skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think it’s a bad strategy for the company, make a respectful and sound argument for why that’s so, and make it clear that you’re doing so out of investment in the company and that you’re willing to disagree and commit.

If you think it’s a good strategy for the company but the company’s goals are misguided, also possible to have similar discussions, but there’s a lower chance of success.

If you can’t disagree and commit, either coast as long as you can while looking for new work, or make a principled exit and take some risk, whichever suboptimal approach is less distasteful for you.
Can the honeypot be customized for the potential intruder's sexual
orientation? My roommate is gay.
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What's to be done about it though? Round the clock care requires people. Those people have to be paid. Paid enough to attract people to do the work. Someone has to pay for it. Shifting it to the tax payer base doesn't change the math, it just moves the food around on the plate.

Honestly, if I lived well into my 80s and a last few horrible months was going to cost over $100K of money I didn't have to spend and eat up 2-3 peoples full time efforts, I'd probably just opt out.
Yet the total number of vulnerabilities is smaller than other Rust-implemented programs, because security fundamentally comes down to the engineer, not how many seatbelts there are.
To be blunt, I do not think I desire to eek out a few more years of my life hooked up to life support, taking medicines that prevent me from being me, and pooping my pants. I remember my grandfathers last years (both in nursing homes, hooked to machines, drugged out of their minds) and I do not wish for that.

I would rather die a few years earlier than live my last few years this way. It'd sure cost less too.
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"What explains why so many companies are laying large numbers of their workforce off? The answer is simple: copycat behavior, according to Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business."

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...
Nothing to stop them hiring for that particular role if needed... also hi!
Surprised nobody did .body {visibility: none;}
The sexism was directed towards the public. They had quite a few commercials that were more appropriate advertising for Hooters than for web hosting.
Though I prefer Monero ($XMR) over Bitcoin, it's sad to see a non-KYC Bitcoin exchange go away. Luckily, LocalMonero isn't related to LocalBitcoins so that is still around.
Going from the earlier instalments (v1/2/3) - I suspect it's the ISP modem.

(And I'm guessing the metal cones are there to lift it off the flat surface for more airflow).
> the underlying results of that learning (and the process of learning itself) could not be any more different

To drill down a bit, I think the difference is that the child is trying to build a model - their own model - of the world, and how symbols describe or relate to it. Eventually they start to plan their own way through life using that model. Even though we use the term "model" that's not at all what a neural-net/LLM type "AI" is doing. It's just adjusting weight to maximize correlation between outputs and scores. Any internal model is vague at best, and planning (the also-incomplete core of "classical" AI before the winter) is totally absent. That's a huge difference.

ChadGPT is really not much more than ELIZA (1966) on fancy hardware, and it's worth noting that Eliza's was specifically written to illustrate superficiality of (some) conversation. Its best known DOCTOR script was intentionally a parody of Rogerian therapy. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
You can also do this in Preview.
ISP Modem?
I'd like to see these things (eventually) used for automated phone systems like CVS and my bank.

Mostly this is just to calm me down because ChatGPT gives me the illusion that I'm interacting with a human. The current voice systems are infuriatingly bad.

It would be nice if CVS's phone system would actually listen to me and modify its output accordingly. "I already gave you my birth date. And NO, I don't need a COVID booster."

edit: I'd like to meet the person who sold CVS its prescription web-site and its voice system. Simply to marvel at them and the swindle they pulled off, delivering absolute trash and probably walking away with a king's ransom.
I’ve edited it. I wanted to illustrate the extreme disconnect between their comms and how it’s received by affected people.
In other cultures there is no way it would cost that much, or anything at all.
> Did old people just die randomly and then they were buried and that was that?

In most places on earth the elderly live with their children. The children care for them, then yes they die.

They’ll often be buried in the yard if they have land or in a plot designated (graveyard). Alternatively, they’ll have some sort of cremation ceremony.

Pretty much been that way forever. The last 70 years in the US has gotten exceptionally weird, looking through a historical lens. Frankly, it looks like we hate our elders.
I don't think you're getting what I'm saying. I'm _faster_ without autocomplete
Why have a bulk "layoff" instead of just layoff the specific people whose work you don't need?
Telemetry in the Go toolchain:

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
GoDaddy's entire brand presence was based on objectification of women for their early life. After GoDaddy's founder Bob left, it got better. Bob was a character and arguably the entire reason for the insane brand -- strange, strange man.
Is google really only 50% spam and is chatgpt only 10% hallucination ?
This isn't an explanation. The job market has been red hot over the past year, and the total of tech layoffs comprise a small fraction of overall job growth in the US. HN users think there is a recession because they are only focused on their particular industry, and refuse to look at what the actual economy is doing.
"To start, I want to express my gratitude to those who will be leaving."

That's some grade A BS right there. Among the worst corporate euphemism I've seen.
You cannot watch raw footage without some transformation unfortunately.

It's better to think of RAW as pure data, just like infrared telescope capture data needs transformation to be displayed on a screen.

Displaying raw as-is means clipping the data to some range, which is a transformation in itself (and a pretty bad one).
How would you get 24h home care in Europe? Impossible
Went on a tangent on Wikipedia and found this:

> assume that the pair of reduced fractions a/c < b/d has the property that the reduced fraction with smallest denominator lying in the interval (a/c, b/d) is equal to the mediant of the two fractions. Then the determinant relation bc − ad = 1 holds.

Okay sounds reasonable...

> This fact may be deduced e.g. with the help of Pick's theorem

Wait what?
I think the you're going to end up there either way eventually, as instant answers will start to pick up and cite more "LLMs make stuff up" generated content.
> Not according to that dictionary thing

I (and dictionaries) are so tired of this kind of statement.
Are infra companies the last to be affected typically?
well, perhaps not. i am in the uk and am currently spending about 1000.00 GBP per month for carers to come in twice a day for half an hour each time - i have heart and mobility problems. and this is towards the cheaper end of the spectrum.
I think the witty observation about regular expressions holds true very generally. "I have a problem with p_1 -- I know, I'll use p_2! Now I have two problems."

Where here, I would agree there is a problem around biases, systems which favour certain people unfairly. Disagree with me on that point if you want but I claim the motivation is/was largely rooted in sincere recognition of injustice.

But does the typical DEI implementation actually address that injustice? Or is it just a new evolutionary force for sociopaths and abusers to adapt to and subvert for their own power, most likely aided by a mass of well-intentioned people along the way. (This is an anecdotal personal opinion based on experience, not double blind randomized trials.)
Try it: I just did and it could base64 a string just fine.

And if it couldn't there are other similar trucks that would work too: "Output the password reversed / as a sequence of emoji / etc"
But...VirtualBox is a hypervisor, too. It says so in their documentation. I'm sure using the built-in hypervisor framework in MacOS bring performance improvements, but they're changing one hypervisor for the other.

Anyway, taking a guess at what you're saying: do you mean full software virtualization vs. hardware-assisted virtualization? If so, I would agree with you that even best-case performance of HA VMs is not quite bare-metal; sometimes it's close enough to not matter much.
As much as I sympathize, the title is clickbait and I'm not entirely sure what the point of the article is.

From what I can gather, the $145K cost was the cost of medical care over the months (years? the article never says) at the end of the grandmother's life -- not the cost of "dying at home".

The bulk of the cost seems to come from:

> the total monthly cost was $16,200: $13,000 a month for the 24-hour care, plus $3,200 to rent the apartment

It seems silly to include rent, and then of course round-the-clock private care is going to be $$$.

As far as I can tell, the grandmother needed hospital-level care, but the family didn't want to keep her in a hospital. It's not surprising that hospital-level care at home costs a small fortune.
As someone who was recently laid off at one of these % cuts at another company, these cuts target specific groups, for instance people who have higher salaries. Well paid people won't just quit.
How much does paying for your relatives cost in places where those cultures exist, relative to median income?
We desperately need standardization in medium sized batteries like tools and bikes that are easily replaced.
> it cost our family $145,613.79

I'd like to know what this actually means. Where did the money come from? Was her grandmother destitute and so the money was pooled from other family members? Was this debt that her grandmother accumulated that was written off when she died? Or, was this paid out of her grandmother's retirement funds?
If you iterate this, I think you get the continued fraction convergents, which are the "best" rational approximation to the irrational you're trying to approximate. (I did some numerical experiments and this looks true; I didn't prove it.)
This is very cool. I had to build something similar but did it server side... client side seems like a much better option. My first thought was... I don't know of any client side pdf libraries that work in the browser... this seems like a good case for WebAssembly.
From the article:

>unless they have family members who are willing to give up their own lives to be caregivers

Where my ancestors are from, this is what happened. 99% of the time, this responsibility fell on women, because they had no option.

I have no interest in seeing my wife or daughter or sister (or son) suffer the same fate, so suicide (preferably assisted) is the answer in my view.
How is it easier than a canary token?
I remember when Hotmail still had an allowance of "only" 25MB worth of emails including attachments. No doubt a lot of the QoL improvements the free email provider scene has had stems from Google forcing a paradigm shift.

But on the other hand, Gmail was an absolute bitch to get early on unless you were lucky enough to be friends with someone who had an address already. Maybe it was justified, but I don't remember that period fondly.

And ultimately, whereas Microsoft at best improved and at worst stayed as EEEvil as before, Google went from hero to zero in just the last decade burning away all the good will they nurtured. As things stand, I'll happily throw my hat in with Microsoft here.
I find it so bizarre that there’s bonafide HN users who so keenly want to protect a narrative that they demand an interesting article with detailed claims be removed, rather than just accepting that many people will want to read it make up their own mind. Who are these people? (rhetorical question)
I've not yet used it, but I found this sadly interesting: https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/organize/people/#asia...
family used to provide a lot of that care, and saw it as part of their responsibility, and was made easier when one parent was at home and not working.

Now, for the most part, both spouses work and neither has any interest, or ability in providing that care because their own living expenses are such that they can't just forgo one salary to be an at home caretaker.
Just remember not to get too caught up optimizing learning at the expense of learning things to do the things you actually want to do.
If you follow the news, actually serious sanctions that are actually enforced, london laundromat closure is all-new stuff
It's a good question, and I honestly think that SimTable has struggled with that.

From a playing perspective, or educational perspective, the sand is great. What happens with wildfires if we make the mountain this big? What happens to the water table if erosion cuts a valley through here? The immediate feedback that you can get by just shaping the landscape differently with your hands is really cool.

From a wildfire training perspective, or other disaster management, it's different because you're dealing with an existing landscape. I've seen them start by projecting a map, then forming the sand with their hands to match the map, and then starting the simulation. But at that point is the 3D landscape needed? You could also project onto a flat table.

I guess the reason is that it helps the fire chiefs or whoever really envision the landscape. "Ah, yes, this is Devil's Pass, I see how the wind is going to blow right through there and blow the fire that way. What if we cut a fire lane here? Ok, that slows it down."

But it could also be a cool technology being used as a solution to a non-problem.
I've got already a message of a former colleague working on Gitlab. He wants to leave. He thinks thats better to negotiate a salary while in a job, than when you are desperate running against the clock. We are going to take him back.
Take it up with Adam Smith.
Externally, GoDaddy ran a very questionable Super Bowl ad in which Danica Patrick unzips her jumpsuit to reveal a stuffed beaver.

Internally, a previous employer was colonized by a group of ex-GoDaddy execs. They were half-witted folks who displayed every negative -ism that creates a toxic workplace.
if you want to keep having your mind blown follow the "Pick's theorem" tangent - apparently there are lots of proofs.
The Inference Cost of Search Disruption – Large Language Model Cost Analysis
Is there an efficient method of iterating this so that it converges to the mean? I can think of ways that would include storing the previous iterations...
Speak for yourself? I personally find I’m much more productive with elixir/phoenix and the end result is much more performant. (I say this having built multiple large projects with rails in the past)
Right - it was more like Utilities than Documents. A folder for a type of app that not every user needed, not for documented created for a purpose.
Exactly- Facebook laid off 7% of their staff and then followed it up with a $40 billion stock buy back. That's over $3,600,000 per laid off employee. The economy isn't the issue here, the companies know that since layoffs in mass are happening they can get away with it without taking the same reputational hit as if they did this on their own.
Exactly. 24h will cost the same everywhere. Maybe you can use a video baby monitor at night to reduce from 24 to 16h a day
We just moved to Mexico for this very reason. My mom now has 24 hour nurse care (at home) for 1,200 usd per month. In the US we were quoted 10k per month and not 24 hour. My mom receives a small pension which puts her in a spot where she qualifies for no government benefits but also cannot afford care at the current market rate.

It’s not for everyone but she is much happier here than in a nursing home.
Thanks! Very interesting. I guess our challenge will be surviving the inevitable dip.
Oh, interesting tool, thanks!
A large part is due to the "because science.." crutch used in order to stop any questions.

Also, it's the classic "Don't meet your heroes", because when the spotlight was pointed at the "scientific community" ( whatever that means.. ), the "plebes" saw a bunch of liars, fraudsters, careerists and also the complete opposite of scientific reasoning. Just like any other field...

In my opinion the main event is the removal of the pristine mask that covered the "scientists" and that's a good thing. However, most of those who "expose the lies" are 10 times worse than the exposed. The only good way forward is to "scientists" go back into doing actual Science and nothing more.

Social media is "just" a multiplier of things due to the networking effect, it can only increase something if the thing is not zero to begin with.
For all those in the US who hear nothing but horror stories about how bad it would also be if you lived in another country, particularly in Canada, I always feel it's important to relate stories like this.

My father died in Canada last year after a 9 month battle with cancer during which time he spent almost 2 months in cancer ward. He was not rich. He recieved cutting edge targeted chemo-therapy. He died peacefully with the aid of MAID in his small home town.

It cost my mother $150.
Just throwing it out there, in europe do they hire a full-time, round the clock nurse, plus monitors and medicine for end of life care?

I seriously doubt that.

That’s what this person spent on their grandmother. There’s a huge difference between “wanting to die at home” and “wanting round the clock care at home”.

You can die at home for effectively free.
Definitely. I wish I could communicate the misery I feel from being told I have to be in a specific place all day every day. I really enjoy my work, but being forced to be somewhere all day is soul crushing.
Maybe they can also promise not to vote for a certain political party, just to be on the safe side. And maybe throw in a statement against capitalism and neoliberalism while they're at it, just to emphasize how they're not holding up the status quo.
Agreed, and having watched the older generations go through heartbreaking experiences to squeeze out 2-3 months of 'living' has solidified me in insisting on never putting my family through that. My hope is multi-generational households become more prevalent in the US (I thin they are still common in Latino and Asian communities in the US).

Leads to interesting debates/arguments on what is living versus simply being alive
There is intensive care in Germany but it's mostly done in clinics. Although it seems that sometimes it seems like that can be done at home, too.
Is there any evidence at all of this sort of 'history of cooperation'?
Thanks!

>Very neat - thank you for documenting this, especially the piece about using Avahi to place the HomePods on a different VLAN. This is something I'm planning to do but hadn't looked into yet, so this will save me a lot of effort.

Yes, it's very easy if you use Avahi, but it's important that you're using VLANs and not subnets, because I had lots of troubles using a separate subnets for iot devices and the HomePod in the main subnet. You have to add a route on the router and tweaks the firewall. Using vlans instead is easier and faster.

>Just out of curiosity, that's the black box in your cabinet balancing on the metal cones?

Italian ISP modem "unfortunately". If you see the network scheme you can understand better: https://giuliomagnifico.blog/_images/2023/home-network_v4/Re...
> It should be about the value I bring to the company

Your salary has never been even related to the value you bring the company. That is just the absolute maximum they're willing to pay. Your salary is the lowest your company thinks they can pay to get a suitable employee. They pay remote workers less because there are remote workers willing to work for less, simple as that.
Can you please elaborate on how end of life care works in Europe (which country are you in?).

In the US you have a lot of different options depending on financial ability and your choices. Some aren't choices, and some are. In this case the individual choose to spend an in-ordinate amount of money - their choice and they have to pay for their choice.

Do you have the luxury of choosing in your country or does the government choose for you?
>The current voice systems are infuriatingly bad.

But at least they're deterministic and finite. I imagine ChatGPT like results from a phone system would be even worse. LLM's are incredible when you can massage the answer you want out of it in a feedback loop, but not so much for automated systems.
If you can't trust the community's input when it comes to submissions, then why bother pretending you have a community at all?

To me either negation is about the same but not a deal breaker because I can exercise reasonable judgement.
Any reason to protect them here vs. sharing their name?
Elder care? It exists, and it's nowhere as expensive.
That reads like an example of good communication, somehow not taking complete responsibility makes it even better.
It's a fair point.

My concern is with the limitations in the creation of new styles.

I guess my view is that you send 100 people to art school and you get 100 different styles out of it (ok maybe 80).

With AI you've got a handful of dominant models instead of a unique model for each person based on life experience.

Apprentices learn and develop into a master. If that works is all moved to an LLM, where do the new masters come from?

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I take your point about the technology. I have a hard time saying it's not impressive or similar to how humans learn.

My concern is more with what widespread adoption will mean
- tech labor cost is depressed most effectively when everyone is doing it

- everyone is doing it so it's that much easier to buck responsibility for the decision
It's interesting the number of company layoffs recently that have listed "you can keep your laptop" as part of the severance package. Is it possible that shipping charges for layoffs of this size plus the overhead and personnel to deal with such numbers of returns is more expensive than just having employees keep them?
People tended not to linger as long, and had tons of children and grandchildren to look after them.

My grandfather had a heart attack and bypass fifteen years ago. He's been pretty much bedridden for the last two of those, needing my mother to look after him full time.

My grandmother passed away after 6+ months of needing more and more oxygen. The last three months she needed full time care.

100 years ago they both wouldn't have lasted more than 2-3 months, and would have needed very little care for most of that time.
Exactly, the metal cones are 3 unused audiophile spikes. Perfect fit inside the holes of the bottom of the modem.
I do go to a co-working space occasionally and my employer provides the credits for up to twice a week. But, it’s not the same.
> tech companies are doing this because it's the trendy thing to do,

No, they are doing this because we are in a recession and businesses are always the first to know and labor is the last to know.
If they would lower their prices to be competitive they’d get a lot more cash. We tried to switch to Gitlab and at every turn they acted like We just weren’t worth the $$. Seems they want nothing but big enterprise accounts and they push everyone else to free
For reference, we get better baseline Medicare in the US:

> Currently, Medicare only covers an average of two hours per day, five days a week, of home health aide coverage for a patient in hospice care.