for something you never agreed to pay for and wouldn't agree to pay for if it were said up front, through deception strategies like opaque policies and maneuvering you to a point where you can no longer back out of it...

Then pretty much all of it is a scam. That the people performing the scams have professional degrees in medicine, that they're gainfully employed as hospital and medical company employees, and so on, that doesn't really change the nature of it.

Originally, the "scammy" behavior was developed (and not deliberately) to try to coerce the insurance companies into paying. But the insurance companies could afford employees to counter all those tactics. This didn't mean the experise was wasted though, they simply turned that onto the patients themselves.

The crazy thing to remember is that none of that expertise will go away, no matter what happens. Maybe they'll turn it on the government too, at some point, if we ever get universal healthcare. That could be a hoot, couldn't it?
In the late 1990s my savings account at the EmigrantDirect was paying about 7% with inflation around 3%.

This was not a term deposit, but a regular account, either itself with check-writing privileges or linked to a checking account with 1-3 day transfers. I think MMFs with check-writing paid similar interest, although not 100% sure as I never put my money there. Those were cash accounts as I could withdraw any amount, up to 100% of the account any time without any penalties.
> There are 2,000 people playing Tiny Tina on Steam.

The game is cross-platform and available on PS4/PS5, Xbox X/S, Xbox One, Steam and Epic Store. And on top of that it is a paid game.
I'm not even aware what this game is, but I'm aware of Borderlands franchise and they're quality games.

Why would you compare player numbers to top f2p games is beyond me.
Windows 2000 had a compatibility mode a la XP, but you needed to activate it with a command. No, XP wasn't better, some Direct Draw games just ran under Windows 95, 98, ME or 2000 in compat mode.
This looks perfect to me. I have a big desktop, but I also want a tiny NUC-like PC with a decent integrated graphics for playing with Linux and trying gaming on Linux - without having to have a full sized PC. I also don't want to bother dual booting, or running hypervisors with passthroughs.
Haven't heard much from my family in Japan. Layoffs are rare in Japan in general and unemployment is generally always in the 2% range there. I'm sure startups are struggling there though as that seems to be the global trend, but the software engineers I know there at bigger companies haven't mentioned anything about layoffs and seem to be doing fine.
It’s been done before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
Retrozilla.
I rented an apt that was integrated with latch and it was crazy frustrating. The app only worked half the time, the door pad was in a circle and recognized numbers wrong half the time as they were not physical buttons, and which made it difficult to get in the building even at times if you were carrying anything. Half the time people left doors propped open cause it only was like a 5 second unlock.

We begged for a key card which they finally relented to giving us after 3 months which was a bit more tolerable but still annoying to not just have a key. Technology has improved to a degree but it’s definitely not fully baked
What's more surprising to me is seeing a story about Ebay that shows the date 2024 rather than 2004
No layoffs among the (tech or otherwise) friends and family I know in the Germany/Netherlands/Belgium area
Programmer productivity is really hard to measure, so managers will act in their own interest and push for larger teams. The shift to digital due to COVID provided the excuse. Low interest rates provided the means. Eventually external factors force a reevaluation/correction.
One thing that I still don't understand about github actions is how much computing power gets wasted downloading and reinstalling the same dependencies over and over. A build that takes a couple of seconds in my local machine can easily take several minutes in github actions.
Directly, the temperature isn't as big an issue for operating tapes/drives/computers, since they are inside temperature-controlled buildings. There are indirect problems though; the incredibly low relative humidity that results from heating outside air - that dryness leads to problems with static. Various solutions were tried to keep the tapes humidified, but in the end I think everyone was relieved to switch to hard drives :). South Pole is also fairly high elevation, which combined with the low humidity makes air cooling work a lot less well than it might in other places - the air just doesn't have as much heat capacity as in more moderate environments.

As far as transport, it's about a km (in winter, typically a walk) from the main station to the "dark sector" where the CMB telescopes and IceCube Lab are. As another comment points out, there are cables between the main station and the dark sector so typically data flows through them. When you do need to move equipment, it's usually not too big of a deal to carry it inside a parka or something if it's smallish, or arrange a vehicle for bigger items.

Things like cables can be a bit of a learning experience; a friend hand carried a PVC-insulated monitor(?) cable outside, coiled up, then promptly tried to uncoil it and found that PVC gets quite brittle at low temperatures...
More charitably: Many people who 10-15 years ago would have excelled in a non-tech field have since then been drawn into tech due to shrinkage in those other fields and to the attractively high compensation in tech.
This is a generalism in response to a precise statement.

It's a simple question: Has the wealth of the lowest 90% gone up or down?

(And 90% is too coarse. Would be good to see it for every decile.)
> If 93% of stock market wealth help by the wealthiest 10% represents $10k,

Assuming Us has round 300k population.

My understanding: lets say whole market is worth 1Gz, i.e. sum(share*sharePirce) over (all shares in all companies) is 1 gadzilion, so 10% of population (30k) combined own 0.93 gadzilion. While the rest (270k), share 0.07 Gz of market.

on avg per person
0.93/30=0.031Gz
0.07/270=0.00025Gz

(On average, poorer 9 deciles are poorer by a factor of two)
HPE's long and winding networking acquisition road
your suggestion sounds more cumbersome (and probably refunds less)
Safer Rails partials with strict locals
>The move is the latest example of a swift retrenchment by the car business on EVs. After years spent outlining aggressive expansion plans, automakers in recent months have put some EV projects on ice and dialed back production forecasts, citing signs that U.S. consumers aren’t ready to move to cars powered exclusively by batteries as quickly as once thought.

Like once being 6 months ago. It wasn't hard to predict. Amazing how many executives get caught up in a trend and start believing their own marketing.
Yeah, I would have memorized the two 7-digit codes. And being able to re-key locks without having to physically send someone to the property seems like a legitimate innovation. I'm personally a little more weirded out by the pictures and activity being sent to the landlord and who knows where else.
Sure, I understand. The thing is that a company has to already have a measure of trust in order for the verification to be of reassurance to people. Hiring outside verifiers is absolutely better than nothing, but it's not a thing that inherently instills a high degree of confidence.

What an organization can (and should) do is to behave in a way that earns people's trust over time. Microsoft actually had a window of opportunity to do this. They even made a very public campaign proclaiming how they weren't like the Microsoft of old and were more trustworthy than they used to be. And for a while, I even thought that perhaps a real culture change really did happen. But their behavior (especially around Windows and Office) is uncannily similar to that of other companies of questionable trustworthiness.
Lithium-ion battery lifetimes are based on charge-discharge cycles.

The Prius battery is far smaller (about 5-10x smaller) than a Tesla battery, so it is cycling charge / discharge far more often.

So you'd expect the same quality battery to last 5-10x less miles in a Prius than a Tesla driving the same distance. It's likely that Tesla's investment in battery quality and active temperature controls mean the Tesla battery is also treated better and higher quality.

Topping that battery up with a generator in the Prius complicates things, both reducing kWh used per mile (some from generator) but also allowing a discharge - recharge cycle to occur multiple times in the same trip.
How about the cost of producing and shipping the new motor pump, and the cost of disposing of the old one?

And do you think the individuals who made the motor pump are treated and compensated fairly, or are they likely exploited in third-world dystopia to bring you (but mostly the business) cost savings?

And this is saying nothing of the actual use of the furnace and all the energy it requires.

And I have yet to see ONE example of a business which does not exploit someone or something, only cognitive dissonance.
Don't let yourself get caught up in these details. The problem is the unreformed healthcare system; these are just more symptoms of it. It's like the old, failing server at work - people say the problem is the power supply, the outdated driver, etc. - it's not; the problem is we haven't installed a new server.

We all can see the US healthcare system is awful. If you aren't doing anything about it, the problem is you. The politicians against healthcare reform are well-known; if you can't persuade people to vote them out, you're not trying (following the example of political leaders who don't try). (And spare me the helplessness routine - that's for losers - generations of Americans and other democracies have managed to get things done.)

EDIT: People need to stop debating whether they are powerless, and the 999 ways they are powerless, the hopelessness of powerlessness - and start posting solutions.

Another thought: It's another institution or market being funded by the wealthy (donations) for the wealthy (those who can afford it).
He must've fucked up big time even to have been recruited. That was a kamikaze mission from the outset. It amazing he got it done at all.
So it runs another model on images that were generated in the first place?
> It's very, very hard to trust Microsoft.

The utterly massive enterprise market that values security and privacy and also pays Microsoft oodles of money says otherwise.
Courts have already decided that people can use others content in various transformative ways such as parody or commentary. Ai training should fall under this aswell, besides the odd memorisation. Really, if the output is not infringing then the model shouldn't be
Been wearing a Yeswatch (.com) since 2005. See available daylight at a glance. Set alarms for sunrise, sunset. So many features, plus a great case/bracelet (Ti, waterproof to 10atm). You're welcome
can you provide a overview of what Coqui is? I tried to find a bit but I'm on the move and have trouble navigating the site.
Tell HN: WARN Act may provide prior notice of layoffs
IANAL, but in the United Stated, if you are nervous about getting laid off from work, you might be able to get a 60 day prior notice due to the WARN Act:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/layoffs/warn

For example, here are the real time listings online for Colorado:

https://cdle.colorado.gov/employers/layoff-separations/layoff-warn-list

By clicking on the "View Real Time Warns" button, I can see that DISH is planning to have a layoff on Feb 8, 2024 of 157 people. I assume there are similar sites for other states.
Every single debt should be contested. "Oh but I know I owe this". How do you know you owe it to that specific collector? Can you be sure it wasn't sold twice? Can you be sure the company didn't already write it off? Can you be sure that paying it means it'll actually be marked paid in their system?

The entire debt collection industry is a mess, and only the absolute worst players operate in it. If you try and stay honest and moral you will be taken for a ride.
Friend, Israel has a shitty party in power and a shitty prime minister in power, but that doesn't mean it's not a liberal democratic state. It's pretty obvious that you don't know much about Israel. Do you know that the kibbutzim that were attacked on october 7 were full of people who used to go to Gaza to drive gazans to Israeli hospitals? I myself have donated to gazans and marched with palestinians for decades. I will not stand silent as people who know much less than they think they do make overconfident statements maligning Israel.
low-latency, always-on, global-messaging may be the biggest tech news of 2024.
It's only restrictive in a society that can't go a single meal without animal products. I don't eat animal flesh, secretions, or eggs. That leaves legumes, fungi, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and grains. A veritable cornucopia spanning three biological kingdoms if we're counting fermentation.

The restaurant scene seems to be a lot better in Canada. Most restaurants have vegan options. My work's Christmas lunch was at a steakhouse of all places, and I still had several options to choose from.

Most of what I refrain from eating is the junk food that seems to suffuse work and social life: donuts, cookies, and cake leftover from one meeting or another, and buttery/cheesy/eggy snacks at social gathering.
What evidence are you presenting to support this?

> Especially considering ex-Google employees can land virtually any job with it on their resume

It's only fair to present your evidence before asking other people for evidence when they contradict you.
Do you have a favorite source for papers?
You know Mac is a specific brand of PC, right?
> Stuxnet, which reportedly cost $1-2 billion to develop

Wow. Arguably worth it but that is a staggering figure.
More like people are getting tired of being reminded of missing the boat year over year but they will always be missing the boat thinking it's the top this time.
Or those people who suffered loss buying it at the top need reasons that Bitcoin should suck.

I have a feeling Bitcoin discussions can get quite more interesting in here if it had no monetary values but people can be sensitive when money is involved.
thanks! i think i actually have the book for the first one in the other room
You may have discovered one of many reasons Hertz has been skirting with bankruptcy...
Man I love Bill Gates so much. I know low effort posts are frowned here but I had to say it.
How does this sort of deranged psychopathy end up at the steering wheel of a $20B company?
My comment is very clearly about open-source software, yes. Also for photo editing and video editing there is open-source software, and there's no reason for Debian to not package it.

In any case, "any software may be tracking the Linux user" is an exaggeration. The vast majority of software on the average Linux user's desktop is open-source software from their distro repo.
You can of course hire a contractor and tax them as usual business costs.
But for a permanent position the employee needs a European Social ID, a Tax ID, health care account and a bank account.
All this is needed before you can pay the employee’s first loan.
Kia "Swappable" Electric Cars: One Platform for Every Need
Do I understand correctly, this only works when the size of the component is determined from "above" in the layout tree? That sounds not generally useful...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38942603
Building a data analyst AI in 15 lines of code
> What triggers Cloudflare to state you can't use the $200 Business Plan account?

iirc one reason is needing proxying of non-HTTP protocols.
You can find used 1080ti's for like $100 nowadays. I still use one for 1440p gaming and get excellent frames with most games. Kinda mind blowing value
I would imagine the difference would manifest itself in higher insurance rates. You can't just "write off more value" for free.
Yup. I own a Tesla and it's been a great car. I charge it at home, and I know how the supercharging network works.

I've been OFFERED electric rentals in:

* Tromsø Norway (on a roadtrip through the Lofoten)

* Nelson NZ

* Brisbane AU

The reality is, when I rent a car on vacation, I'm typically doing more miles per day than when I'm at home. That's because I'm not sitting at work 9 hours a day! Plus, I don't know their charging situation. Even if it WAS Tesla, no doubt these places have fewer Superchargers per capita than California (even though of course Norway has a TON of good EV charging). I have no idea if I can charge at my (multiple!) homes throughout the trip.

I'm already dealing with the cognitive load of a different country, a different currency, often a foreign language, different driving standards (maybe on the other side of the road). Finding places to stay and eat. I don't need one more chore!

To put it simply: An EV is more convenient as our primary car, full stop. An EV would be less convenient as a rental car while on vacation.
And that has precisely squat to do with my intrigue into looking at a system like this. If it didn't make sense, I wouldn't be interested. So what's your point exactly?
Strongly recommend Turo. I tried it recently after a similarly terrible experience with Hertz. Never going to turn back to traditional car rental companies -- it's so much easier, saves you significant time, and is (sometimes) cheaper.
You're just saying you only care about some people's rights and not others. Part of the 1a and the general concept of freedom is that you don't have to put up with people saying stupid shit everywhere, such as in your own home.
I RDP or VNC into VMs that run without a GPU all day. It's very much optional for 2D, at least.
> But $3M fine for getting caught playing KGB seems like zero deterrence to the next unhinged tech executive who has no sense of where to draw the line wrt evil. It's only a message to pay for smarter thugs.

3 of them went to jail which would seem like rather more of a deterrent to wannabe corporate capos than their former employer getting fined enough to put a dent in quarterly earnings
GitHub charges per minute. Some incentive to keep actions on the most under specced machines available.
There is also alf.io
> my hotel had a charger in the parking garage and the valets plugged my car in for me

So they just put the charging fee on your bill with the little bottles of gin from the minibar? I'm sure hotel power is reasonably priced...
These foreigners will quickly learn the cost of living in Germany and what their colleagues get, I don't think it's a significant factor. What really keeps wages down IMO is the lack of high-margin/high-growth businesses, lack of German "unicorns", general risk-averseness of German capital (which can be explained by the previous two).
Had an awesome experience with a Hertz Polestar in Italy last summer.

The trim was basic, but the suspension was superior to a Tesla, especially on Italian roads.

Road noise was average at highway speeds with the cheaper trim.
> The politicians against healthcare reform are well-known

Who are they specifically?
The question is about assets in one ETF being on the hook if the company goes in trouble. There either is regulation to prevent it or there isn't. I don't think you can answer it with general analysis like that.