skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money does make some things easier. People make job choices based on:

- lifestyle - how much does this job affect my work/life balance? Do I have to travel far / work late?

- challenge - how hard is it? Will I enjoy the work?

- impact - what's the mission of the company? What am I contributing to?

- salary - how does the job fit with my financial goals?

- prestige - can I talk about / be celebrated for what I do?

Possibly other factors as well. But if everything is equal, but one job pays more than another (and if it's Jane Street, one year's work might be 3 years' work somewhere else) then it makes sense to take it.
Thanks for writing and sharing this

I do not doubt your central claim (that the ranking is derived from merely counting search results, as lampooned by the xkcd example), but I'm curious how are you sure of this, or where is it documented?
Reddit will be telling me this split is just like a dividend too.
It also sounds a bit like email bang paths. In the old (UUCP) days, you could manually route your email: host1!host2!host3!joe
> Use One Big Database.

> Seriously. If you are a backend engineer, nothing is worse than breaking up your data into self contained service databases, where everything is passed over Rest/RPC. Your product asks will consistently want to combine these data sources (they don't know how your distributed databases look, and oftentimes they really do not care).

This works until it doesn't and then you land in the position my company finds itself in where our databases can't handle the load we generate. We can't get bigger or faster hardware because we are using the biggest and fastest hardware you can buy.

Distributed systems suck, sure, and they make querying cross systems a nightmare. However, by giving those aspects up, what you gain is the ability to add new services, features, etc without running into scotty yelling "She can't take much more of it!"

Once you get to that point, it becomes SUPER hard to start splitting things out. All the sudden you have 10000 "just a one off" queries against several domains that are broken by trying carve out a domain into a single owner.
The most notable thing about this model is that they use fewer parameters (20 billion) than many of the other LLM which makes it less resource intensive to train and easier to run.

They also use an encoder-decoder architecture, which is common for machine translation, unlike most large language models which are decoder-only.

https://community.libretranslate.com/t/alexatm-a-20b-multili...
We were using 500+gb of memory at peak and were expecting that to grow. If I remember we didn't go with Polars because we needed to run custom apply functions on DataFrames. Polars had them but the function took a tuple (not a DF or dict) which when you've got 20+ columns makes for really error prone code. Dask and Spark both supported a batch transform operation so the function took a Pandas Dataframe as input and output.
My version is a zero 2 with a humidity sensor controlling a dehumidifier via the tradfri plug. Works great.

Time to first graph was quickest with influxdb for me.

Zerotier and nats.io connect the things.

I want to sprinkle some pico w's around for door/window position monitoring.
Sibling comment mentions using the stems of grain crops as natural drinking straws. This was done, in the past, and is the origin of the word "straws" for the modern plastic variety.

Historically, straws were also made from waxed paper.

The issue isn't that plastic straws were banned, it is that plastic straws were banned and no additional guidance was provided e.g., mandating paper straws with natural wax coatings. This combined with corporate greed led to companies putting out the most profitable product within constraints of the law-- health and environmental safety be damned.

The first paragraph of the following article describes both types of historical drinking straws:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/manufacturing/news-wires-white-...

edit: clarity
“Silhouette of a robot in a field of grain staring at a sunset” consistently produces brilliant images for me.
I wish so bad that SpriteKit on iOS was cross-platform.

I'd recommend Godot. Unity's new ownership gives me pause to ever use it again.

Native is always best for longevity.
I recommend staying away from street dealers. There was a huge influx of NBOx compounds sold as LSD blotters since 2017 (apparently there was a global LSD shortage around that year, and IIRC they're cheaper to produce?) Their safety profile is not well-understood but it looks like it's riskier than the (very safe) LSD due to their vasoconstriction effects, and fatal doses aren't that high compared to active doses, unlike LSD which has a huge buffer.

Also people tend to describe their trips as being subjectively less pleasant.

And please, if you have to resort to dealers, invest in a cheap testing kit. You might be lucky and find a nearby non-profit that can not only do a cheap reactive test, but also a purity test.

Stay safe out there.

EDIT: Sibling comments also mention compounds like 1P-LSD sold online. I'd still test those even if bought from reputable vendors.

Anyways, their safety profiles aren't really that well understood either. They're suspected to be just metabolized into LSD and therefore pretty safe, but they're very new (~2015) and after all they're research chemicals (or rather, not-yet-researched chemicals). In comparison LSD had been known for decades and it's pretty well understood.

I guess this is what prohibition leads to...
With the job market still being as strong as it is, cutting pay like that would be a disaster.

If my employer told me they were cutting my pay by 20% one morning I would already be out doing interviews by the afternoon.

With layoffs you at least control what talent you are giving up in exchange for a smaller payroll. With across the board salary reduction, your most talented employees will get up and leave and the people who remain will be demoralized and poorly motivated.
> splitting off services when it becomes apparent they need to change at a different pace from the main body

yes - this seems to get lost, but the microservice argument is no different to the bigger picture software design in general. When things change independently, separate and decouple them. It works in code and so there is no reason it shouldn't apply at the infrastructure layer.

If I am responsible for the FooBar and need to update it once a week and know I am not going to break the FroggleBot or the Bazlibee which are run by separate teams who don't care about my needs and update their code once a year, hell yeah I want to develop and deploy it as a separate service.
Same thing I would say.

In my view the difference between a tech company and a non-tech company is what percentage of the company's value is stored in the intellectual property rights of their software. The higher that number the more of a 'tech' company you are.

In non-tech companies software engineering is a cost center and at tech companies things like operations are cost centers. In both cases you need them for the business to function but they don't deliver lasting business value on their own so you look to minimize costs.

Many non-tech roles have the problem of being easily replaceable while many tech role have the problem of being expensive.
A power issue and networking issues are not mutually exclusive, it could very well be that networking equipment is on a separate power delivery circuit from the actual servers.
Investment comes with risk - that's why you can make money at it. I think it's fair to say if this business is struggling it'd be more equitable to share the excess compensation with rank and file employees that are being deprived of their livelihood but unfortunately they likely have no "right" to that compensation with how various employee contracts are structured. It's usually the case in situations like this that the CEO getting a golden parachute is less expensive to the company than trying to get out of paying them. Companies, of course, would prefer a world in which no one had to be paid so all this thread is sort of a socialist pipedream where the havenots might actually get treated fairly since if the money wasn't going to the CEO it'd likely end up straight back in the pockets of investors.
Capitalism is just a tool. When local government and charities are setting up emergency heated spaces[0] because people can't afford to heat their homes at time when profits have tripled for some energy companies then that tool needs adjusting.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/councils-...
In adolescents, it's exposure to violence and/or family members' drug abuse. The latter is very unsurprising.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-13544-003

>Major findings were (a) adolescents who had been physically assaulted, who had been sexually assaulted, who had witnessed violence, or who had family members with alcohol or drug use problems had increased risk for current substance abuse/dependence; (b) posttraumatic stress disorder independently increased risk of marijuana and hard drug abuse/dependence; and (c) when effects of other variables were controlled, African Americans, but not Hispanics or Native Americans, were at approximately 1/3 the risk of substance abuse/dependence as Caucasians. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
I responded to the Daily Mail link. The two articles are not the same at all. The Daily Mail’s report is both reported by an anonymous “relative”, and as such is in fact hearsay.

Furthermore, both articles acknowledge that 1) Sergia has not requested retirement benefits, 2) This causes fear because nobody else has done it yet 3) Sergia completely denies the unsubstantiated accusation that she changed her gender for retirement reasons. There is zero evidence presented in either article that Sergia’s claims are untrue. Why are you choosing to believe an accusation despite the lack of evidence? And why do you think it’s okay to dox someone publicly before anything has even happened, regardless of their motivation?

The title and the content of the Daily Mail article is pure speculation, not bona fide news in any way, shape or form. You are free to defend sleazy tabloid reporting as news, but that’s on you, not me.

And why does this matter, even if it is true? This one single report doesn’t represent a pattern, and doesn’t prove anything about anyone else. If the best we can do is report on one exaggerated case from South America, that tends to support the idea above that this is largely fear and a talking point, and not a statistical reality.
Some company will always need a person who can actually make things work, definitely.
How are exchanges going to agree to rollback after they have already exchanged those tokens with others? Someone has to burden the loss, so it might as well be the original blockchain that got exploited.
You've more or less described Wirth's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
You’re probably right, I was thinking about amount of code in actual production use and limiting to languages from after 2002, but some people clearly had different things in mind.
Facebook/Meta does not have owners, so any two people in the company can land a change.
> And, yeah, no benefits isn't great. But I have also found that paying out of pocket for dental, etc. is better than buying a plan for myself.

The idea is you scale your rate to include enough for a benefits package.

Or they use a POE/EOR service, that's possible in Canada I think.

Either way, incorporation still has some advantages, one being that you time shift your pay as needed. It can make it easier to subcontract people too. And it's easy, and only costs a few hundred dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access <- origin of C-c/C-v and other shortcuts for copy/paste and related activities.

The date on that publication is 1987. So what you're asking for is, why didn't people in the 1970s anticipate this future de facto standard?
If anyone had any notion that the markets were efficient or rational in any way regarding the actual underlying value of the companies they purport to represent, I certainly hope that notion didn’t survive the pandemic - I’m not sure what world stocks were pricing in over the last two years, but it didn’t pass even a cursory smell test.
The memo wasn't "leaked"by cnbc. Unless it was given to cnbc confidentiality. It was either leaked by an employee to cnbc, or more likely it was given to cnbc by an executive.
Free tier is for evaluation purpopses, what do you expect otherwise?
Well, you'd ask the question "why weren't they doing it before?". If the answer is "they didn't know about it", you might expect them to keep doing it. But not otherwise.

Day trading has had a lot of popular awareness for a long time.
It's simple to say we'd be more charitable if we had incomes 1,000x or more our current annual compensation, but I do genuinely wonder if I'd be different. Would I be greedy, would I care about doing right to the laid off employees-- it's hard to imagine how crossing that bridge might change people.
Any institution that invested in "home workout" stuff deserves to lose every dollar they put in, how could you not see that coming.
"With big money comes big responsibility, so I took that responsibility and I'm going to take more of it next year. As a result of my increased responsibility, 25% of our staff will be given new opportunities this year and 25% more will see even more opportunities next year. Stay tuned."
> as their primary investing platform

:%s/investing/speculation/g

Very few people use RH as 'investing'. Those will be on boring brokers like Vanguard.

I have a Tastyworks account too - the fills are way better than Robinhood's. As expected, since they charge some amount per trade. But that means that the "free" platform will definitely have more users, just because it's supposedly free (even though you pay for it in the fills, and get frontrunning trades)
To add authsignal can be integrated into any auth stack, so there's no need to face migration nightmares, just to get MFA into your application.
Ehhhh.. Economic rents and scarcity of talent with solid networks still apply to execs as much as pro sports.

You don't buy an exec because they are brilliant or hard working, you buy them for their network and how much they can grow the the business relative to compensation. At least in theory.
+1 I've only had incredible experiences with Ukrainian devs and designers- I hesitate to say best because I've worked with amazing people all over (I was at two gig economy companies that did custom software dev with freelancers) but Ukraine as a destination often stood out for high quality, low prices, and not needing a ton of supervision/detailed instruction.

Shameless plug- a buddy runs a dev shop out there, they have great devs and exceptional designers (and also are doing a fund for Ukrainians impacted by the war). If you're looking for help in that region, they're great people to chat with: https://beetroot.co/
Massachusetts grants absolution to its last remaining witch
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Dstack.ai to train neural networks from your terminal
Python was released Feb. 20, 1991. I checked that before I posted. And I am not the original poster and did limit my comment to 20 years. But, I did forget Java in the 30 year category.
Yeah this is the opposite, they did impressively well with fewer parameters.

In general larger models and more data has been an effective strategy for getting better performance but getting the right ratio is also important: https://www.deepmind.com/publications/an-empirical-analysis-...
You can test what you buy with multiple reagent tests to make sure what you have is what you think it is. You can even send to labs if your extra paranoid. Also the dw runs on reviews. Some one selling something fake won't last long. Some have reputations from years of selling.
First, is there any precedent for that restriction?

And second, why not? If everyone still has a job but their wages have decreased, that's still an economic contraction, at least from the worker's perspective.
Investment is always a gamble. Employment shouldn't be.
The American police is the most powerful gang in the country, not the least because they're largely immune to legal repercussions for the crimes they commit.

For example, this is not a murder, somehow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc&t=190s
I read this as saying "This is not happening because you did a bad job, it's because I did a bad job".

An important thing to mention at a layoff.
> It's like saying traffic lights distract you from driving.

It's more like saying that a mindset primed on "The Fast and The Furious" is not suitable for good driving.
No it is not “merely repeating”. That article is extremely different from the Daily Mail’s version.
tbf I think when it comes to big company branding it's the opposite.

A lot of GPT iterations of the design has left the article author with something which is quirkier than your average logo, but also looks like clipart and probably doesn't scale up or down well or work in monochrome. Which is fine for OSS. (He might get more users from blog traffic about using GPT-3 to design his logo than he ever could from any other logo anyway)

But when it comes to bigger companies, the design agency are the people that sit in meetings with execs persuading them that a well chosen font and a silhouette of a much simplified octopus will work much better ("but maybe the arms could interact with some of the letters etc etc, now lets discuss colours). The actual technical bit of drawing it is the bit that's already relatively cheaply and easily outsourced, and plenty of corporate logos are wordmarks that don't even need to be drawn...
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Future me's time is free to today me. :wink:
Eh, does he deserve $55M for founding a f(l)ailing company? If he wasn't a founder, would you say "No, never mind the $55M he pulled out of the company last year, last year everything was fine. The massive cash shortfall the company is experiencing today has nothing to do with those $55M that are no longer in the company's coffers."?
If Vlad Tenev is accepting responsibility he should resign. What a dumpster fire company.
We live in such morally bankrupt times. You can just say "you take responsibility" without actually taking responsibility at all. Our expectations have become so low and we've become so complacent that just the statement is enough.

In similar vain, "we care about your mental health" as is the common internal email from HR. No actual care is offered though. Giving staff a day off is a tangible example of doing at least something, but obviously no such thing happens. Once again the difference between caring and not caring is zero.

"We care about your privacy" except for the 20 years of prior tracking where we didn't. And actually still don't as we annoy and mislead you to keep doing it.

A web of lies. Optics, zero substance.
The NBER isn’t self appointed. The governments formal definition is that the NBER decides.
Would be interesting to compare the nazi methodology with the Russian way of war in chechnya. Russia seemed to get submission through not very nice means.
The rich don’t see it that way. At its core wealth accumulation is a scoring contest so every penny counts for those care.

Also if you have all the material needs that is satisfied, then you go after the rare hard to get high value exclusive money drain this is human nature.

For your specific example what that 50m might make difference it maybe a bigger jet that flies further or a second jet for the family or a yatch or a castle in Italy or penthouse in New York.

For you and me that may seem ridiculous and unnecessary, yet we do the same thing too.

There are many many parts of the world owning a car (or even riding in one) eating three meals a day or eating out are luxuries many don’t see in their lifetimes. Yet we use do all those things without second thought to people leaving on $1 a day or less .
Frustrating to see the incredibly common conflation of equity and salary. Even though it’s always correctly suffixed with “compensation”, people assume that means “a bank account with 8 zeros”.
Please say this isn’t true…

What’s the point of an EPA guideline if we’re literally flossing with it?

This seems to be the study that first found an association between Oral-B flossing and higher levels of PFAS in the body;

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/636598
I had no idea, thanks. Consider this a broken clock being sometimes right.
The only thing that matters is how much he sold vs held. Cash is cash no matter how derived.
Steve Jobs famously took a $1 salary and everything else was in stock.
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Aren't devs the dwarves of tech?

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/260738/do-dwarf-wo...
They are talking about how far you can go with a regular F-150 truck with a heavy tow on 4 gallons of gas. It still beat the EV version.
The problem is that Pharma companies can't patent and sell a full spectrum product. They can only make the big bucks by getting a certain compound approved after going through the full FDA process on that one particular compound. It's the same thing we saw with kratom. The FDA had multiple attempts over the last 7 years to ban it, while kratom is basically as harmless as coffee. It took a massive grassroots effort to stop the ban. Then shortly after it comes out that GlaxoSmithKline, who the FDA head (Scott Gottlieb) at the time of the attempted ban sat on the board for just a year prior, was trying to bring synthetic 7-hydroxy-mitragynine (7hm is thought to be a main active ingredient in kratom) to market, which it has a patent on. Follow the money people
The joke is mocking the beliefs of the managerial class. That’s Adams’ whole shtick. In this case his mocking the contradiction in how ideologies ascendant among the managerial class view the fluidity of race versus gender.
I have to say I disagree with this ... you can only separate them if they are really, truly independent. Trying to separate things that are actually coupled will quickly take you on a path to hell.

The problem here is that most of the microservice architecture divisions are going to be driven by Conway's law, not what makes any technical sense. So if you insist on separate databases per microservice, you're at high risk of ending up with massive amounts of duplicated and incoherent state models and half the work of the team devoted to synchronizing between them.

I quite like an architecture where services are split except the database, which is considered a service of its own.