skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a misinterpretation of what art is. In art, the important part is the idea. You then use your technique to convey that idea (often the idea is intimately linked to the aesthetic). If an ai gives you both an idea and a style as your prompts, you’re not really contributing to the final work in the way you should be
You're welcome to control what goes on your hard drive, but the price is (or at least should be) you're assuming liability.
> You replied with a non-sequitur so I replied in kind.

No, I didn't, saying "If you have the option not to, wouldn't you opt out?" in reponse to your comment "are you going to complain about the janitor who gets paid to do it?" is absolutely not a non-sequitur.

If there is a business cost you don't have to pay, if you have that option, why would you not take it?

> Asking about ...

You missed an option there - not generating the trash in the first place, so you don't need to pay a janitor. That's the analogy with not taking cash - deciding not to create the issue in the first place that requires the costs and hassle.

> Taking cards involves a variety of extra costs, risks and infrastructure. If you don't take cards you don't need a card reader, you probably don't need internet, or have IT staff to manage all of that, you don't need to pay staff to count and reconcile sales, or pay processing fees..

As a small business you also don't need all of that, just a tablet and a reader. Everything else is already done.

We're also not talking about taking cash or taking cards, we're talking about the difference between taking both, or taking cards only, and whether that constitutes a reduction in hassle and risk.

Also this is not the same argument you were making before, which was that the burden was transferred to you the potential customer.

> The risks aren't gone. They're just moved.

The risks of taking cash are gone if you don't take cash.
If you're taking cards anyway, deciding not to take cash is an absolute reduction in risk and hassle.

> If you have a problem with cash... well usually there _isn't_ a resolution so why bother trying?

By this logic it's better to die than break a limb. Dead is dead but getting something fixed is a huge hassle. More nonsense I'm afraid!
> The problem with a lot of the DIE stuff that I've seen is that it is usually targeted at the ICs and first level managers, just like the ethics training, and the sexual harassment training.

Which makes perfect sense as these are the people who making hiring decisions and are in places to take bribes and blackmail others for sexual favors; the CEO of a large org isn't doing interviews for rank and file.
> 1) financial independence is great, but you could also die tomorrow. Make sure you understand what your most important values and priorities are, and don’t put them off in favor of more future wealth.

So much this. Raised by grandparents here. They have some strong regret how they didn't do certain things when they were young. I've seen it up-close for too long. They're kind of in a "part of your life was a lie" realization as they never challenged their beliefs.

I decided to become a digital nomad and am meeting cool people while sharpening my dating skills (my dating life is quite fun atm, took 6 months to get there - I got rusty after my relationship), while seeing cool cultures and learning languages. Truthfully, work is a welcome break (I work 4 days) to just mellow down the craziness, haha. I'm a normal looking guy, I put a lot of effort towards dating skills (20 hours per week at least, it's a second part-time job really, a fun humbling one, so many rejections, lol, ego dissolution can be achieved through psilocybin or through dating, lol).

So not even death, you might regret how you've lived it. I know I won't regret this. I am living paycheck to paycheck atm, but I have fairly good savings since this is the first time that I'm traveling this much.
Executive Producer usually means: this person helped make this movie happen (e.g. helped line up financing, pitched the movie to the studio), but has no direct role in overseeing day-to-day work on the movie.

An actor's job is acting. That's basically it. There are lots of things on set that could be dangerous (horses, knives, furniture, electrical wires, forklifts, etc.) and it's the crew's job to make sure that the dangerous stuff is not dangerous when the actor is shooting a scene, or that the actor is carefully briefed on how to use the thing safely. In this case, "cold gun" was the crew briefing him -- telling him the gun could be used because it had no live ammo.
Then why require email registration at all?
With the small restriction that conversion from PDF is one of the few things pandoc does not do.
On a similar note, there's also sqlx for rust [1] - and I find it extra impressive that they manage to support not only postgres, but sqlite and and mysql too.

[1] https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx
You should be using automated checks to keep credentials out of your repo, not relying on individual developers. And those checks can have explicit exceptions for known safe/public/test keys, just like you might explicitly allow testing or fake credit card numbers.
> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style and further, that future releases of Stable Diffusion will comply with any artist’s requests to remove their images from the training dataset.

This is incredibly disheartening. Who knows how long will it take to progress the tech to the point where anyone will be able to train and run models unrestricted without dealing with lawyer nonsense.
If you end up in [say] the bottom 5% you should wonder if your belong there or if you are more valuable elsewhere.
Only if the hands are not the correct color
Honestly, I don't think these layoffs (broadly speaking) are dangerous long term.

In fact, and this may be unpopular, I think they will be greatly beneficial long term.

Consider:

- These companies grew at greatly-expanded rates over the past few years. Google notoriously added 20% per year for 7 years straight, doubling their staff from 2017-2023. After layoffs, Google will still be right near ALL-TIME-HIGHS in staffing. Same with most of these firms. Small layoffs following the fastest growth period in their history isn't some catastrophe for their business

- Most roles being reduced at most companies are not product-creating but administrative. Lots of HR, hiring, marketing, middle managers, getting axed. If companies predict less hiring or lower ad budgets... then reducing those divisions makes sense. If you doubled your hiring team while you were hiring 20% per year, but now you expect to stay steady and only replace attrition ... what would you do with all that hiring staff?

The real damage to their long term prospects was over-hiring the past 3 years and saddling their businesses with a major problem.
You seem to completely ignore the "and a mix of investments" part?
Jupyter Notebooks Are Not Made for Sensitive Data Science Collaboration
Captain Kirk says to Mr Spock, "You're half human, you should have some feelings." To which Spock replies, "I'm sorry, Captain, I can't help it, I'm half Irish."
Timelapse: Construction of 7k-bicycle garage at Amsterdam central station
That’s my point. Regarding people that maintain the same weight, I highly doubt they eat on average the _exact_ amount needed. There must be physiological adjustments that are broken in some people.
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Sulfur dioxide is naturally occurring, released by volcanoes in massive amounts. In these kinds of qualities it’s pretty safe by comparison.

I think we’re being way too cautious when it comes to geoengineering, at a time when we should be aggressively testing hypotheses to get some actual options on the table.
Yeah it also called black people an 'angry race' in one of mine, it's rather racist and careless internally, probably uninitional, looks like just one person's work and it can be funny at times.
svelte, supabase, lambdas
> Chief Executive Arvind Krishna has been trying to pivot Big Blue from its traditional business of infrastructure and information technology services to the fast-growing cloud-computing market.

Skating to where the puck has been. While other companies are taking a look at how much they are spending on cloud. It's already a commodified market yet IBM sees itself as the one to grow into it.
Accelerating our A/B experiments with machine learning
Some of these “fully responsible” CEOs are going to end up triggering bonuses based on performance at the end of this year. The lip service is strong but the reality is disconnected from these layoffs’ messaging.

A company I consult for is decidedly guilty of this. Not one month ago it was blue skys and calm waters. This week? “Full responsibility.”

Did they get their end of 2022 bonuses? Absolutely. I fail to see how the first two weeks of 2023 could be so different from the last two of 2022. That’s because they had this in the planning stage for a while.
2000 were SREs?
General rule is that a 10% cut won’t impact business operations. They’ll do cuts like this periodically to get rid of low performers and / or people getting paid too much.

Goal is to cut costs, projections are likely decreasing / stagnant revenue.
To quote HN user @badhombres from the original thread:

> Not surprising. Every company is going to take the opportunity to trim costs when it doesn't affect their PR as much as it would any other time.

I'm pretty sure this is really what's going on here. These CEO's are killing all of these jobs while they can (seemingly without any repercussions).

I was talking with my dad about these layoffs and one of the interesting things we talked about is how different the loyalty formula is nowadays. My dad grew up during a time when folks happily worked for, and were loyal to, one company sometimes for decades. Nowadays, sadly, it's not smart to trust any of these companies for more than a few years. These layoffs prove that. Whether it's companies laying off folks who've been at the company for 20 years (see: Google) or companies laying off new hires, any loyalty seems to be one-sided.
Does it include its source/dependency licensing post extraction? Some of these dependencies are under GPL/AGPL https://github.com/dothinking/pdf2docx/blob/master/LICENSE
That’s pretty much why I’m working on summarising content, no matter the media.

Just getting started, but it has already yielded some fun results.
There's plenty of homelessness about in Japan, you don't even need to go to somewhere like Nishinari where it's virtually ubiquitous.
The green tech that could help Iceland become carbon neutral by 2040
It's too bad programmers don't also have some sort of licensure as well. It would be helpful in keeping humans employed in creating and maintaining code, instead of letting AI run off with all our jobs.
There have been a lot of attempts at foldable kayaks in recent years. From my understanding they are more fragile and don't do as well in shallow waters. Plus they're more expensive than standard ones for obvious reasons.

I was looking to buy one but it didn't make sense with where things are at now. But maybe in a couple years when construction and/or cost gets a little better.
What are the criteria for inclusion?
I used to have fun tracking flights over my previous home using a little usb rtl-sdr antenna attached to a raspberry pi and leveraging the dump1090 software. I moved homes, and got too lazy to re-set things up...but that dump1090 software did the trick back then. Its been a few years, so there could be better software nowadays. dump1090 was a bit of work to do the initial software setup, but thereafter was easy. The 2 versions that i recall back in the day...

https://github.com/antirez/dump1090 (original i think?)

https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090 (the form?)

Have fun!
"there are no indispensable men" -- some french guy
The surprising key to a clean energy future
... reading about Elon Musk is more popular than reading about sex.
What shame is there in being wrong? Being wrong is the ideal state, paving a path to gaining an education, which is a source of pride and a benefit.
Diocletian, Constantine, Bedouin Sayings, and Network Defense [video]
Whichever tech I'm most productive in.
I suspect that's a bit like concluding that the internet is dead because nobody says "surfing the web" anymore.
This is why it is important to fire people who push regressions to production. Accountability is important!
maybe for the collective-you. It's too bad there isn't a content-engine driven by one of these when you can describe an emotional outcome and it provide the content to get you there. However, if it could do that, it'd already have solved factoring and we're in deep trouble anyway.
Is it inconceivable that layoffs are the right choice for a business?
> the current legal system…is…over-engineered

There are simultaneously arguments in this thread that the American legal system is insufficiently arcane and code-like, for what it’s worth.
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You know, people are herd animals too. People must be engineering stuff like this for use against us too. Like the GameStop mania.
The Username google43434343 would be too long. Max 12. :)
Also input a forbidden list which should be filter the most crap in usernames. :)
Before getting frustrated, it seems like we need to have a serious conversation about what we believe is/is not appropriate to delegate to a computer system. We need to be looking at why people are so willing to give up certain categories of thought processing.

Do you feel the same frustration regarding handheld calculators? Why or why not? The utility of reducing math mistakes and improving accuracy across an entire population seems clear.

And yet the ubiquity of calculators has not removed the need to learn the fundamentals of mathematics. I suspect the same will emerge with AI tools.

The primary difference is that it seems possible to get better at writing by working with an AI while a calculator is just a black box that spits out a pre-determinable answer.

A calculator is arguably an overly simplistic analogy, and nuance abounds once you bring AI into the mix, but I don’t think the tech community has done a good job of distinguishing between AI-specific concerns and garden variety problems that seem common to most modern technology, especially the kind that automates something that historically required a human in the loop.
> Employees make decisions based on the expectation of ongoing employment

Then again outside of visa holders they are naive.

I’ve been working professionally for 25+ years and there isn’t a day after my first year after I built up savings that I depended on my employer instead of my employability to support my addiction to food and shelter.

In the case of Confluent, who depends on a non profitable company to be a sustainable place of unemployment? You go in knowing that any given day that you are going to be laid off and save accordingly.

And no when I graduated from college I wasn’t making an above average salary. I started out making $30K and found the cheapest apartment I could until I saved money.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street is a real classic. First published in 1973, updated several times and still relevant today. Gives you a great idea of what investment is, how you should think about it, how the markets are structured and some practical advice that works for 90%+ of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
Responsibility without consequences is meaningless.
Layoffs don't prove the CEO made a mistake. Understaffing and overstaffing are both errors. A small layoff when the SHTF shows they at least didn't understaff. If you're a growing startup in ZIRP, understaffing is arguably a bigger error than overstaffing, up to a point.

I have no idea if Confluent overstaffed. I admit I'm surprised to hear they aren't profitable though.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. -

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Polonius to son Laertes.
Goolsbee and Syverson on Construction Productivity
Ah, cool. I definitely would expect some significant correlation there, but wouldn't be so sure without checking—looks like you're Doing It Right (well, as right as one can with hiring practices, short of running an actual study), sorry for implying you might not have been.
So this filerun, I looked at the demo page and it seems nice for the file storage aspects, and you say it can run any Nextcloud plugins? So it would be able to do all the little services like to do and grocery lists, calendar, some sort of office stuff, that kinda thing?
> I really get the feeling that many companies are just blindly doing whatever other companies do.

A social contagion if you will. It doesn’t seem rational at all at this point.

Hopefully some of the more naive people in the industry learn something from this. Your employer would happily kill your if it were legal and they made a cent more doing so, let alone something less like fire you.
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I suppose another piece of financial knowledge is "check whether figures are in real or nominal units (i.e. inflation adjusted or not) and apply adjustment".

This has been greatly simplified by inflation being low for a very long period until the recent transient bump.
You can try to use U+2013 en dash (­­–) for hyphen.
>"The real problem isn't the complexity of the arguments in most cases (as your story shows)."

Uhh, do you think most attorneys work cases that are in traffic court? That's not the case.
JIT Builds a Platform Engineering Mindset in the Cloud
> Base e would be the most efficient

Only in one dimension.
The difficulty is not necessarily just the test but its structure.

Gaokao et. al. are held once a year, if you want to retry you need to wait a full calendar year, and the single-time test covers all subjects simultaneously. To compare to SATs, those can be retaken multiple times a year, and the non-core subjects are separate, so any individual sitting is much lower stakes.

It is not exactly a secret that a big push factor for Chinese and South Korean university students is how competitive their local systems are.
Wish I could afford vercel
And complaining about life not being “fair” is a waste of my energy.
I have never heard of this. I did not see modern answer for this phenomenon is, do we know?
Why? You don't get an exemption on income tax for many of these.
Rent seeking by owners of AI machines is OK, but not by copyright owners?
What do you believe licensure would solve?
Because most investors are investing in more than one company. If someone has a stake in Google, Microsoft, and Confluent, and their ROI for the first two are great this quarter, but Confluent is lukewarm or even in the red, they're going to want an explanation.

They can be told that products are great, or employees are producing a lot, but the only thing that matters to investors is the money. And so, when you're underperforming compared to others in your market, you have to do what appeases the shareholders, and that involves culling employees.
I have no unique insight into their perspective but if I had to guess they're starting to worry about the lack of easy money and want a signal that management is going to play it safe with their current cash reserves instead of banking on another infusion. They probably could, you know, tell them as much, but sacrificing your employees really adds oomph to your commitment.
I get a sofritas bowl without meat and guac and it is less than $10, which is good for a vegetarian option.

I do not understand how restaurants make the economics of avocados work for them. 1 avocado is worth at least $1, if not $2 (was $2+ a lot of last year) at Costco. And there is a good chance the avocado will not be all usable. I assume they are adding a filler ingredient to fluff it up? Or ignoring the bad parts?

A $2 markup for guac seems like it would not yield much profit.
I used svelte and it's been super simple and efficient.
So you're saying that the type of calories you consume makes a difference, not just the amount???
Every person should still have the right to be defended by a human lawyer yet the right to voluntarily choose an AI lawyer to either defend you or just hint you as you defend yourself would be great to have. It may totally change the game where (currently) whoever can afford expensiwe lawyers generally wins and whoever can't automatically looses exorbitant sums of money. Real lawyers will never let this happen.
The very idea of separating humanity from the system we live in will never sit right with me. Jobs are purely transactional on paper, sure, but in the end, we're not _just_ dealing with jobs, but people and their livelihoods. We're simply lucky enough to be in a field where saving up and building a financial security cushion is doable.

In practice, accountability only seems to go up so far. I shortly did consulting for a company that did large layoffs in early COVID days. The board played the "we take responsibility" card, cut in their own salaries, but scratch a little bit under the fresh coat of paint and most of the board's income isn't that mostly symbolic salary. The ones effectively paying the price were the file and rank, as usual.
With Houston or Austin you're gonna need to tell me 1) what neighborhood those houses are in and if I'll get shot living there, and 2) how far away those houses are from anything that matters.
It's so strange that every companies' number is 6-8%. Its almost like it is a cargo cult or something.
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Yes. They never are. A recent study investigated this and neither stock price nor productivity nor profitability improved. All mass layoffs do is crater employee morale. And yes, it's a "others are jumping into the lake with their clothes on, let's get our brooks brothers shirts wet, too" thing without any rational cogitation involved..
"The charges related to Baldwin seem to involve his specific act in handling the weapon, rather than his broader role as one of the film’s producers."

https://www.vox.com/culture/23562397/rust-shooting-alec-bald...
Yes, that would be safer when available (although generally files within library dependencies are not modified I think?). It looks like fclones implements this, is faster and is written in Rust https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones (the last is the most important point of course /s).
> they don't vote for things that they don't think they understand

They don’t even read the things they vote on. They’re huge and it’d be a full time job.
My priority is to get things done. Ubuntu (DigitalOcean VPS), Django, Postgres, HTMX. I'm going full old school boring tech. No excitement. No drama. I might even go typeless if the code is of reasonably manageable size.