skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highly highly unlikely. If that were the case, the complaint would be the school is very dirty. I was a janitor for three years in a middle school. There were five people that came in every day after school and cleaned the building. Bathrooms especially need cleaning every day.

And, yes, turning off the lights were the responsibilities of every janitor. Each person had their own section and, after cleaning it, turned off the lights.
Now it’s bad to work with some of the brightest talent in the world? Come on…
Too balance this perspective, let's remember that not all public workers are bad people.

Many of them are also underfunded and understaffed, and don't have the lawyers and means of a rich corporation. The GP's "hoodwinked" was apropos.
We see that wind/nuclear/solar are all far "safer" than other sources (wind 0.04 / nuclear 0.03 / solar 0.02 death/TWh).

However, death rate is only one metric for safety. Fukushima may not have made (yet) lot of deaths, but it sure impacted a huge population, and will do so for many years to come.

One has to look at the impact of an incident. Once installed, solar or wind poses very little risk to you or your neighbors, even in case of natural disasters. And even in the case of the worst impact (deaths), this impact is limited in time/space. This is absolutely not the case of nuclear. Moreover, how do you evaluate the risk of nuclear waste?
I'm more inclined to agree with parent for the reasons stated by child.

I would be more impressed if they did something like this:
1. internally decide we need to trim the fat
2. Announce the problem and what they need to target, and give the employees a deadline to hit that target
3. Encourage employees to look for new jobs on the job
4. or encourage people to take early retirement
4. or take the plunge on starting their own startup,
5. or let them switch to part time even. I'm sure many of these people are married and switch to their spouses insurance.

They all have Google on their resume, it's not going to take long. These companies are the top of the food chain, they could at least act like it.

This turns it back into every other business problem we solve day in and day out. The big dogs at the top are the deciders, and the ones at the bottom are the do'ers.
> Elon musk set a precedent

No. This is giving him an absurd amount of credit. Organizations have treated their employees like this for decades (perhaps centuries). I remember the 90s were rife with profitable companies laying off employees to boost profit.
No, but you can join his Discord here: https://discord.gg/WmsKzRKC (Link expires in a day to prevent bots)

He's very active, as is the community, and I'm sure either they would know a video or be able to answer any questions you have.
Also, it clearly states there are layoffs! Anyone skipping over corporate jargon could have easily missed the single line with "btw, we'll lay off 10k people" in Satyas mail.
I'm strongly against these, I've always regretted it.

SKUS, emails, etc all seemed liked good keys. They're always unique right?

Until one day when they decided to rename some skus, they suddenly want family accounts, you realize you really do want the ability to have duplicates so you can keep historical copies without ripping up your entire database.

Semantics change. A UUID/whatever does not.

I've learned you should never ever use a natural key. PKs are extremely difficult or near impossible to replace depending on your application, and if that really means using serial id's, or UUIDs, or extra lookups - it's worth doing that instead of using natural keys.
I have no doubt they "knew" it was coming. It takes a combination of committed greed, delusion, gullibility, and short-sightedness to still keep going despite that. That these traits are common enough for this phenomenon to achieve such scale is what's worrying me.

So no, not a paradise.
Now we just need to convince 100m Americans and 2Bn combined Chinese and Indians. Plus others.
GOOG ; 2016, 72,053 ; 2015, 61,814 ; 2014, 53,600 ; 2013, 47,756.

2015 is really not that long ago either!
Not really, linux only, worse interface, needs to be downloaded instead of web based
If AGI is smart enough to manipulate the humans it may not get unplugged.
The alternative was producing good products, engaging with creative people and pushing confrontational content. Its always safer to produce content for the current ruling dogmatic institution, aka working for the church.
So, part of the issue is that those "last 2 years" also simultaneously felt a bit like an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic via lockdowns and infection fear. Maybe for some relevant areas of "tech", such as video conferencing, sure: people alone at home would make that stuff overly important in a way that would crash back down... but, I certainly had felt a world that went from being pretty awesome in 2019 to businesses shutting down left and right through 2020 and 2021 due to people all staying inside.

I had not just hoped but kind of expected that, if we ever again felt reasonably safe returning outside and eating at restaurants and shopping together at stores and going out to theaters and the such, that things--including, very relevantly, advertisements on Google for all of those physical products, services, and entertainment options people might now want again--would kind of explode from latent demand and pent up frustration during the COVID period... not that we would only THEN go into a recession!

But like, I guess this is why we can say with some certainty that I don't know much about complicated global- or even national- scale financial matters as I didn't know much about how--and very critically when--the Federal Reserve functions (having not had to care at all about this around 2008/9, when I had my bandwagon hitched strongly to the iPhone and everything looked amazing) and have never actively tracked inflation indicators as anything other than a dry numerical input for CPI wage increases :(.
A few hot takes :

- It takes time to cut down forests.

- It takes time for cultivars suited for the local conditions to be found.

- The advantages of farming might not be obvious on an individual level (farmers just tend to live harder and poorer lives than hunter-gatherers) and it's likely that it spread more so from the demographic excess these societies produced than from cultural adoption of that technology and lifestyle.
RDBMS vs. NoSQL
What is RDBMS and what differences does it have with NoSQL databases?
It's your choice: Or you keep repetitive manual work to get "boring job" done, or you get creative by automate them.
the worst part is that even when economics growth stopped earlier this year, they didn't stop hiring. They didn't adapt fast enough to reduce the damage. They didn't try to optimize their workforce, they just went on with it till the moment they need to fire 12K
This looks great. I typically type my run commands into a script and run that, so they are reproducible, but this looks like a nice way to capture one that you ran temporarily but that worked well.

As an aside, the way Python code works feels really weird to me (even though I’ve done a bit of python). In particular, I find env to be odd. In this case you already need python installed (using pip to install this) or you need to run it as a container (which may or may not have significant overhead depending on how it was built). I’d suggest a compiled binary installed via a package manager for a command line tool. Had it been that, I may not have noticed.

I’m curious if other HN readers feel differently?
...or colleagues. it's quite easy to start thinking that if you enjoy what you do so much so that you stay up late, then everyone else should feel and do the same.
No I think we meet all other reasonable measures also. The experience of freedom in the US is the freedom to make increasingly virtual and arbitrary consumer choices. That’s pretty much it. It’s not the experience of freedom of speech in practice, not free time, not freedom from usurious debt, not the freedom of rising prosperity, not freedom from opaque government interference and meddling.

When people use the word “authoritarian” they are just signaling that they believe the narratives that our media speaks with one voice about those bad, bad other countries.
Saying "I'm fine" when you aren't doesn't usually involve abruptly robbing thousands of people of their livelihoods.
Some people will point to Warren Buffet, but he is not really a "normal" investor. Buffet only invests in a company after he talks directly to management and does a lot of analysis that is not available to normal investors. I consider him to be a legal insider trader.
Spotify beats Apple Music on performance alone. Search results and playback are instant on Spotify, but have a couple seconds' latency on Apple Music.

The Apple Music client feels like an Electron pile of shit, which is ironic because the Spotify Desktop client is actually Electron and manages to be more performant and feel more native despite that.
An economics way to look at it would be to consider marginal output of the worker, ie how much value/profit/whatever_you_target the organization would have produced with the worker minus how much it would have produced without the worker.
Is it near a river? What about ground water level? Sometimes that has to be actively pumped out/up. Also large water mains may fracture, and soak it.

Blub

Edit: This can be seen often during the early stages of larger building construction, when they 'dig out' the hole for the basement, and optionally parking spaces below that, like in your case. There are large pumps, always working, 24/7 pumping it elsewhere. Those don't vanish. They are just being replaced by permanent installations integrated into the building, or near to it.

Similar things apply to many subway tunnels. Not always. Depends on the location of course.
Thank you!

I have fixed both issues
People routinely go to the trouble of including dubious anecdotes to hammer home their points. It’s just an incredibly common pattern across journalism, public speaking, various forms of rhetoric. Politicians love this form of persuasion. I believe all these people do this because they think it will matter. It doesn’t make much sense to engage in this behavior otherwise.
Thread is basically an evolution of Zigbee/Zwave, which both have been around for 20 years. Some of its key deficiencies include its routing, encryption, and meshing.

If we get another 20 years out of Thread/Matter, that's a pretty good outcome.

I will be slowly moving to T/M. My Zigbee hub is local only, and I have no reason to believe it won't continue to be stable.
>The Hollywood trope "even the guys who built it don't know how it works" isn't real.

How is that not real? Have you ever tried understanding what the weights of a NN are doing? With networks with 20 parameters you might have a chance. Trying to understand which bits of the GPT-3 network do what would be an exercise in futility.
So an AGI that has the intelligence of a 6-year-old is ... what exactly?
The US (at least the Republican party & some supporters) possesses other authoritarian traits as well, such as using excessive force to quell protests, pushing a narrative which alienates outgroups (Mexicans, Muslims...), or widespread surveillance.

Obviously it's not as bad as China or Russia, but it's not exactly a bastion of hands-off governance either.
Really, you'll have a much more positive effect on your bottom line by avoiding the 0.1x programmers, which are shockingly common
> The decline in attendance at movie theaters has had a similar effect. You can’t take for granted that everyone has seen the latest Bond movie.

You can count on most everyone seeing the hits, still. The recent Avatar and Top Gun sequels, whatever the latest pump and dump from comic book or Jurrasic Park franchises, for example.
> Have you considered there might be a reason for that? That kind of "100% personal freedom, no government telling me what to do" libertarianism is impossible nonsense.

That's not actually refuting my original point, which was that it's a lot easier to stop dealing with McDonald's than it is to stop dealing with the government.

You're trying to shift the goalposts.

> If you really want to exist without being beholden to the government there's plenty of places you could build an isolated cabin in the woods, collect rainwater, grow your own food etc.

And if I want to exist without being beholden to McDonald's I can just, you know, stop going to McDonald's.
Fallible – The Lost Sibling of Result and Option
I sincerely don't think we should put the salaries as the deciding factor here. The crux of the issue is what you said: employee protections.

The only reason they over-hire in the first place is how cheap and easy it is to layoff afterwards. They are allowed to bet with human capital because of it.

I would most definitely take a paycut if it meant everyone would get better protections, higher salaries and stability. Unfortunately this is not a popular view and will likely never happen anyways.

In my country we had above average labor laws and in recent years all we see are new ways to circumvent them or laws removing those rights. It's sad to see but it's what capitalism's end game dictates.
I agree it seems like a big leap, on the other hand ChatGPT is already taught all these things, all that is missing is true understanding.
If you are measuring productivity, the authors of significantly popular programming languages are 10x via their programs enabling the users of the programming languages to develop software and the economic value that software provides.

The same can be said of tooling and major OS programmers.

The work of devs like Guido van Rossum created, Linus Torvalds, Ken Thompson David Moon ,Richard Stallman and many others is so multiplicative in terms of economic value output that a single order of magnitude doesn't come close to describing it. It's probably more like two or three orders of magnitude.
It’s certainly true that much of this stuff has been around a while to those familiar, and I didn’t attempt to frame this article as anything beyond a survey in my original statement. The title is what it is. I’m most interested in hearing perspectives from people who are actually using these methods to do real work, and to hear where the cutting edge actually is these days.

That said, a review like this is still significant to people who are starting out in this field or otherwise not previously familiar, and this is the most recent distillation I’ve seen that is written at a level accessible to a broader science and engineering audience.
> So it points to a broken system, for the masses, you take responsibility and you take the consequences.

What's should happen, but it won't is that the responsibility for hiring too many people and facing a change of perspective should be to have to keep these people event if it means a decline of profit, as long as they don't face bankruptcy they can take the loss and move on.

That's why there are labor laws and worker unions, so the asymmetry can shift a bit to the employee side.
The latter, but also 2.11bsd does not have virtual memory, and thus does not require an MMU. It was written with the segmentation features of a PDP-11 in mind, which so happen to adapt to PIC32 as it has kernel/user separation and memory protection via a kseg/useg segmentation (as opposed to a TLB with individual page protections).
Reduce?
They are hiring in Poland!
> Management has its own set of challenges

True, and it comes with its own set of perks, too.

However, the wording of "taking responsibility for the decisions that led us there" seems to imply that Sundar Pichai agrees that _he_ personally made some _bad_ decisions, and that the _logical_ conclusion is to pass the helm ?

Fun fact: in France, a running gag for political jokes is that the sentence "I take full responsibility for xxxx" is almost mechanically expected to be followed by some form of "..., and therefore I resign", because of this spectacular historical precedent [1].

> J'assume pleinement la responsabilité de cet echec, et j'en tire les conclusion, en me retirant de la vie politique.

> I take full responsibility for this failure, and as a consequence, leave political life.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msObVR8EDYk
Googles revenue grew 41% in 2021, which is higher than normal. But not crazy. It was not about future projections or anything real. It was about cheap money and asset inflation. I don't know the exact mechanisms but I'm not convinced that it was about projections and now a letdown. Revenue is falling sure but it's still growing incredibly fast for such a large company

2022 (TTM) $282.11 B 9.5%

2021 $257.63 B 41.15%

2020 $182.52 B 12.77%

2019 $161.85 B 18.3%

2018 $136.81 B 23.42%

2017 $110.85 B 22.8%

2016 $90.27 B 20.38%

https://companiesmarketcap.com/alphabet-google/revenue/
Careful, I appreciate your sentiment, but it's quite likely the set of people making the anti-Google comments are not the same set of people making the other comments you find distasteful. Or at least, the intersection of those two sets is small.
We had one 10x developer in our team (it was a bigger project with about 70 developers). His output was 10x the average mainly because he had very (both) deep and broad domain knowledge, i.e. knowing largest part of our own code base. That will allows him to produce much more, since he doesn't need to investigate how something was done or how to integrate the new feature into the system. He was also quite hardworking, which also helps.

Of course, if he would be put into a completely new project, he probably wouldn't be 10x, at least not the first few years there.
Having just gone through this yesterday I can tell you that while some of this has to do with $$$, these layoffs/reductions are also used to quickly recalibrate the team by removing low performers and cultural misfits.
> At this point I'm seriously considering quitting. I just don't have what it takes to earn this degree.

I'm sure you do have what it takes. But theres a difference between having something and using it. I have what it takes to learn Japanese. Am I gonna learn Japanese? No. Because as much as it sounds like a nice idea, there's other things I'd rather do with my time. I want it, but not nearly enough to do it. (although that's a bad example, because I could learn it one hour per week and finish it in 10 years. I'm not starting it because the process is intimidating in a toil-y way rather than a spark-my-creativity way)

If you could do only one thing with your life, with no problems for money, time, motivation, etc, what would that be? Go do that. Because no matter how hard it is, it's the one thing you want to do with your life. And you only get one life.

Before you leave the PhD, what can you do to take advantage of where you are in life right now? Meet more people around you, attend a lecture series, go dancing with fellow classmates, take an art class, join a theater troupe. You don't know - maybe you'll meet your future wife while you're distracting yourself from your PhD, and later this will be the funny story you tell about how you met. Don't take it so seriously. Just find something that feels valuable about your current situation, enjoy it, and let go of the guilt.
Public company is accountable to shareholders, in case if share prices will go down shareholders will want to know why, and some activist investor may go to the court complaining that company was able to have better financial results it should not work on some stuff and should fire people.
I disagree with that sentiment.

In my opinion, tax money should mostly go towards building a prosperous society, whatever that means. But some things I see as being highly important:

1. Education in active participation in a democracy
2. Education to be able to take care of their physical and mental health
3. Education to be able to be empathetic towards their peers.
4. Education to create jobs rather than inhabit them

I don't see it as a error per se, that a lot of people in Denmark (My country of origin) do a masters degree in-order to take a normal subsistence job afterwards.

My own hopes for the future is that education does not take 5-6 years and is something that is only done in ones 20s but is something that is a lifelong companion and helps a person accelerate their careers, also later in life.
I call it a scare-theory because there is meaningful debate about it and its main point, famine is already achieved by things that we know will occur. In a no BS nuclear exchange the hydrocarbons industry will cease to exist. This means no diesel for combines, no mass production of fertilizer, no power to keep fans on to cool broiler chickens. The clock on food production goes back to 1750-1800 for some time.

An available calorie reduction this fast means famine, nuclear winter or not. I think tangible consequences like this helps normal people to understand the risks of nuclear war more effectively than trying to explain nuclear winter.
What is he taking responsibility for then?
If you measure AGI by its ability to be human, the only thing you'll be able to find find is a human.

That means you will never believe in the consciousness of an intelligence that doesn't try to be human, no matter if a god, animal, machine, or alien. Until you expand your definition, that is.
My experience is that 0 effort reddit style memeing is downvoted, while sarcasm and jokes are rewarded as long at least a minimum effort is shown.

I think that most people (me included) just didn't get the joke.
Does any government agency claim to be funded correctly?
By that logic the people who bought tesla stock at $400 and are sellng it now prove that it was a good investment so long as they spent their kid's college fund on buying it in the first place.
There are instances in other articles, including the latest one from December. It's a WordPress site and the links are baked into the HTML so yes, it's likely running a compromised plugin.
> If you fully drop out and become a wandering homeless person inside of a very, very large forest you can probably avoid dealing with the government.

Until some ranger in a plane sees the smoke from your campfire and lands to give you a whopping fine.

But that's not actually the point. Once again, if I want to stop dealing with McDonald's I can just do it, with next to zero effect on the rest of my life.

Are you really suggesting that abandoning your entire life to live in the wilderness is somehow just as easy?
“If you are not creating enough value to justify your presence, the company has every right and frankly society should demand that you be let go”

That’s not how it works for probably 99% of employees. You do the job management gives to you and have almost no influence on whether you create value or not.
The target for the communication is investors. I read it to say "Price in the costs for a garden variety data breach, but not a CPRA-specific class action."
I obviously don't know any of the technical details, but I'd think they could, section by section, replace the failing automated system with the standard manual system (i.e. light switches) for a lot cheaper and less effort than getting a new server, etc.

When I was a janitor in a middle school, every section of the building was assigned to a different janitor. After a janitor cleaned a room in the evening, they turned off the lights. The teacher or whoever using that room the next day turned on the lights when they arrived. Automating such a simple task was insanity.
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