skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they make shareholders rich

In that regard, I wonder if it becomes a Wall Street meme--layoffs for the sake of doing layoffs. Companies that performed layoffs made shareholders rich, so therefore if your company isn't doing layoffs in a layoff climate it's assumed that shareholders are better off putting their dollars somewhere else.
What if you still have too many pull requests per day, compared to the time it takes to run CI? For example if you get 10 PRs a day but CI takes 3 hours?
It's not given that it will converge. Feels like it should, but still needs to be proven.
Depends how you use them.

Generating bullshit text off the cuff is not the only use of LLMs. LLMs can perform very well at classification, regression, ranking, coloring proper names red, and other tasks. You could, for instance, use LLMs to encode a query and documents and rank them with a siamese network, something not too different for how a conventional search engine works.

If there is one thing wrong with the current crop of LLMs it is that these can only attend over a limited number of tokens. BERT can attend over 512 tokens, ChatGPT over 4096, where a token is shorter than a word on average. It easy to process the headline of an HN submission with BERT, but I classify a few hundred abstracts of scientific papers a day. A long abstract is about 1800 words which is too much for longformer but would fit in ChatGPT if there aren't too many $10 words.

Unless you can recast a problem as "does this document have a short window in it with this attribute?" (maybe "did the patient die?" in a clinical case report or "who won the game?" in a sports article) there is no way to cut a document up into pieces and feed it into an LLM, then combine the output vectors in a way that doesn't break the "magic" behavior the LLM was trained to do.

You'd imagine ChatGPT would produce accurate results if you could tell it "Write an review of topic T with citations" but if you try that you'll find it will write citations that look for real but don't actually exist if you look them up. You'd imagine at minimum that such a system would have to read the papers that it cites, maybe being able to attend over all of them at the same time which would take an attention window 100-1000x larger.

That's by no means cheap and it might be Kryptonite for Google in that Google's model involves indexing a huge amount of low quality content and financing it by ads that are a penny a click. A business or individual might get a larger amount of value per query out of a much smaller task-oriented document set.
Exactly. Since language is a compressed and transmittable result of our thought, to predict text as accurately as possible requires you do the same. A model with understanding of the human mind will outperform one without.

> Being able to predict which word would logically follow another does not require the ability to predict anything other than just that.

Why? Wouldn't you expect that technique to generally fail if it isn't intelligent enough to know what's happening in the sentence?
>Did my Korean friend growing up who spent his every afternoon and weekend studying while I was playing videogames deserve to get into a better university than me and make more money than me? I say he did. DEI says he didn't.

But why was your friend able to spend his every afternoon and weekend studying?

Because he was raised in a supportive, nurturing environment. Probably with grandparents and aunts/uncles to help take care of him. He probably had older relatives in professional careers to aspire to and mentor him. He probably never had to work a job in high school to help support his family, or raise his younger siblings while mom worked night shift. His parents were probably married and able to hold decent jobs to provide a stable home, good nutrition, and a lack of stress. They probably were able to make sure he went to preschool, and had reliable transportation to get him to/from there and kindergarten, and drilled into him the importance of education from a young age. All of these things are what DEI tries to correct for. The people who had none of that never get a shot at redemption otherwise.

The cards are stacked from birth.
This reminds me of the trend to value women's work at home on a per hour basis.

Then an inevitable conclusion is reached: being a homemaker is like being employed but not compensated.

The point is taking care of your family is something people want to do to maintain family relationship, connections between generations and self-identity. It's a choice, not a forced expenditure.

And it's not meant to be pleasant or easy. It's not a hobby. It's a fabric of a well lived life.
Maybe you're getting lost in the details, then. This is what markets do. They facilitate complex tradeoffs between scarce resources. More aviation safety means less of something else.

You imagine that the something else is something you don't care about or think doesn't matter - like executive compensation. Well, you're like everyone else - we all think we should be running the country.
I'm not saying it would be cheap, I said it would not be this expensive.

Also, there are different healthcare systems around the world. I don't know why you would be so sure about the impossibility of at-home nursing.
> a user asks Bard: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” Bard responds with a series of bullet points, including one that reads: “JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system.”

> the first image showing an exoplanet...was actually taken nearly two decades ago, in 2004.

Is this the kind of error we might expect ChatGPT to make? Or is this the first indication that "Bard" is an inferior AI to ChatGPT? For that big a hit on stock price, I'd think investors are viewing this as being the latter. Interested in views here.
Yes, making the same bad move as everyone else is safe. "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM", as they say.
Haha that's amazing. This is exactly what I mean, for the right use cases it's absolutely amazing.

Good luck with the drama! Make sure to read a summary for the next family meeting haha.
It's really hard to find people willing to work on a second-tier product for 60% market rate salaries apparently.
Wait, does this work with HomePod minis? My current mDNS works with my network, my issue is the HomePod mini automatically jumps back to the same wifi as my phone.
Starting to go off topic but, there is no such thing as painless oppression or making it "less painful". You can view the matter in abstract from a distance like this, but if it ever falls on you or your family then it becomes a different matter. We can all view the matter impersonally and without passion, the philosophizing stops the moment it lands on our own heads - and I don't believe one can go through life without ever being on the wrong end of that.
Great Britain is not part of the EU. Neither am I from the UK.
Laid off GitLabber here, the funny thing about this is the promotion season just ended. A LOT of people got promoted, so their employee cost is probably a wash after these promotions. Make of that what you will.
>>The people who get squeezed are those of us who want an inheritance

You just said the quiet part out loud, and is my biggest gripe about sob stories like this - it is almost always about the children resenting the fact that some of their parents money is going to be spent on their elder care when they would prefer 'someone else' pick up the bill, so that they get a bigger inheritance.
Yeah - although the liability isn't really legal (that's yet to be properly explored and would probably be disclaimered), but social-reputational.
Mucosa has vascular supply.

Naumova EA, Dierkes T, Sprang J, Arnold WH. The oral mucosal surface and blood vessels. Head Face Med. 2013 Mar 12;9:8. doi: 10.1186/1746-160X-9-8. PMID: 23497446; PMCID: PMC3639856.

It also has antibodies (humoral immune response).

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is the most abundant antibody isotype in the mucosal immune system.

Li Y, Jin L, Chen T. The Effects of Secretory IgA in the Mucosal Immune System. Biomed Res Int. 2020 Jan 3;2020:2032057. doi: 10.1155/2020/2032057. PMID: 31998782; PMCID: PMC6970489.

And the vaccine triggers the development of those antibodies.

We evaluated the serum anti-spike (anti-S) IgG, anti-nucleocapsid (anti-N) IgG and anti-S IgA response following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in a cohort of first-responders. Among the 378 completely vaccinated participants, 98% were positive for anti-S IgG and 96% were positive for anti-S IgA.

Montague, B.T., Wipperman, M.F., Chio, E. et al. Elevated serum IgA following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in a cohort of high-risk first responders. Sci Rep 12, 14932 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19095-7
good point, we gotta keep discussion of this topic hidden, so people don't get any weird ideas about questioning our blessed three letter agencies or the holy MIC.
The "return to the office" move is largely management/extrovert bias. Managers collaborate all day long, it's what they do, whilst "workers" tend to be overwhelmed by the many meetings. Further, extroverts get energy out of being around people.

Another factor is that some (many) managers frankly have no idea what their employees do. Physical presence management is the coping strategy.

That being said, I do agree that in-person collaboration is richer and things can spontaneously be invented in ways virtual work will not allow for.

My advise: don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Coming in 2 days per week or so does have benefits, but there's also this other thing:

"It doesn’t matter where you work, as long as you get the work done."

I don't think everybody comprehends the consequences of this, which are not only positive. It's an open invitation to move your position to the lowest cost country that outputs quality that is acceptable. Flexibility goes both ways.
> 4) ...

ChatGPT will already do this, when you get an answer you want to learn more about, ask

"where can I learn more about this?"

"can you provide links?"

there are a number of prompts that work, you can even provide it with an AND clause in the first prompt
It depends entirely on what's driving the layoffs, is it:

1. Actual market costs requiring a diminished future projection of cash flow

2. A Market expectation of investors who'll rate your company as less valuable if you dont.

I'd posit right now #2 is more likely than #1 given all the record profits being reported everywhere. When #2 happens, it's definitely going to affect people. When there's no actual problem, just some future expectation of problems, that's going to cost you.
Same reason Wall St takes a 7% commission on IPOs.
I wouldn’t generalize here.
I'm using a firewalld rich rule to forward host 443 to 8443, then the proxy container has 8443:8443 mapped. Works perfectly. All on Fedora but other firewalls should be able to do the same.
What's your evidence for this? In my experience, losing both my parents and all grandparents, everyone was ready to go long before they did. My dad passed away comfortably in his sleep in reasonable health (for 84 year old) and he'd been talking about being ready for months. My grandmother told us she wished she was dead like all her friends for a decade before she passed away (she was late 90s). My mother had cancer and chose to go at her own time like one of the comments above about MAID.
Decrease of profit margins over time?
I'm pretty sure you don't need 175B parameters to paraphrase search results.
Addressing point by point:

- Why is this beneficial? The disgruntled will be the high performers. In no shape or form is this beneficial for culture.

- Assuming you mean average performers who are paid well, ie. well tenured? Considering these types harness significant domain knowledge it would be a strategic mistake to let them go in any meaningful number. The focus on smaller cuts tends to be low performers or recent hires.

- The only time this is beneficial is when there is indeed 1) a financial dire straights situation or 2) a significant change of course (ala Google) and blood letting has to be rapid, otherwise you're letting go of top performers in the process. It would be much cheaper to reassign to other teams given the cost to source/acquire and onboard top talent.

- Bingo. This is the primary reason almost always.
e isn't the best example for this, because you would need a good decimal expansion. But say we're trying to approximate sqrt(2) by this method. Say we've already established that it's in the interval [7/5, 10/7]. We can verify because 7^2 < 2*5^2 and 10^2 > 2*7^2. Then the mediant is 17/12, and since 17^2 = 289 > 288 = 2*12^2, we know 17/12 > sqrt(2). So [7/5, 17/12] is a smaller interval containing sqrt(2). Repeating this, [24/17, 17/12] is even better, and so on.
Franky I'd say this sort of attitude is much more corrosive – the idea that people who feel they are being treated unfairly or poorly should roll over and accept it merely because other people are being treated more unfairly or poorly.

I don’t really agree with the idea that there is an underlying wish to “instil fear” or whatever. I agree even less with the attitude that we should all shut up and be happy so long as someone else is worse off.
Funny I'm considering switching off fish for that exact reason. I figure it will be stuck in place for years during the rewrite, and may never release another major version.
Isn't that attrition going to happen anyway? And with mass layoffs, wouldn't top talent, with plenty of options, be wary of a company who is likely to layoff 7% of its staff to please stockholder share pricing? I don't know the answer to top talent retention, but it seems easier and less expensive to turn your existing staff into "top talent" under the tutelage of the existing top talent and implement a hiring freeze with no huge news cycle.
A recruiter from gitlab reached out to me last week for a SRE management position. My guess is they had no idea about the impending layoff.
The Rust community seems to be obsessed with the idea of re-writing every prior piece of software in Rust, to such an extent that there is a specific word for it: RIIR. This is sometimes funny, since it demonstrates the incentive to be "approved", to be praised, for some reason unknown to me. And yet, I don't see much game-changing software written in Rust, such as Docker or Kubernetes.
If sufficiently motivated, take pics with your phone. With a good camera, you could minify a lot of code into a tiny font size, take a photo or multiple photos, and OCR them later.

Or encrypt the whole repo and just send it to a bucket somewhere. I mean there's got to be a lot of ways to do it if you really want to.
Most companies, especially remote first ones like Gitlab, don’t have sizable IT departments that could deal with receiving, cleaning, reformatting, and deploying hundreds of laptops anyway. Can you imagine the poor technician who gets 150 laptops FedEx'ed to his house? The company is paying tens of thousands in severance costs per employee, way easier to just add the mostly-depreciated laptop onto that figure than deal with the logistics.
The rule that existed from Windows 7 all the way to Windows 8?
Asians (read: a minority in the US) throwing a spanner in "diversity" and revealing the whole charade for what it is is hilarious (for all the wrong reasons) every time.

"Diversity" is supposedly all about "helping minorities", except when those minorities are too successful for the narrative. Can't have success, oh no! Minorities are supposed to be oppressed and victims in need of saving by the good diversifiers!

And so asians quite often get rounded up with whites.

Fuck that noise. Meritocracy is by far the best system we have to figure out the good people from the bad. Judging by the quality of one's character rather than the color of one's skin. We are all humans, race literally doesn't and shouldn't matter.
I realize this may seem like a tangential point, but this story highlights the dire shortage of caregivers, especially elderly care workers. This shortage is a factor behind high costs and substandard care. Many of these jobs don’t necessarily require extensive medical training; a caring hand is literally the most valuable gift, especially near end of life. Immigrants can help fill these roles, but the United States restrictive immigration policy prevents this. The problem is only going to get worse as the Boomers continue to age, and as US demographics tilt towards an older population. Immigrants can help avert this crises while at the same time beginning a better life for themselves. We should do a better job of welcoming immigrants.
And that's a bad thing that should be penalized (weighted negatively for admissions or hiring)? What kind of society are you hoping to incentivize?
This currently _is_ a meme. Heck, even the fed was complaining about inflation and the unemployment numbers.

It's definitely one of those "if we're not growing, we're dying, lets cut all the employees off"
And lets look at the natural evolution/expectation from a corporation like Microsoft. They will sell this as a service to businesses. It is again, like Vista and others, an enterprise product being beta tested on consumers Joe Public.

The enterprise product will start with its own state. It will be something you can limit to specific tasks. Youll be able to write an app that takes instructions and outputs data in magical ways completely different than anything before. Normal data manipulation programming will be replaced by this weird opaque black box, that is ever changing, and you will need to trust consistently outputs the same thing given an identical input.
I'll have to find a new job in spring this year in IT after a one year break. I'm kind of worried considering all those lay offs I must say. I'm not a high profile candidate by any means.
Long term care facilities are 5-10k USD per month. For the cheap ones. So $16k seems reasonable for in home care. There are also different intangible personal and family costs to facility-based or home-based care that folks should also consider.
That's likely also the case, but I would at the very least expect a crypto exchange company to keep all their reserves in crypto, which has now completely plummeted in value. Localbitcoins are a bit different than the typical exchange so their exposure is likely less, but if you look at Binance or Robinhood they're all gambling with their backing money like a drunk at the horse races.
There are certain elements of the current Conservative government who want the NHS to be replaced by private care.

Some of this is driven by ideology - low tax, small state. And some of it is driven by greed - lobbying by large US healthcare groups, or more obviously owning shares in those groups.

This has led to an almost deliberate policy of mismanaging and underfunding in real terms the NHS.
It only looks like clickbait because you're used to a system that costs $$$ to get medical care.

In the UK when my mother got told she was terminal and had a couple of months left, she chose to spend them at home. In the end she left hospital in mid-December and died the following May. 5 months at home in a specialist bed, provided by the hospital, all of the equipment required to keep a dying person comfortable again provided by the hospital. Nurses and doctors there every day.

Because of her illness, the government paid her rent, it paid my father a carers allowance, so he was able take time off work.

Total cost: £0.

5 months of excellent at home care for £0.

You shouldn't be dismissing the article as clickbait, it shouldn't cost $145k to die, there shouldn't need to be a discussion here.

You should be so very angry that a country that takes in $3tn a year in federal taxes won't support a working healthcare system
I think the thing we lose sight of is that it is exactly like dating.

Resume <> Profile
Interview <> First Date(s)
Hire <> Get Married ?!?

We don't get married after a first date or even after X hours of dates. In your story above, you performed tasks that most closely resemble the daily work and that gave you insight.

I've been on interviews that ask me to implement red/black trees and their only data store is a RDBMS. We only want the best people but there is no investment put into it. Either it stays a crap shoot or we actually have to invest time into it (or outsource it to someone who does). I'd personally rather have a Bar type association that has a fairly standardized certification process and then we can interview for culture fit and personality instead of esoteric algorithm questions that are irrelevant.
None of these massive FAANG companies are anywhere near crashing.
If you are thinking I am a sarcastic detractor, I am not. I whole heartedly believe PowerShell is superior in every way that matters to more common POSIX shells.

I was unaware of the difference between Windows and Linux in this regard as I don't tend to use PowerShell on the few Linux systems I run. However, I maintain that it is still a mistake to alias them in Windows because anyone coming from a POSIX shell background will be misled.

> the equivalent cmd binaries were `dir`, `move`, `copy`/`robocopy`, `del`.

Nit: only robocopy is a binary in the list. The rest are built in to the command shell.
The point is:

>Medicare should restructure hospice reimbursement to cover more of the hands-on caregiving, thus decreasing the financial burden of dying at home.

The main pitch is somewhat hidden in the middle of the article. Its a tough point to open with, but I think leading with the thesis statement is proper.
> It's not AI it's an IF statement for crying out loud :-(

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05189 but all NNs _are_ if statements!
That's not necessarily true. I've never made remotely close to that as I've always worked on open source projects. Right now I could really use one of those 200k/year jobs but it looks like they're disappearing. So what's next?
from that logic, the only reason that nationwide higher education achievement for African Americans and Latinos being about half of what it is for whites would be...that people of those backgrounds are inherently more lazy. What other reason can you offer ? If we live in a pure "meritocracy" as you claim, why does this "merit" seem to correlate so highly with racial background? Specific reasons please

(note to the repliers - the assumption given by the parent is, we live in a pure meritocracy and the reason people achieve less is strictly because "they're lazy". I did not say I believe that. )
Hello,

I tried to send an email but it got blocked
So is this officially a trend now? Just drown the bad news in a massive pool of other bad news about other companies? Good time to soften the blow of bad PR?

It doesn't cause too much attention when you lay off 10-15% of your workforce despite profits if 20 other big name companies are doing it as well.
We don't judge AI by their ability to produce language, we judge them by their conference and ability to respond intelligently, to give us information we can use.
It's the premier porting tool for making cross-compilation harder.

I think the main raison d'etre was automatically linking transitive dependencies for static libraries so that builds on system with or without dynamic libraries could work more or less the same. E.g. if you statically link e.g. Freetype than wether you also need to link zlib, libz2 and a bunch of other stuff depends on how Freetype was built but the .a static library contains no information about those dependencies since it is just an archive of object files with a symbol index. libtool records these dependencies in .la files so you don't have to guess.

It does have many questionable decisions like silently dropping (some) compiler flags it doesn't know about. I wish I never had to deal with it.