skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes me physically ill to hear billionaire CEOs "take full responsibility" for the layoffs in an impersonal email while taking no pay cut themselves.

Look at Meta as one of the worst offenders. Meta's layoffs will save what? $5 billion a year? Assuming those employees were actually producing some value, the true savings will be less (since you also have to factor in severance costs).

Now consider that Meta has spent $36 billion [1] building the Metaverse with basically nothing to show for it.

Now Meta has fully internalized the idea that it cannot exist without a monopoly of some kind. FB (and even IG) are dwindling. The Metaverse is the answer to that. That's literally all it is. But there's no business strategy here, no value proposition to consumers (on the contrary, this is something consumers clearly do not want) and no product-market fit. Yet the intention here is to spend over $100B on this unproven effort. For what return on investment?

My point is that Meta could've achieved multiples of the "savings" from layoffs by simply scaling back or, better yet, scrapping entirely the Metaverse. Focus on the core business and acquisitions.

So many of these layoffs are purely virte signaling for "investor confidence" and nothing more. A less charitable interpretation is that it's aimed and making the remaining staff work harder and for less money, fearing future layoffs.

Meta in particular is rudderless and layoffs are a bandaid on that.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-lost-30-billion-on-meta...
That it's not really relevant to discussion of "crypto" in the sense used here, and that this logging already exists and is the law? The checking obviously still needs to be done, and since people generally dont get receipts digitally requires some manual work.
AGI will not happen in your lifetime: Grady Booch and Gary Marcus discuss
The big challenge for electrification is how to cope with energy demands of commercial vehicles. The Tesla semi needs 1MW for the fast charge. Yes -- that's 1000A at 1000VDC going into a single truck, which is a lot of power! Simultaneously charging multiple semis at a single truck stop means there needs to be many MW of capacity the electric grid has to deliver to that location. I can imagine that truck stops are going to need some form of local energy storage to smooth out the bursts on the grid for the trucks that need fast charging. Thankfully, a good portion of long haul trucks can use slower charging while the driver takes mandatory rest periods, so not all semis will need fast charging.

To get a better idea of the scope of the problem: take a semi with a 300 gallon tank that takes roughly 5 minutes to fill at a fast 60 gal/minute pump. In those 5 minutes, roughly 12.2MWh of energy is delivered into the semi. In other words, one diesel fuel pump today can deliver close to 144MWh of energy in an hour (assuming 50% idle time per pump). Which means that to replace 6 diesel fuel pumps, you would need upwards 864 x 1MW fast charge stations. Even dividing the energy delivery rate by 10 still leaves you with an 86MW capacity requirement for a single truck stop.

I think there's still a lot of work to be done before electrification of commercial vehicles on any large scale is viable.
The second sigh sounds like it may, in effect, progressively overload your lung capacity. Felt good too
How would I upgrade to 2.1 if running locally?
640x480 interlaced with optional genlock.
It's pretty powerful, it even solves old captchas :)
Technical details (and a fun project):

"Image Stacks and iPhone Racks – Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine (findthatmeme.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34303926
(2020)

This was written in April 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic.
Let’s see what shakes out of the town-hall meeting next week.
An example of this is the ACA subsidy cliff, which is now suspended through 2025.[1]

[1]: https://thefinancebuff.com/stay-under-obamacare-premium-subs...
I'm not going to defend the event or the optics of it all, but I would hazard a guess that if you hire Sting to perform at your company picnic it's not something you do the week before the event. The contract was probably signed off and paid in full months or years ago depending on how busy Mr. Sumner is these days.

I've been in a similar situation. Large company outing booked and all set up for the holidays, then there's a sudden layoff involving most of the people booked on the trip. We gave them the tickets and said "why not go anyway?"
I looked into the whole Alpha thing when I was training my husky and found it’s actually an outdated model/idea
The lofi tv scene is waiting to explode.
which is to say, in your org, the top performers are not the top paid? not great. sort of sounds like a way to lose your top performers if I'm honest.
The easiest way to exploit THP, by far, is to link your program against TCMalloc and forget about it. Literally free money. Highly recommended.

https://github.com/google/tcmalloc
For US dollars I think the most widely available UBI is Social Security, even though it's only universal after retirement age, and only for those that paid into the program.

It's still quite significant and over the decades prices have tended to adjust such that the benefit itself is never quite enough to retire on.
WhatsApp had 55 employees when Facebook bought them out.
Right. It means there's a lot of things that don't get created--or companies cooperate in some sort of fairly tightly coupled network that doesn't look that different from one big company. (But probably less efficient if you follow Coase.)
For most use cases shortest path is super simple and fast problem on modern PCs. So might be useful on extra large synthetic networks.
Neural nets?, Trading logs?, Image processing?

Also negative weights are rare in real life applications. And def not in what you would consider normal path planning.
and yours flourishes? thanks for your feedback, now go sweep the entry-way.
Plenty of detail in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepMind.

His Lex Fridman interview was very interesting too: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfr50f6ZBvo.
I’m taking some time to study classical guitar with a private teacher at ~conservatory level. Feels like my form of “quitting tech to work on a farm”.

I’ll also work on my own personal projects and see if any of them can gain enough momentum as a lifestyle business to avoid returning to soul-sucking BigTech.
I was. Thanks!
Tech work is now seasonal you say?
They look to have distilled things down to a pair of Algorithms in pseudocode, if you want to take a swing at implementation-for-understanding.
The main difference to me between film and digital isn't the dynamic range, but how the edges of whatever the range is looks. In digital, it's clipped. In film, it rolls off. That is one of the key differences to me. An area that is overexposed in film looks much less harsh than the look of the digital overexposed.
For AAA games, this is definitely an outdated view. A modern AAA game is about as expensive to make as a modern wide-release hollywood movie, on average (50-100 million USD).
I mean, the runtimes are right there in the abstract; this is pretty easy to compare. Bellman-Ford takes time Theta(|V||E|), and as best I can tell the improvements you mention don't change that, they're just constant-factor improvements. As opposed to this algorithm being O(|E|*log(|V|)^8*log(W)), where W is the largest absolute value of a negative edge.

The abstract of this paper even compare the runtime to the state of the art, and what it compares to isn't Bellman-Ford or the improvements you mention; there had already been asymptotic improvements on those.
It doesn't matter how much I look at them, and I get the reasoning, but the right->left flow orientation of VCS diagrams will always be disorienting for me.
The feature is called “live text” and has a couple of different features. Copy text from photos, videos, and using the camera app. Pretty nice.
They don't hybridise as far as I know, or don't give anything long-lived.

An interesting hybrid though is x Sorbopyrus, a cross between a pear and sorb tree.
It's a strange balance. Either you get a pay cut with a job that might cut again, or your colleagues get laid off with the potential that it's you next time.

Either way you'll probably be thinking about interviewing, with a bit less urgency if you get to keep your job.
> Swiss Orange“. Which is so ironic because there was no access to Switzerland nor good Oranges.

Perhaps this is what made it desirable.
When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know
> When done correctly, layoffs give 100% of the pain to 10% (or whatever) of the people

Have you been in a layoff? Not having a job anymore is not the only form of punishment.

I maintain it’s not even the most painful. Being a survivor can suck mightily.
It feels easy to think that it's the case that your employer and coworkers are a family.

In my case, I stayed six years in my first job out of college - as did most of my coworkers (the company was pretty stable up until the very end, when I left). I made a lateral shift within the company, and also made it to senior, under their wing.

The illusion started to come apart after a layoff (35% company-wide, 45% in my department, 60% of my team). I started looking for another employer at that point, because it was pretty obvious I'd only been retained to keep the lights on. When I gave my resignation, I wasn't met with any attempt at retention like higher pay. I _was_ told that it'd be personally detrimental for me to leave, because the company was my family (they knew I'd had some unrelated domestic issues that year), and without them, I'd be lost.

And of course, I agreed with them - for one week, after which I shook my head, said "what on earth am I thinking?", and resigned again. It took some time to realize that it was mostly a manipulative attempt on their part.
It has to be an AAC file with the magic extension .m4r, but yep, custom ringtones are possible, have been for years.
I agree. From my experience a team of about 20 individuals treated as roughly equal works best. Their likely need to be some hierarchy, but it should be a high amount of trust. I think this works well to about 25-30 individuals at which point splitting the teams might be considered.
But if everyone is freezing far fewer people will leave.
It may just be confirmation bias, but I've been noticing this with some scenes set in the outdoors shot in front of LED walls. They have almost too beautifully perfect, almost colorful lighting conditions.

Examples that come to mind right now:

1. Scene in The Batman where Bruce and Selina have a moment in the under construction tower at golden hour. Maybe some other scenes in that movie too.
2. The entire opening sequence in Thor: Love and Thunder.
> real scenes don't look like that.

Movies never looked like real life, They had a butt tonne of artificial lighting. even up to the 80s outdoor scenes routinely had artificial lighting to get better exposure.
If you’re a top performer you bail as soon as there are layoffs anyways. I certainly do. It’s rarely a sign that anything good is in your future, they’re often performed poorly, and the work environment post-layoffs is incredibly bleak and disheartening.

If you have options there’s no good reason to stay.
The Netscape banners do it for me, as the time when Netscape was dominant was a great time for me. The internet was a huge vault for me, and every time I dialed in I felt that rush. Every minute counted because we paid by the minute.

Netscape is also Mozilla's spiritual father.

Lynx didn't have JS support. Which was a blessing and a curse.
I've been wanting something like this ever since GPT-2 was a thing. Language models seem like a pretty natural fit for voice assistants. It's just a question of actually building one, and of being comfortable enough with all the new failure modes that enables to actually release the product despite that.

Hopefully the existence of ChatGPT has popularized the idea enough that we'll start to see companies actually implementing this in short order. Or at the very least, open source solutions taking advantage of LLM APIs outcompeting proprietary assistants from companies too terrified of the idea of Alexa or Siri being caught on camera saying something racist to implement a system where there's even a remote possibility of that happening.
PoE oddly enough does use TCP for all of its netcode, its somewhat unique in this way compared to similar titles. I know they use a few different outgoing ports so its possible they deal with head-of-line blocking issues with parallel streams (not sure about that, just conjecture).
Anecdotally, I've heard multiple stories of companies hiring staff, but not having any useful work to fill their time. Cases like product managers being hired but not assigned to any actual products, or engineers hired to infrastructure teams before the company has decided what infrastructure it wants. Although, these anecdotes are mostly from startups trying to scale and grow, not from FAANG-tier companies.
Related:

Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19264154 - Feb 2019 (113 comments)

Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14773964 - July 2017 (77 comments)
I use Stripe so this isn't much use to me, but looking at their other canary tokens I could see the AWS key canary being useful.

https://docs.canarytokens.org/guide/
It's literally TCP, I was looking at packet dumps yesterday. I was surprised! ENet is common for this kind of game.
I like how bugs are spun as features with Apple software now. It seems there is no accountability at Apple. I struggle with iCloud, message syncing, and Siri daily. If I was CEO I would be upset with the quality of software running on customer devices and would be holding product and engineering accountable.

I’m in the process of moving to better purpose built products. System76 for general compute, and Garmin for health and activity tracking. I’m hoping for the Fairphone to land in USA soon so I can transition to it.

Also, spending time on a solid home server setup and leaning on Home Assistant community to provide an ideal smart home. HomeKit is just another walled garden that will harm IoT advancement.
I'd say its like saying white images are whiter than black ones. Whether or not you want a white image is subjective. How white a white image is objective.
Yes. I'm making a YAML to SQL converter here: https://yaml2sql.netlify.app. It's mostly for fun, useless for most of use cases.
I wonder how much that costs and whether it’s worth it
Even Stanford with its multi-deca Billions in endowment cuts technical staff. They may not call them layoffs but they do cut budgets and headcount. I don’t believe they reduce pay in lieu of headcount. They’re hypocrites! As others pony out, you risk having your best leave, unless they harbor true communist spirit and take one for the team.
Not persistent. You can boot into an ISO of course but the flash drive won’t be able to store changes, files, etc
When “Only Online Chat” Customer Service Goes Wrong – Frontier Airlines
Casino apps are exactly that, and highly profitable
I haven't seen this movie, but I could see that. There are definitely some movies that use this quality as a part of their setting. See: Gunpowder Milkshake.
> The earliest life forms we know of were microscopic organisms (microbes) that left signals of their presence in rocks about 3.7 billion years old.

And yet civilisation has only existed (that we know) for the last few thousand years.

It seems that it might take a long time for complex life to establish itself.

Brian Cox touches on this here https://youtu.be/aPOCP4GHJvI at around the 7:00 mark.
> In 2021, as people began returning to their pre-pandemic shopping habits, Amazon’s revenue growth decelerated to 22 percent with nearly $470 billion in revenue. And in the first nine months of 2022 (Amazon reports results for the final quarter of 2022 the first week in February), year-over-year revenue growth decelerated all the way to 10 percent. To make matters worse, Amazon’s core retail business lost more than $8 billion during that time frame, compared to an $8 billion profit during the same period the previous year. Jassy decided Amazon’s layoffs and cuts had to follow.

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2023/1/19/23562702/a...
In fairness, you just made two strong statements without evidence.
> where the leads were largely alone on screen only

I feel like that is many movies now. The worlds are small and the consequences / events are just there for the primary actors to respond to and seem entirely disconnected from any kind of universe.

Massive events happen just for the sake of having a hero mug for the camera. But no consideration otherwise.

At this point in the Star Wars universe I expect the regular people of the universe would realize that ALL force sensitive people are more trouble than they are worth… but no the people of the universe show up, say dumb things, die (or don’t show up… literally nobody at times) at the appointed time for really no reason that to give the heroes or villains something to do.
I agree, but I fear that might involve selecting for some undesirable traits.

It seems that many people today who never have kids do so for a good reason, such as unstable personal economy, not owning their home, not knowing as much as possible that their future children will have good lives.

The people that continue to have kids today are often the overly religious, the financially or generally irresponsible who lack self awareness, or just plain stupid people. These are not traits we want to evolutionarily select for. See the movie Idiocracy for an example.
I worked with a bunch of them at Apple, like Zarko (RIP) and Phil (RIP).
Hung out there a little bit, got to meet one of my PARC heroes (Ed Satterthwaite)
Andy went from there to Artemis/WebTV, Danger, then Android.
Impact of Hard Water
i think a big part of it is that they are an industrialized nation that seems to have modernized in a positive way and without losing all of their uniqueness in pursuit of becoming another utterly bland and inoffensive global commerce hub.
i personally have a great deal of admiration for the japanese because they have managed to embrace & preserve their traditions and artisanship across centuries

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC1-sTIbDQc&

while also leading the world technologically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AiYirZPwIs

and not to mention they are still building giant cool things, a style of monumentalism which the western world seems to have largely abandoned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIucUB23zZ4&
> Back in the 80s we had films that were in color

those films were mostly grain.

But as other people point out, the grade of a film has been a deliberate choice for over 20 years. None of what you've seen has ever been natural. but now its a bit more obvious.
I worked for several years as an independent contractor; when my last big project ended several months ago, I decided to take a sabbatical for the climate. So far that has meant spending more time with my kids, learning to compost, building some new raised garden beds, mending some clothes that I previously would've replaced, reading more books, and various other little things. I plan to start volunteering soon with the local tool library, and there are tons of other things we'd like to do to reduce our budget and carbon footprint, when we can get to them.

I know not everyone can afford to "just take time off" but among those laid off from a tech company and browsing HN, surely some fraction of you could afford to do the same. You will still have a career to come back to if you spend a year turning your attention and energy to the climate crisis. BUT if you're under 40 or so (I'm 37), you may find that there is not a recognizable planet to come back to if you continue to focus on your career until the retirement age we were brought up to expect.
This was not the Microsoft company picnic, it was an event for 50 or so senior execs. Microsoft famously used to have a huge and extravagant company-wide picnic for all employees in the fall--they would rent out an entire stadium or other huge area. They canceled the company-wide picnic in the downturn of '09 and as far as I know never brought it back. This event was something different and just for a hand picked selection of execs.
Also, it would make me so happy if someone did a proper benchmark of

- pandas

- polars

- modin with various backends

- DuckDB and Postgres SQL from Jupyter/python with the usual SQL dataframe magic

- R

- on medium and 'pretty big data' i.e. 10GB dataframes with millions of rows.

- maybe on consumer Intel, M2, and Epyc with lots of cores
Yeah this is the heart of why the Fermi paradox does not convince me.

The vastness of space and time mean that there might have been millions of other civilizations that have reached our current level of technical advancement with no real overlap.
I think one of the reasons everybody keeps producing content with massive background bokeh is because of digital video formats[1], having a blurry background and a relatively still subject in focus requires relatively little video bandwidth, so the video can still look good even with a kind of crummy 2-4 Mbps encoding.

1: edit, I guess it's mostly about having to stream it over the internet
Aaaand?
Dan Russell, senior research scientist at Google, was laid off
Quite a shocker. Dan Russell, a computer science legend, was affected by the recent layoffs at Google
This is typical, companies are not a single organism perfectly synchronized.

A few years ago, I rented a booth space at an event and the company at my side did a massive layoff that included the people in their booth... while the event was running.
yes, yes it was. The author has missed the point, its meant to make you feel unsettled and empty.
I’m getting back into my synesthesia art project: https://testfixture.presteign.com/

(Running on Grav with Turbolinks; visuals made in Affinity Designer; audio made in Reason)
(July 2022)
US Supreme Court takes on the internet
Uhhhh, Google didn’t make Android, Google bought Android…
How does this relate to my post?
A sub-replacement fertility rate will worsen an inverted pyramid situation, until the population eventually reaches 0
I get the feeling you are trying to simplify the world so massively it ends up being non recognizable. Colonialism brought oppression, but oppression isn't necessarily colonialist. Only some countries has been colonial powers, but Turkey certainly was one of them.

The holocaust was a specific event and not directly taking part doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Still, thousands of jews were deported to death camps. Wikipedia, as can be expected, has an article on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_and_the_Holocaust . But every minority has their own story. There are yezidis, kurds, armenians and others.

It is far beyond simplification to say that eastern Europe did not have colonialism and oppression. I don't think I need to go into details. The events of the past century are well documented.
Patents should be abolished.
I think game monetization is over-scrutinized for a couple of reasons.

One, it's fresh - games had a fixed cost for about 25 years. Notice I didn't say it's new, because games had similar monetization tactics if you go back far enough to arcade tokens.

Two, the most vocal players are not yet in the income-earning years of their life which makes them incredibly price sensitive. Once they get older and have a better grasp of time and money, they may decide spending $200/month on a game you enjoy daily from the toilet is on par with other hobbies they could have, and more convenient.

From another angle, consider grocery stores which purposely arrange their stock inefficiently to make you walk deeper into the store. And force you into data collection price clubs by withholding competitive prices. This stuff is just as 'exploitative' as dark patterns, but with only a fraction the digital ink spilled over it. (I'm doing my part!)