skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thanks to an incredible performance by our Talent Acquisition team, one of the best in the industry, we grew headcount 2.5x in about a year. But the problem is that growing the company 2.5x didn’t make us 2.5x more productive. It got harder to get things done because we didn’t add the right mix of skills and seniority levels to our team.

From The Mythical Man-Month: "If there are n workers on a project, there are (n^2 - n) / 2 interfaces across which there may be communication... The purpose of organization is to reduce the amount of of communication and coordination necessary". I doubt anybody would ever expect adding large numbers of employees to have a linear effect on productivity, especially if they aren't well coordinated. More people usually means more meetings and more communications costs, as well as more bureaucracy in the way. I find it hard to believe that a leader in software would expect otherwise.
'make any possible sound' is less important than 'make x sound easily' by way of tools and accumulated knowledge. Also what's audiences are receptive to matters a lot - you could have made noise rock in the 40s but I can't imagine it would have sold a lot of records.
Crashes repeatedly on iOS in Firefox (my usual browser), is OK on Safari though, so probably not a webkit thing.
Why are software companies still grappling with the mythical man month? You'd think by now we'd have learned our lesson.

More hands /= more productivity, at least on a linear scale
The global risk of death from childbirth is X.

It isn’t p-hacking for a dude to inquire what the chances are for the male subgroup.
I hate leetcode style interviews, but I've done hundreds of them. The irony is not lost on me. Some might say I'm part of the problem.

Thing is, in a small way, I'm trying to change things from within. I try to make the process as palatable and fair to candidates as possible, while working within the constraints of the system. When I train new interviewers some of my top tips are:

a) The purpose of the interview is to determine whether the candidate is a good fit for the company, and the company is a good fit for the candidate.
b) The interview is an imperfect proxy for this.

It then follows that interviews shouldn't overindex in the coding round. If I have helped someone to get an offer that wouldn't otherwise, I'm satisfied.

BTW that's also one of the reasons I'm publishing this. I hope to push the point that leetcode-style coding interviews are outdated and should be burnt to the ground.
No, it really doesn't suggest anything either way.
What would you prefer that they say instead? "I made no wrong decisions, I have no regrets leaving all of you unemployed."?
Won what? Ahole of the year?
Um, obesity is an individual issue (at least at the current levels of hospital load associated with it) so your insurance and bills go up. Unprotected sex has two people involved and can be assault (if not agreed to) and if done by someone who knows they are HIV positive and infects another who dies... manslaughter.
Update on the APE Linux kernel support (for fork/ --assimilate)less APE execution. jart informed me: "It's in the process of being emailed out to the kernel developers. I anticipate it'll be merged within the next three months."
This is the original source of that data:
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Nevada isn't really in need of imported water. Almost every drop of water that hits a drain in Vegas is treated and re-used so Nevada's use of water from Lake Mead is very low. It's one of the most water efficient places on Earth.

Outside of Vegas and Reno the state's pretty much depopulated, so that's the whole usage.

If California would just build the desalination plants and support Californian needs without hitting the supply from the Colorado so hard Nevada would be fine.

Arizona, on the other hand... yes. They could probably use some imports.
Aww, dangnit, you're right. I think you could run them old models on Kerosene or Gasoline.

They were real simple -easy to maintain by a small farmer.
You may like warp then: https://warp.dev
The government has the right (and I'd argue, the duty) to quarantine people with diseases that are both contagious and dangerous if that's the best way to keep them from harming others. More details here: https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
The Economics Nobel isn't considered a real "Nobel Prize":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...

He's right to question Nordhaus, but I don't think the rest of his stuff is particularly out of the mainstream of economics, though he quotes a kook on minerals, he still ends up with carbon pricing as the fix.

Also, IPCC scientists aren't dismissing tipping points, they're just hard to model and unnecessary, as even without them (for good and bad, e.g. cheap solar tipping points), dealing with climate change makes financial sense.
Thank you for your kind words, I'm sad you also had to overcome a lot in life to get to the point you're at, and the physical injury part really saddens me to my core. I need to go to sleep, but I'd be glad to talk and share experiences over email. Thank you!
Every other living thing on the planet spends most of it's time just fighting to survive. I think that's evidence it's not a 'made up idea' and likely may be what life is actually about.
I’ve been watching the vaccine discussions on HN these years and one can see that too many people are stuck fighting vaccination windmills from days gone by, while downplaying vaccine risks which by now are established and continue to be investigated as this publication shows.

Meanwhile many EU countries have understood that heart problems are a real risk and have adjusted recommendations accordingly.
They’ve also stopped obsessing about vaccinating people.

The vaccination crusade’s dead folks, please stand by for the next pandemic.
"I'll be resigning when [the board/leadership] finds a replacement."

I always get massive push back when I suggest this, but it's the only remedy that makes sense. If you have to layoff 15% of the workforce when the growth was under your command, and you want to take responsibility, then step down. Own your mistake.
Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I've seen in this wave:

* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment

* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health

* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year

* you can keep all your equipment
I'm not dissing cloud engineering. I've learned enough to really repesct the architects behind these large scale systems.

My point was about skill level, not specialization. Specialization is great.. we can build bigger and bigger things not having to engineer/understand what's beneath everything. We stand on the shoulders of giants as they say.

And I agree, there is no one job specialization that's more valuable than the other. It's contextual. If you have a legal problem, a specialized lawyer is more valuable than a specialized doctor. So yeah I agree that if you have a cloud problem, you want a cloud engineer and not a firmware engineer. Although I should add that things like interrupts/events/synchronization and I/O operations are fairly universal computing concepts even in the cloud world. If you're a cloud programmer and you don't know how long an operation takes / its big-O complexity, how much storage it uses / it's persistence etc. you're probably going to have some explaining to do when your company gets next months AWS bill.

And yes plumbing is useful! Someone has to hook stuff up that needs hooking up! But which task requires more skill; the person that designs a good water flow valve, or the person hooking one up? I'd argue the person designing the valve needs to be more skilled (they certainly need more schooling). The average plumber can't design a good flow valve, while the average non-plumber can fix a leaky sink.

AI is eating unskilled / low-skill work. In the 80's production line workers were afraid of robots. Well, here we are. No more pools of typists, automated call centers handling huge volumes of people, dark factories.

It's a terrible time to be an artist if AI can clipart compose images of the same quality much faster than you can draw by hand.

Back to original comment: I'm merely suggesting that some programming jobs require a lot more skill than others. If software plumbing is easy, then it can and will be automated. If those were the only skill I posessed, I'd be worried about my job.

Like fusion, I just don't see general purpose AI being a thing in my lifetime. For highly skilled programmers, it's going to be a lot longer before they're replaced.

Welcome to our digital future. It's very stressful for the average skilled human.
I am building a new app to create a self-funding scheme on web3 gears towards providing personal finance to users. Looking for 100 beta users to sign-up and test.
quantified is implying, and he's not totally wrong, that Musk gets enjoyment out of being in the spotlight, regardless the reason. Probably some truth to it, surely seems that way.
Right. Most of the conversations about IP on this site seem to rely on extremely abstract reasoning or idealist thinking about what constitutes "property" or what a "copy" is. My understanding is that judges are not so easily misled. If you are selling a "replica statue of two kings" online that is clearly intended to resemble the Gates of Argonath, you are setting yourself up for a lawsuit. It doesn't matter if you built it from your memory of the LOTR films, used an AI to generate a bunch of similar looking statues and picked the ones most similar to the films, or what have you. In practice any judge will see that you are attempting to make money off of the LOTR IP. (Note: not legal advice.)

Note that this doesn't mean that Stable Diffusion (and friends) are copyright infringing just because they're trained on copyrighted material. My brain doesn't infringe the LOTR copyright because of my memories of the films. If I turn my experience of fantasy epics into a new novel with a different storyline than LOTR, that's not copyright infringement. That's creativity. But those same memories can likewise be used to make works that are infringing. The question of infringement isn't in the creative act, it's in the artifact. I think it's plausible (though not certain of course) that IP questions will be settled for AIs in the same way: it's not infringement to train your AI on copyrighted material. It is infringement to use your AI to generate works that a reasonable person would conclude are intended to replicate or imitate copyrighted material.
Or the question you should always ask: What if the compiler gets it wrong? Is there a way for you to tell?
Those are cherry picked, and most importantly, all of the examples where it can fix a bug are examples where it's working with a stack trace, or with an extremely small section of code (<200 lines). At what point will it be able to fix a bug in a 20,000 line codebase, with only "When the user does X, Y unintended consequence happens" to go off of?

It's obvious how an expert at regurgitating StackOverflow would be able to correct an NPE or an off-by-one error when given the exact line of code that error is on. Going any deeper, and actually being able to find a bug, requires understanding of the codebase as a whole and the ability to map the code to what the code actually does in real life. GPT has shown none of this.

"But it will get better over time" arguments fail for this because the thing that's needed is a fundamentally new ability, not just "the same but better." Understanding a codebase is a different thing from regurgitating StackOverflow. It's the same thing as saying in 1980, "We have bipedal robots that can hobble, so if we just improve on that enough we'll eventually have bipedal robots that beat humans at football."
Once I've got embeddings my naïve next step would be to do cosine similarity for comparisons/search/anything that requires a distance. I see they do that in some examples.

Is that the standard approach these days? Are there newer default approaches that tend to work better?
The Search and Classification (and Answers) APIs were deprecated last week.[1]

They were never in serious competition with Elastic, as far as search goes. If you wanted to build a semantic search application using OpenAI embeddings, the more common (and scalable) method is to index those embeddings in a vector database like Pinecone.[2] In fact that's what OpenAI recommends to anyone who needs to transition off their Search API.

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6272952-search-transitio...

[2] https://docs.pinecone.io/docs/openai
As someone who loves making music and loves listening to music (regardless of its origins, in my case), it doesn't make me that sad. Sure, at first, I had an uncomfortable feeling that AI could make this sacred magic thing that only I and other fellow humans know how to do... But then I realized same thing is happening with visual art, so I applied the same counterarguments that've been cooking in my head.

I think that kind of attitude is defeatist - it's implying that humans will be stopped from making music if AI learns how to do it too. I don't think that will happen. Humans will continue making music, as they always have. When Kraftwerk started using computers to make music back in the 70s, people were also scared of what that will do to musicians. To be fair, live music has died out a bit (in a sense that there aren't that many god-on-earth-level rockstars), but it's still out there, people are performing, and others who want to listen can go and listen.

Maybe consumers will start consuming more and more AI music, instead of human music [0], but the worst thing that can happen is that music will no longer be a profitable activity. But then again, today's music industry already has some elements of the automation - washed-out rhythms, sexual thematics over and over again, re-hashing same old songs in different packages... So nothing's gonna change in the grand scheme of things.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jWdeRKvvk
That's a narrowly individualistic view of the role of medicine in society.

Medicine has a social context as well. This relatively recent idea that someone can become more female or more male through drugs and surgery is one that has repercussions on how we as a society view the two sexes, what constitutes a woman or a man, and what is an acceptable expression of one's masculinity or femininity.

Maybe it's the right idea. But we should all reserve the right to be critical and consider alternatives, for this and any other idea with broad societal implications.
"God isn't real! Religion is a farce! Your imaginary sky daddy wont save you."

Worships peer reviewed science journals and believes that AI and technology will save us

Really makes you think.
System Design 101. Step by step guide on designing
It is humblebragging and getting ahead of rumors. "We are growing strongly, but" followed by the usual platitudes about funding, taking ownership without consequences by leadership, and showing how great the severance is. There is no good reason this should be a public communication.
> what consequences is Geoff Schmidt going to be facing?

Loss in confidence of his employees, fear of mass exodus, pressure from stakeholders, etc...

I don't usually defend CEO's, and it sounds like this one has committed some pretty serious errors, but I certainly would not want to be sending that email out.
You're hard pressed to find a democrat who is actually earnestly pushing for immigration reform either. I'd claim the republicans largely swapped and the democrats are only for it just enough to foil the republicans!
This comes up every thread about layoffs -- accepting responsibility means not passing the buck and saying "it was out of our control!" or "this was due to outside circumstance X".

The explicit consequences are up to the owners of the company, not the court of public opinion. The owners wouldn't be beyond their rights to demand the CEO's resignation, although neither are they obligated to do that either since everyone makes mistakes. And as others have pointed out there are implicit consequences as well -- less trust from remaining employees, etc.
Is this really an issue with graalvm?
Yes, I 100% agree. I was sort of nitpicking about what kept your job safe since you seemed to imply that it was due to the shortcomings of Deepmind and ChatGPT. I argued that it is due to keeping your skill set updated, and, as you put it more elegantly than I did, the increased overall problem space.

I do, however, think there will be an inflection point in the coming decades, where the tools become more generalized and better at dealing with new problems. I might also add that the reason for this belief is simply that a lot of work is being put into making these type of generalized tools; but unlike Kurzweil, I don't quite believe it will lead to the Singularity. :)
For reference, according to their current team page, 246 employees (at least 246 publicly listed ones)
I have made the opposite experience. I enjoy the search results Amazon provides, but find it incredibly difficult to find the right product on AliExpress. How do you navigate the seemingly auto-translated jungle of similar products on AliExpress?
Excuse me...are you expecting sober and logically consistent behavior from Elan Musk???
But we've shown that the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission, so not getting it is an individual issue ...
"Sisters with Transistors" is a superb film. Before I watched it, the only one of the many extraordinary women presented therein that I knew of was Delia Derbyshire.

I had no idea that the soundtrack to The Forbidden Planet (which may very well be the greatest Science Fiction film ever made), was by Louis and Bebe Barron on equipment they pretty much entirely built themselves. Today, we plug in a laptop, back then you were a true pioneer.
I am not sure you have failed at all. You just haven't discovered what you want to do. It sounds to me like you are an adventurist, hardworking, never give up kind of person. Life isn't defined as money = success, or job = success. People who live that way are no more happy than you seem to be right now.

Instead of searching for a job, search for a passion. You seem to have parents who want to support you and believe in you. That is more than most have.

I don't know where to tell you to start, but if anything be a little easier on yourself. The fact you made this post alone shows that you don't want to quit, which is a major factor in being successful.
I'm not a fan of making the process more dreadful than it already is. Forcing people to go to an office and use pen and paper or a whiteboard would do exactly that.

I hope companies (including mine!) see the writing on the wall and stop trying to fight the future.

This isn't accounting for even just pretending we are testing candidates on anything remotely indicative of on-the-job performance.
I think OP meant to do this:

s = sum(i % 3 == 0 for i in range(1, 10\*8, 2))
This doesn't look good for the future of Poetry. Its maintainers are acting as obstinate as pipenv's. I guess I'll be sticking to pip-tools.
3) The scope and scale of “art” that gets made gets bigger and we still have plenty of pro artists, designers. AKA art eats the world
The business they built is failing. The emotional toll is extreme. Founders I know are either in poor health due to stress, or place an outsized emphasis on staying healthy. You and others who post this every time seem to be saying "Ah yes, you're not suffering enough in my eyes". How much suffering is enough? Should your degree of blood thirst be applied to employee actions? Are blameless retrospectives a mistake and we should start firing people for making mistakes?
All good then, I just didn't want you to think I was advocating for the anti-vaxxer position. So if that wasn't your intention, apologies to you as well.

And I understand your reluctance. After the nth time, the eyes sort of glaze over as you get slapped with the same bad faith arguments supported by bad logic and supported by abused statistics.
I don’t disagree. There are trade offs.

For five minutes shopping and fifty bucks total investment you can have a working Lomokino arriving the week after next and be out making pictures fifteen minutes after that.

What I think puts it on the same axis is a similar picture production workflow. There’s not much difference between developing exposed film, digitizing the negatives, and compiling them into something that will render.

Because that’s most of the work, fewer frames has the advantage of making redoing steps easier when figuring out the workflow. The results are less good but easier to obtain.

And if cinematography is a priority it might be better to get a film camera and run movie film through it.
To me, it's an art vs. craft issue and there are many shades of gray to the discussion, because the root is really based in the question that every first-year art student is tasked with answering for themselves "What is art?"

If art for you is primarily centered on fidelity of implementation (i.e. "craft") then you will be very threatened by AI, particularly if you've made it your livelihood. However, if your art is more about communication/concepts, then you might even feel empowered by having such a toolset and not having to slog through a bunch of rote implementation when developing your ideas/projects. Not to mention that a single person will be able to achieve much much more.

I feel like it's possibly a good thing for art/humanity overall to stop conflating craft with art, because new ideas will rise above all of the AI-generated images. i.e. splashiness alone will no longer be rewarded.

In an ideal future when we all live in the Star Trek universe, none of it will matter and whoever loves crafting stuff can do it all day long. Until then of course, it's tragic and lots of people will be out of jobs.
Indeed, I was referring to Sigma's and Fisher's old paper catalogues. Mcmaster seems to have done the best at preserving that value.
Is there any technical reason that film rolls are so expensive in 2022? Or is it just non-economies of scale and/or oligopoly profits?

Also, what would go well with this project is 3D printed film projector. Some of the parts already designed for the camera would go into the projector.
Thank you for your reply, I need to go to sleem so I'll look into it tomorrow further.

But long story short irt to the WFH stuff, I already WFH 2 days a week, and I cannot get more. Commuting this long way 3 days a week allows me to live with my parents, which is right now important to me.
Yes, inequality goes up, but standards of living for the poorest also go up, the number of people in poverty goes down and most benefit is seen for people in the undeveloped economies. US population didn't decrease poverty rate in the last 4 decades, but that's because US rate was already very low.

What is happening here is enrichment by technological transfer. You can't copy research money but you can copy good ideas and buy the latest technology directly. Jobless people of the future will have incredible empowerment of this kind, maybe they don't need UBI, they need help to help themselves.

https://i.imgur.com/QFPRlYe.png
Perhaps instead of „responsibility“ they should said „we are to blame“ or „it is our fault“.
We went from mainframes and terminals that accessed them to personal computers back to terminals of all sorts of shapes and sizes accessing everything on modern mainframes again.

They got the middle part wrong.