skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not the technique, but the inmorality of who publish it as something it is not.
Salty, but a true classic. Having read easily several hundred "business" books, this one is my desert island book.
If it is wrong (looks right, but is unsound) it is likely written by GPT.
If it is wrong (looks right, but is unsound) it is likely written by a Human.

Tough call...
only their earn product customers
My variation on this. Make it work then make it slightly less horrible.
Why do we only get to choose our pronouns?

I want to choose my prepositions: in, up and above.

Also, my conjunctions are: however, moreover, and whereupon.
It's more common for women to be assaulted than it is for men to be accused of assault, both genuine assault and false accusation.
Question for those who got laid-off from tech recently (say since Aug last year): how hard did you find it to get another tech job?

Would be interesting to get some anecdotal evidence to shed light on the following WSJ article which claims laid-off tech workers are finding it easy to get re-recruited:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/laid-off-tech-workers-quickly-f...

If the phenomena described in the WSJ article is true then the consequence to the macro environment could be substantial and not in a good way. Basically the fed will probably need another round of hikes to really bring down unemployment to bring down core inflation. Since it would imply that (ironically) the recent fall in unemployment is "transitory" and not sufficient to bring down inflation.
Sorry, don't count with me. I don't like using on my code symbols I don't have on my keyboard. I still prefer LaTeX for math notation.

For normal text my new hope is Djot, a lighweight markup language by the creator of Pandoc.
Couldn't they launch a paid ad-free tier that grants API access? i.e. the user pays for the ad-free experience, and the 3rd-party apps would only work for those users who have paid. I can't think of any companies who have done that but it seems like a reasonable solution.
What is your standard for a "credible" reason?

What should the parent comment's claim be based on?

The last paragraph of your comment is hard for me to understand.
I'm in my early 40s. My way of having parties is through salsa/bachata events around London. There is always something on and most people are very friendly.

I also drop in on Improvisation sessions in and around London - full of friendly people. And before Covid I used to do workshops around Europe too. Again can get invited to lots of parties that way.

I think I could probably rock this out for another 10-15 years easy - so some people here may find this a good hack. You can of course find other people to enjoy hobbies with on 'meetup.com'

I'm happy in my own company - but I wouldn't know where to begin in organizing my own party. I've spent a lot of my life working on personal projects/working. I do know a lot of people, but I generally meet people one on one. It just seems like a lot of stress and effort to set up a social event - but I think that is because it not well suited to it. I respect men and women who have a natural talent for organising social events. IF I were immortal I might have the time, but honestly I find it more interesting to work on a problem.

At the same time, I do like people and did in my teenage years through to about 25 morn that I wasn't that popular. I really did want to be liked, as I liked other people. If I had my time back, I'd have done improvisation / salsa and bachata at this time too. I wonder sometimes if everyone should do them...
Not been laid off myself, but I'm still being absolutely hounded by recruiters. There are still a ton of tech jobs out there, at least in the UK.
I have. All I'm saying is this plus someone who left 10 years ago who can't and shouldn't have written a CSV parser using regular expressions. Input row:

A,B,Alice "Mallory" Bob,123
This week:

Amazon 18,000

Microsoft 10,000

Alphabet/Google 12,000
I have a system with the capability. It's quite convenient for dynamic on/off. E.g. instead of having a timer I turn on the heating when I wake up from bed, and if I go home I put it on before leaving or while underway.
If you are interested in the machine learning part, you can try the Numerai tournament ( https://numer.ai ). They provide obfuscated high quality hedge fund data that participants can train their models on and send back only their predictions and then they combine the user's predictions into their market neutral meta model which they actively trade. So far their fund's returns looks promising in their category (market neutral fund) especially in the latest months: https://numer.ai/fund

You can get reward too if you stake their own "made up" crypto token on your prediction, but that comes with the usual crypto volatility risks too, so I do not recommend staking as a beginner unless you have a top model and OK with the crypto risk. Also they use only the staked predictions in their meta model because they use the stake size as an indicator for confidence of the user in their model (they are creating a stake weighted metamodel)

It's not easy too be good at it and it's getting harder because they want not only good predictions but diverse set of models which help eachother to improve their meta model (that's the TC metric on their leaderboard of models).
If you have some machine learning experience it's easy to get started with their example script and see how far you can get with hedge fund quality data. Boosted tree models are having good results but Neural Nets are more customizable so you can try more exotic models with them to have the diversity they are looking for.

Also one of their early investor is Howard Morgan the co-founder of Renaissance Technologies.
If you have a cook or a housekeeper you're nowhere near upper middle class. Those are bygone times.
layoffs aren't only when profits plummet, they are when stock prices must rise because of some bonus package
Can we update the title to let everyone know of the size: 12000?
> Pivoting the company to be AI-first years ago

That seems like a weird thing to throw in there. Does anyone else read it as a hasty "we were doing AI before ChatGPT was cool"?
Goose AI
Damn. I’m wondering if crypto could follow a similar path, especially with ICOs.
But PhD in USA doesn't require master level education but Europe does. That's a big difference.

But actually I mostly agree with you. PhD should be focused on apprenticeship and nothing else.
I'm 36, no kids, yet, and still like to "party" most weekends. My partner and I are quite lucky in that we have a decent amount of friends and family we see regularly. Half of them with kids, half not. Most of the parents do not get to party much since they've had the kids but one couple, we'll call them Alice and Bob, haven't let their child affect their partying at all really. Regular house parties and gigs, late nights, loud music at home and the kid just sleeps through it. Having a couple of good baby sitters and frankly bringing the child up knowing all their friends and joining in has made it very easy for them. I hope if/when we do have kids of our own, we'll be like Alice and Bob.
A nice satirical language is C+= :
https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equa...
That's a strange question because academia is totally overrun with people looking for postdoc positions. I've served in committees and issued calls. There are dozens to hundreds of candidates for every postdoc position, and at least half of them (usually most of them) are so qualified that they could even count as overqualified. It's painful to write the rejection letters, sometimes I even had to include a personal remark to emphasize that it was an extremely close call and that their application and CV were flawless.
>I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here

There it is! The free bingo space
If a tool can help people create genuine research, then that tool is good!

However, I worry on both the plagiarism and correctness fronts. When you aren't writing it by hand, it might be easy to miss both.
It's not 16-bit as such. But since it's small enough to fit in 16-bit, it's small enough to fit on the small memory available on pic32.

It's like what if you have an 80386. It can run Linux (which is 32 bit). But your 80386 only has 1 megabyte of RAM. Then you can run Minix! Minix is available both in 32 bit and 16 bit versions. You could run the 16 bit, but then you get all the 16-bit limitations, so you can run the 32 bit version of Minix. Still small, but you get the added benefits of larger integers and larger address space.
In terms of code output the guy I worked with churned out more than 10x what I did. It was just a mess though, hence I had to fix all his shitty bugs. Especially as it was a lot code, on top of a really poor database design, using Mongo for what was relational data. Would have saved so much effort if he had used a proper relational database instead of chasing fads when Mongo was the cool kid in town
Bring Back Tab-to-Search
Luckily most of them are low severity. Of the high severity (four of these), they are all 2021 CVE's, and seem to be PSP related, meaning also that actors were given plenty of time to milk these.

Keep those non PSP old computers going.
If the developer even cares what twitter says.
Piped exists even though YouTube has the same clause.
I'm not sure how intentionally[1] opting into an agreement to have your thermostat remotely controlled is an argument against having it connected to the internet.

The best argument would be the hypothetical remote control by a bad actor without any consent.

[1] what's curious about this particular story is how "intentional" this was; the report is vague and hints that some people were unaware exactly what they were opting into.
Or japan. In romania people still say “one million” instead of “one hundred”
Interesting I am not noticing this in the UK, what part of tech do you work in?
Thread has IP-based routing, can use 6LoWPAN, has a simpler gateway implementation in border routers, and they've separated out the application layer into Matter to allow for easier interoperability and evolution.

Zigbee's fine, but it's dated.
Major companies are laying off now not because they don't have money. It is mostly because they have been hiring a lot for past year based on growth they had during pandemic. Now as economic situation has changed, they just revert their previous hiring decision. They don't want to risk their money by holding to people they hired 'by mistake'.
Well, developing AI systems which are able to replace you and your abilities was not the best idea I guess.
Some of it is trimming the fat because these companies grew a lot over the pandemic. These companies are also looking at what's happening right now in their business, not last quarters profits. They are likely all seeing a slow down and preparing.
The moral is: when you install a super hi-tech fancy electronic system, always have the most basic analog fail-safe/backup. In this case, a simple "on-off" switch. Problem alleviated.
Seems to be updated.
Out of a total of roughly 140,000 employees (according to Wikipedia as of 2021).

So a tad less than 10% of their workforce.

Just thought I'd add that for perspective.
ya I don't think they were a ponzi themselves but they lost money to both 3 arrows capital and in the ftx collapse.

https://decrypt.co/114778/genesis-suspending-client-withdraw...

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/29/genesis-faces-h...
Things I've done to successfully restart my social life after Covid in the last year:

* Restarted Crossfit. Social events have included BBQ's, meals out, trips away (normally CF related, but still great fun). Every box I've been to have been full of fun and interesting people.

* Joined my local Wargaming/Boardgame club. Sit around drinking and playing games with a very varied bunch of people. Lots of nerds and the occasional odd person, but they're very much my people.

* Started playing Rugby again. Team sports are an almost instant way to make a big group of friends quickly. Frequently go out for a drink or to train. A boisterous crowd as you can imagine, but all happy to go above and beyond should you be struggling.

* Joined language evening classes at my local college. Dinners out, holidays had. I've met people from all over the world here.

* Made effort to go to lots of music festivals and talk to people nearby in the camp site and the crowd. I have a large group of friends from there, who I go to gigs/raves all over the country with.

How do I find time? CrossFit at 5:40 every morning before work. Language classes Monday evening. Rugby training Tuesday and Thursday evening. Board game club Wednesday eve. Weekends for time with family/partner/trips to visit friends in other cities/countries. Obviously that shifts around a lot depending on what's happening, but I try to keep the habit.

It's a slog, and I'm exhausted a lot of the time, but I wouldn't trade the life I have now for the world. I used to spend my evenings just consuming media before I went to bed. I quit almost all of that (TV, YouTube, video games, social media) at the beginning of 2021 and forced myself to fill my calendar to the brim. It's the best decision I've ever made.
> I take full responsibility

but no consequences.
Interesting. I remember that some Bitcoin people were trying to do the reverse when the price was 1000+ by talking about mBTC instead of BTC. I guess http://bitcoinity.org/markets still does it.
I think women have always been aware of that risk. It is more recently that false sexual accusations have become a concern and (mostly irrational) fear among young men. Go back enough in time and even real sexual accusations were of no concern to many men.
Fun times ahead!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451051
Yep, i never understood this either.

You finish your college, you're officially an (eg.) engineer now, you can build a bridge, millions of people will use every year, and it's ok... but if you want to try out new compositions and additives of/to cement in a lab environment and measure their properties, you need a mentor, and six different unrelated courses... and preferably a well-known name to co-author your article, to get it published at all.
Microsoft mentioned 10,000. Where did you get 11000 from?
> Here is the thing: The purpose of a PhD is to demonstrate the ability to conduct scientific research independently.

This is field-dependent. In some fields, undergrads can already be independent researchers. In other fields, even postdocs are not independent, as doing research requires funding, materials, and labor. The latter is the real problem, as professors in those fields need a steady supply of PhD candidates to do their research.
> I’m curious, what is the big draw of controlling your thermostat in real time that is significantly better than just (for example) a timer?

I don't use a smart thermostat, but what's told to me is this.

With a "timer" thermostat, you tell the system when to start heating; but what you really want to tell the system is when you want it warm. For example, we regularly give my son a bath between 7 and 7:30, so I want to make sure the bathroom "zone" of my house is reasonably warm at that time; and that his room is a comfortable "sleeping with a blanket on" temperature, ready for him to go to bed at 7:30. (Just about every room in our house has a separate thermostat.)

But if I set my thermostat to 19C at 7pm, then it won't be 19C at 7pm -- it will start heating at 7pm, and reach 19C at some indeterminate point in the future. So I manually add my own "static fudge-factor" in, and set the thermostat to 19C at 6:30pm.

However, this "static fudge factor" is almost certainly to be ineffective or inefficient: It may hit 19C at 6:40, in which case I'm paying for 20 minutes of unnecessary heating (inefficient); or it may hit 19C at 7:10, in which case the room will be cooler than I want it to be at 7:00 (ineffective).

The claim of the "smart thermostats" I've heard is that you can tell it, "I want it to be 19C at 7pm", and it will figure out how long your particular room will take to heat (possibly factoring in the current temperature), and start the heating at exactly the right time so that it hits 19C right at 7pm.

Is that something worth having? I think so. Is that worth the extra cost and risk? I don't really think so, which is why I haven't installed one; but I can see why someone else would like it.
Through experimentation I have determined that this model has no idea what klezmer music is :(
apparently : "Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today."
Hopefully someone can inform us as to whether they did announce such a pivot (I have no memory of that) but it wouldn't surprise me. ChatGPT feels a lot like search-without-citations to me, and the closest existing thing in production to it is the blurb at the top of Google results, which I suppose will soon be replaced by this kind of thing (if they can ever get it to stop lying.)
Of course not. He will be taking extra bonus and stocks. Not to mention stock value increase due to his direct decision
It's still way more volume than the vast majority of engineering playgrounds out there. I've seen stacks orders of magnitude more complex (with corresponding cloud bill) that served dozens of requests per second at most.
Recruiters often hound even when there aren't many jobs available. After all, they aren't paid to sit around and do nothing when there are lulls in hiring...
That functionality would have to be created for this particular situation, which I highly doubt Apple can even do at this point (and google likely can't either).

For an industry that makes as much money as it does some people appear to be extremely petty about this, if you could afford the app to begin with you can afford to be gracious about it. If you have any beef it is with Elon Musk, not with Twitterific.
Not even Google.

Looks like the era of free money for decades and over-hiring had to come to an end. The correction and then crash of the market had bring everyone back to reality since the covid bubble had burst in November 2021 as warned back at the time. [0]

As I said before, no one is safe. Doesn't matter if your a FAAMNG company.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238
Beside Apple (whose YoY growth on its workforce was consistent before and after the pandemic), I think almost all tech company made a wrong bet that economical changes will be accelerated by "going online" and thus dominated by FOMO.
If a highly consumer tech literate person with a near unlimited budget (either from freebies or business expenses or just because he's a multi millionaire) struggles with this stuff, you can be sure it's not ready for even enthusiast adoption.
Surely the data is encrypted using a 128 bit key or better, and the key is stored on some secure enclave which rate limits PIN entries, is it not?
Tune the keywords on your LinkedIn a bit and you should see loads of recruiter inbound.
I hope it is because they intended to do it, but decided to wait till Holiday Season was over.
I'm in the UK, but quite rarely contacted by recruiters, once a month perhaps. I think I have a decent resume (many years in a FAANG), but maybe I'm too senior/specialized?
I took more than 3 years to write up my thesis. It was the most depressed I have ever been. There are many good comments here and I hope they motivate you.

The advice that worked for me came from a professor in the depart (who was not my supervisor) which was essentially:
- Make sure your thesis title is framed as a question
- Each chapter should be a subquestion to the general overarching question
- Start each chapter by asking the explicit subquestion
- Conclude each chapter by summarising the answer to the subquestion and asking the subquestion of the next chapter.

In this way you have an overarching narrative to your thesis - without actually writing it.

Next add the headings and subheading of how you answered each subquestion (I image this will be cutting and pasting what have already written). You can breakdown subheading until each section only requires one or two paragraphs. Then start writing one paragraph at at a time. Do not worry about word count until you have finished a first draft. The narrative will make it much easier to read, understand and finish. You may need to get creative about how the narrative will flow so it makes sense - but you can ask for help with this.

Hope this helps.
It's just over 6%, the company is much bigger now than in 2021 due to hiring and the Mandiant acquisition.
No, you can get away with under $20k these days. The models can now distribute adequately well, so you can get away with a swarm of thirty two 12GB 3060 Ti cards. 32*$400 = $12,800. Add in computers to stick them in and interlink, and that's sort of where you land.

When you needed this in one machine, the cost to build a box capable of running OPT was around $50-$150k. An 80GB GPU runs around $10k-$20k, and you need five of them.

So you can get away with a good bit less than an NVidia DGX Station. Unless you're a FAANG SWE of a high level of some kind, it's well outside of hobbyist use, but it's not an unreasonable expense for most business use. The way I think of this expense is it's 10% of the annual cost of a SWE. If it improves productivity by more than 10%, it's worth it for a one-person team. With a 10-person team, it's worth it at a 1% improvement.
Clearly the name came from i(f only) we had more toggle switches.

This machine is also the source of foo, as in foo bar baz, as in if only we had more toggle switches, Barry could program the ba'z'ic interpreter quicker.
is it possible that this is all a response to falling stock price.

it seem historically a quick fix for any CEO to bump the stock price is to make layoffs, and it seems to work. and i don't think any of those companies are strapped for cash
I blame companies for blaming with people's lives like this: not market dynamics.

companies are the ones that decided to overhire, overpay - based on covid demand, cheap money that was floating around. companies not the market, resulted in a war over talent.

now it's a war on talent.

and of course everyone and their grandma will want to work at these tech companies where life is laid back and you get all the benefits and can express your political opinions.

but other big companies - say a tech company in the middle of nowhere e.g Epic - was paying good salary and not matching the faang / vc salaries. i'm sure those companies, if they didn't follow the herd ain't laying off people. their people are still employed, getting paid decent (enough). and work normal hours.
This is about growth they kept hiring as they expected growth if they are not expecting to grow then then need to cut expenses. A lot of people in silicon valley are not realising the pain that is about to come. In the last decade a lot of startups have cropped with the main target instead of a profitable business was getting sold to 1 of the big companies.