skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main issue with cartoony generation is that professional animators, are not being tasked with "here is famous character Mickey Mouse that's omnipresent in your source data, now draw him on the moon wearing a hat", they're being tasked with something where the source material is a couple of concept images possibly at lower fidelity than the desired end output (and the task might well be much more specific, and the art directors considerably more pedantic about the quality and consistency of the lines than the average hacker typing in magic incarnations to get something resembling fantasy art for their blog). Of course, if you want to make memes of Mickey Mouse wearing a hat on the moon, or Mickey Mouse at the White House with a hammer and sickle, or an anime-style Mickey Mouse, AI cartoons may well be plenty good enough already.

There's a role for AI in filling in gaps, but illustrators remain essential in creating the basic style to extrapolate from and even more so in professional quality work (And to some extent, other procedural generation techniques were able to fill gaps up before cutting-edge NNs - the stampede of wildebeest in the 1994 Lion King was procedurally generated from a handful of models for example)
In the small central EU country where I live, that wouldn't even saturate the open programmer positions - just about 1/10 of it. I'd be very surprised if it saturated the US market in any measurable way.

If anything this just means these people will be working on more different products, and that means more opportunities for even more programmers in the future.
I think the issue is with, what GP calls "boring CRUD".

This is where Rails truly shines! It's a near perfect fit. But that means anything that isn't a CRUD-setup, but e.g. command or event driven, or leaning on (complex) domain-logic or heavy in workflows, it lacks.

It lacks features to deal with it. It lacks structure to isolate a domain-model. It makes it easy to spread logic all over, but hard to put that logic in a bounded context. It is all about HTTP, when that really should be a detail in many apps. It is all about the database (as I write in my article "Rails is all about The Sacred Dictating Database") which should really be a boring detail.

"Large codebases" often fall in this category of nog being very cruddy. And therefore probably should eschew Rails. I won't choose it for these cases.
Ctrl-F for "waste" only turned up your comment. Waste management of all the experiments the article describes had me wincing as an industrial chemist. I'd say it's not so much the safety of home chemistry that keeps me away from introducing it to my kids as much as the sheer complexity of disposing of all these myriad chemicals and reactions. My guess is that's the main culprit in removing most interesting chemicals from home chemistry kits, and no one in this thread really appreciates that.
EU opens investigation into proposed Microsoft Activision Blizzard acquisition
People fixate on what looks like a simple frontend and don't see all the tech behind it, plus the even larger support structure behind it: sales, analytics, moderation, etc etc.
The good news is that there will be so much bigger profits to trickle down. (sorry for posting sarcasm on hn)
Rethinking search results ranking on Sourcegraph.com (Steve Yegge)
> And 12th seems to be around the time when the political split between the papacy, the latin world and the empire became permanent.

And even that is an insight from retrospect. During the following centuries there were several attempts to overcome the Great Schism. Due to the political decline of the East at that times, the agreements more or less reflected to positions of the West, most notably an agreement (culminating in the papal bull "Laetentur Caeli: Bulla Unionis Graecorum", 6 July 1439) reached during the Council of Florence (starting at 1431), that would have ended the schism, but met with fierce resistance in the years that followed from important groups in the East (such as the monsk of Mount Athos and the population of Constantinopel).[1] The fate of the agreement was still somewhat open when Constantinopel fell to the Ottomans in 1453.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_of_Union_with_the_Greeks
I'm on the same boat - its so easy to attend to those classes - they happen every hour.

Otoh, I feel like beating my body too much (I'm almost 40).
If it had a "group classes format" and was near to my place, I would like to try a regular gym, or calisthenics, or yoga.
I did try swimming, because I used to love that - but found it super boring. I also tried BJJ but didn't really enjoy the class format.

If I lived next to the ocean, I'd probably try to pickup surfing as a nice trade-off between exercising and relaxing.
Ampere says no changes to its Arm licensing as it readies new chips
It is on the listicle of things to make you highly successful.

- Wake up at 4am every day.

- Only hire lucky people (they get to work for you that instantly makes them one of the lucky ones right!?)

- Fire the unlucky people or the people having a bad day (its a pretty bad and/or unlucky day when you get fired, if they had any luck at all you wouldnt have thought of their name when you decided to fire someone)
I doubt that's the most important part. Maybe for yourself.

The overall tone and high-level business decisions are much more interesting.
As much as I dislike Meta's practices, this was well handled. Decent severance and support.
When you actually take responsibklity and accountsbility in the real world and not the bs world of C-suite executives, it means there are consequences for you. Might mean he steps down from his position, it might mean he gets a his compensation package cut, it might mean something else. But it means more than empty words.
Very different roles. Also, corporate America employs millions of people, so this is not a significant percent.
Xtal is one of the very few songs that I could not possibly imagine getting sick of, no matter how many times I hear it. It always seems to sound new, letting you notice different dimensions of it every time.
Glasses actually aren't expensive. I pay like $20-40 per prescription glasses from China. Firmoo, Zenni, ... No quality issues so far and a far more realistic price.

No 'classic' glasses dealer makes their glasses in-house anyway. They all produce in cheap countries.
> In any case, it's always jarring seeing CEO's saying: "I take responsibility for these troubled times... by firing thousands of employees"

To some extend. But it’s true too. It is their fault.
In general I agree. I feel that macroeconomic conditions will affect efficacy of 1).
> do they assume that with a better social safety net they can get away with just following their legal requirements?

If they are offering above and beyond severance for the US, why would they be looking to 'get away' with anything like that? They could 'get away' with offering the US workers the minimum possible package yet they didn't. Maybe they don't want to burn bridges, or maybe they want the good (or non-bad) PR, or maybe the management are decent humans, but they are doing it for some reason and there is no indication to think that the reason wouldn't also apply in other national jurisdictions.
Rising asset wealth and falling real wages drive inequality in the UK (IFS)
I don't think you understand how many people it takes to run a large company.

Turns out Elon doesn't either lol. Also, he's not a conservative.
Obligatory link: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
I like the idea of leaving art uncompromised, independent of earning money. I can count very few people that can involved money and get away with it. The problem with this is that you have to have a job to support your art, and that reduces the amount of time you can spend with art. They key is and i believe what is comming, work for a company that actually makes the world Better place
Joplin as a markdown note taking app was my gateway drug to Obsidian.

I used to sync Joplin to just my Dropbox, and it worked well for free on all my devices.

Once (and only once) I had a conflict, which from then on I was nervous to get again
And I never really liked how top level folders are notes as well, somehow I found that strange.

Obsidian saves markdown files, I use git so I can solve merge conflicts myself, and see the version history, albeit at the price of having to save and sync manually (Ctrl+Shift+C for commit, Ctrl+Shift+P to push, cause I'd rather do that than have it autopush at intervals). I like the UI more too, only I haven't set up Obsidian on my phone yet, but it's possible theoretically.

Tldr: Setup is more hassle, but I migrated my notes (manually) and like the UI, layout, search and git integration better. Joplin was definitely easier to get running for free, and I can easily recommend it to anyone. It's just where I am now, exploring and liking something new, seeing if it sticks.
> Conflating any form of prohibition with drug/alcohol prohibition specifically is a common libertarian trick

The parent poster

>> It's about time we made some social network legislation akin to tobacco/gambling restrictions.

But more to the point, how are you going to “ban” social media?
I suspect OP may have been going for a variation on the old "Programmer returns with zero eggs and 12 gallons of milk after having been asked to get one gallon of milk and if they have eggs to buy a dozen"-joke, but it falls flat in this instance since it relies on an interpretation bordering on deliberate misconstrual (i.e. applying the modifier "for each year of service" to the whole phrase "16 weeks plus two additional weeks" rather than just to the latter fragment "two additional weeks").
Zenni Optical has $6 glasses, but if you want scratch resistant lenses the price goes up to almost $11.
I can second this, I've met some lifelong friends through motorcycles + explored so much of the world.
I know a bloke in Portugal who has a side business in tourism. He organizes events and tours. Depending on where you live (or want to live), it might be a nice option.
A lot of content reviewing, if not all, is outsourced to consultancy companies as far as I know. I used to work next to a building full of content reviewers in such an arrangement.
Right. January and February are write off months, not much happens. So by March you still have no job and no more income.

A new job including job search takes around three months.

A round of interviews, signing of contracts, background checks and then finally a month of work before you get your first pay check. That takes you to May. Thats if you pass the interviews and are chosen to be the employee.
In the 1990s, the big branding was always "Whatever 2000!"

Since the millennium, I've not seen anything branded with a future year. It's a fad / fashion trend. It'll come back again once people get nostalgic for it.
This decision might be correct but the previous one was wrong. In his own words:

"I made the decision to significantly increase our investments. Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected."

So, keep him to downsize the company and replace him when it's time to start growing again?
No, but they think and act like it is. Performance varies by individual not age cohort, but it’s way easier to just engage in various isms and avoid actually picking talent and fit. Maybe it doesn’t matter, or they don’t know what talent looks like.
Are you running on QEMU? How do you make t stop after every step? And why did t did not stop at mov bp,sp for you?

I can't get tracing to work at https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=msdos

Modified OP's code to add more steps to see some stepping through but T makes the program run all the way to termination - https://i.imgur.com/hiYeC2x.png
IMO the Zuck just gave Elon a lesson on how to be a grownup CEO.
Buy a small farmstead in an area where others that have jumped the tech/corporate/finance ship too, people that are likely to have some cash saved up as a buffer.

Keep a few animals (cats and/or dogs mandatory, otherwise optional), maintain an orchard with fruit trees, specialize on one or two niche cash crops that can be sold. Be largely self-sufficient within the community (think barter and "barnraising" [0]).

Combine with some forestry and DIY low tech; like solar- wind- dam- projects. Enjoy!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
I have both. As far as I understand, the Roost is the original, and the Nexstand is recommended by Wirecutter because it is cheaper.

I put them side by side, and shake the table to see which one is more sturdy. The original wins by far. It is also lighter, smaller, and better designed in general, IIRC closing the lid is safer on the Roost. (The Roost I have is V3.)

I am not 100% certain Nexstand is a copycat of Roost though.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-laptop-stand...
When I joined FB in August 2018, the company had about 30k employees. It felt large but individual teams didn’t seem to have a lot of excess fat. The hiring growth in recent years has certainly been massive.

Content moderators are mostly external contractors (AFAIK this is still true), so presumably not included in this number.
I thought I am participating in factual history at the time I wrote the comment... But Google seems to have a different opinion.
In 1995/96 I was the first tech employee at a startup. We had a Solaris server at the core of our network, and needed a C compiler.

Paying Sun whatever stupid amount of money they wanted didn’t seem to make sense, GNU still didn’t have their own domain, and for whatever reason I couldn’t find a gcc binary for Solaris to download (probably related to the terrible state of web search engines at the time). So I visited my university sysadmin and copied gcc from his Solaris network to use to compile our own fresh copy.

It’s sometimes hard to remember just how bad things used to be.
yes but having both the sky-high US salaries AND termination conditions similar to Europe is kind of a win-win
With the stock being down 70% from its all time high, the ratio has changed drastically.
This is yet another episode in the continuing saga “HN consensus is bad at predicting tech”.
Hilariously enough, most of the front-line moderators are outsourced, so it's even worse than you think.
It's already there under demos/esp32_spi_flash.
Zuck did it himself too. No one told him to go all-in on VR. No one. All he had to do was tackle payment and maybe cloud. He first went for crypto and then is in the process of failing with VR.

Meta really needs to be in the cloud business.
Obviously, if this continues at this rate. We'll be able to judge in 3-6 months the full impact.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is living in Lalaland.

The main thing is figuring out what's the full impact. If it's 10%+ of tech workers, the golden days are over for the vast majority of tech workers.
If you include Stripe, Klarna, Netflix, Uber, Robinhood, Snap, Lyft, etc. tech layoffs in recent months have topped 100,000 now.
Okay, but it's not eng being hit, it looks like. He mentions recruiting and biz depts.
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Might affect the housing prices in CA, which in turn might affect housing prices in other states as there will probably be a domino affect.

(Assuming there's a few thousand laid off in CA)
I'm incredibly surprised by this. I personally use the Phoenix documentation as the gold standard for good developer documentation!

There is an excellent, clear and practical set of guides that take you through the increasing complexity of a Phoenix app. I find them very clear, and surprisingly complete. They start here: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/up_and_running.html

The 'reference level' documentation is also excellent. I picked this example randomly, but it has an extensive guide at the top and then good description of each of the functions: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Channel.html
It will have a big effect on salaries, however, it'd be a momentous opportunity for upcoming startups to pick up some bargain basement talent.
Google did the same sort of crazy hiring and i wonder if they will be next to layoff thousands
You don't think some things will stick?

Key revocation certificates come to mind as a good case for a public blockchain. NFT's for domain ownership makes a lot more sense than paying monthly. The whole trustless thing means users can provide compute for each other rather than tolerating an ad-riddled central point of failure.

You know, the stuff that doesn't need hype and is just the right engineering call.
Congratulations on your prediction?
Its just business speak for "I'm sorry, its my fault".

I don't think that's a bad thing. Its always worthwhile to apologize even if there is nothing else to be done.
This is quite good even by European standards. If you were paid 4.5 months because the law said so then it isn't harmonized, because in my EU country it is only 3 months notice afaik.

Also not sure if the Meta severance applies to contractors as well, but many engineers work as contractors by which they of course opt out of worker protections.
Hydrogen peroxide as not a developer for the cyanotype process. There is indeed no developer involved in the cyanotype process.Hydrogen peroxide just speeds up oxidation.
Pretty sure content moderation is excluded due to outsourcing
If you want a math problem corrected, or have math homework kids, post it as a comment here on HN.
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"Can someone think of the shareholder value?"

Keep in mind it's always about people, not about soulless entities.
The US has 2.7 million developers. Who knows? They may have to sully themselves and become “enterprise developers” like most of the other 2.7 million developers…
It's the general name for the "new" but not really new rent extraction economy for the whole world. The basic idea is "what if we could extract rent from every single interaction on the web - pay for view, pay for read, pay to rent, pay to play - but not like today, when it's optional and often fringe or really expensive stuff. But from everything, from 100% of everything.". And to it have working company scrip will be used, printed without oversight by a few new billionaires in non-extradition offshores.

Actual blockchain is really detrimental to this new order scheme, because tokens on blockchain are harder to print, that's why real beneficiaries are moving to the stabletokens, which are practically CDBC, but issued not by shady banks but by actual criminals, some already convicted on the previous financial crises, like dotcom bust etc.
Web 2.0 was just XMLHTTPRequest.
Where's your source for $180K/year average for these 11k employees?
Since you insist on tooting your own horn, I think you should put a timeline on your predictions, as well as specifics on how this "crash" differs from periodic layoffs that happen every decade or even more often than that.

Anyone can predict that things will be bad at some point in the future.
Aphex Twin has been a large influence for tons of well-known artists today. There is just something special in how his songs convey different moods and feelings, with one of my favorites being Avril 14th, which reminds me of playing Minecraft as a young lad, although I think 180db_ [130] is my all-time favorite.
Don't we have this with the World Wide Web, since its beginning?
Its so funny reading the naivete and hubris of many here."Even in a down matket,FAANG layoffs can jusy wall down the street and fnd different job with comparable pay." How naive and optimistic.
I truly hope we do not get to experience a down market, so many on here will have adjust their expectations to reality. There so much ignorance and naivete about economics I read on here.
And yes even those that feel secure in their jobs currently, will eventually see a paycut in some ways.
Got cannned today. At least the severance is good
> $180K per employee for years is not sustainable.
> - House prices will skyrocket

Who will pay these house prices?
While it might not saturate the US job market as a whole, it will saturate the parts of the local programmer market that can come even close to matching the sorts of salaries these people where probably paid.

If they're willing to move to anywhere in the US and/or take a 50+% pay cut then they'll have no problem getting a job. If they all want to stay where they are and get paid within 20% of their current salary then lots of people will end up without a job.
FB briefly was in the cloud PaaS business when they acquired Parse.

The problem is that the way Meta runs its data centers and software stack is tightly integrated with the products. It’s not really amenable to running third party applications or storing third party data.
4 months of severance + 2 extra weeks for every year of service i.e. 20 weeks (~5 months) if you've been there for the last 10 years. So ~9 months paid holiday in total. Not bad at all.
Reason why many HTTP tools have 'man' in their name (postman, proxyman, restman)
You probably just meant you don't want a nanny state but as stated it can be interpreted as abolish public schools.
You do realize that Julia code parsing and code-lowering were implemented in FemtoLisp a.k.a. a Scheme/Lisp dialect

And I genuinely still like you, even if you think the world is a terrible place. =)
My english is non-native but I would expect when someone says "I take accountability and responsibility" to means exactly that and I have a hard time figuring out what else it could mean.

The OP sounds like they would expect the person to perform some sort of public penance or resign. Which IMO is the wrong thing to do when making a mistake. The correct thing is to own up to your mistakes and hopefully learn from them.
I think what is missing is the ability to really influence "what the computer does" with the tools it got shipped with. Yes, it is no problem to just download python or scratch or what else, but what is missing is the feeling i got on my C64 when it first booted: This opportunity to just start to play around, write little programs and just directly tell the machine "what to do".
I wonder if comments like yours are said in good faith or in fear or out of pure ignorance. Or all of the above combined.

Proportionally these numbers would not make a difference in a small European country.
>I certainly did not think Apple would do this.

Their PR department certainly earns their keep.
I mean, if you get into a minor car accident, taking responsibility basically means paying for damage to the car. To me it seems like taking responsibility for hiring too many people by ensuring a nice severance package and paying for access to external hiring consultants for people who want it, is pretty analogous to how ordinary people take responsibility when they accidentally do something that wrongs someone else i.e. They try and fix the effects of the wrong.

Taking responsibility means trying to make it right. It doesn't mean taking a hit personally, unless that hit helps make the situation right.
> They view it as revenge for the Opium Wars; they're deliberately exporting poison.

First, do you have any evidence that the Chinese view it this way? Do you have, for example, any statement from a ByteDance executive or a Chinese government official to this effect?

Second, the reason why TikTok and Douyin (TikTok in China) are different is that there's regulation in China about what digital media children can consume. Nothing is stopping the US from passing such legislation, other than its own lack of desire to do so. During the Opium Wars, the British and French forced China to accept opium at gunpoint. China isn't forcing the US to do anything.
Why is that possible in native apps but not websites?
Nobody's infra business is really neatly separated. If the will is there, it can be done.