skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Think forward and imagine you escalate on the threat, by punching your interlocutor. Your act is the same in both cases, but the physical injury to Mike Tyson will likely be minimal whereas that inflicted upon the child would be significant, perhaps even severe. To say they were the same would be like considering two similar mathematical operations to be equivalent without considering the quantities involved.
Realistically speaking - how much money one needs to live decently?

Leaving the yachtes, watches, cars and collectibles aside.
A shame. It already saved my a* once when my phone died and I could still login normally to all my sites.
I'm worried that SteamOS would make Linux to default target and game development platform and that a lot of tooling would shift in the direction of Unix-likes and the Windows + DirectX ecosystem would wither as a result. I want windows to continue to be a good platform for game development and not have to move over to an ecosystem I find really grating
Turning Red was better than $20M. IMHO Luca was a bit of a stinker, but Encanto (Disney but not Pixar?) was really solid!
Surely "Box Office" isn't the best metric to look at in any of those years? I get that it's hard to figure out what the better metric is, but are we all meant to pretend that theater ticket purchases are the primary driver of revenue for movie releases nowadays, even though it's obvious that can't possibly be true?
What's hard to grok? Its capacity was 300 children, so fewer than 300 families at a location where there could have been thousands of families that could have benefited. It served an insignificant fraction of the employees at Google who could have used it.
Is there a good collection and retelling of these stories somewhere? I'm aware some versions of the Bible have some apocrypha, but after reading the old+new testaments, I'm just not up for more of that kind of writing.
Power isn't free, you're paying for it somehow.
The Economics of Stadium Names
The free Proton is very limited, so I do guess most real users pay Proton.
This is probably just confirmation bias on my part, but it seems like M&As and going public almost always make things worse for non-shareholders in the long run. Be that employees, customers, or the community around a company.
Turning Red released straight to Disney+ where streaming was available. So it's no surprise its box office revenue was crap.
Lightyear wasn't a success either when you consider marketing costs, which apparently makes it where you need 1.5x the budget just to break even, or so I've read.
I clicked the link and you have to _apply_ and potentially be admitted just to get a free exit? So there's no guarantee??

Is requiring a Google committee review/application process a new trend with Google products? I recently was denied on another application through Google for API access to get one businesses GMB reviews, and it's frustrating because there's no recourse. Google is so opaque now.
People aren't cattle for you to get rid of. I'm tired of layoffs being a first resort rather than a last resort for companies. I'd like to see something where C-suite executives are required to resign if undergoing layoffs.
Thanks for the updated perspective!

> This changed after covid. My understanding is that they struggled to fill classrooms due to people moving away from MTV / Palo Alto.

Ahh, that explains how my across-the-street neighbor has a kid there.

> Daycare turnover has been bad industry wide, and our classroom had bad turnover in 2021 but it stablized since then. We've super loved our experience. Really great sanitary procedures, high quality learning objectives and measurement, healthy food, etc.

From what this provider told me, the Google daycares' turnover was bad even by industry standards.

Anyway, glad to hear you had a good experience there, and my sympathy as you try to find a replacement!
> does Wall Street care?

Some people on wallstreet do. In Mckinsey's book Valuation, they make it pretty clear to the reader that companies who spend a lot on r&d tend to have outsized returns compared to their counterparts, who don't spend that much.
Idk, I guess Lightyear is the most critically panned. But Pixar's worst is any other animation studio's mid.

Elemental is one of the biggest whiplashes I've seen in animation. I didn't particularly care for it, but it may be like Turning Red where I simply wasn't the target audience. I don't want creatives to be punished for not trying to keep it safe and unoffensive to everyone.
Eric Lengyel's C4 engine takes this approach.. it's a bit interesting

https://c4engine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Quick_Tour
Oh I disagree, Luca is great! But of course nobody saw it in the theater, approximately everyone who watches Pixar movies has a Disney+ subscription...
Then you'll probably disagree with me when I say that I think the world wide web in general has had a net zero impact on the world. I believe it's had as many positives as negatives. Perhaps if we could've frozen it circa 2005 it would be an overall positive but I'm not convinced it's as good as we all believe it is
Google Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud SQL All Undergoing Outage
These are popular decisions
Reported on Layofs.fyi - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-e...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-e...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959026
CFD is precise, but slow.

There are neural networks which learn to produce an approximation, but much faster. Useful for games, maybe exploratory analysis before deploying using slow classic CFD.
I looked at ArchiveBox and several similar projects a while ago, but realised I didn't want anything so complex. I just wanted bookmarks, with free-text content search so I could find something again based on more than just a title.

So I wrote my own: https://github.com/tardisx/linkwallet

Emphasis on tiny system requirements and dependancies (single binary, no service dependencies). As a consequence the text indexing is very basic (basic HTML scrape). But it's working for me :-)
Trying to come up with a way to open this without "well, actually..."

Godot UI components are keyboard accessible by default and do support Arabic. I haven't tested them with a screen reader so I have no data there.

The Godot editor itself is made in Godot, and it doesn't feel particularly snappy when compared to vscode, so I agree with the general premise that it wouldn't be a huge step forward. That said, it is more accessible out of the box than you might expect.
> That's (yet) another reason why I don't buy the insurance that covers incidents of my own fault for my beater.

Insurance companies still make you pay for everyone else's coverage.

ref: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/05/auto-insu...
Why did they lay off people in core engineering? Is it performance management in the guise of a layoff?
Because the Saudi military is shit, no matter how fancy their weapons are.
I think it's true they are not rich but I pay sourcehut for a commercial service not charity.
Yeah, you have a point... it's trickier to figure out a good way to create stability without also creating genuinely harmful rigidity too, though. I lived in Italy for a long while and you do see a lot of negative effects. People stay in jobs they hate because they have landed a permanent position. Companies reticent to hire because they're stuck with you.

I agree that a lot of US companies have behaved very poorly and casually with people's lives.

I guess I just see stuff like health care as easy wins. The rest of it is trickier.
Possibly due to Work Hardening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_hardening
> and generally immigrants have higher fertility rates

Not by much, it's only higher in the origin country afaik.

> yes, the above would come with inflation too

Growing the economy isn't inflationary.

> this can be reclaimed pretty easily from the top of the wealth pyramid with taxes

Rich people don't contribute to inflation as much because they have lower marginal propensity to consume. You need to combat demand-side inflation by taking money away from everyone else, and supply-side inflation by increasing production.
The people protesting know that just as well as we do, amusingly -- otherwise they wouldn't feel any need to protest.
It is a bit more nuanced:

4.1 Company starts to talk about politics instead of products in their marketing campaigns

4.2 Company starts to cut cost on workforce by pushing out experienced people and hiring cheap newbies

4.3 As a result of the previous one, expertise drops rapidly and product quality starts to drop

4.4 As the product quality decreases, bleeding experienced people makes it impossible to stabilize

4.5 There is nobody left to innovate. The cafeteria manager is the best path to become an IT director (real case: 3 consecutive cafeteria managers in the same office were promoted as IT directors in one of these companies), so the best expertise the management has is to pick the right beverages for the automated vending machines in the office

4.6 Principles and values disappear, corruptions grows, while internal controls don't even bother to look into frauds less than $1 million per incident

4.7 stock price drops, even if the company continuously spends money on shares buybacks
Deletes are free in S3, whether done via API or lifecycle.
My first "startup" was cartoonlagoon.com. We were going to be a site for independent animators and artists with the draw being a showcase of more well-known artists releasing exclusive content you wouldn't see anywhere else.

We had some cool stuff from Kevin Eastman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Heavy Metal) and others, but it never really took off.

Hearing the news about Pixar and other studios letting people go, made me think that something like this could totally be done today. Maybe it doesn't need to be its own site, but could be a channel on YouTube or something. There's definitely a shift happening in the space and I'm so excited for what's going to happen next.
Words are meant to communicate things through shared meaning and this is what seniority means to ~everybody else except you, so although nobody will stop you from adopting your private definition that nobody else uses, I think persistence in doing so will make you look a little silly.
I want to know if the execs were putting the roaches into a package themselves in their mahogany offices or if they paid someone to do it... CaaS maybe? (Cockroaches as a Service)
eBay was distracted trying to destroy a newsletter and AMZN ended up growing by many eBays.

eBay is now worth $22b market cap, as high as $52b in recent times.

AMZN is now $1.5t, about double since the period of time in question, or about 14 - 34 eBays

(editted out a large portion of what I originally wrote about how many eBays of market cap AMZN has been gaining because I was off by a year in my window of time).
Plus, they’ve spent years prioritizing production and sales, not service. As a result their cars aren’t designed with repairability in mind and their service centers are backlogged, and even when they can work on your car they may not get parts, because they go to new cars.
In the 1980s she and her husband cofounded a successful production company with Steven Spielberg. They’re basically Hollywood royalty.
In the US, the Kroger grocery chain offers discounts on gasoline depending on how much you spend on groceries during the month. Wonder if at some point they'll start offering discounts on charging, especially if you're shopping while charging. When I had a Nissan Leaf, I used to charge at a Kroger halfway between home and the office, but that was a third party charger with no association with the store. It would have been nice if my Kroger Fuel Points could have discounted my charging instead.
If budget is 200m and box office is 220m it means they have insane profitability. The movie will generate revenue for decades but is already paid up.

Btw, zippia.com says their revenue is 624k USD per employee. Layoff is needed: less than 1m per employee is unacceptable! /s
What have you added with this comment?

He’s offered a short opinion on the behaviours of two companies and made something of an ethical judgement.

Why disparage someone for daring to have an opinion?
But we're comparing to fiberglass, not steel.
You should be bold and name the ideology you think that drives them.
Introduction to GPU Programming in Chapel
> Lay off a percentage and work the rest harder, make people RTO, etc.

There is little to no evidence of this. There is a lot of evidence of layoffs, particularly across-the-board ones, costing shareholders [1]. Companies that manage little to no laying off outperform their competitors and are rewarded in the capital markets.

[1] https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-layoffs-cost...
Do layoffs actually motivate workers though? I feel like from the people I've spoken to that have experienced losing coworkers to layoffs, they just kind of disconnect.
> But say bread at $1(2023) is objectively worse than pasta at $1(2023); is there any way to account for that?

See https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/ and https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans... for how the CPI attempts to control for quality. How well they succeed is another question.

Quality adjustments in inflation data are always something that requires judgement. (Even though they try to minimise that.)

A recent example that was not reflected in the CPI:

During the pandemic choice and quality dwindled. Instead of buying your favourite toilet paper, you just got whatever wasn't sold out. Eating out got a lot worse, when it was possible at all. But if a burger still sold for 2 dollars before or during the pandemic, the CPI did not budge. So official inflation was understated.

Conversely, as we came out of the pandemic quality recovered without that being fully reflected in the CPI. So official inflation was overstated.

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Because inflation requires judgement, I try to avoid having to rely on it in any analysis.

The discussion we had could mostly be re-formulated in terms of

> How has nominal median pay developed over time relative to nominal per capita GDP?

That framing leaves out inflation completely.

Of course, it ignores absolute advances. And deliberately so!

But those are better left to a separate discussion.
You're very wrong ! The suffering of the victim matters more than the ability of the culprit to act within a certain legal budget.

If someone found a small, legal "act committed = no fine" way to victimize someone to the point of suicide, do you think it should be left unpunished ?

Justice MUST be subjective.
It sounds nice in theory but I think it would quickly fail.

The "no photos" part only stands to benefit unattractive to average looking men. Good looking men already do well on existing apps. Women aren't going to join an app where they're rolling the dice when they can have easy pickings on Tinder.

Physical attraction is a major factor in selection. Taking photos away before the first date is just going to result in a lot of wasted time and disappointment for both genders.
Aren’t these taxations generally regressive given poor people spend ~100% of their income and ultra rich people spend <1%.
So you’re taxing the poor person on all of their money but barely taxing the rich person.
Train Simulator, Train Sim World 4 and Trainz all seem to be resource-hungry.

So does x-plane.

Of course, Rimworld, Prison Architect and such are fortunately lightweight.
I think its generally ok as most cars handle the same and unfamiliarity isn't likely a safety issue (except manual/std transmission or if you can't figure out lights/wipers...) but the single pedal driving, while intuitive is different and lots of people aren't familiar with it yet.
I think Onward (edit: maybe not, see comment below) and Lightyear were bona fide misses, but Soul, Luca and Turning Red were all released straight to D+ during the pandemic, weren't they? You can't judge their performance without internal Disney metrics then?
I imagine it follows the same lines as Musk buying Twitter with Twitters money?
I still use irssi...
Your money is still invested in the market.
The two are probably related. Intuitively, at least. For a given thrust level, a higher bypass ratio seems to imply less air going through the combustion section. Thus this smaller amount of air "works harder", probably getting hotter in the process.
The point is that isn’t what’s happening. From the workers’ perspective it’s a convenient narrative.

The truth is, as usual, messier: constrained executives are confronted with targets they don’t know how to meet, and so start shoving round pegs into square holes.
It's even lower in Nordic welfare states.
I may have misunderstood your original comment. The way I read it, you were saying that The Satanic Temple is being intentionally repugnant -- which it isn't and the part you quoted doesn't say that either. Either way, I'm still not sure why you wouldn't want to read about their beliefs from them rather than second-hand from Wikipedia.

>That's the article I'd rather read. Do you happen to know of one that highlights this fact?

You can read their legal proceedings at [1]. Advocacy at [2].

From [3] there is "It was created as an alternative to Christian-based after-school groups, specifically at schools that host the Evangelical Good News Club. The program neither teaches about Satanism nor attempts to convert club-goers; they instead teach about rationalism and understanding the world around us".

From [4], "The Satanic Temple has said it would prefer to exclude religious teachings altogether from school sites, but feels compelled to establish after-school programs to provide an alternative to Christian teachings."

[5] is an example of them being rejected from The Los Angeles Unified School District despite the district having a Christian religious club.

>So do a lot of organizations that aren't trying to start after school programs

As seen above, and elsewhere, they start after-school programs in schools which have Christian after-school programs, not simply wherever they can. The purpose of the clubs, where they exist, is to promote and teach rationalism.

>are the children legitimately being served by this or being used by this?

Considering they are basically a rational thinking club, I believe that children are legitimately being served by the existence of the club where it exists as an alternative to Christian clubs.

[1] https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/legal-action
[2] https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/advocacy-archives
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_School_Satan
[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-school-satan-satanic-temp...
[5] https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-satanic-after-school-20...
Feels like nobody wants to sit down and work on those “frontiers” anymore. Because working on fundamental ideas don’t get you paid in dollars, maybe just a pat in the back.
What? I'm not talking about your personal emails. I'm talking about your emails through your company email domain. What has all reasoning just gone out the window in this thread?
There is a valid question on how valuable streaming is long term. The theory that we would make content once and lock in profits forever seems dubious if everyone competes on last weeks content. Non zero interest rates also pull in profitability horizons by decades.
At the very least, layoffs should be seen as an indication of failure. Sundar Pichai should not be making as much money as he is with the amount of layoffs they did
We used the childcare at Patagonia when I was there prior to COVID. I believe it was run at a loss, the staff was excellent, student/teacher ratio was really great and there was an emphasis on bilingual instruction. It was affordable — Google could do the same if they cared. I imagine they don't.
HN in 2018: "Why do you need X employees to do that? That's like a weekend project."

HN in 2024: "Companies should not reduce their headcount."
Also there are some in browser operating system as well, typically they have OS UI shell and applications. Unfortunately I forgot their names.
The thing you're glossing over is Senior at Company A != Senior at Company B.

If your company wants to grossly inflate titles, fair enough - but your next job will then look like a demotion.

Counting someone as senior purely by a clock is also absurd. It's about knowledge, depth and breadth. A person with 3ish years of experience does not have either... we used to just call that "engineer".

But... go ahead, keep assigning recent graduates absurd titles. Inflating people's egos helps keep salaries low.
Survival is not thriving. Lots of political upheaval underway in the US as a result.
If you only have one, $4k/mo is still cheaper than a nanny in MTV especially if you don't have an extra bedroom to subsidize with room/board.
In ancient times, HP used to be one of the dream jobs. It was incredibly unusual in ways that I think are best expressed by "The HP Way."

https://www.hpalumni.org/hp_way.htm

It was a dream job because other tech jobs were almost nothing like that.

Most tech jobs featured techies managed by MBA-types and that can be a recipe for passive-aggressiveness.
> Unless you are a sociopath and only care about your balance sheet I suppose

well, there you go
> I was told I need to return the car charged or I would be billed for "filling it up". I was confused why they couldn't charge at the airport and also explained that if I charge near my hotel it will likely not be 100% when I get to the airport. They couldn't say if that was ok.

This is the same with gas cars. It's very frustrating because they're directly being dicks to their customers. You have 3 options

1. Bring it back with a full tank of gas (annoying, as you have find a gas station and plan time)

2. Pay up front for a full tank of gas and 1.5x to 2x the price of normal gas. Now you'll be trying to drive it extra so you can use all the gas you paid for but not so much that you run out.

3. Bring it back not full and then they charge you even more.

It's infuriating how adversarial it is and I'm surprised no company advertises they don't do this to their customers. No idea if there are good ones out there but have never been to one.
Compute Storage Separation Demystified
I usually deplore this kind of action, but in this case I really can't see what else is to be done with the Houthis insisting on flying explosive drones towards civilian shipping, in effect disabling one of the world's most important shipping lanes.
Kathleen Kennedy might as well be the boogeyman with how she's uselessly vilified. She's just at the head of a one-trick poney: Star Wars is not an infinite canvas. It's this very narrow thing, that's not exceedingly popular outside North America. And do you honestly believe the CEO of Disney does not review every single major move she makes already?

She's not great, but mark my words, firing her will not improve the quality of Star Wars content. Star Wars itself is stretched out.
According to Wikipedia she's produced five of the fifty highest-grossing movies in film history.
Ultimately it’s bad management that usually leads to layoffs (barring extreme cases like the product your company makes being banned, for instance), it makes sense that leadership should be some of the first heads to roll.
> I completely understand that from a historical perspective, just as it was historically the man's sole responsibility to provide financially.

That's only a very small section of history for a specific section of the population.

Poor people always had the women doing lots of work. They had to.