skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool! It’s a really nice visual representation. I’m not totally convinced by the scaling of the branch lengths, but it doesn’t really matter for this. By the way, there are some fruit that branch off before the divergence between monocots and eudicots and are in a group generally called Magnoliids. Years ago they were classified as dicots, but they made that group polyphyletic. Some examples are avocado, cherimoya, and soursop.

Are there fruits that diverged through domestication, other than obvious cases like apple varieties?

Citrus, which is well represented in your tree is a good example.

And are those people who call watermelons "berries" actually basing it on science? (No.)

Botanically, melons, cucumbers, and the fruit of many (not all!) species in the Cucurbitaceae are classified as a pepo, a type of berry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_botanical_terms#pe...
The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete
I think people still aren't accepting that Steve Jobs era marketing and product development left with the man. Apple is fundamentally different and is never going back.
Maybe not. But typically natural attrition rates would let a hiring freeze take care of most of this. Layoffs are kind of normal current day, but a 20% layoff is not.
> Actually, I know why. It's because they have too much money

Money was almost literally free for like a decade. I'm so glad that era is over, and I hope it never returns, but the period of adjustment as businesses discover that they have to actually have a business model again does suck a bit.
It might be 500 middle managers which you can't do much with.
> Actually, I know why. It's because they have too much money and when you have too much cash, you start splurging without thinking and then one day the chickens come home to roost.

This is an incredibly uncharitable and shallow take, on the level of that comment many years ago that said something along the lines of "what's so interesting about Dropbox? It's just rsync, I could build it in a weekend".

We don't operate in a perfectly legible world, especially more so when it comes to people. It's all bets and risks and whatnot.

If you or anyone has the power to create perfectly aligned and efficient organization, I'm waiting here to see you build large multi-trillion dollar companies. Let me know how it goes.
I feel like this would be the few times where virtue signaling is probably a benefit. It can make all the people in the company feel like the leader is on their side, and maybe make the employees less resentful and be more productive.
A company's profits will, without exception, be lower if they never take any risks.
That used to be my stack, I’ve found that asdf and poetry fit me better (I dreaded having to set up pyenv and/or it working some of the time). The time saver has also been that I no longer have to keep any other language’s bespoke language version environment switcher in my head as much (goodbye nvm too)
But which people: the sales/marketing, the developers that actually make the product, across the board? At some point, development gets to a stable and solid product, so revenue increases come from staffing up sales/marketing. So does that mean you can reduce the devs to try and increase new users or that you've overstaffed the sales/marketing? Maybe there's just too damn many middle managers? Will the cutting be a surgical blade or a broad axe?
I was already bothered by the Apple Watch marketing. The messaging there is total fear. Buy an Apple Watch or literally die. Also, get them for your children or they will die too.

The messaging that AI is for lying is another big yikes. Apple marketing department has lost the magic.
> Meanwhile the S&P500 is up _23%_ this year

As the saying goes: "The stock market is not the economy." Most of that gain can be attributed to six stocks. Dropbox is down about 6% year-to-date.
It's more fun now though, because instead of being tied to individual performance, you need to make sure you're on a product team that is going to survive the cuts.
Another fun fact about timezones: if the government abolishes DST one year, and then moves some timezones an hour the next year, it creates a wild mess. Especially when you're building an Android app. Especially when it's the early 2010s so the timezone database is built into the system image but most devices that run your app don't receive system updates at all.

Instead of picking the timezone with the correct offset and no DST, many people would adjust the time itself so the wrong timezone and the wrong unixtime cancel each other out so the clock "looks right". Not fun when you're doing math with timestamps, some of which are local and some come from the server.
Did you think it was set and forget? There is a reason companies have entire SOC teams only looking at EDR and SIEM.

What SIEM did you move to that was less of a burden?
How is narcissism an American disease?
> The long-term side effects of GLP-1 drugs are not well-studied

I think it's been around for long enough (2017-2024 for Semaglutide), and there have been enough people taking it (tens of millions), that it's possible to start drawing conclusions about this. Maybe a Bayesian approach might say something?
For a software services company, that margin is pretty low.
Well, it is the year of Linux on the desktop.
It's like the Google Pixel ads showing how you can take a picture, and change all of the scenery with AI. Nothing is real, and you can't trust anything you see or hear. I would be pretty disappointed in my wife if she A) forgot my birthday, and B) spent 10 seconds putting together a photo collage using AI. I would expect her to feel the same. Personal and financial circumstances aside, it IS the thought that counts, and all of these ads seem to be saying it is fine to offload thinking to your trusty AI companion. It's not really humorous, it is dystopian.

Also, those ads showing different AIs acting like HAL but saying "the future doesn't have to be scary" are terrifying. In one the woman is locked in her house by her AI-bot, and uses a menacing tone, doesn't let her leave until she grabs her water bottle. In another, a man is in a self-driving car, which changes routes and takes him to a surprise birthday party. It is NOT a leap to go from these to hearing actual cases where "woman is trapped in her apartment and dies in a fire because the AI wouldn't unlock her door (or AI died first in the fire)", or "self-driving Tesla is hacked by the cartel/abusive ex and drives passenger to their death." I want NO part of the future they are selling.
> These are drugs designed to fight back against the food industry

So you are fighting against big food by rerouting your money to big pharma? What a win...
> What is management exactly doing during the time they went from 1 excess person to 500?

It is usually not the case that these people are standing around and doing nothing. It is more that they are working on initiatives and projects which the company is discontinuing now.

When the company has a lot of money investors expect them to spend some of it in finding new directions and opportunities. It's not all just spent on keeping the lights on, and the servers humming.

If they don't do this people in 3 years will be asking "What has Dropbox been doing all these years?"

If they are doing it right you are just amazed by the steady trickle of new features and services, and improvements which keep the company relevant in the years to come.
> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?

There never is an excess amount of workers (sure, there probably are 4-5 exceptions). What happens is that they need those employees, but instead are going to demand that the employees that are left pick up the slack. Which they will because they need a roof over their head.

Those companies are merely cutting costs, they don't actually have any excess employee.
As a recent example, when you have "the great resignation" of 2021 turn into (in my view) "the great hiring" of 2021 followed by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse of 2023, it's obvious that hiring managers just follow what is trendy.

Obviously past results do not guarantee future, but what the masses follow is generally a recipe to disaster. I think that's why we're seeing the return/visibility of stacked ranking. Management theorists see one successful company trive or a former successful company fall, and then everyone follows suite because they're "data driven," not driven by first principles
> I don't really get why layoffs mean that the company was not managed correctly.

Probably the part where they very directly attributed the layoff to mismanagement.

> We’ve heard from many of you that our organizational structure has become overly complex, with excess layers of management slowing us down.

> [We're] designing a flatter, more efficient team structure overall.
As someone who writes C# for a living, I see some great advantages with package managers. We have setup a system where our own libraries are published to our local nuget repository and the results have been positive.

With that said, could we do this without a package manager? I mean.. yes.. instead of a nuget folder structure it would be a dll folder structure. Certainly possible, generally speaking.

I guess there is negatives on either side. Without a package manager you have to be more manual. With it updating is easy.. and I know developers that update them without looking into the details. There was one example where nuget said there was an update.. so the developer updated it and it caused errors. Thats because the update was for a later .NET version.

However, when it comes to odin, I have found it to be a pleasant experience doing a `git pull` of any odin library I need to a 'thirdparty' directory and to import them into my odin code.

So we have the builtin ones like core, vendor, etc... then I have thirdparty. If any of those libraries in thirdparty made its way into odins vendor.. it would be a simple change in the code.

I use Odin in my own personal projects but if I used it at my current workplace, I would likely setup a structure similar to my C# setup.. with a shared directory holding libraries we need -- simply git pulls, etc.
This is a great severance plan.

1. 4 months pay + 1 week per year of tenure.
2. Receive Q4 vests.
3. Upcoming approved leaves paid in cash.
4. Year-end bonuses paid.
5. Keep company devices.
Its not a problem until you want to watch a movie or play a game, then you have a black bar down the middle. Compared with the opposite or just having one screen to split as youd like virtually.
He should be fired.

If the company miscalculated, or mismanaged, to the degree that it suddenly has to cut 20% of its workforce in order to survive (or give shareholders what they want), then yeah, that's a pretty big mistake, and your head should be the first one to roll.

I bet you'd have a lot fewer CEOs calling for mass layoffs.
Gotta prevent panic in stockholders is the main priority of a CEO in publicly traded companies. They only concern themselves with the well being of their employees as much as how it affects the stock price.
…and to make concrete, a significant amount of water is needed. This is another way AI consumes water, it's just another point of reflection on AI and the resources needed for it.
> Kind of crazy that Dropbox has 2600 employees

No, the HN consensus is they are massive geniuses for moving out of AWS. Nobody here ever accounts for the extra datacenter, hardware platform, hardware ops, infrastructure ops, etc.
AMD P/E ratio is ~185

Nvidia P/E ratio is ~65

Yet I constantly hear how Nvidia is overvalued.
The langchain docs are God awful, impossible to navigate with every page half baked. It was made even worse by their trying to push lg to the point you can barely find their lc docs. And, It's like they just shove jsdoc output into docusaurus pages for the api and call it a day. The api works well but thr api makes excessive calls imo and the output is still harder to grok then setting some of this stuff up manually.
Stop saying "take responsibility" if they aren't actually.

If you knock a girl up and you "take responsibility" it means you getting married.

If you are in a car wreck and you "take responsibility" it means you are paying for repairs.

If you commit a crime and "take responsibility" you are going to jail.

So if a CEO is "taking responsibility" it should be something like that second case, dollars from their own pocket to the effected party.
You know what's better than a great severance plan? Keeping your job.
It shows the rest of the staff that you actually are taking responsibility.
Should companies reduce salaries instead?
well run companies do not hire more employees than they can afford
Current hobby 3d printing of metals usually requires a clay-metal type of filament and sintering, usually by heat or laser to harden the metal, and often needing compensation for shrinking and a lot of other inconveniences.

The resultant pieces are "metal" but not strong enough for most internal firearms parts that need to be metal but not necessarily pressure-bearing like a barrel: most notably bolts and carrier groups, fire control group parts like triggers, hammers, sears, disconnectors.
>The messaging there is total fear. Buy an Apple Watch or literally die. Also, get them for your children or they will die too.

Is there a specific advertisement you're referring to here, or just all apple watch advertisements? I haven't really seen any ads for the apple watch, and I am curious if this is an exaggeration.

I'm assuming by "literally" you meant "metaphorically", but I'd like to look up which ad you are referencing to get an idea of what you mean.

Edit: I've watched the ads. They are not in great taste, in my opinion, however they also did not tell me I would literally die if I don't buy an Apple Watch.
Why can't the CEO share the fate of laid off employees? They did nothing wrong either.
Right! It's one thing to accept marketing teams lying about their products, but now they are promoting lying!
Yeah, there should be some sort of world wide epoch shifting environmental change about 65 million years ago to show for it.
Is it still in use? I thought it had been replaced by Kestrel.
Since it's pretty much on the Equator it makes a lot of sense to keep time like that -- days and nights have the same duration all year long. Such a system doesn't make sense for places that have wide variations between seasons, unless you also alter the length of the hours to match (which I think was done at some point somewhere in Europe, but I can't find any references)
Heh. That "little animation" is so generic, you could have substituted Ubuntu with Windows or MacOS and everything they showed would have been valid.
So in this case it is still a form of safety that’s well-defined in rust: cancel safety. The io-uring library doesn’t have the same cancel safety guarantees that everyone is used to in epoll libraries. In Tokio, the cancel safety of `accept` is well documented even though it works the way you’d expect, but in monoio, it’s literally just documented as `Accept` with no mention of the cancel safety issues when using that function.
I'd like to give you a virtual cookie, for being the only person in the comments so far to spell out what SIEM stands for.

I appreciate you.
I think Houston being a cofounder means the financial picture looks different. Last year he made $1.5M in total comp. Which is a lot in absolute terms, but cutting his pay to zero would only allow keeping ~6 of those laid off. OTOH, he owns 25% of a $9B company. His salary is a rounding error compared to the performance of the stock.

Not to be an apologist, but I bet Drew really does feel responsible. He’s not professional management, and he always acted like Dropbox was his kid, at least from what I saw working there. I’m sure this feels shitty to him, though it’s obviously worse for the people laid off.
AI decodes oinks and grunts to keep pigs happy
LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations
Dropbox my one critique is can you please make it affordable again. I just can't justify the cost as there are cheaper services out there. I don't care about PDF signing etc. I fear OneDrive/Google Drive are eating you lunch because it's a hard sell to be competitive against them price wise.
Humans are exceptionally good at anthropomorphizing and can feel great empathy for literally any object, animate or otherwise.
I dunno. It may take 1-2 months to prepare for Leetcode style interviews, and this can be pretty mentally exhausting. Every time you fail to solve a leetcode question, it feeds your imposter syndrome, which is probably even worse due to getting fired.
If you think the Ubuntu ad is telling a story, I'd ask you what the story is.
What if managing the company correctly requires hundreds of people losing their jobs?

I understand the anger in this scenario as employees, but I don’t think doing layoffs means leadership is clearly incompetent. Running a company is hard.

Doing layoffs definitely says something about the company’s values and current standing, but I don’t think it necessarily means the CEO is bad.
why would you expect the next CEO to not use weasel words? it's like they all go to the same "mom school". they all go to the same tailor to make teflon suits so nothing sticks to them, and they all learn the same "rain in spain falls on the plain" dreck.
Not quite a moon base, but for Muslims on the ISS:

> the Malaysian government called a gathering of 150 Islamic legal scholars, scientists, and astronauts to create guidelines for Dr. Shukor. The scholars produced a fatwa, or non-binding Islamic legal opinion, intended to help future Muslim astronauts, which they translated into both Arabic and English. They wrote that in order to pray, Muslims in space should face Mecca if possible; but if not, they could face the Earth generally, or just face “wherever.” To decide when to pray and fast during Ramadan, the scholars wrote, Muslims should follow the time zone of the place they left on Earth, which in Dr. Shukor’s case was Kazakhstan. To prostrate during prayer in zero gravity, the scholars stated that the astronaut could make appropriate motions with their head, or simply imagine the common earthly motions.

I’m not an Islamic scholar (or a Muslim at all), so this is just speculation, but my guess is that if it were a permanent settlement, with people being born and living their whole lives on the moon base (so “where they left earth from” is not meaningful), they’d probably just settle on one permanent Earth time zone to follow; presumably either that of Mecca, or that of whatever country on Earth (if any) owns the base.
The bottom panel is hdpe currently and "trayed", but you wouldn't run this machine with flood coolant anyway. mql might work but the idea was to cut dry, suck away chips and rely on coated end mills.

I've seen people experiment with diesel heater pumps for mql, might try that some time.

coolant always ends up very messy. even mql lubricated chips can be a relative mess compared to dry cutting.
Appple are speaking to the “Everyman”, Canonical are speaking to the tech literate.

Different audiences, Apple has power users, but its largest audience is an average person (my wife for example).
The average person doesn’t care about tech, they want it to work, work well enough and be dependable.

Linux is can be a minefield, and Windows is a mess IMO.
Came here looking for Troll - as far as I know it's the only one to have winter daylight savings time. Also it gets extra points for the name.
Nit: Railway Express Agency was intimately connected with railroad infrastructure, but it was not actually a railway. It was, essentially, FedEx, only using railways for transport instead of their own planes.
I remember people expressing similar frustrations with the crash detection features on iPhones, and I still don't understand the issue. These new safety features are helpful and have helped save lives. Scaling back the ad copy to "maybe you'd want to use this, just in case, though it's not a guarantee of anything, so whatever," as it seems the complaints are indicating, is not how any other life-saving features on any device have ever been sold. Those old LifeAlert "I've fallen and I can't get up" commercials didn't pull their punch and say "Eh, maybe you'll want this for your grandparent."
s/tricycle/wheelchair/
Not leaking resources is a part of Rust's safety model, isn't it?
any universally appearing personality trait can be attributed to a whole nation with one easy trick: racism!
Is there somewhere I can watch the Apple ad(s)? I don't understand what or who this schlub is.
> The long-term side effects of GLP-1 drugs are not well-studied

GLP-1 is a hormone that is released every time you eat, and the drugs are virtually identical hormones at natural levels that take ~100x longer (half life of a couple hours) to be excreted. It's a tiny amount of one more peptide among millions- that part is certainly safe.

If there's any issue with the drug it would be from the constant activation of a natural hormone receptor. Like how anabolic steroids can hurt you, and TRT can affect your natural testosterone production. Maybe after 10 years it breaks your natural satiety system and makes you always/never hungry. That kind of thing would probably show up in mouse models.

Either way- obesity is the largest cause of lost years in the first world and it isn't close. If you are obese your whole life you die 10-15 years earlier and are sicker. It's not going to kill you as fast as untreated t2 diabetes, but in both cases it would be crazy not to take a drug that can just make those problems just go away.
The most annoying part when I worked in marketing was explaining to people that it’s not about the their opinion, it’s about profit. One person’s take is worthless.
It absolutely was.

May have missed the mark for many, but the scenario depicted is certainly intended to be funny. "Oh shit, we said no presents but the kids did some!"
Why Everyone Stopped Reading [video]
piggybacking on the title to feature an album of generated music I released yesterday (using a different system I handrolled in typescript + rust):

https://localaliennetworknice.bandcamp.com
I agree. If I showed that video to anyone I don't work with, they'd have no idea what they were watching.
Optics matter. When a CEO approves mass layoffs, and ALSO approves a 60% salary increase, I can only conclude that the CEO is nothing but self-interested. Rewarding yourself for firing a statistically significant percentage of your company SHOULD indicate failure, not success.
Not sure if it's not meant to be humorous - at least it uses (and reverses) several well-known tropes:

- "we said no gifts" - right... so you're the only one who actually followed that? Well, bad luck!

- usually it's the husband forgetting the wife's birthday, not the other way around.

- ...and finally, I'd like to quote Jesus himself: "He who is without sin can cast the first stone" - this ad (and the others) show situations most of us have been in, so they're at least relatable.
The point is words mean nothing from the C-suite, and are just tools to accomplish whatever labor/public relation goals they have.
Google rule of 40
First we gained mithocondria and later we split in several branches.

Some of the branches gained chloroplast. (IIRC there are three versions.)

And some members of the branches got multicelular.

A more technical and accurate version from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism

> However, complex multicellular organisms evolved only in six eukaryotic groups: animals, symbiomycotan fungi, brown algae, red algae, green algae, and land plants. It evolved repeatedly for Chloroplastida (green algae and land plants), once for animals, once for brown algae, three times in the fungi (chytrids, ascomycetes, and basidiomycetes) and perhaps several times for slime molds and red algae.