skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>put in place a system so that you're ok if you do get laid off

the being laid off part itself takes a huge mental toll, regardless of material circumstances. There's a reason the mental health of phd candidates and a good chunk of white collar workers in nominally lucrative professions is in the gutter. The hire and fire hamster wheel is in itself completely pathological. The industry just has done a really fantastic job of marketing permanent insecurity and precarity as individual choice.
They can access your whole tenant and everything in it. Have had some pretty wild support calls where MSFT has had to crawl through a tenants data specifically the schedule system. It was ultra broken. They can literally just give themselves permission and roll in. If you can't your just not high enough up in a support team.

Their use of 3rd party and external tools for adjusting registry during licensing problems is wild.
>I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web

NAT. You can thank NAT for making the internet far worse.
Stock price comes from public expectations. This just confirms that the public expects openai to pay off
Since 2020 they've screwed around with the UI several times and have added stuff like forums and threads.
> I want to make a similar salary.

That's not the spirit
No more than 10% in the first year is deductible.
It's also that LNG is also a relatively "new tech" that is replacing older tech. As the article mentions, it's only 3% of the world's supply.

There's a lot of other reasons not to want natural gas to be expensive. Expensive gas makes coal & oil more attractive. It also feeds Putin's empire. It also encourages more investment in fracking.

This is all good news.
Actually, this has the most impact on startups that are close to break even or barely making profit. Let's say you make 1m ARR and have 5 software engineers at 200k/year. Prior to this tax code, you had $0 in profit to be taxed. With this change, you can only amortize 10% of software labor in the first year. Now, the IRS treats you as having 900k profit so you have ~200k in taxes to pay.
It's probably impossible to know the full extent of this, but some percentage of hospital debt comes from people that can fully afford their healthcare but are using the payment plans as no-interest loans while their money is invested elsewhere. The HSA accounts you get with the high-deductible plans allow you to park the money in self-directed IRA accounts for your entire life. In fact, tax law encourages you to do this.
I've been using Python longer than you have and I've always had issues. JS is bad for sure, but it's not "highly unique" to JS as the parent states.
Exactly, I had the best performance review ever at a corp I worked at. Did not make much difference when they reorganized.
My car moves me from point to point and emits carbon monoxide. It would be nonsense to claim that the purpose of my car is to emit carbon monoxide.
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I think many companies are anticipating a significant downturn in the economy and are trying to get ahead of it. Layoffs help stock prices almost immediately and management get bonuses for increasing the bottom line.

Workers are defenseless. Save your money in case you're laid off. Work less if they keep you on.

Let management be rewarded by nothing more than short term monetary gain. Don't give them extra productivity.
Yep, it incentivizes getting rid of software staff as soon as you can after they complete the work. It makes downsizing especially profitable in the short term.
> because there are like 300,000 other qualified candidates with big company credentials in the same situation as you

And to add insult to injury, there will inevitably be lots of sound bites from CEOs whining about a lack of engineering talent, so can we please raise H1B limits???
Is the spam more like AI generated spam which is hard to detect?
> Loyalty is dead.

Something that has never existed cannot die.

But the myth, and the brainwashing, of "employee loyalty" is still very much alive. Some even buy that crap.
There won't be enough Gen Zers to get close to that with the coming population collapse.
They might indeed. There are some very nice native IRC clients for macOS that are fast and good...
>> New chips for the old platform? I wonder what the driving factor even is to compel them to produce these?

I might upgrade my 2400G, but I'd want 8 cores in 65W which is sadly not an option.
The best integrated graphics are about equivalent to a 1650. This assumes that the machine also has decently speedy RAM.
I think the growth of Discord partially explains it- They needed a _lot_ more SRE/Scale engineers, which causes growth in HR/Management layers.

They also added a bunch of monetization stuff (discord nitro) and attempted to get more "community" based features like custom emotes/badges/profiles per server/watch party stuff.

The core experience is the same, I think they've done a great job ensuring that doesnt change! They have also done the usual software stuff, improving core outskirts like stability/performance/login methods/slash options. Its the same core product but better.
Bryan Johnson's anti-aging Blueprint 'basics' are now available for $333 month
This particular set of regulations was from the Trump tax cuts, which were passed by reconciliation and had to be "budget neutral" as a result.
Eyeball test with zero context, but honestly? I doubt a 17% layoff will cut deep enough.

That still leaves them with more than 4x the employees they had in 2020 (when the product had already reached massive scale and, IMO, very high quality):

> “We grew quickly and expanded our workforce even faster, increasing by 5x since 2020,” Citron wrote. “As a result, we took on more projects and became less efficient in how we operated.”

I know someone always makes a comment about "wow, X company had Y000 employees? what do they even do all day?", and I don't wanna be glib, but it really does seem like they expanded beyond any kind of reasonable measure.

If I were at Discord, and I wasn't part of an extremely core team with a direct line to revenue generation, I would be sharpening up my resume.

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Edit: Okay, I missed this:

> Discord has raised a total of about $1 billion in funding. It has more than $700 million in cash on its balance sheet and the goal to become profitable this year

That's actually a lot better than I expected. Clearly they are making non-trivial revenue, and still have quite a bit of cash; maybe keeping a still-pretty-high headcount to pursue new monetization projects is the right call.
Not all, but enough. Specially if there is no on or off ramps for the other forks...
I tried renting one in Hawaii last month. Figured it would be a great idea on an island where I could drive all day and easily charge overnight. Wrong.

- Our hotel (and many others) did not offer EV charging. In most places, there was no assurance that the chargers would be functional.

- Oahu has very limited level 3 charging. Finding a supercharger meant driving out of the way.

- Hertz wanted me to top-it-off before returning. I was mindblown when I realized that they had a fleet of EVs but no in-house charging equipment.

Had Hertz offered to charge it themselves upon return, I would have still taken it, but asking me to sit around for a few extra hours at an L2 charger just before returning the vehicle was definitely a deal-breaker.
Depends. Do they get paid for adblocker readers? Do they get paid based on the percentage of their readers that use adblock? Do they get paid more if they form over some of this information (and therefore less if it looks bad so they don't)
I believe this would qualify as “reading material”.
well, i mean, the web is a distributed system of servers providing resource representations specified by universal resource locators

it seems to have been fairly successful to me

i think you are associating 'distributed' w/peer-to-peer models, whereas i'm using it in the broader sense of networked software that can interact (link) to one another

i have no beef w/ peer-to-peer and it would be interesting to think about how hypermedia could layer on top of that model, but i'm not an expert on that sort of stuff so I can't have particularly informed opinions on it
Yes because normally, without this absurd law, you’d just deduct employee salaries from your taxable income.
Apple laptops used to have an extension slot like that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort#AirPort_802.11b_card
Microsoft is also starting to develop their own chips and are expanding more into ARM. They can't just "abandon" x86/64 like people think they can, it's not realistic. If they ever do it will be almost 20 years from now unless ARM just gets -that- far ahead that they have no choice.
Logical replication is an immensely powerful for integrating backend data.
> I don't get why solar is so popular.

> In more northern regions, you get much less light in the winter. You effectively can only generate around one tenth of the energy you can in the summer - this is from experience talking to others who monitor their solar installations.

When we looked at installing solar on our house in Sweden the calculations showed that in winter we'd produce about 20% of the power IIRC. I just had a look for a source and I could only found this [1] which might be more like 10%.
That said Sweden is quite extreme, all of the US save Alaska get much more sunlight in winter.

[1] https://adelsfors.se/2022/12/29/solar-vs-wind-power-in-swede...
Implementing the missing sign instruction in AVX-512
The fact that, as far as I understand, section 174 rules are disliked across the aisle, yet Congress cannot get its act together enough to fix what will wreak the pipeline for arguably the most valuable and dynamic part of the US's economy speaks volumes. The legislative branch of the US federal government is in such dire need of reform.
I remember when the angry mob, lead by the Penny Arcade guys came after Scott McCloud for advocating the end of the ad funded Internet in favor of a micropayment driven one.

Turns out, he was right!
I was waiting for you to reveal your comment was written by AI
No, but a 15-minute city would offer no opportunities for this to happen, except on hard town borders. Any plot of land this big in a dense city would be much more lucratively used for houses.
For iOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web

For Android: https://source.android.com/docs/security
I was a game dev in the mid-90s.

I had plenty of online conversations on Usenet, IRC and email with guys like Abrash and Jez San etc. It was a much smaller community back then and there was no gatekeeping -- everyone's contact info was out there and inbox zero was still achievable.
> Israel has not carpet bombed gaza.

This is a bold claim to make considering the evidence. We have satellite photos of Gaza and many estimates are that over 60% of the housing stock in the entire Gaza strip are damaged or destroyed[1] (some estimates up to 70% [2]; the lowest I could find was 45.3% [3]). Entire neighborhoods have been leveled in all parts of the Gaza strip. At least 29,000 bombs dropped on the strip have targeted residential areas. Over 65% of the population is displaced. More than 200 heritage and archaeological sites have been destroyed in the Israeli bombardment[2].

The bombings are not uniformly distributed, so if we focus on the most destroyed areas, which is norther Gaza and Gaza city, the numbers are much worse. Looking at this map[4] published by the BBC you can see that every part of Gaza city, Jabalia and Beit Hanoun have been targeted. Between 70% and 90% of all housing stock in these areas are damaged or destroyed[5]. Khan Younis south of the evacuation line has also had most of its areas targeted in Israeli bombardment and with an estimate 50% of all housing stock damaged or destroyed[5].

Here is what wikipedia has to say about carpet bombing[6]:

> Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.

You have to be extremely selective in you consideration of reports on the evidence to deny that Gaza has been—and is currently in to process of being—carpet bombed. So selective in fact, that you would not just be wrong, but obviously wrong.

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1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-is...

2: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/31/israeli-bombardmen...

3: https://menafn.com/1107703299/ICJ-Should-Consider-Damaged-Ho...

4: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/89CD/production/...

5: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20415675

6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing
Blog post: https://resend.com/blog/incident-report-for-january-10-2024
For example, up to 12 months of salary in Spain (with 20 days of salary for each year at the company), if a layoff meets certain conditions (that are usually met). Up to 24 months (with 33 days per year) if the conditions are not met.
Lots of PC gamers are very happy with "slightly better than Steam Deck" levels of performance.
In fact very few of prosecutions relied on actual numbers. The problem was that Horizon handles both POS and accounting, and would shut down the entire store unless SPMs signed off on the accounts. Then if there was a dispute, the PO helpline would tell SPMs "just accept the accounts, we'll investigate later". The investigators would then decide it was fraud, but drop the fraud charge in return for a guilty plea to false accounting - which technically did happen when the SPM first accepted the disputed figures.

So none of the criminal trials ever got as far as actually looking at the disputed figures, because the defended would plead guilty or the PO would just lie about how the system worked to "prove" false accounting. As Justice Fraser wrote in the 2019 common issues judgement:

"This means that, even for disputed items going back as far as the year 2000, this litigation is the first time that there will be any independent consideration of disputed items showing in the branch accounts for the vast majority of the Claimants."

Indeed many of the disputes were not even caused by software errors but human error on the part of the SPM. Errors that they attempted to resolve but could not due to the way PO handled disputes.

So this is far more than just a code quality problem.
We should just stop the whole teen thing and say it like we do everything else. Maybe onety five.
I needed to setup GitHub actions for several open source repos for automated CI/CD, using it for ML pipelines seems awful.
There is this example of Boeing cutting between 450 and 900 quality inspectors after replacing them with software and “smart tools”.

Boeing said at the time the changes would improve quality.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
Exactly, people don't use (or commit to git) lockfiles and then are surprised when dependencies update, which is literally the point of what a lockfile is supposed to prevent.
Is this just a Biden admin thing? Or were finance people gunning for tech layoffs for a while?
Wifi7 is cool, but effectively no devices support it yet. So, having it launched is a good first step, but there is no reason to go drop a ton of cash on a new router until you actually have things that can connect to it.

For me it'll be at least a year before wifi 7 matters (probably longer because I'm lazy, cheap, and perfectly happy with wifi 6 currently).
PC gamer as a Reddit stereotypical le gaming masterrace? Because most gamers I know don’t give a shit about this stuff. They care about games.
It looks like this link is dead too.
Exactly. How we've thought about what 'profit' is has changed.

When I bought a laptop for my business, it was amortized over... 3 years I think. Kinda nuts but, whatever. It's a couple thousand dollars.

But the example above (somewhere) with the 5 employees at $200k/each... only being able to deduct $100k of that, even assuming $1m in revenue... meaning 'profit' of $900k.... it's just crazy.
This is kind of a lame explanation. Siemens is one of the biggest international players in renewables and used to be one of the biggest in nuclear until the German government basically forced them out of it.

They would be just as happy to sell Germany whatever technology the government wanted - it's just Germany's very strong green movement was vehemently anti-nuclear. If anything, it was their political entrapment with Russia that created their reliance on cheap natural gas.
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Is it weird to refer to GPT-3.5 as "state of the art" when GPT-4 is right there? Actually the paper uses davinci interchangeably with GPT-3.5 (sometimes without a hyphen) and ChatGPT.
Exactly how much time have you spent in leftist spaces?

From what I observe they seem to be riddled with bookclub after bookclub so much so that it prevents them from doing anything at all.
US life expectancy is (slightly) lower due to guns, opioids, and traffic deaths- none of these have any connection to 'massive financial deregulation' (or China). US wages have not stagnated, and it's worth noting that the US is about middle of the pack in income inequality overall- #61 out 168 countries globally. (1)

How does parental leave or vacation time connect to financial regulations? This is what I mean by, populism is a Gish Gallop of disconnected emotional non-sequiturs. There's no central coherent point, just grievances and random observations

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Georgia has its frozen conflict with Russia and the Azeris have had recent on-and-off war with the Armenians, so it's not a great route either.
The 4060 is really bad though. I would guess that a 12100F + A750 or 6600 XT would be faster than the 8700G with its "extreme" graphics.
That's shifting generation, not demand. Most people won't respond immediately, so 20 years isn't a crazy guess for a significant amount of the equipment in peoples' houses to cycle out.
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We are still early though and would love your feedback. What do you think HN?
Read it again. The CEO said they do and then walked it back. I specifically said that because the walkback was not credible. But if that's your only reply, I'll take it you concede there is government endorsement from the Strategic Affairs Ministry whose campaign this is addressing and in the form of expertise from the intelligence officers working on it.

The second link is also about a crowdsourced online influence program affiliated with the Israeli government. I never restricted my concern to just one program. Care to claim Hasbara is not affiliated either?
The complexity has increased exponentially, but the user experience has not.
I was going to say that Boeing had already gotten that exemption, but I was thinking about a different exemption:

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-max-10-certification-fli...
2019 I started a meetup group. My wife had died end 2018. The group was for widows / widowers and it was explicitly for social purposes. No chatting up, no hookups, no 'hunting'.

It was good and a few people made friendships, a few others - myself included - would meet regularly for coffee of an afternoon. Being able to talk, to listen, to understand with others who had lost their partners of multiple decades was helpful.

Covid happened.

Meetup then decided to start charging even more.

I was already paying purely for them to host and display some text. Their extra charge put me on the hook for whoever attended. More people = more money.

No, just NO.

End result was group deleted, we all lost out and meetup seen as hostile.

This news?

Fuck you.
As a game dev in the mid-90s patches had just started to appear; you usually got them from a cover disk as most still did not have Internet access. The thought that a title I published might need to be patched after release was something that horrified me.
AGI will very likely develop atop the mundane applications that AI will be utilized for at the onset - if it ever develops.

Regardless, mirage or not - as a mundane tool with realistic application this is still revolutionary
BlackRock, Fidelity early winners in Bitcoin ETF
Because they picked a CEO with a background in the very products the company is making. Often companies this size pick a professional bean-counter to man the helm, with predictable results
> In a short term it's a win for reducing fossil fuel use - the only "clean" method of powering these massive mining projects requires nuclear reactors on site, which no one is doing.

I'm not sure I follow how that is true. Mining doesn't care where the power comes from, and while you do lose energy when you transmit power there is some loss, but it still works. I would think, if anything, hydro power would be preferable, because it also comes with an ample supply of water, which is also needed for most mining operations.
The issue isn't as much market share as it is how sticky picking a cloud platform is. At that point the market share doesn't really matter, especially if your name is Google.
You need the owners to actually care.
Companies lay people off. The 2010s were very unusual. ZIRP and other kinds of free money are addicting.
I keep hearing this on HN about companies abusing H1B, so I was like "ah cool must be easy to get a software job in America then; I'll have a go" (I live in the UK).

But then I actually looked at the H1B process. It's insane. Not only is there a limited lottery but it only happens once per year. It's not like you can get a job and then apply for a visa.

Is H1B abuse real or are are American HN's commenters way overplaying it?
I'm sure legality depends on jurisdiction, too. If you acquired the software legally and you need to keep it running in a VM, I'm sure it's legal at least in some places.

But yeah, just drive-by-downloading MacOS to your Windows box it is probably not quite on the up and up.
Windows is dead.

Most games can run on Linux fine ( https://www.protondb.com/ ), some even run better.

After some problems with pop-ups I nuked my parent's Windows install and put Linux on the machine. They had no problems using it.

Between those two use cases, why use Windows at all?

A strong warning, the direction Microsoft is going with Windows, Apple is heading in now. I'll put down money that by 2026 iOS and MacOS will no longer be usable. It's good that desktop Linux is now ready for prime time. We can win on mobile too.
Germany: not anywhere close. Typical is 0.5-1.0 monthly salaries per year of employment.
NASA tests 3D-printed, rotating detonation rocket engine
This was legislation passed under Trump, but didn't take effect until 2022.

Take credit for "lowering taxes"... push the effects of the time bomb on to a future administration. Definition of stable genius... ;)
I tried virtual desktops for a while and I'm pretty sure I was using this app for hotkeys to each desktop. https://github.com/hwtnb/SylphyHornPlusWin11

(I don't use virtual desktops anymore so I don't remember that well)