skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the best things about living in London. If you visit, take a walk there and then end up in one of the many brilliant pubs nearby - The Holly Bush, Wells, Spainard’s Inn, Magdala, Garden Gate, or sit in Keats’ house’s garden.

Also probably of interest to the HN crowd: in years past I set up a philosophy meetup on the heath that is still going strong (thanks Sam!) - https://www.meetup.com/london-philosophy-walks/events/290653...
This demonstrates that in the lack of useful context GPT-3 will answer the question entirely by itself—which may or may not be what you want from this system.

You can instruct it not to do that. This is explained in OpenAI's post about the same technique[0]:

Answer the question as truthfully as possible, and if you're unsure of the answer, say "Sorry, I don't know"

[0] https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples... (which is now linked in OP)
To add to this, any seeds from wild pollination will result in new 'varieties'my

It's trivial to regain diversity from this species, and it's not like apple is on the edge of survival.
> 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.

To be fair, Microsoft's executives partied with Sting[1] right before announcing their layoffs. They probably would have rather had Lady Gaga perform for them, but had to take some responsibility so they settled for Sting. It's hard times for everyone.

1: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-hosted-sting-con...
It is more about assistance to the engineers who are there to make them more productive, not replacing people entirely. Of course, if people are more productive then you don't need as many for the same level of outputs.
> every fucking movie in the past twenty years wasn't also using the exact same gold-cyan two-color palette:

You really should watch more movies. Colour has found new popularity after Spiderverse
It will also hurt you more if you’re on a lower salary. 10% on a 300k FAANG salary is a lot different to 10% on an 80k administrative job - you’re going to feel the pinch a lot more on 80k than you are on over a quarter of a million.
That’s true, but those same companies still wound up doing layoffs later on. So if your criteria is not to work at a company without layoffs then you’re still SOL.
All problems will vanish when cow slaughter is stopped: A court in India
It what way was Elon's layoff successful? They'll probably be bankrupt in less than a year.
In addition to further emphasis on "trusted senders" in the form of contact books, we'll also hopefully see a rise in identity-validated S/MIME. Though I get the feeling it'll hurt really bad before either gets deployed to a sufficient extent.
Oratio Obliqua (Philosophy)
If you take a constant fertility rate of 1, you'll always have an inverted pyramid, until there's no more pyramid.

(I'm assuming that the life expectancy does not change significantly)
Do you know of a GitHub equivalent for Mercurial? Bitbucket no longer supports hg. :/
Cutting 10% of the staff isn't the same as cutting 10% of all wages.
I would also think you run the risk of losing some of your best performers
Most people struggle with deliberate logical thought.
Cutting people as a form of making companies more profitable doesn't work as per the article.
You’re ascribing a negative motive by establishing one could exist. Surely there are petty tyrants on Reddit. But the much simpler, most generous, and most likely explanation is they enjoy a hobby and enjoy fostering a healthy community around their hobby, and that this itself is a hobby of theirs. The word moderator wasn’t invented for social media, and the role is crucial in any healthy intellectual community. Because your creative expression may very well be disruptive to everyone else’s, and while you’re free to be creative in your expressions in general, others are free to exclude you from their community. The moderator gets the unpleasant job of being the executor of that will.

I think the most important thing is most moderators I know hate the function of moderator. But the community is important enough they do it anyways.

So, I guess I take it back. It’s more like producing a video game or editing science fiction. It’s work we do to be sure everyone can enjoy a hobby we love.
It's very clear and has been. Larger enterprises finance debts that carry interest rates. When rates go up, costs increase. It's the exact same thing in the mortgage industry. When you go to buy a home, how much you can afford is determined by your how much you earn, how much capital you have, and the interest rate to borrow what you don't have. We're going to ignore full cash purchases because companies do not operate on full cash basis.

The point to my main post is that it's asinine to relate all these layoffs as "copycatting" one another. It would be like saying you only eat food because I do and you are copying me.

Or it would be like saying each of us has 10 days worth of food to survive 30 days. I implemented rationing to stretch out to the 30 days. You implemented rationing adopting the same strategy, but to say you are a "copycat" would be ridiculous.
It is well known that over the long run, only very few investors manage to outperform the market.

Market volatility has been surging, and it is now very tempting to do stock picking with the hope of outperforming the market.

When you know where your performance comes from, you can beat the market.
That's a whole other topic... how does she still have money? We know she's guilty of making that money from scams. She doesn't have to give it back? Pay fines? Restitution? It's just so absurd.
Not sure that will be enough to cover the welfare for all the unemployed. It'd make a nice experiment...
If you're using productivity to justify firing people, but then you proceed to avoid discussing how is calculated, you can't use it as a justification.

There's no clear way to measure employee productivity in a white collar job. So claiming "productivity is down" with no objective evidence, is just groupthink.
This also mentions, “The VP of UX, Bobby Nath, found out when his home Google Nest hub stopped working because it was connected to his work email.”

Though given the uniform high quality of Google UX, this one seems justified.
"I feel bad for people who make 12/her and get fired without 4 months plus severance, without health insurance extension, etc."

But also

"Seriously, stop complaining. End of the day life is not fair and you have to set yourself up to SURVIVE. "

Why would you feel bad for those people if life isn't fair and they should have set themselves to survive?
One exploit with rewinding game state is making sure game clients don't forge that they were "first" with timing abuse. But the standard strategy is to ignore commands too far back in time. So yes, the strategy does create an exploit vector, but it's easily addressed and attempting to use it as a cheater can have negative effects on your gameplay anyway, so it's not without its cons.
Depends of course on the use to which I'm putting the apple. If I had to reduce to a single variety in the orchard, I'd probably grow Liberty (not an heirloom, but rather a university-bred disease resistant variety created in the 1950s). Great eating fresh off the tree (if, like me, you like a tart, but not overly tannic, crisp eater), makes great dried apples, and decent unfermented juice. I would choose Honeycrisp (an even younger variety) over Liberty, if it weren't so damned hard to grow well. For keepers, I'd go with Black Oxford. For pies, it's hard to beat Beacon or Charlamoff (which is known by at least a dozen different names that are all somehow or other derived from Charlemagne, or Carolingian). I also like Calville Blanc for pies.
It may be early, but it's also actively competing with other systems. Those other systems aren't going to just stay stagnant until blockchain is ready.
Ew clone a repo to simulate a command?!

Hehe jk you make a fair point, and in fact I do have a bunch of work left to do to make sure my simulations do match up with Git's behavior as closely as possible.

One big benefit I was going for with Git-Sim though is to interrupt the developer workflow as little as possible.

Changing directories, running a new clone (which could take a mildly annoying amount of time), and running gitk is a pretty big context-switch.
I have trouble believing you could not figure this out on your own, but my point is that it does not change the math in terms of having enough people to physically guard each substation. Which was the point I was replying to.

That said, I also think you're wrong in the case being discussed, a group launching a wave of disruption via shooting substations. People engaged in that sort of ideologically driven societal disruption are not going to be put off by exactly which class of felony they'll fall under, as they know they'll be going away for a long, long time regardless, via everything a federal prosecutor can think to charge them with to get the sentence up into the "until you are old" range. Which might not take a lot of work, as "conspiracy to attack energy facilities is punishable by up to 20 years in prison": https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/two-charged-attacks-fou...
Job Market’s 2.6M Missing People Unnerves Star Harvard Economist
This is at best "first year student sat down for an hour to hand in a half baked homework" level. We seem to have very different ideas of what "creativity" means.
very interesting findings. I guess root cause analysis is required before any real solutions can be crafted - what changed in social behaviour / nutritional environment which coincided with such dramatic weight gain - and work hard at changing those factors. The availability of cheap, refined, adulterated processed foods has got to be a potential starting point
They should just stop spending money hiring Sting for these private concerts. I thought it was clear when we said, “Defund The Police”.
> I believe the core issue is devs like above never take the time to “grok” Git. I believe part of this is due to the lack of a tool like above to teach easily, but also because devs want to ignore the “how” of their tool working to find out the exact commands they need to run in their current situation.

Github is largely to "blame" for this. It mostly only exposes the happy path and using git kind of like any other VCS, but above all it ossifies the idea of git repositories being centralized (both because the canonical repo is always on github.com but also because of the forking/ownership model). A lot of the power (and sharp edges, and messiness) of git are in scenarios where everybody has a local repo and nobody's is really "canonical".

Git is really well-suited to development of the linux kernel. It's not.. amazingly well-suited for the job that 95% of people these days press it into?
I had heard of this service before and assumed it costed money, but thanks to your comment checked it out, and apparently they have a free tier allowing you to create 10 cards per month. Cool!
I’m sure Henry Kissinger has other people lined up to take on that roll. The technique of using exclusive events to socialize and indoctrinate people is age-old.
Austin McConnell has a wonderful video all about this story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7H5kFGEyUw
Here's an interesting part that's buried by the end:

>Another area of research focuses on maggots’ wound-healing properties. “Clinical and anecdotal evidence suggested that maggots improve or accelerate and stimulate a wound to heal,” says Nigam. “We were really interested in why this could be possible when that’s of no evolutionary interest to the maggot at all. We’ve discovered that it’s more than likely an inadvertent happening.
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>“The growth factors [hormones] that are produced have a very similar structure to the human molecules and that is how perhaps by accident the human wound is stimulated to heal faster. We’re going to investigate that further.”
Monumental waste of time. I'm sorry I took some to read it. In order to save you some time, author tried and successfully baited a regional airline into an infantile conversation.
I wonder whether I got in a bad A/B test group or something - I tried Spotify after Rdio shut down but no matter how much training I gave it the recommendations kept going back to the same pop albums they were promoting. It was very weird to see after reading all of that echonest guy’s blog posts about the cool things they were doing.
Then everyone would choose "gmail.com" and Google will get its true monopoly?
One thing I remember from my degree in cultural anthropology is that there's not much you can generalize about hunter gatherer societies. At least some of them were quite egalitarian.
Meh guys, it took 5 minutes just out of curiosity: https://github.com/thewopr
https://archive.is/mC7Jj
I can't help but wonder how many of these layoffs are really just "rank and yank" in disguise. Where the company will soon go back to backfilling pretty much the same spots from the open market. And, funny enough, if the pool is full of companies doing the same thing, well...it's essentially just trading your laid off workers for someone else's.
Exactly. I think a 10% pay cut with no layoff would create a sense of job security that most people would consider well worth a 10% cut.
CEOs are going to say that productivity is down to justify layoffs or to kill remote work (something they have been against before, during, and after the pandemic).

"pretty much everyone says" is not an actual defense.
Maybe use a desktop instead, because crossing state lines with that laptop might carry a jail sentence with a minimum term of 5 years.
I don't think he meant control of how the WEF operates but of the world economy.
Desert Rose... Ya leel, ya leel... layoffs... Ya leel!
Lower level management at Google was definitely not consulted on these layoffs. It had to be upper level only or it would have leaked more. Like really upper level. So there's no way the people @ that level know who's coasting and who isn't. I'm sure there were a lot of high performers cut along w/ some "fat".
> How is this responsibility defined?

If it were truly taking responsibility, the CEO approving layoffs would have a 28% chance of being laid off too.
Indeed!!

Making Android vaguely somewhat compatible with the rest of the Linux universe has been an incredible long & difficult struggle. There have been so many heroic works, to tackle the vastly radically different conpletely NIH-ed Android universe & make it deal-with-able.
Thank you! That was really bugging me.
> Do you have evidence of this claim?

I mean, there's like 1000 Protestant sects and they're all seperate so good luck, but the vast majority don't recognize writings of saints...

Here's a nice article explaining what the early church fathers got wrong from an evangelical perspective: https://bible.org/article/theology-adrift-early-church-fathe...

Just go to any Evangelical or American Protestant heavy website and see how they treat writings that aren't scripture...
>Isn't it better to have the same number of people and use them much better than a smaller number of people that are just as poorly used?

Of course! But that is much easier said than done. If it was as simple as just telling managers find a use that will make money, everyone would do that instead.
This image of US cities is misleading.

American cities I've been in are dyanamic engines of the American economy, filled with culture and life. Crime is low (though shootings are up nationwide, in every kind of place, urban to rural). Poverty is a big problem all over the US.

The strongest evidence is the very high premium people will pay to live in these cities.
I do a lot of DevEx and performance and reliability work. It’s not as sexy as a mid-boom greenfield Shiny Shiny project, but most of us are reinventing software IBM wrote in 1988 anyway, so the shiny is mostly an illusion.

You need the sort of work I do when you’re trying to get more done with less. Do I prefer using these skills to prevent over hiring in the first place? Of course I do. I’ll even take it for winding down a cash cow so we can start new product lines.

The “goodness” of most people who conflate new with better is a matter of prospects. This kid is going to be amazing someday. In a downturn you need amazing now, not some day.
You can use the --reverse flag to reverse the direction of the graphs in Git-Sim.

However the fact that time flows in the opposite direction of the parent/child relationships, is inevitable based on Git's design.
America is no more diverse than Singapore because every country is made of individuals each of which is unique and therefore perfectly diverse. We have chosen other arbitrary things which is weird since we say we are a melting pot.
Wouldn't a negative cycle be a good thing? You could drive the total cost down as low as you want before exiting the loop.
I'll be watching you... Through the Teams spyware!
This library transpiles JS to WebGL which allows computations to run in parallel on the GPU instead of one by one on the main JS thread.

I used this library to prototype shademap but I think it's no longer maintained. I PRed a fix to correct atan2 over a year ago and no movement [1].

Because this library optimized for simplicity over performance, switching to vanilla WebGL will get you better performance (especially with textures) in the long run.

I do highly recommend it if you're a web developer interested in harnessing parallel processing.

[1] https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/pull/683
And we should focus on the true victims of the recession: landlords.
People seem to have forgotten the lessons of The Mythical Man-Month: it's possible to have hired employees who are negatively impacting the overall software development effort.
It feels like I'm watching a real life Villain-Con.
I'm not sure if that would work in this case, because it IS sure of the answer, it's just that the answer isn't included in the context.

I could try "Answer the question only if you can do so using the provided context" though, that could be interesting.
But you must pay to use these APIs. They did give me $20 free trial though. You could make a bunch of accounts and abuse the free trial I guess. It must be cost effective for the scammers.

You can change up the prompt to change the writing style so spam filters will have trouble catching this new world of spam.
Ok, it also breaks down quickly at simply repeatedly applying a simple rule (it has no problem applying it once). And it is pretty much an inherent problem with language models, no scaling up will help with it.

And this is pretty much a must for proper thinking, you have to be able to follow the train of thought.
Revolut has single use credit cards as part of their offering. You can either choose to create a new one for each transaction (disposable card) or a virtual credit card that you can use more than once but discard if something happens to it.

Because both types are virtual prepaid type cards, some services (e.g. car rental) will not accept such cards.
I don't disagree with that sentiment at all. These company's min/max their strategy and operations regardless of the human impact and that is terible. However, I find the sentiment irrelevant to calling out a fallacy in the thinking through the article that layoffs are social contagions.
What Drunken Driving Taught Me
https://archive.ph/M154s
One small correction: the pandemic certainly is not over.
Same here. Likewise pom.xml in Java gets me every time
Somebody I know also had this issue at one point. In his case it was girlfriend which also used his account (but apparently without creating playlists or hearting anything, idk).
One thing I've seen "performance" is largely subjective. It is not just X cls or Y design docs (and you can see how these artifacts are easily gameable). A large part is visibility, likeability and awareness of org politics. A lot of them are maximizing personal gain over company gains. As a reasonably well-performing manager and former IC (as well as getting my share of not so great ratings) this was the game I hated but accepted to play - after many years of denial. And don't worry, companies know this. Check out Macleod's hierarchy or Man in the high castle!

So if you are worried that "top" talent will leave don't. Their departure is not damaging the company as much as the boat remaining unrocked!
Looks really interesting, although my immediate thought with "-fix-faces" is how long before someone manages to do something inappropriate and whip up a storm about this.
Attributing problems to race is unfounded, a soft racism promoted by the far right (and unwittingly repeated).
A couple small related past threads:

Predictions Scorecard, 2021 January 01 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706436 - Jan 2021 (12 comments)

Predictions Scorecard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18889719 - Jan 2019 (4 comments)
What's absurd is that this is something I have to pay for or find a particular issuer of a visa/mastercard. It should be free and included with every visa and mastercard. They should demand that every issuer of their cards needs to offer virtual cards and 3d secure. If they don't then their fees should be significantly higher.
Have you seen any examples of people using custom models for the custom Q&A case?

I've tried them for simple things like categorization - I trained a model against my blog and its tags to try to tag new entries, but the results weren't very impressive, and it cost $6.50 to train the model.
We are 2 days without layoffs
I've created a simple UI that shows how many days have passed since the last know layoff and also shows a github-like activity chart.

Data can be added via PR on the repo: https://github.com/lubien/layoffs/

Initial data imported from layoffs.fyi
Yes, from the police and police interactions. American police are unusually brutal anyways.

Per capita, American police kill 3x more than Canada's police, and 60x times more than England's police.
Davos is private gathering with politicians..media..celebrities.

It saddening to see it not questioned enough.

A private gathering—-people with agenda and means..capital media and celebrities—-to normalize and propagate that agenda.

while these globalists say they want more open border they meeting in one of most exclusive country in the world where difficult to get citizenship.

this also a grift. jason calacanis said on all in podcast how they offer him a seat at table for $25k or $40k some number like that in early 2000s.
People from Mainland China need a special permit to enter Hong Kong. I don't think anyone doubts Hong Kong is part of the PRC by now. The fact that there are border and immigration controls within China isn't something new. Of course with an independent government and military Taiwan is de-facto independent, but having to get a "visa" to visit Taiwan doesn't really mean much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit-Entry_Permit_for_Travelli...