skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If 20 employees are ~28% then Gitpod has must have had only around 70 people staff.

That is very different to the FAANG layoffs, where big tech has tens of thousands of employees where we know that a lot of those jobs were probably some BS jobs with little real impact on the company.

If you're a small business with 70 people then it's probably fair to assume that every single person had more work on their plate than time on their hands and there is also probably a lot of internal knowledge going lost now.

I think Google, Microsoft, Spotify, etc. are just laying off because they use it as a good opportunity to get rid of some nasty pandemic fat, but the Gitpod layoffs are probably more indicative of real financial struggles and viability.
Hotels don't have to because there's no route to pay with a stolen credit card and then get that money into an account you use.

I could set up a fake AirBnB, steal credit cards, book my own fake AirBnB, and then run off with the cash. There's no equivalent workflow for hotels.

It's mostly a problem for "platform" style apps that have both ways to send money and ways to withdraw money. Turo and Ebay are probably better comparisons here, and may have similar issues.
What was the timing of the CBS acquisition? I used to visit 5 different tech blogs back in 2012 or so, and it was clear that they were all shifting towards "general tech culture" instead of gadgets.

I partially blame the iPhone for this, it killed the idea of single-purpose gadgets like MP3 players and handheld consoles which usually had their own quirks. With those products gone (and CES looking much more barren), the articles became more about stuff like Tesla and Uber, or what app updates Google and Apple were pushing out that week.
Phlex is a framework for building fast, reusable, testable views in pure Ruby
Everything's correlated to everything. I won't make any claims that the stock market is particularly correlated to the economy... it's kinda supposed to be, but there's a lot of things that get in the way.

Still, in the end, when things are "generally down", you're going to see the economy go down, the stock market go down, people's fortunes (large and small) go down... they may not be as connected as they "should" be, for some value of "should", but they are certainly neither anti-correlated, nor entirely uncorrelated.
It's not drastically more authoritarian than it ever was. Indian democracy has always had a strongly authoritarian streak legislatively. The key difference is that it is difficult to unlock this level of authoritarianism unless you have a supermajority in Parliament, which basically didn't happen from the early 1990s-2016. 2016-Present is a re-repeat of the 1970s-1989, but with less guns.

That said, the end of the BJP majority is near. Traditionally strongly BJP states have started voting for regional parties or opposition national parties (though tbf those parties have also started embracing the Development+Hinduvta+Freebies model BJP leveraged in 2019). You know the BJP High Command is worrying when Modi gave a speech 2 days ago to the party leadership about the need to build a dedicated campaign to lure Pasmanda (OBC/lower caste Muslims) in the same way Modi leveraged OBC Hindu votes in 2012. That will cause the grand coalition within the BJP between the Janta Party types and the RSS types to start fracturing.
They’re almost always deployed in controlled environments like DCs - not even enthusiast or prosumers need or benefit from them.

The power thing is either an anomaly, misconfiguration, or deliberately designed to avoid heat/cool stresses. Being powered on all the time isn’t always bad - it’s the stress of heating up and down suddenly when power is lost that often causes damage.

There was a spate of issues with early (~2010) POE switches where a port would randomly die when they were rebooted. Some of the power components would literally crack and shatter.
To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo (2020)
The idea has some legs, but they are weak for the many reasons pointed
out to me by fair criticism of "digital veganism". The main one is
that labelling is one small part of quality. Tijmen Schep in his 2016
"Design My Privacy" [1] proposed some really cool ideas around quality
and trustworthiness labelling of IoT/mobile devices, but ran into the
same issues. Responsibility ultimately lies with the consumer, and so
long as consumers remain uneducated as to why low quality is harmful,
and cannot verify the provenance of what they consume or the harmful
effects, nothing will change.

Right now we seem to be at the stage of "It's just McDonald's/KFC for
data - junk food is convenient, cheap and not a problem - therefore
mass production generative content won't be a problem".

The food analogy is powerful, but has limits, and I urge you to dig
into Digital Vegan [2] if you want to take it further.

[1] https://www.tijmenschep.com/design-my-privacy/

[2] https://digitalvegan.net
That's a bad analogy too, because "black gold" is burned for energy and the process of using it is identical to carbon emission. Both real gold and "white gold" stick around even after we use them, and aren't greenhouse gases themselves.
No, allowing Apple to lockout all competitors to their browsers (and letting them keep gatekeeping even skins on top of their browsers) is command economy.

It outright prevents existence of new browsers and competition and it's a flagship examples of monopolistic corporations killing innovation and competition.

You yourself admitted that free market was required for current iPhone browser to exist and Apple locked out free market.
> Dijkstra's algorithm is a general one,
That can be used in any case,

I take issue with this statement. "any case" implies it's more general than A star, which is not true, it's a specialization of A star with (ok you win) h(v) set to nothing. It necessarily cannot solve as many problems as a star.

And Dijkstra's won't work in "any case" at all, esp graphs with negative edge weights.

The explanation struck me as glossing over too much, to the point of being misleading. Perhaps I'm being too pedantic, fine, but a more enlightened comparison would read more like our discussion than what was given.
Poe's Law and all that jazz...
How would you feel about taking what seems to be a serious medical condition (e.g. a serious pain with no obvious cause) to a person whose only ability was to answer questions on medical topics by repeating the content of medical text books?

Being smart is not just about knowing things, it is about being able to use that knowledge. You don't have to look inside someone's head to learn how well they can do that.
I'm sure that's the way they want to spin it. However, TCI is down around 20%, and it's pretty clear that they intend to juice Google in the short term to make good on their recent losses.

I'm sure they have had a significant share in Google, but this share is a much bigger proportion in recent times of their portfolio. By any common wisdom they should be diversifying anyways.
download.com

news.com

They really had two of the most highly coveted URLs on the internet for a long time.
Jokes are what led to Donald Trump running for president.

Now, this joke will lead to BE work that is abysmally optimized but some MBA will instead throw hardware at the problem and call it a day.

Congrats, you've been replaced by AI!
I consider Wikipedia to be a massive curated set of information. It also includes a lot of references and links to additional good information / source materials. Companies try to get spin added and it's usually very well controlled. I worry that a lot of ai generated dreck will seep into Wikipedia, but I am hopeful the moderation will continue to function well.
could you provide some examples of your prompts leading to simulation of Linux within ChatGPT?
as a junior engineer, chatgpt helps fill so much gaps in my knowledge to grow. i can ask it to build some code, explain the parts that are confusing, elaborate on concepts that are fuzzy to me, and then help me utilizing some packages. i will definitely shell out $42
Unless the toddler has a long history of suing the board of the airline company and making their life generally difficult for not doing what they are told, I don't think they are equivalent.
This seems light. I got 20k for my horse ranch from a comment[0]. I expect more if you have an actual link, no?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433
This is a great guide! Well done.
I'm not going to repeat my experiences here because it's frustrating to write it out and probably annoying to hear.

I can't in good conscience however, ever allow someone to recommend Oracle Cloud uncontested.

If it's working for you, I'm not going to fight, but please don't recommend it, the axe of Oracle is heavy swung- even if it hasn't caught your neck yet it definitely strikes.

EDIT: for those curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514359
It often happens that ChatGPT will confidently give you something that _looks_ like what you're asking for despite it being awfully wrong - sometimes you can make it "understand" its mistake and correct it, sometimes not. It's usually not that far off, but trusting it blindly is just out of the question.
Agreed its can lacking logic till to spell it out, example was this ctf challenge and it just could understand the hash collision till I gave it the full write up [0]

w.r.t codebases I may look at some of the free models (as this gets around the cost problem) and try to feed it prompts as a block of code plus meaningful references to same under the token limit.

[0] https://github.com/victor-li/pwnable.kr-write-ups/blob/maste...
Calling people who were gainfully employed “nasty pandemic fat” is a new low.
Why not both? Companies are large complex systems that require pruning over time just like any other complex system. Sure you can move a few people around or ask them to spend a little less, but ultimately it would become nearly impossible to respond to market conditions, or even just your own business changes/learnings, without laying people off.
You'll need a special AI soon just to read and process the flood of superficially reasonable sounding bullshit AI will be throwing at you from all kinds of directions. On the bright side, the quality of writing style might overall increase with AI paraphrasing and style correction/adaptation tools.
google glasses / vr & double down on what can do at any one given time?
writing pixels into an rgba framebuffer in main memory is still plenty fast to do a full-screen animation at 60 hertz tho

the benefit of the gpu is no longer (since maybe late last millennium) that you don't have the memory bandwidth to your framebuffer; it's that you can do a lot of computation per pixel

typically the gpu advantage is only about an order of magnitude tho
There is no "Gecko" on Apple platforms because you keep defending monopolistic lockout. It's utterly bizarre to defend megacorporation by scaremongering with a browser that isn't allowed to exist.
> 4chan constantly deletes its own content.

There are archives, like rebeccablacktech and 4plebs, which Google likewise blackholes. You could argue Google also does not care much for archives, yet I still get StackOverflow clone results, for some reason.
Use wireguard or cloud flare tunnels - personally, I have connected all the places I regularly spend time with persistent site-2-site IPSEC. Having your own infrastructure is a real blessing and relief from FAANG.
> Simply buying the market in the open…

This is slightly hyperbolic. Google is buying a default¹. It can be changed.

https://appletoolbox.com/change-default-search-engine-iphone...
This might’ve been true in an era of a normal population pyramid and demographic expansion.

We are in completely unprecedented times where populations are teetering will start shrinking while being dominated by the elderly.

That is to say, we don’t have models to predict how the economy will react.
>>the people getting laid off never should've been hired in the first place

This is a bullshit take. I've seen enough LinkedIn posts from people getting shit-canned after doing excellent work at X company for the past >5 years. They shouldn't have been hired 6 years ago? They shouldn't have been given good performance reviews for the past 6 cycles? Fire Sundar Pichai if you must, but avoid making sweeping generalizations that unfairly disparage a lot of people who did great work.
> Some of the AI-generated output is factually wrong

While this is undoubtedly true and a problem that needs to be addressed, it's worth considering that humans gets things factually wrong too sometimes (intentionally or not). So perhaps a more interesting question is how much more or less correct an AI is than a human on a given task.

People talk about this with self-driving cars all the time. Arguably a self-driving car does not need to drive perfectly (not that this is not a good goal), but if it can drive more safely than the average human driver, there's still a significant chance of improving overall road safety.
Man Loses Finger, Gains America
How else would they earn their 5 cent commissions on the thousand affiliate links in every single story?
In less than a decade, I believe front line support chat support jobs and even graphic artist jobs will be made obselete

We can finally get the eighty hour long book-accurate Lord of the Rings adaptation we deserve.

But seriously, I can't wait to feed a novel into one of these things and get a comic book version in return.
Yes, and don’t call me Shirley
Does Firefox have a small market share compared to Chrome? Yes.

At the same time, Firefox has 200 million users. For perspective, that's just behind the population of Brazil, the world's seventh-most-populous country. It's hardly dead in absolute terms. It's hard to think of any open-source end-user application that's more widespread.
My side project 1 year, 1000 commits, 5 paying users
I have been developing my knowledge management tools (https://hamsterbase.com) for the past year (It is now the Chinese New Year). and this is what I have gained in the last year.

1. collect 5 paying users

Since we don't have an account system, the payments are more like donations. There are currently 5 paying users.

2. release 6 minor versions

From version 0.1 on 23 April 22 to version 0.6 on 21 January 23. 3.

3. Get ? Users.
As the software has no telemetry, there is absolutely no idea how many people are using . Currently there are 28 people in the telegram group, 251 docker downloads and 284 stars on github.

4. Cost $70

The official website is render.com, the installer distribution is GitHub and Dockerhub, and the email service is larksuit. All for free. The only thing I paid for was a $60 a year developer account with Apple and a $10 a year domain name.

5. Write 1000 commits and 40k LOC
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Amazon Pay is very convenient.
no, that's what caused the romans/greeks to avoid making use of steam for labor -- what will the current slaves do?
For iPhone it's the default behavior. On Mac, it's the default behavior for Safari, and it's possible for Mac apps to support autofill since Big Sur. The main benefit of this is it works for Chrome and Chromium browsers which don't support autofill on Mac.
That is definietely the idea, but in practice all the app stores suffer from same problems - mainly that keeping the apps up to date is a lot of thankless work.

Yunohost is mainly full of community contributions, quite a few of which have been abandoned. Some are stuck on old versions, some use migration scripts which may or may not do things the correct Yunohost way, some use migration scripts with bugs which can lead to data loss. The front end is slick, but it's the wild west behind the scenes. There's not even a mechanism for regularly reviewing if apps have been abandoned - I've manually reported a couple.

Cloudron is probably better than most as they have a financial incentive, but then that targets their apps towards "professional" users.
Chrome will only be the better browser if Apple refuses to improve their own. This is how free market competition works - best browser wins.

You're now demanding to be forever locked into an inferior corporate owned product because you're utterly afraid that the better product would win. It's insane.
If it was removed from youtube or IA based on the emergency laws, I'd be able to access them here in the US. Youtube would have invoked geoblocking to go in line with Indian regulations. The fact that the documentaries were deleted across 2 very distinct jurisdictions points to overzealous copyright management by the BBC
2000: $19M

2021: $257B

I just can't over how big this company is. $19M would be considered a successful company by most measures, but a quarter Trillion hits different.
You seem to have just blipped by the deobfuscation from ChatGPT being actively wrong.

I meant what I said. I expect ChatGPT would happily output a substring search algorithm for the accept loop of an HTTP server if you just put enough "haystack" and "needle" words in the obfuscated code. How are you supposed to "refine" that into the truth?

To the extent that there is an answer, the answer is, completely ignore the ChatGPT output and use existing tools. Which is to say, ChatGPT would be worse than useless at that point.

I'm not saying ChatGPT will be slightly off, and maybe the obfuscator can kick it to be another 5 or 10% wrong. I'm saying, it is likely trivial to update the obfuscator to make ChatGPT utterly wrong, in every detail, up to and including the entire fundamental nature of the code.
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Read about 'Neutron Jack', this is what is happening just in way smaller scale for each company... at least for now.
Another article with some context: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/business-india/india-modi-bbc...
Also psalms don't rhyme, even in the original Hebrew. Also even if it is supposed to be a poem with rhyme and meter, ChatGPT's poem doesn't have correct meter.
Could you be any more hyperbolic and disconnected from reality? Laying people off from a mismanaged company the spends too much (even by their own admission, because look at the hundreds of companies laying people off who don't have shareholders begging them to do so) is a sociopathic medieval process? Get a grip.
I stand corrected. However, I don't believe that the class source file needs to be in a directory (or hierarchy of directories) that matches the package name. Many IDE's enforce this as well, which I believe is not correct.
<< Did the printing press also increase the amount of crap in circulation?
<< Why are you assuming that it will make writing worse not better?

Both of these are fascinating questions and, to me anyway, both can be answered with yes. The sheer amount of writing increased exponentially once more people could read, write and publish their own writings ( and internet only exacerbated this trend ). I accordance with pareto principle, most of it was of poor quality, but the upside was that good output likely did increase in terms of absolute number as well ( few people are bound to write something decent ).

I think parent is looking back at history and reasonably infers potential results ( more crap ).
I think this is mostly people being (rightly) pissed off that this technology and the kinds of resources required to replicate it are in the hands of 1-3 companies, who try to add “safety” features that hamper it.

DRMed technology is almost worse than not having it - it’s tantalisingly close, but you can’t use it for what you want because a human (not the machine!) said no.
I wasn't saying that was fair, and have supported raising the minimum wage every time it's been on the ballot. A key difference is that in most of the U.S. restaurant workers have a much lower minimum wage with the expectation that tips will make up for that. That's why I mentioned the difference between what you should do before anything changes and afterwards: if someone's base pay is $2.30/hour and tips are supposed to bring that up, not tipping is probably costing them money their budget is based on.

None of that says that we shouldn't be trying to get both jobs to be more humane.
> a traditional async code review process

This is not a very old "tradition." We started code reviews back in the 2000s with in-person small group code reviews, and only later moved to the tool-based async code reviews that are ubiquitous today. We adopted good ideas from a web article "Effective Code Reviews Without the Pain" ( https://www.developer.com/guides/effective-code-reviews-with... ). We had folks enter comments in advance but went through them as a group, using social customs like starting questions with "did you consider..." to keep it cordial and non-confrontational. A lot of these reviews generated good discussions about code quality, clarity, etc. We didn't review 100% of code using this process, and we didn't always require the review to be completed before merging - the main goal was more to improve all developers' habits than to improve one particular chunk of code.

Moving to the current tool-based async code reviews has pros and cons, but now it takes effort to ensure they stay positive, and the async process eliminated some of the great team discussions that the old-style reviews had.

Perhaps the ideal solution is a mix of both approaches?
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Is there some reading about setting this sort of thing up that you could direct me towards? I am ignorant but competent (I even had a CCNA at one point) and not afraid of manuals, and this setup actually sounds ideal for me - I have a ton of disk space and compute power at home. If not for Starlink I might even just try running it from home anyways.

The only thing I don't have from your scenario is a public IP due to being on Starlink as I said, so there's no way for me to let anyone in my front door here even if I was willing to endure the pain, which I don't think I am. Is there a way to have my server always be the initiator of the VPN connection, and the bouncing server just say "sorry" if the home server isn't responding?

I am tempted to bring up the question of having a CDN cache (or whatever the terminology is) for those occasions, but that sounds like money, in the final analysis the straightforward setup might still be my best bet for now.

But yah, the idea of just having a small public bouncer that forwards stuff and doing everything from my home servers has occurred to me before, I just don't know yet how to set that up and I get nervous with anything public, it's a scary world out there.

Doing it the "dumb" way just gets me onboard and I can start looking at all the little parts, it's how I learn stuff really... like I said, very interested in doing some more reading on exactly how one would implement that, as detailed as possible because I am very stupid when I'm first setting out on something, I need the text equivalent of someone talking real slow like I'm five. :>
chatgp isnt limited to spoonfuls, so guessing internet setup / tty typing speed.

would tying infinate google search feeds to chatgp crash the internet or just reduce down to 42?
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What? PP is huge in Germany. If they weren’t, this article wouldn’t exist.
I assume you're used to fixed rate mortgages. A whole bunch of countries don't have those. Actually I only know about the US having real fixed rate mortgages. Other places either have mostly variable rates or some sort of fixed period and a mechanism to bring up the rate in some conditions.
Every few years I say to myself, "This is the way to go. I want my resume to be programmable and data driven." I'm not great at LaTeX now, and I was only ever ok. After getting into it, I've never seen a benefit from it after trying to do it. Learning all the esoteric rules to make LaTeX work only for that, is just too high of a hill to climb for that alone. I want it to be different, but for me, it's not.