skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just have to look at one of those "company pictures," taken at offsites, or whatever.

Lots of smiling young faces. Maybe one or two gray heads, and you often find out they are Principals, in one way or another.

One of the dirty little secrets of tech ageism, is the ones doing it, are often older folks, themselves. IBM has been caught doing it, and the impetus came from their (quite gray) C-Suite.
Disney to cut 7k jobs and slash $5.5B in costs as it unveils vast restructuring
In TFA it says that Thunderbird is built on top of Firefox, which makes it difficult for them to keep up and causes a lot of churn and bugs. I imagine that’s what the parent poster is referring to.
I think they’re just saying that teams forces you into using a thread, and make a choice to create a new one if that’s what you want. In slack by default you’re writing a top level message (ie creating a new thread)
> The issue seems to be more about the precise nature of this specific feature.

Of course. Not really just this specific feature, but any and all features that can violate users privacy or security. In the end, I don't think these are decisions that developers should be making for users, because not all users have the same needs and getting this wrong can do harm.

That's why, for these sorts of things, meaningful user consent is critically important.
Interesting. This article corroborates what you're saying:

> Because healthcare providers have not respected patient rights to autonomy and bodily integrity and courts have not vindicated violations of these rights, legislative change is necessary[1].

I know someone whose young child was vaccinated against their parents' will at a public school. Lawyers told them they didn't have any recourse unless they could show some harm was done. I'm pro-vaccine, but the idea that my child could come home from school one day having had a medical procedure performed on them without my knowledge or consent is disturbing.

1. https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=145...
I don't remember their names, but there used to be apps that would take a raw cover image and place it in a nicely rendered CD/DVD cover template to produce a pseudophotorealistic cover icon which you could then paste on rips.

The Mac customization scene used to be a pretty vibrant place… you can still see traces of it but it's dwindled over the years.
Hold on that could actually happen? It's not officially open source or anything?
The joke is that MS brands its online services as "365", but they have enough outages for people to say things along the lines of "more like Microsoft 360, amiright?"
I think these layoffs are particularly hard on "non-technical" people: marketing, customer service, customer success, professional services, implementations, people who have built a career in customer operations roles.

My experience so far is that most companies who seem to be hiring for these types of roles aren't actually hiring. Some of the positions I saw last year in June are still listed on careers pages, some applications are met with an instant auto-decline (maybe gathering resumes?), some companies have swapped hiring managers mid-interview process, others seem to burn through one idiot recruiter after the next. I don't think most companies know what they need when they hire for "customer experience" or "customer success", so roles and job descriptions are poorly defined and the business need is unclear, but that's a discussion for another day.

The current market doesn't have a lot of opportunities for the post-sales customer facing crowd. I've toyed with the idea of a highly curated job board that is specifically for this group.
A height capped NBA would be interesting. No more than 30 feet of people on the court. Funny thought exercise.
That’s very weird pairing indeed. Some people are definitely going to hate Teams just because of the context it was presented in.
It's nowhere near good enough that people will pay for it. IntelliJ it is not.
Well. I'm really not trying to get the last word here. But if this is a problem, that if we don't have any a way to credibly inform the future, then we can't talk about it, then how can we ever talk about anything. There is entire cottage industry of futurists that don't have any way to judge how far off there predictions are, to inform the remaining gap. Maybe you have same issues with them. And maybe I do too really, I'm pretty perturbed by so many researchers switching context and vocabulary to fit their own narrative. I'm just some joe schmo with an opinion, and am only pointing out that advancements have been occurring at a really rapid pace and almost universally (opinion) all predictions have been wrong so far. So maybe this gap will close rapidly.

Or more to the main post, a lot of head down engineers cranking out solutions do loose sight of how far they are moving.
Yes.

It’s trained on completing the text.

If an expert write a long test and you and "in summary: " at the end, the model will complete with something approximating truth (depend on size of model, training, etc)

Humains do a similar things. We have a model in our head of the subject discussed and we can summarize, but we will forget some parts, make errors, etc. GPT is very similar.
Same way people live with themselves working for an Ad companies that tracks people, and social media companies, and every other kind of business that is considered unethical by vast majority of people - by looking at their bank balance and being in denial about the harm they are causing.

One should look at their own employers and see if everything they are doing is ethical.

NOTE: just making a point, I don’t condone what these companies are doing
If folks are not aware you can also use Get Info (Command + I) then drag a new icon onto the existing icon for any drive or folder. This is how I set custom icons for different partitions (I have show drives on desktop enabled).
Governments believe that's a feature, not a bug.

Add so much friction to the process that people keep using state-issued currency.
The problem is that we don’t want to die. That instinct can be ruthless, even when it doesn’t make sense.
This is an important point: according to Adam Smith, a free market is a market without power imbalances, a market on which everybody can trade as equals, with transparency. He was fully aware that companies would try to dominate the market, make it less free, form cartels, and generally conspire against the interests of consumers, workers and other smaller players on the market. He even suggested that workers may have to get organised in order to counter the power imbalance posed by corporations.

It's only later laissez-faire and neoliberal capitalists that turned "free market" synonymous with a lack of regulation and a playground for the biggest and most powerful companies.
Totally. As a software engineer, I own an anvil. Smashing things with a hammer is very cathartic.
And Automatisch a few days before that. In September, CRDT databases were all the rage. This month, it's no-code workflow tools. I guess it makes sense that once someone launches, the rest want to follow quickly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34519639

https://automatisch.io/
Blurriness gets weird when you're talking about truth.

Depending on the application we can accept a few pixels here or there being slightly different colors.

I queried GPT to try and find a book I could only remember a few details of. The blurriness of GPT's interpretation of facts was to invent a book that didn't exist, complete with a fake ISBN number. I asked GPT all kinds of ways if the book really existed, and it repeatedly insisted that it did.

I think your argument here would be to say that being reversible to a real book isn't the intent, but that's not how it is being marketed nor how GPT would describe itself.
Can someone give me the TLDR on why they hate teams so much?

I suppose I work in an organization with few true "technical" folks, and everyone is under Microsoft licenses so it doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

I've used both slack and teams. What am I really missing out on here?
> LinkedIn employees sharing an office and cafeteria with Microsoft employees don't have to pay for lunch when they badge in at the cashier, but Microsoft employees do pay.

Yikes...
Powerful for what? To use Chiang's analogy, do you think that an LLM trained on Web content will actually derive the rules of arithmetic, physics, etc. I think it is more likely that in decade or more a majority of Internet content will be generated by machine and search engines will do a great job of indexing increasingly meaningless information.
Prompt engineering is a short term hack anyway until you can just converse with LLMs and skip the prompting layer altogether. But until then, might as well use AI to translate.
We paid for universal broadband too, we just didn't get it or the money back.
I disagree that it's a fact that the kid from a shitty home is going to do worse on a test no matter what, since plenty of people have led successful lives and gotten good educations coming from a shitty homes. Environment isn't deterministic like that. The individual has a say in the matter of how well they will do on the test.
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For those who haven't seen it, check out the documentary "Tim's Vermeer." Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPL7D0Ha1kQ
git doesn't have branch prediction
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You can fork and pipe between python functions perfectly well. It just needs a lot of boilerplate (that you can easily abstract away). Also, you will get most of the problems of piping in Bash imported into Python.

But the real question is why are you piping those? Almost always, piping is not the end-goal, and this is certainly one of those cases.
seems to be in a committee phase:

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137
I credit Outlook with the downfall of email as a defacto form of internet communication.
I don't think JPEG wants to produce an image indistinguishable from the original. It wants to reduce space usage without distorting "too" much. Failing to reduce space usage would be considered a "failure" of JPEG, just as much as distorting too much.
i think you're confusing slack and discord, everything is in threads in slack
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> I gotta say I'm sick of advertisements masquerading as blog posts.

Then friend you are on the wrong website.
This argument is so tired. It’s not okay for every tech company to lay off 10% of their workforce. It does not matter that their headcount is still higher than it was a couple of years ago.

This argument also completely ignores the fact that many of these companies, GitHub included, could afford to keep these employees around. When the industry goes on another hiring spree they’ll hire them all back and more anyway.
[2020]

Seemingly the author is still working at it:

https://corsairpower.com/

Last update (2022):

https://airfactsjournal.com/2022/10/the-20-hour-cessna-172-e...
A roomba + a smartphone controlled dishwasher and you're 50% of the way there
> But to be fair if a company can continue to operate or even grow while laying off employees, were these employees necessary in the first place ?

You can drive a car a long way even if you never change the oil, but eventually it catches up with you. You can't conclude that an employee wasn't necessary if the company doesn't crash and burn soon after he was laid off. The negative consequences may not be manifested until years later.
iphone 12 mini has been my favorite phone I've ever owned, and coincidentally the first iphone I've ever owned.
This was recently "patched".
> Can large-language models take the place of traditional search engines? ... there’s the blurriness of outright fabrication, which we consider unacceptable when we’re looking for facts.

How did "traditional search engines" get conflated with "looking for facts"? Is there data to back the idea that this is the most common use?
It's been trending down for the past 6 months, and markets are always future focused. Inflation is non-issue anymore
I like to view governments like John Gall viewed systems. Government -- like systems -- will expand to fill the known universe. Encryption makes the known unknown so it's not built to last within unchecked government system sprawl.
You know, I've never tried it. I was looking for a cross-platform solution, but I haven't run anything but Mac for a couple of years now. Perhaps I should take a look.
I still rock an iPhone 12 Pro Max and love it.
You should visit the coast of Maine this summer and find out: https://www.haystack-mtn.org/
10% of the company is not underperformers. 10% of the company probably hasn't even worked there for a year.

They like everyone else hired too fast and the free covid money boom is over.
I assumed people read the article or any of the comments. In short: Become the EU's main supplier of gas, while weakening Russia. What's not to like? All other actors' benefits pale in comparison. Hell, the US killed millions in for-profit wars, which is a generally accepted fact. Still think it's far-fetched?
We take this router with us on trips. It is nice to have your own fast, mobile Internet with you (no transfer or bandwidth limits). And when it does not serve as backup Internet it has site-to-site VPN to our home network.
So once this is enacted, I get to call the police next time I see an advert for P&O Ferries. Sensible.
Instead of a litany of examples, I would refer you to "bad science journalism" as a search term, and to ask any scientist about how they feel research is represented in media. The results may be shocking.

Regarding intent and threading needles, I spent the pandemic working in a public health system, after over a decade in health information privacy policy and systems, so I lack this comment's uncertainty about malice. Anyone who worked in health and thought or even said anti-vaxxers were hateful and better off dead was not providing honest service. In healthcare and in particular public health, I'd argue that's not a mere opinion, it's something much darker and more culpable. G-word level questions arise.

If we are dealing in truth, we are dealing in logic, and the last best empirical result is not exempt from that standard unless we actively dispense with it. Science is practiced, it is not litigated, or worse: advocated.
in my experience, the threads in Teams suck so much that everyone just moves chat to private groups that are still un-threaded.

in my company, we moved from slack to teams, and EVERYTHING just moved to giant private chats.
First question: why should the attention mechanism output and residual stream match?
I'm also confused because almost all of my company's Teams usage happens in unthreaded chats.
> I’m also on H1B so that makes it more challenging.

How are you still here? I thought you had 30 days to leave, abandoning all of your properties indefinitely.
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At work I use Zoom, Slack, Teams, Google Meet and even Blue Jeans (due to dealing with multiple legal entities acquired over time that each use their own communications platform.)

Teams is the perfect middleground: it's not particularly good at anything but it's not bad at anything either, and it can do everything.

Slack is as good for text-based communication as it is bad at video communications (we've never gotten Huddle working properly). Google Meet is adequate at video calls, but has suffered serious degradation in terms of functionality over the past year that makes us question Google's commitment to it going forward. Zoom is great for video meetings, doesn't do anything else. Blue Jeans is like Zoom, but expensive and it requires its own special hardware, but its buttery smooth and stable as a rock.
It seems unlikely. Something as large as this would require a lot of secrecy to be a coordinated effort and not get leaked.

Like a sibling comment said, its overwhelmingly more likely that we’re seeing just how bad leadership really is at Tech.
>Lebron's spent most of his career not even being the best player in the league. He's not even the most significant player of his own era. That'd be Steph Curry. And he utterly choked away huge moments when he had a talent advantage. He hasn't been a top 5 player in years because he hasn't played defense full time since 2015.

Typical Lebron hater. Steph isn't even in the same conversation as Lebron, he had 2 magical years but even someone like KD was way more significant during that era. You can be a Golden State stan all you want but this is just silly.

>He passes neither the eyeball test nor the accolade test. He just fails to measure up.

All time points leader, 4th all time in assists, 4 rings, 4 Finals MVPs, 4 League MVPs, a scoring title, an assist title, and HES STILL NOT DONE. Idk if you ever actually watched NBA games since Lebron went Pro or what but he was clearly the most dominant player in the league for over a decade. 8 finals in a row. You sir are on drugs.
Ask HN: How come in a kindle when you go back and forward the text is different?
On my kindle when i go back and forward on pages the text positioning is slightly different. It always seems kind of weird for this to happen imo.
I really liked Shopify's remote model of not closing offices, but turning them into "ports" for teams in major cities to get together throughout the year for planning, team building, and retreats. You had an official place to get together, enjoy the perks of tech company offices, but with the intention of deep short bursts of interaction rather than focused work.
Crashing constantly and being a resource hog killed Slack for me.

That and DMs being visible to whoever pays.
Yeah, mail.app is performant, updated, and native.

It ain’t outlook if you need that level of Corp crap but it does well with my massive mess of email from 2002 onwards over various hosting and forwards and works well with gmail.
This page[1] seems to imply instant SEPA transfers are a thing in France, but I don't know which banks support it.

[1] https://www.banque-france.fr/en/node/38530
UK: Fast charging EVs more expensive than filling petrol
VSCode is often stated as the best-performing Electron software, Teams is at the opposite end.
Huh, when I saw it first I read it more as: "360 is a full turn, so Slack360 just means same thing as Slack"
I find UK recruiters to be the flakiest. At first I figured it was my timezone, but they seem to really just drop prospects that don't get them a sure-fire commission immediately.
I have the complete opposite reaction; I don't like Slack now that I've used Teams and I had used Slack since the very early days. The only thing I hate about it is how it handles file sharing, to the point it will change file names of images and converts them to png files, which sort of defeats the purpose.
She's a feminist whose activism includes fighting for the rights of women and girls to have female-only spaces and services. This isn't an anti-trans position.
Great article, I felt like I was a part of the moment too even though I don't follow basketball.
The office closings or the layoffs?
I don't see how it has been advantageous to the incumbent party since they have conspicuously failed to prevent the problem.
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Isn't Geekbench always been very biased towards Apple silicon?
>Meritocracy is a myth. participants have too much variability on starting points and environment for the concept to have any usefulness.

That makes no sense. Ranking people by their merit in some dimensions doesn't stop being useful even if their merit would be different if they had been born into different circumstances.

I'm reminded of the saying "if things were different then things would be different." Well, things aren't different, and it's useful to use merit to judge who would be best to do a job.
It always makes me think of Robert W. Chambers' collection The King in Yellow. It's a great read. It also heavily inspired the first season of True Detective.
I wouldn’t call them for interview because I perceive them as out of my budget. Could be true or false depending on the individual but I think it’s also knowing if your Top experience also unintentionally conveys something else that’s turning people away. This is how bubbles pop and it’s likely the fallout will be reduced comp for many of you folks when you land somewhere.
oh have fun, I have to use it at work and it's a lot of trouble all the time no matter which platform you ran it on.

One tip: Avoid the Linux version and use the chrome browser version instead. Wrt. most aspects the Linux version is the browser version but less updated and more buggy (no idea why tho, it's an electron app, it could be automatically always up to date/auto release a update every day/week).

Still even then there are funny bugs like we pretty much every week someone who has problem with a random teams bug, not specific or more often on any version/OS.

Like the chat icon randomly missing or screen sharing/video hanging for one person until they leave and re-enter the call.

And thats with the most minimal usage of Teams only for video calls, i.e. not chat and no fancy setting.

Oh and the Office365/Teams SSO is so inconsistent that it looks like a MITM attack from time to time, well except that a MITM attack probably would work more friction-less.
Cap is special, always has been, just seems like a real, true, gem of a person.

I grew watching the Showtime Lakers. I remember when he got the record and then I remember the farewell tour when he said he was going to retire. The game is so incredibly different now. I think you first have to recognize that Kareem was "The Guy," teams were built around him and then I'm sure there were bumps and stuff but he was pretty gracious when Magic came in and clearly became the super star. In that first championship Magic won, Cap sat out with an injury and Magic, the greatest playmaker of all time, shifted over and played center and played like Kareem; albeit with a "baby" skyhook... That's hard for a lot of guys to be gracious when a "young buck" starts coming up. That's another thing, the dude was synonymous with a particular shot, you think "sky hook," you think Kareem. There are a few guys, Reggie Mullen in 3point land, maybe. Steph Curry from way out, Jordan in the lane, if they get the ball, there is a feeling that it's predestined and they will score points. Kareem would get the ball out on the baseline, slowly back in and he had an undefendable shot in the sky hook and when it was on he could do that over and over and over and his team would win.

As a short white dude watching it all, I can remember a few times in the early to mid-1980s when the local sports reporter on TV referred to "brother ball" being played. There were definitely racial aspects to the Lakers vs the Celtics. I remember some people in the media kind of down playing it, "he's just a big guy with one move... he can't shoot like Bird can." And to see that record last as long as it has, it's amazing.
This is a deeply flawed premise. Tech sector grew headcount by like 100% over a couple years, and then did layoffs of 5-10%. They still have massively more employees today than they did pre-covid.

People are significantly overreacting to the current layoffs and ignoring all the massive hiring spree of the last 3 years. If you hire 100 people and then layoff 8, the narrative shouldn't be that the end is nigh.
The Facebook groups I used to be in had most people putting them on poles, or even mounting them to the tops of said tall trees. Seemed to work fine, even with a bit of sway.
presumably they can do that without criminalizing speech