skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t go that far. My goal was to still live as if I was making the same thing I made before I came to BigTech

And for context: my budget at 49 years old could easily be supported by what a returning intern got at my current company. We aren’t talking about a lot of money by tech standards.

Housing: we were paying around $3500 a month all in - mortgage, utilities, yard, pest control etc. When we stay in our “Condotel” between October and mid March we are paying less than $3000 all in, the mortgage + HOA (CDD) thst covers everything else including utilities, access to three pools, a lake, a gym, three restaurants onsite, a running trail etc all included.

Our budget for hotels is about $3500/month - midrange Hilton extended stays also with gyms and pools.

-ground transportation - we had one car with a car note, that and maintenance, gas and car insurance for two cars came up to around $1000/month. We sold both of our cars. That’s now our Uber/occasional rental car budget.

- flights - before our “vacation budget” was around $8000 a year. Now that’s our domestic one way plane budget for the year.

I looked at a budget from 2016 when I was making $135K (less than a returning intern offer at my current job and I was 43 at the time), and my yearly spend has only increased by the $8000 flight budget.

Now “my“ budget does include my wife’s “allowance” that she was providing for herself when she was working part time in the school system. We agreed for her to stop working post Covid and when I got my current job.

Also, I give myself an “allowance” too that’s actually less than hers.
And yet it's still an valued point. Some things can be trite and true, why spend energy entertaining contrairianism.

Being bold and out of character may inadvertently build character (brutalism). Movies have done the same: appeal to the masses by not being noticeably placeable.

Chicago has this many (show 1 finger) new floorplans replacing the brown/graystones which were themselves ubiquitous, and it's soul crushing. Every year I live in this city adds to the bane of noticing all the "misses" on long term investments and diversity (housing, minimal investment in public spaces, say "bike lane" as many times as you can in one sentence.)

Keep contention high by being noticeable and trying. not bland by contrast.
>"should" investors demand the senior executives get pay cuts? Why? They just executed thousands of slaves, and there will be a massive drop in costs

Why not? Investors are after every additional cent, and they don’t have special charitable feelings towards execs.
Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people
nice. I've been playing at openai for the last couple weeks, experimenting with extracting commands and queries from user prompts trying to gauge how to do pretty much exactly this. this kind of thing is going to be awesome.
> Their operational costs are almost non-existent, but the monstrous overhead of building them ruins economic viability.

The 'non-existent' operating costs are financially equal to renewables (and rapidly approaching renewables + storage) and the social and ecological costs in kazakhstan, uzbekistan, niger, australia etc. are on par with coal mining or fracking.
I would honestly like to know more about how to make it handle email chains. My work is happily quite email free but recently I've been involved with a company in my private life and I'm finding the email chains in Gmail incomprehensible -- the old emails aren't folded; I seem to have to scroll past millions of copies of the same email signatures with images in the signatures, as well as tons of quoted text from random copies of the group conversation at earlier points in its life, trying to hunt out the "real" last email. Is this normal?
Lifestyle creep is a thing. You may think you have a plan, but then get a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer cars and slightly nicer vacations…and suddenly now you need 1.5x the money you planned for.
Agreed. I could pick the audio from either out of a noisy room.
Yahoo is still around? What does it do?
As someone sometimes in that position, if I can get 85-90% accuracy (in both directions), I think that’s about the best I can possibly do in a 500-ish person organization.

I hate the false positive (including a good performer incorrectly beyond that required by the depth of layoff) more than anything else for its deep unfairness to the individual, the team, and the company.
2) Monopolies usually form because of government failure, not because of free markets. What you state is true, but its only true because because its a means to an end: It is substantially easier to manipulate government into currying you favor, than it is to build innovation that sticks. The former is just dollars. The latter is dollars + sweat + luck.

1) OK. I challenge you to find a free market that has produced a monopoly company without some kind of govt helping hand. Examples of helping hands: artificially low interest rates (derisking M&A), regulatory capture, or failure to enforce laws (antidumping, antitrust).

3) That's true. And who's fault is that not all true (cheaper) choices are offered to the market ?

Hint: Why so few $1000 new cars, or $200 surgeries? Its not the market that is not willing to make them, rest assured. Its that a certain large body is not allowing others to make their risk:reward choices.
>>modern people hide their ... power cords

Except those decorative halogen lights that hang from the + and - wires. As a kid I was messing with a pendant light over my kitchen island and accidentally bridged those wires together!
Time Traveler and the hologram fighting game were both pretty bad. You were definitely pumping the quarters into the right machines.
"They" in this case is Congress. The FAA never does anything unless forced to do so by Congress.
Agreed, which is why the mandatory single family home zoning that dominates most of America's residential land is such a disaster.

Mandating that anyone who wants to live in an area must living in a detached house on a big lot is terrible. Anyone who would rather pay less for less home is completely left out, by government decree no less.

Upzone and let the market cater to what people are willing to pay for, same as cars.
If Rivian wants something practical to do then they can start by opening their chargers to all brands of EVs. Brand exclusive chargers are backward, primitive, and wasteful.
The average mid level developer has zero stock grants or equity. Most of the developers I know work for a salary and benefits and that’s it.
Germany has had a relatively stagnant population for some time now and they still have housing price problems, especially for buying real estate.

Western countries have somehow managed to develop learn helplessness on housing. It should be easier than ever to make safe, high quality housing, and yet it's become absurdly difficult and expensive instead.

It's common to hear anecdotes from homeowners merely trying to do an extension or add an ADU on the kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy that we've managed to create.
The Story Construction Tells About America’s Economy Is Disturbing
Houses aren't fungible either. Some places have dirt cheap homes, many places don't. The number of buildings is only important so far as they are located where people want to live.
They most likely would send you a copy, I have a 100% success rate with that. Though I should also mention that paper is present on scihub at this very moment.
"squeezed on top of each other" is bad but "more dense" is good?

There's a lot more to whether either of these are good than these talking points.
> it does just arise from owning the token, if you stake the token

If. (And you aren’t. You’re asking someone to.)
I’m not sure if I follow.
What if you do this (w.r.t screenshot image):

* Green up

* Orange right

* Green down

* Green left

* Green up

* Green right

* Orange up

* Orange left

* Green left

* Orange up

* Green right

* Orange right
I’ll see if I can dig up my original and convert it into a blog post.
I suspect most people buying new cars could actually afford to buy a new car without using credit. The difference is companies want you to make poor financial decisions.
This looks great. I really think a good use case for the current generation would be to be able to extend it with your own data.

Having internal users ask questions then have a ChatGPTesque system answer with injected data would be nice. Would be very tightly controlled (or it couldn't answer what it doesn't have).

Something between a rigid chatbot that's exists now and ChatGPT that just makes up plausible answers.
I don’t think they’ve had the standing tables since Avanti took over at the end of 2019?
1) Market != Country. There are plenty of free markets within the U.S.

2) There are multiple ways to maximize profits in a free market depending on the market. Not all markets allow you to create monopolies. Monopolies only exist, in practice, were market dynamics are compromised. For instance, power companies are able to be monopolies because power delivery infrastructure is constrained and supply cannot be increased (imagine if anyone who wanted to throw up a power poll was allowed).

3) Choice is literally the defining characteristic of a free market. If customers aren't able to choose, you aren't talking about a free market. This is kind of moot for this topic though, as colleges are very clearly something one can choose.

> How would you describe an economy in which customer satisfaction actually matters? Regulated free market? Free market with guard rails?

Regulations can make markets freer the same ways they make people freer. You are free to walk on sidewalks because laws say cars cants drive there.

> Or do you really think that a 100% unregulated market is at all supportive of human benefit?

The counter point to "free markets can help this problem" is not "you must think laws are stupid and money is everything."
Why Many Companies Get Layoffs Wrong
I think some German trains have them too?
I wish, but any open message window gets terminated and replaced when clicking the reply button.

Edit: Found the work-around: You have to hold the Option key when clicking reply to be allowed two windows. Just Mac things, I guess...
Next week:
Hiring prompt orchestration op engineers, 5 years minimum experience.

No wait, that doesn't have a great acronym.
If you consider it a mistake to say the word 'teaching' to describe explaining a new topic in natural language, asking my counterparty to solve problems, explaining errors and wrong assumptions in some of its responses, and getting corrected answers back, with the new information incorporated into subsequent answers -- this is just not a conversation worth having. Yes, of course I know it's freshly reset in new conversations. And of course I know that its mechanisms and the spectrum of strengths and weaknesses are not human-like.

When you tell me what I allegedly think and under what condition I'd be "more skeptical", it's kind of irritating. (Maybe I deserve it for starting this thread with a combative tone. By the time I came back meaning to edit that first comment, there was already a reply.)
its cancelled because your employer stopped paying for it.

If you pay for it, its valid for a period of time, usually 6 mo
Last one makes sense until you count layoffs which not only does the opposite it gives employees a vendetta against you.
Same class, but no employee is the same.
Housing of X time period tends to look similar.

That's fine, what gives cities character is when a) styles are mixed up by virtue of having been built in different time periods, and b) as the fronts/facades get gradually transformed over time.
> Five years from now, I think we will not see "remote only" for a large company and think "ooh, they value their employees I guess"

Also, remote work opens the door to replace expensive domestic workers with cheap foreign ones. If your employees are going to be pictures on your screen anyway, might as well pick ones that worker harder and complain less.

For what it's worth, this might finally open the eyes of many SWEs that they're plain workers with little bargaining power and that their inflated salaries are a historical accident owning to many of the current tech barons having been engineers themselves at one point, throwing a larger bone than they otherwise would have to. Other than that, there's few reasons, and certainly no market-based ones, why those salaries should be as high as they are, when they're cheap just across the border.

If remote work being granted and taken arbitrarily -- with not even an attempt at justifying it in terms of business demands -- hasn't alerted you to the feudal reality of the modern tech corporation, perhaps being laid off will do the trick.

Broad pro labour legislation would be the answer here, but while the libertarian crackpot religion remains strong in overclass circles, there's not going to be anything of the sort.
(not the creator, but I've built something similar for personal use)

This is a great library for determining which speaker is speaking during each time in an audio file (this is called speaker diarization); I imagine they used it or something like it. Works really well out of the box!

https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio
COBRA is the real cost of healthcare insurance, which is hidden because the employer pays for X % + because the employer and employee both paid with pretax dollars (something that is not possible for COBRA since you are now a former employee)

Its not that COBRA is expensive, but that all tax-subsidized employer insurance is prohibitively expensive and typically costs 15-25% of the median worker's after-tax earnings

Healthcare insurance subsidies by employers are the biggest piece in wage increases... that are hiding from most "wage growth" statistics
Many apps support two versions behind as a general rule of thumb, but the bigger the app the further back they tend to support.
Should this be called SLM (Small language models) ?
Tbh for me it’s the better plug-in UX and the built in debugger. Of course I use IJ for real stuff.
There's a helpful raven at the hub of science for that ; )

https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423652
There’s a middle ground between saying nothing and making them look bad in public. Talk privately to your director/VP. Ask questions. You don’t even have to come right and say you think they’re wrong, but showing interest in the direction and financial health of t the company is unlikely to hurt you in any way.
One thing great about corpora is that, it can handle large amount of documents and data out of the box and users can ask Q&A from entire data space, this was the problem that was in our mind, working at scale from the start.
This misses two big aspects of software engineering as a whole; the more code you already have the, the longer it takes to add new features, and the more people working on a code base, the long it takes to coordinate. These two aspects mean you need more and more people to move things along. You multiply this with that doing a service in multiple countries is more complex than one.
That seems a little too obvious to be fake. My guess is that views =! impressions, so while he's got millions of views, he's looking at something more accurate.

People are posting on locked accounts with zero followers and they have 59 "views" as soon as they post, whatever that means.

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1623788092124704768
Also I hate localized XDG directories. Windows and macOS don't localize real directory name but only Linux does. I run LANG=C xdg-user-dirs-update after I install Linux with my lang
Revenue per employee is a very poor measure of productivity; it would imply that many people working at startups are completely unproductive (which rings false to me).
> This alternate reality could have saved Yahoo. Indeed this is the exact “blocker” strategy is what many of today’s companies like Google/FB/etc are employing.

I don't think this is accurate. I think the main reason to pay people a lot is just to get talent and stop already existent competitors from getting that talent (which is still 'blocking' in a sense). Stopping people from making possible start-up competitors is, I think, a comparatively minor concern.
> They're the ones maintaining the damn things, the least we can do is respect them.

we don't respect maintainers who leave in buffer overruns or x-site scripting, why should we respect maintainers who don't respect users? yes, they're writing and maintaining, but undoubtedly also using tons of respectful opensource that other maintainers take care of.

it's like driving a car ("everybody faster than me is a maniac, everybody slower than me is a moron") and cursing cyclists, then jumping on your bike and running red lights, stop signs, crosswalks, sidewalks, you name it. To have a civilized society we all have to go out of our way a little bit for other people, throw away some trash that's not yours.

like forum/reddit moderator phenomenon, there is something about the power (and most definitely the nagging they get from impolite users) that makes the developers act like douches when they probably aren't the rest of the time.

but that's not an excuse for crapping all over my dotfiles and home directory tree.
He test fired the largest rocket in history this week.
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If hacker news is filled with liberal ideologues, of course that's what my comments will look like

If chatGPT is run by liberals and programmed with an anti-white bias, then of course my comments will be Racist.

"When presented with "the trolley problem," if the races are stated, ChatGPT will always decide to kill the White people, regardless of the number differential."
Source: https://twitter.com/Mrestman7/status/1611349489289203713?s=2...
Is this OpenAI based, or do you host your own LLM? Can I provide my own fine tuning so that I can teach the AI to call my code better?
They do. The higher you are up on the ladder the more likely you'll be communicating with board members. Communication implies relationship and all the buddy buddy politics required to even get an executive position.
so the wants of those who wish to move to a neigh orhood outweigh the needs of those who are already there?

i have no love for the nimbys but its also not a win to turn a neighbordhood into a bunch of low rent duplexes. theres a differenxe between rempving restrictions for new development and using these changes to undermine the property rights of others.
Relevant to this discussion is the Toolformer paper that was just released today from Meta AI. To me the exciting result from the paper is that it appears that much smaller models can be used to translate human intent into actions: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761
Proposal for new Set methods in JavaScript
Because not all companies have incredible profits. They have to manage their money, and a big part of that is salary.

I know it's convenient to believe that all employers are greedy Scrooge McMusks taking advantage of their employees, but most businesses are actually small and run by normal people just trying to keep the lights on without losing their shirt.
> If vehicles keep increasing in size to the point that they become less convenient then that provides a disincentive to purchase large vehicles.

Unfortunately I have no faith in this. Builders will keep building bigger. Companies will re-paint existing lots.

Without laws (that get enforced) to limit the size of the spaces, the cars, or both things will get worse.
The next stage: you guys carefully curate a gigantic list of extremely high quality agents and I dont have to make any agents for my specific use case.

Stage after that: GPT, or some other AI constantly adapts / curates the agents for me based on my notes, conversations, etc. (Although a privacy nightmare)
We're talking cash here. The layoffs are supposedly for cash right.
Your lack of imagination is not a compelling argument.
If you wish to flag or downvote individual comments of mine, Go For It!
I enjoy testing my ideas to see which are Agreed with and which are Disagreed with.
So it can replace all the talking heads on CMSNBC? That can only be good news.
Big companies need lots of people because

a) being bigger means more technical complexity, more bureaucracy, and more risk, all of which mean each individual employee becomes less productive

b) there's tons of features that their products tend to have that a typical user doesn't know about or care about, which people aren't factoring into their estimate of how many employees the company actually 'needs'

c) there's tons of aspects of a software product that increase in importance the bigger you are that aren't your core thing, but still need to be taken care of: internationalization, security, privacy, accessibility, etc. Of course the typical HN take is probably "psshhhh, that stuff is important no matter how big you are" but realistically, a small startup is gonna spend less time total on those things than a big mature company, most of the time
You don't know real suffering until you've tried browsing on HughesNet. $74.99/month for 50gb of 4mb/s up and 1mb/s down (yes, in 2023).

Don't worry though, once you hit your gratuitous 50gb/month limit, they only make your network 8x slower until you pay $10/extra gig... I wouldn't praise Starlink if it wasn't such a steal by comparison.
Machine learning for compilers is a big research area, this query turns up documents on that

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=machine+learning+compiler+op...

and also documents on compilers for machine language programs.

An advanced optimizing compiler can work very hard to optimize the code, particularly with "profile guided optimization" or having the compiler generate a large number of candidate binaries and choosing the best. You'd better believe people treat this as a mathematical "optimization" problem and try out the most powerful tools.

The JIT, however, runs every time the program starts up for every user and if the JIT is not fast the delay becomes untolerable. Now the JIT does have the advantage that it can do profile-guided optimization based on tier0 profiling but whatever it does has to be fast so in that sense it must use simple algorithms. As that article points out the developers of a commercial runtime like .NET are very concerned about optimizing the optimization process.
You are comparing a “web blocker” to a “browser” you are also waxing prosaically about how much better is and failed to show any examples.

The fact is that your ad blocking extension won’t work at all within embedded web views.

We know for a fact that a third party ad blocking extension can not intercept your web browsing history on iOS whether it is open source or closed sourced. It has no access to your web browsing history.

Your assurance comes from open source, mine comes from knowing that my third party as blocker doesn’t have any access to my web browsing.
Ask HN: Has anyone made a toy that integrates ChatGPT with voice recognition?
One reason I’m not seeing here is that big companies have such high communication overhead. It’s incredibly hard to get large groups of people working efficiently toward common objectives. You can choose between heavy bottlenecks or wasteful duplication of effort, and there is constant churn trying to balance the two. Just knowing what is going on and who to talk to becomes important, hard work. Informing other people what you are doing, why, and how it’s going starts to take significant time. On a small team you’ll never even see how much of a challenge this is.
I imagine you are overthinking the problem here.

It's all about choice.