skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm interested to hear why you say that. Not to be THAT guy and this might get me banned from HN, but this ChatGPT’s response to your point; I would say that this clearly shows the capacity for logic. Certainly not first order logic built into a symbolic AI model, but definitely logic.

The start of its lengthy response:

“ The use of probabilistic logic models in LLM can lead to more sophisticated and nuanced logical reasoning. These models represent knowledge about the world in a probabilistic form, which allows the LLM to take into account uncertainty and make inferences based on probabilities.

For example, an LLM system trained on a large knowledge base might encounter a question that it has not seen before. Using probabilistic reasoning, the LLM…”
> we don't know HC yet

It's always been like this. Most businesses have permanently listed "openings" that don't necessarily mean they're hiring.
Not just outside of COVID. There were a few very notable cases early in the pandemic where the messaging was completely mis-managed. What has spread to nearly every corner of the debate around COVID is that since they clearly mis-managed a few things they must have mis-managed everything and the presence of a single biorxiv preprint which agrees with you means that the bulk of professional virologists and epidemiologists are all wrong.
There's a LOT of different organisations that all had to contribute to create a result this bad. Cops, yes, but that's just step 1. Social workers, of at least 2 different organisations. The justice system, including prosecutors and judges ... because if they wouldn't back the social workers there's nothing they could have done.

... which adds up to a lot of people that could have stopped this if they wanted to. NONE of them did.
Right, this is the problem. The stock-market / macro-growth figures look good, but /personal/ finances and true cost-of-living look to be in trouble.

If the "solution" is a bunch of layoffs, it's just going to compound the problem. The solution is all these companies that aren't actually dying need to raise wages to match all the recent inflation.
Right? I bought an iPad, and it doesn't let me filter all of that noise. Boy howdy is the web loud!

A few years ago, I built a website while kind of forgetting how others experience the web. It's lightweight, and eschews ads, newsletter prompts, cookie notices, chatboxes, tracking and all the other annoyances. I didn't think much of it, but a lot of people notice and bring it up when they contact me.

I'm tapping into an undiscovered niche: websites that don't piss people off!
This tone is not useful, I say this as someone who supports this move.

The best time to do the right thing is yesterday, the second best is today.
You state (or at least imply) that the fact that a company is not willing to go out of business to avoid firing someone is proof that they don't care about that person. All I can say is that you seem to have a reductionist definition of the word "care". I also wouldn't expect my friends to, say, sell their house to support me if I needed it.
I wonder if they were told to do X to match Microsoft and it took them a bit longer to implement.
Non-engineers are being let go as well.
One of the standard solutions to "library we use isn't yet compatible with ___" is:

1. Monkey patch it to be compatible

2. Include in the monkey-patch initializer a version check, so the monkey-patch won't outlive the current version of the dependency

3. Submit a pull-request or open an issue upstream to resolve the compatibility issue.

This comes up _constantly_ during ruby version updates and when updating central libraries that many others depend on (like activesupport).

The other alternative is usually to fork the gem yourself and resolve the compatibility issues, and depend on your forked version - then you need to stay on top of updating and building your fork regularly. Multiply that by a dozen or so different cases, and it becomes clear that monkey-patching is in some cases _the right thing to do_, and not a "bad habit" at all.
An entire article about compression being similar to what a DNN does without a mention of Naftali Tishby's Information Bottleneck principle for neural networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_bottleneck_method
It doesn't appear that any of the big ones are completely reversing their hiring sprees from the past 3 years; rather they are re-adjusting in realizing that can't hit their profit targets at this rate, and that many of their ambitious projects aren't panning out.

Many of these companies ballooned their hiring during covid, increasing at 20%-40% a year (or more!)
Thats absolutly mind blowing!!
So have a checkbox for "also persist mailbox in an interoperable format", that then lets you choose mbox or maildir; where it's going to save the data for its own use in SQLite either way; only save in that "interoperable format" asynchronously in the background, and on quit (just like e.g. a Redis RDB file); and, if enabled, also scan the interoperable backing store for changes made on startup, to apply them to the internal, canonical store.

FYI, iTunes.app (or whatever it's called now) for a long time had a legacy XML-file representation of the music library "for interoperability", that you could enable to be persisted to disk alongside its newer, binary DB file; when enabled, it worked exactly like this.
In general, I'm curious if people replying to this thread have had success with applying to HN "Who's Hiring?" listings. At my previous job, at a small company (~50 total employees), posting in those threads was by far our best recruiting tool. While we filtered out a lot of uninspiring resumes, we also responded quickly to people who seemed like a reasonable match.

If I were looking, after exhausting personal contacts from previous employment, that's where I would head next.
Yeah, but you're wrong to say that it's cheaper than what I indicated. I took my kids to see Avatar in IMAX last weekend and the total bill was north of $100 including a few snacks.
I agree that the state of the art isn't ready yet for general consumption. I think GPT-3, etc are good enough to help with a wide range of tasks with guardrails. To clear, I don't mean guardrails around racist language, etc which is a separate topic. Rather guardrails around when to use the results because of limitations and accuracy.

For example, let's say you have a website that sells clothes and you want to make the site search engine better. Let's also say that a lot of work has been done to make the top 100 queries return relevant results. But the effort required to get the same relevance for the long tail of unique queries, think misspellings and unusual keywords, doesn't make sense. However you still want to provide a good search experience so you can turn to ML for that. Even if the model only has a 60% accuracy, that's still a lot better than 0% accuracy. So applying ML queries outside the top 100, should improve the overall search experience.

ChatGPT/GPT-3 has an increased the number of areas where ML can be used but it still has plenty of limitations.
It's always funny how these interactions go on HN.

Office worker: I enjoy working like this. And I really hate working like that.

Remote worker: I enjoy working like this. And I really hate working like that. Also here's an insult.

For some bizarre reason, for the folks in the office it's always like "I like this style of stuff" and for the folks remote it's always "I like this other style, but also you're a drone / have no social life / think work is the only place you get any social interaction".

We have quite a large employment market and there are enough in-office, remote-friendly, remote-only employers. Just match your preferences with theirs. Some friends of mine have been remote for ages and they're quite productive. My own org is all in-office and I like to think we're doing well. It's the kind of place I like to work at.

It's just preference matching. I want to work at a place where everyone wants to work in-office. I have that. You want something else and you have that. Yep, there's folks who'd like to do what we do but can't work here because we want them to be in-office. And there's folks like me who like other orgs but I can't because the team isn't around.
Thanks, that shouldn't be too hard to add. I have noted it down and will have a look at it.
Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play
Hi HN, wanted to share a project that I’ve been working on recently.

PodText allows users to find anything said on a podcast. You can also listen and share clips to a specific part of the podcast audio, simply by highlighting the text of that part. Currently there are just over 25k podcast episodes and I’m adding a lot more in the coming weeks (yes my GPU bill is painful).

In order to monetize it, I’m building a sponsorship database to help sponsors find podcasts and vice versa. This will be sold in the form of a $99/month “PodText Business” subscription. I bet I could charge a lot more to large sponsors but I’ll tweak that as I talk to potential customers.

Right now the UI is very bare bones (doesn’t even have pagination) but I’ll polish it once the data pipeline is working well. Please let me know if you run into any bugs or have any questions about the site or business model.

PS: I'm a regular on HN using my real name but can't post under that account since my employer will fire me if they found out about this project :-)
Call me callous but that's the point at which it's ok to die.

There is very little quality of life and very little sense in being alive in a hospice, surrounded by strangers, hooked up to machines, living a lonely existence.
Exactly. Over the life span of ~3 years or what it was. That's pretty impressive if you ask me.
There are people on this forum that refuse to accept climate change is a real thing that really happens that we really cause.

That's anti-science
He says he is not. He said he might have been in the past, but today there is no sourness.

And we have to believe him. He is the ultimate authority on what he feels. He also has the unique perspective of being in the position of someone who has had the record of all-time leading scorer in the NBA taken from him. You do not. I do not. We do not even possess any records to be taken.

So no, we don't know how we'd feel in that situation. It's purely hypothetical on our end. We have to trust his words.

Not to mention, neither of us are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. And I don't mean that neither of us are legendary NBA players. I mean neither of us are that man. We have not lived his life. We have not experienced his struggles, achievements, highs, lows, etc. We do not have his parents, etc. So even if you or I would feel like something was stolen from us that still doesn't tell us that he would feel the same.
The only way to stop companies from doing this is to fine them for the submission of incorrect data.

If the cost > benefit, they will adhere to the rules.

$5k per false data point should be enough. 10 addresses inside the service area = $50k. And 10% of that fine should go to the whistleblower.

That's how all this government data submission should work. At that point pretty much everyone with any skills will be going through every address in America and checking the database, hoping to get some of that pot of money.
Is your expectation that people are proficient in Rust already or are you hiring generalist senior engineers who can pick up Rust?
I thought HN was supposed to be a place to get away from propaganda and yellow journalism? VICE is agenda-driven trashtivism.
AMZN still makes the Fire 7.

I think HN readers aren't aware of the success AMZN has had with Fire tablet, but if you go visit someone who lives in a trailer you might find they have a Fire tablet, have never heard of "Android" and are unaware the tablet has anything to do with AMZN, but it is the only device they use to access the internet.

AMZN's willingness to sell Fire tablets at cost is one of the reasons why people think Android tablets are dead -- it means value-oriented tablets are completely DOA. When you consider what you get for the price these are an astonishing value.
we had a layoff in my company announced today (UK based), it will be weeks before I know if I'm impacted

If I decided to jump ship now and join a financial company in which I can guarantee quick offer due to networking I feel I'm risking exactly that.

It feels like a wave, if you jump to another industry you may risk to catch the wave when it comes. Specifically financial seems to just start now?
Pretty in 'Pink'
Payload (YC S22) uses GitHub issues solely for bugs—no feature requests, RFCs, enhancements, good first issues, etc. It helps us prioritize, stay efficient, and provide an accurate picture of what a developer can expect to run into at any given time with the repo.

We're not the first, but it has been paying some dividends so I wrote up a little of our rationale.

Would love to know others' experience here and if anyone else is doing the same, or deliberately doing the opposite.
Wait, this is just peanut allergen powder? I thought that microdosing with the allergen was already a treatment?
I'm not opening a random Google Doc. That's not a reputable study.

>Also, your comment history shows a definite bias.

"You said something that goes against the narrative so I'm going to dig through your history to find something I dislike so I can commit an ad hominem against the heretic."

Yes, I have a penchant for being fact driven. I'm biased towards reality.
> This is a poorly-sourced speculative piece of propaganda

You mean like most mainstream news that parrot state-sponsored talking points? It seems counterpropaganda propaganda pieces are the only way to balance out state propaganda these days.
From [1] https://github.com/iced-rs/iced it says:

"Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, and the Web)"
Compassion & Choices is working to raise awareness about the option of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking for a decisionally-capable adult who would like to reduce the length of time they suffer from any terminal disease including progressive diseases such as dementia.

Aren't these inherently contradictory? A person with dementia may not make voluntary decisions. But I overall support assisted suicide. I think it's another option that can lower healthcare costs, reduce suffering.
I'm not arguing that Asians are being discriminated against. It's obvious this is happening, and it's disgusting. I was commenting on your comment about Black Americans being the leading culprits of Asian hate crimes.

I admit, I was unaware of the skewed anti-Semitic views. Definitely will do further research.

Also, you know exactly the rhetoric I am speaking of.
The elderly died earlier.
Unfortunately the web keeps changing. Firefox is trying hard to remain relevant and needs to be flexible with their code-base. So Thunderbird does not live in a stable world.
> I spend a lot of time defending the fart noises rather than firing the missiles

My experience with it is that there is learning cliff to scale, rather than a gradual on-ramp like Python. The people complaining about the fart noises are complaining the cliff is too hard.

From my perspective near the bottom of the cliff, the people that grok the language tend to churn out things with a speed and quality I don't see elsewhere.
Here is some follow-up that's more than just my tweet.

https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/github-is-laying-off-10-of-st...
The current state of the economy is not the permanent state of the economy. Many tech workers will see new opportunities, though not necessarily soon enough to stave off real hardships.

That being the case, there is no harm in learning another way to make a living. Having a fallback is always a good idea. If it becomes the main thing because your first career never came back, count yourself lucky and go with it.
Not to mention someone has to code the no code tool, alongside all the plugins, scripts and glue code that at some point will be required.
freedom (liberty) really goes away if we stop defending it.

it's like cleaning (like any and all maintenance work), you're never done with it.

what a lie (a mistake) to believe that liberty once fought and realized stays with us, in a state of having been won. It must be maintained, it's like being in shape.

Liberty, software, bureaucracies and their complicated interactions... why must it get worse before it gets better?

why does it seem like tyranny is easier to keep?
HAHA. Thank you for the example.
I’m all for truly voluntary (no governmental pressure etc) euthanasia as an option to avoid incurable suffering, but something about renaming intentional terminal dehydration to ‘VSED’ and displaying it with corporate slides feels particularly grim.

It’s a bit like the mismatch in tone when there’s a powerpoint/hype video for a particularly gruesome anti-personnel weapon.
There are people out there that pay for Medium?
The 90’s were a funny time, history was over so we declared the best sports players at the time to be the “greatest ever.”

The only sports that have seen their best players already are Baseball and Cycling, because they’ve gotten good at catching steroid users.
Terribly bloated corporations all around.

We had such situation in socialist Yugoslavia in the 80s, just before it collapsed. Most people just "went to work" without doing anything useful or producing anything valuable while still getting fairly good money. Government kept printing money while increasing foreign debt to keep people content as opposed to let unprofitable companies close so that people get laid off but hopefully regroup into more profitable ones. It lasted for some time, but when it finally came to an end it was really ugly.

I feel sorry for everyone that gets laid off, but perhaps that is better than the alternative.
> States have become more ambitious in their policies for tackling the insulin affordability crisis because the scale of the problem continues to grow and the federal government seems capable of taking only limited action to address it.

As if the federal government isn't the one causing the shortage in the first place.
> but the next David Foster Wallace will certainly use its potential to become a better writer, just in the same manner auto-spellcheckers make me a better writer.

Really contestable, actually, not certain.

This is also addressed in the text:

> Can large-language models help humans with the creation of original writing? To answer that, we need to be specific about what we mean by that question. There is a genre of art known as Xerox art, or photocopy art, in which artists use the distinctive properties of photocopiers as creative tools. Something along those lines is surely possible with the photocopier that is ChatGPT, so, in that sense, the answer is yes. But I don’t think that anyone would claim that photocopiers have become an essential tool in the creation of art; the vast majority of artists don’t use them in their creative process, and no one argues that they’re putting themselves at a disadvantage with that choice.
This has been studied extensively. It's possible to dehydrate but without feeling thirsty.
The honest answer is, DIY coffee roasting isn't really going to be as good as a good professional roaster unless you get into frankly unreasonable cost equipment.

I've owned various home roasting equipment, and until I bought an Aillio Bullet (which, is a $3500 roaster nowadays) matching good professional roasters was not possible. You could get close, but consistency and quality was not quite there.

Also, home roasting is basically impossible in an apartment setting. The smoke is not great, and unless you have a balcony/porch it's going to be an issue.
Yeah it seems like they're announcing their high-level aspirations, so not really note-worthy yet.
The rules of reconciliation are indeed arcane. There is a Senate Parliamentarian who makes calls on interpretations because the details are so convoluted.

Sure, at a high level it's simple. But so is "crawl the internet, make a database and match keywords from requests to a ranked list of results."
If I may humbly offer a suggestion, looping over filenames should [edit: almost] never be done with ls. find can be used with much better fidelity:

https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2012

"ls is only intended for human consumption: it has a loose, non-standard format and may "clean up" filenames to make output easier to read."
Hehe I think you might be reading that too literally :). I was just using an analogy to make my point.
1) is safe to trust VLANs, especially for this home stuff… otherwise you will need separated LANs and cables! Overkilled.

2) I’m not rate limiting the IoT devices, I’m monitoring them and they make really few traffic, you can limit a device by MAC address in OpenWrt anyway: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/bandwidth-limit-per-ip-mac/35943
He can't be the GOAT simply because he's lost 3 finals to Steph Curry. Curry is definitely not the GOAT, but Curry was objectively better in the 3 series that would have solidified LeBron's legacy.
Trades are a great idea.

... I don't think I'd specifically recommend "Learn to drive a big rig" though. In addition to the industry itself being a real bad deal for vehicle operators (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/business/truck-driver-sho...), it's the segment of the transportation sector centered in the crosshairs of disruption-through-automation.

The self-driving vehicle companies that laid off were, broadly speaking, the ones working on individual vehicles and taxi services, not the ones working on self-driving trucks. That sector is still going strong because the value proposition is simple and obvious (lives saved and money saved per mile).
This is a regular cycle. These companies will eventually overhire again, then they'll lay people off again. This has been the pattern in the industry for a very long time.
This is some next level abuse, comparable to drinking pesticides to "fix" illness!

Dying from dehydration is quite painful. And there is big chance person will not finish it. They "give up" on giving up (pun intended) and break water fast after a few days. On top of old illness, they may get damaged liver, preexisting kidney stones will manifest, hypoglycemic reaction, all sorts of nasty allergies... Amazing way to make a few remaining months even less pleasant!
Thanks, will definitely have a look.
Why I've been successful lately, and what I'm planning to do about it
Could someone against the idea of providing food for children at school explain their position? I'm interested to hear why you think children should go hungry if their parents don't give them cash to bring to school.
My heart goes out to the laid off employees, though I think they'll be able to find solid jobs (or start their own companies) when they're ready.

What I'm more surprised by is:
1. GitHub operating so independently from Microsoft at large that they have their own layoffs (not included in the 10k people that Microsoft announced they'll be parting ways with).
2. GitHub operating SO INDEPENDENTLY that they can decide to go remote-first.
When I visited the GitHub office in SF in 2017, it was nearly empty. Given how extravagant and beautiful it is, it struck me as a colossal waste of money even then.
This is nothing compared to 2000, or even 2008. You might have a point about offshoring. With tech workers insisting they're just as productive working from home, you might as well hire people in countries with cheaper homes.
The CDC and the WHO being stupid and having more than just public health on the mind when they made decisions changes nothing about the immunology community being fairly consistent and correct in their claims