skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> while getting to keep all that intellectual output

Intellectual output or technical debt?
Just because CSGO is used to cash in stolen credit cards does not mean these multi thousand dollar skins are money laundering. The vast majority of people trading these high value skins are legit people. If you check their profiles, their discords, or the skin trading community in general, this is quite evident.
You can either learn the tools of the trade, or you can go online and complain about how your hammer is too hard to use and so you refuse to hold it right. How is that not complaining?
The best Linux option laptop at the moment are probably lenovo thinkpad z13 and z16 with 6xxx AMD Ryzen CPUs.
I'm not american so I have no experience with it myself. But I thought for example the birth of black lives matter movement was directly linked to black people feeling physically unsafe.
This just isn't true. Take a 35mm camera and a digital camera side by side to shoot the same scenes, and there will be noticeable differences. Some maybe subtle, but they are there. As I just commented somewhere else here, the highlights are a key area of this difference. Digital clips where film rolls off. I've seen so so many digitally shot scenes where there's an actor against a bright sky. There is nearly zero detail left in the sky as they've pushed the exposure for the actor's face. The details in clouds are absolutely gone. It makes me cringe every time I see it.

Edit: Wanted to add another example of the differences. Digital records by separating the RGB of the light where film does not. As an example of digital oddity from this, I’ve had to work with footage shot on an Alexa (IIRC) where the white whipped cream on top of the desserts had a weird exposure thing where when in post the exposure was pushed the white went to magenta. In order to get it white, you had to keep pushing the exposure to get the third primary color up enough to catch up to white. By then, the other 2 channels were well past useable. Since it was a commercial for desserts, the white in the cream was important to keep the details of the texture. Film would not have this problem.
Davos is officially sanctioned corruption for oligarchs, but the organization is also apparently a cult of personality that may not survive Klaus Schwab, so maybe it will just go away.[1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/18/mutiny-erup...
Hmm you seem to be interpreting “boss” as “any concept that impacts your decisions”, rather than the more specific definition I got out of the article, along the lines of “a person who tells you what to do and takes a large cut of the value you create.”
cool, thanks :)
This trend started when the first video-capable full-frame DSLRs appeared on the scene about a decade ago, and they led to a mixing of the visual language of photography and filmmaking. Combined with the fact that camera lens developers are working hard to remove flaws from their products, making their picture more and more perfect, but also removing any character a lens can have.

The classic Super35 frame size is more akin to APS-C in digital photography, whereas the new top tier cameras use full frame sensors, which are 1.5x larger in diameter.

The larger the sensor, the more bokeh you get, with a shallower depth of field.

Modern tech for focus pulling allows for extra shallow depth of field even if the actors and the camera are moving. Something that would have been mostly out of focus footage 30 years ago can be easily shot with a small crew.

Large aperture photography lenses and large sensor also means much better low-light capabilities. Which means you can shoot with less studio lights, in a much lighter setup with less crew, less planning etc.

Blurry backgrounds also allow for cheaper sets.

Which means the cheaper the production budget is, the more likely they'll go with shallow depth-of-field shots.

And we the viewers will inevitably connect the cheapness of production with these visual cues.

In contrast, when an older movie had shallow depth of field scenes, those were expensive shots that had to be carefully planned, and painstakingly executed with "flawed" optics which gave them a lot of character.
The job market is still very active. There are plenty of opportunities in more traditional sectors such as insurance and banking. I also suspect some layoffs have gone too far, especially with some early indicators that 2023 might not be as bad as forecasted. As a result, these companies will likely start hiring again in the second half of 2023, even if it is only to replace disgruntled staff that want to switch jobs after a poorly handled layoff.
I heard the new matrix doesn't try to hide, it's in your face gaslighting you and demoralizing you every time you observe it.

Who needs to conspire secretly when you can do it publicly, and then turn around and say it's not a conspiracy since it's out in the open?
Manage Jupyter notebooks on Kubernetes with ease
“Sorry to hijack this discussion thread with irrelevant flamebait”
Not this millennium.
WEF/Davos is extensively reported on in mainstream media. And you can watch the talks and panels on their own YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@wef/videos
Human sacrifice is an irrational cultural ritual deeply embedded in our shared history. We must appease the Market God to receive its blessings.
Terrible advice, you should absolutely start with the official UI, which is the CLI. Avoiding it because "it's hard" will just complicate everything down the line.
>What?! How cheap are contractors in the UK?? I would've expected this to be in the 10s of thousands.

The whole article is nonsensical, they use absolute values for something that depends on surface and always reference the EST (i.e. the Energy Savings Trust) for the data they provide without linking to the source.

The site:

https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/

seems like one of those "explanation to the masses" ones with no actual practical value.

Personally I do not even understand what they do or are supposed to do, it all seems to me like a lot of "fluff":

https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/about-us/

(i.e. are they government backed or are a sort of lobbyist for green building energy saving?)

The 640 comes from a graphic here:

https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/advice/roof-and-loft-insula...

27 cm (what?) of mineral wool, and it seems like they propose a DIY job.

Of all the possible ways this is the cheapest one (and only can be done in a specific type of house/roof/loft) and if it is unused.

In the UK, the material only should be (roughly) around 0.40 per cm of thickness per square meter, so 0.40x27= 10.7 pounds/sqm, installation is very fast, according to them you just unroll the mattresses, but there is transport anyway, so the cost is likely to be more like 15 pounds/square meter, that gives us around 42 square meters of the loft in a semi-detached house, it is plausible, but can apply to (say) 1% of houses, all the others will require professionals and much, much more money.

And the "If you want to use your loft as a living space, or it is already being used as a living space ..." is a good example of British humour, so you have a loft used as living space and you lower its ceiling 27 cm (actually 28+ because of the plasterboard) and make it narrower and shorter 28 cm on each side ...
It boggles my mind that the tech interview process has become insanely byzantine and drawn-out over my career, yet layoffs continue to happen.

I've been on both sides of several layoff cycles. I've rarely seen any correlation with worker capabilities. I have, however, seen incompetent management cause employees to stall out and flounder.
having a boss is not so bad when you're making good money. Short-term pain for long-term gains and financial independence. Yeah, the boss is earning more, but how many opportunities are there in life to make solid 6 figures while someone else takes the risk; all you have to do is show up? Sure beats crypto gambling, shoppify, and shit like that which is marketed as an alternative, which has way more risk and most people make nothing.
Its... cool?

Alternative would be: clone the repo, do your changes, run gitk to be sure.

Which has advantage that result looks exactly the same as it will in production (no new diagram type b/c only using git and gitk), with zero risk that sim differs from reality.
That's as it should be. As soon as people start with the buzzwords, I tune out.
Having responsibilities and being affected by the state of the world is not the same as having someone you directly report to.
You've never watched Midsommar, did ye?
As a Microsoft employee I don't think it demonstrated good leadership and I am disappointed both with communication towards employees and them doing this.

If you are in a position you are laying off people which implies you are hurting as a company you should:

- Not spend money on expensive events or non-essential stuff.

- If you've already booked events (like the sting concert) either sell them to another buyer or donate them to charity. The optics of partying while you are firing 10000+ employees is awful.

Instead, it 100% feels "business as usual", one email from Satya and a bunch about extra-curricular events and "cool stuff" happening in the company and campus. I'm really missing the "we're in this together" feeling from startups.

(I am a high-performer working on a profitable and old product and I don't think I'm on the chopping block, I enjoy my work, my team etc.)
It's basically the powerful people's version of an academic symposium. I watched a lot of panels last week on youtube and the discussions were informed, interesting and very down to earth in regards to real problems and plausible solutions (not utopic, naïve, or extremist ones). Collaboration between governments, states and business, etc. Stuff that actually have a chance to achieve something. In particular I felt they were on point about the Amazon and the reception the new Environment Minister of Brazil, Marina Silva, a person I absolutely trust about this matter at least, was a great signal the WEF is an org I can trust, even if I disagree with some guests (natural since it's politics and I don't want it all to be in line with what I want).
I'm somewhere in the middle. I'd like to see movies use HFR like some movies use the IMAX aspect ratio.

Imagine Spider-Man: Far From Home in 24 fps, except it transitions to 48 fps in the Mysterio illusion scenes. Granted, this would spoil some moments in the movie, so it's not the perfect example.

I wish Avatar: TWoW was entirely 48 fps, OR it handled transitions better, like keeping it consistent across entire scenes.
The one that works is the one that people do without special training: sighing*. There had to be some reason why people sigh.

* Yes, this is an odd sort of sighing, but it isn't that different from spontaneous sighing. And people also hyperventilate on their own, but mostly preparatory to diving or holding their breath for some other reason.
The last line reads like something Clippy would say :)
I blame the short-term thinking for this. Everyone wants to see constant progress, there has to be growth every quarter, otherwise the stock goes down, investors are unhappy, CEO has to explain himself and promise quick recovery.

It happens in sports, too - a new coach is hired, and they get kicked out after a year, because the team didn't show much progress. But often it just time to work on fundamentals, build something new under the hood, maybe introduce changes in training/org structure/hiring, and only once it's done the progress can be visible. But fans/investors/owners always want it NOW.

What are examples of large companies that said "if we want to be on top in 10 years, we have to undergo a transformation, and stop thinking of short-term gains"? Meta is the only example that comes to my mind (though I believe their strategy won't really work, so not the best example).
If aliens are so internally slow that a few hundred thousand years is not a big deal for them, they likely cannot develop quickly enough to achieve interstellar travel before their star burns down.

There are rather understandable limitations on the physical size of electromagnetic transmitters due to wavelength and power parameters. There are also size limitations for sensors: you cannot capture too few photons per second, else you will not register a coherent picture of faster-moving processes on Earth.

There are also limitations on the size and mass of a device that needs to slow down from interstellar speeds to take a reasonable peek at Earth.

Basically, physics as currently known to us does not allow for a grain-sized interstellar sounding craft that could transmit back much useful info, let alone to spread a lifeform.
> elites really don’t have any control or vision over what’s going to happen,

Is this satire, blindness, or just youthful optimism?
every move you make..
Is there a particular season when this happened?
agree agree agree
The most recent COD/Cyberpunk/GTA productions have already blown well-beyond Avatar budget levels.
Also botox.
But it requires transmission over the internet, right? This is actually very interesting. Am I legally allowed to draw naked kids for my own enjoyment in the comfort of my own home?
Ah yes the "wait, black/white/mexican/muslim/chinese people would get this too? Then NO WELFARE AT ALL!" problem :(
I have been in one such companies. The investors asked for larger headcount, and the company complied. With the pandemic, there were some layoffs, and then big chunk of engineering left out of their own volition, since there wasn't nearly enough work for 450 engineers to do that wasn't accomplished with 100 a couple years before.
At the bottom of the stack, the answer is probably either "it fit perfectly in an 88x31 space between some other things on the first page it was used on" or "I drew a rectangle that looked right and didn't bother rounding the numbers".
Proxy all the requests through a server you own and validate the game’s cd key or whatever before forwarding the request. Could also add a block list of known bad actors plus some rate limiting if that isn’t enough.
Its not a weird attitude if there is an implicit agreement between the employer and employees.

BigTech specifically has lured people with the promise of stock appreciation on top of already great base. When stock prices collapsed last year many companies offered “top ups”. The implicit agreement was that stocks only had upside.
On a similar thread to this is the aspect of how film shoots did not have a video village. The primary people to see what the camera was shooting as the DP and Director. Video Assist came along (the old b&w flickering TV near the film camera) that allowed more people to see the image. Once a video feed could be provided to anyone, every body started to provide opinions. This actually slows things down.
I know it's much less convenient, but can we stop referring to the Republican party as "conservatives" ? In this case they reversed a precedent that had been in place for two generations, with a justification firmly rooted in collectivism.
> I happily waited a year for my bank to implement virtual credit cards.

Not the kind of feature I'm talking about -- your bank isn't contracting with you, personally, to make a credit card. Apple doesn't care at all about my opinions on when to release their next phone. Google doesn't ask me what they should name Chat this week.

Nonetheless, the stakeholders for such a project are going to be internal to the company, and there will be many: customer support, billing, compliance, marketing and legal, just to name a few. There will also be many deadlines, simply because huge numbers of people have to coordinate to turn out a complicated project.

> As a corporate user of software I have waited similar lengths of time for features I really wanted.

Again, unless you are signing the purchase order, you're not the customer, and you don't set the deadlines. Someone else is setting the deadlines for you. Also, just because you had to wait a long time doesn't mean that deadlines didn't exist for the project.

> This is why it's better for execs to treat bespoke deliveries as something radioactive

All software projects are bespoke. Some are smaller and more tightly scoped than others, but if you didn't need custom work done, you wouldn't pay an engineer to do it.
Again, you are failing to address most of a point. That's not a good sign, and I ask you to address it fully, but in the meantime I'll address yours.

Your claim is that this is driven by the pandemic. I think that's pretty suspect. China excepted, pandemic restrictions ended quite a while ago. I think this is much better explained by the usual shifts in the overall economic cycle, especially the Fed's recent increases in interest rates as they seek to quench inflation, plus the matching stock downturn. An easy check on this: Google's announcement of layoffs doesn't even mention the pandemic. Another one is that layoffs are happening across the industry, not just in companies that were especially boosted by the pandemic.

But even if it were purely driven by pandemic growth and then the retreat of growth, changes in growth expectations are not unprecedented. Unless you have numbers that show different, I expect the changes in growth rates are not unusual at all compared with other major economic phenomena.
Well, maybe banks also got into the "tech copycat game" given that, as per current FT headline: "Banks prepare for deepest job cuts since the financial crisis" [0] . Maybe banks finally managed to become real "fintechs" and achieved being valued as "tech" not as book liquidation value? /sarcasm

We most likely see the same people at work, behind the same spreadsheets looking at the same variables (interest rates, current stock prices), the same control variable (labor costs) and having the same incentives (future stock price) and coming to the same conclusion: just get some people out the door.

Business models, management quality, growth potential and other so-called "alpha" factors are meaningless when we are obviously at the late phase of a bubble where all the ugliness (from non-sensical bets to outright fraud) comes to the surface.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/4beafb70-ec1a-41d3-b18e-33a85bf2a...
this looks nice! I used one alternative, but somehow lost it when it was too locked
you can reach me at my username@gmail. i just retired 2 months ago from a 25 year engineering stint starting in cyber and ending as a level 5 ML engineer/data plumber. we may be too well aligned though. i have no major expectations but would love a cool project and good folks to work with. money is second to that.
Daimler reps already given their answer to trolley problem. - "Car safety systems will give priority to save people inside machine, and save outside only if this will not affect inside safety".
The Fiscal Arsonists
The stress is felt in either scenario though.
I’ve used TDD as a kind of proxy for predicate transformer semantics. Test first is a way of sneaking specification first into a team’s workflow. But let’s be clear, overspecification is bad specification! And that’s why as you say a lot of times the tests get in the way: they are overly specific and thus inhibit desirable refactoring. In my experience it’s better to err on the side of underspecifying. Most everyone agrees with me on that, since the total lack of specification you generally see is a species of extreme underspecification. Don’t think I’m being snarky either, even that level of underspecification can be appropriate in the exploratory phase, although I think it’s generally worth the effort to start from a specification that’s at least slightly more restrictive than the always true predicate.
The Foundation Series doesn't have any aliens because the humans created a bunch of robots that then decided to kill _EVERYTHING_ELSE_ in the galaxy to protect the humans.
That's not what I said, and I think it's a bit disingenuous.

Across the country, attacks on critical infrastructure are increasing. Attacks that are described and taught in literature that we KNOW FOR A FACT is circulated among certain types of violent-leaning groups. That's what I said, and meant. I am not making a claim that it's white supremacists.

It's starting to smell like projection. /shrug
I agreed. The example given, a very specialized manufacturer, does not represent the tech industry. Probably these employees recognized it would be difficult to be hired elsewhere and this is why they were so willing to put up with a 10% pay cut.
Yes. Unfortunately the US has an extremely terrible history with disabled people. People had to lay in front of busses to get accommodation to be able to ride them. These cliffs are purposely used to to maximize labor, not to make sure people are taken care of. They use the negative psychological effect of being poor to force you to figure out a way to increase your labor output. And of course, this is all bipartisan, not even considered wrong among our representation.
Many people cannot react to several frames, it is usually a predictive choice instead of a reaction. A great example of this is the Millie Blocker written in flash some time ago. It tests the reaction time of a move with a startup of several frames, and as it turns out is not so easy to react to without predicting. http://www.teyah.net/MilliaBlocker_v0.3.swf
Where would you go in this environment? Most of the top-name companies have had layoffs themselves, or at the very least are at the hiring freeze stage of the layoff routine.
If you’ve never been in a layoff where you lost someone you trust as much as you trust yourself, it’s a terrible experience that may come to define your time at the company. If they can lay “Dave” off they can lay any of us off. What if I’m next? Or god what if you’re next? I do not want your job and they’ll make me do it if you’re gone. I have to be very careful in meetings now, save 95% of my political capital for self preservation, not team benefit. Not company benefit.

You might have a few people who double down and say if this isn’t working we have to try something radically different. But Cassandra is often in the first round of layoffs. Nobody wants to listen to people second guess them so you’re out first. After that, no more ideological fights get won from that point forward. The entire team is in free fall, just trying to do enough to look good and hoping the market corrects before the wheels come off.
> My feeling is that it's the web itself which has gotten demonstrably worse. Diagnosing the reasons for that is a more interesting problem.

I think it’s a little tricky separating the two since Google has so much influence over the web. A lot of the parts of the web which have gotten worse were due to decisions they made to do things like cut ad revenue for normal organic content, declining to punish or even rewarding blackhat SEO, pushing AMP, shuttering Reader, etc. That sold a lot of ads at the time and people said it was needed to counter Facebook but it’s left them more vulnerable now.
[0] scholar.google.com

Google gives you sources, determining reputability is your task.
All this can be done since GPT3 API has been available.

I see a lot of people thinking chatgpt is something new capable of such stuff but GPT3 is far less restrictive and has been able to do all this for almost an year now.
If you download Shazam (owned by apple) you can see all the past music that Siri has identified