skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German here. I know 0 people who own a Chromebook. In fact I think I have never seen one in my entire life (outside of a store).

Schools I know are using Windows laptops or iPads.
Combine that with temporarily-embarrassed billionaires and it's a recipe for disaster. Every last asshole here is hoping for a fat exit for some ReactJS garbage that probably just grinds up poor people into McDonald's hamburger meat; of course they don't give a shit about actual workers with actual lives, whom layoffs predominantly hurt.

I've been laid off, eight months after a hiring blitz for the exact division I worked for. Now, I could've told them the acquisitions they did were stupid and that the products were never going to be profitable, but I don't live in Manhattan, so those decisions are above me. But that didn't stop them from juicing the stock price and ruining our lives anyway.

Fuck these companies. They could do better, and they choose not to. And every last sycophant here is complicit.
Found that painful, only got a 3 in

Interesting
> Totally agree that Trump is trading long-term dominance for short-term gains.

I'd say the other way round - rebuilding everything that was outsourced will take a long time, so hard times are ahead. In the long term, I hope the USA will be less dependent on China.

But at the same time the way it was done completely destroyed the credibility of the USA as a reliable partner, both in trade as well as military relations. Countries will organize new treaties, and the USA will be a powerful player but with far less influence than before.
GNOME Web is extremely barebones, moreso than even Safari (which itself is pretty basic). On macOS, Orion kind of acts like a “Safari Pro” with a whole bunch of power user features like vertical tree-style tabs and profiles among many other things. I’d expect that under GNOME, Orion will be a power user oriented “GNOME Web Pro”.
What matters more is what's actually true.
The reason Trump is waging a global trade war
I never thought that. They have always just played along with society. When LGBT rights were fashionable, they were more than happy to jump on that bandwagon and rainbow wash everything for money. Which, is great, don’t get me wrong, but I never thought for one second it was because the leadership truly thought that was important deep down in their hearts (Tim Cook perhaps excepted, but even then not fully, as he still cares about business more than principals, though he has more to lose personally.)
As for “no agreed benefit” - the benefit was continued US support in the short term until a peace is negotiated.

False:

Ukraine had asked for security guarantees from the US as part of any agreement.

The source said the draft of the deal includes a reference to "security", but does not explicitly set out the United States's role.

"There is a general clause that says America will invest in a stable and prosperous sovereign Ukraine, that it works for a lasting peace, and that America supports efforts to guarantee security."

There was no "deal". There was a contract where Ukraine would sign over minerals with nothing but vague platitudes. Ukraine has already been through that with Russia and denuclearization.

Source: https://www.barrons.com/news/ukraine-has-agreed-on-terms-of-...

After all this conflict has costed America something like 200 billion.

False:

To date, we have provided $66.5 billion in military assistance since Russia launched its premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and approximately $69.2 billion in military assistance since Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. We have now used the emergency Presidential Drawdown Authority on 55 occasions since August 2021 to provide Ukraine military assistance totaling approximately $31.7 billion from DoD stockpiles.

Source: https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-political-military-affairs/r...

European countries are not only providing less useful help to Ukraine, but also are extending loans rather than grants.

False:

Since the start of the war, the EU and our Member States have made available close to $145 billion in financial, military, humanitarian, and refugee assistance, of which 65% have been provided as grants or in-kind support and 35% in the form of highly concessional loans.*

Source: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/united-states-america...

But for American taxpayers this is a huge expense

False. The US GDP is nearly $30 trillion. Our military spending is nearly $1 trillion. This is a drop in the bucket to support an ally and defend democracy from an aggressive dictator. Additionally, our aid allows us to dispose of old armaments that are otherwise costly to destroy, and our aid to Ukraine comes with long-term purchasing agreements for American weaponry.

You are simply repeating disinformation.
The problem with ignoring the wealth of deeply tragic events occurring all over the world right now is that the source of many of them predicates our neoliberal-sanctioned way of life, with all of our excesses, a way of life of which we somehow feel deserving... Despite actively seeking ignorance of the destruction and oppression which provides our fancy little laptops and running shoes. Despite the refusal of most of us to meaningfully civically participate in a system which we have a moral duty to correct, even if it benefits us to leave it alone.

A world theory is nice to have, but unless someone is engaging with this sociopolitical landscape and at least attempting to rectify the wrongs that fuel their lifestyles, it comes off as incredibly privileged for someone to be able to just turn off the sad news while the rest of the world has to live it.
Felix Sater? I'm guessing he's not funded by US intel? But I really don't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater#Involvement_with_T...

Or "Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s security service, who rose up the ranks of the Soviet KGB"? Was US intel funding the KGB?
I love the approach

Would you like to join forces? Reach out to me: https://engageusers.ai/ecosystem.pdf
your argument sounds like "some people choose to do the dishes, some of us choose to let other people do the dishes".

Some of the "free choices" you claim people can make, will only be possible if some other people don't make those same choices.
Classic capitalist efficiency right there.
One thing I've noticed is that sometimes modern authors are too married to their big ideas, and neglect the rest of the story. The example I like to point to this is Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice. She has fantastic ideas, really interesting stuff. But the plot is awful. There's just no interesting story there, and the ideas aren't enough to carry the book so it winds up being a bore to read. And I don't find that to be the only case of such a thing.
I guess there are a broad range of perspectives and how loud people are is going to depend on their perspectives. Some reasons to dislike layoffs:

- visas may be dependent on employment, and can make changing jobs harder. In the United States, lots of visa rules are at the discretion of the government (eg how long one may live in the United States on an employer-sponsored visa while unemployed)

- the recent (and dot-com era) tech layoffs have been cyclical: many companies are in layoff-mode or hiring-spree mode at the same time. The time when many companies are not hiring is the worst time to be thrust into the job market

- people may have other job security worries – big tech companies tend to always be growing so it is worrying if they are laying people off instead of moving them from a failing business line to a new one

- in general some people may have a lot of anxiety about changes to income. If you are applying for new jobs while currently holding another, there is much less pressure than if you’re unemployed and need to find a new job (and possibly at a pay cut requiring outgoings to be reduced) before you run out of savings, especially if you don’t have much in savings compared to outgoings, which may be the case for some tech workers (some people spend a lot, or have much of their wealth tied up in property or have a family which requires spending more on eg housing or school fees). The much-worse consequences of failing to get a new job may increase the pressure/stress/discomfort

- this reveals an obvious truth about where the power lies in ‘engineering-focused’ companies and people don’t like it

- people can see a layoff as being like a firing and therefore be unhappy due to hurt pride (or worries about being less desirable in the job market)

- the lack of agency in a layoff is unpleasant. It is quite different from choosing to apply to other jobs.
The other replies to this comment aren't wrong but I feel they fail to take into account that (especially with startups): having someone watch you code during an interview is one of the the least stressful experiences the person will face with the company - once the job begins. Companies can't take on the risk of dealing with a bunch of passive-aggressive bullcrap once the real code reviews begin after the hire. Most tech job reqs contain the words "Excellent written and verbal communication skills" on purpose.

Imagine a person with a pilot's license refusing to fly tandem for an airline interview.
I just bought the whole set
and just did chapter one, will probably not keep up with doing all the assignments but I indend to at least skim them and get a rough feel to where I can find stuff if I ever need it.
Is it some kind of a disease to speak with people like that? It doesn't seem healthy to me.
Sure that was a plan, but it turns such movements of tanks proved very detrimental to Russia.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking if only X, but war is complicated. It’s possible Russia would have been worse off because they tried to use those VDV soldiers in a plan that disastrously failed. It’s slightly more likely that they would have been a small net benefit, but chances are things would look more or less identical today with or without them.
You've made yourself very understandable, thank you for explaining further. Doing a Francs to Dollars conversion, 80,000 francs is around 90,000 USD. This is much lower than it should be in my opinion. For comparison, Biden's proposed wealth tax would only affect people with $1 billion in assets or people $100 million in income for three consecutive years[1]. This is not only less than 1% of the country, it's less than .01% of the country. I think the asset numbers are a bit high but as proposed, only the Musks and the Zuckerbergs would be affected.

So the only issue I see with the Switzerland tax situation is that the numbers are too low and should be higher. The incentive should be to get people investing in the economy but not to a point of hoarding.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/whats-the-so-called-weal...
I think what GP is saying is if you zoom to the max level 15 there remain only 12 cells which come out as pentagons and all 12 of those are in the ocean (albeit sometimes very near shore). If you zoom to the global scale those 12 get inherited into ever larger parent cells which do cover large areas of the Earth though, as you found.
Had been advocating slower hiring & targeted reductions in a mid-sized tech firm for years after COVID, but it happened much faster under a newly appointed CEO.

Under new leadership, we executed 1/3 layoffs framed as a "culture refresh" and to briefly lift the stock. It wasn't about survival, we had plenty of cash, okayish growth and fantastic ARR - more about a new corp-backed CEO adopting a "do-it-like-Elon" approach.

Being mostly Europe-based but US-led, it turned into a massive and costly process (Americans don't exactly dig EU/UK workers rights - Spain was the biggest shock), stalling most productive activity for half a year. Internal trust and brand perception tanked. Since it began with ousting old execs, it quickly devolved into a blunt-force exercise with no internal knowledge, led by scared managers with percentage targets - many good people were cut. Managers hesitated to shield talent, given the "culture reboot" framing. I ended up personally cutting entire offices.

When the CEO's broader strategy failed (for reasons beyond layoffs), high performers started eyeing the exit. Ironically, many first saw the layoffs positively - COVID overhires had left uneven team dynamics, and some dead weight was on high salaries. But when it became clear there was no coherent plan, people began leaving.

That triggered a chain reaction. Senior hiring pipelines dried up (reputation matters, esp. when your top-talent is on the way out and is loud about it), and panic set in. Eventually, it turned into survival mode. The CEO didn't last long after that.
Conveniently, these certain social issues do not threaten elite interests like "traditional" leftism would.
A few centuries later but people did not think Copernicus was insane or a heretic.

> everyone knows man is the center of the universe and naturally the sun revolves around the earth

more at the bottom of the universe. They saw the earth as corrupt, closest to hell, and it was hell at the centre. Outside the earth the planets and stars were thought pure and perfect.
> he raised the debt by $5T last time and the proposed budget this time around is similarly raising the deficit further

Could you provide links to respectable non-subjective sources?
yes, it does and its realtime.
personally, I use typst locally, but
the online editor utilises WASM, so if I'm not mistaken, the rendering is real-time and handled by the front-end.
And on some Android devices it isn't even the default (e.g. Samsung Internet).
'We're losing our environmental history': The future of government information
I'm not saying the US is bound by international law to follow this verbatim. I am saying that our stance here is exactly the motivation required to promote nuclear proliferation to any country that demands others respect their borders.

Iran and North Korea now have no diplomatic path to nuclear disarmament. America has no credible homeland ICBM defense, either, so we're playing a very dangerous game.
Louder, for the people in the back.

This is a solid summary of what happened during the political shifting of the last (almost) ten years.

Unfortunate that this comment is so deep in the thread here.
Unfortunate click bait title for such an important topic. The various metrics quoted of why companies without layoffs appear to do better do not address the idea of underlying causes such as companies doing better do need mass layoffs while companies not doing as well likely to reduce expenses with actions to include layoffs.
Similar to that jets effectively would be grounded the second that the US decides they would not be exportable to a former ally, my guess is that not many would, in this scenario, believe a former US owned AWS region in Europe to operate completely autonomously to the degree that it can be “easily” nationalized.

But long before that, I believe there will be other noticeable effects.
As someone working in a medium sized European company, with substantial investments across private infrastructures, AWS, GCP and some Azure, I can testify to that since last couple of weeks the Public Cloud Exit strategies around having services being prepared is a very hot topic. This concerns both existing services preparations as well as enforcing standards and configurations for new services.
are you in the habit of saving bad LLM output to later reference in future Internet disputes?
I'm not sure everyone in a country "knowing" to drive on the same side of the road is an example of a Schelling point -- drivers are trained to do this.

Also not sure if fads, like "everyone orders a flat white", are instances of Schelling points, but that seems more reasonable as a Schelling point than driving on the same side of the road.

More generally, didn't really understand the point of this article. I guess the author is trying to say that as technology improves, people are gaining the ability to customize their experiences. Framing this as "anti-Schelling points" doesn't make sense to me - what shared game is being played? At its most game-like, you could say that people are just trying to maximize their own utility without worrying (or having to worry) about shared economy of scale.
People are overthinking this.

It's about power, and inculcating fear.

The CEO who "cuts" people at a company is like the Aztec priest who plunges the knife in atop the pyramid. The bloody spectacle is the point. It's as much about everyone who's watching as it is about the specific victim. It says, "I can do this to you. I can inflict pain without reprisal. Behold my power."

That's the whole point. Who is afraid of whom?

These people have the money. We depend on that money in order to live. They are reminding us of that fact. Now they demand obedience and harder work. 40 hours? Not enough. Elon sleeps at the office, why don't you? You have to be "super hardcore".

Partly, this is punishment for the challenge that was raised to CEO power from around 2016 to 2022. CEOs have been furious that they have felt fear of their workers. Now they want those workers to feel fear. In interviews, Andreesen has said almost exactly this, if not in quite so many words.

A similar theory is at the root of Fed policy, which hinges on the idea of a "wage price spiral". In their view, inflation is caused not by the accumulation of capital within a price-insensitive upper quantile, or by the constriction of economic chokepoints by consolidation, but by workers' ability to bargain for higher wages. The solution to inflation, they essentially come out and say, is to put workers in their place.

There is a united front here. It is about who fears whom, the end. It is about your emotional state. In a literal sense, it is terrorism.

So in that sense, yes, layoffs work. Are you financially independent? No? Are you afraid? Yes? Then they're working.
It’s being dismantled by an immigrant from South Africa with a dude who’s grandparents immigrated about 100 years ago from Germany who has an immigrant wife.
I have tried and failed to understand what is meant by "layoff due to overhiring", in the context of Software Engineering. When an engineer is employed in a successful project, they are incredibly profitable. A handful of engineers can write and maintain products worth millions of dollars. Big companies, which are the ones we discuss when talking about "overhiring" should be capable to find or create projects where an engineer will be at least modestly profitable. And having an employee creating a small amount of profit, who might eventually be moved to something that's better, is certainly more profitable than firing him and paying severance.

Note that here I'm talking about firing good performers because you have "too many" of them. Firing bad performers because the estimated cost of training them is not justified, I can understand.

The only explanation I found satisfying is that investors heuristically care about profit per capita(ppc) as well as total profit, and employees who don't produce _enough_ profit reduce ppc and thus investment to point the opportunity cost of firing them aligns. You'll make investors happy, which will raise valuation, more than what you are losing from the lost profit. But this is not "rational" in a full information economic sense. It's essentially the company virtue signaling that they are capable to fire if they had to, even at the cost of actual dollars.
It's largely kind of an international open-source effort, but there is a lot of crucial hardware that is only available from China, yes. Until this week I think Anduril was in a good position to become an alternative to China in two to four years, but this move strongly undermines their credibility overseas.
LOL that was the source? It was a random guy saying he recruited Donald Trump in the 1980s (possibly true), and then a bunch of conjecture based on appearances?
No collaborating evidence? No details on what he recruited Donald Trump for or what they used them for?

Thank you for a good laugh.
Can you cross the US using solar power only?
It seems like you're describing a scenario where you know at design-time which tools will be included. In that case the benefit of using MCP is less clear.

While you usually get tools that work out of the box with MCP (and thus avoid the hassle of prompting + testing to get working tool code), integrating external APIs manually often results in higher accuracy and performance, as you're not limited by the abstractions imposed by MCP.
Backdoor found in Espressif Bluetooth microcontroller
Thanks, but I'm not sure this deserves appreciation either. We already have plenty of life in this world. Perhaps so much so that the human life is negatively impacting other life, including other humans. I'd be much more appreciative of people making life better than making more of it.
Big tech employees are a fraction of all tech employers and employees. There’s problem so systematically pervasive that you see this across the board. Companies do not value long term retainment of employees up and down the size spectrum and it’s very clear in how they behave.

They don’t award experience and depth of knowledge in any way that is indicative of fostering retention
Dupe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369
Who cares about tech stocks? Have a look at what happens when the dollar loses it's status as reserve currency.
Ah yes, the only country in the world whose array of official foreign policies includes a "no limits partnership" with russia.

The statement of the named Chinese official is either a psyop, or he is, in the parlance of intelligence agencies, "going native". I'm leaning towards the former hypothesis.
Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes
Not disagreeing with your points (maybe taking issue with a few), but pretty sure no True Progressive would have won either.
This particular story is interesting because it's not just about Trump stopping tax payer money, it's about deactivating US made weapons the Europeans have paid for.
If you have engineering or product skills, now is the time to take a hard look in the mirror, inventory your interests and concerns, and figure out how to fight fire with fire.

We need to be proliferating alternative, humanistic, empathetic software in the world and putting it into people's hands. It's easier than ever for us to independently build a wealth of defensive infrastructure for the common people.
Do any of the current AI systems allow you to use voice?

I’d love to sometimes chat to an agent and dictate what I want to happen.

For one project there’s a lot of boilerplate and I imagine AI could be really fast for tasks like: “create a new controller called x”, “make a new migration to add a new field the to users table called x” etc
russia is huge, it has unexploited land and resources than it couldn't use up over a millenia

the reason they invaded is a combination of putin wanting to build a legacy and not wanting former USSR countries on their border doing better than russia due to liberal democracy
What's a good way to learn Gleam? In college I would learn new languages/libraries/concepts through projects, but these days I have too many projects already.

I don't expect I'll ever use Gleam at work, but the language does look very appealing to me and fun to use.
... have you ever been to Europe? A failed state - keep drinking that Fox News koolaid.
in usage yes, in terms of active development its a very different story
Yes, you can choose a random intervention schedule and also ABAB schedules with configurable number of phases and phase length.

Reflect integrates with Whoop and so can act as an augmented or relacement Whoop diary feature.