skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think that's just called enforcing best practices, not optimal solutions.
I have a friend who is basically an extremely "toxic capitalist" (to put it simply).

He "called" that it wouldn't last that a lot of people were making "big" tech money + not really working 8 hours a day.

Maybe that's what this whole "big tech layoff" is. A reset to lower overheated wages. Make 500,000 unemployed programmers compete for paycuts.
Was he kicked out or did he resign? I didn't realize that before, as I just looked it up, but there is a big difference between the two.
> The state is taking a two-phase approach. In the short term, California has put out a request for proposals from existing enterprises that could produce generic insulin for the state as a subcontractor in the next few years in order to try to deliver relief as soon as possible.

[...]

> But in the long term, the plan is for a government factory operated by government workers producing government-owned medication. The state would have its own public production facilities, staffed by civil workers, which would sell generic insulin for the same cost needed to produce it, plus perhaps a small percentage to cover auxiliary costs for the program.

> The $100 million in funding is split evenly between the short and long term. But that long-term vision will take time. Even if the state were to retrofit an existing factory for insulin production, that construction work could take years, as would hiring a workforce to oversee it. Once production is up and running, California would need to hit more targets — most importantly producing a product that the FDA says is interchangeable with existing insulin medications.

That second phase is certainly ambitious. Putting it out for bid would be the more normal government process. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Plugins are too easy for me to disable. Somehow editing /etc/localhost and redirecting time wasters to locahost requires higher activation energy for me and works so that's what I do.
Do they use JavaScript outside the UI?
phoning home to china? what's that?

how many of those posters have created issues on github regarding these things?

phoning home?

security issues?

poor code quality?

edit: would you be comfortable with google analytics in exchange of "phoning home to china"?
Are these two points basically true?

> As time goes on, businesses are continuing to rely on more software, not less software.

> AI tools are very fascinating, but are nowhere near ready to replace most programmers for most tasks.

If those points are true enough, developers as a group aren't going away, though some individuals might choose a different path.
by leading with value your in a whole lot better position.
We're hiring at our company. We've had a lot of people come through from the recent waves of layoffs, and usually so far there has been a mix of too high expectations, remote work mismatches as well as just lots of people not making the bar (we are a small company).

Still on the lookout for senior rust engineers who want to work at a company that's remote-first with a minimal-meetings culture.

You can message me on telegram @jommi for info
> It's an open invitation to move your position to the lowest cost country that outputs quality that is acceptable

Haven't we litigated this enough? If outsourcing was so viable and so valuable, it would be done already. Are we supposed to ignore: time zones, language barriers, cultural barriers?
I have yet to see any evidence that “sunlight disinfects” or that mainstream media can out-shout disinformation.
Proof of trolling is asking of you that which you asked of me? That's surprisingly revealing.
A single mistake, maybe. An entire paragraph where every single sentence consists of a separate claim that is either outright wrong or unsupported by any evidence? Well, maybe it is par for the course for modern journalism after all.
That's a funny one cause Lightyear was a really good movie. In some ways it was a much more mature sci-fi story than most of the big "sci fi" movie franchises.
Yes, we need some kind of tool like Explain Plan for databases. Except that for any AI response we can understand more the decision plan and sources.
To extend the metaphor, blurry jpeg’s have taken us a surprisingly long way as a society.

The trade offs might be alright.
Wow what an odd coincidence both git companies doing layoffs on the same day.

Also interesting that GitHub is so separate from Microsoft that they are doing their own layoffs and weren’t included in the larger Microsoft layoffs.
I’d rather learn a trade like plumbing or electrical systems. Hell, the richest guy I’ve ever met ran a high-end masonry business.
There is no excuse. One way or the other it's really bad management. You may not realize it but 7% is a massive piece of the pie. Why did you hire those people Gitlab in the first place?

The macroeconomic environment isn't tough, my equity stock and shares could have been better but are doing just fine. And if it were tough, it would justify layoffs of 1%, not 7%. Covid, the Russian war and energy crisis have been going on for years now but they didn't stop you from hiring Gitlab. Your irresponsible hiring patterns show mediocrity, corporate chaos.

Exploiting the situation to rollback hiring mistakes is not justified. Nor experimenting with peoples' lives.
No offense to the OP, as it is a well written article on a fairly common bad habit, but...

I gotta say I'm sick of advertisements masquerading as blog posts. It is like tech bro astro-turfing, and frankly insufferable to see the owner of a SaaS/package/product describe their own stuff as "a gem". Once I see past the worm and see the hook, I just stop reading. I wish these blog posts would be more upfront about their bias rather than coming across as a friendly coffee chat that turns out to be a quite biased sales pitch.

Apologies for the rant, and again apologies to the OP for catching a stray bullet here as your product is interesting. I just find this method of advertising distasteful.
also for curious mind here is a more authentic tutorial on building gpt (precursor to gpt3) by andrej karpathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
My point is if you want to spend time, spend on authentic material not some bogus material.
laid off in November. Applied to ~80companies. got 1 job offer but they lowballed me
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US (2019)
Before opening the article I already knew what is in there, and I proved to be correct. We have already seen all of it in Luckin coffee in China.

So many tech startups think they are going to "disrupt the industry", never actually try to understand why the market is what it is today, why there are no major disruptors and if any such efforts succeeded, but instead go ahead with whatever plan they have. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that there isn't a big enough market or margin to make the business sustainable or survive, and the entire idea is a solution looking for a problem.

I don't think there is anything unexpected here.
What a beautiful human being, and what a well written essay
If you did then the LLM might stop hallucinating so much.
In Forth, you have to reason about how many things each command takes off the stack and leaves on the stack, whereas with pipes, it's always exactly one thing.
I know people that work in tech at decent companies that can't buy a house.

Every non major metro area mechanic, school teacher, city employee I know has a nice home.

People should really consider doing lower paying boring work in places your mortgage can be $2000 a month.
this completely defeats the point of the fediverse
What do you think of the name CockroachDB?
I used to run the twitter handle for CockroachDB and got daily scathing mentions about our name. This blog explains a bit about the logic and origin of the audacious name: CockroachDB.
I assume this is due to synergies from using Windows instead of whatever.
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Any course on information theory typically covers neural network based compression algorithms, so I’m impressed at this observation made by someone who doesn’t have a formal background in CS. Regardless, it’s true.
I live in a mega-neigborhood with thousands of homes. That same map indicates there are something like 4 ISPs in my area. Some of which aren't even companies I can even contact.
I understand why the mainstream thinks that but it's incredibly annoying that even in tech circles there is very little meaningful discussion, it's mainly just people posting amusing screenshots purportedly showing how smart GPT3 is or in other cases how it's politically biased.

Anyone who's played around with it knows that it's fun but it's not a search engine replacement and it doesn't know nor understand things. It regularly gives complete misinformation and when you ask for a source it makes up fake URLs and fake science papers on top of that.

It's nothing like described in the article and I don't understand why people who should know better don't call out the bullshit media reporting more. We've had GPT3 for ages, it's not like most of us only tried it since Chat GPT3 came out, right?
+1

I heard some horror stories with new ubiquiti gear, but my ERPoE router has been serving me gbit and PoE for AP since 2016 and 0 issues, it even handles WireGuard using some hoops.
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Money doesn’t magically make burnout go away.

In fact, it will make it worse, because you’ll keep telling yourself to hold on for the money while your mental health exponentially deteriorates.
See for yourself: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19llMUCDHX-hLKru-cnDCq0Bi...

Also, your comment history shows a definite bias.
Look at the very northern part of the sun. At the beginning, it's just a normal surface, but what looks like a giant cyclone forms over it about halfway through
I've found it's quite good at this sort of thing, within limits. If you want a fun but frustrating LLM adventure, try getting it to create and render an icosphere like a soccer ball. GPT can easily articulate the concept, translating that into an algorithm is much more difficult.

On the plus side, you have a good algorithm for some task that you can comfortably articulate or express as pseudocode, it can be a huge time saver on the syntactical side, translating it to a different language etc.
the article DOES NOT describe GPT3 and this article title is misleading, and the author is lying.
> The difference is that here in the giftcard industry, we want to stop that,

Do you guys really? I mean "you guys" generally, not you personally.

It doesn't seem that way to me. If the gift card industry really wanted to curb this shit, it would be a simple matter to abolish all high-value denominations of gift card and forbid purchasing more than one a day. If Gran wants to buy a birthday gift for her grandhchild, a single $20 gift card should be more than sufficient to show her love. There is no reason to allow her to buy 10x $500 cards in one day. Only tiny fraction of the population could afford to be doing something like that legitimately, virtually all such sales are people being tricked by scammers, yet the high denomination gift cards still exist despite your industry's supposed care.
That's my impression as well. I don't understand the perspective of "is software engineering over because I can't make a quarter million base salary anymore?". I've always preferred smaller companies and never wanted to work at a large tech company - don't foresee much change in my future unless I willingly change industries for personal reasons
If that value justifies the cost, there should not be a problem. Some of that value may move to low CoL areas and offer comparable value for much lower cost - then things will start to become complicated - this is totally based on the assumption that that value is only available in high CoL areas.
However, there's a lot of options that are even cheaper.
As someone with more carpentry experience (paid) than dev experience, but strong interests in both worlds, I’m curious how you would reconcile taking an approximate 50% reduction in comp. Don’t know the numbers for your area but knowing Bay Area salaries, senior devs make 2-2.5x journeyman carpenters.
I agree. Having a hard remote only rule changes your opportunities. The key is being flexible.
This. Also, almost every privacy policy I've ever read has enough holes to drive a convoy of trucks through anyway. I believe privacy policies are worthless, and ignore them.
how did you file this complaint?
Fasting, when done properly, is much easier than it seems, it can even be enjoyable.
There is a small utility called Replacicon[1] that fixes this.

[1] https://replacicon.app/
There's also a lot of "concentrated knowledge and skill" in other places of the world.
It's great that you were able to donate without barriers or middlemen, but the 1.7 billion unbanked people in the world don't have the same access to financial institutions like you think they do. A significant chunk of their finances are taken by bankers for remittances and other fees.

Rather than conceding, you're in the position of asserting three things simultaneously:

1. The gov of Ukraine is using crypto donations for illegitimate purposes, but only the crypto donations.

2. Non-crypto donations are legitimate, but only those donations.

3. Even if the crypto donations were legitimate, unless the donations were ten times what was actually raised (~ 14M USD), it still has no reason to exist.
| after migrating from SeaMonkey

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.
Monkey patch is to patch a "monkey codebase", where it's a bug for some magic string / hard-code value.

I think we don't need this kind of runtime monkey patching as soon as the packaging system is simpler, which allows easier to fork that package.
I don’t have much of a response but this comment is very well written and exactly what I would say if I could write clearly. It’s an exciting time! Hopefully it turns out more like the internet and less like… idk I’m struggling to think of a bad invention haha. Quadcopters I guess
It's not being created systematically, it's just the icon.
With all the copy-cat layoffs going on, I wonder how many people have been laid off, found a new job only to be laid off _again_!
>where people do collectively have power to make drastic and enduring changes to the system without needing to start a cycle of violence to accomplish their aims.

Tell that to me again after the financial system, immense legal corruption and healthcare has been fixed. These are all problems known for decades beyond some people's lifespans and consecutive presidents haven't been able to fix it...hell many go again their election promises with lame duck excuses.

If I had to compare both shitty superpowers, China would be "can't change the party but you can change the policy", while the US would be "you can change the party, but not the policy"

Both are dystopian in their own ways, difference being China is an obvert dystopia, while the US is covert one drugging their populace to numb discontent etc.
That is so cool, people really think of everything don't they?
Ultimately, religion is just another expression of culture, and culture directly shapes what we believe is possible in the world.

It seems unsurprising (but tragic) that the enslavement of a race over hundreds of years would leave deep imprints about the nature of meaning on the resulting culture.

Does this fully account for the discrepancy you mention? I’m sure there are other factors that play a part, and the fact that racism is still alive and well almost certainly is one of those factors - and another cultural artifact that hasn’t been fully addressed.
They appear to be talking about Japanese hosted sites, with content that is legal in Japan:

> Japan didn't even make all child porn illegal either, they only made photos and videos with real children in them illegal, computer-generated imagery of children, no matter how sexual, is not illegal in the eyes of the law. Neither are animated cartoons, drawings, or physical sex dolls that resemble children.

It takes a while for them to reveal that key fact, enough that this reads as a bit insane. Presumably any open source protocal or publishing system in use by Japanese people is going to fall under the same banner.
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I don't agree, but I imagine the mindset is "why would I hire someone who didn't make the cut and got laid off when I could poach somebody else that did make the cut at their company."
I will probably need to look for alternatives, if I catch any sniff of "we are an electron app now" or similar. In that case I will probably only use the older version as a lookup program for past e-mails, if I cannot import them into something else. Or I stick with an old version of Thunderbird.
> it also doesn't explicitly force people to stop speaking their native language or abandon their religion, or throw people in prison for waving a sign in the street

I don't mean to get all edgy, and not to detract from your general point, but please don't forget that the U.S. supports (and has even installed) foreign regimes that do these (and worse) things - albeit to people in other countries.
Both the layoffs and the buybacks are sacrifices to the Gods of Wall Street, to earn the right to invest in the metaverse ;)
Seems odd to me to describe using a Chromium-based toolkit as a way to break the Chrome monoculture. Yeah, I know it is open source, but the ties are still obvious.
Want niche use case? I feed chatgpt the whole warstuff one page rule miniature combat system, and I can ask it to generate thematic units.

I generated a wide variety of content from LOTR to ships.

it even created new trait to complement the existing one when needed by special units, along with explanation of the mechanics of the trait.

It doesn't quite understand positioning, but it will simulate round of combat between unit when asked.
>Do you report and pay federal taxes and state taxes separately?

Yes. They are separate sets of forms that you pay (or get refunded) independently. They're basically unrelated exxcept to the degree that deductions/refunds may come into play.

The employer is making various deductions and payments, e.g. into unemployment, based on the state you live in. So your employer really does need to know your state of residence.
Very true - I’m stealing that rule!
> describe their own stuff as "a gem"

It literally is a gem. In Ruby, distributable packages are called gems.

You can see their gem at https://rubygems.org/gems/overrides_tracker
Serious question here. As someone with closer ties to the Middle East than me, how do you look at people who pronounce Iraq correctly, as "Ih-rahk," compared to the usual American pronunciation, "Eye-rack"?

As someone who was in that country for a year all over the place with a rifle attached to my chest, Americans always ask me about my exciting vacation there. As an American convervative myself, people's heads are blown whether the are left or right leaning when I pronounce it as "Ih-rahk." At this point I find the reactions fairly comical and get a kick out of experimenting on people, much to the dismay of my wife, who thinks I should just go with "Eye-rack" to stop embarrassing her.

By the way, I pronounce Turkey as like a Thanksgiving "Turkey."

Anecdotally I was told once upon a time by a first generation immigrant from Oman that you should pronounce a countries name as they pronounce it, as a respect thing. I thought more about it, and if I heard someone say United States as "Ooonited States," I wouldn't care one bit, but there really is only one way to pronounce the United States it so it's not really a fair comparison.
Laid off Jan 18th from Microsoft, not really the unicorn type I would say but well above average in my field (imo)

Applied to a couple positions ~5-6 and got a couple automated rejections, no interviews or initial calls through this process. I think not having a degree makes it difficult to get past the initial screening

About 2-3 recruiter messages per day on linkedin. I responded to around 10 or so, of which 7 I had initial interviews with the company after my resume was passed up. Had 2 rejections and 3 offers, only 1 of which was under my current salary. I interviewed for mostly 100% remote, I think only 1 company of the ones I was looking at required 2-3 days in office
plus ça change: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I found this program last week and replaced AnyDesk with it, but after reading all the comments around the security issues and especially seeing that their relay servers are potentially hosted in Beijing, I'm feeling a bit sick to my stomach honestly. I'm going to uninstall it and do more research. I'm not comfortable with the ambiguity around something that is effectively an open door to my entire system.
This really is the techpocalypse, huh? I’m young (35) but I’ve never seen layoffs so continuous. I wonder how far into the year this will go and if we’ll ever come back. Maybe companies truly will start offshoring.
Show HN: A location-based geography game for smartphone
Hi guys,

This is a little pet project I've been working on to teach myself React.

The objective is to try and guess the shortest-distance direction to the target city from your location (which can be surprisingly difficult!)

Enjoy, and any feedback is appreciated!
The problem is when you hire those high CoL areas, extract value by training others, and then discard them. This will make high CoL workers more hesitant to join a globalized employer.
> Valve does say they can process anonymous data and they may share anonymous data, aggregated or not, with third parties. This is a fairly common practice and doesn’t worry us too much.

Given that there's effectively no such thing as anonymous data, I'm really surprised they said this.
Oneplus' tablet uses an encrypted battery [video]
Gitlab and Github look like they are forked from the same branch.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/gitlab-layoffs-company-to-cu...
Does HN sell ads?
This takes me back to custom myspace layouts. Many people's first (and last) forays into coding!
Every programmer eventually becomes a woodworker, whether they like it or not.
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Hmm. I’d say definitely yes. I mean we are on the internet right now, presumably across many km of distance. Do you disagree?
Only special applications will need that much in a single address space. OS's will likely have support for 48 bit processes vs full 64 bit, which isn't complicated; basically just restricting the virtual memory mapper below a certain address.
The difference is that with search you get a whole range of linked resources, and up to now (it may change with AI-generated content going forward) the style of the content usually gives enough signal to make an assessment, as well as comparing content between sites, and you learn which sites to trust.

With ChatGPT, correct and incorrect information is presented identically. You have nothing to go on except falling back to web search to fact-check ChatGPT’s output. This can still be useful as a starting point, but a world with only ChatGPT and no web search would be horrible, would overall be a step back compared to a world with only web search and no ChatGPT.
Ted Chiang has a degree in CS.
Serious question for the folks who are not getting many callbacks. Are you looking for remote-only work, or are you looking at both remote and on-site opportunities?
Ah, sorry for that I must have seen the updated one.

I agree with you that switching programs that are all using the IEEE floating-point formats with the same underlying hardware implementations should result in the same answers.