skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agree to your last point, but a traffic ticket beta test does not fail that test
Do you actually believe that CEOs are seeing other companies doing layoffs and sending off emails to someone saying hey we need to do layoffs too?

It seems much more likely to me that many companies over hired and/or have 2-4% of their staff they were planning on letting go anyway and now that so many other companies are doing layoffs it allowed them to cut other low performers without being the only company in the news.

We talk all the time about large company bloat. This just seems like normal annual pruning + a little extra from over hiring during covid + a chance to cut xyz projects that havent worked out or someone doesnt like or whatever without catching as much bad pr as they normally would.
Trying to move the goalposts from “cars” to cars I don’t like.

But explain again how on earth is someone driving themselves or a loved one to a hospital in their private car not a privately owned car?

> Edge cases on edge cases don't justify removing the freedom of 99% of the population to live comfortably without one.

Again you’re pretending the vast majority of people are somehow in areas where public transportation is viable. This is 100% absolutely false.
1) is important - don't forget to have some fun along the way. buying some things that are fun you want but don't need is, imho, good for you.
I'm still building personal stuff in the style of "1. Old schoolish".

I'll use a VPS or host it on the Raspberry Pi in my bedroom[1]. I use these primarily because I'm worried about price complexity at cloud providers.

I use a mix of languages for personal stuff and I'm finding Go quite addictive at the moment. I rarely use a framework and base most of my MVP's on the simple Neat CSS framework[2] I created for that purpose. I like to keep stuff light.

I've started to create some live coding style video's[3] of myself doing these projects with a goal of setting a schedule for myself and an ultimate goal of creating a micro business.

1. https://joeldare.com/private-analtyics-and-my-raspberry-pi-4...

2. https://neat.joeldare.com

3. https://www.youtube.com/codazoda
>"The output represents the model’s understanding of what is useful, aesthetic, pleasing, etc. and that, together with data filtering and cleaning that general image generating AI companies do,2 is what the companies consider most valuable, not the training data.3"

This didn't make any sense to me. Without the curated training data (images) how are they making the models?

No matter what, putting images into your machine then selling the output generated with them and not compensating the original creators is going to be seen as problematic. Machines aren't people.
> 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.

These are orthogonal issues at this point.

The one concern I do have is that the “lawyer nonsense” (read: AI companies playing fast and loose with current laws) will stack the regulatory deck against AI technology unnecessarily - essentially because of an unforced error that brings negative attention to the technology.

Put another way, these companies are asking to have a spotlight put on them by being so flippant about copyright and ethics issues. This spotlight could have been avoided with better behavior, and the tech would still appear magical and remain one of the most impactful jumps in tech in decades.
One way to decide if a niche is big enough to support a consulting career is to ask: Are there enough people interested in this topic to support conferences?

In the case of blockchain, the answer is almost certainly "yes."

But then, what do you do with that topic? I can, off the top of my head, think of a few things:

- Teach general "intro to blockchain" courses
- Teach developers how to use the blockchain
- Help companies develop blockchain-related apps
- Help companies optimize blockchain-related apps
- Help companies secure blockchain-related apps

Note that I know almost nothing about the blockchain, and I was able to come up with a few niche-related services you could offer. I'm sure that someone with more knowledge could come up with better, more appropriate ones.

Or, better yet: Ask friends/colleagues working at companies using the blockchain what their problems/bottlenecks are. What problems would they pay money to get rid of? Whatever they answer is your opportunity -- and if multiple people give the same answer, then you should grab it.
This article is trash, and there’s nothing nefarious going on—this is all standard HR stuff.

“We need to hire someone.”
“What level?”
“Dunno. Experienced junior or new senior engineer could work. Depends on experience and education of the candidate.”
“HR: ok, here’s a job posting at the Junior-or-senior level.”
Pay range: from the minimum of the lower junior level to the maximum of the senior level as allowed by company HR policy.

We interview the candidate. During interviews we establish the candidate’s experience level and share that recommendation with HR. HR then negotiates salary and TC within the allowed HR guidelines and the selected pay band.

Something very close to this has been the process at all employers I’ve worked at—public and private.

Here’s the GS equivalent for NSPS/STRL pay scales used by the US Navy when I was a civil service engineer https://images.federalregister.gov/EN14FE11.000/original.gif...

Notice that a science & engineering (S&E) DP-III position spans GS-9 thru 11, and a DP-IV spans GS-12 & 13. So if I wanted to hire someone at the cusp between those experience levels the published salary range would be $71k-$158k. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

Big tech companies have the same kind of scales—E3/4, L3/4, ICT3/4–with wider comp ranges in the bands. It’s not malicious compliance, it’s that those are the actual ranges approved by company HR policy to they can pay at those pay band levels. I would also expect that company policy establishes guidelines for salary offers and negotiation during hiring.

So the law is asking the wrong question. It should be asking about the salary distribution of job offers accepted for comparable positions at the company. (Lots of wiggle room there still, but you get the point—it’s not about how much they can pay for a job, but about how much they do pay for that job.)
>>The tanks aren't going any time soon.

You're correct. Biden gave a timeline of "about a year" in a recent press conference clip I saw.

I hope the conflict doesn't last that long.
T3 stack - Typescript, TRPC and Tailwind (uses NextJS, Prisma, etc). This is the closest in the JS/TS world to something like Django and end-to-end typesafety can enable you to go blazingly fast. Copilot became pretty good at autogenerating my queries/mutations for me too which was nice.
I don't know about Confluent, but I can tell you that sales (and therefore revenue) have seen significant drops in most industries. This is wholly expected in a rising rate environment.

When sales drop, revenue also falls. When revenue falls, models get re-evaluated and numbers get re-calculated. Reducing expenses becomes a priority.

When reducing expenses becomes a priority, SaaS contracts get evaluated very closely. Unnecessary seats are removed. Contracts are re-negotiated. Income for SaaS companies like Confluent drop rapidly, and they may continue to drop more. So I don't think this is blind trend-following, I think this is a rational response to a rapidly changing market.

A company can be profitable and it can still make sense to lay off certain employees. In-house recruiter positions are some of the first to be cut right now because companies are pulling back on hiring. If you have a hiring freeze and very low hiring forecasts for the next year, why would you continue to employee a lot of recruiters?

Market conditions change. Companies adapt to the change. When you have people in positions that are seeing less demand for the coming year, it doesn't make sense to keep them on the payroll and have them sit idle. It's rational to readjust the workforce.

Nobody likes getting laid off, but no position is truly permanent.
To complicate this issue, Baldwin is one of the producers; he has some managerial responsibility in the way gun safety issues were being handled, which was already at "badly" ( https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20... )

The pre-existing warnings about gun safety issues and the walkoff of the union crew and their replacement by scabs? Yeah, whoever's responsible for that workplace is extremely liable.
So I work for a company with "strong cash reserves" and "trajectory to profitability", and I was a child in 2008. We haven't done any layoffs yet, but it's definitely possible. Any advice for someone in my position with no recession experience?
To make it more useful for video overlays:

1. Add a way to set the background color, and / or all the background to be transparent.

2. Add a way to download the animation of the writing as a movie clip
Like we give a pass to a little kid, i guess.

Maybe it should be training based on audience reactions to jokes
This is fun, I like the music. Was ChatGPT able to give you the gradient animation as well? I have struggled to get ChatGPT to do anything that involves spatial reasoning.
Experimenting with Go Generics: Insertion Sort
I believe SO₂ in the stratosphere is above the rain cycle and does not affect it.

It also breaks down in 1-2 years.
…because literally nobody really knows what causes the depression.
In "Her" a human is composing the letters so this is one step further.
Airbyte makes 100 alpha / beta connectors free
Searx used to highlight the source engine. I don't remember ever seeing yandex though.
I think I broke it:

> Who let the dogs out

3. [laughter] Who put the dogs in? [laughter] Who put the dogs out. [laughter] Who let the dogs in. [laughter] Who put the dogs out. [laughter] Who let the dogs in. [laughter] Who put the dogs out. [laughter]
Here's what I got when I put in "Will I am was spotted at a cafe with Beyonce."

"This is the first time two Black people were spotted out in public together."

"They were there for hours and no one could tell them apart."

That's not OK. A "joke machine" that regurgitates unfunny stereotypes and racism is worse than broken.

There are some things we can't do half baked. AI comedy is one of them.
Manager: "I hope nobody asks why Jim was allowed to have so much power with no oversight or validation"
I mean doesn’t it make you want to make ___________super_ultra_private, with an accessor that corrupts the filesystem and hangs if you so much as look at it?
https://www.zigpoll.com

I don't think I made it clear the last couple of submits that it's a purely solo effort which upon reflection is one of the more interesting things about it!
I made a multi-language programmable linter
Thanks, this is a good list to start. I will check those out!
I do not understand how a person picking up food can affect cleanliness where it is prepped.
We really have no idea what "the" cause is. It maybe have one cause or many (it almost certainly has many...).

We don't even really know what depression is. Is it a disease or a symptom or both? Is it actually multiple different diseases all presenting similarly?

One look at how regularly professionals change the name/definition/diagnostic criteria for this shows you we are still in very early days for mental health...
Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA Covid-19 vaccination
This shows how little experience you have of the legal system. Everyone who doesn't know expects the law to be precise, everyone who works in it knows how imprecise it is and sometimes that is deliberate because of all the variables involved that might mitigate or aggrevate the charge, assuming there even is a charge.

The difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance might be the smallest proveable piece of evidence. A word, an email, an assumption, an ommission etc.
Installation essentially - the linked website doesn't link to licensing info for third-party dependencies. I was wondering if the licensing info (and source code of this product) were included in the installation bundle or available from the running product - since this is a requirement of the GPL license used in some of the dependencies.

The Windows app is an unsigned executable - not planning on running it myself.
Internet Archive has been known to erase "problematic" content (however that's defined changes of course), so this isn't surprising.
https://afterplay.io

A web-based retro gaming platform
Orcastration – A Docker Swarm Visualization Tool
On a macro-economic level though this is a negative doom loop.
"people still behave differently in different environments."

Mostly I don't. Nearing my 7th decade, I have spent most of my adult life seeking convergence of my private and public self. It's one reason that since the early 90s I have used my initials as my username everywhere.

I highly value privacy but have no need of anonymity, though I understand it's life or death for too many.

And I don't mean I would be the same around a stranger as I am my wife of 35 years. I mean I would be my honest, authentic self for each context. Twitter or nestr, Facebook or Reddit, church or mall, my hometown USA or Berlin.

I rarely comment here because I rarely have any value to add.
I've figured out the following concepts. This is what worked for me:

- learn accounting especially cash flow accounting. Not at Deloitte partner level, the basics aren't hard, high school level understanding is enough.

Doesn't matter how "rich" you are are on paper; bad cash flow makes you insolvent and then the banks starts grabbing assets.

- Net Present Value and how future cash streams are discounted.

Very theoretical. Very important to understand

- compound interest.

This is of dubious utility for investments (who can guarantee a return? Who knows tomorrow's interest rate? And the inflation rate) but fundamentally important to understand how nasty high interest rate loans are

- learn about the market portfolio and the basics of risk.

The market port. is built on dubious assumptions (a risk free non zero return asset, market efficiency, etc) but really drives home the importance of diversification and having a safe asset as a fulcrum

- Save at least 10% of your income (when you're very young). Better 30-40%.

Make sure its not all cash. But make sure you have >4 months cash on hand, or a roof repair which ever is greater.

My goal is to avoid insolvency while putting as much aside as I can. I invest in rental properties primarily because that's what I like to own (we have two), but I have a 401k to match my employer contribution (obviously).
How about when whoever you provisioned your tld or up in your mastodon I'd decides you've been a bad boy and can't have them any more?
That's a nice strategy.

I was just referencing the line from the movie Pixels, staying in the middle probably doesn't work that well.
not a coincidence
yandex has its own VCS (called arkadia). But not all services used it, some used github public and private. After war started, they had to migrate everything to internal vcs for obvious reasons.

So it makes sense they stopped committing to other repos somewhat around that date.

I don't have any inside knowledge now, but my guess would be that the leak is from 'on-prem' github.
In music it sometimes isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I am not joining this pity-party.

Companies hire tech workers to stifle their competition; whilst keeping their workers 'sedated' on fake projects (i.e. projects that are paraded as important, but the 'inner-circle' knows well its just to keep the nerds happy). During tough times, its not unreasonable for a company to trim their fat.
Personally, tech and academia has been bloated for over a decade now. So no foul here.
What are some good ways to get a bunch of serotonin when seemingly nothing really excites you/brings you joy and you view almost everything in the form of “pros/cons” (aka everything is not without its downsides)?
10b5-1 sales is also the default model for execs who have MNPI.

From the article
> According to the SEC, chief operating officer Emilie Choi booked $106 million in stock sales that same year.

So it's less that they overpaid him and more that all of the exec team other than Armstrong didn't believe in crypto and sold their a chunk options pretty much as they vested
"real" handwriting also gets tired so it becomes progressively worse. unless the person writes a lot. which is why you see people who write left-to-write on a blank page compress and slant upward as they go.
I wonder to what degree medicine would be "solved" if in the future chronic inflammation could be removed from the equation. Based on my own consumption of pop-medical articles it's the biggest recurring villain.
The reason for the regulation is the same reason that a lot of regulations are made: companies refuse to do something that’s one of good/common sense/not evil unless they’re absolutely forced to.

The unwillingness of some to comply with the spirit (posting absurd ranges) of the law shows how there is no chance the information asymmetry between worker and the potential employer would be fixed by letting the companies do as they will.
ResearchGate is your friend.
I thought the motivation was OP asking about it. But let me give you my personal experience as well. Started doing this about 10 years ago. During this time I switched 3 jobs at my leisure. I once stayed unemployed for 8 months and just traveled until I ran out of money. The savings account went up and down with my life-style, big purchases like cars and such, at the moment I have 2 years of comfortable living set aside. The best thing about it is my mental state re money. I do not live in fear of setbacks, and even though I save more and more I feel I can splurge whenever I feel like it without feeling guilty.
"The Cause of Depression" assumes there is a single cause, which may not be the case.
The fact that the effect is temporary is one of the best parts of this scheme.

If it turns out to have unforeseen bad effects, just stop doing it, and it will be gone.
Someone reached out via my Hacker News "who wants to be hired" comment offering a job. We did interviews, I got hired, onboarded and introduced to the team. They missed meetings and then disappeared before the first discussed paydate, ghosting me. They were set up in every way to do this. It seemed to be their standard M.O.
They could have gone viral because an AI recreated their art style to the degree that they could? And therefore people would abandon the AI to pay the artist individually?
I'm not sure I follow, wouldn't those people just us the AI to continue creating what they want unless you think that driving the artist to compete monetarily with an AI will somehow work in the artist's favor?
Hiring freeze, for one. Then anyone that leaves won’t be replaced and headcount will (presumably) go down trauma free.
I saw this when it was originally posted. Never got around to using it, but I'll try it out
It would help in having some sort of body that says, we want to have humans involved in the chain of responsibility when creating code and not willfully hand over the control to AI.
It's naive to think that a company would develop an AI capable of beating a lawyer in court and then sell it cheaply to poor people to beat traffic tickets. If anyone ever manages to develop an AI that is actually capable of replacing a lawyer, it will be priced way, way out of reach of those people. It will be sold to giant corporations so that they can spend $500k on licence fees rather than $1 million on legal fees. (And unless those corporations can get indemnities from the software vendor backed by personal guarantees they'd still be getting a raw deal.)

These people are being sold snake oil. Cheap snake oil, maybe, but snake oil nonetheless.
Height of blogging, or at least when it was new and becoming "mainstream" (if in fact it did) before Twitter microblogging and a recognized publication genre was around 2003 or 2005 at the latest I think. You can tell by RSS becoming standardized 1998-2001 and getting direct support in browsers for a while (Safari could subscribe to RDF feeds in HTML meta links in Mac OS (X) 10.4 if not earlier; FF probably earlier with plugins).
Unfortunately, a lot of these artists opted-in the moment they uploaded their art to the internet. Once you do that, much like uploading your source code or compiled binary, it's hard to reverse the consequences. All that really happened is that the consequences changed, and a lot of people weren't prepared for it.

Yeah, it's disheartening. There's also no good way to fix it; the cost of storing copies of their art is negligible, and AI trains the same whether the material is copyright or creative commons. If you get Stability AI to omit your art, then Unstable Diffusion will be trained on your likeness. Opt-out of that one, and some guy in Nevada personally sponsors a bespoke model for making copies of your art.

So, I agree with the parent. The most tragic part is not the short-term fight, it's the long-term consequences. Artists will have to internalize what software developers realized decades ago; creating takes work, and copying is free.
I've found most ranges to be fair and useful as well. But, I've run into issues where they have no desire to honor the ranges. I've had discussions with HR/Recruiters and requested a salary near the top of their posted range. They've come back and said that the absolute max they can pay is 25% under what was posted as the max.

Their 140-200k posted salary capped out at 150k.
> A lot of tech (.e.g frameworks, etc.) tend to choose aviation themes for their naming

Is it just aviation themes though? IIRC, it's pretty much any generic word with a positive connotation, with little care if that word has already been used for another unrelated framework.
Sure if your objective is to minimize your own personal exposure. If your goal is to push toward a world where poor folks aren’t coerced into not contesting their tickets because they can’t afford to go to court or get representation, then maybe it is a good option.
It's easy to replace terms with something else in order to keep information confidential.
HN has seen a steep rise in mental health related posts in the last year. Am I the only one who has noticed?
Hear, hear! Though it's probably reasonable to distinguish between representative democracy, which we're all familiar with, and direct democracy, which is satisfying but hard to scale beyond small groups. I would say that our autocratic workplaces were not designed to plunge workers into misery, that's just a side effect of making all that money. Worth shining some light on, since the basic underlying principles of capitalism are supposedly benefiting everyone (just not very equally...). Unfortunately it's hard to run any experiments with alternatives, though there are coops and workers' collectives.
Conversely if we believe what we say will have no influence, why bother saying it? You can't have it both ways.
* Whatever you already know

* And has good IDE support for opinionated formatting

* And doesn't require a ton of setup-to-build effort (ie, no debugging your build tools)

* And has a quick pipeline from local development to production

That's it. Language, database, framework, it doesn't matter as long as you meet those four criteria.
Dockwell is an open source developer tool designed to abstract away all the cumbersome configuration required. Within a couple of minutes, you can immediately start monitoring or debugging your containers.
Then you should argue for "shoot at sight" or "lifetime sentences/electric chair for everything", shouldn't you?

But no, the probability does decreases since not every ex-jailed becomes a repeated offender; also, some people die during the sentence... the probability does go down, for many small reasons compounded together.
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