skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep your head up; as you can imagine places that are actively recruiting are being inundated with resumes, many of which have Amazon, MSFT, Google, etc on them.

Has your network been helpful?
I love that you modified a piece of furniture. I plan to do something similar with a rolltop desk.
Wrong analogy, Kotlin with Java is an Android thing, on the JVM there is no Kotlin whatsoever, only another guest language among so many others.

Maybe if JetBrains ever releases their own KVM, which by the looks of Kotlin/Native, is hardly something for the JVM ecosystem to worry about.
Before you buy ask the owner what they have, and maybe even ask a few of the neighbors. Then call and try to get service. Maps and accuracy are way off and sometimes they have a “connection fee” that is way high because they plan to be in your street but haven’t run the cables yet.
Exactly. People are quite ridiculous when it comes to healthcare.

I just had an elderly family member that would have died if not for the hospital saving their life but they can't stop complaining about the $4k they have to pay.

One would have to be painfully ignorant of basic economics to not see that setting up a mini hospital in a person's home is not going to be cheap. It is practically like complaining about the cost of taking a private vs commercial jet.
And it will be even more expensive to train it again on larger amounts of data and with a model with 10 times more parameters.

Only Big Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, etc can afford to foot the bill and throw away millions into training LLMs, whilst we celebrate and hype about ChatGPT and LLMs getting bigger and significantly more expensive to train when they get confused, hallucinate over silly inputs and confidently generate bullshit.

That can't be a good thing. OpenAI's ClosedAI model needs to be disrupted like how Stable Diffusion challenged DALLE-2 with an open source AI model.
I've already been handed a paper written by ChatGPT
Two reasons, one questionably relevant and one difficult to formalize.

The questionably relevant reason is that all well-known classes of declarative syntax specifications that are easy to parse don’t really compose very well, in any direction; the exception being PEGs, which do compose, but in nonintuitive ways, and are also kind of difficult to parse. So if you want a generated parser, chaining a regular-language-based lexer and an LL- or LR-based parser lets you tackle a much wider class of languages than the second step alone.

Of course, hardly any serious language implementations use generated parsers these days, and hand-rolling a scannerless parser is not that much more difficult as far as the mechanics go.

But then, the difficult-to-formalize reason is that people do actually think of languages that way, and separating phases gets you more localized and more understandable errors. This might be an artifact of how language specs are written, but I don’t think so: good frontends will occasionally split the process into even more phases, first parsing a looser syntax than specified and then tightening it up with semantic checks. For example, ISO C prohibits (a + b = c) at the grammar level, by restricting which expression productions are allowed to the left of an assignment, but a good compiler will parse this successfully and only afterwards tell you that (a + b) is not a thing you can assign to. In this connection, the "skeleton syntax tree" idea as used in Dylan[1] seems promising, but I don’t think I’ve seen it developed further.

[1] Bachrach, Playford, "D-expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style", https://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/Projects/dexprs.pdf
importing is a _runtime_ operation: unless previously imported, the interpreter will go and import that module, executing that modules code. that can take a while. it will also bind a name in the current scope to the modules name, so... that might be considered pollution?
There's plenty of low code / no code solutions right now and somehow programmers are still trucking along (pun intended).
Almost everyone in here has a complaint about thunderbird. The blog is about the struggle of maintaining it as-is, much less refactoring or adding features.

They take the time to explain some background, some of the struggles and the "why" of their decision to do a rebuild. Reliance on other software, years of decentralized development, having a small team to do it.

And yet everyone is just shitting on this piece as if the team has no idea what they're doing.

I don't normally do metacommentary, but this conversation is mind boggling.
both git companies doing layoffs

has atlassian done them too
I'm not so sure, at least I know plenty of people in tech hubs that are in a similar position. Certainly anything that reduces the number of jobs you can accept will limit your opportunities, but I'm not sure being open to in-office would immediately solve the problem.

In the end it doesn't matter. Due to family concerns relocation is not an option, and anything local would be a huge pay cut. I'll go that route if I reach the point where I need to, but I'm holding off for now.
Exactly. Unforgivable in my book
I think for me, this was most evident in the Stadia disaster. Bad tech (requires a Linux port), bad and unclear business model (Stadia Pro vs regular, buying games, Founders Edition hardware), required a weird custom Chromecast, and Sundar basically kicked off the GDC presentation with a "I only play one videogame ha ha" which they didn't even support.
They would never be listened to. Their purpose is to confirm whatever the execs want to believe in. Facts that don't agree must obviously be wrong.
"Peer review" is not limited to the preprint proofreading most journals do. That is just a minimal filter to verify a paper doesn't have any clear or obvious mistakes. That's why actually fraudulent papers still get printed.

The actual "peer review" is when people try to make similar observations to what you did (replication) or when people try to build on your work and fail to. This is why we know the amyloid hypothesis isn't very good even though it regularly passes "peer review" and gets into journals: We can't build on it and things it predicts don't happen
> We do have nukes you know.

The only nukes Germany has are those that America charitably allows Germany to borrow. If Germany grew up like UK and France and bought/made their own toys, then maybe Germany would find itself to have more autonomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing
Learn to X is always the dumpest way to go about fixing labor shortages. I don't want to know how many 2X year olds will burn out coding just because they actually loath it. If the pay goes down there will be an exodus.
Maybe not a good idea to link a page that runs source code created by random people. Well CSS is very safe, but still.
Ask HN: Is the layoff split along public/private companies?
Most of the layoffs (at least the ones you hear about) seem to be from big, public companies. It seems like those companies are more incentivized to show near-term profits, cut costs, pay dividends, collect rent on the products they already have.

While private companies are 1) less beholden to the whims of shareholders who are far removed from the business, and 2) more likely to prioritize growth and development than rent-seeking, especially if they hope to go public some day. This feels like it translates to retaining employees and continuing to hire.

Does that logic check out? It lines up with what I've seen anecdotally but I'm curious to get more anecdotes
So you think the solution is to force a bunch of people to hang out with you? I'm sure they'd be thrilled to stop doing what worked for them so as to please you.
AFAIK it isn’t owned even partially by Musk.
If you google again but as one word, you should get more hits. And yes, you're correct about the statue.
Blockchain solutions and implementations for startups and companies.
Not quite true, people can choose to use other tools that do work well cross platform e.g. Rider. VS and VSC agent the only ponies in town.

I don't even use VS on subdued installs anymore, it's no longer the better option.
Frankly, it's surprising how long they managed to drag it along given they build on top of a weird fork of Firefox ESR. Their foundation is crumbling for years and years. They really need to get off of it.
How ever did we cope all the time before the recent few years of modern medicated ageing incarceration?
He's not the GOAT at all.

Lebron's spent most of his career not even being the best player in the league. He's not even the most significant player of his own era. That'd be Steph Curry. And he utterly choked away huge moments when he had a talent advantage. He hasn't been a top 5 player in years because he hasn't played defense full time since 2015.

He passes neither the eyeball test nor the accolade test. He just fails to measure up.
Hey OP - I think I have been where you are a couple of times in my career. For me, taking time off has been the answer, optionally structured as a cold-turkey break for a month (travel / pick up a hobby / learn something completely new / do nothing at all), followed by easing into the new set of work things you "want to" worry about. That may or may not be ML or ML-adjacent, I've always believed that smart people find a way.

On the other hand, after you've dealt with your current state of mind, I'd love to have a chat with you because I see that we share some passions and I'm building something new in the AI space to help people build sane ML pipelines!
> this is just how these animals sustain themselves.

Because in economics not everyone is a Keynesian who just ascribes behavior to animal spirits.
> What other captive markets could you sell coffee to ?

Train stations and airports. Onboard trains. Amusement parks. Maybe not a lineup, but anywhere people gather, such as city parks and tourist attractions.

The first time I saw this setup was actually in the 80s. I was skiing and one of the hot chocolate companies was sampling a new product. There was a guy, on skis, at the entrance to the lift line handing out samples using one of these thermos backpacks. It was styrofoam cups in the cup dispenser back then of course too.

Either way, there is something really compelling about having a hot beverage brought to you right when you need something. I can see the appeal of having this service in a traffic jam, now only if they could figure out something similar for bathrooms.
That's nothing to do with how it looks or why the UI stalls. That's a problem with the search. Just fix the search.
I kind of hate Thunderbird because it is in every way worse than beloved Apple Mail.app, except for one: it can do the Microsoft 365 IMAP Oauth2 dance, but Mail.app can't.

Mail.app's native Exchange functionality has broken for me before and caused me to lose mail so I will not trust it. I thought I had the right solution with an IMAP connection to O365 Exchange until they forced that to use Oauth2.
You missed them by that (tiny-fingers-gap) much.

I'm just old enough to have witnessed the dot-com crash a few years before I went into industry; this feels very similar. In fact, it feels a little less intense; the dot-com crash was about an entire business model consolidating under an absolute handful of winners (example: most independent online stores went "We can't compete with Amazon" and bankrupted, laying off everyone) while this one seems to be a lot more "All these firms will continue to operate but they don't think they need to employ this many people to do it."

It will be interesting to see if the consequence is new startups competing with the incumbents as those laid off find each other and some capital or if the consequence will be something else.
wild how so many companies are laying off 7-15% of their workforce in such quick succession
Whataboutism really needs to come to an end.
Looks interesting but really does not handle super high DPI screens well in Windows-- the interface text is extremely tiny and hard to read. You should probably detect the resolution and adjust the default UI text and task text to always be a comfortable size for easy reading.
You've heard of "Medicaid"? Also, that didn't actually answer my question.

Is using CRISPR (or similar) to fix hemophilia "eugenics" or not?
Have you talked to those peers? Have you attempted to falsify any of their research? You not liking what they are finding provides no view into whether they are correct or not.
Yes though iirc I had to do something special for Office. Not at my computer to check, but office was the most important one.
I don't like this analogy; I think why I don't like it is in the intent. With JPEG in the intent is produce an image indistinguishable from the original. Xerox didn't intend to create photocopier that produces incorrect copies. The artifacts are failures of the JPEG algorithm to do what it's supposed to within its constraints.

GPT is not trying to create a reproduction of it's source material and simply failing at the task. Compression and GPT are both mathematical processes they aren't the same process; JPEG is taking the original image and throwing away some of the detail. GPT is processing content to apply weights to a model; if that is reversible to the original content it is considered a failure.
just replace the numpy code with jax.numpy as you should have a fully differentiable model ready for training!
Not laid off but I've just ended a year long sabbatical. Looking for work now is a terrible experience. A lot of ghosting, recruiters absolutely useless, agencies not looking for new talent. I have done two dozen interviews, twice as many resumes sent to interested recruiters, and only one offer, which I was not very excited about and declined.

I'm focusing on my SaaS project, and trying to market myself outside the box instead of the old resume as my 16 years long career doesn't seem to impress anyone. Sorry, I will not elaborate further as you're all my competition here.
The world has just moved from a decade plus zero interest rate environment, combined with massive multitrillion dollar pandemic QE and accompanying hyperinflation, into a rising interest rate environment.

The macroeconomic environment is more volatile now than any year in recent memory. It is objectively tough, and cherry picking random indicators which aren't core drivers of the economy doesn't prove terribly much.

I think you would have to go back to the 70s and 80s to find similar precedent. If you look into the origin of the Volcker rule, you'll see exactly the kind of messiness the world might be in for.
Not so far. There are lots of positions open, but not sure how many of those are actually being hired for.
Laid off in December. Applies to ~10 companies, and about 10 other companies reached out. 9 rejections, 2 in advanced stages, and 9 haven't heard back from them.

I got my first fulltime job ever in 2019, got laid off in 2021, and had no issue getting interviews and finally landing another job. In 2021 the process was surprisingly easy, fast and without much input from my end. I never really did leetcode exercises, so it was quite a shock to find so many companies do them.
Best story in the book, imo. The first and last story (about the angels) are the best. I was a little underwhelmed by _Story Of Your Life_ and _Understand_, given their reputation.
I would wager that you also had never seen such an insane tech hiring market as we did during the pandemic. I think it remains to be seen whether this is just a correction of the pandemic tech bubble or something more permanent.
I didn’t think about that angle for advertising, but it’s somewhat terrifying. Imagine being able to pay more to have your “company friendly” dataset prioritized in upcoming LLM training sets.
Perhaps the drug cartels should get involved.
Top Linux and open-source leaders join the Rocky Software Foundation board
That's a good share. OPs project and video are very interesting to me, although the "Introduction to Checkvist" explanation page serving as all in one demo/documentation/trial was for me a much more efficient way to size up the product.
Anger… fear… aggression. The dark side are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice. -- Master Yoda, Return of the Jedi
I read "A cross-platform GUI library for Rust" but never saw any specifics. Is this targeting MacOS, Windows, Linux?
Progressively Enhanced Turbo Native Apps in the App Store
Anti-semitism is an action conducted by human beings, thus it has underlying causality. A big problem is that both anti-semitism and observations of "it" are based on subjective perceptions that are typically perceived as objective reality.

Causality is kind of "culturally sub-perceptual" (depending to some degree on one's geographical location and cultural/metaphysical training), I like thinking of it like the water in this classic parable:

"There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?"
Value produced can be measured as the price of commodities sold. Thus there is a clear difference between the cumulative price of commodities a worker produces in an hour and the amount they are paid for that hour. The difference is appropriated by the owner of the means of production (the capitalist) as profit.

The capitalist wants to pay as little as possible per hour, but will on average long term not be able to pay less than the cost of living. Capitalists pay just enough so that workers as a class reproduce themselves (so there are more workers), but less than the value the workers produce.
If you're going to have a republic of states, those states are going to be able to have different laws. The minimum wage in New Hampshire is $7.25/hr, while it's $15/hr in neighboring Massachusetts. If I'm an employer in New Hampshire hiring remote workers for $12/hr, that's legal if they work in NH, but not legal if they work in MA.

NH has sovereignty to set their minimum wage (subject to the limit of the federal minimum wage). They might do that to attract business there. Massachusetts has the same sovereignty to set their minimum wage. Which state should give up their sovereignty so that an employer [possibly out of state] could practically hire people without knowing where they live?
As someone who understands how these models are built and what they do, let me just say that almost all of what you think these models can do is wrong.

For one, you can't just "hook up" a language model to some other task, or to the web. ChatGPT is specifically built and trained to have good conversations. The fact that it can sort of appear to do other things is a happy coincidence.

To do any of what you want, new algorithms need to be built, and none of that is "easy". And finally, these models take A LOT of cpu time. They are not going to be reading thousands of posts in a second without serious and expensive compute hardware backing it, and that level of compute isn't remotely feasible to give out to individual users.

Even chatGPT, which is doing a fraction of the tasks you are listing, costs millions of dollars worth of hardware a day. The only reason it exists for free is because Microsoft has donated all that time.
Has the elixir of youth been sitting on medicine cabinet shelves all this time?
Wow, things really are so rosy on planet jlmorton. But meanwhile on planet earth, and especially the Western hemisphere, real inflation has been going through the roof -- to name only one of the myriad economic problems.
Webmail is a nice option to have if you want it. Email should continue to be a separate set of protocols targeted at that one application. I'd much rather see webmail disappear as an option than standard email servers and clients.
I agree with you, but all else being equal, layoffs are stressful and... while I would prefer that companies have the flexibility to do so paired with a social safety net to lessen the impact, there's also an argument for employers who don't just plug in and then discard people like "resources".
I predict prompt injection will be a common vulnerability for years to come since the natural language advantages of LLMs is the same advantage hackers will have
Happy to hear :)
You can't forget about "womxn" and "folx." The insertion of an "x" seems to be more of an attempt to colonize/Lysenkoize the lexicon than to actually be inclusive.
> What makes you think this is a relevant response?

Because the OP was claiming it cost "£0", when it clearly did not.

> This is not a secret, there's not some common misconception that health care isn't actually paid for with money.

Maybe you should tell the OP, since he is clearly operating under that exact "misconception".
Well at least on Wikipedia you can check those things.
The title doesn't say GPT3, it says GPT (unless it's been edited since you posted this?).
Yeah this is more of a downturn where successful companies are laying off a percentage- the dot com bust was thousands of companies just ceasing to exist overnight. Not really entirely comparable.
> Yes, I was pretty on the side of the remote work until the pandemic. I don't think it's mentally healthy for most people.

I think we would need to somehow separate the mental unhealthiness of remote work from the mental unhealthiness of dealing with a worldwide deadly airborne pandemic. It could be that remote work in and of itself is great, but remote work with the additional mental/emotional toll of a pandemic is not so great.

I suspect that remote work was great before the pandemic, and will be great after the pandemic, and that in fact the pandemic is what caused our growing cultural communication issues (not to mention the other things that coincided with the pandemic: worldwide political turmoil, for example).
If you want to see real world examples of what 'bad' drugs do to people, over a long period of time, just watch this channel. It is intense.

https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly
Well the NBA didn't create the 3 point line until 1979 which was basically half way into Abdul-Jabbar's career - so it kind of accurate to say "point inflation" in a sense

Edit: statbook link
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/abdulka01.htm...
Do you have another contact channel for those of us without telegram?
> I ended up buying a house in DC, in Georgetown.

When? And for how much?
I'm still on TB68 because Enigmail was *broken after, and I think the UI is convenient except adding new accounts and managing SMTP servers.

*I send emails in plaintext, don't tell me about S/MIME.
Europeans are lucky that most Americans don't care what Europeans think of America, and continue to support and defend the EU despite Europeans being utterly ungrateful for any of it. If you lot had to pay for your own defense, you'd have a lot less social programs to go around, a lot less to gloat about to the Americans you hate so much.
Meh. I know a number of folks who moved to rural areas, and not a single one was able to use Starlink due to tree coverage and the extremely narrow band of sky their receiver had to be pointed at.

I'm glad it worked for you! But the rural places where my friends live have lots of trees, tall ones, and they made Starlink totally unusable.