skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if,
from the company's perspective,
if lays off all the "right" people,
some of those people will be "wrong" from the point of view of other people on the team.
Maybe the company didn't value a certain person,
for corporate or HR reasons,
but there's always a chance that person was a valued team member for human reasons.

Layoffs will lead to people leaving,
regardless of how surgical or random they are.
America is pulling out. That is the only reason that NATO is ending.
Funny, because I have the same feeling toward the "I never get it to work" comments. You don't need any special prompt engineering so that's definitely not it.
You could, and hear me out because I know it could be super difficult to do…move one arm a little bit and wipe away some of the fogging so you can see where you are going to pull over…

Why are people so exceptional lazy that they would put other people at risk while they wait for a machine to do something for them, rather than reaching up and wiping away some of the condensation so they can safely operate the vehicle? Are people really this astonishingly incompetent?
"It can break people" can be said about all sorts of common things in society.
It's a control you only need when the car is turned on and standing still. The rest of the time it's just taking up space/material/attention. Sounds pretty suitable for a touch screen to me, though I'd probably be mystified for some time stepping into an unfamiliar car that does this.
> I only see war mongers commenting here

There's a fast way to end the war. The war can end tomorrow. All Russia needs to do is get out of Ukraine. All of it.

Easy to do, simple to achieve. No more Russians need to die.
It always sounded like the boondoggle to end all boondoggles.
It does feel like a rubicon has been crossed recently, where most things I like are going behind paywalls, and many smaller outfits are heavily pushing Patreon or the like.

Anecdotally, I’m paying subscriptions for news sites (mainstream and niche) and podcasts I would not have had a few years ago. I subscribed to YouTube, which I thought I’d never do!

I’m not sure what to make of this. Microtransactions and subscriptions powering creators has been a dream of many people for a long, long time - at least since the 90s. So maybe this is great? But even if it is, something has been lost too.
I wonder whether a high-quality site could gain value for its own ad inventory by trying to minimize the extent to which it leaks retargeting information.
It would very much so be a stopgap. Long term it's a security risk, but it's also a risk to not be able to fly your plane tomorrow.
So why couldn’t one make a malicious iot device/tool to do just that? I’m kinda confused on the need for access via some other exploit. (I have little domain knowledge on Bluetooth) - when you say scan/spoof/attack any near by device, is it ones that the target is already connected to? Sorry for dumb question
If.

They have less than 30 airframes, probably 30-40% have some level of operational airworthiness.

The Russians get a lot of glazing on social media about military prowess. The reality is they’re fighting a tiny, poor country, got their asses kicked early on when nobody was really helping Ukraine substantially, mostly by virtue of their own incompetence.

The Russians version of the USAF is their information operations. They’ve helped to nurture right wing shitheads in the US for decades culminating in two freakshow presidential administrations. They’ve done the same in Germany in the former GDR and in the UK with the leave wankers.
This has been my experience as well. Breaking problems into smaller problems where you can easily verify correctness works much better than having it solve the whole problem on its own.
I don't know that that follows.
> Per TFA, this impacts F-16s NOT F-35s

Title it about F16s

> Per TFA, the US is not actively “turning off” any piece of equipment

From the article: "the Trump administration has cut off vital support for their [the F16s'] jamming capabilities"

What article are you reading?
If the layoffs are taking a company which could be stably growing to one which is going downhill - in that case the execs actually hurting their long term compensation.

But i get it, it's like junk food for execs, easy to do, crisp in the action (even if not in the effects). But consumed carelessly its bad for company health
A stressed mind is made more prone to rigid thinking, mouse study finds
This medievil view of Europe as vassals instead of allies is why US is about to get a medievil style government again.
Most Gleam code is backend agnostic, but code that does something BEAM specific like OTP or Erlang FFI is only available when targeting the BEAM and JS ffi is only available when targeting JS. You can also provide two implementations of a function, one for each backend if you want to target both.
Exactly this: the US is not providing software updates anymore. The planes fly just fine. It is going to be tricky if they decide to stop hardware support - meaning spare parts.
So, F-35 Kindle edition.
What, someone cannot utter an opinion anymore?
Good point, but I wonder if there was something in the agreement between the US and the Netherlands when those were originally sold.
In Europe where most countries are notoriously hard to fire people they don't do layoffs like that "just to be safe", they instead just cut-back on hiring more people during though times.

It has an impact of morale, but not nearly as bad I imagine. I wonder if that is one of the reasons why Europe companies tend to be smaller companies, while US tend to be bigger. Expansion is easier when you can fire at any time, smaller companies are more likely to succeed if they don't over-hire and keep talent around.
> People commenting here keep speaking as though Americans all decided to do this. Trump didn't even win the majority of votes of those who voted.

True, but if Americans do not stop it, they own it.

Nobody cares much if you meant to make an accident, you should have been more careful - especially if you run away from the scene.
This is not true.

When I was active on reddit, I advocated for nuclear energy using math and physics. One time, I wrote a comment calculating energy vs used land vs used infrastructure, including mining and logistics, to show how radically more efficient nuclear is than any other power source. It got little / no engagement.

That comment triggered me to check pushshift and see if I was banned for some reason. Turns out, every comment I had ever made about nuclear technology was shadow banned, even relatively innocuous ones. This was universally across all of reddit.

They don't allow advocating for nuclear energy, what else don't they allow?

One time, I wrote a historical warning about how the rich don't generally do well with massive wealth inequality during times of revolution. This was flag as violent content and I got a warning saying I would be banned if I did it again.

This was roughly ~5 years ago. How much do you think the noose has tightened since then?

Keep in mind, my comments were well thought out, posted in good faith, and respectful. I was not trying to hurt people or prove them wrong, just truth seeking and truth sharing.

It became clear to me truth is no longer allowed on mass platforms.
Why do you say pseudo blinding, it seems like it is blind in that the author doesn’t know if he is taking the test or not.

Now you can argue that there isn’t enough time between samples, or he needs more subjects but he was blind to whether he was taking it that day or not.
> We received over 2,500 job applications. Fewer than 100 filled a form with open-ended questions. About 15 went on to complete a reasonably simple real-world challenge... Where are all the self-directed learners?

How does the author jump from low participation rates to a lack of "self-directed learners"?

This is a total non-sequitur. You're running an interview process, not a MOOC or something.

The more I read the post, the more it looks like an ad for trying to get employees via HN.
Depends a lot on what context you feed it. If you have decent internal documentation and can feed it the right files, it tends to do quite well for me, often needing corrections or style fixes. To use it most effectively, you have to know the vast majority of the code that you want it to write ahead of time. It saves time typing, looking up methods, wrangling APIs appropriately, and sometimes it surprises me by working around an edge case or writing an appropriate abstraction that I hadn't considered, but most of the time, it's mostly saving time on typing and tedious gluing, even with the corrections I make and hallucinations I have to correct.

Maybe it will be at some point, but it is not yet a reasonable substitute for having to think, plan, or understand the code you are working with and what needs to be done. It's also still more expensive than it needs to be to use on my free time (I'm happy to burn company money on it at work, though).
If you call yourself Mr. Worldwide you can’t really say no.
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
The article pretty clearly explains how important the missile jamming feature is, and that Ukraine has to switch to other planes and equipment.
At my current job, where I’ve been for 14 of those 21 years, I feel simultaneously underappreciated and overpayed.

This is a really, really good problem to have. In my opinion, you should look for fulfillment elsewhere in life.
I guess you've got to be flexible depending on circumstances. I mean NATO only really got going after Europe elected Hitler and now we have another iffy electoral result to work with.
The article doesn't actually explain why. It claims that they don't work and supplies statistical evidence. But why don't they work? I've only really seen speculation...
Yup that's right, you can't use Erlang code on JS runtimes or JS code on Erlang runtimes. Most library code doesn't use either, so it's usable on both.

Elixir is also quite a lovely language even when not using any BEAM specific functionality! I used it a lot for writing regular sequential programs.
I'll put in a word for Kyocera laser printers. They have many of Brother printer's good features, including Kyocera provides a PPD file for CUPS. I did not have to do a frustrating one-button WiFi setup, I cabled my P2235dw in. It received DHCP config and has worked ever since.
The Google tenure stat is misleading because it was taken at a time when the company was growing 20% per year. The actual statistic worth looking at was how long a person who is leaving had been with the company on average at the time of leaving or what percentage of the overall headcount leaves per year. While I don't feel comfortable sharing those numbers, I can confidently say they lower than the industry norm.
The agenda that Trump advanced during campaigns was not "cut ourselves off from the rest of the world". Do his supporters really want this? What's the rationale he advances for this stance and the tarrifs?

What would a president who was beholden to Russians do once elected? I mean -- what's the point of provoking Canada, of all countries? Canada as the 51st US state would be the new most populous state and would cause a huge change in US politics. Not to mention it could only arrive through conquest. So why even propose it if not merely to cause a rift?
I deleted mine in 2016 when I deleted most of my socials. Made a new one last summer because I am helping a friend with business development and wanted to read people's profiles.
Anti-ORM sentiment is a senior developer red flag. It indicates pretty clearly that an engineer views their work more as an art project, rather than valuing achieving the actual business goals in any reasonable time frame.
Yeah, it should not be hard! Cheap hardware is orders of magnitude faster than it was in the 2000s, and we could run dynamic forums written in janky inefficient Perl on it, and serve thousand's of requests a second.
OP took 200 mg. Tea contains 5–20 mg and people commonly report beneficial effects from tea. If 5 mg is enough for some people then surely 200 mg would be enough for anyone?
There are two. Russia is not a super power.

Putin has nukes, apart from that Russia is a pretty irrelevant country.

More like this: Two super powers, and a terror nukes nation.
I meant that I'm for it, just not to go myself, haha (not that I'd have any chance of being chosen). It's likely to be a high risk, high adventure endeavour.
There is a theory about large complex systems which seems to be true in biology and maybe applies here. Intentional downsizing during times of stress works when it preferentially targets defective or dysfunctional components of the larger system. The system improves because the worst parts were removed.

Layoffs don't help companies unless they can reliably remove the worst parts. At most large public companies, the cancerous bureaucracy protects itself and the parts removed are closer to median performers, or even above-median performers. The system gets smaller and less efficient.

Layoffs can be necessary to get the company to fit through a certain sized hole (in the form of cash flow constraints), but it won't be better at what it does on the other side of the hole, it will just continue to exist.

Layoffs work when there is an accurate discriminating mechanism for who stays and goes. The best example of this (outside of private equity turn-arounds that are not widely known) is Twitter. Outside engineering talent was brought in as an oracle, immune to Twitter's bureaucracy. It reliably discriminated between value-adding and not. As a result, the company became incredibly lean and even consistently profitable.
A bit unrelated, but try having l theanine after a night of drinking: it makes you wake up fresh and without a hangover because it speeds up alcohol processing and it metabolites by the liver and also prevents alcoholic liver damage. Me and all my friends who tried it say “i wake up totally fresh after theanine”. There’s also a study confirming this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16141543/
US, China, who else are you calling a superpower? Cause Russia is not a superpower.
I'd expect the original agreements that were put in place--both the ones with the subcontractors as well as the purchase agreements--are quite strict on what you can do with the plane. Trying to reverse engineer software (the policy was that no one gets access to the original source code for the F-35[0], at least back in 2009) is probably a no-go under those agreements.

The original article suggests that Ukraine may end up having to replace the electronic countermeasures hardware to get around this in the future, so I'd expect any attempts to "un-brick"/work around the lack of support will eventually be along those lines, even if it results in some performance degradation.

No matter how they approach this, it's going to be a horrifically difficult and expensive task.

0. https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-to-withho...
Vacations should not be enabled by credit cards.
> Per TFA, this impacts F-16s NOT F-35s

But this should absolutely worry F-35 operators.
I need to be vague, because lets just say CRUD apps are nearly a solved problem even in some very technical fields.

Not much changes between billing models, hr models, even custom financial models aren't THAT custom these days.

Consolidation of best practices across diverse technical fields has happened rapidly fast in the last 10 years.

So the AI catches things, business managers, project managers, business analysts, and programmers miss during initial project scoping and design.
No, but them taking and holding the airport close to Ukraine's seat of government would have done a lot.
Without going into the merits of this war, NATO - which was supposedly a defensive alliance - did indeed attack Kosovo in an offensive.

So NATO has demonstrated they can be whatever they want when the right time comes. NATO intervention in Kosovo to “liberate it” is also being used to morally justify Russian’s invasion of eastern Ukraine, since from a Russian standpoint it’s exactly the same scenario and they are “liberating” the Russian population in those Ukrainian territories.
Work is not just something one has to do in exchange for the allowance to do more meaningful non-work things, or at least it shouldn't. Your view sounds like escapism.

To work is to take part in the economy, ie in the collective endeavor to produce a better life.

Now of course, our modern world being based on decoupling the work from its output, maybe I'm the one sounding like an escapist right now :)
Observations from Big Corp
Nah, Swedish aerotech already out matches both Russia in terms of production capacity, arguably 6th if you ignore stealth, weapons range and weapons reliability. And already beats China in terms of technology, they're just now producing 5th gen airframes with copied tech, where Sweden isn't just following.

The EU without the US can already produce 5th gen, the selling point of the F35 was 6th gen compatible with 7th gen (NGAD).

Russia is still flying more 4th then 5th gen fighters, because they can't get their bricks off the ground. Why would the EU want to copy the same mistakes of their enemy?
> Right now every buyer of American kit is feverishly evaluating non-US alternatives.

they are doing what they should've been doing this whole time?
Gwern has a large collection of blinded self-experiments. The only reason I suspect it’s not a more valued resource is that his results often contradict the popular wisdom in supplement communities.

His experiments with magnesium showed negative results: https://gwern.net/nootropic/magnesium#experiment-1

He tried LSD microdosing when the internet was convinced it was a miracle, but found no benefit and some concerning negative effects: https://gwern.net/nootropic/nootropics#lsd-microdosing

Contrast those results with some of the unbelievably positive anecdotes you read about magnesium, fish oil, B-vitamins, or even LSD micro dosing causing life changing positive effects.

It’s well known that placebo effect is a strong driver of perceived effects of most supplements. The placebo effect becomes much stronger when people are primed to expect large effects. Not coincidentally, the people who report the most dramatic effects are often those who consume large amounts of podcasts, YouTube videos, or social media influencer content about those supplements. If someone listens to a 3-hour Huberman Lab episode where he explains how a “protocol” or supplement will do amazing things while using (and frequently misusing) lots of neurotransmitter names and underpowered mouse studies, that person might become so primed to expect those effects that they’re nearly guaranteed to happen. In a weird way, that means it does actually work for them, but it’s not necessarily because the supplant is producing the outcome. It’s because they’re so deeply primed to expect the outcome (e.g. feeling more energy, relaxing to fall asleep) that they placebo themselves into making it happen.
Ah this clears it up for me. No wonder OP’s results were the way they were. Next.js uses “fast” words to describe “slow” processes.
I keep wondering how this kind of scenario would have played out had Johnson had been elected. The libertarian party always felt like a few good arguments run by a pack of nut jobs. I'd love to see the movie of that timeline though. Just to compare.
>Apparently not jumping through corporate drone hoops, for a chance to talk with your company.

Ok, you're right that the article is contradicting itself. However, the article is correct as well, our last hiring round had the challenge: "tell us your favorite color in your application". Out of hundreds of applications, we had maybe 5 who said anything about a color.

Job seekers are weaponizing applications, and are lamenting that the application process is being weaponized against them. It sucks on both sides of the table.
Can't install it due to outdated glibc now. How's the download manager today? Can it at least pause and resume (+from different source)?
There is also nitter.poast.org. There sites are possibly better than twitter.com or x.com, as more of the thread is made visible to non-users.
Yes, your brain's main goal is survival. You don't need to be happy to live.

Hedonism is a dead end. The best way is to make up some higher meaning for oneself, be it creating a better world, raising a child, spirituality, being an artist or whatever. You concerns should be bigger than yourself but still manageable.
I did.

The article makes no claims about dreams or the relationship between dreams and sleep quality.
> you’re the king of a very small hill, and one that will eventually be washed away by rising sea levels. If this is the case, you need to migrate to higher ground before it’s too late. But many people will hesitate, fatally, because they don’t like the idea of getting their feet wet.

So true in the Age of AI.
What happened in Germany that allowed the US to trust them again?
comparing war-mongering to a living tree is especially ugly language. Wolf-packs pissing on trees, more like it
What Makes Technology Good?
>Why imply it’s the worker’s fault for their own mismanagement?

I'm not sure how you got the impression that OP implied it's the worker's fault. If during the 2021-2022 boom, some startup hired a bunch of junior programmers for $200k/yr, I think describing those people as "people who couldn't add enough value to justify keeping them employed" is a fair assessment of the situation. It doesn't imply that it's the junior programmer's fault, any more than it's not my "fault" if I'm asked to play a musical instrument with no prior experience, it sounding terrible, and people asking me to stop.
To do it effectively, you need an API key and a tool like Aider: https://aider.chat/
Well he’s been very vocal about NATO countries increasing their defense contributions. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the US needs to sell all the weapons.
> Where are all the self-directed learners?

Doing something other than filling out some esoteric BS form. These are possibly the worst kind of job applications in my opinion (coming from someone who has filled some out in my time).
Post the rest of the quote. If I recall he was warning against alienating an ally. He didn't want the quote to become true.
These systems are much more advanced than how you perceive them.
> Would wake up with a stuffy nose and very dry mouth

I would suggest people look for this symptom first before jumping onto nasal corticosteroids.

Fluticasone and others have low systemic absorption and low side effects in theory, but there are several studies that found some suppression of the HPA axis similar to taking small doses of oral corticosteroids like prednisone. The effect is small, but I wouldn’t suggest trying it out as a 1-month experiment unless you have specific symptoms of stuffy nose in the mornings.
Never used it, but a more aggressive fitbit: https://shop.pavlok.com/
Do they still have the noisy, loud, nerve-wracking power supply clicking?

Years ago researching laser printers I chose a Kyocera. "All those people in the reviews whining about the sounds must be real snowflakes."

No. They were right. I got a Brother soon after.
The agenda was to leave Ukraine and to have Europe pay for its own defence which is what’s happening here. Nothing more, nothing less. Don’t let yourself get manipulated by Reddit-tier arguments.
The fun thing about words like "property rights" is it has become a form of doublespeak. When someone brings it up in modern usage, they are almost always talking about how an individual, group, or entity can somehow exert control over property they don't own.
The money is coming from increased debt.
This conflict may be a disaster for Ukraine, but how is this conflict a disaster for Europe?

Is Europe going to ratchet military spending at Putins's bluff?