skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the article isn't to just "work less", but rather that working above and beyond what you're contracted for in a large organization in the long run ultimately won't matter. The takeaway is that your "extra" efforts can be better spent elsewhere: family, personal projects, interviews for next gig, etc.

The article makes it very clear that they're talking about large, 100+ staff companies; when you're just another interchangeable cog in the machine. Today it's seldom that the person doing the layoffs is also part of the day to day operations, hence the you're "just another row in an excel spreadsheet" call out. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves by thinking at the boots-on-the-ground level (known individual/quantity, appreciated) instead of the macro COO/CFO costs tracking level (unknown individual/quantity, interchangeable.)
It's a side project of a Chinese hedge fund, staffed by graduate and PhD students which has embarrassed the US mightily. Because it's very good indeed.
I think part of the problem was many/most previous models coming out of the US were trained on eval data to cheat in the rankings.
> simply

I honestly think anyone using the words "simply" or "just" doesn't know enough about a situation.

> ban Russian

Do you mean the nationality of the ship's flag state, owner, beneficiary owner, constructor, charterer, captain, any of the crew, the origin of any of its cargo?

I'm not an expert in shipping and I've probably missed a few other sources of nationality. The point I'd like to get across is that merchant ships are very international. Unlike warships, which are built, owned and operated by a specific nation's navy, there is rarely a specific nationality merchant ship.

If your nation bans merchant ships (based on some specific criteria), all it means is they get fewer goods by sea and they'll be more expensive.

A specific nation's maritime interests are chiefly that any merchant ships get to and from them, as well as their explicit warships having passage.

This issue is about cable damage by the Chinese-owned, currently (but not formerly) Chinese-flagged, Chinese-built, Chinese-captained merchant ship the Yi Peng 3. Some nations accuse it of committing sabotage, for which they don't have hard evidence, and they don't accuse China, they accuse Russia, and they claim that somehow the evil Russians influenced the Chinese captain, or one of the crew, to drag their anchor on the seabed. But only after they departed a Russian port... even though these nations' evidence is supposedly encrypted transmissions between the ship and Russia, which could also have been sent before docking in Russia... or even sent to any ship in the area, including ones not docking in Russia. Any nation can send messages to any ship, regardless of who owns, runs or hires it.

> or Russian-originating ships

Do you mean a full naval blockade of Kaliningrad and Leningrad oblasts? By who? All of Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and Finland? That'd be enormous, hard to enforce, and would almost certainly be taken as a declaration of war.

Or were you imagining just a blockade of the Baltic Straits by Denmark, in violation of the Copenhagen Convention of 1857? The last time the straits were shut was by the Nazis when they occupied Denmark, because they were at war with most other nations.

Or do you mean, by "Russian-originating", any ship that has docked at any Russian port in its recent history? Merchant shipping is the Amazon delivery of the sea, they just keep going, taking on cargo and offloading it in different countries on the most cost-effective route possible.

> set some standards for crew training and expertise

Already exists: the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STCW_Convention

> Inspect them at the very least

Already the power and duty of harbourmasters, and a ship can already be stopped or escorted by a nation's navy if it's in their exclusive economic area or territorial waters.
Partially agree.
I still network, and actually found my current job thanks to my network.
I still interact with ma colleagues, help them, socialize. But I try to keep some emotional distance.
When I got laid off, my colleagues were also my close friends, so on top of the laid off turmoil I was living, I was sad I would no longer work with them.
Depends on the agency. Many will not pay you (and some may terminate you themselves if you don't have a contract for you, because they are paying your benefits).
Nothing about anything occurring right now in the United States is “ordinary politics” and saying that anyone who disapproves of someone siding with a fascist regime has a “defective thought process” is doing the work of the fascist regime for them.
Apparently we do, otherwise there wouldn’t be a bunch of people for whom satellite internet is the only option.

Not to mention the difficulty of running fiber or copper to ships and airplanes.
Who just became the US president last week?
Isn’t easy to develop an API instead of build an agent AI that read the browser?
That’s why we invented API.
There is a halfway between 1 and 3 where the manager is told to drop 5% and rather than picking one dev per team the manager just squashes one “nice-to-have” application and drops that team.
What the sellside is saying about DeepSeek
Taking out the popcorn early today.
Any reason why you don’t use a shorter domain name?

(Amazing what you built, btw)
That makes sense. When I used Kagi assistant 6 months ago I was able to jailbreak what it saw from the web results and it was given much less data from the actual web sites than Perplexity, just very brief excerpts to look at. I'm not overly impressed with Perplexity's web search capabilities either, but it was the better of the two.
> it's really a pretty recent state of affairs. A quarter century at most

And? Powered flight is barely 100 years old. For most of the world, ubiquitous sanitation, access to running hot water, electricity, medicine beyond voodoo and superstition - are all barely 100 years old, give or take quarter century. For most of the world - the rest of the world got it much later, or in some places, not at all.

Very little in human affairs is an immutable laws of the universe. Most of it is arbitrary, path dependent, frozen in place as we built more things and made more choices on top of past ones, instead of endlessly bickering about which random result would've been most fairest.

It so happened that English became lingua franca, and we've built the last 70+ years of technology on top of it. Do you want to tear it all back down, and call for a World War II rematch, all for the sake of a dice re-roll on which language we name our "for loops" in? Why the hell does it matter?! English won. Time to move on. Build up, instead of tearing down.

EDIT: also, FWIW, languages evolve. English of 2025 isn't all the same as English of 1945, much less that of 1865. That evolution accelerates with globalization, as every culture contributes their bit to the global whole. See the "Internet slang" or various pidgins that popped up in the high-throughput port areas around the planet; this is the sign of things to come.
Why don’t they bill the repairs plus a fine to the ship’s owner. If they don’t pay, sell the the ship to cover it.

I bet it will stop real quick.
This is the premise of the movie Sunset Boulevard, and of the much newer The Subtance. Tl;dr, it's not healthy for celebrities either.
The $500 billion data center can now be $50 billion. That is excellent news, unless you were the company that was expected to sell $450 billion of GPUs with a 95% gross margin to that project.
This may be a nice example of the benefits and drawbacks of GUI vs CLI software.

Sure OpenSSL has myriad inscrutable options, but the majority of these probably aren't going to be used by 90% of people.
Yet including them in a CLI gives less clutter/overhead versus what they would in a GUI.
They can just stay out of the way for the people who need them.

I guess the same could be said of an "Advanced Features" second page of a GUI though.
> The limit is high quality data

If, as some companies claim, these models truly possess emergent reasoning, their ability to handle imperfect data should serve as a proof of that capability.
This is as bad as dubbed movies instead of the original audio with subtitles if you ask me.

And no, I'm not a native English speaker.
Single-molecule accessibility landscape of newly replicated mammalian chromatin
It's very hard to measure this accurately at scale.

If you create metrics, they will be gamed. The people that succeed, then, are not necessarily those with the most merit, but those who are best at manipulating their metrics.
Thank you for your advice. I agree.
I am still working and completing my tasks, so far I didn't give anyone any reason to complain about my work. But I would not put again the extra hours or extra creativity.
I save money and live within my means. And I live in a country with great unemployment benefits if it happens again. When I got laid off, I didn't suffer financially thanks to our support system, but emotionally it was hard.
Please pick any semi-advanced economy other than USA when talking about healthcare. USA is well known for its corrupt healthcare system. You are picking the worst of the worst as an example.
I have ADHD too but I have also over prepared for interviews in the past to try to not have anxiety.

I just ended up sounding like someone reading a prepared answer because I kind of was.

The last two jobs I got, I didn't prepare at all. I just went in then without anxiety because it wasn't all built up in my head and I was actually able to have a nice conversation like a normal person as opposed to sounding like a robot answering test questions.
Even if the VPN provider is doing something naughty-ish, just decoupling netflow info from your IRL id/address/financials/probably TV habits info has value. Even if you can’t control the usage of behavior data by multiple organizations, you can try to “anonymize” it at the boundaries between them. Indirection, to minimize how much becomes associated with your identity.

Really only valid for individual company adversaries though, depends on your threat model I guess.

Edit: it’s sad that I need a threat model
Wow it actually looks really nice. I love these simple clean interfaces, that makes life so much easier. The only trouble is of course how are you going to guarantee people you won't succumb to enshitification when the money starts rolling in? :)
Time for a uKernel?
They have data if only there were no managers seeking to impact farm their stats using researchers for promo.
One difference between Iraq and the previous success of West Germany and Japan were that Axis countries occupied by the US were very aware that, if they didn't get on America's side, they were going to be gobbled up by Stalin. Their incentives were aligned to become pro-American in a very quick hurry!
I know of a case where a company laid off a person for unjustifiable reasons. Of course the notice period was observed but the person decided to press a lawsuit and the court decided that the layoff reason was baseless. While they did not get rehired(once the moral is hit hard to go back may be), but they got awarded to 7-8 months of full salary paid. Something that probably played into the favor was that the person just recently became a father for a month after which he was handed the forced redundancy news and the observance of notice period.

According to anti-discrimination law, a ground for layoff(or not hiring) can not be tied to parenthood.
No, they're already too big to fail. They'll get a slap on the wrist at most.
darktable does all of this. It’s a complex application like Aperture or Light Table. You run it on your own macos, Windows or Linux computer. You can write your own software to extend or change it. Photos.app does most of this sans the Windows, Linux or “write your own” parts.
It says it's run by volunteers, and PHP is pretty low requirements, especially for lower traffic sites. Also looks like they'll delete a site with no visitors for a month, which would clear out cruft fast, and they only mention up to PHP 7.3 which was EOL in 2021 so not sure how active they really are.

I feel like it can't be very sustainable if this HN post spurs a whole lot of heavy / experimental users to sign up.
Lina Khan did a ton of anti-trust but corporations seem to have realized Trump is transactional/pay to play. One can hope the strong antitrust continues but there’s little reason for optimism.
I am wondering whether a company "optimizing for shareholder brownie points" is a good signal to either look for employment elsewhere or as an investor start investing elsewhere. It seems like a company who prioritizes this either has reached their potential (which might be fine) or is just not able to innovate anymore.
I understand.
But since I have decided to reduce my time and energy dedicated to a company, I put this extra time and energy more towards my personal hobbies.
I feel like I am living two lives in one day, at work I am detached and do only what's required, while outside work I am deeply invested in my things.
> Likely, P550 doesn’t have another BTB level. If a branch misses the 32 entry BTB, the core simply calculates the branch’s destination address when it arrives at the frontend

That seems unwise. Might work well enough for direct branches, but it's going to preform very badly on indirect branches. I would love to see some tests for indirect branch performance (static and dynamic) in your suite.

> When return stack capacity is exceeded, P550 sees a sharp spike in latency. That contrasts with A75’s more gentle increase in latency.

That might be a direct consequence of the P550's limited BTB. Even when the return stack overflows, the A75 can probably still predict the return as if it was an indirect branch, utilising its massive 3072 entry L1 BTB.

Actually, are you sure the P550 even has a return stack? 16 correctly predicted call/ret pairs just so happens to be what you would get from a 32 entry BTB predicting 16 calls then 16 returns.
I see what you mean, and I don't enjoy criticizing the initiative, but I volunteered as a programming teacher for several years, and my experience makes me believe you are on the wrong track completely. English has never been the major obstacle to teaching programming.

1. English is taught widely, and they need it anyway.

2. The lexicon to master is pretty short.

3. Kids naturally learn words. Say, with moderate interest in K-pop a European teen can remember Korean names, sometimes even in Korean script.

4. "For" in programming is not the same word as "for" in natural language. You may be under illusion that when it's in a local language, it will be easier to digest, but it's not. You need to explain its separate meaning anyway. And when you did it not in Programming English - sorry, you simply missed the opportunity. You spent roughly the same amount of time to create a redundant word-slot in student's memory.

5. "Tried" is not a valid metrics for success here. One could as well offer free cookies, and number of tries would be growing. But that elephant in the room will look at us without approval!
Ah, so by “not voting” you meant “leaving one box blank while already filling out the rest of the ballot because what’s the point of wasting the ink”?

Sorry, that reads, to me, like post hoc justification for nonsense. The only people who talk about voting not mattering are people who don’t vote - not people who skip one or two boxes on the form. Maybe you’re different.
Not at least for another 4 years.
"It's like stealing an apple from a shop, sure you can do it a few times but eventually you will be arrested."

If the US target only a single state of the EU and the results are complicated, then this is a really weird comparison.

Imagine the EU would restrict some arbitary good from reaching Texas. What would be the likely reaction?

Now the EU is not as united as the US, but it went a long way already. Same border, same jurisdiction mostly.
Have you given consideration on using CSV files for the back-end?

I ask because funny enough over the weekend I spent 4 hours writing a terminal based expense tracker with a sole focus on making it easy to see income vs expenses vs business expenses totals to make it easier for me to file quarterly and yearly taxes. It's not a TUI but it lets me put items into a category and it tallies up the amounts with counts.

It's simple input / output with CSV files that you can edit with whatever editor you want and that's the main reason I wrote it. I've been using GnuCash for almost 10 years and it's kind of inefficient to input data quickly.

It's nice to see your project on the other side of the spectrum (super polished, TUI, etc.). What's it like to quickly add in items or generate income / expense / business expense reports? Ideally I'd like to be able to open my code editor of choice and do whatever operations I need to quickly insert multiple items into multiple categories.
I feel fortunate it's not layoffs that made me cynical. But working for mid and big companies.

I had the incredible luck of starting my career as the first hire and thus lead developer right out of college. The startup which hired me eventually ran out of steam, but the experience I got is priceless.

Now big corporations on the other hand are a shit show, and from what I can tell have always been a shit show. Have laid me off 3 times. And none of it has affected me much. Always quickly found another good position, and that's with being absolutely terrible at live coding challenges.

I'd say try to find work you're interested in. If you can, also try to keep your commute as short as possible. And live in a place you like.

And good luck.
AI is failing the Indoor Plumbing Test
The difference is that once you know how a t-shirt is made, it doesn’t change your perception of the functionality of a t-shirt.

Laymen will hear AI and imagine I, robot and terminator. They hear “neural networks” and think AI acts like a physical brain.

Once you understand how AI works, your perception of the functionality changes as well (eg. From skynet to reality)

I hear “sweat-shop factories” and, while it’s a disgusting practice, the t-shirt still covers my torso.
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Even high level languages like c# allow you to express such a thing

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73269625/create-memory-a...

Also structlayout and fieldoffset
There is Datascript. I am not a Clojure guy, so it is not clear to me if it pulls datomic as a dependency.
It feels like companies are moving towards annual layoffs akin to stack ranking and removing bottom.

ie annual cull rather than oh no financial results are weak.

Last round did spook me a bit too. Decided to up the emergency reserves as a result
Groq lpu interference chip?
Yes, the FindYou project [0] has shown this to be possible.

[0] https://github.com/positive-security/find-you
To my understanding, it's the latter.

"We spent 1B in one-off costs for increased future growth" is a much happier story to investors than "we have recurring costs of 1B", put simply, even if the actual recurring cost number is worse.

(There's also some complexities in some industries around money from, say, grants, which you can only spend on certain types of expenditures...)
Stocks Sink as Investors Worry About China's A.I. Advances
Many mergers were squashed. The M&A market shrank considerably. There’s only so much they can do as far as bringing and prosecuting cases in four years.
Andy did not endorse Trump, just the Republican nominee for antitrust. Nevertheless, we have retracted the statement, which was put out by mistake due to an internal miscommunication. Proton is not controlled by any single person but by the nonprofit Proton Foundation, which has neutrality in its governing principles, and that remains the case today.
> Even though >highly paid SWE< will flock-in and start going "How do I know, that I, as a highly performing individual couldn't have negotiate better!?! This seems unfair!")

I made a correction. Also I really hate the tendency of tech workers doing everything to stay away from unionizing or collective bargaining or establishing work councils. There is this bizarre tendency that it is just somekind if conspiracy and they are able to bargain better deals. This in collective hurts the entire tech crew everywhere.
This is only useful if you know what data was used to train the model.
I highly recommend this video "A new stage of Russian hybrid warfare" from military analyst
Anders Puck Nielsen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yabwyb14-BQ

Basically, Russia's goal is not so much to cut some cables but rather to create fear in order to reduce support for Ukraine. A loud public response is not necessarily in our interest because it makes their attacks more effective.
An upward line on a log graph represents exponential, not linear, growth.
The Generative AI: Opportunity or Monopoly (POV AI Startup Founder)
A simple question to ask an employer during an interview is whether the company is profitable or not. If so, for how long?
Right - they are not limiting factors, they are reasons that NVDA is overvalued.

Stock price is based on future earnings.

The smart money knows this and is reacting this morning - thus the drop in NVDA.
If you read this article (in Swedish):
https://www.svd.se/a/Kna2ay/svenska-och-danska-fartyg-dar-fo...

Both Sweden and Denmark were protecting the area from Russian ships before the explosion. So they both knew about what was going to happen. If they planted the bombs, or Ukrainians? Not sure but I don't think it was the Russians. Nord Stream was very controversial in Sweden when it was built.
Ask HN: Why hasn't Google replaced "I'm feeling lucky" with "Chat with Gemini"?
Just that + suggesting Gemini in Chrome's URL bar would help normies discover Gemini and increase usage.
How China's new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance
> balance between helping people understand AI and keeping them open to its adoption.

Why is the latter a goal?
Cool. Years ago, I was a http://www.dmoz.org:80/ editor. Sad to see it broken now.
Compared to 9x? Sure, but it’s not like it was born in a vacuum. Compared to NT 4? Not really, I think. There were significant new things (MMC, Windows Installer, a first-party USB stack). I think there was a grand total of one headline new feature for developers (COM+, a continuation of MTS, a non-partition-tolerant distributed transactions thing). It’s not nothing, surely, but I don’t really see anything that deserves being called “revolutionary”.
Disney college program makes up a good portion of workers, and they are not a part of the union.

Edit - looks like 5% but they can only work the unskilled food service etc