skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you have just said is the harsh truth and the reality that needs to be heard rather than ignored. Good.

> And let’s not kid ourselves, there’s plenty of fat at Google, more than 10% even. So if you understand the reality of Google only caring about the bottom line (which is great, in my opinion) and if you recognize that there’s some fat to trim, then you accept that layoffs are perfectly rational and even welcomed.

The layoffs had to happen someday and it wasn't sustainable anyway and I said this before that no company is safe and neither is it a day-care. As long as there are institutional investors, VCs etc in the company or the board, you accept the risk of relinquishing control even if it means that layoffs have to be done for the company to remain profitable for the next few years to shift focus on another higher priority product.

> Google doesn’t owe you shit. Google is not your friend or family, it’s your employer. You have a contract, and Google is allowed to terminate that contract if they see fit (and guess what, so can you!).

Exactly well said. Until many realize this, the better. Enough of the 'We're a family!' bullshit or useless DEI initiatives going on at many companies. Another product of the free money and zero interest rates era that needs to go.

> Do investors like this at all consider the impact of firing 12K humans (abruptly, and apparently at random) has on things like morale? This has actual, real world, financial consequences. Awful productivity. Awful employee retention. Awful ability to hire new talent. Awful PR.

I don't think they care, as long as Google is making money for shareholders and investors, but your points are also valid
A few years ago at least GB pages were buggy under Windows. I'm not sure of the current siruation.
It's not a piezo according to other commenters.
Where did I say that I, in this hypothetical, would leave immediately? If the whole point is that I’ve realized I’m damaging the firm with my actions, why uncharitably assume I would choose an exit path that exacerbated the damage I already caused?

The point is to make some sort of communication that you’re taking on board the consequences of your action, consequences that go well beyond trite platitudes of how difficult the process has been and how next time will be different.
> What's the most painful thing about online shopping?

1) broken search (as in returns everything except the thing I am looking for);

1a) search that does not index model/product numbers -- if I have obtained a model/product number from somewhere (say a review), I want that exact item to come up via a search on that model/product number;

2) sites that hide shipping and handling charges until after they want my credit card info (for me, this is an immediate abandoned cart);

3) sites that don't provide any sizing/measurements, or just as bad, provide "dimensionless" numbers (i.e.: Measurements: 12" x 6" x 3" -- is that length, width, height, or width, length, height, or height, width, length?). Sometimes one can workout which is likely which, but sometimes, esp. for near cubic items, it is impossible to reason out which is which. Special points to the few sites that not only label the measurements (12" L x 6" W) but also provide an image diagram of what they consider length vs width vs height.
I used to pop into SoS bar adjacent to Fabric on a Sunday morning for brunch. Somewhere I have a video of my cutlery being vibrated across the table by the bass from Fabric, so I guess they were still hard at play at 11am...

Smithfields used to be where the discerning drinker went to get a very late (or very early) pint in the local pubs as they had special licenses to cater to the market workers coming off shift. By the time I lived in the city the late licensing rules had been relaxed though.
Isn't dropping Dijkstra links as an appeal to authority about 0-indexing considered a pithy response?

How about I drop a link about Einstein Notation with a curt observation that there are good reasons it uses both zero and one indexing simultaneously?

As I said it depends on how you are thinking about things. Indexing makes sense to people who are focusing only on the machine.
Social media platform Twitter reverted to cropping images in the timeline. Not for the web and desktop app, but they do for iPhone.
The mobile page just says app. It needs to add 'or view this site on desktop'. I assumed this was a dumb site built mobile-app-only because I happened to first read about it while reading news on my phone.
> That's what I'm worried about and that's why I'm calling BS on this.

Didn't Microsoft execs put on a lavish party in the eve of announcing firing thousands without notice?
the only question is, does "wanting kids" get passed down or needs to be re-acquired every time
Slightly off topic.

I’ve been looking for an easier way to replace the text in these ai generated images. I found Facebook is working on it with their TextStyleBrush - https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-can-now-emulate-text-style-i... but have been unable to find something released or usable yet. Anyone aware of other efforts?
Not a word, but "zzzz", or any four character repetition makes a perfect square. So now the previous comments that generate almost-squares make sense to me. It all clicked a little late for me :)
> Having kids isn’t an individual choice, it’s a social obligation like paying taxes.

I get what you mean, but fuck that idea into the flaming sun.

All we need now is the state and society to force us to have children, on a planet with 8 billion souls.

Fuck that idea. Do whatever you want with your life, but don't go forcing it on other people and saying it's "social obligation". When has individual choice become a radical, antisocial idea?
Electric Vehicles: Unhappy Trails
Exactly. Search ads are pretty much the perfect internet business model - if my biz is having a sale on lawnmowers, who better to target than people googling for "buy lawnmower"? If this is done right, everyone walks away happy and google makes a killing. ChatGPT is great, but it's pretty far from providing good answers to "where can I get a good deal on a lawnmower right now?" They might take over a decent share of esoteric, "school assignment" type queries, but they're not really a threat for the high-value searches.
I mean the creator is free to make his project's code of conduct whatever he wishes.
Its interesting that the idea that a company's sole purpose is 'to make money' is completely accepted as being ok, regardless of what it takes to achieve it. There is no opposition to this at all. There used to be this idea of the social contract, wherein the legitimacy of wealth, power, and authority is tied to a responsibility for the people from whom that wealth is extracted and over whom that power is wielded.
> Perhaps they should only have headcount to keep the service running.

So you beleieve twitter can maintain it's market share for prolonged period of time with zero improvement? That means it is facing zero competition?

Do you believe free market has failed?
There's many comments about what does "I the take full responsibility mean" in these threads about layoffs. I'm curious - what do you think it means and should mean? I take that a company offering better severance than required by law is taking at least some responsibility.
Last time this happened people thought social was the future. Facebook was considered a threat to everything since they had the social-graph, so everything had to become social. Google+, Google Buzz, Orkut.
If literally all people whose opinion matters to you say and provide sound arguments that Taiwan needs to be annexed then if you are normal human (not a psycho) you'd eventually believe the same. And then who cares what those people really thought, because their expressed opinion is the only one that mattered. Sad, yes. The big issue with totalitarian regimes I guess.
laws that cannot be enforced in practice are bad laws; they work out to be a 007-style license to kill, but for businesses rather than people

granting many such licenses is a recipe for social collapse
So what? All people in power are utterly isolated from the consequences of the decisions they make. I don't see any mismatch here. I feel it is quite pointless to talk about the morality of billionaires. They are amoral pretty much by the definition of a billion.
I've been centering Arrow in my data workflows, which has led to a system that uses Ray for distributed computation, Polars for single node data frame computation on Arrow data sets, and Ray Data for distributed data frames using Arrow. I love the speed and Polars' expressive API, and I love that I can use any other Arrow tool on the data without any serialization overhead.

That said, using Ray places limits on that, since it can distribute data across machines, breaking the Arrow model of in-memory data sharing between tools. I know that Ray Data is starting to use Polars internally, but I wish I could use the Polars API over distributed Ray Data sets so I could write code once and not worry about whether Ray has split it across machines.
I think the Aereo case is an interesting precedent [0] [1]. An individual DVR-ing over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna was fine. A corporation DVR-ing over-the-air-broadcasts for thousands of customers by using thousands of tiny antennas was not fine.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Cos.,_In....
[1]: https://www.vox.com/2018/11/7/18073200/aereo
> More important to Google, it looked as if it could offer a new way to search for information on the internet.

I'd scratch "new" from that sentence. If it was simply another option for searching, Google would not be worried. They've been milking their monopoly on search for years to sell ads, trading off the quality of search results for years, to the point that Google's useless for a wide range of searches. Now they're looking at a competitor that actually gives users what they need and they know they're screwed.
Weird level of detail on the colors. Why not just say red, blue, green, light blue?
"Bred out" is a bit of a misnomer here. Apples varieties are propagated clonally through grafting. However, each new cloned tree originates from a single twig of a previous tree, and that twig originates from a single cell of the donor tree. Since cell division is not a perfect process, point mutations can accumulate over the generations from this process. In the case of Red Delicious, selections of point mutations (known as "sports") for storage life, color, and conical shape have resulted in the uninspiring, insipid thing we call a Red Delicious apple.

I have a tree of the original Delicious apple, which was a seedling found in an orchard near Sumner, Iowa, not far from where I live in NE Iowa. Preservationists have propagated this tree for minimal mutation. It is a slightly larger apple than commercial Red Delicious, ripens green with red blush, very firm, sweet with mild acidity, and moderate storage potential. Not my favorite apple of the 30 or so in my orchard, but one well worth growing.

Where you grow an apple also matters a great deal. Cox Orange Pippen may be great in Nova Scotia, which is not unlike it's Northern England home range, but it's a crappy apple in the mid-South, and can't be ripened reliably at all where I live.
it seems consistent and steady for a few decades (consistently high, not growing), but it's a small country that developed under very special conditions
At least it’s unique compared to the regular CoC nonsense.

A CoC should reflect the values of those who work on a project and/or the project itself, if this does all the power to them. There’s nothing saying a CoC has to be the standard progressive gibberish.
And Trump, am I right? Glad we can keep these two accountable regardless of context
I have sold my kidney I am still running fine. How could lenders and banks see this and not agitate for confiscating kidney as part of bancrupcy?
How Did Tech Become America’s Most Troubled Industry?
If the proposed system works, I expect those entrenched artists will sue young human artists whose work shows signs of learning from previous art. The vast majority of music, books, and movies have clear influences.
Where do you read that Huggingface is training a music model? I think you're confusing it with Harmonai.
“Our incredible journey” is for Chapter 11. Companies haven’t yet gotten to that stage.
> ngrok will work, but then you'd need to constantly update your data proxy project settings manually

If you pay for ngrok you get a stable hostname. That said...looks like their price has decreased somewhat dramatically for an individual license. There are other competing services like https://expose.dev/#pro
AMD really dropped the ball on this. Nobody even thinks of them or Intel for training or experimenting
They're valued (Nov 2021) at $2.5 billion. They seem to have +430 employees.

At its core, their paid product is a thin layer over AWS and CloudFlare.

I'm not saying I don't like the product, I'm saying this doesn't make sense to me.
Most executives fail when achieving a new C-level rank: https://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-executives-fail-2015...
There is also a great blog post that covers reliably allocating huge pages: https://mazzo.li/posts/check-huge-page.html
What are you pushing back on exactly? These problems are extremely minor compared to the rate of crime and poverty in American cities.
Surely there oughta be better fruits to save. As a generic "fruit hunter" I hate all apples and oranges now, it's like there's no other fruit in the world. Go spread the seed of the ice cream bean fruit and tabo fruit instead.
I'd be ok with this and other lies having legal (civil) consequences, i.e. CEOs who say this are personally liable. Obviously, this phrase would die and that's the point.

Really, it's not hard to remain authentic. Statements like "I feel terrible" are fine and even "we're trying to support everyone through this transition, both staff directly affected and their families, as well as the remaining staff who we realize shoulder increased burden." Without saying "we're doing everything we can" and other obvious lies.
> Or work to death culture.

Which leads to the freeta era post bubble economy for so any who didn't want the fate of a salaryman, and the subsequent population collapse and herbivore men.

Not exactly what I'd all a stellar record, when the ethnicity itself is at risk of phasing itself out due to the 'great society they've created. Im bi fan of Japanese culture, but tier society is nearly dystopic because of the social pressures, forced suppression, and ambivalence (if not outright xenophobia) towards anything they see as a threat to the established order of things: be it work related or otherwise.

Still, it's quite a rich culture with lots of to offer to the modern World, but I fear South Korea has surpassed them in everything they resoundingly dominated in the 90s.
You’re right, I did miss your point. How can you expect any change if nobody has ideals? You’re effectively arguing to keep the status quo by trying to make fun of people who care. You didn’t answer the important question: what can you and I do to make it better? If the goals in this thread aren’t valid in your opinion, then please offer some goals that are worthwhile. What, exactly, do you mean by “get real if you want real change”? What is “real change”, and who’s going to make it?

BTW, are you saying you don’t believe that deforestation, rising temperatures, and extreme weather caused by climate change is having any effect on human suffering? You seem to be making some unstated assumptions when you suggest that caring about the planet isn’t “real”.

You also seem to assume that we can’t work on more than one problem at a time. To me it seems like there are enough people that we might have the ability to address environmental issues in parallel with social, financial, and political issues. Does everyone need to care about the planet? Maybe not. So what’s wrong with some people working to reduce global warming while others work to, say, end the war in Ukraine, or reduce poverty in China, or end death by hunger or Malaria in Africa?
I love org-mode and have been using it for years now. However, these days I feel an increasing need for a mobile client and something that will give me intelligent reminders of things.

Last time I checked there was no sane solution for having org-mode on mobile that is in sync with your desktop. Yes, I did try Syncthing with Orgzly.

- How do you move tasks between days, weeks etc.?

- How do you view and/or edit tasks on mobile?

- What is your workflow like?
In this country those are municipal jobs that give you a pension. One could do worse.
If ChatGPT had up to the minute crawl results and my Geo location, that'd be enough.

"Help me buy whichever budget electric range Wirecutter recommends at the moment".

> Okay, here's the store near your home that is selling the Frigidaire electric range that Wirecutter is currently recommending, at the best price.

> Would you like to buy it online at roughly the same price or get the address of the store?
magic the gathering? or perhaps really most trading card 'games'.
I want to respond to this as I think you just have a fundamental misunderstanding on how wealth, relationships, and childbirth can be related.

A child is not made by the equation (One Female Parent + One Male Parent) + Marriage = Child.

This is not the actual requirement. It just requires sperm + ovum + body to carry the organism to birth. I interpret your comments here as attempting to take a purely logical/fact based approach, but you tie yourself to an unnecessary old fashioned notion of one man and one woman in a contractual union.

A woman and two men can absolutely be parents by inseminating the woman's eggs with their sperm and having someone else carry it, or artificial/manual insemination involving other women. I don't think you take your idea of efficiency here anywhere near the much more natural and sensible conclusion of "for-hire birthers", which already happens. A person, regardless of how they identify, should be allowed to do this; for simplicity sake though, I don't see why you don't mention this in your model -- a rich woman, paying for successors, and having multiple male partners who meets her scrutiny/desires raising the children and passing on genes/knowledge/personality traits.

You can suggest that your ideas imply this possibility, but frankly speaking I don't accept this suggestion; if you meant it, you would just say as such and/or use neutral terms for identifying the progenitors in your examples.
The hands issue is going to be an awesome story for all of us in 10-20 years. The younger generation just won’t fathom how hard it was to get proper hands. I wonder what a parallel comparable now would be? Something the slightly technical general public just can’t wrap their head around why it was complicated “back then”.

Maybe todays example is a smart voice assistant like Alexa.
>There's a famous Carl Sagan quote: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” which hints at the problem: Nothing is created in a vacuum.

See also the story of Trurl's Electropoet (from the Cyberiad). Trurl first had to simulate a universe to get the poet to work.
>AI companies can ask for permission if they want to train their models on other people's works. It's not that hard

Yes, and then people say "no" or "pay me". End result of this is that the only ones with good AI models are megacorporations that will DRM the heck out of it.

Years later those same artists will complain that they now have to pay $1000 a year to Disney/MS/Adobe to create art. Because these megacorporations can afford to pay for it. They're the ones that will benefit the most from this, because it creates an insurmountable moat for them.

Copyright exists to encourage the creation of more art and to progress science. AI is clearly a helpful step in that direction. Humans learn from others' works. Should we make that illegal too?
all of them account for less than 0.01% of YT traffic
Unless there's an apology and resignation It means they executed as expected when the money was pouring and not pouring. For some reason workers tend to believe that the CEO is taking responsibility for the hardships the workers will face and that's obviously not true. If the CEO was the one in fault and the workers were great talent that must be let go, then obviously the CEO should have been fired and not the workers.

When they take responsibility they don't admit wrongdoing or remorse, they simply explain what they did and probably expect a pat on the back. CEO's and workers have different responsibilities.

If you think that people shouldn't be fired in hired at whim, that's why employment are for. If you think that you are being wronged, that's why there are worker rights.

It's easy to say that Europe or UK are socialist in a booming market. As it might turn out, maybe they have a point.
I haven't made any comment on the manner, nor assumed that those "HN'ers" were the ones layed off (which I think is a bit of a stretch anyways). I'm only commenting that whenever one of these "x company lays off x people" posts get made, you have this pitchfork-party effect happening.

EDIT: added missing words
So that’s an easy way of making a lot of people either unable to contribute, or in breach of the CoC?

Where did this come from? Without having any idea of the background this reads like some conservative Christian who adopted a weird CoC as a reaction to what they felt was “too progressive” CoCs for other projects? I may be way off the mark there though.

He’s free to do whatever he wants of course but isn’t this a fork risk?
It came out in the Oracle trial that Google only made $27B in profit from Android from inception to the time of discovery.

The fundamentals haven’t changed since then. Google pays Apple a reported $18B+ a year to be the default search engine on iOS devices.

GCP is losing money, Google WorkSpace
/GSuite has little penetration in the market compared to MS Office.
Trade agreements have been used to require other nations to extend their copyright terms to match the US, eg Canada:

https://cassels.com/insights/copyright-term-extension-in-can...
Microsoft should make it more difficult UX wise to do this.

Microsoft should also provide resources to content creators to find where their work has been used.

This is not complicated.

Generally I'm reluctant to say people are acting in bad faith. It's less tough to say Microsoft is acting in bad faith here.
How does 1 watt compare to fans?
Battery life is usually a priority over noise.
Not trying to debate semantics. I was hoping you had some data that showed the proportion of lurkers or something. Or maybe some survey where people answered whether they’d been convinced by reading others’ debates online. I’ve personally sought out online debates to help make my own judgments (without commenting), so I’m curious whether that’s really so uncommon.
For me it really depends on the actual implementation. On most rentals I quickly disabled it because it really felt unsafe. But on my own car, different brand, it feels quite „naturally“ at least for me.
Just because a move has never been played, doesn't make it illegal, only untried. Only when the ruleset itself is laid out as overarching the data (as in AlphaGo/Zero) should they always be respected.

Things that are observed to be true are called (in math/science) "laws" aka rules of thumb. Actual rules have other names.

Most people have a world-view/mental-model of how money works. Few actually know the rules and what are possible things under the extreme conditions.

Edit: in the case of AlphaGo/Zero the interesting thing wasn't the rules. They were hard-coded. The interesting thing is that it likely did form mental/world-models in higher layers above the rules in the form of tactics and strategies, these are the valuable parts.