skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite simple: If you don't follow the herd, you risk being blamed if you fail. But if you follow the herd and do what everyone else is doing, even if the herd runs off of a cliff, nobody points any fingers.

You'd think somewhere, in at least one of these larger tech companies, there would be a leader boldly proclaiming "this is our time to increase our investments and beat our competitors!" But it turns out there is even less diversity of thought in tech leadership than there is racial and gender diversity.

That said, Gitlab may be making a very prudent decision given their circumstance. I don’t know enough to conclude one way or the other. But considering what they are doing so closely mirrors what nearly everyone else is doing, skepticism is warranted.
It's far more than that cloud storage for photos. It might come with Android but so does YouTube and Search, that doesn't make them part of Android. It sounds like you don't use it so maybe you shouldn't have such a strong opinion about it.

>How many iPhone users skip apple photos and install google photos like they do with maps?

Given it had over 1B active users back in 2019, my bet would be on "a lot".
Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
With the rampant layoffs, are you guys getting hired? How are you doing?
I am not sure where my bottlenecks are but I do not have a ton of photos but specific operations are incredibly slow in EVERY photo tool like scrolling through dates and loading thumbnails.

Are these use cases you optimize for?

I'd love to see what you're working on =P
intel or m1?
It doesn't cost $145k to die, it costs $145k to have 24-7 in-house medical support for a year.

And somebody has to pay the medical support staff.

The sense that "this is necessary so it should be free" is not unique to the parent comment, but it is incorrect.
I'm on months 10 of my "sabbatical" (deliberate unemployment) and it neither recharged my professional ambitions nor did I manage to come up with any alternative ideas. Feels more like I lost the thread. Not all is bad, though. Learned a lot and matured but jobwise it didn't help much.
Similar here. My grandfather told me he prayed for death to come a few months before actually dying.

So it does depend on the individual and their specific circumstances.
Arrival! It's a great movie, but I don't want to explain too much.

Also I believe there's a movie in the works for Project Hail Mary. Just finished the book and am hoping the film will be as good.
I'd scratch out "word" and replace that with "text" or "sentence" or "document".

I saw word embeddings in the mid 2010's as a step backwards and I walked away from a lucrative consulting contract because I couldn't convince the sponsor that it was a total waste to apply word2vec to clinical documents because a significant amount of the meaning of the documents was in out-of-distribution words. (Expecting that to succeed is like a football coach thinking he can shoot the quarterback in the head and still win the game.)

For me the train was pulling out of the station with FastText, BERT and similar models that used subword tokens because w/ the last generation of systems you really could show they threw out critical information in preprocessing that would make accuracy a matter of luck at best.
Wait until they have a choice of going out of business or laying people off.

Also most small companies are investor backed. I assure you that their investors don’t care about you.

The CEO of the 1.5 million employee company I work for doesn’t know me from Adam.
Take an accounting course.
There's already quite a few options with a BSL, I think it's wise to stick with MIT as a clear differentiator.
As someone who has had two older people who were at home virtually till the end - my mother-in-law (she finally died in the hospital after a very short stay) and her mum (who died at home) who were both terminally ill and bedridden for a while before they died, I have to say that the inconvenience to the rest of us was worth it because it enabled them be with the family, be part of what the family was doing etc.. And so also the family benefited from being with them till the end.

It did require having nursing help at home and it did cost some money - but it was still cheaper than being admitted in a hospice or a hospital.
The companies are doing it for a short term stock price bump. They are always incentivized to think short term because of the way our distorted markets work.
>You think any employer “cares about their employees”?

Employers are people. Some people are cynical and greedy, others are empathetic.

Yes, they will fire people as is some times necessary and as an employee you should plan for that. They won't make great sacrifices for you like family or very close friends might, but I've definitely had employers who wanted the best for me and made an effort to help me achieve it.
i would say that is a bit biased view of it all. i would suggest the goal of DEI is a true meritocracy. One where the only thing that matters is merit. There would be no measurable difference based on uncontrollable factors. There would be true acceptance of differences without any tolerance of differences.

I like to think about it from the stand point of star trek. When Gene Roddenberry was asked "would a starship really have a bald captain? Wouldn't they have invented a cure for baldness in the 24th century?" Gene Roddenberry replied, "In the 24th century nobody cares if you are bald or not."

That is a rather innocuous example, but the point remains, the future should be a place where it doesn't much matter who you are, only what you do. The future should be a place where everyone is accepted as they are and there are no personal difficulties due to being different. A blind man can be the pilot of a ship, a black woman a deck officer, a person with a handicap (like the alien going to starfleet academy that doesn't breathe oxygen) isn't kept back from their job. All that is expected that you want to be there and you want to work towards being where you want to be. And if some things are more difficult for you, society will help you out. You will get a VISOR if you are blind, or a device to help you breathe.

The argument that often comes from post-modernist DEI advocates is that the world I'm describing is an ideal and doesn't exist. Well that is true. Ideals don't exist. That doesn't keep us from seeking them. We cannot reject DEI on face value or because some activists see change needing methods we disagree with (e.g., top down approaches that refuse to have the system accept responsibility and force the individual to account for the inequities and injustices). the internal ideals of DEI are good, differences cannot be simply tolerated, they must be accepted and accounted for.
What's the long term plan for European healthcare with the current demographics issues? Who's going to pay for all the elder care?
Search as a Monolith that's going to be taken over by chat is a mistake
There are two facets to this:

- It calls Docker (docker command) to build and run images

- Visual Studio has an UI to manage containers and images (not sure what it uses under the hood for this)
> It's an open invitation to move your position to the lowest cost country that outputs quality that is acceptable.

That was already happening way before WFH took center stage during COVID. If they're gonna outsource you, they're gonna find a way to do it with or without WFH demands.
not only on hackernews, also on reddit and twitter. all following a similar script.
I do this with Meteor for many years.

This is the template I use to start https://github.com/quavedev/meteor-template

For example, I built https://codeftw.dev (https://en.codeftw.dev in English) and https://www.lemeno.io/nerds in recent years.

Meteor built-in integration with MongoDB and real-time data system makes everything very fast to be implemented.

Disclaimer: I'm the former CEO of Meteor (www.meteor.com)
What the heck is the edge anyway?
As far as titles go, this is far from the worst. I feel title irritation has definitely increased around here.
Gotcha, thanks for the extra details!
Love that voice, great clear tone.
Of course, it's difficult to tell whether articles like that were written because Hersh is wrong, or because he is right.

There are plenty of powerful people trying to discredit reporters who tell who tell the truth, so we should also be skeptical of attacks on Hersh.
General question about this wave of tech layoffs: Has anyone done a breakdown of what roles have been cut? Is it management or product or engineering? Senior or junior?

My general sense is that every company is rushing to trim some fat while it's socially acceptable to do so. But where are they making cuts?
There is also Readarr, which has a similar interface to the other *arr software.

It was in it's pretty early stages last time i checked it out, but that was a couple years back now.
It's pretty much the only interpretation I can come up with that results in git being written in shell. I do think it's a bit of a stretch though.
Even the coal price is super outdated. If you get a reaaaaaaly awesome deal, a ton of anthracite is at minimum $350 a ton now. Those are like 2010 prices.
The tax pressure is comparable from the US to other western countries so it seems like it is a questions of prioritizing those tax money.
HN is going to have to acknowledge that the hype/controversy/reprisal loop exists for new technologies. There's a lot of people scared of AI, just as there are a lot of people scared of self-driving cars.

In both cases the tech solution has been to disclaim all responsibility onto the user. The self-driving car can disengage at any time, meaning that the human was responsible for the last second before the crash. Similarly, people are going to say that chat AI producing "bad" output is purely a function of the prompt. Neither of these are going to wash with the general public once people start getting killed. Or even just inundated with slurs - remember "Tay"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

We're still a way off the first chatgpt casualty, which I'm guessing will be someone who asked it for medical advice or how to identify mushrooms or similar.
This is beautiful and I hate it. This is an excellent creation.
Thank you :) I added this to my feature list, I will try to look into it.
> Apple took the opening Facebook left unguarded by realizing people actually do value privacy in their products, and made technical and marketing investments in it.

Yeah, and that's why Apple's ad revenue has grown massively since ATT was introduced. Because Apple care about privacy /s.
LeBron has never struck me as being a great player. Of course, he is very good, but he is too much of a nice guy and doesn't have the unholy drive Jordan had. Jordan was mesmerizing. I also think Luka Doncic is going to leave LeBron in the dust, assuming Luka stays injury free and adopts a low-carb diet.
Normally I see the name of the language included in libraries, not applications. In that context it makes a bit more sense because it actually does matter what language the library was written in/for. For a remote desktop application it's hard to see why it's relevant enough to be included in the name.
You can visit their eBay store for a frankly ridiculous number of Doctor Who props.

I would be highly skeptical of any eBay account selling items that are supposedly from a movie set. There have been many people selling such items that turned out to be from someones hoarded collection of junk. There are loads of grifters on eBay.
I would be very willing to believe this if it wasn't for the fact that so many tech companies have fundamentals that just don't make sense.

We've just gotten so used to the idea that "tech companies don't need to make profit" that we don't even question it any more. I still hear people shocked when a companies revenue goes up but their stock price drops while completely ignoring the reality that costs also went up.

The truth is all companies need to have profit and many of these tech companies have never showed that they're even capable of turning a profit.

What's happening is that investors are going to boards and telling them you need to make serious progress towards profitability. If sales are growing slowly or even declining there is no other option but to do layoffs.

IMHO this is still just the beginning, there's a lot of feedback in the tech ecosystem that are going to start playing out as more and more companies start scrambling to show profitability.
Some of us see it as paying for services, not that the government are thieves. And we are pretty happy to pay, given the hellscape examples shown in the good old US of A.
It's clear that I should write more complaints about the lack of algebraic datatypes in bash.
“Because science” is a deeply anti-scientific and epistemologically-unsound view. Science is about observing natural phenomena in accordance with an established paradigm, creating hypotheses and accepting or refuting them from empirical evidence. A new empirical observation has the potential to change the whole paradigm and unlock a new framework for understanding.
> whichever way you cut the population

Not so sure about the “whichever” part here - you can cut the population a lot of ways that prove that current DEI efforts are focusing on the wrong subset(s).
It's also what the fed wants to slow inflation.
We get close to half our income stole in the US if we make enough... and it doesn't take that much.
My father died at 83 at home, and the only cost was the funeral expense, which would have been the same. When he stopped coming at the hospital for regular blood work, they expected he'd die in two weeks, but he lasted six months. During those six months my mom acted as his caregiver and vigil, and the state compensated her financially. She was allowed to continue working, and since she worked from home, she did work a little next to looking after him. Once a day for those six months, a nurse from the public health system would come by and check up on him.

This is Denmark.
In America we have half our income "stolen" from us as well. We just pretend it's not.
but they are all reporting record breaking profits.
I can only counter the fear with more stories.

Of course at this point in his life he had 4 doctors. His cancer doctor was not happy with the decision, she wanted to (and they could perhaps have), kept him strung along for several more months. His cardiologist and nephrologist (cancer was targeting his heart and kidneys) has done multiple proceedures and had plans for the rest of his life (again, we're talking months, at most). His family doctor was a wonderful provider and friend. There were no whispers from any medical staff saying "do it", "do it".

My father was fiercely logical, probably akin to many who post here. It was his choice to end his life on his terms. I have the conversations where he was assessed recorded, the only coercion was his.

I recognize MAID has detractors and is a very complex subject. We still (of course) discuss what happened and are grappling with his loss, but from my perspective it was empowering, it minimized suffering (for all of us, not just Dad) and gave someone their last feeling of agency.
Yeah but just in general it seems like they're an insular society, don't have random big parties and stuff. It's all like rigid, at the specific bar area. I went to a language meetup and met some cool ones that spoke enough English. But that was about as far as I got. All the "side quests" were with foreigners who I met.
I've lived in the UK and the US. The taxes are about the same.
Academics Can Make Use of ChatGPT
Top marginal income tax rate in California is like 55% and includes zero medical care. That’s extra.
As yes the new modern Canadian greeting: "And a quick cheap death to you too".

You say "peaceful" but did you actually ask them after the death if it was peaceful?
It takes long time for the layoff effects to hit the company.

The main effect is that you lose the trust of the top performers. These will be the in the lookout for new opportunities the day after the layoffs are done. If you cut 10%, expect 10% from the top to flee within a couple of years.

The second effect is related to the fact that companies usually target older people with expensive jobs. In an a big org these are the wizards who have the unwritten cookbooks in their brains. When they leave en masse, a lot of the organizational memory is gone, and expensive operational mistakes of the past are forgotten. These have longer effects that will haunt the company for many years.

The only way you can safely pull off layoffs is if you ensure that anything you do in the company requires the experience of a boot camp. That means that everyone is fungible and you can easily swap them.

And this is what tech did better than any other industry. The average required know-how depth of a tech white collar worker is easily two three levels below when compared to other industries. Pharma and chemicals come to mind from personal experience.
the last time i was in hospital, last summer, the only way of getting out was to agree to pay for home care myself - nhs-funded care was simply not available due to a chronic staff shortage. people needing care were stuck on wards for weeks - the so-called bed-blockers.

i'm not complaining about the nhs here - in general the help and treatment i've received has been exemplary.
Previous Chinese spy balloons over US were classified as UFOs
A few weeks ago I was opining that companies were laying off staff because "that's what everybody else was doing." I'm glad to see to few folks concur.

Copycat behaviour is not uncommon, I think, and is swayed by market sentiment. If the (equities) market ( mean in a general sense) feels bullish, then Microsoft, Google, etc. start piling on employees. Because hey, we're tech companies, we have to justify our market ratings by pursuing (or at least looking like we are pursuing) growth, so that's what they do.

Then, when things sour, the mood becomes one of conservatism. Then it looks good to shed employees. This is all despite the fact that it may have little to do with the actual state of the companies.

Microsoft in particular is hardly a heavily cyclical company, so there is little need to behave like one. Not really. They could adopt a more even approach to hiring. If they tried.

Companies bleat on about how difficult and expensive it is to hire staff. And yet, here we are.
>Reddit has far, far more interesting and nuanced discussions

Well there's a sentence I didn't expect to read today.
> The mediant inequation is: a/b < (a+c)/(b+d) < c/d

The equality is more fun & shows up frequently on the Nationals.
It states:

a/b = c/d => a/b = c/d = (a+c)/(b+d)

For example - On the AIME 2023 this Tuesday (Feb 7), Problem 12 was literally this equality. (see solution 2 below)
https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2023_AIME_I_P...
The statement “[Molnupiravir] was never given except in the context of supervised hospital care for other viral diseases” was not accurate.
She is also a prolific author and has written multiple books on the subject: https://barbaraoakley.com/books/
And it is written by a geriatric nurse practitioner, so presumably they would benefit. Not that it would necessarily be inappropriate.
> Most of them over hired like crazy during the pandemic bubble. I wouldn’t say they were stupid but collectively most of them made a massive mistake.

It wasn't a massive mistake if the rapid growth grew their stock enough that paying a few hundred/thousand extra employees for a year or 2 was worth the cost.
/System/Developer still exists, though it doesn't contain anything

/Library/Developer is where Xcode's Command-line tools install too, your apple sdk's, along with a copy of clang, swift, and git

Neither of them seem to have cool icons though
Argh. I just finished Project Hail Mary and I missed that.
I've seen ChatGPT make up fake links and fake citations that look superficially real but don't really point to anything.

It seems there are two kinds of people: those who see wrong results from ChatGPT and think they are wrong and those who see wrong results from ChatGPT and are amazed at how right they are.

If I was going to use AI for something it might be to find the type II's and make sure they "never work in this town again" because if they can't call ChatGPT on its bullshit they probably can't call anybody on their bullshit.
Yeah, on the last day she was in the house, the social workers came to evaluate her to see if we would pay, or the state would pay.

They determined that we should pay. The (cough) mistake that we made was we gave her painkillers before the visit because she was writhing in pain. If the social workers saw the writhing, they would have picked up the tab. (The hospice later retroactively admitted her so we paid nothing.) Edit: And I don't regret giving my mom painkillers.

But, I had to make a point to my Dad that the social workers saw his nice, well kept house, all of our nice cars, pictures from nice vacations, ect, and decided that $400-$1200 to keep Mom comfortable was well within our budget.
Like most social change it is part of a much larger process and the current form is transitory. Anyone who has been around since the 70's or 80's has seen several distinct waves that have changed how we talk about and handle race and other issues related to diversity. Some people see DEI as excessive or an overreach, but people have felt that exact same about so many other approaches over the decades.
A job is a transaction a way for me to trade labor for money and support ny addiction to food and shelter. It’s my responsibility to save accordingly always expecting a lay off.

I'm sorry you're being down-voted, because the frank truth is... you're exactly right. To a first approximation, 0 companies really "care about their employees" in any meaningful sense. Work is simply a transaction arrangement, where you trade some of your time for some of their money. And either party can (generally) terminate that arrangement at any time, for any reason.

That's simply reality. One can choose to accept that reality and live accordingly, or they can choose to live in a pollyanna'ish world where one doesn't have to take personal responsibility.
Burt Bacharach dies aged 84
Very common webkit behaviour.

Most powerful iPhone runs out of memory when it has to render too much.
reduced time sick = reduced time transmitting
Didn't we restrict Sudafed because people can cook it into meth and change the painkiller regiment because of opioid addiction? I don't think the rule "we don't refrain from prescribing a drug because some users won't be able to use it responsibly" is universal.
I'm from Spain. I'm living under a two-millenial old blend of Germanic Goths, Iberians, Celts, Basques, Romans, Moors, Castillians, modern French, Italians and who knows more. What am I according to your "theories"?
Do you think the US healthcare system is better than the UKs?
I’d recommend installing Shellcheck and an associated plugin for your editor of choice. I have the plugin installed for VS Code and open the link presented to me when I do anything “wrong” as it’ll give a good explanation for the “better/more correct” way of doing things.
I would say interactive use is good. Not hard to configure prompts.

Stability (in the sense of not crashing) is decent, it's been a long time since I've crashed Nushell. We do get the occasional crashing bug filed but most of those are in areas like our completion engine rather than interacting with external tools.

OTOH, command design and language are not entirely stable; we are still pre-1.0 and we do make breaking changes fairly often.

(I work on Nushell)
Not sure chat is going to offer opinions about products. "what is the best men's shoe"?

Local intent: given me a list of local salons in the area

visual intent: how do you tie a shoe? or hang dry wall

So, your left with simple "how to" and facts. both are useful but have low advertising CPC.