skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional licensing is messy in a different way. First, it’d be harder to retroactively license people. Second is the there is significant variety is specialty (ML, kernel research, front end) so it’d be harder to create a standard for licensure.

A license creates scarcity, and deputizes a few people as “licensed” which grants them some special privileges. But not quality of life privileges, work privileges. My mother is a licensed engineer in another discipline. She has to “stamp” or approve anything before it can be built. A lot of her job is resisting management requests for her to stamp everyone else’s work (cheaper unlicensed engineers). She says the extra job security is more than ruined with extra stress and fighting. If she says someone else’s work is inadequate… it’s a problem for everyone including her to fix. So… we could require that licensed software engineers approve all code reviews that go to production…? But not do anything to mandate quality of life improvements. You couldn’t even prevent outsourcing because you can have one licensed American whose sole job is approving the overseas code reviews. They may not even be team specific. Sounds terrible to me.

The benefit of a union is negotiation. A Union could say “no unpaid oncall”, and “you have to hire x% union workers”. With a license…? How would you enact those protections? How would you slow layoffs, or ensure jobs don’t get outsourced? One thing people always forget: unions don’t have to dictate pay.

There are examples of unions today. Google had a union. It wasn’t very popular because no one thought they needed it, but it was there. Most government jobs in the US have a union. Hollywood actors have a union, and those actors get paid very well. The union uses the actors as bargaining power - if you want the famous actor, you need the union cameraman and sound guy. It prevents a lot of the behind-the-scenes work from being outsourced.
I don’t think it’s deep info, or even copycat, except of course that general industry tends to be driven by the same economic waves that roll over us from time to time. When executives expect recession conditions, they try to act proactively. One of the certain places they can quickly cut costs is in headcount.

Tech definitely bloated a bit over the pandemic because of the uncertainty. Pandemic is over, recession is upon us, this is more a normalization in my opinion.
Ray Kurzweil claims to have invented the Singularity. Ray Kurzweil is full of shit. Marooned in Realtime came out in 1986. Ray didn’t start talking about this stuff until the mid 1990’s. If anyone invented it, it was Vinge.

He’s retired now but he was a professor of CS and Math at San Diego State.
Whoops, that's a surprise, I guess I should have checked it first... XD
> During the pandemic consumer spending moved online.

I keep hearing this repeated as canon but is this quantified somehow? Did we really see a spike long enough for hiring sprees? And did it last until ... when? A few months ago?

It seems intuitive but I'd really love to see numbers.
> Say what now? Are you trapped in the 1950s or something

No. Reality.

Where in the US do we have a power transmission line that goes significantly farther than 300 miles?

Also, if I had to guess, I would not be surprised if the super high voltages required to go farther are so dangerous to people, wildlife and the environment that they will never be build in the US or Europe. China doesn’t care about such things.
Layoffs and paycuts don't bode well for any interesting work or keeping people in a mood where they are likeable.

The handwringing and psuedo-calculus of cuts does further damage to any interesting work.

Can't do interesting work when instead you have to fill in for a job previously covered by a junior engineer.

It'd take a hell of a company culture to fight these trends.
Note that ASML machines will stop working if not continuously supplied with replacement parts, software fixes, and calibrations. The machines are incredible complicated on every level.
The market shifting to profitability over growth was the motive, absolutely. But Elon's decimation of Twitter was the means and opportunity. And I think that copycatting those means of executing layoffs - 7am email notifications for 20-year employees, minimal consultation with lower-level management about who should be retained - will have significant ramifications on the morale of the remaining workforce. Perhaps some of it was unavoidable to avoid media leaks. But a lot of how all this was executed reflects a massive lack of empathy.
There is no solution to the oracle problem.

But there is a solution to the trusted protocol problem by only trusting content created through transformers as you will be able to see the intent it was created with.
Yeah. I’m a bit confused on how an article on layoffs misses the massive increase in cost of capital. The entire market has changed.
There were lots of reports of this with the hobbit, e.g. https://theweek.com/articles/469863/why-isthe-hobbit-making-....

Being on a big screen probably makes it much worse.

Also I’d conjecture video games are different. It’s like driving a car. Since you are directly controlling the camera usually, I think this helps your brain avoid nausea. Although there’s plenty of people who can’t play FPS either because it makes them feel sick.
Update to F-Droid app descriptions
Unfortunately the new design seems to break the extension's ToC sidebar
if you're someone who is willing to invest time into researching regedit workarounds (which will eventually reset or cease to work), then looking into desktop linux is perfectly viable...and not theoretically, but practically perfect.

i used to do an enormous amount of Windows XP regedit tweaking and customization, using sysprep, rolling service packs into new ISOs, making use of https://ryanvm.net/forum/ scripts.

all of that has become practically impossible now. every update resets everything, regedits no longer work, and each update brings back the bloatware you've debloated using things like https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows.

the only recourse now is to disable TPM 2.0, which is a Win11+ requirement. or pirate that fabled LTSC windows edition because, you know, you can't actually buy it.

in 2020 after an unpreventable Win10 update fucked up my dual boot setup i finally called it quits and switched to EndevourOS (Arch) KDE/Plasma and haven't looked back; fuck Windows and its aggressive rent-seeking.
Does anyone have good analysis of what one should expect widely available UBI to do to prices?
The once CEO of Sears tried splitting the corporation into thirty to forty companies: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4385-failing-to-plan-how-ay... (I recall reading a more entertaining and detailed write-up, but this is what I could find on a quick Google Search)

In short, turns out aligning thirty to forty competing profit motives is hard.
For path finding heuristic methods give "sub-linear" time usually (if you have a pre-processed unchanging network with random access and amortize its construction over many queries). A-star is the old school one, but folks use fancier methods today. In a server farm linear time is too slow, basically.

Interestingly, on a vehicle just doing Dijkstra's for within-city pathfinding is probably fine though if you've optimised the constant factors down. Likely no negative costs.
An "impressionist" frame rate is totally inappropriate in such a context.

Start with the shakey cam effect, often added post production, which does what no human head/eyes do during fast movement.

(And often used to cover up poor quality fight scenes)

Second using an incapable camera person, the camera jumping around like my grandma doing video on her phone. Steady cams, and gear, and booms, are a century old!

While I am open to looking at all modern issues, I'd prefer getting rid of purposeful garbage first.
> If the FBI is after you, they can send a letter to your VPS provider just like they can send a letter to github.

And unless that VPS is in the US or provided by a US company, it's unlikely the FBI will get much of a useful response to that letter. Some countries' LEAs cooperate with the FBI and other American LEAs, but not all.
I'm not a thousandaire, but I still think it is ridiculous
The video presentation from the author is approachable even for a non-domain expert. It looks like this has pretty broad applicability to applications in chemical processes, scheduling, logistics (pick ups and drop offs along the route), re-fueling, etc.

I think @DropPanda gave a great example of regenerative charging in an EV.

In the video the author does use cost/price-function terminology.

Djikstra doesn't handle negative weights, Bellman-Ford is optimal for positive edge only. This apparently is also easier to parallelize.

The Quanta article mentioned below is excellent https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-fast-algorithm-for-...
I think this professor should study economics a bit. Its as if he thinks the world is what people think it is, rather than what the facts about the world tell us, and the economic facts at the moment are terrifying, and not because of what people are saying or doing about them.
It wasn't shot with a blue filter. It was graded in post to have that look. Before RAW, it wasn't unheard of to have a "blue filter" from shooting with the wrong white balance setting, but it was a totally different blue filter look.
Phase 1 wasn't shortened. And all stages assess safety.
ChatGPT: Students could use AI to cheat, it’s a chance to rethink assessments
Agreed, "Welfare Cliffs" seem extremely suspect. It seems ideal if all Welfare were based on Gradient scales, where earning $10K more would ease off benefits, by like -$20 Welfare per +$100 Earned
Very on-brand considering the project. I'd like to believe SQLite is under some sort of divine protection. I'd imagine the team are all on the same page.
> SQLite is closed to outside contributions.

Incorrect.

Anyone is allowed to contributed to the SQLite code base. There is no religious test, nor even any code-of-conducts requirements for being able to contribute to SQLite. This has always been the case. But the barrier to making contributions is high - higher than many other projects. There are two main reasons for this:

(1) Any contributions need to be able to demonstrate, with legal rigor, that they are in the public domain. Otherwise, if copyrighted code were introduced, SQLite itself would cease to be in the public domain. The SQLite project places a lot of emphasis on provenance of the code.

(2) Contributions need to demonstrate that they will be useful to a very wide audience, and that they will not diminish our ability to maintain the code for decades into the future. Most of the effort in a project like SQLite is long-term maintenance. People might be really proud of the work they have done on some patch over a day, or week, or month. But the amount of work needed to generate the patch is nothing compared to the amount of work they are asking the developers to put into testing, documenting, and maintaining that patch for the life of the project (currently projected to be 27 more years).

Many people, and even a few companies, have contributed code to SQLite over the years. I have legal documentation for all such contributions in the firesafe in my office. We are able to track every byte of the SQLite source code back to its original creator. The project has been and continues to be open to outside contributions, as long as those contributions meet high standards of provenance and maintainability.
That's certainly true for unfocused light like a lantern, but lasers diminish only linearly with distance.
They wouldn't do that. Windows Server is an integral part of Azure, running on every machine that hosts VMs.
Sure, you could. And then the US would mobilize, and put resources towards fixing those major issues right away.

Major hurricanes slam the south east regularly and damages power infrastructure, regularly. If it became a real problem, the government would be quite real in their response, and so would most of the people
10b5-1 plans do not have to be filed with the SEC.

(The use of a 10b5-1 is also not technically a legal requirement, but is a workaround to allow planned sales even if you become aware of material, non-public information between the time of entering into the plan and the time of the trade.)
"Use a VPS that uses SSH with key-based authentication, store the git tree of your passwords there."

Exactly what I told my Phillipino mother in law to protect her AOL account. I can't imagine why she doesn't do it.
Btw this post is based on a preprint - might be good to wait a lil

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.13382.pdf
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Third Audit Results for F-Droid
TIL, thank you. Korea is astonishingly low! 0.84/woman in 2020.
Not for the Embeddings product.
On Mull (Firefox fork in android ) it says Webgl 2 is missing.

On Fennec in android it works flawlessly.
Thank you for the link. It's a new application so I didn't really mean "new format" so much as what you would like to see the configuration itself support. (Maybe I should have said: "when you find that an application has a configuration file, what are the characteristics of that file in terms of functionality and format that you like to see - what do you like to be able to configure in an application and how do you like to be able to configure it using a configuration file, in terms of both structure and functionality?")

You mention "Is it a good idea to still force a single file once the configuration reaches some sufficiently large size?"

If it is not limited to a single configuration file what do you suggest is best practice for which one(s) should be loaded?
No company likes laying off people. Makes me think, - is the author not believing the market right now? Because it is terrible. No company likes losing
You would need more than 10 percent pay cut to offset 10 percent in personnel spend. Health insurance/benefits is a significant source of spending
You don’t need “privileged” stuff to get an idea about how the other person thinks about things. Also, I am not talking about some “met at a conference” or “did an interview” kind of a setting, this professional work environments kind of a setting.
Headaches and nausea?

Panning shots typically only last a few seconds.
Many paintings were too "never chosen" and were made in that medium because photography didn't exist back then, Henry VIII probably would have hired a professional photographer instead of a professional painter if it had been possible, despite all that painters still exist alongside photographers in modern times.
It's a wonderful place. I was recently visiting London (where I grew up), and in not the best mental health, and I pulled over the car by the Heath and went exploring. It did wonders for my soul.
GPT-3 vs. ChatGPT RE convincing each they're sentient (there's a big difference)
I profoundly disagree.

You hired 7 dog walkers (one for every day of the week) to walk your dog Stinky during lunch.

A year down the road you realized you don't need someone to walk Stinky every day, you want to do it yourself sometime. You can say you overhired.

So you decide to keep 4 of the dog walkers and let 3 of them go. That's a 43% layoff, you heartless capitalist.

Who do you cut? Well Bob is the Sunday guy and you definitely don't need a dog walker for Sunday, so Bob's on the list (role elimination). Alice makes $25 per walk while everyone else makes $20, she's gotta go (overpaid/cost reduction) and Carol, you actually think she's not that good with Stinky. You had to have her when you thought you needed 7 people, but she ain't one of the top 4 (performance based)

So now you got 3 dog walkers instead of seven, you pay them on average less, their performance is on average better and they are focused on days you really need them. Yeah you don't have the same coverage but turns out you are fine without it. Stinky is happier too. You may even use your saved money ($65 per week) to hire someone you need more, like a cleaning lady.

Obviously you can fuck up layoffs but if done well you and Stinky can come out ahead.
describing a highly competent, domestically popular & highly trusted government as 'MAGA' is perhaps one of the most pro MAGA statements i have ever heard. the fact that in spite of all of it's problems and what is essentially at this point a whole generation of recession, japan continues to be a high trust society with civil services and infrastructure that is the rival of the rest of the world speaks very highly of the japanese system's integrity. consider that at the peak of our prior recession, many us state & local governments essentially ceased to function.
So because of a situation you claim is unprecedented, you are advocating for doing the same old sweeping layoffs CEOs have done for decades?

Personally, I think the situation is an entirely precedented change in growth expectations that comes around a tightening of monetary policy and a possible recession. But assuming that you're right, on what basis are you claiming that the standard playbook will get new and better results this time?
Objectively false. He has been advocating caution all along, and negotiated ethics oversight into the acquisition by Alphabet.
Yelp is a Bay Area company that used to be made up of Bay Area employees paying Bay Area rates. Then they started moving overseas to lower the cost of hires.

If you’re an American software engineer, inside or outside the Bay Area, that’s a worrying trend.
This is really cool. But, how would you bundle this? Presumably when the gamer runs the game from their local computer, queries are being sent to openai with your company's API key. The game has to read and use this key sooner or later, and that means that there's no way to protect it. Players will eventually figure out the memory location or what have you when it's decoded and decrypted to authenticate to the API. How do you solve this problem?
Just listened to The Economist podcast that hyped them that CEOs and politicians can meet once every few months, thus saving lots of jet fuel from private jets. Why do they need to travel at all? Have we forgotten that most travels don't need to happen because we have that online meeting thing?

It was supposed to sound like a good thing, but it was out of context, so made me think, why even mention it, almost like they have an agenda to sell here.
WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
It's also based on the idea that Microsoft and Google and AWS are factories - and they aren't.

It's easy to get ambitious and hire a bunch of people for growth targets that aren't viable without ZIRP.

It's less so when you hire people to build orders you've largely already sold...

Why should you keep hiring if you already over hired?
We're talking about private (not government) censorship of inaccurate information.
Are apples one of those plants that require grafting to be true to type?
I think you have missed most of blinkingled's point, and I encourage you to address it fully.
Sometimes I have seen people making more money selling hotdogs from their own hotdog stand than some people get killing themselves in tech.
Do we have any evidence that the over-hiring was a mistake? Could companies not have seen the free money and decided to beef up their staff for short term gains in their roadmap, with the knowledge and intention that they will likely be cutting later while getting to keep all that intellectual output? I don't see why we put this past them.
It doesn't seem like the shortest path on a graph with negative cycles would be defined for any algorithm.
I wonder if this would have any effect on saving/healing the skin of burn victims
Except with a billion investment in the V8 and 64 million in EVs, GM has decided they are.
When Chromecast first lost the ability to adjust volume from my smartphone, I was very confused. Took me at least a week or two to find out that it was removed intentionally and wasn't a weird bug. That bothered me.
None, very irrelevant and where it applies very minor problem vs all the others ;)
Tell HN: Looks like Quordle is now owned by Merriam-Webster.com
Visiting quordle.com redirects to MW’s Website.
> Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella last week said the company will be "making changes that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce by 10,000 jobs through the end of FY23 Q3 (third quarter)".

That doesn't seem to be a great way to go about it. Some may leave long before then because they're very good and get work easily. Others will stay and work less productively in fear throughout the year long until then.
Microsoft will enable ChatGPT in workplace emails, slideshows, and spreadsheets
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> Applicants had to meet only three criteria to qualify: they needed to live in Cook County (which covers the city of Chicago and a large portion of its suburbs) and have a household income of less than 250% of the federal poverty line—about $69,000 for a family of four—and not be claiming from any other similar schemes.

As with all these trials, this is not universal.

Universal means we treat 'basic income' as a fundamental right, like public healthcare (in the countries that have it). This means Gates and Bezos would also get $500 as a tax break or income.

Unless we decouple this money from our own 'fairness' biases then it will never be _universal_.
I think I can safely speak for most everyone: I await for that one build tool to rule them all things Python; and an HOWTO that covers them all.
Why the :/ ? Spending time with young children and renovating a house sounds like a smart choice. The time with children you will never be able to make up for later. Renovating a house is full of interesting challenges and rewards that are all to yourself.
Oh man, the madness of desktop literalism in GUI design in the mid-90s. The more "subtle" metaphors of files and folders blown far past skeumorphism and into immediately literal graphic representations of a "desk" with a "phone" and a "rolodex". These guys went full-in and represented buildings and cities.

It was such a transitional time, people who had never had personal access to a computing device suddenly trying to figure out how nested file structures work, saving documents, and running software all were mind-blowing concepts for the average adult moving from a world of paper. The term "paperless office" was tossed around as a far future goal.

For those who never worked in an office in the 80s or 90s, the amount of paper and paper handling tools needed to function at even a basic level was absolutely unreal. https://weare.guru/office-life-in-the-1980s-vintage-photos/

Ignore the computing tech in the pictures and look at the tons of fire-hazard ready paper literally everywhere.

It didn't die in the 90s either. I remember getting a demo from a vendor in the early 2000s for a chat system that used a very literal city metaphor to organize chat rooms. Because of course the word "room" was used and that implied they had to reverse out from their into buildings, and city blocks, and cities. So navigating to different rooms involved all kinds of clicking around town. We, habitual corporate IRC users, were not impressed.