skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a lot of luck and being one of the first people to apply. Once the flood comes in then people start filtering on metrics that don't really matter. "Oh, you only have 10 years of Java? This candidate over here has 11."

I also think there's a weird game going on with remote roles. On my new team everyone is "remote", but of the 10 people 3 are in the bay area and the other 7 are in 6 different cities, but each city has an office. The company has ~8 offices in North America, so the statistics are bothering. This matches with my circle of friends' experience; the only callbacks people get for remote roles are ones where they're already in the same city.

I suspect "remote" really means "remote, but in a city that we have a presence in, just in case we decide to force you to come into an office."
It's not that the human connection is immoral, it's just that paying rent and heating for a pretty empty office space doesn't make much sense. As long as there is sufficient space for all the employees that want to go to the office, being against downsizing doesn't make much sense.
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I wonder why they are not talking about the elephant in the room, the AWS spend. Cut back on that and these layoffs probably aren't necessary. The problem is the sheer size of GitHub data and the unreliability of Azure. There is an entire datacenter that is unused because data locality severely limits performance.
We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website
> reinventing wheels.

I consider 'reinventing wheels' to be a valuable educational experience, I often wonder about how could educational 'enterprises' (universities, and education companies?) leverage this to improve what they do, but then I remember that it doesn't matter what I think, just what I do, and I sure do not work for any such companies.

But it's kind of silly that "we" (as a society) are spending 300k USD to teach some of this "obvious" things to some random group of well connected americans.

then again, the dollar is made up so long as 'the future' pays back these money-creation loans we may as well spend the money this way. the alternative is going back to corporate backed research, instead of this strange contemporary VC-backed research
> Faster performance today means longer lasting tomorrow.

Exactly. I use a 2nd gen iPhone SE, and a big reason I bought it was that it had the then-beefy A13 chip despite being a “budget model”.

It’s now nearly 3 years old and still feels like a brand new phone.
Additionally such actions contribute to the situation of being always over capacity.
This is an amazing demo! It's rare to see a live demo this polished. And one that uses the app itself to actually do the demo? Even better. Nice work! I'm excited to see where this goes.
I didn't think about lazy loading, I also didn't know they were scoped differently! I thought it was some sort of organisation to keep imports close to usage. Thanks!
Considering that 80% of App Store revenue came from games according to information that came out in the Epic Trial, there are a lot of people that play games.
Let's not pretend almost all diabetics didn't get in that situation themselves.
It's not a cohesive ecosystem. Office + Zoom + Slack* is way more cohesive than Office + Teams. There are specific complaints, but overall one part of it is just the "tool that does one thing well" vs Frankenstein that tries to do everything idea

*except I can't copy paste images from slack into office documents, this is a major hassle
Indeed it was speculation. So I asked you basically what your speculation was based on. Because we have a platform where no such speculation is necessary: Android is the dominant mobile platform, it already has all the capabilities you speculate about and so on.

So, given that Android exists, and we see literally nothing come out of it as far as web apps are concerned, what are basing your speculations on?
> some weird 'RTF' format and IIRC security issues

unlike the reliable and standards-based clients on Windows, you mean?
I feel like such a loser with so many people having competing offers. I've never had competing offers. Like people getting to choose their own destiny and I'm just taking whatever shit I'm lucky enough to get.
Ah ok, that could well be, thx!
Spiegel is now reporting about Hersh's article as well. They seem more interested in dismantling Hersh however than commenting on any of his claims in detail: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/russland-duma-sprecher-wjatsc...

Other outlets seem to be commenting a bit more neutral: https://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/nord-stream-2--usa-soll...
It is not amazing all of the time, or perhaps amazing at all, but I can be amazed that LMs have reached a new threshold. I have specific examples where the interaction gave me a correct answer with rational faster than I could Google and sift through results. Something that took us weeks to figure out, ChatGPT gave us the two things we did, from just two prompts about what was going on. This was no trivial coding problem. It involved complications in a distributed build system. Sometimes it's not about getting the exact answer, but getting ideas about where to look. ChatGPT is not just for software either, it is quite useful as a co-writer.

To think that ChatGPT is not impressive is to close yourself off from what is actually happening. I was there with you until I started trying it out regularly. To think that it is not providing value is to neglect reality. You do not get to judge others as inferior for finding ChatGPT useful. This is the impression you are giving.

Nothing is perfect. Think of something that amazes you and then consider where it is not perfect. It is perfectly reasonable for people to find ChatGPT impressive without it being perfect. DAN and SAM are also impressive sessions people have had with ChatGPT that show somewhere it can be manipulated.

TL;DR As devs, we use search because it saves us hours of time. ChatGPT is a tool you should add to your toolbox because it can also save you hours of time.
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> Python with it’s magic functions, shortcuts is just hiding too much complexity

One counterpoint would be that verbosity, especially in the heavy syntax style of languages such as C++, distracts the reader and helps bugs hide in plain sight. For a silly example, imagine trying to read and verify the correctness of an academic paper from its uncompiled LaTeX source.
This reads really well, thank you very much.
I used Skype 15y ago it's a great experience. Recently tried to install teams on Ubuntu it's absolutely shit show, so many url redirects and meaningless erros. Leaving skype as it's would have been a million times better
> “Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?”

> ~ A notable percentage of Thunderbird users

What percentage is that, I wonder? A large number, or enough to kind of justify replacing the UI if you fudge the numbers?
Saying that you "still rock" something barely 3 years old sounds.... strange.

I still rock my 1983 Toyota, sure. I still rock my 20yo HiFi system.

But I don't "still rock" my iPhone 11, it was only recently out of production for God's sake!
Yeah, started with an Apple TV hooked up to my Sony TV (didn't want Sony / Android connecting to internet). Then got an Apple Watch because of running + vibrating alarm. Had to get the iPhone for the watch, so rented the iPhone 12 Mini on a Black Friday Deal from Grover. Then followed by iPad Air.

Though my Desktop is still a Tower with a 12 Core / 24 Thread 3900X. And the next laptop would probably be a frame.work.

Though for a family computer the low spec Mac Mini looks nifty.
Firefox on Android uses Gecko.
Good link, thanks.

The problem I see is that you need to find the fixer gem, but location matters. Certainly, you can buy a fixer in the middle of Ohio, but who wants to live there? There is just too much surrounding inventory with low desirability.

The thing that works in my eyes is to buy in areas that are extremely desirable, even pay a bit more for it, but very low inventory. That's where the insane appreciation comes in. Popular beach towns are a good example because they are land locked and can also be turned into short term rental properties relatively easy, which increases their perceived value.

It isn't easy to find such places and often requires paying in cash, but it is possible.
If you have another way to get in contact other than telegram let me know. I’m not looking, but I’m a senior rust engineer and have others in my network who may be interested.
You take your phone to a shop and come back an hour later and boom you have a new battery. I once had a microphone fail on my phone and it was exact same scenario. It's really not a big deal.
0. does it have a stylus / pen?

If not, unacceptable. Ergo, all iPhones are unacceptable. (Yes, I used to work at EO, running the GO PenPoint Operating System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenPoint_OS?useskin=vector , and also worked at GRiD, putting wireless LAN into the GRiDPAD RC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRiDPad?useskin=vector. I like pens. I might be biased.)
Is it to protect the children? :-/
So, as I understand it, the background to this:

Redhat earns billions by selling downloads and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Centos was a highly compatible equivalent of RHEL, available without any hassle.

Redhat then decided that Centos would become a beta test distro with newer software then RHEL, probably including more bugs, incompatibilities and new things that users and admins need to learn.

Rocky linux and Alma Linux then became the main options for people who want a Redhat-derivative distro.
Slowing down laptop refreshes is so short sighted. One of the cheapest productivity boosts you can give someone is a faster laptop. Better than hiring another dev to join a bloated team.
wonder if it breaks the chatGPT competitors too
It really comes down to the details. If the little things don't get on your nerves and you just care about putting messages in a IRC-esque interface that everyone else can see then there's no difference. Here's a really high level tldr: Teams is annoying in dozens of small minor ways that are collectively very frustrating.

For a more detailed take:

Slack is far from perfect but Slack is generally clean, quick, simple and compact. Slack feels like a purpose built tool for chat. Even when they add stuff like huddles it never feels like the priority is anything but the chat. When they roll out updates that make typing or formatting jankier I find they often get a fix out quickly.

Teams feels like it is doing a little bit of everything and is slower, wastes screen real estate, has poor UX all over and does a lot of things so-so to decent vs. one thing really well. Why is chat so different in a Teams/Chat vs a Teams/Teams/Channel? You can't even do the same markdown formatting in those places. And speaking of markdown, you can type a backtick around a string to monospace it like in slack but if it's at the end of your message it won't format it. You need a trailing space for it to kick in the formatter. Little details matter and a lack of attention to them as an organization makes bad UX and weird behavior leak into your software.
While that's true, and I feel you do well in calling it out, I also think it's because in my anecdotal experience HN is mostly pro-WFH.

When looking at the wider pool of people commenting on this issue outside HN, I see antagonism on both sides. I've seen pro-WFH people being called lazy, entitled, antisocial, uncaring (because they're "killing downtowns"), elitist (because not everyone can WFH, and usually those who can have higher paid jobs), among other litanies of derogatory terms.

The truth is, this is an issue that people feel threatened about; however you look at it, assuming an even split of full-remote, full in-office, and hybrid, and assuming you're only happy with one of those options, you'll find your potential work pool diminished by 2/3rds. That's not a small amount. So people will take it personally and try to fight - some with logic and studies, others with underhanded means - for their preferred choice. Of course, I don't think things will reach those equal proportions anytime soon, if ever. So people who prefer WFH are waging a battle for a small % of overall jobs. You can see how that'd feel threatening - to have gotten something you love, and now seeing your options diminish or outright vanish. It is especially pernicious when cases of people with deep commercial real estate investments clamor for a return-to-the-office with all kinds of negative things to say about those who prefer WFH.
Some of that is starting to change in the rural South. Georgia changed laws to allow electrical coops and cities to run their own loops. Alabama is also pushing money into local rural fiber builds.

An example, in Carroll County, GA I live outside of Carrollton, GA and have 2 fiber options 1) Charter/Spectrum which I use 2) CarrollEMC/Crossbeam which looks like they just dropped fiber on our power pole within the last month. If you look at the FCC map of Highway 5 it correctly shows ATT DSL availability, incorrectly shows Comcast coax availability, and does not show either Charter/Spectrum or CarrollEMC/Crossbeam. There is only a process to challenge availability on the FCC map, like Comcast...that incorrectly shows availability, and no option to add new providers to the map. It is left up to the provider to claim availability.
In 2017 it was relatively empty... but the company filled it very quickly as it grew from 200 to 2000 people. So much so they leased out the building next door and tore down some walls to deal with capacity. Sad to hear it's being shut down that office is truly incredible.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that.

> If you go through hospice with someone please discuss the options before the end.

I'll expand on this and say that pretty much all adults should consider making a living will, or at least having discussions about what you want for end-of-life care if you're incapacitated. Do it for yourself, but also do it for your loved ones -- if they're ever in the position where they have to make those decisions for you, it's going to be hard enough for them already. At least knowing what your wishes are can help alleviate a lot of the stress in the moment, but also a lot of the guilt that can last much much longer.
Tech companies know what some people are still pretending may or may not happen. The economy is going to get super rough this year and rates are not going to get cut any time soon.
Beyond comical is Samsung's insistence on running a type-1 hypervisor (real time kernel protection, aka RKP) for security purposes: https://archive.is/6ClWm
For those curious about writing a "gradient descent with respect to some loss function" starting from an empty .py file (and a numpy import, sure), can't recommend enough Harrison "sentdex" Kinsley's videos/book Neural Networks from Scratch in Python [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/Wo5dMEP_BbI?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDcjD5BAw2DxE6OF... https://nnfs.io
Since I'll likely be leaving this world through the horrors of dementia and alzheimers, I'd take the 4 weeks, because by the end of the 2 years I wouldn't even be me.

Which parts of your body are you willing to let degrade just to continue breathing and reading reddit about stuff that you will never live to see happen anyway?
Creating a Shopify Cart Slider Inspired by MrBeast’s Chocolate Brand
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I visited MrBeast’s Feastables store the other and fell in love with how his cart encourages his audience to buy multiple by suggesting new products and giving free gift.

I want a smilar experience to my store but after going through all of the cart apps on the Shopify App Store, I couldn’t find any solution remotely close.

That’s why I determine to create a Shopify for this purpose and share the journey for the public to see.

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This is a function of the UK’s absolutely not fit for purpose energy pricing model - it is insane that generated energy should cost more than refined fuel.

The problem is that all U.K. energy costs are pegged to the most expensive option - gas - in the most expensive way - taking the highest future price in the next six months - and with the government focussed on… not much in particular… it’s hard to see any improvement in the near term, excepting a continued fall in LNG prices.
If I was laid off I would, unfortunately, avoid startups at all costs.

It's not just the comp difference (though I do expect most people with severance are hoping to get something close to their old TC), but startups are notoriously fragile and at the same time wildly over optimistic about their futures in down markets.

I've talked to a few startups about interesting roles over the past few months and no matter how obviously in trouble they are if the market continues the way it is, they all deeply believe that they have an infinitely bright future.

A shocking number of post-seed but still awaiting series A startups have started reaching out to me and none of them have sane business models. On top of that it looks like VC funding is way down.

Any senior engineers who just got the shock of being let go from what they thought was a very stable job with great comp simply aren't going to be excited to jump onto a high risk startup just to relive the whole experience again only this time with less severance.
I don't think I have a battery health in settings. The apple store guy ran some sort of remote diagnostic (and there is no way it is at 100% after 4 years of daily usage).

My point being that you can't really change those batteries on demand.
On neomutt, use a Maildir config and use isync (mbsync) and msmtp. It's godly fast. No IMAP(S) related hangs, no needs to be online 24h, no slowdown over GUI's. Write your mails and queue them, send them later.
Au contraire: https://i.imgur.com/PS1Vb6p.gif
> I don't understand. My understanding of why insulin is so expensive: intellectual property laws are enforced by the government preventing businesses without that intellectual property to compete in the space.

That’s not an accurate understanding of intellectual property specifically. Insulin isn’t like a pill, where once you have a chemical formula you can make millions of them very cheaply. It’s a biologic, an artificial hormone. Even leaving aside the patents, it’s very expensive to get approval for a generic biologic (called a biosimilar). That’s why there are few manufacturers of synthetic human insulin, even though that’s out of patent.
No one at Microsoft uses Teams, they just use email.
gbil was talking about browser engine choices on their Android, explicitly talking about how much they don't like iPhones.
The unthreaded chats are all private, no? If you want to use the group chat it forces you into threaded (or is there a way to switch out of that?)
>Yet literally every big tech company I can think of has had similar levels of layoffs. If these were Gitlab-specific problems you wouldn't expect the slowdowns and layoffs to hit everyone.

That doesn't really mean anything other than they are all riding the same wave.
> But it would still require extensive input of my experiences in order to create something new from its compressed models of feasible designs, and those experiences are something it can't hallucinate.

This is exactly why I record almost everything about my life (stored locally, of course).

Others may find it creepy/weird, but I have found enormous value: fine-tuning Stable Diffusion and GPT-2, lots of applications of very simple classifiers and reinforcement learning, etc.
The calendar in Outlook is waaaay better than the Google one, though.
I was attempting to simplify the multi-version php setup I have in my small-scale server setup and noticed sabre needs PHP 5.4 and apparently doesn't run with php7 [1]. I wonder how much interest there is to upgrade that dependency at sabre. My un-informed opinion was that it's a good idea to move with your php setups.

[1] https://github.com/sabre-io/Baikal/issues/764
Some people are really good at bullshitting their way into jobs.
This does make sense as a more specific UX/workflow complaint, google photos and similar setups are going to do much better with that. You can use the PWA on mobile after the sync runs, but it's not going to be the same as native apps on mobile and server that manage syncing behind the scenes. So definitely a downside if most of your photo management happens on the phone.
There are GPT-2 checkpoints small enough to run on basically any modern computer
Minor tipping is a good thing in that it's a way to give feedback and create incentive. The problem is that the expected amount is too high. A full-service restaurant expects around 15%, but a sandwich shop should expect more like 5%. Tipping should also be done after the service is rendered, not before. Otherwise, it has no feedback value.
The main factor that drives when I replace my phone is when I damage it enough that it seems like a better idea to replace the phone than have it repaired (I usually buy ~100-150 pound phones because I somehow have a near magical ability to totally seriously damage phones irrespective of how expensive they are)

I can't remember the last phone I had that survived long enough for me to feel I needed to upgrade it.
Yup.

Started with iPhones, then added iPads, then AppleTV since the screen mirroring was great and we use it for Plex. Then the next thing you know, the entire household is now MacBooks because shared clipboard is amazing, handoff is nice, being able to reply to text messages from the laptop is great.

Took a decade for the transition to complete, but now it is done and the stickiness of it will be hard to overcome.

Now the Windows machines are just gaming machines, nothing else.
Insulin pricing isn't entirely IP issue; it's been out of protection and available as a generic for many decades now.

The issue is that while insulin is actually quite cheap to make once you get started, the startup-costs associated with getting to that point are quite hefty: lab real estate, equipment to make and purify, FDA fees, etc.

Newer versions of insulin are "better" than generic insulin: easier to take, fewer side effects, etc. The major insulin producers have been slowly doling out minor improvements over time, about every decade or so, to maintain IP protection on these newer modern versions of insulin, and the high prices associated with these newer versions. They've also been paying off several generics manufacturers to delay them from manufacturing generic versions of these modern versions as the patents expire.
> The guy who performs better.

Did you read what I wrote?

> The entire point of equality is that we are all one cohort

Well but we aren't. One of the strongest predictors of academic performance is parental income. Burying your head in the sand and pretending the problem doesn't exist is not a satisfactory answer.
The amount of human-generated lowest-common-denominator English-language free content was already so high that I'm not sure the New Yorker has anything (more) to worry about. If you've been paying for the New Yorker already in the days of Medium, Buzzfeed, blogs, and what-have-you, does there being even more uncurated stuff change your equation? (It doesn't for me.)

More cynically: it'll be hard to kill the few legacy zombies that have survived so much destruction at the hand of free internet content already.
Compare it to a Pixel or stock firmware and see if that's true.

Even if it is, it's such a huge compromise to use an Apple device given the nannying and lack of features, it isn't worth it.
Having a rough day bub?
I think that strengthens my point. We consider a blurry image of something to still be a true representation of that thing. We should never consider a GPT representation of a thing to be true.