skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could shuffle them around for 6-9-12 months first...

Now they're just saying "you're bad for our company, period", which is demonstrably false. Some people lost motivation for their current project, current team, current manager, current org, etc, they just need a jolt.

> Google is a company with a fiduciary obligation to maximize shareholder profits.

Yes, both true and also a cop out. We should freaking put it in the legal description of a corporation that they also have social responsibility.

Otherwise if you follow your definition to its logical conclusion you end up with the East India Company starving 25% of Bengalis to death because that "maximized shareholder profits" (-.-)
Interesting, there's definitely something abnormal about that system — the old 2012 Mac Book Air I used to use still has an order of magnitude better latency than what you're reporting.

If I owned that I'd run a full hardware diagnostic[1] and would strongly consider doing a clean wipe and reinstall. One easy thing to try would be booting in recovery mode[2] and seeing what the latency is like in the built-in applications there after it starts up. If that's normal speed, you could create a new user and see if that's affected to see whether it's something like a problem with the spelling dictionary, etc. (it's possible that this has nothing to do with text input and is just a general problem, too, but that's the first thing which came to mind).

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202731

2. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-macos-recovery-...
Is this the end of Google? Rarely a company recovers after massive layoffs. Are they in the SUN Microsystems negative feedback spiral now?
Because that's how Twitter set it up. As a developer you play by their rules, and you can just about forget negotiating an exclusive deal that would reduce the company's rights and increase yours without paying for it.
This doesn't make sense to me. Charities arnt just magically forces for good. I'm sure there are a great deal of charities who do things you would consider to be bad things, as their entire mission statement. And I'm sure some of those charities have names that sound very good on a Amazon smile list.
All you need for the myth to be true are a few programmers who will take 10 times longer than necessary to complete a task.

I'll happily sign up as a volunteer. Or in the words of Nelson ‘Big Head’ Bighetti: “Richard’s a 10x-er. I’m, like, barely an x-er. I kinda suck.”
I think for most people 'revenge' either doesnt exist or dissipated quickly. If GCP skills bring money to the account then most people will leverage it regardless of their personal feeling to Google
>No multiplication by juxtaposition

That's possible albeit limited.

julia> x=[1,2]
2-element Array{Int64,1}:
1
2

julia> 2x
2-element Array{Int64,1}:
2
4

julia> 2(x+x)
2-element Array{Int64,1}:
4
8

julia> x=2
2

julia> [1,2]x
2-element Array{Int64,1}:
2
4

but, as mentioned, due to element access the inverse (x[1,2]) cannot work. Neither can multiply variables that way.
>>The major economies are posting record or near-record levels of employment;

Where?

Every chart I have seen shows total number of positions below pre pandemic levels, work force participation is down

Sure unemployment U3 numbers are still low on a national aggregate in the US, but regionally (including Silicon Valley) they are spiking heavily, and that is after they heavily manipulate the U3 to make unemployment look good by not counting HUGE numbers of people that are unemployed.

So I disagree that employment end of the economy looks good unless you cherry pick data
It can be useful, but the way they frame it is not clear to me. It is an overview and reference, which is indeed very important, but it is not the new paradigm they make it sound like.

Btw, really not a low effort. I have invested time on this. If you can explain how this is more than a survey, please share.
Your project is superb. Great purpose, and a solid start with the two medical records providers. Kudos!
I get the feeling that you're stuck in Terry Tao's 'rigourous phase' of mathematical understanding, where everything in the end is a computation and has to be carried out according to a set of rigorous steps and definitions.

I get that, but it does miss a bit the cultural context of how mathematically fluent people use mathematics to communicate with each other. When you're discussing maths with colleagues in front of a blackboard, you're often not really trying to prove anything, but discussing the relationship between mathematical objects. In this context the ambiguity and implication in the notation is almost a requirement, otherwise the communication speed tanks.

Having a mathematical discussion between a group of people all fluent in the context and terminology is a wonderfully fluid thing.
I like Future of Coding. The show combines interviews with paper reads. One of my favorite interviews was with Miller Puckette who created Pure Data and the original version of the Max/MSP software.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/future-of-coding/id126...

I also enjoy the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast. This podcast takes a much needed critical take of tech and SV culture. I feel like this is what tech journalism should be as opposed to the usual cheer leading we usually see.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-wont-save-us/id15...
Inept and incorrect medical history record keeping is a problem that makes me seethe with impotent rage.

Mid 2000s, I worked on an EMR with a "physician portal" front end and a "federated" backend sharing data across orgs and services.

I made our first "patient portal", think MyChart, which our sales team shopped around. Very little interest.

Have you ever had to correct simple stuff like your prescriptions? Over and over again? Because it seems your corrections never seem to take hold and propagate thru the system?

I can tell you exactly why. My team fixed the data models and queries for things like prescriptions, current and historical.

(Our portal even had a browser-based DICOM medical image viewer. Non-clinical grade, of course. But it worked and blew people's minds, at the time.)

Alas, M&As (both us and our clients), the 2008 economic crash, and supremacy of EPIC, Cerner, and the like swept away all our progress. Like it never happened.

--

Any way. Today I just do what every one else here suggests: Keep the papers, scan the important stuff, and have an up to date summary in Notes.app. And then grind my teeth while reviewing (and correcting) my history with each new provider.
It's not a charity you know. If they fire those many people, it's because they're confident they can go on without them. There are countries in which the law is more protective of employees, and you can't fire them unless you have serious economic reasons, which is a good thing. But in a country like the US where this isn't the case, I wouldn't shift the moral responsibility to the company itself. Its goal is to make money.
You don't even have to mess around with Smarts and Minis... The car I [try not to] drive (a Škoda Rapid liftback) fits four 180 cm (5'10") adults and their baggage for a week, yet I could almost drive UNDERNEATH some of the crap I have to share the roads with (LR Discovery, F-150, BMW X8).

I used to love cars and driving, now they disgust me, along with the whole my-car-is-my-identity culture.
So basically, if a company has enough in the piggy bank, its main purpose is to become a mass supplier of make-work jobs? Sounds like communism to me.
About 9 months back I relocated to India and started listening to Scaler Pod (https://www.youtube.com/@SCALER). It's focused on startups in India, and interviews their CTO or SVPs.

Two personal favorites: Dukaan CTO Subhash Choudhary[1] and Rippling Co-Founder Prasanna Sankar[2]

[1] https://youtu.be/a5kKRtMmhzQ
[2] https://youtu.be/8-6f7zh46EQ
Also slower to perform inference on. RNNs have to be much more sequential.
While this is a good overview of the options for primary key generation, there's no silver bullet here. Most projects that are using SQL should just use the gold standard: an auto-incrementing integer for an internal primary key. And then decouple the public-facing primary key from it into a separate column, whether it be ULID, UUID, or a random-project-slug-123.

Also, during debugging, it's a lot nicer to look at short primary keys than to have UUIDs flooding the screen.
It’s valid to argue that, but that means you can’t use CSV for many real-world data sets.

That, in turn, means you almost cannot use CSV in any robust solution. Even if, today, your input doesn’t have commas, quotes or newlines, can you guarantee it won’t tomorrow, next year, etc?
I listened to quite a bit of Darknet Diaries back in 2018 but he had a few episodes that were such complete misses for me that I hopped off the train. The episode about trying to get to the top of Apple's podcast charts wore my patience, but a few episodes later the content was padded out with getting up to date on some Youtuber drama or something? I figured it was just hard to keep finding content for this niche. Should I give it another chance? There's 100+ more episodes now than the lats time I looked.
Am I missing something? Is this 4 year old Reddit thread with a handful of comments really worth submitting here?
> I’m becoming more and more convinced that they’re preparing for a global recession.

Large publicly traded companies don't really prepare for large recessions. They are fickle beasts. They mostly react to the market feelings and are in a lot of way quaterly focused. What we are seeing now is the combination of WallStreet feeling gloomy after the rate hikes and tech companies 2022 results being under target. They are taking actions to try to protect their stock price.

From my point of view, the issue tech companies are facing right now is not so much the possibility of an upcoming recession than them having finally reached the point where their impressive growth is slowing down with little chance of ever coming back to the insane rate of the 2000s and 2010s. It means their P/E ratio which has always been extremely high might slowly come back down to the economy average. That would be a very significant share price drop.

If you look at the economy as a whole, signs of a major recession are not there yet. SMEs are still the heart of the economy and the bankruptcies rate remains historically low. Unemployement is also really low. Manufacturing is doing great. Energy prices are far from bad in the USA. Inflation is high but rate hikes seem to be working.

I'm not an oracle. I can't predict the future. I won't tell you there won't be a recession especially in a particularly volatile international context. What I can tell you is that currently the signs don't point to us being doomed.
agree that they are nonreproduceable, but they are probably not worthless in that i'm sure they have very extensive review processes and theyve said that they actually put models like T5 into production on search. there's no bigger skin in the game than that.

> they do not align well with what else happens in the field

i'm interested in this comment though. havent transformers changed the field? what is this referring to? mind getting your friend to elaborate?
+1 for Darknet Diaries

2.5 Admins

Self Hosted

Late Night Linux / Linux After Dark

Ham Radio Workbench

Rustacean Station (esp the "new release" episodes)

RealPython has some fair content for beginner / intermediate level

Hackaday covers some pretty interesting projects I wouldn't have found otherwise
Layoff very much due to investors' push. GOOGL, the stock, has been lagging the other big tech companies by a wide margin in the past year or so.

Big picture though, you have to start wondering if WFH trends have largely exposed "unproductive" jobs in these big corporations. It was very hard to identify them in the past but now it's become so evident. You don't really need these gap-filling-there-for-the-optics people. Companies are going to be run that much more efficient.
the most impactful are the architects, their bad decisions echo through eternity of code spaghetti
Even if it tells us, will we believe it?
> There's some infantile obsession with this phrase in every layoff thread. "I take full responsibility" is partly a polite way to say that they aren't blaming anyone else for what's happening, it partly means "I'm the one making this decision" and it's partly ceremony for the sake of appearances

Yes, we know, on the left we have a word for doing that, it's called "lying."

> if you're outraged that the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company is using this language, that's a problem with you, not with them.

The point of the comment is that we _should_ make it a _them_ problem.

> It's like being indignant when a friend or a colleague replies with "I'm fine, thanks" when they aren't fine, or when they say "I can't complain" when they're in fact capable of complaining - it's perfectly normal language for the situation and it's understandable to anyone who has developed the skill of not taking every word literally.

Yeah, sorry, but if someone does white lies and can't communicate, they ain't a friend.
Man, I wish beige was still an option when buying a new desktop computer these days. I know I hated that color when I was a teenager, but it just looks so nice to me now.

Like it would be a perfect fit for a bland old boho styled apartment.
At this time almost certainly. They already have a hiring freeze in plce.
> smeared all over the system

I mean, ACL data is normally stored in filesysem metadata, nothing is 'smeared'.
Which law ?
That at least make some sense, but I don't understand whose benefit is showing results for Rider and IDEA when I search for some detail in CLion that is different from the other IDEs from the same company.
I could not figure out how to subscribe to software unscripted with a regular podcast application. I don't see an RSS feed anywhere.
India’s population has already overtaken China’s
I think GP is asking about the M&B, not the MA.
“Jan 19, 2023” — OP article date.
Oh, please. Elon has nothing to do with this. Workers have had the shaft for centuries. Tech workers have been treated with kid gloves compared to the “real” world.
Anyone who has experience with search interested in joining us?

sirchit.com
josh@sirchit.com
Yeah but are those the good employees?
essentially the plot of the movie Ex Machina where the protagonist forgets to test for ulterior motives.
> There is even war on the border of the world's largest nuclear power and everyone is still escalating it even after 12 months.

Wow this is some next level Russian propaganda.

Maybe you meant to say "The world's (supposedly) largest nuclear power invaded their neighbour in an all out war and are continuing to attempt to destroy them 12 months later".

The only one who escalated anything was Russia when they crossed that border. And they can deescalate by simply going back to their own country.
Genesis's collapse is (a) nothing to do with covid and (b) systemically important to the wider crypto ecosystem.
> Elon musk set a precedent - you can treat your employees (serfs) like shit and get away with it.

Really? That habit is older than Henry Ford.
Do we really need to rehash this every couple of months? I mostly tend to enjoy the back and forth on it but even I am finding it something of a pantomime now :-(
The point being made is that there are no negative consequences to being responsible, so it's an empty statement. It doesn't even mean anything. They're making the decision because they're being rewarded for it by maintaining a certain level of profitability in the financial reporting game.
Automation is key.

Whoever could replace other's manual process by one time automation tool, it's 10x developer.

It's not about your "super design pattern".
The Insane Biology of Humans [video]
> as they do release a lot of papers, but these are essentially worthless and non-reproduceable as they hide raw data.

Well, I know at least that the transformers from Google are widely used in industry outside Google.
Tests are there to weed out 0.1x developers, not find 10x ones.
Comply with EU rules or face ban, Breton tells TikTok CEO
Have you checked the Irish websites? Im not sure about Ireland, but most countries' law language isnt English, too.
"If someone lies, it's your problem, not theirs."

What sort of argument is that?!

They are not "taking responsibility" to the slightest degree. It's an empty, enraging statement like, "Thoughts and prayers."
So it seems in Germany you can only fire employees if you are undergoing a downsizing or internal restructuring. I wonder if this Google layoff would apply. If they closing off whole teams this could potentially count as "restructuring".
That's a good point.

The fact is, if you are working for a corporation your salary is mostly dependant on your position and not on your output. Peoples outputs can be orders of magnitude different and they will still be earning roughly similar salaries.

My advice to 10x-ers is: don't work for corporations. If you can be very productive you are selling yourself short.
Looks like he is getting out before the Sh!t hits the fan. As soon as they begin stopping password sharing im out and know many others that will follow. Its surprising the amount of people are only hanging onto it because their family share passwords with them and they feel guilty if they cancel....that will all go away if they stop it , and so will many subscribers
> As usual, he says nothing more what the consequences for him are.

It's a company, and it is publicly traded. Thinkable consequences are plentiful and unspecific. Everything that can be imagined will be reflected in how well it is doing.

What I imagine you are actually asking for are not "consequences" but "punishment". Which is understandable: People are hurt in this and where is the justice. But if we start to think it only be fair to personally hurt people who (to the best of our knowledge) inflict pain while acting legally and only as a side effect (while trying to do what is best in terms of their job description) we are on a somewhat weird path, where the more responsibility you have, the more okay it is to have you personally suffer.

For that, I am not willing to "punish" a CEO who is exercising their legal power, because they did something other people dislike. The responsibility is theirs, which, apparently, as a general concept, we are also okay with as long as it goes smoothly.

If we (as a society) think that what we have right now what we want, we need new rules for what businesses are allowed to do.
two wrongs dont make one rigth
D&D responds to community backlash with new licensing terms
> We should freaking put it in the legal description of a corporation that they also have social responsibility.

Until that happens - people should blame the company, it's the system you have beef with.

> Otherwise if you follow your definition to its logical conclusion you end up with the East India Company starving 25% of Bengalis to death because that "maximized shareholder profits"

Isn't this essentially what we have now? With US companies employing lots of people in Bangladesh & Philippines for like $2 for 10 hours of labor - living and working in unimaginably poor conditions by Western standards?
Should companies keep paying people they don’t need or want ?
In all honesty, Mastodon feels like a bigger echo chamber than Twitter. At least for me.

The people on the server are somehow all like minded people. There is rarely any disagreeing going on. The missing exposure to diverse perspective makes mastodon boring to me, and is the reason why I stopped using it.

Maybe I used it wrong ¯\(°_°)/¯
> "Have you ever considered stealing from your employer?" to which I would cheerfully answer "Yes".

I absolutely do not mean this as an insult and I a honestly curious, but could you be chance be on the autism spectrum? I know I am, but not so much that I don't know that you must lie to that question. Though I did have to learn the hard way that you should not tell romantic partners that you wish your loud neighbors would die, because it would objectively improve your life. Or like when we learned about illegal slash-and-burn agriculture destroying the rain forests and hurting the global climate and I asked my teacher why the government wouldn't just shoot the farmers, to his intense horror and revulsion.

> but I genuinely don't understand people who have "never considered" it - how do you block & limit your mind?

I fully agree and think the same way, but neurotypical people generally scare away from thought experiments that make them uncomfortable because of their, as you said, mental fences.
I don't really have the authority to make donations out of other peoples cut of the money very often. Kind of missing the whole point of Amazon smile. I could spend 5$ on a toothbrush at Walmart, or I could spend 5$ on a toothbrush at Amazon and 25¢ goes to a charity I like. It doesn't need to be tax deductible because I did not spend any money on it,and actually donating to that charity directly would mean I'm out 5.25$ instead of 5$
Agreed that it sounds like a research block than a writer's block. I would also infer if students were struggling at some point but were doing fine before, they all reached the same set of blockades.
I highly recommend CoRecursive - The Stories Behind The Code: https://corecursive.com/

Basically, the host (Adam Gordon Bell, himself a programmer) is interviewing other software developers about their career or the journey to a particular piece of software.

I found these two episodes particularly interesting:
* Software Word Tour: https://corecursive.com/software-world-tour-with-son-luong-n...
* The Untold Story of SQLite: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
I agree, I've found like 1 or 2 "10x" developers in my career. Before I met them I doubted they existed.

I think that's why there's debate about whether they exist. It's a somewhat implausible idea and they're rare enough that plenty of people have never met one.

However if you follow open source stuff at all it's relatively easy to find examples, e.g. in the Rust world Alex Crichton is an absolute machine. Probably a 20x developer.
Yeah but you buy a pickup for a work that you could not do with a van.

Pickups are for farmers, how do you carry pigs or a pile of dirt in a van?
Google Calls in Help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight
I haven't really used the Apple podcasts website before but apparently I can find it there.
Collaborative databases (Wikidata, TheMovieDB, VNDB, etc.) all use serial identifiers. What is the problem with this? These websites don't want to hide how many entries they have (they tend to promote them), and it doesn't really matter if you iterate through all the numbers – the data is available through open licences anyway.

I think there are many situations where you don't want to expose predictable identifiers, but there are also examples where predictable identifiers may actually be beneficial.
I think the disconnect we feel with these people supposedly taking responsibility is actually that while the impact of these mistakes is real, their degree of control over this outcome was basically zero.

The problem with the statement is not that there is no action to go with the words, it's that actually they are not responsible for this outcome in any meaningful way which in some ways is worse.
> are not "taking responsibility" to the slightest degree

They’re not atoning to the internet’s satisfaction. But they are taking responsibility by saying as much.

The infantilism charge is accurate. Taking responsibility doesn’t require symbolic atonement like standing in a corner. Recognition is sufficient. If they deleted that line, would anyone be satisfied?