skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, what people will pay for the product in a market it's the price. Marx talks about the "value", which is different than price. The price is equal the value only in very limited and simplified models. Offer and demand will change the price, but not the value, for example.

What is the "value"? Well, the prices cannot be explained only in terms of offer and demand (a society with an offer of 100 pens and demand for 100 pens and offer of 100 planes and demand for 100 planes still would not sell pens and planes for the same price) nor entirely because of the price of raw materials (because this only postpones the explanation: from where came the price of the raw materials?). It also cannot be explained only based on subjectivity, because there exists a number, which is a very objective measure, representing the price if you balance offer, demand, assume competition and discard several perturbations. The "value" tries to explain this basis value that later will became the price and show objectively and numerically how the wealth is produced and distributed.

This "value" is measured by Marx as the quantity of labor socially necessary to produce the product. Given a car, the value represented by a car can be measured by the mean time necessary for the workers to produce that car in the industry plus the value transferred by the machines and tools used by those workers (whose value came from the workers that produced these machines and tools). Both manual and intellectual work need to be taken into account and you can also assume that some complex tasks or more intense work can produce more value than simple tasks in the same time.

Given this, you can compare the value produced by a worker with the value of the things that the worker can buy with its salary. This is how Marx measures these things and shows the exploitation in the society.
xpe is taking everything 100% serious here.
Do you think it is possible for the AI to request information to fill in gaps in it's model?

For example, the AI doesn't have enough information about a companies process, or a regulation. It chats with an expert to fill in the gaps.

I have no understanding of AI
Why not? It helps limiting variable scope. The advantage of a global variable without the disadvantages.
> I'm biased towards reality.

The truth is that people who say this overwhelmingly externalize their own biases as reality and then divorce themselves from the idea that they did so in the first place. They aren't capable of behaving otherwise and see themselves as beyond reproach. It's a thought limiting cliche and signals the participant is unwilling to consider anything other than their own point of view.
The parent said Avatar (I'm assuming based on the gross $$ that he meant Avatar 2) was the 6th highest grossing.
I suspect you mean "owned" by ran.

Trades are a decent entry into owning a small business with higher barrier to entry than say a restaurant but still pretty straightforward and can be made revenue stable with a small team (sometimes no permanent team, e.g. some builders). Especially if you grind when you and the business are young, you can end up in a good place fairly predictably.

But mostly people are financially successful here mostly by being business people, not trades people - with all that implies. Sure, there are some people who do well in a strong union, but it's a small fraction of the market.

Many people actually working a job the trades are more likely to end up with health problems and a sketchy retirement outlook.
PiGallery2 – A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI
I see where this is going...
Interesting about the offices. Is it because they are merging with MSFT even more or because they are embracing a remote-only philosophy?
I've been tempted to subscribe. But I emailed them trying to find out what the price would be after the trial sub expired. They replied that they could not say.

So it seems obvious (to me at least) that they segment renewals and charge what the market will bear.
LLM isn't replacing any actual coders... yet!
Show me a sparkie that only works an 8 hour day, it's 12 hours standing on cold concrete.
Running a NixOS VM on macOS
Even if we assumed they are all moving away (they aren't, plenty of hiring still) it would take some time.
For sure. I just wanted to point out the approach that arguably required "the least math knowledge".

Also, OP was solving a degree four problem and wanted a closed form.

For better stability just use `x = np.linalg.solve(M, y)`, or whichever linear solver you expect to be fast.
Another way to think about it: "the semantic web" is a dream that never came to be. Now we have a computer program that breaks all information down to semantics. So anything you thought was possible with the semantic web is now within reach.
It doesn’t matter if you “care” as a founder if you accepted VC money.

So do you “care” enough to put your company’s survival and well being beneath the needs of your employees? Do you think your employees “care” enough not to take a much better offer it becomes available? If your investors told you you need to increase your runway to stay in business would you?

I know that the people in my personal life who “care about me” will make all sorts of sacrifices for me and financial trade offs
They also then have less motivation to rely on clicks. Like outlets on both sides have devolved to.
March it heats up. Check your resume over. If I can get a job without any big tech you will be fine. Make your resume focus on numbers and maybe have someone review it for free.
A lot of people, obviously, but I didn't like the original Fawlty Towers for a lot of the same reasons I find Cleese unpleasant now. He does a lot of "punching down", and gets ticked off when people object.

It's a common "free-speech" trope: "I have the right to speak, but you have no right to reply".

I didn't know he supported Brexit, but it doesn't surprise me. It too seems to come from the same attitude that "we" are fundamentally better than "them". Even setting aside the often-not-subtle racist undertones, there was a constant insistence that Britain would dominate the EU in negotiations afterwards. They utterly failed to recognize that the EU just didn't consider the UK as indispensable as they imagined.

I really liked Cleese in the Monty Python films (though I find Flying Circus inconsistent at best). He's clearly got a comic gift. But on his own, he often seems mean, and I just don't find that interesting.
i'll just go back to notepad++. although i must say it's been in decline for the past year or so. they removed a theme i liked to use and i don't care for the UI changes at all. But it is still functional, at least until the next downgrade from the developer.

Eclipse is also still a great IDE with tons of plugins.
Why don’t they use Huddle then?
vscode would be dropped like a stone
It is. Parent comment just messes and misunderstands/focus only on "isolation" part of Podman/Docker, which is foundation but hardly a selling point of those products.
Sure, I don't have any opposition to companies offering it, or employees demanding it -- supply and demand will take care of that. I'm talking about whether I believe we should be making an effort as a society to push the market in one direction or the other.
Teams is horrible, but not nearly as horrible as an argument equating use of Teams to the Holocaust. There's a very big difference between using an app to communicate if you want your job and murder.
How much are interest rates relevant for Tech companies particularly growth oriented firms? They raise equity via stock not debt and VC firms aren't primarily raising money for their funds via debt either.
I was a Staff-level engineer that a BigCo@Bay area laid off in November. My network immediately went into overdrive connecting me with great opportunities, which I am VERY thankful for. Got in pipeline for 7 companies, interviewed for 4 roles, got 3 offers (two startups and one public company), declined the other 3 interviews and decided to take the public company offer.
I would love to see somebody plug SimCity into this!

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis
You are allowed to buy generic/affordable "older" varieties of insulin. It can be got at Walmart for $25 per vial. It is a "regular insulin" as opposed to the more modern insulin analogs; a functional but inferior technology that requires a very restrictive and rigid diet, as opposed to modern combinations of fast and slow acting analogs that allow for something closer to a "normal", albeit carb-cautious diet. It will, to quote my endocrinologist, "keep you alive". It is not part of a modern regimen for a Type 1 Diabetic.

My understanding is that it is manufactured by Novo Nordisk, the makers of more modern, name-brand insulins, as well (they make the fast-acting insulin aspart called Novolog that I take as part of my own regimen).

For further reference: https://diabetesstrong.com/walmart-insulin/
The Thunderbird Saga reminds of an old computer industry joke.

The new CEO of a tech company shows up for day one. He meets his recently-fired predecessor as he enters his office. They shake hands and the outgoing guy says "I left three letters for you in the bottom drawer, use them as needed".

First quarter for the new CEO, he hasn't much to put in the win column, having barely familiarized himself with staff and projects. But he has to provide a report to the Directors. Desperate, he pulls the first envelope, which reads "Blame your predecessor".

Next quarter isn't much better. Again desperate to prepare for the Board Meeting, pulls the second letter which reads "Blame the economy".

Third quarter he's just about to get some traction but still doesn't have anything earth shattering to report, he goes for the last letter, which reads "Write three letters".
>>If I were forced to use teams I would quit.

It's funny to hear this because if I were looking for a job one of the selling points for me would be if they used teams.

I'm on it all day, I present and run video meetings on it. I use it on different devices. It's not perfect by any means, but I'm confident that it will do what I need it to do.

My only guess is you're on a linux desktop and you don't use an enterprise deployment of teams and perhaps you're using the web version of the client. In that case, yes I feel for you.
I’m based in SF Bay Area and I was laid off from my Engineering Management position in October. I had MAANG offer at the time which took about 2-3 months when the process started in July. But as they started reviewing budgets it was cancelled even though Recruiter verbally agreed on the number. Then I interviewed with several companies in Oct-Dec. One startup was willing to proceed with VP/Director level offer but the President said he needs to wait until January to get it approved from the board. But they never got back to me. The interviews dried up since mid-Dec and I am still looking. I’m also on H1B so that makes it more challenging.
Their post sounds like a ChatGPT response
Not only that, but if it's a topic you don't know much about and you aren't seeing information from a variety of different sources, how would you even be able to know it's a wrong answer?
Mushroom picking does not impair future harvests – results of a long-term study in Switzerland [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...
I get that, but they listed

"Rebuild the interface from scratch..."

as a separate bullet point from codebase issues, and later talked about

"A UI that looks and feels modern is getting initially implemented...aiming at offering a simple and clean interface for “new” users..."
None. But the state or even preferably the country should take responsibility for establishing where employee lives and taxing the salary accordingly.
California has a vast and robust sprawling network of socialized transportation, the budget for which has doubled in the past 2 years to consume 7% of the annual state budget. Think I am talking about high speed rail? No, just the freeway department, which spends 40x more every year and the economic sustainability of which is never even obliquely questioned.

In short, California has plenty of appetite for socialism, as long as it is the kind they want.
Nice job. This looks very much like something I've been doing for some time... years :-)

The thing with this is it's exhilarating to use once it's working. Congrats!
Did video work in Firefox? They must have fixed that. I remember having to launch it in Chrome to join meetings.

Maybe it wasn't specifically Teams, but screen sharing used to be a massive performance hit (MBP around the year 2019). I remember giving a demo, and a response from a keycloak container I was running locally timed out.

It made it very awkward to copy and paste multiple messages in a chat.
Teams isn't that bad overall compared to Slack these days.
Profiting from Efficient Market Hypothesis
its no fad. I use to spend an hour going over an email to management. make it less technical, make it sound nicer / polite, etc. now I can take a sentence and say 'make this more succinct. ok, but take that and make it more polite, great thanks'.

I even used it for project proposals. 'write me a 1 page document for this idea'. and then I just use the scaffolding from there. its a huge time saver.

also you are notn seeing the bigger picture. "I like how it can generate songs and poems based on a prompt. Its not particularly useful, but it is entertaining. " do you realize how this is going to make writing (books, songs, tv shows, movies) so much easier?

I had a dream, all I did was give chatgpt the basics of the dream and I said make this into a short story. the results weren't bad, its definitely something one can work with. I think content creation on platforms is about to explode.
In my experience at least, yes, there are many types. However, a few types are remarkably common and overpriced. In terms of a tech metaphor, it’d be like making Ubuntu and Windows 10 available for all after having them severely restricted. And yes, I know Ubuntu is free, but the point was to demonstrate how common the most popular insulins are.
Not until there is a viable alternative.

But with the integration of Github Co-Pilot, they can now make subscription fees from all of those users of VSCode.
The author is not a random reporter but Ted Chiang, a well-known science fiction author. The movie "Arrival" is based on a story by him.
LOL at this phrase I was just prompted -> https://i.ibb.co/G9j9zGS/IMG-5166.png

Actual feedback:
- this app seems to be for people that already have a pretty good understanding of the language in which they are learning. It does't explain much, it doesn't try to teach you anything. But it's a nice app for practicing. It's also nice to see some well used sentences and phrases you might not see in a workbook.

I would encourage adding apple + google login options.
Claims about current VC environment
"Blurry JPEG" for how ChatGPT "compresses" character-based knowledge into vectors. That "compression" process gives ChatGPT an ability to generalize because it learns statistics (unlike JPEG) but like JPEG it is a lossy process.
Haven't heard about WebDAV and related HTTP extensions here for some time. I guess static web space management through the webdav protocol is below the average HNer who rather wants "web apps" for reasons of financial wellbeing ;) Interestingly, the history of versioning of static web "resources" through webdav (Delta/V [1]) is strongly connected to subversion (svn), which as a SCM has long made way for git, but kindof lives on in mod_dav_svn.

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3253
Some of our users ship 1-click in-app integrations to their users with us, we haven't worked on cases where the whole builder is embedded. Feel free to open an issue about it and we'll discuss it there: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/issues
There are 59 Scottish MPs in Parliament, many of whom support the Online Safety Bill. In fact, SNP MPs have consistently argued for stronger 'protections' than the Bill's proposers originally wanted. How is Scotland not represented in Parliament?
You can be diagnosed with Alzheimer's and be totally lucid and capable of making your own decisions in the present.
Pretty bad argument when we in fact do have many of the numbers for public companies and those numbers show growing revenue and record profits...
And there is no way the Fed can reduce rates to bail out this next crash. Hang on people...
Not really surprised - the UK is already Europe's biggest surveillance state.
No code is just "code with a fancy UI, a less powerful language and no or bad integration with common tooling".

It doesn't replace programming, it _is_ programming. It's useful because it makes programming more accessible and in some cases the visual representation has benefits over text.

I see more and more professional fields and application interfaces adopting things like SQL, Python, Notebooks (Jupyter etc.), JavaScript etc. Excel is obviously huge. A ton of technicians that work with physical stuff are also writing code in embedded interfaces or on large screens even. Programming is not a thing only software developers do.
Yep. Before social security and medicaid, the USA had a ton of homeless and suffering elderly people.
huddle as a lot of limitations. it's good for random adhoc chats but not good for more formal scheduled meeting. for larger companies, using something zoom-like and huddle makes sense.
Americans in general are dumbasses when it comes to Jews. Most I talk to don't know the difference between an ethnic Jew and a practicing Jew. Most consider someone to be a practicing Jew/Jewish if they've ever been to Temple, even if they haven't gone in years. Meanwhile, those same people won't consider themselves to be a practicing Christian because "they haven't been to church in years". The whole conversation is just brainrot.
For sure. As somebody said already, at least if you're fired you'll get severance. I'd get nothing when I quit though.

Have you _used_ MS Teams? I'm not exactly a fan of Slack, but it's like telepathy by comparison.
For me it's that notifications are so inconsistent that I can never rely on them. Sometimes I get them, but sometimes I don't even if I'm actively using my PC. On Windows the performance is ok, but it absolutely ruins my MacBook's battery even when using the ARM native version.

Another thing is that I have to use Intune to use Teams on my phone. Now, I know that's a choice the IT department made, and my employer is to blame here. But at least Zoom and Slack don't even give them the option to mandate bundling literal spyware.

I also dislike the concept of having teams and chats in separate places, with the two having a completely different flow of usage.
> plenty of hiring still

Doesn't sound like it from responses the other ASK HN post. But you are right, i get a sense that it might take years before the havoc they've created will unravel.
I have mixed feelings about it.

I do believe with certainty that there are many people, millions, whose life has been made substantially worse by the invention of ubiquitous computing devices.

Probably the minority. But I’d say his questions (ie “What’s in it for me?”) are excellent ones to pose in the face of new technology.
I wasn't around when the decision was made. However, we moved from Ruby to .Net. I'm not sure if Java was ever even a consideration.
> It has so far. We might have expected the massive gains in developer productivity over the last 70 years to have resulted in the demand for new developers slowing down at some point, but it hasn't.

Recently there has been an explosive transformation from software as a user and productivity focused industry into an adtech one, which has increased demand temporarily.

> In a very typical way, more supply just gets eaten up by more demand

Sure, but increasing supply also means decreasing price by that same model. Decreasing price means less money for developers, meaning less people are incentivized to become developers, leading to equilibrium. Of course, that's a very simplistic model.
Yes, if going this route, would be optimal if you own your own business so that over time you can hire help and just manage the business.
True but still I mean being a w2 employee at big tech is a pretty good gig.
Deliveroo cuts 350 jobs after fall in online orders
Definitely was- we didn’t have an office for the first few years. Picked up the first office in 2010, and it was a big component of work life since then (even though the numbers were primarily ⅔ remote throughout).
The page has OwnCloud's logo on there, but OwnCloud recently introduced a ground-up rewrite, resulting in a single-binary deployment (written in Go). Does anyone know if Sabre/dav's PHP is still in the cards at OwnCloud?

For CardDAV/CalDAV I'd be interested in a comparison to Radicale...
Still that is what the downvote button for. With a comment extolling why your opinion is further valid than the net points that support it, seems an exercise in ego that is not beneficial to either you or the community.
Show HN: Deploy LangChain Apps to Production
Wonder how hard it is to get started with glassblowing
US unemployment is the lowest since the Moon landing in 1969.

We are not looking at some tech decimation. The companies were spending like drunken socialist sailors during the pandemic because the oracles in upper management saw us all staying home forever. And now they are snapping back to the sizes they actually were.
I've done a lot of hiring. Happy to give thoughts on your resume if you want (for free).
Thanks for the feedback! I guess I'll take it as a compliment. It just goes to show how far language models like ChatGPT have come.

Of course, I always have room for improvement when I comment next time.
Feed your resume into chat gpt3. Make your resume focus on numbers. Reach out to recruiters and ask for help. Try informal interviews with a corporation you like.

If you have money, find a career coach with a big network.
A few senior friends got booted and are starting to be panic after a few months of doing nothing

It reminds me of 2008. I switched during the covid boom expecting the obvious crash after governments run out of excuses
Built a python library that enables easy deployment of LangChain apps to production API endpoints using the Steamship platform. The library consists of a few key adapters (LLM, Cache, Memory, and Search Tool) that make it easy to port and deploy. More (including VectorStore) on the way.

Example use cases (including audio summarization) are included with links to replits to try things out.

Very interested in feedback.
This is still not the way to do it. There are other of methods of law enforcement[0] that don't require any given message to be available for interception. Something like ANOM is more difficult to pull off but it's also less prone to error, which is a more important thing to optimize.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM
I used it for two years next to WebEx and it is the worst of all. Not only UX is the worst (cannot have a normal channel, everything is a thread, you cannot change alignment of messages) also the rate of people complaining their Teams does not work was staggering.
We use Teams long term and would give quite a bit to be able to use Slack. At least it's a great tool to focus our negative energies on, lol.
[Citation very much needed]
En-CA switching to M/d/yy from y-MM-dd?
I noticed some locale-formatting tests breaking in Chrome 110 and traced this back to a change in Unicode CLDR 42.

You can find this by searching for "y-MM-dd" in the linked changelog.

AIUI, the official recommendation is to use y-MM-dd, and M/d/yy is particularly ambiguous in Canada, at least relative to the US.

Thought I'd float in case anyone knows more, or has been using the "en-CA" trick to get American-ish dates with YYYY-MM-DD short dates.
Yeah that’s not how the Swiss system works at all though is the point.