skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think ending telework is the solution, and that this mostly political posturing, but if’ve interacted with federal/municipal agencies in the past year, it’s crystal clear that these agencies basically took the previous two years off…
I guess, but probably easier to magic up a couple dozen Boltzmann brains out of the ether than an in silica replica.
That's what some of these companies have stated on the record. Like Zuck explicitly said that some people shouldn't be here, months before the layoffs.
I've been privy to execs sharing the "why" for stacked ranking, open plan, layoffs, and various other decisions. If you had some naive belief in the efficacy of capitalism or the idea that CEOs are highly paid because of their brilliance you'd be very disappointed to discover how often the answer is "we're doing this because other companies like us are doing this", or "because an analyst told us we should do this".
Actually, very often, with a strongly, statically-typed language, in a well-designed API, it actually can.

Unfortunately, most people got a taste of static typing with Java and the initial language and library design were done in such a way that types were well, if not entirely useless, then certainly under-used. But if you look at many libraries for languages such as Rust, Scala, OCaml, Haskell, F#, ... (I haven't looked at Java in a while, but I don't hold high hopes on this specific front) you'll find many examples in which the API and the type system cooperate to guarantee that high-level protocols are enforced.

That being said, I absolutely agree that strong static typing does not mean that you don't need tests. As everything, if you want to be safe, you need a defense in depth, with good API design and many test layers.
It is just strawman: look at some extreme reporting on China, therefore all reporting about China in the west is wrong. It would be like judging Chinese media based on editorials in Globaltimes.cn.
> IMHO the majority of engineers not understanding lexing/parsing beyond generators has held back good engineering of incremental parsers/lexers for a long time.

That's a touch unfair. You could easily extend that statement to "The predominant languages of C and C++ have held back good engineering of parsers/lexers." period. This is due to the fact that you effectively have to parse the universe to resolve the symbol table in both languages.

In addition, people didn't need incremental parsing until syntax highlighting became widespread via LSPs. Before that, you were always working at the compile level, so why put in all the work for an incremental parser you were never going to make use of?

People have recently been designing the languages, themselves to better support parsing/lexing paradigms that can be incremental and restarted.

This is why most modern languages have converged to having specific syntax to delineate the difference between variable name and variable type, for example.

Rust, for example, has fairly funky things around "unary minus" because of its design for parsing and lexing.
11,000 people - let's say an average loaded cost of $250k/yr. That's... ~$3b/yr these folks cost MSFT. Granted, it's per year, but ... keeping these people on for another 3 years would cost ~$10b.

MSFT currently have $100b cash on hand. It's gotta be a little... frustrating to get be part of a 5% cut when there's so much free cash sitting around. I know, it's a narrow view of corporate finance, and I don't have the 'big picture', but... still doesn't sit right with me.

That said, I don't know what severance packages people are being offered. That might help soften the blow for some folks.

EDIT: re one reply about people earning $250k. I indicated 'loaded cost' - health insurance, likely some cost of options/stock, retirement matching, FICA and more. I possibly could have removed 'average'. I suspect many of the folks being cut have on paper salaries (well?) below $200k. Is the 11k number global or US only? Round the number down to $200k. It's closed to $2.2b/year then.
Yep, you'll definitely still notice swapping on the 8gb version.
I hate to put it this way, but you got lucky in getting a total refund.

Question though: Did you get to keep your progress in the games, or did you lose that with the shutdown?
Same for me. And I am even a programmer. I have settled on Gnome for the past ~five years.
What resources, for example? Genuinely curious. Social health, like access to psychologists or what?
> Why not simply get those rights?

Governments rarely relinquish power.
From TFA:

" The scan found that in two thirds of patients with elevated aldosterone secretion, this is coming from a benign nodule in just one of the adrenal glands, which can then be safely removed."

So it seems that 2/3 of the cause of HBP is elevated aldosterone, but 1/20 of cases this can be fixed with a not-so-invasive procedure.
fedi.lynnesbian.space has been gone for a while, and no way that wasn't a shitposting account
This seems... peculiar. "We will do this completely pointless thing which no-one particularly wants, and then the Senate will block us anyway! Somehow, this will make the voters like us."

Is there a big voting bloc who particularly appreciates this sort of time-wasting?
Stadia actually worked very well for me. I got it for free basically, and didn't end up using it a lot, but the technology was pretty cool.
Here is an available implementation:

https://github.com/lucidrains/muse-maskgit-pytorch
Does this include writing libraries for use by third-parties?
I don't think ChatGPT's responses qualify as evidence that OpenAI staff are writing responses. The model is just predicting what the most likely response to your prompt is based on its training data, but that data doesn't necessarily have the answer to your question of if OpenAI staff are writing responses, and even if it does, ChatGPT is not necessarily responding accurately based on that information.
Yeah, they must like increasing profits for car manufacturers forcing people to drive, while not improving public transport.
>How do you see the path from no autonomy, to partial autonomy, to full autonomy?

I don’t. Should you be able to sell an unsafe car just because you speculate about some non-existent alien technology that would make it safe if it existed? Why?

> If the system is imperfect, know to be so and approved that way I see no foul play.

So if NHTSA doesn’t force their hand then they have no obligation to make a safe driving system, even if they know it to be unsafe? I’m very glad that countless engineers at Volvo (3-point seatbelts) and GM (airbags) and others didn’t have that mindset.
FAANG isn't a very good acronym if Microsoft is in it. GAMMAN would would better.
> Perhaps the problem is that all secular thinking is bad

> and teaching young men and women to blindly follow is always a bad idea

Uh huh? Sounds like you’d have no problem with blind following as long as it aligns with your beliefs.
Say what you want about Chernoybl, at least after a few hundred thousand years they'll be able to eat the fish. Lead is forever.
For the first time since the 1960s, China’s population is shrinking
In theory yes. But a lot of people seem to think they need this and (wrongly) assume they can archieve it by simply writing the goals in order. Otherwise OP wouldn't be able to break so many builds with the --shuffle option.

I could see it make sense for some "generic" goals which have different dependencies depending on the context they are called. E.g. a "package" goal requiring that something is there to package, but what is there might depend on the top-level goal.

But I agree, this is a bit of a misuse of goals - and definitely the direction that ultimately leads to some makefile from hell when this is invariably overdone.
Isn't RBS for Ruby a way of having optional typing? (Not challenging here, honest question :P)
How do you lose $1B on a credit card? The article says customer service issues but that's a lot of customer service...
I would argue that builds would break are already non deterministic, they just appear to be deterministic on "your" machine.
Indeed! Ubuntu updated git at 18:44Z, nearly an hour before you posted that comment :-)
It is, but it's difficult to do, needs documentation, etc., and most managers in Big Tech would rather not do it unless required to from above (which is what a layoff gives them the opportunity to do).
I mean, that's absolutely true for Android hardware. If MediaTek or Qualcomm or any other supplier for the various parts open sourced their drivers we would be able to port any new version of AOSP to basically everything that has enough juice to run it and then some.

Unfortunately these companies control the drivers and have the strictest licenses imaginable, so even companies like Samsung or Google can only offer updates as long as their suppliers allow them, after that it's just waiting for the ABI to break and the old drivers to stop working
The U.S. Constitution was signed by 0% of living Americans, and only a few dozen people that were alive when it was signed. It only came into effect when ratified by 3/4 of states. What 1/3rd are you talking about?
This is largely taxonomy. Both ADHD and ASD are very loose diagnoses, not specific testable measurements.
Response to medication can differentiate to some extent, but the label doesn't really mean anything when you consider both diagnosis are based on observing symptoms/presentations, not predicting symptoms/presentations.
Ok, but please don't just call names or fulminate in HN comments. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Better options are either to explain neutrally what's wrong about an article, and hopefully add more correct information; or simply to chalk it up to the internet/media/whatever being wrong about everything, and move on to something more interesting.
Reminds me of the LayOff Microsoft did in Q4 of 2014 where they laid off 18k
This makes more sense when you realise we are all to be treated like children.

And more crudely, we're to be kept in the dark and fed shit.
I think the author knows this. In fact, many of his questions seem to be trying to lead the AI to say that it's answers are written by humans.

I think this should be taken down from HN, it's extremely misleading to anyone who might mistakenly believe that ChatGPT has self-knowledge.
The link in their twitter isn't working for me: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250

Anyone have anything else besides the picture?
The overhead of managing someone out is far higher than that of a mass action laying off hundreds or thousands. I'm not saying I agree with sentiment.
Well I do light music production - mostly on the Studio.

For photography work it's been fine. But I haven't done multiple-minute exports since buying it so I can't really say.

I _can_ say that under my normal workloads (coding web apps, office applications open, chrome with say 20 tabs, often playing chess, live streaming / zoom) heat has never been an issue. It's also my DJ computer for gigs and no issues I've noticed there, although it's not on my lap.

Contrasted with the 2019 intel MBP it's again night and day. Heat was very noticeable, as were heat-related throttling issues. It would just grind to a halt under normal workday loads esp when screen casting zoom + having all my normal apps and IDEs running.
FYI Chrome is trialing that feature natively titled "Memory Saver". It's available in my laptop's settings, but currently still not in my desktop's.
Our processors also require manually manipulating registers.

The whole point of higher level programming languages is to abstract away the fiddly bits of dealing with processors that we don't want to have to deal with.

This is one of those cases.
Is there any evidence that this authoritarianism actually makes people any "safer"?
The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta
Because pointlessly sitting around on my couch is nicer than pointlessly sitting around in some loud venue or outside with god awful weather.

I blame Covid personally. Before Covid there was stuff going on that could motivate me to go do stuff, but not so much the last years or two. Even going out to bars feels tedious now.
Would stuff like DreamBooth and textual inversion be usable with transformer models like this one?

https://dreambooth.github.io/
https://textual-inversion.github.io/
He's a lobbyist by any other definition of the word. "Spokesman" is kind of a cop-out to deliberately undersell why he's working with TikTok/Bytedance.
Isn't this more of a "take away everyone's pony" bill, though?
I was thinking legitimate votes (get 100 of your friends to stay up until midnight or get 100 friends in Asia to upvote at launch time).

But certainly seems like there are a lot of people to help round up illegitimate votes as well. We had maybe ~5 people message us telling us we didn't get enough organic votes and they could guarantee us more votes to get us to spot #1-5
If people were paid by brilliance most celebrities and politicians would be poor and mathematicians would be billionaires.

The world doesn’t work that way.
the problem is that glitching attacks target the specification approach that engineering has been based on for at least a century, where the vendor promises that if their component is operated under some set of nominal operating conditions, it will perform within some nominal performance range, but promises nothing about what will happen if operated under some other conditions, or where its performance will lie within that range

a bolt, for example, will have tensile strength and pitch diameter within a certain specified range as long as the temperature is within some given range (and it hasn't previously been exposed to excessive stress or temperature), and a resistor will have its resistance, temporal drift, physical dimensions, inductance, etc., within a certain specified range as long as the temperature is within some given range and it hasn't been previously overheated

the specifications for a microcontroller sometimes run to thousands of pages

vendors are free to include other features not documented in the spec, such as undisclosed debug ports, and to switch from one supplier to another whenever they like as long as the product still meets the spec

in glitching attacks the attacker operates the components outside their nominal ranges, where the vendor offers you no guarantees of what will happen. higher clock speeds, shorter write times, lower voltages, higher temperatures, shorter setup and hold times, etc. even if one vendor does try to offer such guarantees, generally their product includes parts and processes sourced from other vendors who don't

so i don't think it's yet something you can define crisply enough to mount a general defense; glitching attacks are enabled by a social system that creates new vulnerabilities much more rapidly than they are closed
remote work is great but moving to a rural area or suburb is not better for the environment
Taking off from runway 18 (now 19) you're pointed essentially down river already though. The Potomac is right there at the end of the runway. That's the most confusing part of the story to me is how he was ambiguously crossing the river after taking off basically straight downstream.
We all learn from our mistakes. Some faster, some slower.

And sometimes, someones wins the lottery and discovers a whole new way.

Carry on, I won't judge you, the universe will. And I'm just reaping knowledge out of it. For free and painless. Whatever the outcome is.
It is hard to sit down and start, so I usually trick myself with: 'I will just draw one line today and the rest can follow tomorrow'. Once you get going is always more than one line (I'm an amateur Blender user, so 2 lines are already a polygon). This stuck with me (volume, not 'quality');
https://www.blenderguru.com/articles/7-habits-highly-effecti...
p.s. And after N lines * N completed pictures you will automagically know what you want. In my case certain image will form (or an idea) - this could take days/weeks, this are usually small and stupid, but that doesn't prevent me from realization (or at least an attempt) - it's all just for /me.
Realistically, higher end manufacturers will just stop selling devices to that state/region/province and people who live there will figure out a way to buy what they want. There's a reason why the single most popular laptop model in the US happens to be a macbook and the iPhone is the most popular smartphone here.

There will always be laptops with DIMM slots in the future just as there are laptops that have CPU sockets today. But the bulkiness and performance gap will only increase every year. CAMM has about the same thickness as a single SODIMM slot so it only saves space if you need 2 sticks worth of RAM. Also compare 2 slot vs 4 slot DDR5 overclocks on desktop to see the impact of signal integrity.
I don't do this specifically, but if you can go without $2k for a few weeks you can take advantage of Apple's permissive return policy and just demo for IIRC 14 days.
Ask the special interest groups that have infiltrated state and federal legislatures

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-pas...
It's a real shame that modularization focused almost entirely on solving the JDK vendor's problems rather than solving the application author's problems.

Specifically, modularization can and should have been taken as a chance to allow multiple versions of the same dependency to exist within a single scope within an application. At present, this is sort of achievable by taking control of classloading and invoking defineModulesWithManyLoaders, but not many people will do this and key features are missing (it still does not allow a single module to directly reference two versions of the same dependency).
Go back to /pol/, even /g/ thinks this is cringe.
https://www.opensecrets.org/officeholders/greg-abbott/contri...
It's a shame since it's such a great concept though. Lots of companies need a place to launch!
This is absolute nonsense. While neither party has a completely clean record, one is profoundly, dramatically, egregiously worse than the other when it comes to our rights.

One party usually protects our rights, but occasionally does stupid things like join the other party post-9/11 in making life worse for all of us.

The other party celebrates their new ability to pass completely meaningless bills like this one to demonstrate how much they hate worker rights, and that is par for the course. 9/11 wasn't an exception for them, the whittling away of our rights is the entire point.

Neither is perfect, but don't pretend for a moment they are the same.
I know many federal agencies have been getting some great candidates due to their remote friendly work policies. I’ve heard it from several high level friends at different agencies.

The biggest problem I’ve heard of is some of the old guard management who don’t get how to manage remote employees and are focused on the awareness of the activities of their employees instead of the agencies goals and outcomes — which is kind of what this bill represents.

There are federal agencies that “get it” and are really embracing their new reality. I think “operation overlord” bills like this really could hurt Federal recruiting work, as witnessed by some of the comments already here on HN about government jobs. Even introducing this bill is doing damage to government recruiting, and it’s a shame.

New management skills are required to run remote friendly organizations, and flexible work is clearly a if not the future of work. The old 20th century “here’s how much you have to suffer to make a living” models are going out the window, and it’s time to embrace the new culture including exploring and expanding new ways to measure true productivity, which ultimately lies at the heart of this debate.
Also in the first season of the Jack Ryan show (which only bears a very passing resemblance to Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, but has good action)
Do the articles ever give you back a thumbs up?
I dunno, looks a lot like good cop-bad cop tag team to me.

They both do harm to the American worker by supporting different aspects of corporate interests. In the end they are both unfriendly to the American worker. Bona fide support to the American worker by the Dems ended some time back in the 80's when they saw the windfall Repubs were getting from corporate. I know it hangs on like a cheap suit that the Dems are unequivocally in support of labor as Bernie used to be in the 80s but it isn't so any more.
What's the difference, socially, between not caring and not doing, and caring but not doing? The effects are the same. Why is one worse?
What % of their work force is 11k employees? Article says 5%.

Would also be curious to know what % of the 11k are engineers/breakdown by department/org, etc.
Interesting stats on HN vs. Reddit vs. PH!
Most of the waste from biofuel production [1] is used as animal feed, so double green!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_grains
Twitter confirms it's blocking 3rd party apps like TweetBot
You are begging the question.[1] The question wasn't "what is the cause?" but rather "what is the solution?" which you fail to answer, as in: how can we prevent "the media" from pushing faux moral intellectualism? Note, I'm not addressing the question of whether that's the true cause or not. But, assuming it is -- what can be done about it? Is calling out "the media" on HN enough?

[1] in the older sense of the phrase; nowadays most people use it differently, but it originally meant ~"answering without really answering".
SingularityCE Is Singularity (2022)
Took me a moment to realize that you meant LA = Los Alamos, not LA = Los Angeles :)
Ah yes. That is the one benefit of the SHOW UP act- it does help the ego of managers.
Assume a constant need to fire a decent chunk of the company.

If you fire when everyone else is hiring, the market asks you if your growth prospects have dimmed.

If you fire when everyone else is firing, the market says you're being financially responsible.
Ask HN: How do you delay a job offer?
I received a job offer, it is a big company so they do not seem to be fixed on a start date.

However, at my current job our bonuses for 2022 are distributed in March.

This is a significant bonus, usually around $30K pre-tax.

Obviously, I'd like to stay to collect my bonus and then leave.

So I need to have a discussion with the hiring manager to see what's possible - obviously I should make up another reason for wanting to delay (maybe sabbatical, or feign some dedication to closing a project with current employer)?

Lastly, other people at my company have left right after bonus in previous years so I'm not too concerned about the optics (it is after all, for last year's work).
Maybe he would have been really fat if he didn't hide it
Corporate excellence programmes are about removing the bottom 10% of performers. However most mass lay-offs aren’t about that kind of performance, they are the answer to the question asked by the buy-side analyst:
“If companyX spends 5% on areaY, and you spend 7%, where’s should I look for the benefit delivered in your results, because I’m not seeing it.”
I’ve been there.
Good point, discouraging micromanaging and flaunting power is another benefit they didn't list
If you know what "color grading" is (and your job depends on doing it) you're probably a "hardcore tech" person that knows what the mystical abbreviation "GPU" stands for.

Professional writers using a word processor might not understand what "hardware-accelerated H.264" means, yet there it is on their website under Air! Are those for "hardcore tech" people?

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac
One could combine JSON and a serializationless library, your JSON would be blown up with whitespace, but read and update could be O(1), serialization would be a memcpy, you could probably canonicalize the json during the memcpy using the SIMD techniques of Lemire.

I did this one for reading json on the fast path, the sending system laid out the arrays in a periodic pattern in memory that enabled parseless retrieval of individual values.

https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson