skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to layoffs, no one wants to be the first company to do it, and no one wants to be the last company to do it. Once a few of the industry leaders started doing it, it gave others top-cover to start the process. At this point they need to do the layoffs so if they report bad sales numbers for the quarter they can say "we saw this coming, thats why we did some layoffs alredy. we should be good now". And if it turns out the didn't "need" to do it, they can just hire the people other companies laid off.
What does low latency have an effect on, productivity?
> I really like Kaiser as well, but afaik, they are one of the most expensive providers out there.

Yeah, but what would you pay in taxes in a country with universal healthcare? In Maryland, I pay a similar total tax rate on a top 1% income as our German au pair did at her entry level desk job. Germany’s tax to gdp ratio is 39%. Ours is just 28%.
> I'm surprised it took Iran two weeks.

I’m not clear on the timeline. As I understand it, the hack went on for ages before it went malignant and started damaging stuff. Is it 2 weeks from being deployed, or 2 weeks from wrecking equipment?
Most big tech companies don’t have debt.
HVDC transmission can help here as well.
> > When firing employees becomes too hard, hiring becomes risky

If a firm has severe restrictions on firing anyone, then it must be extremely diligent with hiring, because employees will be around as long as they want to be. If an employee is unproductive, lazy, or just a bad fit, then the firm will be stuck giving a paycheck to someone who really ought not to be there. Thus firms will simply delay hiring.

> > giving people broad latitude is risky

I admit, I'm not exactly sure what this means, but I would surmise it means that employees need to be micromanaged to ensure loyalty to the firm, since they have no natural consequences of going rogue.

> > compensation suffers because high comp is risky

If the firm grants significant pay increases but cannot terminate someone, that pay increase becomes a permanent recurring expense, even if some future event renders that pay increase inappropriate or unnecessary. Thus firms will minimize pay increases.

These are "deadweight losses" where optimal exchange between employers and employees is limited by some policy.
What does it matter? If they say they overhired, you have people in here asking why the CEO (or the board) doesn't get fired for that decision. If they say their investors are demanding better returns (e.g. higher stock price, higher profits, wahtever that means for the particular business) you have people in here saying it's greed.

There is no answer Cloudflare could give her or anyone else that would make folks go "oh, ok, I get it. Thanks!" So why even bother giving one?
https://www.pixar.com/inclusion

I can definitely imagine scenarios in which such diversity goals could impact commercial success on some level.
I mean, I've been severely underpaid for a while, so my salary ask is never that high, but cost of living keeps going up on me, and I've not caught up. I'm having to deal with the interview circus (not a typo) currently and it is tiresome, if its not questions that I know don't matter in order to create a CRUD application, it's a confused HR person that passes on me for some magical reasons. It would be nice if I could get actual feedback from prospective employers, I gave you time and energy, got myself hyped for your company, only to receive no such feedback. This is the longest I've been without a job my whole life, so its quite an experience. The last time I was jobless, I had a job within a week.

I don't know, I think everyone's experience is different, and some of us are better fit for specific teams, if someone can figure out how to pair people based on how well they would fit with specific teams as opposed to what technology they all use, they would make a fortune, I can learn any obscure language in a short span of time, heck I was building a MonkeyC app for Garmin Watches within a week of being asked to work on one, a simple proof of concept in a language I had never heard of, because I liked the people I worked with, mind you I was the only one touching that language.
You remind me of "hey, i just wrote a terminal emulator in JS".
Median is one type of average.
Check the comments - lots of others.
I think it's an eventuality that Gas stations pivot to charging stations in a tangible way. They already don't make much on fuel, so, provided they can get sufficient utility power, and a future exists where charging an EV is as fast as filling up a gas tank, they'll probably happily continue to exist selling snacks and drinks as they do now.
The tooltip on that comic captures how i feel about nickel-and-diming my own attention. But maybe that just means I think doing HA stuff is fun.
I update my wikipedia copy every few months, but I can't really afford to back up internet archive. I do send them and around $10 every christmas as part of my $100 bucks to my favorite sites like archive, wikipedia, etc
When postdoc positions first were created, they were illusive and of high prestige. Then the idea got abused to add labor for professors to varying degrees depending on the field.
New Mercedes-Benz EQ models can be easily had for 20-30% off MSRP. Yes, this is partially due to MB setting the MSRP unrealistically high, but it’s indicative of the broader market for EVs right now.
Sysadmins: What is your trick that you thought everyone knew?
> or DW in Europe aren't even affected by ownership and financial factors

Wrong. Sometimes so biased that they are fully flat. Got caught over and over again. Including things comparable to

> Every morning starts with a meeting where the editorial boards receive latest talking points from the Kremlin, and their freedom is only to choose how they phrase them, if even that.

Though more indidrectly and subtle, but at the end of the day it amounts to the same shit, just (implemented) different.
I'm not sure I buy that being a good producer translates into being a good CEO. When I read your first sentence my thought is not "well she must be a good CEO then" but is instead "wow I hope she goes back to producing, these are some all-time greats".
Are you saying that as aggreement or disagreement? The court is already to settle dueling theoretical models, and it will still settle them by considering facts and circumstances. It should be quite exceptional for a crime to depend on the victim's mental state since someone who spends years learning how to accept the world as it is shouldn't be legally penalised.

Although I'm going to say that in the legal sense we might already be handling things this way. I'm sure the judges have considered this in depth.
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Us Silicon Valley engineers are some of the best compensated people in the country, maybe even the world.

If she’s living hand to mouth, then the problem isn’t her compensation but something else.
> So why even bother giving one?

Decency? Honesty?
That’s cool man. That’s cool the look kind of reminds me of the zombie film game franchise with umbrella corporation
This is a classic layoff debate -- is it better to do it with zero warning, or is it better to let employees know that a layoff is coming?

Personally, I believe advance notice is better, because it signals to employees that, if layoffs are going to happen, there will be some time to prepare. By choosing to blindside employees, it creates a culture of paranoia, IMO. ("Will today be layoff day?" "What about next month?" "Oh no, it's the end of the quarter, does that mean tomorrow my laptop will lock up at 4am?")
I've said this a few times previously yet I certainly want to say it again - "All You Need" titles are definetely not what all we need.
I don't understand the logic with employers dropping warnings like that. I knew ~2mo before my employer announced layoffs and it caused much unnecessary anxiety in my life.
2024: A year of political turmoil and economic uncertainty:

https://www.allianz.com/en/press/news/studies/231215-allianz...

Very interesting read.
>I have to think they will lose at least 10% just through attrition

and before anybody says that's maybe intentional, that just a really dumb way to do layoffs. that's how you lose your best people, rather than your worst.
> In the UK, the company I was working for laid off about half the dev team but made them work their six(!) months notice.

Yeah, that's a completely different situation. Those employees had employment contracts requiring six months' notice. So they're gonna be paid for six months at the end, and they might as well be producing value for the company the whole time.

Meanwhile in the US we mostly don't have employment contracts. Anyone can be fired/laid off at any time for almost any reason, and that takes effect immediately. The one caveat is that WARN notifications might required 60-90 days notice depending on the state and size of the layoff. But for whatever reason, employers here don't want their employees working for those last months like they would in the UK.
> I didn't ask to be born therefore I have no duties to you or to anyone other than myself.

I reject the form of this claim. Duty is precisely the kind of thing you owe due to your continued existence. It has nothing to do with your lack of choice in springing yourself into existence to whatever place you were born.

If you want to reject the notion of duty, logically speaking, I think you'll need another argument, but I suspect it won't be based in anything resembling ethics as we know it -- I suspect the only logically valid arguments against duty presuppose that only one individual matters (the individual being you, of course, that most important of all beings).

> I didn't ask to be born therefore I have no duties to you or to anyone other than myself.

You may not feel such a duty. But it doesn't mean such a worldview is in your own rational self-interest. People in society aren't overly pleased by those who are overly individualistic. When people notice others who aren't contributing much, it can have negative consequences. Sure, free riding happens, but it doesn't make it ethical.
Yes. This is consumer grade Outlook hooked up to Consumer free mail hosting. Outlook (Desktop/Web App) in 365 is COMPLETELY outside of proton article.
Translation: a union.
> Then having to go to work each day at a place that keeps saying we are all family here knowing that 2/10 of you are going to get axed.

Sounds like the mafia
Suspicious of what, exactly? If someone needs work and aren’t landing the jobs, is there another approach they should be taking?
A $2000 card is not an alternative to a $329 card. You could buy six of the $329 cards and then you'd have 96GB :)
Is he? Seems to me he inherited a money machine at the height of a money printing economy and when it comes to actually competing he’s done squat.
The purpose of smart locks such as these is never convenience. It's not even to make money.

The purpose is to deprive you of the resource they control should you say something they disagree with.

In fact, this applies to all smart devices, and IoT gadgets - to spy on you, and to control you if you step out of line.

"Oh I'm sorry your dishwasher won't start, should have thought of how much you valued having clean dishes before you started speaking out against the regime"

Obviously, that doesn't happen right now. But if the infrastructure is in place, all it'd take is a software patch and suddenly we get a dystopia that nobody could see coming and everyone reached for with arms outstretched.
It matters because this is about trust, transparency, and honesty. If you were in her position, would you want to know if your termination was due to something you did badly, or because of a general company policy?

I agree that being honest is not going to make everyone happy, but I don't understand why they can't at least give solid reasons.
In what way do you feel unemployment isn't sufficient? It seems to be high enough that people are able to provide for necessities while being low enough to keep them looking for another job...even if it isn't quite as much as they were making before. That seems like it is about the ideal balance.
In Finland there are fixed-term and permanent contracts. Fixed-term ones are extremely hard to terminate one sidely for both parties (excluding separate terms in the contract like probation period). Permanent contracts require certain amount of notice by default. Employees notice period is 14 days if contract has lasted less than 5 years, 1 month otherwise. Employer's notice period are: 14 days if contract has lasted less than a year, 1 month for 1-4 years, 2 months for 4-8 years, 4 months for 8-12 years and 6 months for over 12 years.

Contract and CBA can affect these. The only restrictions law has is that employee's notice period cannot be longer than employer's and that the maximum is 6 months, but CBA can set minimums. The CBAs that I have read set those law's default notice periods as the minimum. Vast majority (I believe about 80-85%) of employees in Finland are covered by some CBA.
eBay (also Amazon) is a major outlet for goods stolen by organized retail theft rings in the United States, and there are many news stories about people who've sold millions in stolen goods on eBay - and since eBay gets a percentage of those sales, there is undoubtedly an organized crime aspect of the whole operation, even if it's one step removed. Comparable to HSBC laundering drug cartel money, for example.
Letting people into software as a soft thing, something shape-able, invites in the best human spirit! It's not just another appliance, not another gadget, it's something deeper & that you can geek with, imprint yourself & your behaviors or style on! I love it.

There is a notable e-collective dedicated to soft/changeable systems, the Malleable Systems collective, https://malleable.systems
of course! western sun-sign astrology is bogus. we have been saying that for years. but Vedic jyotiṣa is quite accurate and very useful.
At some point you have to pay the pied piper.

All the collectivist projects ("safety nets") are just shifting liability/cost/risk from one part to another at the extreme detriment of the system a whole.

Its causes massive distortions and disincentives. In the case of collective bargaining and labor protections, I'll speak about my country, the UK. These laws have crippled the country, especially as of recent.

Its so sad to see a nation that used to be full off dynamism, ingenuity and so much life now turned into a lifeless bureaucratic hellscape..
What happened to HN... A few years ago type of article wouldn't have even been acknowledged on this site. Forgive me if I am missing something here..
Plenty of quality software is unpopular, and plenty of popular software is shit. I'm confident you know this. What is driving this series of pointless nonsense posts?
In my case, every time I ask for high pay, they expect me to give them the world in an interview or to be some manager or principal / staff engineer, I just want to write code, I don't want to be stuck in meetings all day, I've been there, it's not me.

Look, if you pay me enough I'll meet your standards for your company, I think a more productive interview is a culture fit interview that covers at a high level the things you care about with your team, grilling people with verifiable years of experience is an insult. Most developers learn on the job. Every job is a new learning experience. Chances are high if you don't have onboarding documentation, I'm your guy writing it because its absurd to me that any project lacks such documentation.
It seems self-evident, but maybe that's from managing teams that span countries and seeing the difference firsthand. Here's a concrete example:

Congratulations, you're now an EM! You get +1 headcount for your team this quarter. Your interview pipeline winds up with two candidates who get exactly equal recommendations.

One of these people (A) lives somewhere that, if they turn out to have neutral or negative value on the team, you can easily let them go. The other (B) lives in a place where, based on your management training and company policies, you have to first make a request through the legal department, then go through at least six months of PIP to (maybe) get rid of them.

Which of them do you hire?

If the answer (A) is too obvious here, let me add one more detail: A wants to come in at the role's max level, whereas B would accept one level lower (less comp). Does that change your answer?

Almost certainly not. You're a line manager. The cash for this isn't coming out of your pocket! There's no reward for getting folks to agree to less than market value. On the other hand, a bad hire makes you look bad, and a bad hire requiring working with legal over a protracted period in order to avoid liability - even worse. If your hiring decision results in an employment action against your company? A managerial nightmare!

Meanwhile, your top performers are asking you why the hell they're working so hard and contributing so much when it seems like performance doesn't matter for retention on your team. You're legally barred from sharing information about the in-progress coaching of the negative-impact teammate.
The Datacenter GPU Gravy Train That No One Will Derail
While there is a slight difference that can add up (if text assets bandwith factor well into your traffic), I prefer to push out brotli compressed unminified js/css nowadays. Makes it easier to understand JS issues on prod as well.
> If you give someone with access to critical information no notice about their dismissal, they might not have actually backed up their emails, contacts, or any other work product.

That would be terrible IT if users had to explicitly back up any of their work. Hardware fails, or gets lost or stolen. Any even semi-competent company should have source control, regular IT-managed backups, etc., such that work isn't lost for any reason.

Also ... why would you need to back up your emails? I can't even imagine a circumstance in which being let go would cause all of your emails to be deleted? They'll just give someone else access to your inbox on the email server if necessary.
Since Germany was mentioned specifically, I'm curious what the laws are around decreasing pay, if it's as hard as firing someone, if some threshold or percentage would be considered a constructive firing, etc. This could eliminate some of the risk of high compensation if, for example, you could hire someone at $100k/yr USD equivalent and then after a reasonable review cycle lower the pay for bad performance.
I wonder if antitrust litigation/regulation has some effect here as well? Axe divisions/workers on things that could appear to abuse market position.
Asus has sub-$1000 wifi 7 routers right now. None of them seems to be supported by asuswrt-merlin though, perhaps because they're still very new.
Unfortunately still a lot of people with nice cars and expensive rents and other consoomer waste who have been living like the good times will never end.
Zoom was probably already recording on behalf of the employer
New Google Cast competitor is open-source and backed by Amazon
Sometimes it's not the time saved, but a change to your mindset, that you don't need to even think of walking across the room to reach the switch before sleep. Such change accumulates and at a point I felt the difference, hopefully that works for you as well.
I just can't match the productivity of macOS. Particularly the keybindings of linux are a non-starter for me. I always end up gravitating back towards just using emacs, and then just using emacs on a mac, and then just going back to vscode or sublime text (which tbf, both of these work excellently on linux) on mac.
>Building my offline smart home took the better part of a weekend

Yeah, right.

Nobody in their right mind should be making their home "smart" for the convenience or efficiency. It's a hobby. A frustrating, inconvenient, burdensome, potentially expensive, challenging, neverending hobby.

It taught me to love light switches.
Haven't come across this theory, but sure, it's a theory.
Oof.

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Incremental backup (without the useful wal summarizer in this case) is an interesting thing to try to implement from scratch.

I’ll have to read how the summarizer works specifically
In my experience, your best talent then leaves. Which is the opposite of what you want.
1. It's not clear what that expression actually means; how is the population of Gaza used as "human shields"?

2. Even if it was true, does that then justify murdering them? When there is hostage taking in, say, a supermarket the police tries their best to stop only the hostage taker(s) and not their victim(s); they certainly don't bomb the entire supermarket from the sky causing 500 casualties.

Many Western countries have had brutal acts of terrors committed against them, they didn't raze the entire neighborhoods were the perpetrators lived.
Clearly, these people who should be taken at their word.
But it shapes how you'll feel about the event & the future for a long long time after. The company was honest with you. When the day came it wasn't a complete shock.

I don't have a conclusive answer, but I'd want to know I think & respect companies that have the bravery to be up front.
Wild how coordinated it seems.
Saying something is true about 90% is just a clever way of inducing the 10% to comment ;)
Maybe he just got a new identity.
Such typos are common and obvious.

It's more likely someone utilizes such errors as ammunition. Such an action is quite common. It's obvious to me that this is the more likely scenario here from the other replyer.

Another common thing is to team up with people who have similar intentions. When such a situation happens they synchronize their biases. Two coworkers with the same intent will synchronize their biases in a meeting in order to push their intent... Happens all the time.

You like the front end, my guess of what's going on with you is a team up of sorts. Malice is too strong of a word for what you're doing. You're doing a team up and you're adjusting some obvious biases to favor your intent and create alignment with your team mate. This is all done subconsciously too. But that's just my guess on what you're doing.

These are all obvious human behaviors that are quite common but people don't think about it until it's explicitly pointed out.

But in the end. Who cares. We both are now clear about what's going on. No point in debating this further.
I wonder what he’s seen that makes him think that. I love playing with Midjourney, but if you want it to create a specific thing, you’re out of luck. I can see AI getting you somewhere, but I can’t see it coming up with a consistent, good quality result.
Oh! I didn't notice the :( and the ): signs. I thought it was a play on the usernames < pronto> and < korozion>!

:)