skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not very different from those or any other drugs. There's always a cost benefit analysis.

Now we have to wonder when people are going to try mandating these. I can imagine the argument will be "of course not, covid was killing everyone and contagious. Well, obesity is killing everyone and driving up healthcare costs. But my body my choice! But not when it can harm other people! Etc"
I grew up at the tail end of gopher, and kinda wish I saw it in its heyday. HTTP and HTML are so complicated. I still think it'd be nice if there were a text-focused alternative internet... even if not gopher, WAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol) would've been nice, at least more so than AMP.

I also miss XPath (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath). It's still around, but CSS selectors have taken over most everyday use cases. But for writing frontend tests or scrapers, XPath can still be very handy. I guess it's not really a "protocol", but IMO it was a good standard that saw too little real-world uptake.
I'm always a bit confused by profitable companies with (presumably) large reserves laying off lots of people. I get that they want to remain profitable. But sure 500ish people could be put to some use? A new product, a new market, a spinoff. Whatever? Are you telling me that no one in such a big, wealthy company of clever engineers has any use for a bunch of talented people?
I expect to see more of this as companies see their disappointing revenue projections as we approach a common end of FY.
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If you're running a SaaS that isn't customer-interaction heavy, you can usually get away with dropping about 80% of your technical staff (if, of course, you pick the correct 20%, which is not easy).

Having worked in several startups through the early growth stage, it's just surprising how much you don't get more done with, say, a 500 employee company than a 50 employee company.

There is a ton of room to grow less and maintain more, and it's a real struggle for a business to decide its product is done with major growth and the associated need for a large staff.
I've migrated a couple moderately large projects from pyenv & poetry to uv, and it has been great. The switch was easier than I expected. I uninstalled pyenv after a few weeks, as I realized that uv makes it irrelevant. I've also replaced pipx (which manages Python tools/programs each with their own virtual environment) with uv's tool feature. I used uv for every new Python project. The only thing it's missing that's important for me is support by Dependabot on GitHub. Once Dependabot can update its lock files, I'll be able to uninstall poetry.
Are their targets reasonable? Or are they reaching for fundamentals that don't exist as a storage utility?

(Dropbox customer, pls just sync and store my data reliably)

Edit: Reply was as I expected, thanks bhouston, agree they are potentially at the mature stage
Yeah, I just had a look at dropbox stock. I would have expected permanent cash hemorrhaging, but no they have a P/E of 15.
Hey, that's great! I'm really happy to hear that there are patients and doctors out there working together to use this medication correctly.
Slack shot their own selves in the foot iirc. They were miles ahead of any competitor, employees loved it, and then they just started gouging all their whale customers in contract negotiations, to the point that they started looking elsewhere...

If this isn't the full picture, let me know. I was at multiple companies trying to move away from Slack as the cost was not justifiable
The farmer is either renting the tractor or renting the money to buy the tractor. Which is better depends on details like the rate of the loan/rental and the expected utilization of the tractor.
> You can't simply fire someone for being incompetent

Lmao what? Outside of being absolutely skint and unable to make payroll, that's pretty much the only reason to fire someone (I mean other than misconduct, which is also a type of incompetence)
I’m not sure if the author noticed, but the intent of the commercials is to be humorous. If the image of a middle aged man writing an email like he’s in middle school didn’t tip the author off, I’m not sure what will.
> It's annoying to find someone (or some service) that is willing to attest on your behalf and have that person (or service) be trusted by your provider more than whoever filed the abuse complaint.

Isn't this precisely the role filled by notaries?
Yeah, while I generally agree with the direction of the article, not including someone like Taylor Swift make the argument too easy to dismiss.
NCS = NoCopyrightSounds, so you can do whatever you want with those songs.
In my experience:

Ruff is great because you need to lint your code all the time and you could save maybe 1 minute per CI.

As for Python package management, my team is migrating to Bazel which has its own way of locking in the Python dependencies and then pulling them from a remote cache. Under Bazel, we are only re-examining the dependencies when someone proposes a change to produce the lock. It's so rare, that having a new+faster thing that does this part would not present a meaningful benefit.
“The only question left was: who should I be angry at for wasting away 3 hours of life, myself or the AI?”

You of course, as any of us would, or should be, at ourselves. At the end of the day, ChatGPT is an amazing Swiss Army knife but it currently has its limitations. Kudos to you for figuring out the problem.
How do you reduce the latency of the upstream DNS resolvers? The closest Cloudflare servers give me 20-25ms DNS resolution times, but with Cloudflare as the upstream DNS in Adguard Home, I'm getting more around 80-110ms.
I think a start would be to stop saying the phrase “I take full responsibility for this decision” if you aren’t also publicly taking a pay cut.

There’s no need for a CEO to bring themselves and their feelings into the conversation. It’s this weird attempt at empathy that fails, because the CEO isn’t making any sacrifices.

Just say that there are layoffs. Most rational people who have been in any business for more than a few years recognize them as an unfortunate part of the business cycle.
Spineless executives with their corp speak - they're layoffs.
This is probably the most ridiculous false equivalence I've ever seen on this site.
100% agree, but the opposite is what happens.

Mass layoffs -- unless the company is actually tanking and on its last leg, which isn't the case with any of the tech companies who have been doing this recently -- cause the share price to rise. CEO pay, or at least bonuses, are often tied to the share price.

So a CEO is rewarded instead.
This is not necessarily true, there are many cases where the mother's immune system can fend for the unborn child, whereas once a child is born, that helping hand is largely gone, outside of what you get with breast milk etc.
It seems that after the rampant hiring spree in the 2020s, it could benefit some business leaders to implement 'Founder Mode' in their organizations.

Surely that should fix things?
> every reader has to re-process the whole log himself.

You say this like the current readers of HN have been here since the beginning and no new readers have come along since then. New readers come along at some rate I have no idea about, but I'm assuming it to be >0% per day/month/year. These new readers will find something existing readers have already seen and post it because it is interesting to them. This is no different than seeing the same "experiments" every year in 5th grade science fairs.
Linux runs on m1 and m2 so far.

https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support

maybe m4 will come soon.
I think it's an outlet for general frustration with the justification for high executive compensation (and returns on capital, for that matter) often being "they have much more responsibility and risk" when the actual downside is typically nonexistent, and even if there are consequences, the outcome is something like "LOL still richer than any ten of you combined will ever be", i.e. the "risk" is all fake.
Yeah I'll add it :)
Not sure what to tell you, this should be solved on Macs. I'm pretty sure their SSDs are very fast. Although - be aware, the smaller capacity ones are about half the speed. They don't tell you that.
It's especially silly, given that the sudden taxation of unrealized gains from the superrich would net the Treasury...100 billion dollars.

Which sounds like a lot; until you look at the scope of Federal spending.
A few weeks of funding the USG at the most. And then what?
Yes, sometimes reductions are necessary. However, layoffs isn't the only way to reduce variable costs.
That is actually quite good. I am surprised.
> Didn't they at some point see that they have more people than valuable work

Product roadmap probably had some ambitious ideas that got scrapped when earlier steps proved to not be marginal revenue generators.

Jobs said it best: Dropbox is a feature not a product. All their efforts to make it a product (let alone a platform!) have worked against usability and alienated a lot of users. I am hopeful these layoffs signify a return to sanity in a company that seems to be leading the charge in racking up unforced errors.
These drugs reduce the appetite of the people taking it, which drives sales low: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/05/investing/ozempic-food-co...

But yes, regulating the food industry would have achieved the same health effect than these “miracle drugs” for much cheaper and less adverse effects… But they are too big of a lobby to be targeted by governments unfortunately.
> It sounds like people want executives to get some kind of punishment or pain as a consequence of laying people off.

No - as a consequence of poorly planning cost controls. It's not that the people don't need to be laid off for the health of the company, but that the executives who made the bad decisions don't get the boot along with them, in favor of more cautious or frugal leaders.
Yes, they could have just not fired the people and have ridden the AI wave all the same.

Do you genuinely believe that the record profits are due to the layoffs, and not just because we just lucked out to enter a new bubble?
If they turn the tide on obesity at a population level in the western world, they will be right up there in the top category in how they have changed society at a fundamental level. There is ample evidence this is likely to be the case barring any unforeseen long-term side effects. At an individual level of course the argument gets far more nuanced.

Time will tell. Reducing obesity rates from 50%+ to 10% would put it firmly in that category for me and most others.

2 years or so ago I started telling friends that this class of drug will end up being seen as the most important drug development since antibiotics when held against the impact it will have upon western societies. I still stand by that, even ignoring the supposed ancillary benefits aside from simple weight loss.

The largest negative anyone can point to at the moment is fear of the unknown and the current cost. The latter will resolve itself rapidly - you can already get a weekly dose sourced for less than a cup of coffee if you are feeling a bit more adventurous than most, which suggests the costs will rapidly crash once competition enters the market en-force.

It would be of course far better to change Western diets and lifestyle - but that is basically solving the impossible. This is the next best thing.
> media codecs are often updated as part of the OS

I thought that was mainly true in the Apple world. Does that apply to Windows and Linux too? (As in, I thought many browsers implement their own codecs)
Depends on what you're optimizing for. I imagine most people who are in standard 2-people relationships want to be good at pleasuring their partner and themselves. They're not aiming for a gold medal in the sex olympics.
Every appearance of the word "Kirkland" here should be "Kirtland." We're talking about the Air Force base in Albuquerque, not Costco.
Makes sense. "I take responsibility" conveys that they will also suffer consequences, which isn't true.

"I'm the sole person who made this decision" is probably closer what they are trying to say.
I don’t do that because I’m in the US and currently live, work, and operate my servers in the same legal jurisdiction. That’s handy! For instance, if one of my users pisses off Turkey, and they order me to take it down, I can ignore it. If the server were in the same court system as Turkey that may not be so simple.
I mean, imagine that you are leading a team of 4 people.

Are you sure that you will always be able to accurately tell if you need a fifth person or not?

Or you have a team of 5 people. Can you tell if you have a one too many?
“25% better than legally required minimum” is not generally considered “great” in many circumstances.
Wanting food is a built-in fundament of life. It's hardly comparable, and I doubt dealing with it philosophically leads anywhere.
No, responsibility is not a word. Responsibility is an action.

If I'm on-call, I'm responsible to carry my laptop with me and be available immediately to fix critical issues. I don't just say "I take responsibility of being on-call", and the leave my laptop at home, get drunk and fall asleep in a bar for the weekend. That's called being irresponsible.
If you don’t have growth you have to treat this as a PE firm would. You cut spending to a minimum while ensuring you keep your customers, thus maximizing profit to assets ratio. A lot of companies do not have growth but are great money machines. It may be that this is the mature stage for Dropbox.
You reserve fields in them for future use.
To add to this, I've played around with implementing many more disk based data structures such as BTree, BTree B+Tree, etc and LSM tree is the easiest to work with, optimize, etc. The write speed also is much greater than the b tree and its varients which I like. I will continue to do research on them all as I normally do :P
You kinda do though. Ideally dieting isn't some activity you do for a little while and then go back to inhaling oreos. Instead you find a long term sustainable lifestyle that doesn't cause you to steadily gain weight.
> If a fetus is going to be aborted, then the negative affects of this chemical are moot. The affects of the chemical only become a problem if the fetus becomes a baby.

Without getting into value judgements or supporting a particular position:

I think the GP is implying that when the fetus "becomes a baby" is the 'divisive' part. For some folks think the fetus (zygote, whatever) is a baby/human/person at (e.g.) the moment of conception, while other folks pick a different moment of time for this.

The (philosophical?) question is why should the entity in the uterus sometimes be considered a (unborn) baby, while other times not a human/person/baby but rather just a bunch of cells?

Even if you concede that the fetus is a person (which is a position that some disagree with), that still does not necessarily settle things:

> It is possible, of course, to acknowledge the personhood of the fetus and still defend abortion. Half a century ago the philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson, conceding that the fetus becomes a person well before birth, famously argued that the personhood of the fetus does not make the mother’s decision to kill it unjust. Killing the fetus is unjust, Thomson argued, only if the mother first agrees to carry it. But this, again, is a philosophical question. Do we owe others only what we agree to owe them?

> Some philosophers, like Thomson, think so, but very many philosophers disagree. If I live alone in the woods and wake one day to find an infant on my doorstep, am I obligated to care for it? Or may I simply step over it and go on about my day, until it dies from exposure and neglect? To think I am obligated in justice to help it, as a great many people (philosophers and non-philosophers alike) do, is to think we owe things to other people simply because they are people. And if we can owe things to other people simply because they are people, then Thomson’s argument falls apart. […]

* https://archive.is/https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commen...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Jarvis_Thomson

IMHO this is central question in the abortion debate, and I find it hard to believe it will ever be resolved or 'universally' agreed upon as it involves all kind personal value judgements.
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Doesn't your link say that it was transient and temporary?
A P/E on its own is not good or bad. If the company’s earnings are in decline you would expect a low P/E, and if they were growing aggressively then you would expect a high P/E. It is only when there is a mismatch when the ratio becomes interesting. I am not saying it isn’t interesting in this case but the comment you are replying to does not tell any information that would lead to the conclusion it is “quite good.”
Want to highlight a post that has been downvoted to a point where no one can reply to it, or even clearly see it:

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reminder that Germany, during the rise of the Nazis, was the most educated nation

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My comment: The article in the link has an almost fun/light/academic take on the subject, there are serious consequences as noted by the user oldpersonintx.
> same input same output

He doesn’t say this.

> NOT the same as the "isomorphic equivalence" which is more difficult, strict, and abstract.

This is what the exercise is about. So I would recommend reading before making assumptions.

Of course there are more than one definition of equivalence and isomorphism, but the one explored there is just as interesting as the comment I’m replying to.

drpossum you stop with these gotcha posts? This is our 3rd encounter.
In big tech in the US, 4 months is usually enough to find another similar job in the industry. Also in the US for mass layoffs at big firms, the minimum is effectively 2 months because you are required by law to give 2 months notice to workers about such layoffs, 2 months severance is a way to not have to give such notice.
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Have you ever managed a complex, dynamic, changing system and found that the optimal size based on current conditions was 20% less than it was at some prior time?

I can think of all sorts examples.
It's because obesity is implicitly seen as a moral failing. You lack the willpower or discipline to eat better and/or exercise.

I think it'll be gone over the next few years as these drugs become more prevalent.
Me too. I use uv for python installation management and just vanilla pip and venv to run python projects.
>something is wrong with one of their numbers, because 2 undecillion rubles is roughly 21 decillion USD, not 2.5 decillion USD

Given that the world GDP is just north of USD$100x10^12, and Russia fined Google ~USD$2x10^33, does it really matter as it's orders of magnitude greater than the output of the world?

Makes me think of Putin as Doctor Evil[0] with his pinky in his mouth saying "two undecillion Rubles!"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Evil
I think it’s like anything in life: There are people who are going to use it correctly and there are some who are going to abuse it.

But just because some people abuse it doesn’t mean that it should be avoided entirely.
Some of the videos worked for me but I found the generated melodies rather samey.
> But what would that even look like? A fine? That would probably make no practical difference, and would discourage them from making changes that need to be made. Fire them? Then you would probably get a worse decision maker in the driver seat going forward, who also didn't learn from experience of going through layoffs.

Well they're the one asking to "take responsibility" here, the fact that they claim responsibility yet nothing happens is exactly why people don't like this phrasing.

Also who the fuck else can be responsible anyways ? The cook ? The guy who mops the fucking floor ?
Yeah that opinion is unpopular because it's deeply stupid.

“you would probably get a worse decision maker in the driver seat going forward, who also didn't learn from experience of going through layoffs” or you would maybe get a better decision maker who didn't have to layoff — or hire unnecessary — workers in the first place? Ridiculous speculation.

Responsibility without consequences just means failing upward. That's why we have a gilded executive class of people who are barely qualified to run a local Taco Bell franchise.
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I think the author is trying to discuss how common lying has become. How it seems like nobody is expected to be honest anymore and everybody's just getting away with whatever they can get away with.

How narcissism is an American disease and it's spreading fast do to companies like Apple, Facebook and online dating learning how to profit off it.
> Bonfires on the 5th of November have been obligatory for centuries, and therefore strongly associated with this season. For Protestants. Protestant bonfires. Not pagan. Burning their fellow Christians in effigy.

English Protestants. England isn't the world, even the Protestant world.
Actually they don't. Well run companies have cash reserves and expect to have periods of ups and downs. They don't pray to the alter of the next quarterly report.
It seems to have been updated now. The landing page otherwise was dominated by the theme of their 26 Oct edition: https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2024-10-26
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From an organizational psychology perspective I'm sure it tests well that's why they do it
I guess I should try honeycrisp. I had given up on apples a while ago and only buy Granny Smith for baking. Even those have an off putting flavor, I buy them for their tartness to offset the butter and sugar.

I find most modern fruits terrible. Tasteless gigantic pieces of industrialization.
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The art style in Zelda Switch games is certainly interesting but the game world is mostly just empty space dotted with the same couple dozen assets that have been reskinned and recycled.

The "grade inflation" that Nintendo fans bestow upon every title the company creates is frustrating, and there's a lot of toxic positivity that drowns out true criticisms. The Zelda Switch titles are nowhere close to 10/10 games.
Personally, I'd consider this nothing to write home about. It's OK. Not great, not terrible.

If we're laying off 20% of the company, I'd expect the package to be somewhere in the 6-12 months range. To me, that would seem more fair, considering they are completely restructuring the whole company.
Well run companies laying off 20% of the global staff?

None come to my mind, do you have any examples?
> I’m 22 and work on a 3-person team so it’s hard for me to imagine why a company would more than 4 or 5 total employees.

You're not wrong.

I've seen companies with less than 10 employees make around $9M ARR within the first 3 years, and some with around 50-100 employees that can't even reach 100K ARR.

The smaller your startup the more faster you can go, Dropbox's main issue is that they haven't implemented Founder Mode yet. I am willing to bet that that there are jobs in Dropbox that doesn't need to exist.
I expect interns to learn and CEOs to lead. If your decisions lead to mass layoffs then you need to lead the way to the unemployment line.
What time is displayed on your phone when you are in Kenya? Is there a setting to make it display the commonly used time rather than the official time? I'm going to Kenya next year and I'm excited to see how my phone behaves.
I agree those ads are pretty concerning and reinforcing bad human behaviours, but the Ubuntu one shown is boring and vague animations. Hardly a good comparison. Who cares about those?