skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You haven't seen Andor and it's been out for 2 years, why would anyone take your opinion about where Star Wars is?
They were touting easing inflation, but it came in hotter than they hoped for. They also pretend food hasn't gone up. People in this thread argue it hasn't gone up much. It has gone up --and that does not include the shrinkflation aspect.

They're fooling themselves. Come election time, people will let them know how they feel, one way or the other -Carville was astute.
Everytime I call it something else a dogpile appears accusing me of not being a medical doctor and how dare I commit the malpractice of deciding it is not treatment. Then come varying studies, which depending on persuasion are gamed in either direction by tweaking the constraints. Easier to not have the debate.
Somebody's confusing person-to-person (P2P) with peer-to-peer (P2P).
I honestly think people like you are the target audience, but I don't feel like it's a huge population. And even for people like you, plugging your bank info into Twitter is only one step less than downloading Venmo and plugging your bank info into Venmo, so I don't think they're offering a whole lot of additional convenience
Is “firing” 50 people different from “laying off” 50 people?
The thing is, when you do it this way you loose the best and the brightest, which starts a downward spiral as those were the only ones who could hire good people.
Do you still have the source for the CGI script?

If so, you could update the output to VRML97/X3D, then use X_ITE [1] or X3DOM [2] to display the results.

1. https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/

2. https://www.x3dom.org
A similar situation happened to me after 7.5 years at a company where I had been given consistently good feedback and promotions. I was fed the lie that my position was being eliminated when there were active public postings for the same position (Staff Engineer). My access to corporate systems was cut off at 8am with no warning or explanatio. I got a similar cold call from an HR person I had met once by chance. No involvement of my manager or director, who both reached out apologetically on linkedin after the fact. Not being able to say goodbye to my coworkers I had known for years was emotionally traumatic. Such is corporate life.
What's your favored smart switch brand?

I went Leviton as they looked the most like low-key, plain-old On/Off lightswitches. But the reliability has been terrible - constantly dropping off the network or requiring a reset (at least the early models I have). It's disappointing considering I thought it was a well-established brand; after dealing with some of their tech support / engineers I'm of the solid opinion they should stick to non-smart appliances.
Zappa smoked like a chimney and drank coffee incessantly. He was hardly as sober as he claimed to be.
And Is the Observable Universe Consistent with the Cosmological Principle?

- Classical and Quantum Gravity 40(9) (April 2023)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/acbefc
He seems to generally enjoy it and find meaning in it. shrug
I can't find any problems with the data, but this is extremely unintuitive! My father who was buying shares decades ago for his personal account had $50 commission fees (not inflation adjusted!!) And like most brokers in that time demanded, he could only buy in 'lots' meaning 100 shares minimum or multiples of that. You had to place a call to your broker, usually when the market was open, which meant the middle of the work day.

Today, practically everyone including fastfood workers has access to 401ks which are extremely cheap. No commission fees upfront. Almost every broker has commission free trading. Not only can you buy 1 share at a time, you can buy fractions of 1 share. You can do it all from your phone, after or before market hours.

Access has been expanded and costs lowered dramatically. So why have the bottom 90% stopped buying shares?
I detest the state that web design is in. This webpage is terrible on my 4K display. Continue scrolling endlessly. I miss information density.
It actually would be illegal in most of the EU (at the very least in The Netherlands) AFAIK.

This is some "only in the US" level stuff (in the context of "The West").
Mea culpa. Mostly. I relied on Wikipedia's characterization of the E2 series as similar to the Bombardier CSeries which was the subject of the American tariffs you reference. But the CSeries in fact became the A220, significantly smaller than the A320, so neither would it have been in the same category as the 737.

Both the E2 195 and the CSeries are well above the threshold of 100 passengers that Wikipedia uses as the maximum for a "regional jet", with the former holding up to 146 passengers and the latter up to 160. However, this is well behind the 737 MAX at 220 passengers. This classification apparently varies by source; 49 USC 41714 considers the maximum to be 71 passengers, while some sources take a threshold as high as 150 seats.

In any case, Embraer has gradually ramped up the maximum seating capacity on its planes, though you correctly point out that it has yet to take the middle-seat plunge.
In maths, averaging has multiple forms.

Mean (what most people call "averaging"), median, mode.
Yes, you don't get severance if you're fired, in some cases.
Anything in the last 15 years?
Excellent, quick, automatic, transparent-to-the-user OCR on basically all images that use native toolkit controls on both iOS and macOS was the kind of thing that instantly felt like a feature an OS needs to not feel incomplete. One of those "didn't know I needed this, would now feel horrible to not have it" sorts of things.
SB 5924 Concerning access to personnel records
Isn’t the WARN act just for larger layoffs (50 or 75+)?
I had long and contentious arguments about this. It really opened my eyes to how little innovators really think about these problems. From the beginning, I was concerned about ensuring that our product fails safe, that we had good ESD protection, that our encryption protocols were industry standard, and that we went through third party security auditing.

As I liked to say, I wanted to build a product that I'd feel confident about giving to my grandmother. She should be able to use it even if she lacks familiarity with current technology, and I should feel that she's safer for having it.
> secretly wants to build The platform

Since when was it a secret?
That’s stupid: these locks should support multiple codes so everybody just enters their house code to get in. And a way to issue a temp code for visitors that isn’t anyone’s apartment code.
It's still pretty dumb, though. For example, it'll often misunderstand "turn all the lights off" as turn the lights off or worse, turn the lights on (even though they're already on).
Do you often pay people who don't have Twitter or Google Pay or Zelle or anything either but do use Twitter? I would think signing up for Venmo would be about as easy as adding a payment method to Twitter and a thousand times more useful.
I had assumed this was part of a larger layoff, but I don't know.
Legally, they are supposed to treat mass firings differently than just individual firings. WARN act would require advanced notice for firing of 50 or more persons from a location. The location of travel/remote employees would be their nearest office.
> just pick someone else ... to be the "proxy" of your site,

If you have deep enough pockets, sure, just pay anyone ASAP. But as far as I can tell, Codeberg is a non-profit entirely dependent on donations and, according to Drew DeVault, paying Cloudflare to protect SourceHut is prohibitively expensive even at his scale, so I doubt Codeberg is in any better position to finance this.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960189
I wonder if you had a say a Windows 98 machine (or a 20+ year old version of Linux, or one of the Unixes) open on the internet now. Are there still bots out there that would find it and exploit it?
I don't think so because the smaller size is achieved by ignoring (= summarizing) changes between each snapshots.

To do WAL replay (= Point In Time Recovery PITR) you'll still need the full incremental WAL files that take up more space (and is already available in PG since like ten years I think).

PS:Usually you'll also take one full pg_basebackup snapshot on regular basis to avoid replaying too much and to discard older snapshot.

So maybe the gain would be to combine theses process. Keep incremental WAL for short term PITR but apply incremental backup to snapshot to reduce long term backup size.

Anyway this is a really cool mew option!
tada.wav
Don’t get too drawn in by an ad. JK is pumping his AI startup here, he is intentionally exaggerating to generate surprise and interest to pitch to indies, knowing full well that high quality animated films that make a lot of money will continue to require large staffs and large budgets and take a long time to make.

If independent animation is super cheap and easy to produce, then how will indies make any money and support themselves? It’s already extremely difficult, and lowering the costs might only bring in more people with less skill and make that problem worse.

If you’re talking about a $200M Pixar film, on the other hand, cutting costs by 99.9% means a budget of ~$200K. Think about it: that would end up being a middling 1 year salary for a single person (especially if there’s any ancillary costs like benefits, software and equipment, office rent, etc..) They certainly can’t get any A-list Hollywood voice actors for that much. They can’t record the music for that much. Pixar will never be able to make a full length movie for a $200k budget, and they don’t actually want to, because that would signal low quality and low effort. Going too cheap would mean completely abandoning their aspirational status.

And don’t forget the marketing budgets are in the tens to hundreds of millions, which will not go down just because of better animation tools. It doesn’t make sense to dump that much marketing money into a product that only costs pennies to produce.

Animation production costs have gone down steadily over time, and animation is far more accessible to independent animators now than it was 20 years ago, and that will continue. Big Budget movie studios have historically used those savings to hire more people, increase the quality, and continued to spend more or less exactly the same amount of money (or more) per film. Budgets are higher now than they were on Toy Story, same goes for VFX, and I think it’d be quite safe to predict the general trend for movie budgets that has lasted around a hundred years to continue for the next ten, with or without AI.
With the microphone switch turned off they don't send audio to the cloud but they're also no longer smart devices. The only words they can detect using local processing are their limited set of wake-words. But using Alexa or Google Home is literally the opposite of an offline smart home system if that's your goal.

Even if you create tasks that can function through a button press or something they still rely on the cloud.

Voice control locally is really hard though. Or at least it used to be. I thick OpenAI Whisper is available for local/offline usage if you build your own wrapper around it? I tried adding (local open-source) voice to my home system about 8 years ago, and again 3 or 4 years ago and it was very rough. It might finally be feasible with the current state of local AI.

For an example, my home robot was named "Marvin" (from H2G2) and the local detection was so poor, this is my list of "matching" wake words.

['Marvin', 'arvin', 'artin', 'marlin', 'marten', 'margaret', 'why are']
Yeah, that was a terrible way to do it -- don't tell someone their personal performance is why they got fired, when in reality it's the company's performance.

Though maybe her manager is getting canned too and either didn't want to make those calls or they didn't want him on those calls.
I'm convinced that it's because the recession that has been predicted for the past 3 years has not happened, and now we're in the election year and it must happen. The layoffs will continue until we get the macro outcome we're looking for

It's the only explanation for companies that are at all time highs in revenue, profit, and stock value to be laying off double digit percentages of their employees
Might want to order one before the injunction.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/google_tpu_patent_dis...
Use a loading overlay that will show for 0.25 seconds if you're that concerned about this
This is inline with Elon's goal of turning Twitter into Wechat.

Good for the operators and government, not good for society and humanity.
It’s harder to successfully sue for wrongful termination if they were laid off as one of many. Perhaps deceptively firing under the guise of layoffs opens the door to greater scrutiny.
Yep, this is a very bad look and if it goes seriously viral, is a PR disaster for hiring going forward. At least for me, it only takes a few of these stories to destroy the perception that a place is a good place to work (and that it isn't run by HR).
they have a core value of frugality, which verges on frupidity on occasion. there is a long page on the internal wiki about the latter
It's paypal if it were called X
Really? Does it even help if you don't know who it is? Do they expect each person to look for another job and have it lined up on hold just in case he is one of the 20% that actually get fired?
To be clear, even though the scenario you described doesn't make sense as being any more efficient or accurate, your response is just "broadly speaking, it is worth it" without any actual information.
Shame on Cloudflare. We need strong unions and legal worker protections now more than ever.
tiktok.com is banned in my country. Any other way to watch it ?
I still remember the “last chance gas, no services next 90 miles” that you can still encounter in the high desert. But most places people drive there are stations everywhere.

And if you ARE going into the wilderness, you can easily bring a few Jerry cans.
DOS and Windows calls them file handles, but they serve the same function. DOS even has the same 0, 1, 2 for in, out, err. Of course they all inherited this design from Unix.
> As Alaska is based in Seattle, they've been pushing this ridiculous all-Boeing nonsense for a while

I do kind of wonder about the relationship with Boeing, with Boeing Field and the plant just up the road from Alaska's HQ at Sea-Tac. Cynically speaking I'd guess that Alaska and Boeing CEOs are golf buddies or something. Boeing's HQ is is now in Chicago (which may be part of the problem, as the article notes) so maybe not.
Wow. This person is amazing! I like how she stood her ground despite these two people accusing _her_ of not performing well, when in fact the company was letting people go after hiring en masse without a plan. Just wow. Also, cloudflare, bro, get rid of those two people and whoever decided to use them as tools in gaslighting employees.

Edit: If i had a daughter i’d want her to be like this person.
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If you can collude on layoffs, that means industry demand for labor is down and salaries are reflecting lowered demand.

(which is to say that is just natural market forces, not collusion)
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This is why we need unions.

Layoffs are unfortunately, sometimes, necessary. But when they happen, it's important that the right people are chosen, for the right reasons (whether that's performance based, voluntary, protecting certain groups, ensuring fairness, etc). That requires collective bargaining by representatives who are able to assess and change the criteria, and who are able to negotiate for better outcomes for those impacted.
If anyone is looking to use OpenTofu on a Red Hat family distribution*, I have a COPR repository[0] available with x86_64 and aarch64** packages. The easy way to get started:

$ rpm --quiet -q dnf-plugins-core || dnf install dnf-plugins-core
$ dnf copr enable mroche/cloud-native-utilties
$ dnf install opentofu

It is side-by-side installable with Terraform, but if you want to do an in-place switch, you can simply do:

$ dnf swap terraform opentofu

* This includes Fedora 38+ and EL9. I can't support EL8 until Go 1.21[1] is tagged for a release compose.

** aarch64 packages are currently building.

[0] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mroche/cloud-native-...

[1] https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID...
Social media really changed a lot of things
I get why Brittany's mad: Cloudflare appears to be handling this about as bad as possible. But those two HR randos aren't gonna have anything worthwhile to say, either.

I don't want to be judgmental of Brittany because it's a sucky call to have to take. But my recommendation in this situation is to say "I disagree with that assessment of my performance, but I understand you are terminating my employment. What details do we need to handle with any severance, and where do I send my laptop." And then, as is tradition, go get day drunk.
I get why she's upset, but what is the point of arguing with these people? They're just the messengers.
Since it hasn't been mentioned here yet, Emacs is deeply tinkerable. With Emacs, you are given an embarrassing amount of leeway to customize or even replace existing behavior to make it do what you want.
Previous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38961859
The "free money" is going away, now that the Boomers are all retiring and taking their money out of the stock market. Interest rates are about to rise to 8-10% and stay there for a few decades, if all goes well.

This will mark the beginning of an immense era of innovation as all of that talent floods the market and is put to far more productive use.
It's like with a sinking ship.

In Titanic the folks that got on lifeboats early survived, the ones that didn't got caught up in whatever traps as the rest of the ship goes down. If the ship is going down, its good to not ride it to the depths.

If it's not going down, then maybe it's not worth jumping. That's thr skill in it I guess, knowing which is which.
1. With Docker you can create derived containers by a kind of inheritance. You can add your own packages to the container. For instance, I add Vim and whatnot. Use the customized image for your local development; your CI builds will use the stock one.

2. You can step into Docker containers so that you can work inside, iterating on builds and such. If you have a scriped workflow that launches a Docker image to do a build, crack it open and develop a more interactive alternative.
The feature I want doesn't seem to exist. I'd like what looks like a conventional switch, but with a solenoid that flips it up and down to reflect the status of the light.

It'd be even cooler in two-ways, where using the switch on the one side of the room causes the other switch to match. Not sure why this isn't available either.
I can’t imagine the premium for a cybertruck.
that’ll be the societal debt.
Not exactly half the speed, but that the vehicle needs to boost the voltage coming from the charger in order to charge the battery. For some cars this is limited to around 100kW, way less than charging the battery from a sufficiently high voltage directly.

For high end cars like Porsche Taycan you can configure the rated wattage of this DC-DC converter.
The economy objectively only works that way because it’s designed to work that way, designed by people, people that should be held to their unethical behavior. The economy isn’t some mythical law of nature. It’s entirely a man made thing and I have every right to be disappointed in socially-made-up things called “corporations”!
She's not arguing to change the outcome, she's arguing to call out the hypocrisy/bullshit. In some sense it's pointless, yes; in some other sense, you deserve an argument if you don't deal straightly with the person you're laying off.
what specifically would be breaking EU/Dutch law here?
What a strange fucking world we're building.

Also if her manager has been giving her good feedback, then this is just wrong. How would you supposed to know you're not meeting expectation if you're not getting appropriate feedback. If this is all true, and I there is no reason to believe it isn't, then these companies are just scum.

The US needs better workplace protection laws.

Take them to court.
The person in this TikTok admits to having closed zero sales. They're also one of the most junior people on the team (4.5 months).

They would be among the first to go under union rules, too.

Unions are often worse at prioritizing things like tenure over performance, if anything. But even under those rules she was one of the most junior people.

There is basically no situation where a union would have prioritized this any differently.
I'm going upgrade just to support them. They have always been great at taking care of me over the years and, who knows? I might end up using some those new features.
In some countries yes. In the UK if you want to make 20 or more roles "redundant", you have to group employees by reasonable groups, rank them by reasonable measures, and then let go those at the bottom. You also have to consult with employee representatives at each stage. Then, employees are entitled to minimum compensation amounts and that isn't taxed in the normal way. Much of Europe has similar or stronger processes.
It's also here: https://twitter.com/WhatLayoff/status/1745429342551777406
Wayland breaks things... Just for now?
That is precisely my point though. Just to exist in this world is to have a negative impact on other humans, animals and the environment. The effect is magnified when you live outside of humans' ecological tropical niche as well. While I'm not judging or condemning humanity, I believe it is important to recognize it for what it is.
yes yes, suppose you have summed it up
You can try retroactive:
https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive#retroactive

Let’s you use vintage 32bit Apple software on modern os.

I’ve had luck with Aperture.
Going viral on TikTok is far more likely to effect change here than playing along with the process.
I don’t disagree. That said, at large companies there are a lot of people that do the minimum to make themselves look good and pass the buck down.
You won't be getting unemployment benefits if you are fired. Also professional reputation, negotiation of severance terms, getting a positive reference, rehireability.
She's asking for an explanation that they can't give her, and also trying to use some bizarre appeal to emotion by mentioning "trauma" and how much this will upset her life.
Debt is more expensive. Startups are by definition financed by debt. The barriers to entry, and risk apatite are different now.
Apologies of it read as salty rather than mildly tongue-in-cheek.
No, these cars charge at maximum 240kW when the voltage is sufficient. But on a Tesla charger without sufficient voltage they charge at 100kW. Therefore the experience is significantly worse.
I’d hold up my 2004 as a paradigm of usability though.

No screen.
How is it independent? It’s just another company.
Investors are throwing money at anyone who can spell “AI”, just like 25 years ago they thrust cash at people who could spell TCP, or who were one.

Love them or hate them, Apple isn’t playing that game (and despite their having hired Giannandrea, who was the reason Google has an AI strategy in the first place).