skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another anecdote, a company i used to work for (200+) employees, in high growth mode but not yet profitable got told the same by their investors. “Save cash, layoff staff, raising is going to be more difficult”

So they terminated 40% of their staff despite the growth basically because investors are very pessimistic.
If those applications benefit from particularly favorable circumstances, then those applications will migrate to the places with those circumstances. We don't grow bananas in the Yukon; we won't put energy-intensive industries in places where energy is more expensive.
You do it with multiple people? I find that the people we’ve hired using this method are fairly diverse (but I may be prejudiced).
She actually said that or something like it, hence the paraphrasing warning. Also still I stand by my point outside of her own comments on her appearance, with everything we know so far. That was the only comment off the top of my head that she made could relate about playing the system
High School’s Lights Have Been Stuck on for More Than a Year
No, the sample app is 100% Temporal backend, but you can incrementally adopt—writing durable functions for specific processes. Usually companies start out with things that are either long running or for which reliability is particularly important, like financial transactions. Then they learn that it can be more generally useful, and expand use cases gradually.
Know Your Customer and tax reporting.
No APIs have been shut down. Specific apps competing with the Twitter mobile apps have had their access banned.
To quote the late Admiral Rickover,
"An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is cheap (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is very flexible in purpose (’omnibus reactor’). (7) Very little development is required. It will use mostly off-the-shelf components. (8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now.

“On the other hand, a practical reactor plant can be distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) It is being built now. (2) It is behind schedule. (3) It is requiring an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. Corrosion, in particular, is a problem. (4) It is very expensive. (5) It takes a long time to build because of the engineering development problems. (6) It is large. (7) It is heavy. (8) It is complicated."

From the article,
"The first module is expected to be operational by 2029 with full plant operation the following year."
Thanks for sharing your story. I feel like I’m in a similar situation, but have been studying the networking / security side of things. Recurse looks incredible!
Freezing weather in San Francisco? What parallel universe do you hail from?
"Unusual" isn't an insult; what's the actual problem?
I was more offering an opinion on where we all fit into the class system. Not offering opinions on any variety of socialism.
Why are you paying an accountant?
One would imagine that a significant portion of the time they tried to put the person behind bars because they believed the person to be guilty.

I’m curious what your “Blackstone number” is. The Blackstone principle is that it is better for ten guilty men to go free than one innocent one to be imprisoned. It seems you might go higher than ten—but how high? Should we be so concerned about wrongful convictions that we allow 1000 guilty men to go free for each one? 10,000?

Then, turn that around. Given how often prosecutors have good motives and adequate grounds for moving forward with a conviction, how many innocent prosecutors would you put through the wringer just to catch one guilty one?
And extremely weak people can be sublimely competent. weird but true. You really just cannot rank people on a linear ordering.
Well, that’s the trick isn’t it? A 10x engineer does that. Because you may not doesn’t mean no one can. A large part of my successful career has been built around my ability to intuitively discern the essence of the challenges my customers face and proposing then implementing novel solutions to it. I don’t know how I do it, but I do. I’m able to enlist my teams to a productive and useful way, cut through blocking issues rapidly, and (when I was writing a lot of code) implementing clean solutions that the rest of my team were struggling with. The 10x doesn’t come from writing 10x the LOC, it comes from writing the right 1 line of code 10x faster than another engineer, and finding ways to make your team around you 10x more productive. I’m sorry you’ve not had a chance to work with folks like this. And you are right, they are in top employers because they are valuable, and are over represented in FAANG. And they are extraordinarily rare, and as such are extraordinarily expensive. But rarity doesn’t imply impossibility.
Why would I enter sensitive financial information into a website that isn't owned and operated by the government (to whom I'm sending information anyway)?

I don't want to use the internet for my taxes, so I do TurboTax locally and save that information in local files.
Indeed. If this happens a lot, the optimal prices might get closer together.

But I am pretty sure the total profit will still be greater than in a single-price scenario.
When AOL 4.0 came out they added the ability to embed images in emails, and there was a super fun bug where you could put a certain unicode char into the file name of an image and it would blue screen the recipient if they opened the email. Fun times.
> Did you read it?

Obviously I did, or I wouldn't have said what I said.

I think that quote fits "a pretty dumb over-simplistic extrapolation of some current trends" pretty well. It's pretty dumb to select some trends to extrapolate, and ignore the ones that are not trending correctly. I'd call it "over-simplistic", but I already did...

What it doesn't describe is a plan to make the world this way. It's a prediction. A dumb prediction.
I assume Intuit and their ilk lobbied for the limit. I recall reading that the IRS was developing a way to automatically do most people’s taxes, but the tax preparation companies lobbied Congress to stop that, and instead offered their services for free…with the caveat that higher income filers are excluded.
More, after taxes than most people will make pre-tax in a lifetime. What a time to be a CEO.
I would say someone who administers critical internet infrastructure or who has technical influence over how the network operates.
The problem with that is that it is impossible to infer the type of the n-ary pipe() function. Libraries “solve” this by overloading that function with n annotations, but that really isn’t a permanent solution, especially for libraries with millions of users, as there will always be a user that puts n + 1 parameters in that function.
I agree. Google and Firefox have a high number and quality of plugins, but Google Chrome has a larger market for plugins and it is easier to find plugins for specific features. However, Firefox supports plugins in the WebExtensions format, which is compatible with Google Chrome, but also supports other formats such as XUL and XPCOM that give developers more control
This paper says, " we found that dietary adherence played a more significant role than caloric restriction in distinguishing the two groups".

Also, "First, there seems to be a heightened neural response to highly processed foods, which have been developed in the industry to be hyperpalatable. These foods might not be as effective in reducing appetite after eating.30,31 Second, highly processed foods tend to be high in added sugars and saturated and trans fats and depleted in most micronutrients and other bioactive compounds and fiber.32,33 This differential dietary composition might have an impact on the overall metabolism of the food, directing it into different metabolic pathways, with different efficiency.34 Third, the calories provided in highly processed foods are easier to access than those in less processed foods,35 so even if the diet provides similar calories, these are not equally available."

So calorie as measured ex vivo is not necessarily equivalent to other calories measured ex vivo.

The biome studies and insulin resistance/RQ differences also suggest that a calorie is not necessarily just a calorie for different individuals.

So it's probably more "a calorie available to your metabolism" rather than "a calorie into your mouth."
Canada is even worse I'd expect. We have a horrible healthcare system that explicitly disallows any other options, and people rave about the concept of it. This sounds like the same thing.
They are unrealized gains, but yeah, his net worth increased 20,000x more than the average comfortable SV tech worker today.

This is $666.666 repeating USD per person laid off from $GOOG. Make of that what you will.

Seems like a lot.
Every googler who got laid off today that owns google shares made the same % in earnings today. This doesn’t matter.

The goal is to increase shareholder value. And most of the increase today was due to macro market trends and not due to the layoffs (everything went up today)
GOOG employees also made a crap ton too as GOOG's stock based comp is very generous.
And a nuke plant needs an unused containment vessel.

Betting that the biggest battery manufacturer in the world will default on billions of dollars in orders for sodium batteries, next quarter, would be a courageous position to take. But I doubt you are shorting CAT-L.
Did any Twitter employees believe his tweets? Should they not have?
Wonderfully rendered, in all senses
Yes, but nobody cares.

I'd like to reduce sky glow. I use motion sensitive downward lighting and close my blinds. I'd imagine that and redesigned street lights could cut sky glow in half or better.

But there's not enough money involved to even create regulations/standards in building codes or for lighting manufacturers.
That's how I had to do almost every move. It's really a graph search!
He's saying he should not be trusted! Wonder if he means things he says under oath too.
4) You run your own business.

5) Foreign income, other than simple investment income (e.g., own stocks in foreign companies).
Google has UI designers? Where have they been hiding all these years?
You're mixing issues, though. He (and other CEOs, and other execs) will make a shit-load of money for very little "hard work" every day of the week, even while making bad or terrible decisions. There was nothing ever "fair" about exec compensation, if that's what you ever hoped to find.
Anyone want to do the QC challenge?
Your point can be made with more civility.
If we follow the assumption that he is responsible for this stock movement, then he made 8 million dollars today and yet made investors 27,000 million dollars - creating 3,300x more value than captured.
I was hoping there was some mention of the international zombie apocalpyse alert level.
Bartending is 90% social skills (and to a certain extent restaurant/hospitality management especially if you want to evolve in that field) and 10% actual drink-making.
Python is only slightly younger than awk at this point.
So many unnecessarily negative comments.. I enjoyed this, thank you for making it
Percentage wise it was the same though.
Yep. My rent is more than half of my monthly nut. Why would you think otherwise based on what I said?

My renter's insurance is ~$100/year. The bigger issue (for me at least) is the ~$1,000/month (plus $600 deductible and $40 copays) I pay for crappy health insurance.
Like Godel and Turing, right?
>and it's earlier value of "Don't be evil".

What do you mean? It's still part of their current values.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
The statistics of a population are not unifrom across it's subpopulations.
I'm amazed how well it works on mobile. So smooth!
Some care. And discussions like this are how more people can come to care.
Fun fact:
AutoCAD wanted to be Microsoft Access.
Yup. I suppose they can use the cell phone tracking to figure how many miles you’ve put on your personal vehicle and use AI to figure out how many were business use miles. /s

In reality only if you take standard deductions and only get paid with a W-2 can they actually figure it out. But I agree that overall the process is messed up.
No leaderboard? Finished in 8:41.
Intuit does not "keep tax codes complex" -- your legislators do that all on their own.

Intuit does try to prevent the IRS from making it easier to file electronically for free -- that much is true.
I just realized I wrote "Mathematics" instead of "Linear Algebra" in the suggested longer and clearer title. That was a mistake.
> The IRS is not actually a godly being that has omniscient knowledge of every transaction that ever goes on and in the future.

For the majority of people they have complete knowledge of everything you are going to report. If you don't believe this its easy to test: file your taxes with omissions and see how quickly they contact you to let you know you messed up.

There should absolutely be an option where you just tell the IRS to figure it out based on electronic reports that are already being reported to them from your employer's payroll system and other sources and have it just show you a summary that you checkmark (or override if you're one of the minority that has an exceptional case).

This is basically what things like TurboTax do for most people, most users rarely enter much of anything, the data is pulled from databases that have the same data that was already forwarded to the IRS. But of course there's a fairly substantial price for this 'convenience' when it should be built into the federal tax system and free for everyone to use as it is in some other countries.

What's stopping this from being the norm isn't the small percentage of exceptional cases but rather lobbying from Intuit, etc.
Both have plenty of transmission lines to places with hills.
> This just adds first class support to the language

If it was a different language you could say it "just" adds something, but javascript is not compiled and any syntax change means you start over as far as compatibility goes. It is unique in its scope and usage and this feature doesn't enable anything new for users and is only marginally useful for programmers.
I really like this tool (text-based, yes!), thank you for creating this! I'm working on creating estimates at work and it is a real struggle. Creating estimates with a range and probability is awesome because it reflects the uncertainty inherent in any estimate.

It would be nice if the system showed its work somehow. In addition to giving me comfort as the estimator, it's nice to show the person on the receiving side the my inputs and help them understand process being applied. I looked for some docs on this, but I couldn't find anything. At the very least, it would make a great blog post!

Another bit of feedback while I'm here. I tried using {1-2d} for days and {budget 10d} for budget. It seemed to work for estimates, but not for the budget. Looked for docs on the syntax, but I couldn't find it and it all the examples in the quickstart use hours.

P.S. I'd love to talk to you about how I'd like to use this if you're looking for more feedback / collaboration. This has legs!
Technical ability to ramp is not the issue, it's the economic cost of ramping. A nuclear plant must operate with as high a capacity factor as possible or else the cost per kWh inflates. Almost all the costs are fixed.
Governors often have a line-item veto [0]. They can strike text out of a bill during signing, including in ways that change the meaning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto
> The goal is to increase shareholder value

I know this is the "official" corporate governance imperative for a public company, but in practice this isn't how companies are run (or at least, not Google/etc). Sundar isn't thinking about "shareholder value"... he's thinking about how to make the company (and its employees) successful. Which of course, sometimes means cutting people loose.
No, they are 10x as productive due to a confluence of abilities. But they typically achieve that by being a force multiplier and unblocking the team in various ways rapidly.

You seem to think engineers in a FAANG somehow don’t actually exist or something. Yes FAANG and other top tech employers employ a disproportionate amount of 10x engineers because (a) they recognize their existence and seek them, (b) they give them interesting work and autonomy, (c) they pay them enough no one else can poach them. They are already rare - I don’t know why, as someone who has been recognized as one throughout my career despite my own impostor syndrome I can’t identify anything special about myself, or give advice on how to be a better engineer more than the average advice. As a hiring manager i am self aware enough to identify 10x engineers and they tend like working for me. I have noticed it’s a waste to have more than 1 per team, so I try to spread mine around. But I will literally pay any price to hire and retain them because they often make a project possible that is otherwise unlikely to succeed, and they lift everyone around them and improve them through out their career.

I hope you get a chance to work with one. Or maybe you are one and like me couldn’t see it?
Bay Area defies tech layoffs, powers to big job gains in December
OpenSubdiv – open-source surface subdivision library
english not me main language but it not mean me stupid. i was at two big tech company for over past 10 year.

this a massive GRIFT..saw armies of new hires. Now people on HN and LinkedIn say, "So hard to recruit this level talent. Will need to re-hire them." Oh really? Let me tell you.

i saw:

- original founders, execs, and they proteges leave, to be replaced by "Professional Managers"

- professional managers have no vision or direction.

- professional manager cares nothing for customer, product, or value.

- professional manager driven by prestige of being at big tech and ego

- only goal is to increase HC, fight territory battles, and grow empire.

- main incentive was PROMOTION.

- how to achieve promotion? Managers: empire building. IC: invent complexity, build solution to problem that not real. launch it, get promoted, go to next team. great, now we need to spend even more $$ to support some piece of shit services because critical stuff taking dependency on it. manager, Sr. Mmnager collude across organization to show big impact and get unnecessary thing entranced deep in tech stack. But hey, now we write document in promotion portfolio so sr. manager can become director.. sr. engineer become staff level..

- 20% of company provide value that pays the other 80% salary.

- Many people work on stupid thing that have no meaning for customer.

let me pick a random big tech co:

you tell me what huge improvement in amazon shopping, how alexa better, how kindle better, how fire (junk) any better? What big innovation even from aws in past 7 year? oh let me tell you – lets steal some open source project, give no credit or contribution back to main project, and sell as managed service and eat our customer in data transport cost alone.

this grift went on long time enable by cheap borrow policy. and in silicon valley, it at level of Ponzi scheme. I invest in company x,y,z, and c. i force c to use shitty SaaS products from x,y,z or some other company my friend invest in. it literally same dollar moving from x to y to z to c.

entitled grifters.
I see its already news:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34450550
Just off the cuff guessing but 12000 people cost $1.2 to $4.8 billon a year

Google has 180k people, minus 12k = 168k. That means their burn rate is 16.8 to 84 billon a year

I'm speaking out of my ass because I don't know the average salary and overhead of a google employee but the low numbers assume $100k a year no zero overhead.

Please check my math

12000 * $100k = 1.2 billon

168k * $100k = 16.8 billon
Not OP, but a Recurser (I suspect there's a lot of us on here!)

If the idea of a self-structured sabbatical appeals to you, Recurse is great. It's definitely (and deliberately) not a bootcamp of a traditional sort, so it attracts a certain type of person. I definitely learned stuff there that has helped me (I spent my batch going deep on WebAssembly and the WGSL shader language), but the bigger thing it gave me was a reset from working in industry nonstop for ~10 years and a chance to remember why I like programming in the first place.
The world doesn’t pay anyone based off “hard work”?

Do you think programmers who sit in a chair all day deserve to be paid 5x what a coalminer makes?
I'm in San Francisco, and it looks like my closest option is just heading due west. Anybody know if there are ocean-based star tours?
The price tag sounds about right - a price list for some folks based out of UMN/UIUC is here: https://racismuntaught.com/get-started/

A full day costs the organization/institution 8.5 kUSD, with a discount for K-12 and smaller companies, that's price segmentation to maximize revenue in action.

Back in the day, the thankfully defunct Ada Initiative grifted 9 kUSD from the Wikimedia Foundation for a half-day gender workshop: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Ada_Initiative/Ge...
I'm not convinced this will solve anything.

According to this:

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/01/18/the-nuclear-fallacy-why...

building intentionally small is not a good idea if you need to convert heat to electricity.
And creating more nuclear waste is not ideal either.

For the $600m of taxpayer money invested into this, how much solar and wind could have been built?
(probably around 1GW?)
Academic papers shouldn't read like mystery novels or vague, pointless ramblings. If the abstract doesn't describe or summarize any notable results or contributions, a reader might (very reasonably) assume that there aren't any.

The last line of the abstract does seem to be relevant:

> This work consists on (sic) an attempt to describe in a concise way the main models are (sic) sectors that are affected by generative AI and to provide a taxonomy of the main generative models published recently.

I think the authors may have meant something like:

"This work presents a concise overview of generative AI models and their application areas, and provides a taxonomy of recently published generative models."

They could have gone on to explain that the models are categorized by input and output type.
Sulfuric acid vapor at 850 C is nasty stuff.
I'm a random non-executive employee at a company you've heard of in Silicon Valley, and I made... (checks Stocks app)... more today than my brother in the midwest will make all year.

What a time to be in tech.