skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loser pays has a different trade off. If you have a case which is close on the merits (where you may well win but it isn’t certain) you may want to concede early because you are risk averse about paying BigCo’s legal fees. It isn’t a free lunch. It just shifts the pain points to a different class of cases.
Because google, et al. gave up on fighting SEO optimization and now AI generated BS articles. They just serve up whatever their old algorithms serve up because they survive on market share and "familiarity" for the most part.
Depends who you ask. I personally rarely noticed memory management overhead when using Emacs. If it indeed behaves janky, then the ancient defaults are to blame. Automated memory management is very difficult in the general case, but the strategy from TA sounds very reasonable and sane on modern machines: UIs typically have infrequent peaks of high activity and long breaks in between.

Would be interesting to see how many users are actually using it on computers made in the last century, where the default strategy might be more appropriate.
I don't understand this space of what I can only term ecological or economic antinatalism. Can you share your thoughts on the following?
Do you think unbeing is preferable to a potentially miserable life that would still likely result in them having their own children that didn't experience their own level of suffering? How many generations of potential suffering is required before having children is off the table? How many n+ future generations of having potentially joyful and regenerating lives would offset the former generations of suffering?

What level or type of disaster would trigger it? Would you have had kids if you knew that the Black Death was coming or, being a Roman citizen, that the Roman Empire was going to fall? If you were a European in 1920, fully knowing the outcome of WWII, would you intentionally have kids? What if you only had models that these things were coming in a fuzzy way?

My father-in-law told me don't have kids. My brother-in-law sees climate change as catastrophic to any progeny, and my best friend views human life itself as an involuntary evil inflicted on children, but I have difficulties understanding their positions on an intuitive level. I get the reasoning on a rational level, but I don't have the gut-sense of it and it hurts my relationship with my family and friends.

Like, my position is that I'd like to think that I'd undergo torture for my kids, and that my kids would do so likewise for theirs recursively until the number of generations outnumbered the stars. From what I can see, living-on is the only thing that actually lasts--everything else will fall away, improve, and fall away again, including what we mean by being human itself, but procreation is forever.

How can I understand your perspective? Can I understand it? It would help me build stronger bridges if you (or anyone else) could help me intuitively picture it.
>Tech tends to do well in almost every econ environment.

Yeah, I think "no more ZIRP" is a stand-in for "the economy is changing". And, that much is true. We just went through record-low rates for a record length of time, straight into the fastest hikes in history. That has repercussions, and I don't think anyone knows what they will be yet (oh and there are some interesting geopolitics as well).

But I can't help but think most of these layoffs are also a return to "normalcy". The pandemic job market was, literally, insane. But even before that, it was hard to get development work; prices were astronomical if you could even find people at all. For the tech ecosystem as a whole, there are advantages to salaries and wages coming down. That shifts around cui bono, but it allows for more ideas to see the light of day...maybe.

All this is to say I don't think it's doom and gloom. We'll have a period of transition and realignment, but tech skills will always be in demand.
I've seen people with ADD/ADHD go from basically non-functional to brilliant and together from a very modest dose of amphetamine or something similar.

You don't see the same gains in people without these conditions though. It's certainly not a wonder drug for productivity or executive function in people without a condition.
> As a world financial crisis began to take hold, Ferruccio Lamborghini's companies began to run into financial difficulties. In 1971, Lamborghini's tractor company, which exported around half of its production, ran into difficulties. Cento, Trattori's South African importer, cancelled all its orders. After staging a successful coup d'état, the new military government of Bolivia cancelled a large order of tractors that was partially ready to ship from Genoa. Trattori's employees, like Automobili's, were unionised and could not be laid off. In 1972, Lamborghini sold his entire holding in Trattori to SAME, another tractor builder.

The name lives on in the ag market, but built by SAME, not Automobili.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Trattori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAME_(tractors)
Not the front part, the upper/back part. Otherwise, yes.
I think it looks likes less like a space ship and looks closer to a modern music producer's work station.
> they turn the front of their body toward it

Google says dorsum is "back or top (dorsal) side". Kinda makes sense that they'd assume light means up.
Maybe the EU can force Apple to do these things too.
Depending on whose advice you value, Deviant Ollam has a video on YouTube entitled "Lawyer, Passport, Locksmith, Gun"[1] where he makes the argument that yeah, you probably should have a lawyer as part of a broader personal risk-reduction strategy.

(I understand folk might take particular issue with that last as part of "risk reduction", but I hope that doesn't detract from the earlier parts of the strategy)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI
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World war 2: Germany invaded Poland and was preparing to invade France. To !circumvent the france defense they attack from belgium, since the defense is weaker there. They implement the same massmurder system they implemented in Nazigermany. Luckily the Dutch already collected the data they needed, so they could start the massmurder more easily.
That is why we need to take care about our data.
And as per these records not being in the best interest of the person, knowledge of previous infection could be useful in diagnosis if, say, the person has long COVID and is unable to recite their medical history for some reason.
As far as I understand, companies in the US really don't like actual litigation due to discovery: They'd be required to provide documents relevant to the case if requested. This not only risks making embarrassing documents part of the public record, but is also incredibly expensive since their lawyers have to review all the documents, and it can be a lot - and they generally can't recoup those fees.

If they really want you to stop, e.g. because you're putting their core business at risk, they might consider it, of course. But they won't do it for random bullshit. They do have infinite resources to crush you - but even they don't have enough resources to do it to everyone who ignores their C&D.

Also, I would expect the likelihood of getting sued (by a company that's acting rationally - small businesses where you've personally pissed off the owner can be different) depends on whether they can achieve their goal. If for example their goal is to keep you from publishing details about a security vulnerability and public embarrassment, the motivation to sue you is likely to go down once the vulnerability is public and their behavior has been reported in the tech press, and continuing to press it will just continue to the Streisand effect.
Where are you seeing nightlies? The OmniOS release notes I linked open with

> On the 6th of November 2023, the OmniOSce Association has released a new stable version of OmniOS

And the tribblix release doesn't look like a nightly.

The SmartOS one... might be? But AFAICT it's just rolling release.
This story is absolutely horrible. I feel so bad for that kid's parents. I had no idea this kinda thing was happening to dudes; I thought it was all teen girls being tricked into sending nudes, and then being extorted.

I don't know what the solution is here. However, every time I think on it, I keep coming back to parent and personal responsibility, which sounds like victim blaming. I kinda hate myself for that, but for every technical solution I can think of, I instantly think of a simple way to circumvent it. So then I wonder how to make the message stick: DON'T SEND NUDES TO ANYONE ON THE INTERNET. EVER!
Save your brain like a game
During the height of COVID, I was exploring the API design of the top-selling COVID tests on Amazon. Several had wildly unsecured APIs—sequential patient IDs but the results endpoint assumed knowing the “secret” patient ID counted as auth. Or just completely open GraphQL implementations, no different than a password-less db…

For anyone considering DIYing a diagnostics program, don’t. But I’m biased (I’m the founder of a YC-backed diagnostics as a service co: https://spotdx.com)
Okay understood (that’s application sounds fascinating to be honest) and the drop in job satisfaction doesn’t surprise me at all.

But what about productivity/output?

Obviously this is partially a function of job satisfaction, or a correlation. But wouldn’t it be interesting if job satisfaction went down but productivity stayed the same?
> Americans may find this idea distasteful due to their strong belief in "Free Speech"

It has nothing to do with free speech. Internet was an US Army project (DARPA). The main nodes in the west are controlled by the NSA.
The main companies are American (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook) with ties to the DOD and NSA.

Any suveran state shall think about it.

Coming back to free speech: everybody is working hard to suppress any resemblance of it. And controlling the internet means controlling the "free speech".
Steven Rostedt has a long history of kernel contributions before joining Google and is likely better known for those.
The memory consumption of GC languages with GC turned will never decrease, and basically keep increasing unless completely idle. Efficiency has nothing to do with it. conses are generated whether you want it or not, for every single line of Lisp executed.
Excavated dolmen in Sweden one of the oldest in Scandinavia
Sociology of the Interesting
Lab test require visiting place where you meet infected people.
Apple's clear intent is to make it extremely unattractive to use alternative stores (unless you've got an app with a very high ARPU). You can argue about ambiguities in the legal text, but this is absolutely contrary to the intent of the DMA, which is to foster competition.

I would be pretty surprised if the EU has no objections to this policy.
Lamborghini still makes them (owned by SAME):
https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com

There is also a tractor company called FERRARI, but they have nothing to do with Enzo Ferrari as far as I know.
Oh I also unfortunately know this standard by heart, hi!
right, exactly.

Linus has such a clarity of thought that if I disagree with him I have to examine why. Anything else is hubris imo, his track record speaks for itself.

Perfect example is his infamous rant on why C++ wasn't used for git. He's a kernel developer, of course that's his opinion. I still love C++ but I'm certainly not offended by it.
> The problem with learning Lisp is `(a ,b c)

If you can understand "String ${interpolation}", you can understand list quasiquoting.

> But the problem remains: it only takes one wizard to make reading code impossible by outsiders.

This really is a Lisp meme. There are plenty of Lisp wizards like Guy Steele, Rich Hickey, and Matthew Flatt. The wizards perform the magical act of making code legible and intelligible. I have stumbled around several Clojure and Racket code bases and never felt like "I should understand this code but the features of Lisp make it impossible to know for sure." "Infinite power" macros and whatever are really only used sparingly and generally when it's impossible to achieve a goal otherwise. No one is doing (define + -).

> But this means no-one outside of the language/system developers know the language, this means Lisp tends to be write-only by design - not in the line-noise meaning, but in the obscure foreign language meaning.

I, as a Racket novice, have been able to add candlesticks [1] to the plot library without learning much about it. I have also debugged DrRacket (an IDE) to uncover that Racket GUI operations performed significantly worse if non-integer scaling was used [2]. At no point when I was going through Racket internal code did I ever feel it was write-only. In fact, it was quite convenient to modify Racket internal source code, rebuild, and test changes in a way that would be much more difficult in Java or C++.

> You certainly can not do that, but if you choose to not do that, why pick Lisp?

Built in rationals.

The ergonomics of defining [XML / JSON / etc] data as S-expressions and doing things like pattern matching on that data.

Great, coherent integration between GUIs, plots, statistics functions, and all the other bits of Racket's batteries inclusions.

You still have access to all the other great features that other languages have borrowed from Lisp like REPL development, package managers (edit: maybe package managers were not a Lisp invention), good IDE tools, etc.

It is nice to learn the meta-syntax of parentheses once and know that the code will always look like that. No need to consider if some feature is implemented as a syntactically different new keyword, annotation, function call, or whatever. It'll always be a (feature).

> something you have to conciously work for with Lisp.

Plenty of languages have style guides, linters, static analysis tools, etc. to make sure the code conforms to certain restrictions. Lisp feels no different in this regard.

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/plot/renderer2d.html#%28def._%2...

[2] https://github.com/racket/gui/commit/20e589c091998b0121505e2...
Do you also think in manager-speak? It’s our downtime, on a news discussion site, why are you still talking in this obnoxious way?
I think a lot of people associate "old technology" as inferior and ineffective and that flashy GUI stuff is the only effective way of doing things. Truth is a lot of older technology is brutally simple and efficient and meets the 90% cut off in usefulness vs newer more complex for the sake of complexity tech.
Disinformation Is the Real Threat to Democracy and Public Health
Thanks for your reply, but I am just trying to get an understanding as to whether developers that pursue this path code using a preferred tech stack or utilize some website builders or whatnot.

I've done some research but thought I'd ask someone that might have experience.
Apple Card users earned more than $1B in Daily Cash in 2023
I've heard CI/CD in general and GitHub Actions specifically is where old cloud hardware goes until it dies.
Still blows my mind that Uber's first reported quarterly earnings that showed a profit in its entire history was Q2 2023[1]. And the company was founded in 2009. They've been losing money for well over a decade and yet still getting wave after wave of cash from investors.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/01/uber-reports-first-quarter...
Yeah, sometimes these are soft-layoffs, but even under that logic it's a bad idea: your best employees are the ones who have the most options outside of your company.

If you do a traditional layoff you get to decide who stays and who goes and have at least the chance to try and retain your top players.

If you do a soft-layoff someone else does the choosing, and the more employable the employee is on the outside the more likely they are to leave.

Just ass-backwards decision-making no matter how one slices it.
I'd go even further and make DM'ing a privilege for only verified accounts.

You could anonymously read and broadcast but anything private should require personal responsibility. I don't see how this would effect ad-revenue or anything either. I imagine it would only bother bullies, trolls and scammers.
There are organized "boiler room" operations doing this to kids at scale. They'll trick a kid into sending nudes or even lie and claim to have them or use AI to generate them, then will try to get the kid to steal their parents' credit cards and send money.

Today's dark forest hellscape Internet is not a safe place for young people, and it's getting worse with AI automation of scams and fraud. I wouldn't even post pics of kids online anywhere public since these can be mined to create fake AI blackmail material.

Edit: it's fraud all the way down, too. A lot of these boiler rooms use borderline or actual slave labor. The person doing the scam may not be getting anything for it at all, or might even be captive. So it's fraud perpetuated by fraud victims. At the top is usually organized crime.
I thought you were joking, when you said I was "ragging on the good peole of Ghana".

You are now saying I was "ragging" on Ghana by stating their 94% circumcision rate, when I was just stating a statistic. But your comment does belie that you agree circumcision is bad, hence your perception its insulting to mention countries with high circumcision rates. Aleast we can put this conversation behind us now.

I'm glad we finally reached common ground.

Regarding the racism comment, I dont quite understand what circumcision has to do with racism, but if it helps I am a minority.
They sold a few to the SDF as fragmentation grenades that probably work as intended. Probably.
The biggest thing that companies need to optimize on - which they don't seem to have caught on to yet - are management processes which create unprofitable overhead.

While "overhead" is an overloaded term, in practice it looks like:

1. Too much documentation, blog posts, spreadsheets (designed for management optics). Every one of these artifacts takes dev time.

2. Excessive stages in CI pipelines, internal tools, saas tools usage (designed for engineering promos). Every one of these takes dev time.

3. Excessive features (designed for IC and management promos)

4. Excessive amount of time spent in promotions, stack ranking, and performance reviews (designed to make management useful)

5. Excessive time on making agile work such as time on Jira story points, backlog grooming, retros, meeting minutes, agendas, scrums (designed to again, make management appear like they are doing something).

6. Excessive number of management layers (manager, sr manager, director, sr director, sr sr director, associate vp, vp, svp). Every person on this ladder is overhead*365 days a year.

All of these are entirely a problem of management layer overhead.

The only and only thing that works in a tough environment is few "skilled" managers who are still very technical and can align people and teams work towards specific goals.
VC boomed in the late 90s when interest rates were very high. The federal funds rate in 2000 was as high 7%.

If VCs expect to double their money on the latest AI fad, do they care if the interest rate is 0% or 5%? likely this does not factor much into their decisions.
To balance this, particularly your last paragraph I have the opposite viewpoint. The US government had ppp loans that were forgiven completely that effectively paid companies per employee. There was no reason not to over hire for a long period of time. We have a correction but that seems to be it. Even now the quarterly earnings statements have lines that they expect headcount to grow in future quarters (meta for example stated this bluntly in their Q3 report). So while cash flow negative startups with no future will close that's it. The market is starting to come back and this was really an understandable blip.
It looks like Ford settled a lawsuit for those transmissions. (Surely out of the kindness of their hearts, just like Toyota.)

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30689585/ford-settlement-...
It's so strange to me that HN has this view of social media, but not other things, like fast food. Fast food uses deceptive advertising and purposefully tries to get kids addicted to their product; which slowly kills them over time. But I remember HN being against sugar taxes, and other laws to help prevent it.

But for some reason social media is different? I don't see why it would be. Are the people on HN pushing for social media bans also pushing for unionization, banning pharmaceutical commercials, and preventing fast food stores in highschools? Because if they aren't it seems really hypocritical.
The slide inflated inside the airplane! Rescue workers laddered uninjured passengers out.

I signed an NDA to get my modest settlement. I still fly Southwest. The pilots were fired.
Does not matter - pipeline needs to be trusted because it has access to sensitive resources for deployment tasks, can fake test results etc.
I’ve looked at but never tried 2 things.

1, pla melts at about the same temperature as paraffin, people have used candle making kits to cast skulls or whatever. Seems neat to me.

2, similar trick, put the pla between two cookie sheets with weights. Heat to melting. This gives panels you can cut and incorporate into projects. Drawer bottom or robot body , that kinda stuff.
Fortunately I totalled my RAV4 back in 2018, so I'm just fine.

First time I'd ever had an airbag deployed; I'm glad it didn't kill me :/
That link discusses how to do it but not why. The most likely thing that occurs to me is that iOS apps consider the user a potentially hostile actor in their threat model, which is... technically a valid model, but in the context of this thread I don't that counts as a real concern.
I feel the same way, I have immense respect for Linus and can appreciate that he may flame me today and congratulate me tomorrow. It's not personal, it's about the work.
> I can get similar safety and speed from C++ if I use modern C++

Which modern C++ feature prevents data races?
The best way to perform surgery is to read a few articles online and then get to cutting!

It is certainly true that anyone can respond to a C&D letter. But whether you can do so without doing more harm than good is another question.
Were they ever going to be enough? There's a bump in fertility in wealthy countries when women has increased maternal options - but TFR is collapsing to irrevocably below replacement levels in wealthy muslism countries as well. My friends in the region have cheap housing, relatively well paying jobs - are religiously traditional - the women want families, have the resources and the family pressure to, but still end up settling for 1-2 kids for less than >2 TFR. E: Oh they also have help, like maids and nannies.Like this shit is not resolvable via policy.
That still hurt plenty over the short term, and it’s important to remember that metrics aren’t people. If you were a mainframe developer in Cleveland who just got laid off from a bank, it didn’t help your next mortgage payment to know that a company in San Francisco hired three people to build web apps even though the BLM’s national report would show a net gain of 2 jobs. This time we also have two big differences: most businesses are much further along on adopting IT (we’re unlikely to see the equivalent of the web boom in scale) and the internet’s ubiquity means that the alternatives often include replacing existing processes with SaaS services, which often requires fewer people than 80s/90s automation projects did or means they’re looking for someone to customize SAP, etc. and won’t consider you if your résumé doesn’t have the specific service they bought.

I am not saying that doom is the correct outlook here but I do think it’s a good idea to really think about what a prolonged down market would mean personally. That’s especially true if you were, say, flying high at Google until a layoff and now are looking at things like a public sector job which is quite stable but has no prospect of paying better than half of what you used to make.