skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, this has not been my experience at all. I just throw parties, invite everyone, and whoever comes, comes, and whoever doesn't, doesn't. That's it, I don't even think about dietary concerns or other stuff like that. I'll keep some vegan or vegetarian stuff purely incidentally but if people have a strong concern, they bring their own food or simply don't come, same with any other type of concern too.
The fact that they kept the name implying they are a charity?
At least he said directly what everyone knew and what every CEO hid behind "I take the full responsibility": the current layoffs are a maneuvre to lower the compensation of the employees. These companies know they can rehire these people at any point in the future, so they are doing this to keep the wages in check.

I find it funny that there are economists who still use the argument of class warfare for wealth taxation, indeed we're living a class warfare, but now we know that it's the working class that's being assaulted.
Ok, so what you said was in fact untrue? Dylan says she has tampons for other women, in separate other videos she talks about changes to her body.

With regard to female sexual health panels this also appears to be a fabrication. I googled this and your comment was one of the first results, unless you mean the NowThis News panel with Biden? That being a progressive news org having a media moment with the president, not a female sexual health panel as you've called it.

Your last point is complete non-sequitur. You're operating from a place of discomfort and then working backwards toward rationalisation, that's much is clear from the half-truths you're telling. If there were any concrete concerns beyond your personal feelings you wouldn't feel the need to lie.
Can you imagine only being able to cook a hamburger on one brand of grill? But you can make something kinda similar in the toaster oven you can afford?

I want to be productive on this comment… but the crypto/cuda nexus of GPU work is simply not rational. Why are we still here?

You want to work in this field? Step 1. Buy an NVIDIA gpu. Step 2. CUDA. Step 3. Haha good luck, not available to purchase.

This situation is so crazy. My crappiest computer is way better at AI, just because I did an intel/nvidia build.

I don’t hate NVIDIA for innovating. The stagnation and risk of monopoly setting us back for unnecessary generations makes me a bit miffed.

So. To attempt to be productive here, what am I not seeing?
> It doesn't matter how open your software sources are if you run it on closed hardware.

It matters a great deal. This thread is about the behaviour of Finder, a proprietary software application.

More broadly, while it's true that most modern hardware prevents the user from having full control, it's also the case that much is won by using only Free and Open Source software.

(Last year the FSF got their servers onto fully Free Software BIOS software, but this took considerable effort as well as the use of hardware from 2012. [0])

> So no, the product, the context and biology will not allow you to contain such a system in a single mind.

Agreed, but while a total understanding of the system is one way to achieve confidence that it isn't built to work against your interests, it isn't the only way.

> If you ask a user which OS is more user-hostile out of a list that contains any Linux-distribution, but also Windows and macOS, it doesn't matter what is technically measures, what matters is that the user will call out that Linux distribution for being user-hostile.

Again this is defeatism. Free Software desktop operating systems have some usability issues, but in my experience they're much more approachable than many people seem to think. This is especially true now that a web browser is enough to enable most of what desktop computers are used for. It's not as if the non-Free operating systems are perfect either.

FOSS operating systems aren't in such a good place on mobile as they are on desktop and server, unfortunately.

> As for telemetry: just because alarmists alarm about it all day long doesn't mean it's universally bad. What is bad is going it for user profiling and not telling about it

Yes, I don't think anyone disagrees. HackerNews folks give Firefox a hard time over its telemetry precisely because the user isn't given a choice. They aren't even told it's going to happen, as I recall. It's particularly grating considering Mozilla's self-promotion as being uniquely pro-user.

> You get what you pay for

In terms of spying on their users, Debian is far better behaved than Microsoft, despite that Debian's offering is available free of charge and Microsoft's is not.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/closing-in-on-fully-free-...
I’m curious how voluntary murder works
So basically, it's just a deployment-ready synergy provider?
Depends on the laws in your country. In the UK for example, if you make a position redundant and then immediately rehire for it, the laid off employee can take you to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal, as the redundancy wasn’t genuine.

Given that redundancy is a more complicated legal process it’s unlikely you’d use it for this purpose.
Right I get that. The question is why this particular word that everyone is suddenly using and no one did before?
If you don't want wealth inequality, let everybody from birth on start at the same zero, or rather, the same 1 million, or whatever is possible. Otherwise, what kind of equality are we talking about here?

With AI, capital will dominate everything. Crass inequality will be the norm. The only path out of this will be paved with blood. Except if humanity is much smarter than I think it is.
I highly recommend Neo Store. It's a drop-in replacement for f-droid that leverages the newer Android API for seamless updates. Been using it for months happily.
If viewed like this, you could argue that with every single line of code open source devs are working towards:

1) SaaS AI people getting richer

2) Devs have less work in the future

I’m not sure if that’s a good development for the open source movement.
If it doesn't fit in the GPU memory, it will often be faster to just compute everything on CPU. So the framework doesn't really need to be smart. And the framework can easily already compute everything on CPU. So it can do what you want already.
search has always been a peeve of mine, too. then i had to work on a self-hosted magento project and saw how resource expensive search is compared to everything else.

so tired of hearing about amazon, though. it's like we've got a new demographic of people who are incapable of going to best buy or target without turning it into some "fight the power" internet activism.
I believe Israel is generally held up as an example of one modern country that has raised its birthrate.
A company like Vercel needs significant infrastructure and the people associated with it, as well as supporting admin (HR, lawyers, accountants), proper customer support (for 24/7 coverage so that can be quite a lot of people), UI/UX people, documentation/education people, etc. etc. Of course also sales and account managers, presales engineers.

Just because you think you can make their product in a weekend all on your own doesn't mean that to get to where they are a ton of people aren't needed.
I don’t dismiss the idea, but that’s just an opinion of one guy. Coming from Stanford doesn’t turn opinion into a fact.
When most people think of unauthorized access to their git, their concern is more about code being stolen. Wouldn't a service such as this expand that attack surface?

Modifications can be undone, it's git after all. Most repositories are essentially backed up by the devs in their working environments, are they not?
Ironically, you will never find the best-tasting apples in your local grocery store. The tastiest apples are often smaller, brown or dark skin, not the big red 'juicy' apples the uninformed consumer thinks are the best. Viz. the Red "Delicious", whose flavor was bred out in favor of color and appearance. It is now insipid and flavorless.

In the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, the humble-looking Cox Orange is sweet as candy, with a hint of pear. You can only get it from local suppliers.
I think most applications don't have any dependency towards a specific page size. They use malloc (C) or new (C++) to allocate memory which does not expose this constraint.

You need to care if using mmap directly to map files or other resources into the virtual memory address space. The default page size can be queried using for example sysconf() on Linux. I guess something like garbage collectors in language run-times would also use mmap directly as it's most likely to side step malloc/new.

An application would normally not use madvise, unless also using mmap for some special purpose.

It depends on the CPU architecture how flexible it is with different page sizes.
For example, from what I recall, MIPS was extremely flexible and allowed any even power of two size for any TLB entry.

x86_64 only support three different page sizes, 4 kB, 2 MB and 1 GB and there are limitations wrt the number of TLB entries that can be used for the larger page sizes.

So, yea, there are bound to be regressions if just trying to switch to 2 MB as a default but I think it should be doable. Not all archs use 4 kB to begin with.
Nudity isnt really the core issue. It is about illegal content. Nudity is the over-protective, over-inclusive bandaid solution to prevent this thing from being used to generate the very illegal material that will trigger authorities.
It’s easy to blame the company for cutting jobs, but maybe the bigger problem here is hiring too many people too quickly in the first place, and worse, at stratospheric compensation levels. Not that I want to defend a greedy investor but he has a point.

Outside of Silicon Valley $300K/year median for rank-and-file employees is a number that just makes people’s jaw drop. Is that the actual median compensation?
> How did they train the AI without first storing the data?

the data was originally permitted to be copied.

The question isn't whether the training is violating copyright - as long as the data set had permission to be viewed (which it must have, since it was public).

The question is whether the final result - the model/weights - is a derivative work of the training data set. If it is a derivative work, then the model must be in violation of copyright. But copyright law allows for sufficiently transformative work to be considered new, rather than derivative. So is training a model using methods like this constitute a transformative work?
The question I asked is why is the word “impacted” suddenly being used everywhere when it never has been for these types events before. It’s so pervasive that you and another commentator just assumed it’s typically used (it never has been until recently) and you overlooked the actual question and decides to explain an obvious thing.
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It really is, on many levels. The thing that I'm mostly worried about is that bit by bit we will be moving critical decision making to systems that are poorly understood, be it self driving cars, insurance companies or banks deciding to let you borrow money - or not.

For now we have some degree of accountability, models need to be explainable for some small subset of the possible applications. But the overall mechanism seems to be that if there is a utilitarian perceived benefit that the solution is greenlit, without knowing whether this is just a statistical fluke which will steer us to longer term unintended consequences or whether it is a structural improvement. And once the decision is made to accept the model the ability to measure a baseline is destroyed so any 'creep' will likely go undetected. Such longer term consequences could be really damaging.
This is the kind of bullshit that a union should be fighting. Wish we had some kind of organized labor for the employees so billionaires like this can't play with familys' visas to line their own pockets.
It doesn’t have to in order to exist.
"I lost a lot of money I put on Google stocks, someone else must pay for the consequences of my actions!"
exactly, you can have all the paper money in the world, if there's no actual human beings to do the work, the money is useless.
https://archive.ph/wczAA
I remember that hope.
Been using Prisma quite a bit recently, wonder if this causes a slowdown in new features.
We've been "preparing" for a recession for a year. Since then, we've seen low unemployment, flattening inflation, GDP growth, and wage growth in the US. It really is starting to look like the "soft landing" is working.
I see you are not British.
I have been measuring my weight in kilos for a long time. Height though, well that doesn't change so it has been pre-metric up to my recent age related shrinkage! I had to declare both my new height and weight on a form, so now I have a metric height!
I wish we could use version numbers or just say "Use Google from 2010".
> You don't need to pay for or "borrow" anything to learn from copyrighted works.

someone pays, just maybe not you. How do you think google/meta/et al offer you a service free at the point of delivery, through charity?

> You can google an image of any great work of art and look at it for as long as you like

see my bit about google. The copyright still is with the owner. That image can be removed, should the owner wish, but for various reasons its too expensive to get google to respect that.

> I would argue most people are quite happy with the existence of something like Google search

yes, because its a symbiotic relationship. I as a creator, make something that people want to find, google points them to me, and I get people's attention. I might do that to fluff my ego, or try and convert it to cash through sales or something.

The AI step threatens to remove that relationship. Instead of being passed to me, the AI just pastes shit its gleaned from mine and other websites, leaving no chance of me getting a reward for making that website.
> but I'm quite sure that there MIGHT be a bit of a infosec/skill gap between the chuds posting on /b/ and the folks actually rolling out with assault rifles, knowledge, and intent to knock (a) power substation(s) offline.

Why? Point a gun at big obvious target doesn't take intelligence and only minimum skill.

They don't need to have any knowledge, just shoot the big squarey boxes till the lights go down. Or hell [1] ask the internet what will happen

> There's all this incredulity in this thread but really, some dudes are gonna go knock out an entire power substation to rob a cash register? If I were one for Occam's Razer...

Actually, random terrorist act would probably be great way to keep local police busy for some time if you wanted a distraction for something else criminal to happen...

"Crazy rednecks doing stupid shit" is more simplistic explanation, but not that much more.

* [1] https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-a-person-with-an-ass...
Memory sizes have increased, but so have the workloads that people run. It's not like our computers still only consume a few MBs of RAM and we have 1000x times more free memory than we used to.

Going from 4k to 2M doesn't waste a fixed amount of memory, it wastes a percentage of memory. So the amount of memory lost continues to scale with memory size. Losing 10% of your memory when you only have 32MB hurts just as much as losing 10% when you have 32GB, because we didn't have a 1000x times increase in free RAM. Applications just use more RAM than they used to.

Now an increase to 8k, 16k, or even 64k might be defensible. And even that last one will draw some scowls from very serious people. But going straight to 2M pages by default will not be a good tradeoff. Especially since the current system with differently sized pages gets you most of the performance gain for a much more reasonable cost.
> Spanking is a form of corporal punishment involving the act of striking, with either the palm of the hand or an implement, the buttocks of a person to cause physical pain

Straight from wikipedia.

There is no punishment mechanism to spanking without pain. This sort of strange homeopathic idea of spanking is unrealistic and I'm unsure why you're trying to paint this false picture of the world - the vast majority of parents who spank do so with the intention of causing pain to discourage behaviour.
It isn't and it could well be much, much worse depending on some of the initial conditions, plenty of which we haven't really charted to the point that we can infer outcomes from inputs. It's chaos theory all over but this time with an unpredictable black box in the middle.
Twitter also lost more than half its revenue in past due to those cuts. Not sure I’d call that running fine
> The funny thing is his whole investment in google is just a tiny tiny fraction

but still big enough to get the CEO on the phone.
Hmm that’s true for me too. Not sure if it is due to resource constraint. I had a picture of a car in indoor parking lot with walls and pillars. When I prompted “Color the car blue” the whole image was drenched in a tint of blue. Similarly when prompted “make a hummingbird hover” … the hummingbirds were a patch of shiny colors with an shape that sort of looked like an hummingbird but not like a real one.
ORM = "Object–relational mapping"

You'd think they'd mention that once in their Website?
Wow, that's very different to my own experince. The midlands at least seem quite insular.
On one hand, and I know that this is an unpopular opinion here:

Google is a for-profit company. Its goal is to maximize profit. Not to maximize employment. Or employee happiness. Google is not daycare for adults. It’s not about “making the world a better place”, it never was, it’s all about making money, from day 1. Enough with all the corp-speak bullshit, we need to be honest about this.

And making money is a wonderful thing. There’s a reason why people choose to work at Google and not, say, at non-profit orgs or for government. At Google you get to work on cool shit, be compensated very well, be surrounded by super talented and smart people, have great work-life balance, etc., and this only exists because Google is super profitable. So I, for one, welcome this.

And let’s not kid ourselves, there’s plenty of fat at Google, more than 10% even. So if you understand the reality of Google only caring about the bottom line (which is great, in my opinion) and if you recognize that there’s some fat to trim, then you accept that layoffs are perfectly rational and even welcomed.

Finally, to the people worried about losing their job (or having lost their job), this truly sucks, and I sincerely am sorry, but let me be blunt: Google doesn’t owe you shit. Google is not your friend or family, it’s your employer. You have a contract, and Google is allowed to terminate that contract if they see fit (and guess what, so can you!).

/unpopular opinion

Having said that...

Do investors like this at all consider the impact of firing 12K humans (abruptly, and apparently at random) has on things like morale? This has actual, real world, financial consequences that hurt Google's bottom line:

* Damage to productivity

* Damage to employee retention

* Damage to ability to hire new talent

* Damage to PR

* Damage to long term planning

Google had a reputation of being super stable (no layoffs ever, not even during dotcom), which means the best and the brightest were much more inclined to work (and stay) at Google. This reputation is now gone. And what is Google, if not the talented people working there? How much is this damage to Google's best asset worth? Does it really justify saving a marginal cost? Maybe there are better ways to trim fat? Or maybe some fat is worth having in the grand scheme of things?

I understand that an outside investor may not think this way, but from Google execs I would have expected more.
I heard the same thing about the American fig tree being basically candy compared to what we’ve got today.

It explains why carollers wanted figgy pudding so badly.
Israel. https://www.taubcenter.org.il/en/research/why-are-there-so-m...
We decide what businesses are.

The "of course businesses need to be ruthless sociopathic monsters that care only about profit for investors, even at the expense of their employees and customers" is a choice that society made. IMO, an ethical system would have employers really consider themselves obliged to their employees.

At the very least, if we want to go in this direction then we need to retire the term "job creator" from our lexicon permanently. Employers can't get credit for being oh so generous in granting jobs when the response to cutting jobs is "well what did you expect, your employer hates you."
> They have absolutely no obligation to keep tens of thousands of overpaid people on their payroll.

I’m not sure why you think they were overpaid. Surely a lot of these people delivered value well above and beyond their salary for Alphabet, who required them to live in a very high COL area. A 300k salary in the Bay Area, unfortunately just gives you enough to live an okay life. It’s not like 300k in Alabama where you can live like royalty because of the depressed area.

Your perspective seems to be an internalization of extreme capitalism that only benefits the capitalist class. The workers, be they middle or low income, do not share this sentiment. Most other advanced nations do not allow this type of worker exploitation.

Why shouldn’t they have an obligation to keep employees on their payroll? They’re not in danger of going out of business. In fact, they’re wildly profitably. So, there is no need to make these cuts, only a desire to. The company made the mistake, but now society will have to pick up the tab, not the company managers and investors who ultimately made the decision to hire those people in the first place.
It amazes me everytime, when it comes to AI images, ChatGPT there seems to be an aura of not giving a damn. But when it comes to code generation, the comments seem to turn into artists vs AI debate but for code.
That's what I was trying to get at - brown isn't terribly specific.

Just about anyone living close to the equator is going to be at least brown in skin tone.

I've only seen this term used to lump all these people together and deem them insignificant.
This is the crux of the issue, I believe.

It seems to me that one side is arguing that people (as in, individual human beings) already do what the AI is being accused of, the other side argues that it's replicating work.

The truth of the matter is that what is taking place is a different thing altogether. We do generally deal in a different way with "machine behavior" because we recognize it being automatic and reproducible matters.
Tried asking ChatGPT to write a poem about hacker news. Parts of it seem pretty well done:

Where coders gather, to share and explore.
Stories of startups, and open-source galore,
A community united, forever to soar.

With upvotes and comments, the best rise to the top,
As users share their knowledge, with never a stop.
From the latest in AI, to the future of the web,
Hacker News is a treasure trove, to those who truly
delve.

But beware the trolls, and the downvote brigade,
For the community is quick, to call out those who evade.
The rules of the site, and the culture it's built,
Hacker News is a place, where true knowledge is silt.

So come one, come all, to this digital space,
Where ideas are shared, and the mind can embrace.
The world of technology, always in flux,
Hacker News is the place, to stay ahead of the bucks.
That still doesn't work unless the sum of money is quite large, over and above the cost of raising the child. And even then, there are many wealthy families, millionaires and billionaires, who still don't have kids. Having children is simply not as elastic of a good as people imagine it to be.
Ask HN: Will 2023 layoff spark new stuff?
Hoping for some positive vibes
Note that this sentence does not apear in the pdf. Using quotes to post it here is confusing.
its not a dark pattern, what would happen to the images after uploading?