skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your horribly simplistic take has already received a lot of backlash, but whatever I'm angry enough to add onto the pile:

1. Big tech companies doing layoffs are not hurting on revenue, so your basic assumption is wrong.
2. "Cutting hours" needs to be steelmaned if you're not going to anything but a charlatan. That means you have to interpret it as taking a paycut, as in a salary cut. This has actually been done before in worker-focused companies to survive covid, and in one instance I'm aware of the company gave workers back pay after surviving covid.

You also ignore all the intangibles that are no easy to measure, because of course the business acumen of "make number go up this quarter" is too short sighted to care about institutional knowledge or long term strategy.
Also in Intel case at 8086 years, very important was large number of support chips, greatly surpass any concurrent.

Examples was video chips, io chips, MMU, numerical coprocessor.

At that time (8086) Intel produced even RAM and ROM chips, so govt could buy all from one contractor, and this is also good in some cases.
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This hardware is very interesting (RISC-V).

Is the hardware open and simple enough I can reasonably run a custom assembly written mini-kernel?
> Even though native ESM is now widely supported, shipping unbundled ESM in production is still inefficient (even with HTTP/2) due to the additional network round trips caused by nested imports. To get the optimal loading performance in production, it is still better to bundle your code with tree-shaking, lazy-loading and common chunk splitting (for better caching).

Source is Vite docs: https://vite.dev/guide/why.html#why-bundle-for-production

For me, Vite has largely solved my js tooling needs. It's definitely cool how far we can go with the platform alone, but for larger applications or publishing libraries, tooling like Vite is a blessing.
Is it that different? Lots of low skilled people who are generalized to be a threat to the nation.
How about Epsom salt? I've never known that to have B added.
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An obvious alternative is to increase support to Ukraine to give them what they need to expel Russia. The good old USA has the resources to do that but Republicans have blocked increasing aid at the orders of Donald Trump for years now. And now that he is in power he is finally blocking it altogether.
This is just flat out wrong. Edge is the default browser on ~all new Windows machines, and Safari is the default (obviously) on macOS. If you have data showing the opposite, please provide it.

People go out of their way to install Chrome because it's better than the competition. Just like they used to do for Firefox, back when Firefox was a better browser than the competition.
It's a fun pasttime. I'm rewriting mdadm in rust: https://github.com/DavidVentura/mdadm-rs

Mostly, I am tired of tools requiring root access, or a block device, to function, even in read only mode.

If you have a file on disk (eg: a VM's disk) mdadm will refuse to show metadata, requiring root to do so.
Independent of instruction set, RISC-V processors will have to learn what ARM lerned. It will take time… yes
> It currently features 36 fantastic films and also White Noise (2022).

_oof_
That money apparently is not making Americans happier:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...
And a bit further back, ask anyone who the Red Army helped liberate in WW2 what has happened later, and how long it took the Red Army to actually withdraw.
I agree with parts of what you say. I’m a career contractor or job hopper. I like it this way. I also am aware of the volatility of the industry. I prefer hopping and getting 20% pay bump each year. This more than offsets the risk of being laid off and staying a few months without income.
But who cares if Putin escalates. He already is all-in to the tilt. If he had more he would deploy it.

The only thing left would be nuking. He hasn't dared and likely won't.
Unless the election already has an obvious winner so your vote doesn’t matter, that’s just silly. Write an editorial if you’re unhappy with the choice, but don’t throw away your vote and just roll the dice as if you’re indifferent to the two alternatives. (And if you really were indifferent to the alternatives this time around, I don’t know what to say.)
> But really, virtual machines may be preferable; at least to get started.

And what shall one emulate in a VM ? A nonexisting physical processor ? /s
> Meanwhile I can just add 3 annotations in Spring/RoR/Django and have solved the problem in a way that a competent new hire will instantly be familiar with.

If you're building apps that are understandable to new hires, you're right: it's all just boilerplate CRUD.

> Python and ruby backends are all over the web and they perform completely fine

Python certainly doesn't. I've got one inherited service running in Python/Django, and it quickly grows to 1GB per worker, and even then manages to be so slow larger queries time out. I've written two new services in go, they get more traffic, and they run in 20-60MB, with peaks over 200MB. I can run both services and multiple development versions on a 2 CPU, 4GB machine with room to spare.

> in another language you would have just added an annotation and 2 lines and called it a day

I sincerely doubt that. The only boilerplate in go is the error handling. The rest is comparable to Java/C#.
At a press conference after the success of initial Star Wars movie someone told George Lucas: "But spacecraft don't make that whizzzzhh noise as they fly in space!", and Lucas replied: "I know".

The truth in art is not the same as the truth in a physical experiment.
ChatGPT sort of mirrors your prompting style in its responses so I don't think anyone can answer that question without also telling on themselves in some way. If I ask a question in an informal way with slang and exclamation points, I'll get a response that sounds like a millennial chatting on slack wrote it, emojis and all. If I write like a serious professional, I'll get something back that reads like it came from a textbook. Though in both cases I'd say it's gender neutral.
I completely distrust and generally regard leftists with contempt due to my personal interactions with them alone. I regard them as societal cancer and would prefer any other group to be in charge over them. No McCarthyist propaganda needed. I'll take a fascist's boot on my neck any day over a lefty who pretends to do it for my own good.
Are you sure you aren't being MITM downgraded? I didn't think TLS 1.3 was packet-boundary aware.
And if the American defense sector wasn't bruised enough from the last month, Elon musk was on social media this weekend claiming he could collapse the Ukranian frontlines by disabling Starlink and insulting the Polish foreign minister for buying Starlink systems...

https://bsky.app/profile/tatarigami.bsky.social/post/3ljxhgc...
https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3ljx3esi74k...
Cortisone is the main stress hormone, of course it makes you anxious
LOL? The EU against the US? At sea?
> Americans don't exactly dig EU/UK workers, right?

I’m actually curious to hear your take on it - what’s your experience been?
This is such incredibly twisted logic. I would have honestly been aghast to see this on HN a few years ago, but now the site seems nearly as infected as Facebook or X with this.
Can you please explain the character of what's happening in a way that isn't demeaning to anyone? It's hard for me to view these events while inside without assigning blame.
Sure, maybe that's how people in their 30s living in NYC or bay area feel about layoffs. But when you're older, have a family, and live in an area with a less dynamic job market, you may see things differently.
No.

What relevance does that have tho?
From "Top Secret": https://imgur.com/a/h3wR9Y2
RISC-V is interop as the ISA level. No wonder EU and even china are moving towards this US standard.
It doesn't, which IMO was a stupid decision. TeX math notation isn't even that bad, and making Typst compatible with it would've gone a long way towards adoption. It's currently unusable for me because in order to actually use it for something I need to first find time to re-learn everything.
Private companies generally need to be efficient and make money or go out of business.

VC funded startups are a VERY small percentage of jobs compared to ALL private company employees. But, sure, there is much shenanigans there.

Public companies can play tons of games as well - but the vast majority of people employed at public companies are at relatively efficient and profitable companies.

Government services are under no obligation to be efficient.

Often people vote for them to be LESS efficient, hoping that they'll get similar benefits from their private employers.

Though, hope is a bad strategy, and it rarely works for non-government employees.

But there's enough state employees that you don't have to win over that many private employees to win votes for things that make the services less efficient (like ever juicier retirement benefits).
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> - Whatever the outcome in Ukraine, suddenly, nobody will care. The media won’t talk about it, people will have largely forgotten, and some other controversy or distraction will be the story of the day.

I'm sure the Ukrainians will care, and most of us in Europe will too.
Really makes you wonder if that "president" could be teaming up with the other side...
I’m still a PuTTY user, but many people use Windows Terminal and the openssh client that’s now available as a Windows feature package.

If I’m not using PuTTY, I usually go for Cygwin/Mintty.
Most authors that look at the subject have usually proposed 3+ groups post-balkanization. Tends to depend on whether it's simply an "After America" balkanization or a complete apocalypse scenario. Table top roleplaying games are full of speculative fiction on those kinds of concepts. Nukes, or zombies, and sometimes black swan "magic" tend to be rather popular.

After America would be like the Fall of the Roman Empire, or the collapse of the Chinese Jin (romance of the three kingdoms) and Tang (five dynasties, ten kingdoms) eras, usually because of human bickering over power and control. Occasionally, systems like Shadowrun have a "mild" apocalypse that mostly serves as a catalyst for balkanization. Whatever vestiges of a state remained fall apart under the stress.

Complete apocalypse tends to be something like large scale devastation from a known threat that final gets used (nuclear, biological, dangerous machine sentience) and everybody's too busy dealing with their own issues to care about larger ideas like a continental federal state of "America."

Either way, tends to result in 3+ most of the time. From looking at the Roman Empire and the multiple collapses of China though, it really does not take anything especially dramatic to result in pretty severe balkanization. Often its the old "Blue and the Grey" divide and then most of the West just does their own thing. Occasionally it's more like East Coast, Heartland, and often the West still is not really included.

The result for the West has actually been one of the weirder parts of reading a lot of those settings. Often this undercurrent that the West has never really been a part of "America." The heavily populated East is still mostly fighting over the same issues with each other, the lightly populated West is just some far away land they occasionally pay attention to (mostly California and Texas).
> " There are between 200 and 300 dependencies in the uutils project. He said that he understood there is always a supply-chain-attack risk, "but that's a risk we are willing to take". There is more and more tooling around to help mitigate the risk, he said.

left-pad II, coming soon to a Linux distro near you
And in the face of gaps of the test suite there's no assurance that consistent output will be preserved across releases of the same application. This is somewhat mitigated by the slow release schedule that these kind of projects usually have, couples with a feeling of "being done" meaning that releases shouldn't have much green field feature development work. But still fixing one bug could cause a regression elsewhere.
> If a company has stagnant growth, that means leadership has made bad decisions, and things have to change.

There is a bigger picture.

Developed economies across the globe are experiencing stagnant growth, and the trickle down economics they have engaged in has failed to fix that.

Knowing this, the wealthiest, through their proxies in corporate leadership and government, are cutting back their biggest cost - employees - to maximize their near term returns, which will then be put into relatively fixed-supply assets, rather than risking capital on new ventures, and the employees that traditionally requires.

Corporations are betting that "growth" going forward is going to come from AI-enabled efficiency and productivity gains, not more employees making more product or innovating on product/service development and delivery. While it's too early to say whether they are right, many signs point in that direction.
It depends on the framework and other stuff around it but you're right about the API documentation issue, there's godoc if you want to document functions but for something like API endpoints it's not what you'd find from openapi/swagger unless whatever you're using is adaptable to that and then whenever I was working with it an older spec of it too. Always fun to run into a client who expects this from working with most of their people and you're just drooling like a gopher at them but for now if you're writing something in go for pure performance I'm not 100 on what balances best between that and auto spec... Definitely choose an API framework in go that works out of the box for that if it's important. This may be better than when I tried it a couple years back

https://github.com/swaggo/swag

And this one seems to generate documentation from code rather than annotations/comments etc

https://github.com/go-fuego/fuego
The tech layoffs are the results of couple of years of exuberance that happened right after 2020. Companies are laying off and we are getting back to trendline. Nothing to see here.
I think companies who want to access the large U.S. internal market will have an incentive to have factories in the U.S. That will likely fuel growth. The growth will be coupled with less imports and exports given nationalism and tariffs.

And if it is what the Americans want why not. But as the U.S. take this new direction, let's make sure former allies are treated with respect and given proper notice of the changes so that they can adapt their economies and defense postures.
> But when it became clear there was no coherent plan, people began leaving.

I see this more any more, to the point of wondering what % of execs and decision makers are actually meaningfully good at the job? When times are good, any exec action will turn out fine. But when times are tough, who is worth their salt?

And if all these decision makers are bad at decision making, what would a better organization look like?
I don't think it's a flaw as much as the system is operating outside the intended design capacity. Imagine how sideways HN would go if nothing at all changed in the way the site operates, and it scaled up to 100x the userbase.

Reddit absolutely had issues in the early days (ie: violentacrez), but the issue was mostly a dogmatic concept of free speech, rather than the moderation, and manipulation now. When your subreddit's user-base in in the hundreds, or thousands, rather than millions, it's much easier to pin down bots, and bad actors.
Text as part of the page is different from text generated from a query based on user input.
do people not get tired of the ooo phones bad trope?
Depending on who's involved in the design of the processors, they don't have to relearn anything. Hire the people who made efficient ARM processors to develop efficient RISC-V processors using comparable techniques. This will increase costs for quality chips (those engineers can probably command a very high compensation package), but substantially reduces the time to market for competitive hardware.
How would it be? Please constructively clarify.
Honestly, go and look it up yourself, you’re not engaging in this thread constructively. You’re simply parroting MAGA talking points. I didn’t say “every”, I said “mostly”.

Maybe pay attention to Greece, Korea, Libya, Kosovo, Serbia, Yemen, Syria (1982), Iran, Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, WW1, WW2

The fact that even as we bicker on this forum British and American forces are in Yemen pretty much says everything.
> email sending

It's as simple as calling smtp.SendMail("hostname:smtp", nil, from, to, message)
Do you honestly think I was the jerk in that conversation, rather than the person saying someone was using a word incorrectly when they weren't?

I don't think I've knowingly punched down.

Edit: anyway noted. I'll try to be more American (in the old sense; I'm not sure being Trumpian would work well here!)
Before Global Cooling, it was Green. Sad!
There should be an image of Agent Smith somewhere in the readme (j/k) :)
Until your comment I didn't realize that was a diss of "White Noise." I kept trying to figure out why it was singled out.... Doh!
Yes, I didn’t know my phone had a secret feature of becoming an instant hand warmer until I visited this website
pretty sure you'd have to call it something else. I don't think the crates setup allows what exactly happened with left-pad to happen. It's much more likely to involve malicious code.
What leftists are you talking about? These comments seem incredibly out of touch. Are we going to pretend the left elected Trump and these policies?
Trumpers are utterly immune to declarations of hypocrisy, as people who refuse to engage in good faith often are. There's basically no point in calling it out.
> If you have a file on disk (eg: a VM's disk) mdadm will refuse to show metadata, requiring root to do so.

If that's an artificial limitation, surely it should be easy to fix?
Arming Ukraine has absolutely stopped Russia from advancing and stopped them from committing more crimes.

Nothing will stop Putin but force.

Russia has no allies, just cronies such as Lukashenko and Russia is de-facto at war with the west. The front line just goes through Ukraine.
You know, you all talk about “spending” and “giving”. All that money goes back to the US and funds jobs in the US.
Publicly available, historic facts do not support the argument that russia's invasion was legally justified under any reasonable interpretation of a "threat". Claiming that they do is the propaganda mentioned above. russia is, in fact, the invader, and Ukraine did not invade russia first.

Also, you should respond to the second part of their post, as it contains a viewpoint that you might find interesting, and a question asked of your own viewpoint. Understanding others' viewpoints is a good foundation for coming to agreement.
With AI you need to think bigger
A benevolent dictator is the best form of government. Unfortunately though power corrupts and they have a habit of becoming self serving, and very much not benevolent.

I'm not just talking at the nation-state level, but at community, company, sports and so on. There's no shortage of Open Source projects run using the Benevolent Dictator approach.

Compare that to companies run by committee (or governments run by dead-locked congresses) which preport to "represent the people" but just turn into "nothing gets done" factories.

So yes, there are good dictatorships. They're especially good at getting stuff done.

There are also obviously bad dictatorships.
Why bother to "de-bing" their computer?
Bevel health might fit that bill https://www.bevel.health/
It's an app that tracks your health parameters, automatically giving you insights along the way

iOS only and requires an Apple Watch, but the deep of tracking coupled with the ease of use is amazing. It gives you a strain, recovery and sleep score that is very accurate. It syncs with your Apple Watch so you can see in depth markers such as HRV and total sleep time, with some metrics that the standard health app doesn't show. It automatically tracks a bunch of health markers. For example, It keeps track of how much zone 2 cardio I did, the amount of steps I did, the amount of daylight I had in a day, the noise of my bedroom, and a bunch of other measurements. You can also add custom measurements. I added one for taking my sleep supplements as a custom one, and I can see on the days I took it my objective sleep parameters are improved. It gives you a percentage score for each activity or action and its impact on your sleep or recovery. For example, I see if I have a late meal, it negatively impacts my sleep by 17%.

It's not the most scientific app out there, but the simplicity of its design coupled with its sleek interface has made me incorporate some good habits.

Oh god I just noticed how much this sounds like an ad, but it's one of my favorite purchases this year!
I think because - if you fire a poor performer, everyone kind of gets it - they weren’t doing a good job, they’re a drain on company resources, they’ve got it coming, basically.

But lying off isn’t firing someone for performance - it’s admitting “we don’t have enough money to pay you”

And that’s something that should be scary to everybody in the company.

When your shitty coworker gets fired, you shrug and say, yeah, saw that coming. When your shitty coworkers get laid off, you look around nervously and think phew, l lucked out.
A left pad incident isn't possible on crates.io. Yanking a package from the registry doesn't remove the code if you have an existing lockfile.
It seems like there was lower coffee production so they hiked prices due to the more limited supply. It also seems like they hiked prices too high with suppliers saying that they've only sold 30% of their production when they'd normally have sold 100% by now.

It does kinda show how markets don't just magically hit an equilibrium price. The prices went up due to limited supply, but then the sellers couldn't sell at those higher prices. Negotiations over price aren't going fast and buyers are only buying what they can immediately use/sell.
AST Spacemobile once they’re fully functional
Why should you get a vote? You don’t get a vote on what groceries I buy. What entitles you to a vote on this purchase decision? (In this case “all the votes” means when making decisions on actions a particular corporation is considering, not any vote on anything)
We call you when Putin comes for Alaska.
> while most nuclear powers have dabbled in the idea of 'how could we conceal a nuclear test'

Given the sensitivity of global seismometers, I don't think this is physically possible.

Maybe you could test one on the far side of the moon? :)
With two exceptions, those buttons not on the steering wheel are capacitive, which is another word for “tiny touchscreen”. I still have to take my eyes off the road to adjust climate or seat warmers. But at least I can tune radio by feel, the radio that I never listen to.
My guy, the dismissive tone of "it's not an action movie" while backpedaling to "tut tut, sure that might have been their specific plan but have you considered unintended consequences" is too much for me.