skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like we could definitely use more posts on company's hiring by x% new employees. Cutbacks are rough, I'm looking, learning and hanging in, I can't blame some for layoffs for the right reason's. Hopefully this restructures some new hiring with some better interview approaches.
The most interesting twist to come out of the rise of DEI is the now open discrimination against Asians, and the rising open casting of Jews as the real enemy of African Americans. Although Jews get blamed for everything else so maybe it's not so much of a surprise. A year or so ago when there was a large number of cases of Asians being attacked in the streets by African Americans; the DEI director where I worked posted on slack in response to posts by concerned Asian coworkers that it was because of white supremacy and we mustn't let white supremacists drive us apart. It was very much whites are the bad guys and just ignore whatever is really happening.

What makes it worse is DEI leaders are essentially given unlimited power. They can say anything and if you say anything to contradict them you are a racist and your career is destroyed.

Article reminds me of this:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608188826291167242/phot...
> 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.

Yes, and that's the number one thing successful small business owners learn. The ones who don't learn this aren't successful.

You want as many of your staff as possible to be easily replaced. If you're running a restaurant, do you really want the success of your restaurant to hinge on a single talented chef?

Nope. You make sure that there's a process so that another few chefs can drop in quickly without changing the menu or the quality of the food. All the other kitchen staff don't do "complicated", they follow instructions.

If the business depends on having developers that are in the top 5% (say, one of the criteria to working on the code is understanding Haskell with Monads), the business is at constant risk because the developers are not easily replaceable.
Companies have always preferred to hire experienced ICs. They hired juniors because they couldn't find or afford more senior people. It does seem that a lot of juniors are being impacted. But the hiring front likely reflects the fact that there are now more senior folks in the market, and likely that they can offer lower salaries since job seekers have less leverage.
Evergreen (mildly NSFW): How Vice comes up with article ideas https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA

Applies to most media, really.
I know this was only posted here an hour ago, but yikes… the comments here just add even more credibility to the assertion that anti-science sentiment has really spread like a disease.

Even here, where I expect at least a semblance of thoughtful discussion on topics that are based on data and evidence, the comments are littered with Twitter-level reactionary nonsense.
Funny though, since Meta is actually fully controlled by Zuck. He wanted the metaverse and $40B buyback, otherwise he could just simply not.
The Rise of the Fancy Freelancer
In fact, it's much more at the state level. I owe the IRS the same no matter where I live in the US (leaving aside deductions for state and local taxes). But I need state residency for my driver's license and state taxes. The IRS doesn't care if I live in Nevada or California. But California certainly cares if I claim to live in Nevada and actually live in California for 8 months out of the year.
Autodesk has increased FreeCAD adoption by more than 30%
The spirit of starting over instead of cramming more into an old language, but
making the new thing highly compatible with the old thing via transpilers or runtime sharing (Swift with Objective-C, Kotlin with Java).
I didn't want a NAS. I wanted a linux machine to experiment with docker and setup photoprism. I am self-hosting ~20 containers so far. It has 32GB RAM and pretty good CPU to experiment and run different workflows in the containers. I noted it could be done cheaper but that is not my goal. Can always add external storage.
I agree to some extent, but Fauci et al telling people they don’t need masks, when the Chinese had figured that one out months before seems particularly egregious (and arrogant).
When all of these companies act together to influence the labor market, they can subsequently cut long-term costs due to the natural suppression it effects on wages. I'm seeing very significant reductions.
> Business investment is growing at 3% a quarter (annualized)

That's surprising given money is reportedly much less cheap now. Any citations?
> The "data put up for sale" is to be made available publicly.

How can users verify this?

> IP logging can already be done (the Go proxy is enabled by default).

Sure, but more data will be attached to it. Also, in his proposal, he said that IP addresses will not be logged. I seriously doubt that.

> What's your actual problem with this, beyond a knee-jerk reaction to the idea?

Putting telemetry in a programming language. Working with a programming language is the number one thing I do on a computer. This means that, except for the fact that I don't work in Go, most of my private conversation with a machine could be backdoored.
Thanks for flagging the rayiner comment.

rayiner's original comment was defending colonialism.

"If it wasn’t for British colonialism, both of us would be subsistence farmers right now instead of on HN."

If you read his subsequent comment "forest/indoor plumbing" it is definitely sarcastic and comes off racist.

Further down he switches to India being older but does not consider that ancient Indian history is whitewashed in today's world in most western cultures.
> Between 2020-2022 I literally conducted over 200 interviews for my previous employer.

it sounds like you knew at the time that it was a mistake to hire this much and you were part of the interview processes.

did you ever speak up, tried to make a case that it is the wrong move?
If large corporations or governments were actually trying to reduce hydrocarbon dependence they would bend over backward to promote work from home.
24/7 care is 168hr/week, so the costs will be about 4 FTE in local salary. It's only less expensive elsewhere because wages are lower elsewhere.
"For example, I'm 56 and have never had a colonoscopy and I don't intend to get one. If I get colon cancer, then so be it."

You'd rather die than have a tube stuck up your arse for 5 minutes? A colonoscopy is really not that big a deal
Ah, yes. The country that invented the "Liverpool Care Pathway" (i.e., let the patients die of thirst, sedate them when they complain) to save money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Care_Pathway_for_the...

As others have pointed out, it didn't cost "£0". It cost your fellow citizens the full amount. "The government" didn't pay her rent. Your fellow citizens did. "The government" didn't pay your father a carer's allowance. Your fellow citizens did. "The government" didn't pay for doctors and nurses to travel to her home. Your fellow citizens did.

Now, I, personally, would prefer to see massive reforms in the U.S. system. But pretending that any system is going to cost "£0" is just intellectually dishonest.
My favorite thing about convex hulls is their link to linear algebra. For two vectors u and v in R^n, v is majorized by u if and only if v is in the convex hull of all vectors generated by permitting the coordinates of u.
I don't think that most of proponents of DEI share my opinion, but for me, the endgame of DEI (and antiracism in general) is the destruction of race as a social concept. IMO, race is basically a casta system, particularly given how it operates in America.

Don't get me wrong, I do believe in genetics. I do believe that certain groups of people form genetic clusters. Nevertheless, I don't think that "race" the genetic cluster and "race" the social concept are that much intertwined. Of the 4 major racial groups in America, there are two that very obviously don't cluster (Asians and Hispanics): this somehow is ignored by both pro and anti DEI sides.

In a world in which DEI efforts are successful, the current races would just become non-sensical, in the same way in which considering Irish and Italians non-white has become non-sensical today.
Disney is laying off 7k workers...

>>> “While this is necessary to address the challenges we’re

>>> facing today, I do not make this decision lightly,” said

>>> CEO Bob Iger, "

From the same article

>>> ...the company released better than expected financial

>>> results for the fourth quarter of 2022. Disney revenue in

>>> the quarter rose 8% to $23.5 billion, edging past

>>> estimates of $23.4 billion

Truly they are facing major challenges /s

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/business/disney-earnings/inde...
The CDC changed the definition of "vaccine", since, unlike previous vaccines, the COVID-19 vaccine did not produce immunity:

Yes, the CDC changed its definition of vaccine to be 'more transparent' https://www.king5.com/article/news/verify/coronavirus-verify...

> [T]he CDC changed its definition of vaccine from "a product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease" to "a preparation that is used to stimulate the body's immune response against diseases."
> No, it isn't, and it's embarrassing at this point to continue insisting this.

Yeah, it feels the most charitable interpretation for the companies that say that is their CEO read doom-and-gloom predictions last fall, and hasn't opened a newspaper since.

My employer just put out good numbers for 2022 and what look like positive growth predictions 2023 -- they're not laying anyone off, but they're cutting budgets and letting go of contractors (mostly very good ones), which will really hurt our ability to deliver and maybe even negatively impact stability. I've heard that meeting the budget is the priority, even if the actions needed to do that are illogical. It makes no sense.
> “Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?” ~ A notable percentage of Thunderbird users

Honestly this doesn't seem like the main issue with Thunderbird; the main issue is that the UI is very slow, it tends to use a lot of CPU and memory just sitting there and a lot of operations block the UI. This got a lot worse with 102. 102 unfortunately is so low in responsiveness that it's literally quicker for me to open a new tab, load Google Mail (the slowest webmail I'm using) find and(!) read the mail there than switching to the already running Thunderbird and waiting for it to load the new message. It also tends to take pretty long to "boot", so most days I just avoid using it entirely now, as leaving it running in the background substantially decreases battery life.
> their children should be there at the end of life helping, showing love, and thanking mom and dad for all they've done?".

Speaking to the possible point that kids 'owe' their parents for their upbringing: As a father of 5, I strongly disagree.

Fatherhood is, by necessity and actuality, service. Children don't ask to be born; I believe creating them into a position of debt is a poor rendering of that service.
That “somebody” is the government in most developed places in the world. Except the United States which ties your healthcare to capitalism.
Non-JS Archive [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/V6KQj
It must be very hard for you to not have strict, rigorous standards that you can apply and adhere to so that everything can be either "right" or "wrong". Unfortunately, such is the case with social issues. Good luck on navigating interpersonal issues! I can tell you, from experience, it's a lot easier when you drop the "Okay, if I have to put up with it, let's get some strict definitions!" bullshit.
Click on his substack, he writes about a lot more than basketball.

He has a wise elder statesman vibe.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/kareem-abdu...
> If I had a choice of having my scoring record remain intact for another hundred years or spend one afternoon with my grandchildren, I’d be on the floor in seconds stacking Legos and eating Uncrustables.

Amazing. This guy gets it. We worship competitors like Jordan who “always want to win.” But we forget that all that really matters is the time we get with our loved ones. That’s what true winning is. Kareem is wise
One definition of strange is: "not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien"

It's not necessarily strange in the scope of the sun's entire existence, but it's definitely strange to us.
>> Lets not use emotionally driven, ambiguous terms like 'evil' to describe these kinds of things

How about "malevolent?"
Of course I'd prefer spending time with people I like. But most employers don't offer that.
From the perspective of writing a parser, advanced knowledge is required.

The lex and yacc parsing tools will be woefully insufficient to write a POSIX shell, as the language is not LR-parsable.

It would have been much cleaner and more consistent if awk had been chosen as the scripting language of the shell, as that had a yacc grammar for most of its life.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/code_parsing_...
>It only looks like clickbait because you're used to a system that costs $$$ to get medical care.

No it is clickbait because it says "she died at home" when in fact she died in an expensive rented apartment. This fact is unrelated to the reality that the system is broken and people can't get the care they need.
I don't think deep is the word. It doesn't have shallow context. Calling it "specialized litigation" misses the ball. I don't think it could properly handle a slip & fall without needing to spend an inordinate amount of time getting the LLM there. I.e. doing the work myself but for the LLM? I don't think people realize that at a certain point, it's just not cost effective. There is no other way to provide the full background details to the LLM, than basically spend the effort that is otherwise the same as drafting into a template. full stop. reminder, this is for a slip & fall, not a patent litigation for example.

>The rise of specialized LLMs has already been happening, there's just minimal if not contrary incentive for public release.

I'm skeptical of their utility. They might have a better understanding and use of the specialized terms for the legal field, but how is it going to know all the background details for a case without me telling it to the LLM?

> you wouldn't be able to expect a layman

I think a layperson could follow along with much of what is filed in a litigation, especially something like a slip&fall. it's your assumption that the context comes entirely from the words chosen. It goes the other way, the attorneys from both sides choose the words based upon the context. You need to understand the full context, especially what isn't mentioned in the papers to adequately function as an atty. The notion that you just need to read enough and then have a specialized understanding of the words is misguided.
Goes to show the importance of Right View with these practices as well. They don't suddenly make you a great person on their own, etc.
Youtube clickbait is exactly the kind of thing where "Downside of thing you thought was good" is likely to thrive. It's practically a genre (there's also "positive aspect of thing you thought was bad" for balance).

Fundamentally, there's a paper trail. Disney has bought credits from The Nature Conservancy. If it turns out that those credits are a scam, then we know who sold them and who bought them. There's a whole business plan setting out the case that can be reviewed by independant third parties or governments as time goes by. There's an actual forest you can visit. We can see what a market price is, and be suspicious of people claiming to have a low price compared with anyone else. We can sue companies that claim to provide one thing but don't deliver.

This is all very boring and nerdy. But it works, after a fashion. Even the videos you link, they're only really able to exist because of that paper trail.

I was going to compare this with the "additionality" debate around buying "green" energy, and remembered that Google did some good work on making sure they were getting additionality from the renewables they purchased, here's their stance on the offsets they buy:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...

If Google doesn't fit then there's probably some organisation that you trust to not mess this up that has done similar.

> Conclusion

>In addition to improving our efficiency and investing in green power, we will continue to purchase
carbon offsets to bring our carbon footprint down to zero. However, not all carbon offsets are
created equal and ensuring that a carbon offset represents actual greenhouse gas reductions can be
a long process.

> Carbon offsets are still very new. In fact, it’s entirely possible that how we offset our emissions
a few years from now will be very different from how we do it today. Our offsets may be more
personalized, more local and rely on emergent technologies that have a global impact. Google hopes
to be part of the evolution of these new offsets, and will continue to foster current offset projects
through research, collaboration and investment
> Only truly practical use case I can think of is summarizing articles or writing them which makes more sense as a word processor or browser add-ons

That use case is the one that makes more sense. Given that ChatGPT frequently hallucinates the wrong answer and confidently tells you how it is correct with its inability to cite and transparently explain to you how it got to that answer tells you that it is results are untrustworthy and this AI bubble is again, pure hype created by VCs.

The only worthy AI hype that will change everything is open-source LLMs that are smaller models and are more transparent.
Anytime anything starts getting touted as a panacea I start getting suspicious. Maybe LLMs are going to have a large role in search in future, but at the moment there's so much propaganda flying around I just assume it's mostly lies.
As someone that works in search - TBH - we don't really know. And the point isn't that people "know" its more about hedging that there likely is some kind of use case where it becomes important. Nobody knows until they try something. You're right to be skeptical.

However, it's been observed, people are using chatbots for informational searches. The kinds of searches where you want to learn about a specific fact. This isn't all searches, but it's an important subset for web search. For better or worse, with probably a high degree of inaccuracy, people (probably rightly) perceive this is how people will seek information.

There's also the generational use cases - "write me a program that does X". Is this something people would use a search bar for? We don't know, and wouldn't know, until its out there for a while.

For the longest time the one natural language interface was as a search bar. So search vendors surmise it's important to both defend their turf while also a natural way to get regular users familiar with this kind of informational interaction...
You clearly have no clue what an end of life shuffled between nursing home and hospital looks like cost wise.

State paid nursing home fees are like $150k/yr last time I checked, most of that going to administration. It's certainly not going to the nursing assistants that they don't hire who aren't checking on you. Plus the portable mobile equipment (xray etc) that someone drives over and wheels in to perform perfunctory diagnostics, plus the ambulance rides back and forth to the hospital as the nursing home covers their ass, plus all the bills you rack up at the hospital as you're repeatedly dumped into the emergency room.

Like it or not, that system has already been heavily socialized in the US. The only time someone is on the hook to pay is if their estate has money, which is avoidable with some estate planning (5?) years ahead of time. That's the fallback option for everybody "lucky" enough to reach it. It's gruesome, but not because it's cheap.

FWIW When I was going through this with my dad, the private "insurance" company (a medicare advantage vendor) was starting a program where they had on call doctors that they wanted to send to your home, because keeping you out of the hospital saved them a significant amount of money.
So whatever the outcome, they are wrong and you are right?
The economy is humming along just fine despite all of that.
My biggest complaint about AnyDesk is that sometimes I have to walk people through downloading and installing it over the phone. When AnyDesk is installed, the tab with the connection ID is overlaid by a tab with an ad. At that point I have to give up because many people don't understand tabs and don't know how to close it or switch tabs so they can see the connection ID. Very user unfriendly. I was very glad to see RustDesk come along.
I wouldn't judge the project on how correctly they are indexing tables.

Rather judge them on the feature parity and overall thesis. All the scaling issues can be fixed in future as they come. You do not have to be ready for cloud scale from day 1.
Volumes could be said about what we deliberately didn't try and what we deliberately didn't study. We shouldn't pretend that the venture into the unknown wasn't steered by the deep pockets of Big Pharma.
I meant when they can do this reliably. ChatGPT will readily supply references and even summaries of things that are wholly fabricated.
What’s your leadership style – is it country club or autocratic?
> game as it fits their needs

Why is this surprising? People like to pay less for things.
Last time I checked, this application did a dirty thing to my /etc to force X sessions instead of Wayland. You can do these things, but please be upfront and ask me first - I certainly do before depositing bodily fluids in places I do not own.
Happy to hear that you like it. As an example, I have started to look into if it is possible to add different features based on OCR. I still haven't gotten it to work but I think it should be possible. Some things are definitely harder to do in the browser vs on the server but still possible with some work.
I've always wondered if programming skill would be useful and transformative of traditional businesses internally (instead of a salesman pushing a B2B solution). But it's clear that traditional business have neither the know how or the money to hire software engineers in numbers that could actually affect such change.

I wonder if downturns like this offers them a chance.
>because the Tory governments have been squeezing NHS to death in terms of funding to try and privatize it?

No. Often repeated, never true. The NHS has had at or above inflation budget increases every year of Tory government[1]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/166A5/production...

Look! Real terms money on the Y-axis, it only goes up!

"Squeezing in terms of funding", "Try and privatise it" are common myths repeated by the Labour party to get elected, and NHS bosses to increase the pie even further.
Somalia isn't "tax-free". It just has rival gangs of warlords collecting taxes, rather than having one gang with a monopoly on it.

Not the same thing.
Rust projects are infinitely easier to contribute to.
Have you written this library or is an already existent one? Also can be used offline but maybe provide an easy way to download it so can run it locally or host it on own server? (Unless of course there's a plan to monetize this.)
Maybe you forgot that you need 3 to 4 nurses to cover a 24*7=168hr week.
Well it's not because there's no point going to the office if your team still WFHs
Owning their media.
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