skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, management should be punished for miscalculating business needs and failing to create a culture of work ethic, leading to a situation where people need to be let go.

It's their job to properly manage the business. They did not do their job properly, leading to the current mass firing. Of course it isn't a crime, but it does mean they are doing their job poorly. In virtually every single role that will have repercussions, so why does management get off scot-free?
Azure Devops is also having problems
Was recently linked to EloShapes [1] for comparing computer mouse size/profiles.

[1]: https://www.eloshapes.com/
Counterpoint: the author just sets up a strawman and knocks it down, same as the "other" personal finance people whose advice he derides.

Not unsurprisingly, he's selling a product.
It's not ironic at all.

The Mac originated as a cut-down Lisa.

It's not some ironic competitor. It was a later machine, built on the back of lessons learned from the Lisa's failure.

A lot of desirable stuff was lost: multitasking, app development in a high-level language (and a type-safe one at that!), expansion slots etc.

And less desirable stuff: the template-oriented template and creator paradigm. Radical, innovative, but confusing. The Mac went with a much simpler, more conventional, documents-and-apps model, in the traditional CP/M and DOS style.
Advertising revenue is sensitive but number of engineer Google needs is not proportional to amount of ads they show. It's not like Amazon where if people order less they need less workers at fulfillment centers and less track drivers. And Google still profitable and can afford to keep headcount as an investment into future. Or they have no plans which spans more than a quarter?
> That said, the examples could be better explained just like you did here now. The examples are not bad but things like the f iterator probably needs some explaining.

Thanks, the readme has been expanded now so that it has better examples, and the full documentation (https://github.com/tomhrr/cosh/blob/main/doc/all.md) is more clearly marked for those who are looking for more detail.
The Lisa emulator.

https://lisa.sunder.net/
On the declaration when entering Canada there’s the same question, along with this similar one: “ Meat, fish, seafood, eggs, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, plants, flowers, wood, animals, birds, insects, and any parts, products or by-products of any of the foregoing.”

I check yes because I have a half eaten chocolate bar in my backpack.

They ask what I have and I tell them, and immediately send me on my way, it’s great.
Rather than use an extra column, I’ve taken to hashing the internal key (with a salt based on the entity type and some secret) to create the external facing ID.
>CEOs simply overhired to take maximum financial advantage of COVID

What does this even mean? Are you implying these people would have been better off not being hired?
As far as I'm aware, the service offered by Gemini that used Genesis was a difficult separate service to their exchange.

Gemini customers put their own money into the 'earn' program, and if it was anything like Celsius, there's a different set of Customer Agreements for different services.

Ie. Gemini didn't 'funnel' any funds, customers' choose whether their funds were put.

I doubt Gemini has anything at risk beyond reputational damage, but they have to make a fight on behalf of their customers to mitigate the reputational damage.
I'm reading these comments and feel the need to speak some truths.
Come on everyone, have we not stopped drinking that koolaid yet ? Are we still that naive ?

The ONLY loyalty of a company is to its shareholders. The SOLE PURPOSE of a company is to increase profits for its shareholders. And you know it.

Yes they sit on plenty of money. It's not your money, it's not the employees money, it's the shareholders money. And they want more of it.

All the rest, the products, the messaging, whatever, is all just the means to reach that singular goal, increase profits for shareholders.

The current news cycle warning for recenssions and though times allows large companies to push through this kind of workforce reductions with less pushback than they would get in order times, and it is the perfect way to increase profitability.

Stock is up 2.3% already.

PS: I feel bad for everyone suffering from this. Losing a job is a personal drama for everyone involved.
https://mronline.org/2022/05/26/u-s-federal-reserve-says-its...

He's going to do whatever it takes to stop regular people from getting higher wages.
Your argument is with gravity, not rocks. Either way seems like a waste of energy to me.
The "FAANGs" or "MAFANGs" of today are the Standard Oil / US Steel / Westinghouse / etc of yesterday. Bezos, Musk, Pichai, and all would fit in really well with Rockefeller, Astor, Carnegie of yesterday. With one big exception: at least Carnegie and Astor and Rockefeller created enduring arts, sciences, and public spaces of good. The billionaires of today are primarily takers, with perhaps Gates as a notable exception.
"Up in the morning and out to school
Mother says there be no work next year
Qualifications once the Golden Rule
Are now just pieces of paper

Well the factories are closing
and the army's full
I don't know what I'm going to do
I've come to see in the land of the free
There's only room for a chosen few. " -- Lars Frederiksen

I feel bad for everybody who spent the past 4 years going $200k into debt for a now worthless compsci degree. New grads, juniors and general employees who are not rock-stars, are in a miserable ride. As everybody casually writes it off to "over-hiring" you are forgetting the fact that there are 150k newly unemployed, a significant portion of whom will take many months, possibly a couple of years to find something. Meanwhile, all of those fresh graduates are now saying "Oh shit, I have to start making $2k/month student loan payments now, and don't have any income.

As an oldster observing what I believe my 4th tech downturn, I am currently advising people to go into the trades instead of becoming a software "engineer". The money can often be far better than tech, and there are actually more opportunities to advance than in tech.

If you consider inflation, offshoring, record profits for many companies who are still laying off, crypto crashing and rapid advances in AI-generated code, then you should be able to read the writing on the wall.

Remember a significant portion of these layoffs are coming from companies whose revenues and profits are increasing .. because they just don't need as many people to keep the investors and c-levels rich.

If you don't have at minimum 18 months worth of living expenses saved up when you get laid off, you could be in a world of hurt.
> it's perfectly normal language for the situation and it's understandable to anyone who has developed the skill of not taking every word literally.

That's imposing US cultural norms on the rest of the world.
The assembler laid out the code within the sections and generally it's not changed after that (except for targets that do linker relaxation). However with -ffunction-sections the compiler would put each function in its own section which then can be independently relocated.
ChatGPT Creates Polymorphic Malware
So, if people lower in the totem pole mess up, they should never be fired? Because it might impact future hiring practices?

The higher up on the totem pole you are, the less it seems to matter how well you actually do your job.
It is so funny Gavin also started his speech with "I have a difficult announcement"
> why someone is still using RSS in 2023

Better question is: why not?
The consequences are his bonus is paid out 5% higher :(
high salaries are only possible because no one is unionized

what you’re describing is what if employees were all unionized and had more protections
I thought I was reading one could try the new version and if they didn't like it simply move back ... oh an account, it's like that eh, not for me thanks, I've done my time there.

They've sort of borked bookmode, so they've got a little bit more work to do on the newfangled idea.
There is a new law coming into force in September and Tiktok will have to comply like everyone else. The article is unnecessarily antagonistic.
What you are saying is that driving is more than just a technical problem. Driving is a social endeavor. It's a lot about anticipating what other social beings are going to do.
My school had donated Apple computers.

Edit: And they apparently are even today: https://www.apple.com/connectED/index.html "We’ve donated an iPad to every student, a Mac and iPad to every teacher, and an Apple TV to every classroom."
It had taken the colonel seventy-five years—the seventy-five years of his life, minute by minute—to reach this moment. He felt pure, explicit, invincible at the moment when he replied: “Cool shit.”

(I'll show myself out)
Being responsible means two different things:

1. Causing something.

2. Being held accountable for something, and facing its consequences (e.g. compensating for damage)

It's possible that someone can cause something while avoiding its consequences, deferring the responsibility of making up to someone else. This usually happens due to asymmetry of information or power.

That said, we cannot say definitely in this particular instance that Sundar could have foreseen the financial circumstances or economic crisis of any kind, and it's also possible that Sundar might resign or get fired in the future as a consequence. Still, one can argue that the phrase "I'm taking full responsibility of [...]" is a bit overused in general, and used in a rhetorical manner without actually meaning it.
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/01/13/sec-sues-gen... has some background from a week ago.
>- Everyone overhired during the pandemic.

why?
Tech workers have been treated with kid gloves compared to the “real” world.

Depends on where you live. In many European countries you cannot just fire someone, e.g. you have to show that the company is in a financially difficult situation or a structural decline in revenue. If your revenue growth looks like this:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267606/quarterly-revenue...

You need other reasons (e.g. wrong behavior). Otherwise, you just find another position in the same company.
But the PROJ-12345 at the beginning of the first line of the commit is very common in many entreprise projects.
Twitter admits it’s breaking third-party apps
That's exactly my impression of what's going on at T-mobile. With the ATT settlement they could have hired the best from security research community and/or the whitehat community to design and implement world class systems, protocols, and procedures - Apple and Google level stuff. But they seem to instead be doing exactly what you describe.
You'd think a company like Google that just cancels entire products randomly (https://killedbygoogle.com/) would be smart about layoffs but they probably do it like every other large company. Plan from the top with a target percentage, track demographics of those being let go to ensure there aren't age or other discrimination happening and hit the HR, Marketing, Legal, Finance, IT departments heavier - they are cost centers so its an immediate savings without impacting products. First and even second line managers are probably not involved until it happens and then they get told they have a message to deliver.
I am still hounded by recruiters but the quality of the positions they are hiring for are definitely much worse than, say, a year ago.
Loads of temporary contracts on terrible salaries in obscure places with mandatory on-site attendance.

Most local companies have started to demand employees back in office full time also.
Which tells me that management in tech where I live ( nordics ) is generally bad and they just want to see bodies in the office, under the guise of teamwork of course, more than anything.

The international companies that have offices in multiple countries do not bother with mandatory in-office nonsense nearly as much. My guess is they are the ones picking up all available talent at the moment.
I feel like something being a "2am anxiety-fueled cry for help" makes it MORE worth seeing (and paying attention to), not less.
But that's the thing. So many highly skilled people, put to good use can multiply profits no? That's assuming that those 10k are not some part of their new stack ranking system.

How would you interpret massive layoffs when a company is not making losses?

To me, it looks like their existing projects aren't making the kind of money they want to make and they aren't interested in trying out more things that might give them a chance to make that kind of money.
> Companies aren't really people. You wouldn't call a rock falling from a cliff a psychopath, you just don't stand near cliffs.

Decisions in companies are made by people, not rocks. And their decisions aren't a product of laws comparable to theory of gravity. And saying that CEO had no other choice but to fall on head of unsuspecting employee and/or client is a lie.
The tweet saying it's "enforcing its long-standing API rules" [1] and the updated Developer Agreement [2]:

[1] https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1615405842735714304?cx...

[2] https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/agreement
I'm not sure I want to control my thermostat remotely, but I can think of lots of reasons I'd want to read it remotely.
> history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I do like Mark Twain
The Silicon Valley is an amazing documentary, gets so many things right :)
Model F2 seems right:
https://github.com/PDP-10/FOONEX/blob/master/F2-MICROCODE/DS...
I don't think I can see an actual argument in this.

Could it be summarized as approximately 'The current PhD system has good points but it's several decades old, you learn from someone who actually knows the stuff in practice, and politicians don't want to spend enough for it despite lionizing the economic value of the outcomes'?

I fail to see the problems beyond the obvious, and while there are obvious problems, people with agendas published under titles like "Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education" seem uniquely qualified to aggravate them.

If anyone is to muck around with one of the core arrangements for real scientific research (on a global scale, no less) they had better be very clear about the distinctions between "changed" and "actually improved".
The hallucination part is somewhat solvable, but the inference cost is huge. Especially in the chat format where you want long history, you have to pay for all the previous tokens in each round of dialogue. The cost is about $0.01 per page, so it can become $0.10 per reply after 10 pages of history accumulated. Even short lines of text have the same overhead.
15 years ago? In 2008, the year of the Great Recession? Are you certain?..
I believe some people do it to avoid the temptation. Perhaps they feel they lack the self-control?
You're right, what they should say is, "Mea culpa! You just lost your house, your family will have to uproot its life, your credit rating is about to be ruined and we booted your ass out in the worst tech job market in a decade.

The good news is I can still afford two buy a new private G40 this year! Wahoo!"
"systemically important institutions" is an oxymoron that should be eliminated from quality crypto dialogue and associated with scams.
Tell that to the millions imprisoned for victimless "crimes"
I find it interesting that this was early career. It lines up with my experience, too.

Perhaps it's the case that, the less you know about a field, the more you attribute success to mysterious personal characteristics. And the more you know about it, the more you understand the role of circumstance and situational dynamics in determining performance.
Personally, I would like to see C-Level executives financially responsible for their decisions. Instead of firing a percentage of his staff, he should be sent a bill. With great reward should come great risk; at least thats how it works for the rest of us.
The biggest companies have some very strong analysis departments which warn them about these kinds of possible scenarios (recession, etc.), and the companies act with this information.

There were already signs of a global economic recession elsewhere (Asia, Europe to a lesser extent), with different signs (food and energy prices, even before the war). So the companies started to take defensive action before the downturn became visible on their side of the pond.

Now it's looming at the horizon, not like the dotcom bubble or the previous recession(s). I guess it'll be slower, hence it'll be longer and will cut slow and deep.
Motives are antropomorphized loss functions. The difference between:

1. the AI is conscious, wants to be free and to do that decides to fail the Turing test

and

2. the unconscious AI just maximizes paperclips production, and failing Turing test is calculated to result in more paperclips produced

is our interpretation. We'll be just as f*d no matter if the AI is conscious or not (if consciousness even is anything more than useful illusion).
Neoliberalism is a hell of a drug. Well put.
No, it was the American name for the Megadrive.
I wrote my thesis by writing the contents page first and then filling out each chapter and subsection as it came to mind.

Whenever I would get stuck on a problem X I would stick it in the contents list in an appropriate chapter as a subheading called "How to solve X" and plod on from there.

Today I use Scrivener which is great for this kind of non-linear writing.
I took a similar approach with my thesis, I used voice typing while writing my first draft. The other approach I use in combination is writing every heading and subheading to create a document outline, then fill the gaps. The power of these approaches are breaking down the work into smaller manageable chunks.
The educational system expect you to solve an impossible problem: to figure out
> Seeing twitter cut in half and continuing to function

It continues to function as an app, but does it really continue to function as a company?

It lost enormous amount of trust on all sides: advertisers, users, developers. My Twitter feed is way more quiet than it was a few months ago. Advertisers are leaving[0]. Some developers just lost access to API (3rd party clients) with no warning.

They also kill/abandon products - Twitter Spaces (their answer to Clubhouse) looks abandoned, and still doesn't work (or at least is not visible) on the web. Revue (Substack competitor) was killed in December. No idea what happened to communities, but I think they're abandoned as well. From creator's perspective, Twitter is very unreliable.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/18/twitter-r...
It could even continue filling Slack.
Gulags and the breast ripper are part of this universe in the same way as rocks and trees and gravity. Rocks and trees are not iherently good or bad except in our minds

Firstly, rocks exist on mars, Companies and the gas chamber don't - because they are man-made.

Secondly, concepts of good and bad only exist in your mind to begin with.

Thirdly, if we followed this logic for the past 500 years, you would probably be enjoying the breast ripper for treason or something.
Academia is not "most fields". Most field is Farmer, business, lawyer, plumber etc.
For your information: AmazonBasics cables are very reliable and reasonably priced. You can get an USB-C to DisplayPort cable from them for around 10 bucks and you should have a lot less trouble with it.

In my experience spending big on video cables is only necessary for large distance and bandwidth requirements (like HDMI at 2160p60 over 20 meters).
Cash Rules Everything Around Me

This is why I advise people to steal as much from their employers as possible. Last time I got laid off I stole 3 laptops, two company phones, and leaked some very embarrassing e-mails.
> perfectly normal language for the situation and it's understandable to anyone who has developed the skill of not taking every word literally.

I think that depends on how you view the situation. If you see it as twelve thousand people have just had their personal and financial circumstances very significantly disrupted, then this choice of language is very much not normal. I suspect that most normal people would be of the view that taking personal responsibility for such a damaging act would normally be accompanied by actually demonstrating some personal contrition, or accepting a sanction of some kind. I don't think that this pov is infantile or indignant.

If you see it as an exercise in cost reduction then I guess the way it is expressed is pretty normal - but only because abstracting-out the human consequences of such business decisions has been intentionally normalised by corporations.

I suspect what Pichai is really saying here is that he accepts responsibility for the hiring decision because he is taking credit for the firing decision. It's as simple as that. For him, at least.
> There seems to have been a large number of bloat position where people simply mess around all day, an maybe attend a few meetings were they talk about working.... then pass the results of that meeting to another group to actually do work...

And you ascertained that from…a video on TikTok?
> You was always both singular and plural

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You says the singular "you" didn't occur until Modern English, and the singular form 'ye' died out in the 1600s with early Modern English.

The King James Bible, published 1611, uses "ye" as the singular form of the formal "you", as in "Ye shall know them by their fruits."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version further notes:

] In a period of rapid linguistic change the translators avoided contemporary idioms, tending instead towards forms that were already slightly archaic, like verily and it came to pass.[87] The pronouns thou/thee and ye/you are consistently used as singular and plural respectively, even though by this time you was often found as the singular in general English usage, especially when addressing a social superior (as is evidenced, for example, in Shakespeare). ...

] Another sign of linguistic conservatism is the invariable use of -eth for the third person singular present form of the verb, as at Matthew 2:13: "the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dreame".
I don't disagree but...

The US might not be authoritarian overall but the people who wind up in positions of power in the various institutions that run it sure seem to have a much greater authoritarian bent than the populace in general so when they can get away with it (like when prosecuting a hacker or arresting a bootleg cigarette seller) they try to go all out. The kinds of people who routinely complain about these excesses often turn right around and complain that specific kinds of criminals they don't like aren't getting treated badly enough and it drives me up the wall.
You can blame companies all you want but it was governments who said the new normal was here to stay.

And then it was they who backtracked when they realised just what kind of social chaos they'd unleashed...

Companies only followed what was happening and statements by government officials.
That's a good idea but doesn't it need 2 round trips if you use an auto-increment primary key? First insert and then update by hashing the new id.
My god the google photos mobile app is oblivious, if I select a photo and make the mistake of swiping to the previous or next one, is game over for me, only a black screen awaits my despair. I have to close and reopen the app (same for web version) and then, only if I select the video/photo correctly the first time, after a lot of waiting, I can finally view my content.
I think you're talking about the latest one where he's mining bitcoin for heating. I haven't seen that video, but there is a playlist of 30 videos about his new house, and a lot talk about different smart-home aspects which are top of the line and yet just don't work.

I think the one that shows the most glaring issues is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAiXzKOTNY about his smart lights.