skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed news articles saying that Meta have been cutting back on support staff, like cleaners and custodial roles. To me, these are the wrong people to be cutting. The people who clean Meta are not the reason why Meta is hemorrhaging money. I'm sure they actually do their jobs very well.

They should fire the people who are actually causing the problems. Everyone stopped using facebook because they are uncomfortable using a giant, ad serving, spy machine. They are also discouraged that facebook started deciding which friends are important to the user instead of letting the user pick. The people who implemented these ?features? should be the first to be fired.

Similarly, the reason everyone is walking away from Google is because the search is getting worse. Why? Because Google increasingly doesn't allow you to search for what actually exists, but instead what it thinks you should see. Fire the people who did this. Fire them because they are destroying your company.

I don't care if you don't, it's your wealth to lose, but I also know that's not who will be shouldering the burden of yet another recession. I could easily do this for every company: Netflix: it's the crappy political shows, Microsoft: it's the telemetry and continually slower product, Apple: it's intentionally slowing working products, Goldman Sachs: it's the bro/frat culture, Most Banks: it's the insulting fees, Amazon: it's the way you treat your warehouse staff: Most Fast Food: it's the price gouging Most Food companies: it's the annoying shrinkflation. Fire these people. They made you short term profits and now your brand is ruined and everyone hates you.

But instead they will fire the people who are actually doing their job, and keep all the executives and "thought leaders", or whatever, in their protected positions. I think everyone basically knows why everyone hates facebook and left. Just stop doing that, is what I'm getting at.
It looks like it's like tailscale/zerotier but at the individual app level rather than the device level.
It's a pity that S3 becomes some kind of standard object storage protocol. I think it's overcomplicated.
Azure, AWS and GCP all have live migration. VMWare has it too.
Talon was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this news. Would be nice if it could benefit from Whisper. (Big fan of your work on Talon!)
I have a couple HP Chromebook 13 G1 laptops that I loved quite a lot for ~5 years as my primary personal laptop. It worked really well for 95% of my needs, especially once it got the Linux container support (which was ~4 years in).

The first one I got was $550 for the 8GB RAM model with i5 and "retina" screen, that was a refurb from Woot, almost half off. The second one I got around a year ago when Linux container support landed, 16GB RAM, i7, "retina" screen. That one I got off ebay for $120 landed. I also got my son one that he used until a few days ago. Pretty decent little machine for that price.

My son switched to a $120 Windows ASUS laptop this past weekend because the Chromebook wouldn't run Windows games. I was half expecting him to give up on the new laptop because 4GB isn't much RAM, but he says it works great.

My mother in law was recently asking for laptop advice for a "ward of the court" she oversees that could do with a laptop to do zoom meetings for the court appearances, and to use for school. I went looking for Chromebooks and found: they are all priced the same as a similarly speced Windows laptop. The things I value about ChromeOS ("instant" updates, "nothing really on the device", "security") aren't things the average person (let alone teen) really care about... Kind of hard to recommend a Chromebook for the average person these days, unless I'm missing something.
At that point, they would be risking nuclear reprisals.
CockroachDB serverless is generally available
Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja
Yes. Software engineering is just a tool. The risk to society comes when the application of the tool can cause harm. Quantifying and publishing standards to control these risk is best left to experts in the field of application to figure out and should be mostly agnostic of the underlying software engineering paradigm of the day. For example, FDA guidance on software did not need to be updated for over a decade.

"Fake it till you make it" can work well for a consumer product but look what happened when Theranos tried to apply the same paradigm to medicine. It is not software engineering at fault. It is the application.
For case 2, translating a novel from, say, English to Japanese, still requires permission of the holder of the copyright to the English version, even though the resulting novel "does not contain a single line ... identical to the original".
Even if a low performer reduces team productivity, having more team members rather than fewer might be in the manager's personal interest.
Free societies and markets can ostracize anyone and anything. I'd guess that payment processors deplatforming porn sites would not be the subject of the conservatives' concern. (Though they can change my mind with evidence.)

I'd rather the payment streams stay open for all these things, we just don't want to keep ratcheting up the discontent.
Did you try translating them to english? I want to see if you get a similar error as me with a random phrase "Translated by Releska" showing up.
> Can you think of any possible reason I would do this on a basically new account, labeled throwaway, basically making it worthless as a long term account anyway?

On first order principles, I reject your premises that "throwaway" account names make accounts worthless in the long run. There are tons of counter-factual examples, e.g., "ironic name."

> Ps, if you check my post history, you'll see <insert resume"...

See, this is circular reasoning. If your account is "worthless," what incentive do you have to be reliable/honest?

What's interesting is that I think you know these counter-arguments and are trying to steer away from them.
vsphere vmotion has been a thing for years lmao
There's honestly barely an OpenCL ecosystem to speak of. Even Blender abandoned it.

Also, at least with CUDA and HIP, you need to manually malloc GPU memory, and explicitly launch GPU kernels (using <<<>>> syntax for CUDA or optionally hipLaunchKernel for HIP).

Ecosystem is the main problem of anything not CUDA or sort-of compatible like HIP. A ton production GPGPU code uses CUDA.
Last try for tonight with Baudelaire.

Original:

Trois mille six cents fois par heure, la Seconde
Chuchote Souviens-toi !– Rapide, avec sa voix
D'insecte, Maintenant dit Je suis Autrefois,
Et j'ai pompé ta vie avec ma trompe immonde !

Remember ! Souviens-toi ! prodigue ! Esto memor !
(Mon gosier de métal parle toutes les langues )
Les minutes, mortel folâtre, sont des gangues
Qu'il ne faut pas lâcher sans en extraire l'or !

Transcription:

> Trois mille six cents fois par heure, la seconde chuchote « Souviens toi », rapide, avec sa voix d''insecte, maintenant dit « Je suis autrefois », et j''ai pompé ta vie avec ma trompe immonde. « Remember, souviens toi, prodigue, est au mémoire, mon gosier de métal, parle toutes les langues, les minutes, mortelles folâtres, sont des gangs qu''il ne faut pas lâcher sans en extraire l''or. »

Not bad! Far from perfect but it's a difficult text. Interesting that it works better with Baudelaire than Pascal.
I think it's "wild (birds and mammals)", not "(wild birds) and mammals".
Production Engineer
https://engineering.fb.com/category/production-engineering/
AfTeR lEsS ThAN 6 MonThS! Where will we be in 10 years? Instead of run-away ramps, we'll have to have a network of burn-boxes on the side of every road for self-driving Teslas to drive into and burn out. Who's going to pay for all that? I'll keep my kerosene lamps and leaded gas thank you very much. /s
VMware has been doing this for years, it's called vmotion and there is a lot of documentation about it if you are interested (eg https://www.thegeekpub.com/8407/how-vmotion-works/ )

Essential, memory state is copied to the new host, the VM is stunned for a millisecond and the cpu states is copied and resumed on the new host (you may see a dropped ping). All the networking and storage is virtual anyway so that is "moved" (it's not really moved) in the background.
I suppose I could store the salt water solution instead of throwing it away. Assuming I made ice cream often this would be acceptably frugal for me.
Amazon Keeps Prices ‘Artificially High,’ California Alleges
Giving ChromeOS devices to low tech users that cannot understand the privacy and lock-in risks feels like a tech version of giving kids cigarettes. It is simply unethical. The HN crowd can make informed decisions to give Google control of their entire digital lives but we should not make that choice for others.

I would never recommend Windows or MacOS to anyone for similar reasons so those are not a comparison I care about either. I would certainly recommend a Chromebook over either if someone absolutely has no choice but those three, but there are almost always other choices if you make some time to teach someone.

Most Linux distros are a security shit show so pre-installed linux machines are hard to recommend to anyone that does anything high risk on their machines like financial work or journalism.

Degoogled ChromiumOS feels like a good security/privacy balance for most people but that is not currently a user friendly option for installation and upgrades.

In practice I find myself using and teaching others using their machines for anything remotely privacy or security sensitive to install and use QubesOS. For all the excellent privacy and security design it has a high learning curve and strict hardware requirements making it untenable for low-budget or low-tech users.
Why are you even still arguing about this?

You've already demonstrated that you don't know how to play the "spirited debate" game with other people, and for that reason nobody wants to play it with you.

If you want to get the last word in so you feel like you've "won", go ahead. I'll quiver before your superior and enlightened intellect.
> remotely significant difference between ChromeOS and Linux (with Chrome Installed) for the vast majority of users

You provide IT support, eg for school kids, and somehow they grok Linux just as well as a browser? That is not my experience.
It's fast. But it's also a 1-2gb binary. And its SQL implementation is work in progress and often makes up its own names for common functions.

If you can put up with both for an adhoc cli exploration tool then yeah it's incredible.

For analytics queries in general though (not talking about clickhouse-local) I don't think there's any OSS competition.
Yes, I expect that if you ask the model for "Getty images photo of [famous person] doing [thing Getty Images has only one photo of that person doing]" you might well get the original photo out.
You are right about this event being the catalyst. The funniest part is that the person who scammed and alledgedly spent it all on gambling did it on sports betting... which is specifically excluded from the ban on gambling by Twitch.

And the very likely reason for the exception is that Twitch has signed a 13 billion deal with a famous sport betting company tied to the NFL. This is peak hypocrisy from Twitch and it seems to get very little media coverage.
JWST is meant to see in infrared. That’s it’s good (only?) camera.
Do you really have time to be proactively unsubscribing from potential threads? Seems like a waste of human life.

You may have better luck muting or otherwise disabling the channel's notifications except when your @name is mentioned.
We shouldn't call this open source. The model definition + the data is the source code. The model weights are a compilation artifact.

> The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. [...] Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

> https://opensource.org/osd

If I asked a programmer from OpenAI to modify the model to better support Japanese speakers from Hokkaido, their "preferred form" of the model's source code would include the 680,000 hours of audio used to train the model.

Yes that means that there are almost no open source models and yes it's awesome that they released this and made the weights available. Just don't call it open source.
Security alert: new phishing campaign targets GitHub users
I'd been thinking that 5G is a thing only because the IOT is a thing. It had nothing to do with phones, but the build-out is funded by phones. So when it all settles down, phones will be as slow as they were in the 3G era, at best, what with so much stuff clamoring for data.

Plain Jane HTML is going to save us.
As he should be, in my opinion. We should've entered a mild recession in 2018 but because of TPTB he went whole hog on cutting rates as low as possible. We didn't enter the recession, and as luck would have it a global catastrophe happened. This resulted in more rate cutting to the point the rates could not be cut anymore.

He could've avoided some of this by just intelligently working the market. It is, in my eyes, entirely his fault.
The ice actually comes up to the temperature of the water while it's melting. That's what the equilibrium temperature is: the temperature of the entire ice / water system until it's been converted to all liquid or all solid.

Naturally there's some small local variations, but if you let the system come up to steady state, that's what will occur.
Money is just one aspect of it. It's the perceived availability of the person as a resource. Support staff are treated poorly because they're seen as available in that you can not only contact them whenever but they're technically coerced by their job into having to respond to you.
But doesn't that essentially mean that you've simply shifted the problems of fetching data (overfetching, N+1 problems and resource expansion) a little bit to the right, without solving the actual issue?

It would technically be faster because of lower latency between services in the same data center and sending the final results to the user in one go, but at the same time if your DB is hit 50 times to service that request, you still have a problem.

Essentially you just give the client the ability to run dynamic queries (with the complexity of which, the resolvers and their logic, you now need to deal with), without actually improving anything else, at the cost of noticeably increased complexity and yet another abstraction layer.

That tradeoff seems like a tough sell to me, much like an SQL engine that's not tightly coupled with a solution to actually store/retrieve the data would be like. Then again, there are solutions out there that attempt to do something like that already, so who knows.
The empirical evidence for wage rises causing inflation is so weak, few economists take it seriously as an argument against wage rises.

The evidence for supply chain issues - as you mention - and price gouging being contributory causes is much more convincing. If you are not convinced that price gouging is going on, consider profit levels in energy companies in recent months.

Please don't blame this on workers who if anything need to be paid more, and paying them more will not impact inflation, only make it easier to cope with. It may even bring inflation down if jobs in supply chains become more attractive and force profiteers to become more competitive.
pretty sure said $STREAMERS are some of the biggest ones in the platform, and said pointless drama was started due to some of them asking twitch to ban said gambling. Occam's razor and all that, especially when you have headlines like these that do a pretty good job of making twitch look good while not actually banning gambling really.
> Workers making good wages

Wouldn't that be a baseline value of a society? It makes me think that the price increases that are happening is simply a return to norms after we had like 50yrs of productivity increases w/o increasing wages -- meaning prices were actually suppressed.
AWS normally has machines sitting idle just waiting for you to use. Thats why they can get you going in a couple of seconds.

GCP on the other hand fills all machines with background jobs. When you want a machine, they need to terminate a background job to make room for you. That background job has a shutdown grace time. Usually thats 30 seconds.

Sometimes, to prevent fragmentation, they actually need to shuffle around many other users to give you the perfect slot - and some of those jobs have start-new-before-stop-old semantics - that's why sometimes the delay is far higher too.
Stream the contents of ram from source to dest, pause the source, reprogram the network and copy and memory that changed since the initial stream, resume the dest, destroy the source, profit.
Infinite arbitrary precision real time Mandelbrot zoom generation :-)
Well, let's compare it to other countries right. (and this is just my feeling). Europe can't heat their homes this winter because of Russia's war on eastern Europe. Russia is fucked also, becasue they need to sell their oil at a discount to whoever will take it to fund their war. This has also caused a massive spike in food costs in emerging markets. Turns out Ukrainian crops were important. Meanwhile, China is struggling with its first real recession because of overleverage with Evergrande and the same supply chain issues that face the US. So yes, things are going badly in the US. But there are bigger problems elsewhere and in situations where things go crazy people flee to safety. Which at the moment seems to be the USD.
Is Julia/Rust the new Python/C?
I guess that's fair. It's sort of a smell when someone uses the wrong word (especially in writing) though. It suggests they aren't in industry, throwing ideas around with other folks. The word "ephemeral" is used extensively amongst software engineers.
Dumb article with a dumb headline, which shows no understanding of what central planners are or the authoritarian systems from which they arise.

They're using Wework as a whipping boy, and pointing at Softbank as a typical VC, although Softbank, even its Vision Fund, is really more like private equity.
Instead of electron we'd be bundling an entire OS with our chat apps.
Should I become a people manager? The difficulty of identifying potential
Not only considered, it meets the criteria very well. It's definitely gambling.

If you're a pro (or better than your competitors), it's kinda like being the house in a blackjack game, except a lot less variance, because the edge is greater.

But still a lot of variance. Poker is gambling, and it feels like gambling.
You can see my earlier comment about the ~20 prime brokers who bid at auction, but boy howdy does this feel like splitting hairs. Sure, the cash goes through intermediaries, and it's actually a huge source of economic rent/corruption that noone other than Song and Zhu seem to care about, but that doesn't change the ultimate flow of 'giving'.

>In literal terms, the government holds an auction for Treasury debt at various maturities. ~20 primary dealers bid on those Treasuries. Those ~20 primary dealers know exactly how much The Fed needs to buy from them. That influences their bids. If The Fed weren't buying from those dealers, they would bid for higher rates. In no way do those dealers consider the amount of debt that has reached maturity that month, they only care about new issuances.
Even that spin doesn't really work, who threatens to nuke their own territory?
Note that SMS for 2FA is very different to SMS for account recovery. E.g., remove your phone number as a recovery method from Gmail.
I think you misunderstand both Russia and the West.

Russia wants to conquer Ukraine and the EU wants to prevent it. While the ways to do it diplomatically may have been wrong and therefore failed, it primary is the responsibility of the aggressor (Russia) for high count of casualties both Russian and Ukrainian.

>> Unmistakably, this is a massive tragedy for Ukrainians and I think it was avoidable.

What exactly you think should have been done to avoid this?
I agree, but we can't all cash out all of our money from US banks either. That much money simply does not exist. These comments have a lot more faith in FDIC than me, so maybe I'm missing something.
Here is also a good list of european alternatives that can be used instead of Google Analytics: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/google-analy...
Having endured several such calibration sessions at FB/Meta I can also assure you that we are not even talking about 'large' numbers before there is a strong expectation that the ranking totals within an org will meet the predicted curve when it comes to the percentage at exceeds, meets, and meets most. I distinctly remember wasting more than 15 minutes of my life arguing with a skip level manager that someone who had course corrected and delivered solid work while digging themselves out of a PIP was at least a meets before eventually realizing this manager had a quota of meets most to fill and the person we were discussing was destined for that bucket just to make the numbers look as expected.
What "script" are you using for doing txt2img? The watermark function is automatically called when you use the CLI in two places, https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/69ae4b35e0a... and https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/69ae4b35e0a...

Trivial to remove, I give you that. But AFAIK, the original repository + most forks put the watermark automatically unless you've removed it on your own.
So far the fines have been laughable compared to their revenue
Recruiters' whole primary job is to recruit, and they don't get a lot of top secret information about what's coming next, either. It's in their best interest to always say they are hiring, otherwise why are they even employed by Señor Zuckerberg? They don't get a two month vacation during a hiring freeze.

And yeah, if you are top, top egghead talent it's possible there is always at job for you at Meta. It might just save that recruiters job if they source you and you pan out.

Think about it like this: earlier this year the bar to get an offer was that you need to be hot, like a 6/10 before. In this new climate, you need to be more like a 9.5/10 to make it through their little hiring game.

With that said..

Don't let some random on the Internet stop or discourage you; go get that job if you are up to the task and actually want to work at Meta! Have fun.. yeah.

My original comment was more about the non-Bigco job postings, a lot of times they may just be testing the waters to see what they can dredge up. If it looks appealing, they might bite. It's mostly a huge waste of time for the poor candidates, though.
Now check out Eutectic mixtures ... old-timers may remember soldering with 63-37 tin/lead solder.

The reason? With any other mixture of lead/tin, the liquid solder freezes over a temperature range, often resulting in what very-old-timers called a "cold solder joint". For example, 50-50 tin/lead mixture starts melting at 183C and is fully melted at 214C.

Using Eutectic Solder, the phase transition happens at exacctly 183 C ... the lump is solid at 182C and liquid at 184C.

Geologists take advantage of this: when non-eutectic mixtures of lava freeze (say, a basalt flow in Hawaii or on the moon), different minerals will be found in the rocks. Analyzing the minerals, and assuming equilibrium, you can understand temperatures and pressures in the origination magma.

(ps - yep, new ROHS rules have largely eliminated lead based solder)
So if the final state of something as large as an amino acid pair at time of copying is determined by a single wave collapse... wouldn't that really mean that cancer generation is entirely avoided in some nontrivial subset of universes? (Hint: the subset you're reading this in, if you haven't had cancer?)