skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree whole-heatedly. Every dumb kid thinks he has to be noisier than the next, whether it's a shitty dropped Honda civic covered in primer, a dumbshit F-350 with dumb tires sticking out past the body, or a motorcycle with some ignoramus on it wearing a bandana with a skull over his face, like that makes him tough. It's like everyone has to flex because they think it makes them cool, but really the rest of us are saying "oh look, another dumbass". Yet, you're right, the cops don't seem to care. I don't get it. It's like even they think they have something better to do, and noise complaints are too beneath them to care. I've talked to a number of cops about this, and they have told me they won't enforce these laws unless they are looking for an excuse to pull someone over for something more significant (to them).
I think it seems kind of weird allocating resources to bring back an extinct species, because it seems like it would be vastly more difficult and expensive than saving a near extinct species, such as the vaquita, since there are a few still left alive rather than none for thousands of years. Also, it seems a bit cruel resurrecting something like mammoth, a creature of the ice ages, when the planet is warm and expected to keep getting warmer. Dodo extinction, any extinction, but especially human-caused extinction, is sad and maddening. I don't mean to be negative or cynical, but most extinctions from now on will ultimately be human-caused. We should exhaust all resources arresting the processes that cause these extinctions, and preserve the remaining diversity securely before building Jurassic Park.
If I had to guess, I would speculate it was more of a buyout than a layoff. That person probably wanted to leave anyway, and Google just made it easier for them.
So glad I dumped these jerks.
Yeah and 6+ was < 10%. This list definitely seems biased toward the higher levels. 41 Staff SWEs and only 60 Senior SWEs is a crazy ratio. Consistent with the rumor that they targeted high comp packages.
Think you would have to request the filings in California. You can view the list of warnings without a request of which you can find the numerous Google listings on Jan 20[1], but details I don't believe are published publicly.

Follow the link, click latest listings for 2022-present, and it should open a spreadsheet in chronological order.

[1] https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN...
Don't forget World GDP is also expanding.

Don't forget productivity of the Rest of the World will catch up with US (and making each attention second more valuable to the advertisers)

Don't forget most activities will go to Metaverse.

Finally, get out of Mobile-Phones-will-capture-all-long-distance-calls-revenue framework
So just feed autogenerated text from a video into ChatGPT and ask it to summerize.
in constant currency they would be up about 4%. the biggest trend is revenue per ad was nearly offset by growth in number of ads - the latter is likely to hit its limit sooner than the former and that seems like the biggest risk to the business
???? I don't get what you're asking.

Start a union. Ask people to join. Don't tell the companies who joins. Wait until you have a critical mass. Then do stuff.
I think intel quicksync also has that(random green screen) sometimes. The only one not suffered from it is amd hardware encoding. But the encode quality is worse than the other two. Sometimes to the point that I want to just disable it.
This would depend on the temperature of your hot water feed, which is likely much lower.

It’s like having a speedometer in your car that goes to 180 mph.
People who want to look handsome without working out
I feel like this could really take off if it was presented through some kind of wacky friendly front end.. maybe like some kind of animated assistant, like a cute dog or something office related.. a stapler, no, something more dynamic yet mundane, like a Paperclip!
No, most people consider NY Times is considered mainstream.

And only Mainstream Media is woke
Is asking ChatGPT to generate low quality code much different to the average npm dependency chain? It would seem disingenous to berate AI code completion for removing the challenges of development yet most reach for import * in the same breath..
You are right, I forget about it, thanks.
> Younger people not using FB though seems pretty real.

We've already gone through one cycle of "young people are abandoning Facebook" with millenials and Snapchat. And it turned out that the thesis of Snapchat as FB killer was widely overblown. Snapchat failed to really expand into other demos the way early Facebook did, not to mention a lot of those Millenials aged out of it and migrated to Instagram.

Now we're hearing the same story but with Gen Z and TikTok. But it's hard to see a compelling reason why TikTok will wind up a different story. Seems very unlikely that my kids pre-school will eventually wind up uploading to TikTok the way they do Facebook.

My guess is the youth vanguard will always use whatever the new hotness is in alternative social media platform, because keeping grownups out is the point. But Facebook (and Instagram) seem like they're firmly entrenched as the base layer of civil society.
I buy my own laptop for work. Work will give me a good one, but I want a GREAT one. It’s the one tool I need to do my job, and I’ll be using it over 40 hours a week.

It’s a few thousand dollars, but I make a comfortable six figure salary, and I think it’s worth it.
Sure but how are they tracking on their KPIs (Kinetic pliability index)
Sid Vicious, Marilyn Manson, Alice Cooper and many other artists who were undebatably part of counterculture very often did stuff to intentionally offend members of mainstream culture.

Manson did a ton of stuff to piss off Christians and rightoids. While it might seem hilarious with modern day sensibilities, Rage saying fuck on BBC live did offend quite a lot of people. Hell, Sid Vicious and Siouxsie Sioux used to regularly wear literal Swastikas for the shock value.

None of this shit is new.
Oh honey, there's plenty of hate to go around. No need to prioritize.
TIL; Google sure has a lot of titles. Curious, why is there SWE III but L4 (I presume level4?) or SWE II but L3? I wonder if it ever gets confusing to think about career progression there??
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Haha, brainfuck is simple and only has five features that everyone knows but...there's going to be a decent number of patterns you'll have to memorize.
For reference this is the title held by David Patterson, giant of the industry and Turing Award winner.
like young sheldon
Reminder to myself that nobody is indispensable to the company. Every one can be replaced.
Also we have body sensors which detect acute over-temperature situations and cause us to remediate the situation before damage can occur. Usually while screaming something profane.
Have rules and regulations in the bylaws as to salary and that you don't want leadership elite caste that inevitably takes power and lives in luxury while salaries get depressed across the board in the name of equality.
This paper [1] shows they extracted the mitochondrial DNA from samples from "the UCSC Paleogenomics ab (samples AMNH 612456, OMNH 1764, AMNH 224546, OMNH 1762, AMNH 616460, Zm1, S1B1, OUMNH 1759), the University of Copenhagen (sample ZMUC AVES-105485), the McMaster University Ancient DNA Centre (samples FMNH 47395, FMNH 47396, and FMNH 47397), and Griffith University (sample D3538)".

There is also this one: https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/learn-the-oxford-dodo

[1] https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1286...
I read desert solitaire on a road trip (ironically) through arches natl. park and colorado. Really fantastic book -- his thesis can be summed up in a page or so, but his passionate ideas are nearly viral.

I especially enjoyed the contrast between really beautiful descriptions and anecdotes of nature and polemic political rants that go on for tens of pages at a time.
Got it, those are good points. Thanks.
For some people.
A subculture is generally hidden from the mainstream culture. Few are those who display their BDSM subculture in obvious public fashion.

A counterculture is in the face of the mainstream culture, trying to change the cult. It is countering the mainstream. It is activist or, at the least, unabashed with the intention of normalization.
I just published my Python AI book
Above a certain age and a certain amount of money in the bank, a lot of people are ready to move on--especially given the right nudge.
Somebody spent a few hours programming the FMS with lat-longs as few, if any, of the waypoints would be in the directory, likely offline.

Then there's a long phone call to, likely Seattle, Center to get the flight route accepted into the system. There's a possibility the ATC computers couldn't take all the way points, in which case they would need an airspace reservation where they could do the pattern.
The memory of a poem is stored information but your vocal cord is NOT stored information.

"*2" and "+1" are vocal cords. They operate on any number of inputs just like how your vocal cord operates on any number of nerve signals and air blowing through it.

If my vocal coords are never used to record a copyrighted song then no violation of the law occured. If I never use the machine learning model to generate an existing picture then no law violation occured.
I saw the advice in a thread on here about voluntarily quitting during the first round of layoffs. Perhaps that's what happened here? Maybe they just said "f it I'm out, I've got some money to spend."
This is exactly the same thoughts I had before, having a new sort of framework on top of WASM instead of using the HTML/CSS/JS framework, specifically for building new applications. Glad to see this is on your mind as well.
In most companies you can supply your own headshot. Pro tip: get a fashion photographer and pose outside for a "candid" shot.
The SWE ladder goes from L3 - L9. L5 is a place most average software engineers will stay. Getting above L6 as an individual contributor makes you a very special person.
When my fave package gets another questionable dependency face.
Wow, the guy has a Wikipedia article in 19 languages.
What the fuck are you even saying?
In practice no one uses the roman numeral part of the title except HR.

So one thinks of oneself as an L3 SWE, or an L5 PGM or whatever.
The Toybox Build System
Full disclosure: I wrote this post. Just wanted to share and see what people think. I would love to hear some feedback :)
If Twitter is anything to go by, I saw one Google engineer with a 20year history find out they got laid off in the same way as anyone else and expressed surprise.
Soul sucking is a bit extreme, this is at-will employment after all. 99.9% of readers are not working on sexy change the world problems. Call it soul sucking but I call that perspective jaded.

I've been lucky to work in consumer facing engineering that isn't soul sucking. In fact, it's market segments that I find interesting as a consumer too. I still optimize this way because I'm in a place in life where I want stability when my head hits then pillow in my home that I have a mortgage on. I have a family and stability yields solace and solace yields clarity of mind which allows me to be a better employee. It really is a virtuous cycle.
Not a hiring manager but wanted to say that the workout generator was cool!
Reality has an inherent liberal bias.

In all honesty though, the dataset it was trained on may have a liberal bias. This is _precisely_ the sort of bias you should expect from a large language model .............................
On the linked page, look near the center of the page for “Free to read online” and click there. Please look at the book online before thinking of buying it.

I tried to balance deep learning, large language model applications, etc., with some good old fashioned AI. It was fun to write but I am waiting for feedback from readers on what they did and didn't like. I use the Leanpub publishing platform and updates to my eBooks are free so I feel pretty much OK with putting out an early version and then tweaking it after getting feedback.
Does an L9 trump a "senior staff engineer"? Back in the day when I used to interview engineers, I recall staff engineer being a very senior position at big businesses.
I wonder when people are going to tire of college and instead move directly from high school to productive activity.

Choose who to hire: new college grad, or someone with 4 years employment flipping burgers or similar. I’m going with the latter for most jobs.
Executives from corporate America led by people like Welch treated workers like cogs, which eventually taught employees to treat employers transactionally.
Court in Italy rules in favour of children who do not want to see grandparents
I guess they decided they didn't need to possess as many? Even Google isn't hiring just because. They hire because someone leader wrote a doc and justified a line item to staff something and pay for the infra to make it go. What I said doesn't change at Google. Look at the areas of these big tech layoffs, they align with my premise.
Surely this only applies to a limited set of companies where the products cannot have meaningfully negative impacts on people. You would for instance not say this about a company producing (software for) elevators, or airplanes, or pharmaceuticals.

An interesting question then follows: are those companies where you can take larger and larger risks without adversely affecting people, actually adding anything of real value? Or is it all broken window fallacy?

This is not to say that e.g. Google is a useless company. Surely its products have provided a lot of benefit from people. But it is also clear that taking risks as Google can cause clear negative consequences for people. So the question is more for a hypothetical company that can take arbitrarily large risks.
I largely believe that AI artwork should be treated 1:1 the same as human output.

That is, in a non ideal scenario, if it creates are that wouldn't normally be subject to copyright, then the process (call it learning, call it mapping, call it baking for all I care) is largely irrelevant.

In an ideal scenario, no artwork would be owned and we wouldn't have this discussion at all but alas.

I don't see how valuing AI output is some kind of nihilistic devaluing of the human race, unless you already hold some kind of preconceived negative idea of machine learning models.

Remember these models are built by humans. Its human ingenuity that's scaring the pants off the art industry at the moment. TALL men and women and others of INDUSTRY and BUSINESS are making COOL THINGS with VALUE.
>Meanwhile the US state department is flying the queer flag at its embassies around the world and using it to agitate foreign conservative cultures.

Oh come on, that is not their main goal. Its all a scam to cover up things like unchecked military spending/war, unchecked government corruption at the corporate level among many other things.

There is a reason why this meme continues to float around the web.

[1]:https://i.imgur.com/dmzLLKe.png
useEffect IS a great (the best?) place to put async code. I do it all the time.
The reason for strict mode rendering twice is to spot strictness related issues. Honestly I never even thought of using it so I've never experienced this.
I've lately been a fan of Haiku's (and BeOS') default approach of putting taskbar functionality in the (top-right) corner, without taking up the entire edge (unless you've somehow got enough distinct windowed programs running to necessitate that. Achieves most of the same paradigm; the only thing missing is the window control button placement, but the tabbed windows are a worthwhile tradeoff.

I still prefer tiled windows (particularly herbstluftwm and PaperWM), but as far as floating window setups go it feels about as well-designed as it gets.
yes, but will it put my missing parentheses in???
The explicit and only function of the US H1B program is to provide workers to tech companies who cannot find enough workers at the price they want to pay
I feel like this could become the next Swiss watch. Bring joy back to showering. Meticulously hand crafted by artisans in the Swiss Alps. Features include:

- Polished stainless steel case

- Intricately geared shower control valve with see through cover

- High precision temperature set point control

- Compensates for input water pressure / flow to maintain temperature

- Comes with unique ID and certificate of authenticity

Obviously it will require annual servicing to make sure ensure continued operation. Your smugness will keep you warm long after your hot water runs out.
And in many cases financially free to do so without blinking. It's a different calculus for sure.
>- i'm on m1

I assume that's a mac, can't blame the poor fella :D
Is OpenAI hiring software engineers without a background in academic machine learning these days? Seems like a super exciting place to work.
Infrared or even red light penetrate deeply in our body, 10, 20 cm.

The mitochondria make atp from glucose+oxygen but also cause free radicals (think bad combustion) those float around and destroy what they touch.

To remove those the mitochondria also make melatonin(powerful antioxidant) that scoop up the free radicals so they can be eliminated but to make melatonin they need infrared radiation, I guess they evolved that way, infrared was available all day when activity was highest.

Now our brain make melatonin in the night, this would be the back up plan so that we don’t have to much inflammation at night when our activity level is reduced.

If you have an infection your system is working overtime to fight the virus, causing more free radicals/inflammation. It seem a big part of blood clothing in covid is an inflammation overload. Compounding that overweight people are naturally more prone to inflammation.

overweight + inside + infection + spike protein = clotting of blood.
Huh?

Then forget about the Dock and use Spotlight, I launch whatever I need in less than a second.
GPT-3 surely does too, but ChatGPT is undeniably the new hotness.
I would estimate a senior staff engineer to be an L5 or L6 at Google
Not much in 2023 is fast on an old Android device from 2013, unless it's something from 2013...
Dos anticheats even run on linux?
You've got this pretty backwards. In top secret documents, you need exhaustive documentation because there's no calling to ask, "wait, what did you mean?" You have to find the likely nameless person recording, hope they still work at the same place or somewhere with scif access, hope their read-in is still active, find a way to communicate securely to them, and on and on.
The human giving the prompt is shopping, not creating. The only way a computer can compute an image is by copying the vectors of imagery made by humans and then labeled and plotted and fed to said computer. Humans paint, draw, do physical things to make art. Computers are fed plotline statistics that they can pull up to fullfil a shopping list. Humans generated the imagery, uploaded the imagery,labeled the imagery and wrote the code to manipulate the imagery. Now, I'm not a big proponent of copyright. If someone can paint just like Rembrant, then I applaud their skill. At the end of the day, 'AI' is not 'learning' ,it is replicating input data by filtering a large amount of data sets with appropriate labels ( affixed by humans) and using a statistical algorithm to approximate somebody's shopping list of art they wish they had the skill to create. I'll take the Rembrant forgery, thank you.
rather, if there is no solution to a problem, or at least an attempt to solve the problem, then it's not worth the discussion. maybe proving that a problem is unsolvable is useful, but failing that there is nothing new being added
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> performance that is often not noticeable or is easily achieved with React's memoization features. React was always about enabling front-end engineers to take advantage of software engineering best practices so they could level up velocity and quality

I've been working daily with React for almost 6 years now. Another 10+ years of web development before that. And I have yet to see these benefits be realized.

It's not easy, at all, to "optimize performance using memoization" in React, best practices are mostly tied to JSX/React and its tooling, not general software engineering, and they change yearly based on the latest version and current third-party library trends. Velocity and quality are both hurt. Your best bet is to use an all-in-one framework like next.js, which delegates most of the pain to the authors - but not all of it.

The big improvements that React brought to the mainstream were componentization, and popularizing declarative rendering. I think we have better options today.

Svelte does not limit expressiveness in my experience, in fact it makes it way easier to do what you actually want to do, without contorting yourself to the framework. It's liberating. This is a viewpoint I hear frequently though, so it definitely depends on your personal path as a developer and what you've been exposed to.
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Well, Google also defines "engineering" as:

2. the action of working _artfully_ to bring something about.
"if not for his shrewd engineering, the election would have been lost"

(https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3AEngineering)

Merriam-Webster has:

3 : calculated manipulation or direction (as of behavior)

giving the example of social engineering

(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineering)

Random House has:

3. skillful or artful contrivance; maneuvering

(https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/enginee...)

Webster's has:

The act of maneuvering or managing.

(https://www.yourdictionary.com/engineering)
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I'm finding ChatGPT may be wrong, but it's answers are often enough to point me in the right direction - particularly when I'm working in a new domain where I'm not yet experienced enough to be able to ask google the right questions.

Previously I'd fall back to asking in a forum and getting a (tbf) much better answer a few hours or days later, but ChatGPT may be enough to point me in the right direction in a few minutes
cf https://www.nas.org/policy/federal-legislation
It is - but the mainstream “free as in beer” makes no sense. Who gives away free beer? Beer is free as in libre, not free as in gratis!

But you’re correct - the mainstream meaning of that term is the opposite - which I find bizarre.