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Not true from the anecdotes, and admittedly just anecdotes, that I've seen. Top performers get some token, Approved by Legal™, <2% cut to avoid it being classified as a low performer firing, with a larger but still proportional percent coming from middle performers, and the the vast majority of the layoff percent consisting of low performers.

That’s perfectly fine, imo?

There’s clearly a disadvantage to not having any meritocratic considerations during the hiring process and it will eventually come back to bite the hiring company. That said, everyone has free will and should be completely free to hire whomever they want for whatever reasons they want.

Why not? This is reality and how the world works. Attractive men and women get promoted more easily, get better service in bars and restaurants, etc… to infinity.

This idea that it’s more worthwhile to wail at the sky about how the world works rather than acknowledge it and seek to take advantage of other areas of life where the scales are tipped in your favor fucking mystifies me.

This is the hand they have been dealt. The solution is to detach your motivation and happiness from caring about how you are perceived. Not wishing the real world was complicit in your denial of reality. The only person whose opinion on yourself which holds any weight is your own.

Why do you think anyone, female or otherwise, being demoralized means something “wrong” is occurring? So silly to form a moral/ethical framework on something as intangible, fickle, and culturally influenced as people’s feelings.

Also, comments like “stanning for these creeps” are disrespectful and have no place on HN, imo.

Does anyone know of a halfway decent _truly_ uncensored search engine? One that’s free from “morality” censorship at a minimum and ideally also resistant to DMCAs, etc…

I’m currently doing two startups: one with rapid consulting-esque development and one more long term B2B one. I would 100% be using Phoenix for the the majority of the projects in the former if it had static typing. Have been a fan since release but, for me, it’s a hard requirement for anything that isn’t a personal project

Multiple lawyers have dropped him.

Sounds like a great way to get those two minutes to turn into two hours from here on out and all your calls “accidentally missed.”

Fwiw I disagree with it being unhealthy and I view myself the same way. It IS lucky that my only hobby/interest I’ve ever really had also happens to be something that pays so well.

Nothing unhealthy about recognizing one’s luck and being correspondingly grateful for it.

It shouldn’t… It would be free on github pages, netlify, and others. Cloudflare should make anywhere else effectively free, as well. It’s likely a decision to reuse whatever existing hosting/deploy strategy he uses for the rest of his site or just apathy towards spending however much is being spent.

I'm fairly confident that that percentage is actually 99.x%

Agreed with everything except the first sentence. People's subjective judgements of normal have been warped because most people are fat. Hell, 42% are obese. Everyone is the captain of their own life but at people should at least be objective and honest with themselves and not try to dismiss reality as a coping mechanism, even if it is an unconscious one.

I'm pretty sure this isn't true. Just take a look at data of American BMI over time[1]. I don't think you can explain that away as "people are tall" (BMI takes height into account) and muscular, with a straight face -- very, very few people have BMIs over 25 due to muscle and very, very, very, _very_ few people have BMIs over 30 due to muscle. I think most people's natural judgement of overweight and obese are correct and for the vast majority of people it accurately buckets them into overweight/obese classifications because they are.

[1]https://conscienhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BMI-Tr...

"The giant bag of money" has been a thing for a long time -- it predates whatever branding issues people perceive them having lately.

Learning about nominative determinism is commonly one's first peek behind the curtain.

Well that's a strawman. That is not a belief I hold and no where did I claim or imply I did. There's nothing in my comment, or in von Neuman's stance that I'm aware of that, that endorses world domination. I also don't see any reason to evoke the emotions associated with the word genocide either...

What I believe is that preventing development and possession of nuclear weapons by other nations would very likely lead to less deaths over time than nuking Russia would have. Are you really not concerned that we as a species may eventually wipe ourselves out? I am.

If your goal is preservation of Earth and not the human species then yes, that may be a sound action.

> who knows what's best for everyone based on their own personal views and experiences, who takes no input from anyone else, because everyone else in the room is an idiot who doesn't understand the genius of their position...

We're talking about von Neuman here. If I was to find myself in conflict with an assessment of his I would default to assuming I was likely wrong. From a statistical point of view anyone who wouldn't do the same is wrong to do so and ego, personality, or some other "thing" is likely getting in their way. It's not a big deal to cede to him imo.

And should nuclear war ever occur? ~70 years is a relatively short time frame. Check back with me in another 200 and let me know if your comment still holds.

I fail to see how pushing for a strategy that, from a game theory point of view, was sound makes him a lunatic.

Plenty of people don't view the preservation of life as the be all end all and if that strategy had been followed and it had led to a world where only the United States had ever been allowed to develop nuclear weapons I see a very easy argument for it being the more long-term humane option.

Edit: who's more of a lunatic: the man who presses a button that kills a million people and saves a billion or the man that doesn't? I'd argue the latter.

SA always has struck me as self-important normies who don't think they're normies. If anything can claim to be the catalyst for modern internet culture it's irc + 2chan (for actually birthing 4chan).

There’s no good general torrent site, don’t mislead people. Specialized, yes. General, no.

While I truly do appreciate the cooperative tone, as someone who never intends to set foot in an office again except by choice (outside of onboarding), I think this is a rare event that has reduced the power asymmetry and should be taken advantage of.

How do we make execs more comfortable? Simple, we make it so they have no choice to be uncomfortable with. Allow full remote or lose a significant portion of your workforce in the middle of a hiring crunch with already existing insane hiring demand. This may not play at Apple, for example, but it’s what I’ve already seen play out at my company (including for me specifically) and I see no reason it wouldn’t work at any non-FANG. It’s not a bluff or bluster, I’d leave if my company doubled down on forcing people back on a hybrid schedule and truthfully I may leave anyway over frustration with their initial attempts to do so despite exempting me and others.

My team and office is in a very precarious position with two of our best engineers having left over the initial attempts to force hybrid. I truly think if it was forced again my the fallout may be fatal for my team.

I've used bubbletea (and seen used in many recent golang TUI apps) https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

There are times this makes sense to do (mapping an enum to a db without enum support eg mssql) but this isn’t how I’d do it.

Personally I use stringer[1] to handle all the string generation and then implement the valuer and scanner interfaces on that type. Boom transparent mapping between useful values and their corresponding db representation without having to write so much boilerplate.

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer

Thank you!

Please do not leave comments like this without _some_ elaboration. Linking to a one hour long podcast is not sufficient, especially without so much as a timestamp.

The internet allows for mass influence of the population by third party actors. This is largely China vs Russia. I have trouble not playing this out at scale and drawing the conclusion the internet inherently invalidates a lot of the assumptions democracy (as in the American Experiment™ version of it) requires to function. I hope I'm wrong and overly pessimistic.

Idk, could be but given some anti-mainland posts I've seen from them I lean towards non-native speaker from HK

Twitch ads, including surestream ones, are blockable/bypassable.