skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh right. Here are some key paragraphs

> But would King have opposed Kendism? Although conservatives like to quote his brilliant speech on the content of a man’s character, he was also quite explicitly in favour of quotas and discrimination measures if they favoured his group. As King said: ‘if a city has a 30 percent Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30 percent of the jobs in a particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas, as the case almost always happens to be.’

> King may have believed in all sorts of preferential treatment, not just on account of race but also income and class, but then he was quite explicitly a socialist. Racial equality was part of a more general belief in social equality between rich and poor (that these two goals inevitably and always clash is one of many problems making this dream not entirely realisable).

> As Matthew Yglesias has written: ‘Today’s conservatives often like to quote Martin Luther King Jr. as an apostle of “colorblind” policy as an aspirational goal. But King was a socialist who argued for a radical redistribution of material resources.’
All it takes is 10 people to wreck everything right now. And those people think that making society more fragile and cutthroat will somehow make us more moral, and in turn, more prosperous.
> When a human sees a bunch of ideas and mixes them up to produce something slightly different it doesn’t bother anyone.

Try to make a car using the best ideas developed by each car maker. You will be surprised.
Upon review, Hartmanis and Stearns appear to have come closest to my work. I would recommend readers take a look at Algebraic Structure Theory of Sequential Machines (1966) prior to my paper to get a background motivation for my treatment of the subject. The idea of partition pairs in that textbook coincides with epimorphism classes in the Sierpinski topos.

So basically, all I am doing is updating that prior work and turning it into a Topos Structure Theory of Sequential Machines. I arrived at the concept of partition pairs independently through the Sierpinski topos. Hartmans & Stearns came up with the same idea for its engineering applications. It often happens that when an idea is good, it tends to crop up independently in multiple different places.
This ignores the morale. I've been in both situations and the pay cut definitely felt like "we're in this rough economic situation together". Compare this with a layoff where I made my peace while waiting for "you still have a job email" and started interviewing shortly after. Of course pay cuts always ignore shareholders as they are really getting the benefit of paying less for same number of people.
Ask HN: Is there any big project trying to make VM APIs standards?
I wrote these three files a year ago when I needed to create VMs at various cloud providers (linode, vultr, digitalocean) through their apis:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/wolfservers/blob/main/linode/create.go

https://github.com/andrewarrow/wolfservers/blob/main/vultr/create.go

https://github.com/andrewarrow/wolfservers/blob/main/digitalocean/create.go

Notice how each is slightly different and they don't all agree on the image name for some standard image and size. I'm wondering fellow hackers, has anyone taken this type of project on and made progress to have a standard way to make a VM? i.e. I should be able to spin up a VM at digitalocean setup just the way I want and then, boom, do the same thing at vultr without any extra work. The end goal being to run my code on these VMs directly, avoiding the extra layer of a container running inside them.
If You Are Fat, You Are Likely Going to Stay Fat
Not if you are at a top company. Also it’s not like any company gets to cut 10% from what it offers new hires… it’s hard enough recruiting at market rates, will be harder 10% below market rates.
CEOs are just managers, not philosophers. People thinking they're all knowing demigods is just marketing to try and justify those extremely high salaries. They're no different than your average person.
When we (our group in Microsoft) did our group event a few weeks ago it was in fact a picnic. Guess what? because we didn't want to spend a lot of money on it and wanted to show we are cost-cutting we did a potluck. Everyone cooked and brought stuff along. No one spent a lot of money, it was nice.

When we did a team event it was volunteering together. No fancy restaurants like last year for the same reason - we don't want to be wasteful in an unclear market.

I am disappointed in our execs doing this. I understand it was already probably pre-booked and it was probably just a few hours in a lot of long and frustrating leadership meeting but the optics are bad. Satya is usually such a respected leader for knowing how to do the right thing and avoid these situations, bummer.
Not even close. The last thing a civilian pilot wants is an F-16 rolling up. If that happens, there will almost certainly be a LEO waiting at the nearest airstrip waiting to debrief them. And likely a suspension of their license. Many times worse than the “I have a phone number for you to call” you get from ATC after a “normal” screw up.
Even there, I think there can be usefully hard questions. Because I suspect what the CEOs are focused on is not the long-term profits that come from building healthy companies, but the short-term profits that come from juicing the numbers in ways that look good to the market on a day-to-day basis.
So are you saying Microsoft execs need more... Synchronicity ?

( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity_(The_Police_al... )
Last time I checked, my smart phone did not consumed 150kW during quick charging.
The number of people who actually regret having children is notable [1].

[1]: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34288933
only way to make email work is to let the user choose what domain they trust, and maybe to have a feature where the user must whitelist addresses.
I mean that’s literally what happens. Best to get out of people’s way and let them be excellent
What corporate owned media pushes the concept of a one world government. I've never heard that concept mentioned on the news
We Can't Stop Obesity (2009)
It says they're put in a pouch so they won't be directly on your skin. Not sure how much crawling you'll feel though (and hopefully we're never put in a place to find out).
Because the WEF is not controlled by 52 heads of state of 600+ CEOs. It's controlled by Klaus Schwab, a managing board and an executive committee: https://www.weforum.org/about/leadership-and-governance

10 people sit on the managing board, none of them household names: Børge Brende, Mirek Dušek, Julien Gattoni, Jeremy Jurgens, Adrian Monck, Sarita Nayyar, Gim Huay Neo, Olivier M. Schwab, Saadia Zahidi, and Alois Zwinggi.
Fields of Gold?
A higher framerate increases the chance of experiencing "uncanny valley", because it starts to look too real, but clearly isn't. For example, you see more subtlety in actors' motions (the movements that prove "they are a real living human" to your lifelong-trained eye), and it also makes the animatronic or computer-generated characters/elements that much more distracting (they much more obvious when compared to the observable organic properties of living actors).

The more granularity you are provided, the more accurately you can discern the natural or unnatural properties of the things you're looking at. The movement of a lifeless prop goes from "oh wow that was creepy" to "oh that is a piece of plastic with some paint on it". Our ability to discern what things are is pretty strong.

When everything is rendered down to (or shot at) 24fps, the film gains a slightly more dreamlike or fantastical feel. This supports the ability to suspend disbelief, because your imagination fills in the rest, and the aforementioned granularity is not there to betray how much fake stuff there is on set.

Increasing the framerate is not an objective improvement, because the factors I mention are factual, and will not be considered an improvement for all types of films. The more the film experience matches reality, the more glaring any deviation from that becomes, thus breaking the suspension of disbelief.

Put more frankly, when I watch a film, I do not want to see how the sausage is made. I want to be "tricked" into believing what I'm seeing is plausible, and high frame-rate (alongside super-high resolution) is a factor that makes that less likely to succeed.

Like, high frame rate is fine if I'm watching, say, a documentary. It will look utterly stupid and uncanny-valley-triggering when I watch some sci-fi space adventure with tons of computer-generated elements. It was horrible watching The Hobbit at 48fps, and made it WAY harder to see it as a fantasy world. It looked more like "these are actors walking around on a set", and I couldn't shake that perception for the entire film. Again, this is demonstrably not an "objective improvement", it basically sabotaged the experience for me.
If I do indeed have it backwards, that only strengthens the point. Video games are keeping 100%.
Let me know when you have any evidence of what you're saying.
I have not seen comparable statements from other vendors.
“Instead” of what?

Is his true calling house renovations and childcare? If not, then it’s probably a choice that is being made for him. Personally, I love my babies and I consider it worth my time for basic care and teaching them things, but only as much as it benefits them. For the house renovations and all other labor that goes into partner-driven life, I would be much happier living in a mud hut with a candle and a math book, but I’ll never whisper a word about it. Its easy to become someone’s unlimited source of free labor, and they’ll always think they’re doing you a favor.
So, i could guess, the general theory is, having a boss will eventually lead to a failure ?
Related:

Tom Brown Is on a Mission to Restore Appalachia's Rare and Lost Apples (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31457804 - May 2022 (18 comments)

7k varieties of apples and the 18 you need to know about (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29761351 - Jan 2022 (60 comments)

New variety of apple discovered by Wiltshire runner - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25236672 - Nov 2020 (37 comments)

Pioneer-era apple types thought extinct found in US West - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22963226 - April 2020 (54 comments)

Lost Apple Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918261 - April 2020 (5 comments)

Documenting every apple variety in North America - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20324355 - July 2019 (5 comments)

Also related (i.e. about apples -computer):

Apple Rankings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33639206 - Nov 2022 (462 comments)

The best apples for apple pie - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966751 - Sept 2022 (60 comments)

Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28032226 - Aug 2021 (250 comments)

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26055724 - Feb 2021 (84 comments)

Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21977622 - Jan 2020 (48 comments)

Cosmic Crisp Apple Launch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20481026 - July 2019 (97 comments)

The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415216 - Nov 2018 (96 comments)

7,000 varieties of apples and the 18 you actually need to know about - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16511886 - March 2018 (5 comments)

250 varieties of apple on one tree (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274944 - Sept 2017 (4 comments)

How we got apples that taste delicious (2015) [audio] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527798 - June 2017 (18 comments)

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14349964 - May 2017 (169 comments)

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8300619 - Sept 2014 (142 comments)

Did I miss any? I used some search tricks to find these so it would be interestined if there are others.
Then it's not a conspiracy.
The fermi paradox is a question, not an answer. The answer may indeed be one of probability of timing.
Microsoft has enough money on its pocket to pay the penalty for cancelling Sting's concert. It's probably a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of the compensation paid to all people being laid off.
Does a model learns a model, By Dr. Susse
I don't care about Davos one way or another, but I am sick of people trying to push online meetings in place of irl social events as "the same." A majority of people prefer to meet and socialize in person and it is going to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
Turks are by no means a saint, after all they used to run a hugely successful empire for centuries but the way they governed was much different that the western ones and that's why doesn't translate 1 to 1 at all. Many of that culture was transferred to modern day Turkey and many was lost and changed but the gist is that it was very different(not better or worse). When France finally let the women elect and be elected, that was 30 years after Turks did it. In the 50s Turks were like "Those French showed big progress in women's rights, good for them!". Turks were over the women's political rights since generations but Turks had very different problems than the French.

It's simply impossible to think in analogies when thinking about nations. It's not even misleading, it's completely wrong.

Eastern Europeans were a part of the Ottoman empire during the colonial age but feel free to point out about that African country which used to be a Bulgarian colony for example. I think you should go into details, I'm very curious about the colonies of Easter European nations.
I can't wait for Elon's Twitter to fully crater so brainless Wall Street people will stop trying to emulate his approach to cost reduction. It's obvious to everyone paying attention that Elon destroyed that company in the first 30 days and it's only a matter of time until bankruptcy. It blows my mind that anybody could see his approach as an example to emulate.
> A film that exists is better than one that never gets made.

Some might disagree. The democratization of content creation that happened with the internet and social media was in general a good thing, but it can't be denied that it also resulted in a massive reduction of the Signal to Noise ratio in content quality. The reason the Google search result page is much worse today is precisely because there exits tons of content today that should never have been made.
Something similar he used in the Mars trilogy where there were COOPs where every employee owned a share of the company and there were no other shareholders. I don’t recall exactly how entering a company worked in the sense of buying or diluting stock.
In my case, I did the math on my savings and I’m taking 1-3 years working on side projects, by myself and with groups of collaborators
Clearly you must’ve missed the panel about secretly controlling the world, it was in between the one on vampiric bloodsucking and the one on mind control via mass media.

It’s truly disappointing how much the HN crowd skews towards conspiracy theorists these days. This place is becoming a cesspool for informed discussion.
Google printed like $75B in net income, are we going to pretend that they need to do layoffs in order to stay profitable?

Google isn't some startup that needs to bump metrics in order to survive until their next tranche.
Not only that. I think the tech sector is the proverbial canary in the coal mine. I would not be shocked at all if the layoffs extend everywhere.

This + upcoming elections? You guess how many clown can fit in this car!
I had this happen at a conference I helped organize where between the time we knew who signed up to sponsor and the conference a bunch of companies (mostly in crypto) who spent a lot of money on booths because they really needed help hiring went bankrupt.

It was a still fun conference ^^
i've built nlp apps but lack ideas. maybe we could all talk.
You could also use VM snapshots to undo any damage during the learning process.

Ironic, I know.
Yeah, wake me up when it can do close to the metal programming on an ARM to fulfill real time requests from an industrial robot, for instance...also, in safety critical systems, as a bonus.

I'm not saying that it will never happen, but if your job is threatened by ChatGPT right now, you were not really doing real software engineering anyway.
If you're wanting to use Stable Diffusion 2.1 with imaginairy you just specify the model with `--model SD-2.1` when running the `aimg imagine` command.
Everyone reevaluates their position after a layoff.

And people who quit don’t get severance, so it’s a win-win for the company. Or at least, they seem to think it is.
First thing I thought of was Cantonese cooking which iirc has the philosophy of highlighting the taste and freshness of the main ingredients.
I'm entranced and already looking to make an order for me and others. Excellent advertisement.
Couldn't the same be said about layoffs? They're certainly were planned long before the execution.
I think corporate income tax should scale with headcount ^ 0.8
"Solid state" has two meanings:

(1) The gaseous / solid meaning relevant for tubes vs. transistors.

(2) The mechanical / no moving parts meaning.

Two examples of devices that use the second meaning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_storage

The SS in SSD means it doesn't have moving parts (platter, head) like a hard drive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_relay

The SS in solid state relay means it's not electro-mechanical like a relay.

In this case (the cooling chip), the second meaning is obviously the correct one because it is being compared to fans, which have moving parts.
The "we're in a hiring freeze" press releases all have fairly broad asterisks. New people are being onboarded daily in all of the companies that announced layoffs.
Even in a company of 1000s, how many people are you actually interacting with on a daily basis?

In the PG blog he says:

A group of 10 people within a large organization is a kind of fake tribe. The number of people you interact with is about right. But something is missing: individual initiative.

But even in a "true" small tribe, is there individual initiative? You are still beholden to someone or something. If you're the alpha male you may still worry about feeding the family or protecting them from outside threats.
Having seen both, I'm much more likely to leave /after/ a layoff than after a 10% paycut.

In abstract, if there were a way to rank employees by ROI and contribution perfectly fairly, I might not worry about layoffs personally. However:

1) In my career, I've never seen layoffs which were at all good at selecting the bottom 10%. Who gets dropped is pretty random.

2) I care about other people I work with. A 10% layoff means a few of my friends were hurt.

When I had a 10% paycut because the business needed it, it felt a little unfair, but I didn't leave. That same business raised my salary back up a year or two later. I'm still there, actually, and many people spend entire careers here.

I spend most of my hours working, and above some point, I care about having a humane employer, meaningful work, and a decent work environment much more than I do about salary.

Job stability also allows me to focus on my work over signalling. That works well if I value and enjoy my work (which I do).
> P.T. Anderson still only use film

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11271038/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_c... it might be shot on film, but its graded digitally. So the argument doesn't really apply here. The colours you see here are a choice made in the DI stage.

> film produces a much better overall look than digital.

no, not anymore, that hasn't been the case since about 2010. (no ignore RED cameras, they are terrible at colour) All the (big) films you've seen since about 2007 and all the films since 2012 have been graded digitally (apart from maybe a mike lynch film) This means that the colours are not because its film, but because of a choice made by the Director of Photography, or producer or director. The thing you think is a filmic look is mostly digital. Yes, that includes films that were shot on film, like the Noland batmans.

Yes, that means even the film you saw at the cinema on a film projector was graded digitally. it was just lasered out to film and printed for distribution. Also, the other bit to remember is that new prints look much nicer than old prints. Old prints look like shite, dirty, scratched and sometimes washed out.

"real" film shot now is nothing like the grainy stuff of 25 years ago, it has a far higher dynamic range than then, and much smaller film grain. Its just that digital film cameras are now even better and more consistent. This crossover happened in about 2012.
Let me be more clear for anyone else stumbling upon this:

if you sit and make a statement implying that every man is susceptible to blackmail via abusing children... do I really have to explain how you're telling on yourself here?

Do y'all think you're so smart that people aren't going to see through the "anti-projection"? Do y'all think we don't see the loud-outspoken pedo-hunters and [certain party] politicians that keep getting arrested for abusing their kids or spouses?

Again, to be crystal clear, NO, Not every man is susceptible to control via blackmail via enticement with child abuse. GROSS. GET A HOBBY.

And further, making this nonsense up in your head and then asserting it as "proof" if you "just think about it" is... a joke. It's just a joke.
The ‘Everyone Hates Me’ Feeling
Doesn’t an MP3 player have some kind of operating system? You need filesystem drivers at the very least. You could certainly make one with Linux and if you did you could encrypt at the block level below the file system.
On the other hand, ChatGPT becomes a very convenient tool for generating example data to train the ML component of the spam filter on.
Satya and other top executives attended the concert, and they were also involved in the layoffs. In that one group, at least, we could expect some level of synchronization.
Creating your own Pomodoro timer is a fun programming exercise. Here's one written with just one Java file: https://github.com/bnuredini/jodoro/blob/e62571b5173a63262b0....
Was MSFT losing money and needing to reduce costs to survive, or did they just hire too many people over the past couple of years? I think it’s borderline embezzlement for a few dozen senior executives to use company money to hire Sting for a private concert in Davos in any event, but unless the company is straight up going broke, that’s irrelevant to the layoff issue even if the timing and optics look bad.
Yes, the title is essentially clickbait, teasing at some sort of interesting point which it completely forgets about. Even if it had bothered to make an argument, places all over the world are trialing "UBI" schemes, including places with robust social safety nets, not just the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots

I suggest that there's nothing particularly special about the US's UBI pilots.
It's also frankly absurd that no such service exists for European customers. I've been looking the past few days for someone who does something like this and it's just not available, for what I can only assume are regulatory reasons.
There's a great wikipedia page on this very topic [1]. In some countries like Germany fictional porn isn't considered porn, while other countries like Australia or France consider the possession of drawings of naked minors a crime worthy of jail sentences. And then there's the US where having the images on a computer is fine, as long as they aren't sent over the internet and the computer never crosses state lines.

In general it's a topic people are careful about because the legal situation is complex, and in many countries associated with the potential of heavy jail sentences.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...