skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TXR Lisp contains BSD licensed code for setjmp-like saving and restoring, for a modest number of platforms, in a single .S (assembly language with preprocessing) file.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/jmp.S

The header file for that is unfortunately not cleanly separated; the top part of this file declares the context structures and the two functions jmp_save and jpm_restore.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/unwind.h

Unlike longjmp, jmp_restore does not check for a zero argument and does not rewrite it to 1.
Besides O365 the rest are not even the same thing. If half your company is on Teams, and half is on Slack, they can’t communicate with each other.

Mandating a single communication platform is absolutely the right move. And the fact that MS picked Teams as that single communication platform is beyond obvious. What else could they have chosen?
The problem with bumping the specs of the index is that Valve knows how few people with VR headsets have a GPU that can push higher resolutions. GPU improvements have NOT trickled down, and going from the original Vive to the Index was already about a $420 new GPU, and that was before the insanity of GPU pricing the last few years.

Valve knows how many Steam VR users have like 4080's and 4090's, or AMD's flagship, and the numbers aren't good.
Yes it’s really unfortunate that this happens. Especially for folks with student loans.
We hired more than we meant to. How does that happen?

Every explanation here thus far misses one simple fact: interest rates.

Imagine the more people you hire, the more money you make and/or the more dominant of a market position you assume.

Now imagine the Federal Reserve has lowered the Federal Funds Target rate to 0 and is performing FOMC operations to buy $9 trillion of bonds to lower interest rates across the board. This is what they did:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

So imagine firms can go on a hiring spree with almost-free money. Consider that WACC (weight average cost of capital) is one of the key factors in calculating the NPV of a project. Now consider that a positive NPV means you should do the project. This means a lot of projects (and hence hiring) get greenlit.

Now imagine the Federal Reserve says, “Party’s Over, guys!” and raises the FFT rate and stops buying bonds. Almost free money goes away, the WACC increases and now the NPV of all those juicy projects goes negative.

Add in an expected recession, the ability to cull the bottom x% performers and you get a recipe for widespread layoffs.
That's just the Swedish part of Schibsted. We're vg.no and Norwegian.
1 on 1 meetings, typically with a manager.
Presumably this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_sex_roles
Its 100% scott adams. I think he outsources his coloring only.
> Clojure is really good at self-selecting for people that really care about innovation in programming languages. The other jobs in a tech company care about innovation in their domain. They rarely align.

To me it seems people typically like Clojure because of its simplicity, stability and productivity with the REPL. There are innovations in Clojure (its data structures, transducers...) but overall it is a pretty conservative and minimal language with laser focus on pragmatism.

Also in terms of slowness it seems the opposite is the case from my limited knowledge. OS authors and contributors seem to be extremely productive and creative. There are some notable Clojure shops (see: OP) that have been growing at an incredible pace.

Maybe I see this differently because I come from a [insert two very popular languages] background where everything breaks every couple of months and the culture is severely fad driven. To me Clojure is refreshing, calming and more powerful on top.
They're always meh. The middle managers have no real power or insight. I get very little out of them.
They want to have their cake and eat it. Lure people in with content indexed by Google and then ask for money when they want to view it. Bait and switch.
I can tell that this conversation is not going to be super productive, so a few brief thoughts:

> I can easily falsify the accusation that, "people underestimate transformers and don't see that they are actually intelligent,"

I think that you have an idiosyncratic definition of what "falsify" means compared to what most might. Getting away from messy definitions of "intelligent" which I think are value-laden, I see nothing in your blog post that falsifies the notion that LLMs can generate novel content (another fuzzy value-laden notion perhaps).

> these things are not, "emergent," they are just rearranging numbers.

It seems non-obvious to me that 'rearranging numbers' cannot lead to anything emergent out of that process, yet cascading voltage (as in our brain) can.
I wonder if MS is aiming to use the conversations about software that employees are having in Teams meetings as training data for AI. To automate them away.
reading release notes for upgrades is the only correct way.

regardless i think we should hold open source projects to higher standards, such that telemetry isn’t introduced by default.
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Still seems pretty available here. =)

Everyone's anti-bittorrenting until some asshole with more power but even more insecurity comes along and refuses to be legitimately criticized or questioned.
One thing I remember from my time at Amazon that didn’t exist at Google is the massive waste of time trying to fix dependencies issues.

Every week our pipeline would get stuck and some poor college grad would spend a few days poking around at Brazil trying to get it to build. Usually took 3 commits to find a working pattern. The easy path was always to pins all indirect dependencies you relied on- but that was brittle and it’d inevitably break until another engineer wiped the whole list of pins out and discovered it built. Then the cycle repeats. I worked on very old services that had years of history. I’ve often discovered that packages had listed dependencies that went unused, but no one spent time pruning them, even when they were the broken dependency.

At Google, I have no memory of ever tinkering with dependency issues outside of library visibility changes.

Amazon pipelines and versionsets and all that are impressive engineering feats, but I think a version-set was a solution to a problem of their own creation.
Cute technique, but it looks too syntactically sugary and dangerous.

For instance, if I wanted to make an immutable mutable, I'd rather be explicit:

let x = "foo".to_string();
let mut x = x;

Much clearer than passing ownership to a block and returning the expression.
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> You shouldn't try to bring others down to feel better about making more, you should see what they're being paid and realize you are worth more.

This.

The company is probably generating oodles of profit. Any profit whatsoever represents the labour of employees for which they haven’t been paid. These employees have generated value through their labour that the company has realized, and the company has decided to steal this value from the employees rather than giving it back to them.

So OP deserves more pay.

The company has already determined that relatively low skill levels deserve a certain minimum pay. This does not mean that these employees are overpaid, but rather that OP is underpaid.

This focus on fighting against wage increases for others who are beneath you is a psi-ops explicitly engineered by the Parasite Class, to make the lower classes fight their class war for them. The Parasite Class are laughing all the way to their obscenely-bloated offshore investment accounts.
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What an absurd comment. The only purpose? That seems like quite a jump. I read it as a dumb comment pointing out a funny name for the current state of things.

Also, is the world really so simple that anything that isn't capitalism is a dictatorship?
Agreed. People used to post it in the comments but no longer. Tagging it would be nice. The ability to filter them out even more.
This. Not sure how possible it is for large companies, but I spend a lot of time making sure we deliver VISIBLE features every sprint.
I too have a very positive experience. I ask specific questions about algorithms and how technical projects work and I enjoy its answers. They won’t replace my need to visit a real search engine neither I take them at face value. But as a starting point for any research I think it’s an amazing tool. It’s also quite good for marketing stuff, like writing e-mails, cover letters, copy for your website, summarizing or classifying text, and all language related stuff.

People think it’s Cortana from Halo and ask existential questions or they’re trying to get it to express feelings.

I think the AI part on its presentation created too much expectations of what it can do.
Yes many people would quit over being forcing to use tools that make their lives harder day to day.

It’s the difference over picking up a recruiter call vs ignoring. Or spending 15 min to fix up a resume.

There are degrees before flipping a table and walking out. Forcing people to use teams when they are accustomed to better software pushes everyone marginally in that direction.
We use Teams, Slack, and Zoom on Mac.

Zoom is much easier to use than Teams for conference calls. When I use Teams for conference calls, I find the default never works for establishing a connection (I have found that connecting through the browser works fine -- but this is not the default way to connect -- it still takes some effort to pick the path that works).

I have also found the user interface is non-intuitive. I had little trouble getting up to speed on zoom (from webex). I might have less problems with Team once I get used to its interface. At present, if anyone accidentally schedules a meeting with Team (which sometimes is the default conference call setting in our Outlook), they usually create a zoom conference call link which is used instead (usually, the notification for the zoom link goes out through slack -- for some reason, folks don't even chat over team to let folks know that the meeting has been changed to zoom).

As far as the application itself, I find that Slack is much easier to use and has capabilities that have been very helpful. The Slack user interface was intuitive and I quickly got up to speed. For Teams, I use it when I need to (not all times at our company have slack) but everyone I know prefers slack. The slack ui is more intuitive and has features such as slacking to yourself which is useful for notetaking. Again, my opinion of Teams might change as I better learn the user interface.
Well, it's definitely not a gimmick for me -- it's the main way I watch TV now, IF I'm watching it by myself.

It cost $300 not $1000 (at least when I bought it), and there's no big-screen TV that comes even close to the size of the screen in my headset. And there's certainly no room in my bedroom to put a big-screen TV anyways, which is where I'm watching something if somebody's watching something else in the living room.
Externalities of the absence of something can be small, large, positive or negative.

What do you think are the externalities of _not_ having healthcare available to majority of your population ?
Sub reactors weigh around 100 tons. Not sure how relevant that is, but certainly liftable.

EDIT: Meant to add - much less than the ISS, and I presume multiple launches would be needed.

Possible, yes; but practical? not sure.
The private "school of excellence" I attended instituted a 40% minimum on any assignment turned in with a name and date on it, and labs, tests, and quizzes - combined - made up 25% of one's final grade.

The administration contended this policy had nothing to do with the $8M athletics facility built with donor funds, nor the influx of scholarships awarded to students who all happened to join the football team that year.

I disagreed. Vocally.

When I went from a 98% student to a 24% student at the start of a new semester just by refusing to write my name on any homework, I was pulled from all activities, isolated in endless detentions, and put on a "remedial track" away from my class (like ISS). It took a few more weeks of talking with the teachers and priests and protesting, but the headmaster eventually stepped down and was replaced by one of the nuns.

Grades aren't hard to cheat if the institution is complicit, especially if what's being measured is compliance and obedience.
This is a well-known thing, people aren't guessing here and there's nothing to dispute. Having multiple layoffs destroys morale and the best practice is to cut deeply once to avoid a second layoff. Anyone who doesn't believe this is simply and foolishly repeating the mistakes of the past. Which suggests to me that it was a surprise to even themselves that they had to do this because of a revenue shortfall.
on some topic at least it correctly identify bogus questions. I extensively tried to ask abount non existent apollo missions for example, including Apollo 3.3141952, Apollo -1, Apollo 68, and loaded question like when Apollo 7 landed on the moon, and was correctly pointing out impossible combinations. this is a well researched topic tho.
Excellent point. My sense is that this issue, similar to many Covid related issues, has gotten so political that the ordinary scientific processes and discussions have ceased operating as they should. I tend to therefore think greater caution and deference to past practice, and therefore more conservative practices are prudent. That seems to be the currently unpopular view unfortunately. I am very wary of trendy medicine and medical hubris generally. Too many historical examples of trailblazing medicine getting things, often horrifically, wrong.
>I fail to see the nuance.

Then Reddit is that way. ---->
There's this:

https://github.com/metabase/toucan

But beware what you do with it. Avoid DB side effects from business logic.
>But it's not a sentient AI. It's just a language model. Just a beefed up auto-correct.

There is a large space between "sentient" and "beefed up autocorrect". Why do people insist on going for the most reductive description they can muster?
8-bit computers:

instant on to command prompt

READY.

computers get a floppy disk drive:

boot from floppy disk wait for command prompt

DOS VERSION 3.3

computers get a hard disk and can store more stuff like startup scripts:

boot hard disk, startup script runs, wait longer for command prompt

C:\>

computers get Graphical Operating Systems:

startup screen, wait for desktop to load, wait even longer to open a command prompt program

$

computers can be multi-user:

start up screen, wait for desktop to load, login, wait even a bit longer to open a command prompt program

Password:

computers and the internet are ubiquitous:

start up screen, wait for desktop to load, login, get distracted by web browser, forget to open the command prompt program

www

tiny devices are everywhere:

the battery in my phone is dead.
If you asked someone who’s new to Zoom if they’re on mute or not, I bet they will have a 50% hit rate. Heck, I bet even someone who regularly uses Zoom would have the same success rate.

The Zoom UI is atrocious.
I gave up trying to read this. Where was the bug?
It's not evidence free. One of the things single payer does is negotiate discounts based on their whole country's population. That's going to fund ops and a bit of profit, not R&D.

> If they're so reliant on excess profits to fund R&D

R&D money comes from profits. It's not specific to the pharma industry. They just have particularly enormous R&D costs.
> "We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner"

But we do this with people - religious leaders, political leaders, 'thought' leaders, venture capitalists, story tellers, celebrities, and more - we're enchanted by smooth talkers, we have words and names for them - silver tongued, they have the gift of the gab, slick talker, conman, etc. When a marketing manager sells a CEO on cloud services, and neither of them know what cloud services are, you can argue that it should matter but it doesn't actually seem to matter. When a bloke on a soapbox has a crowd wrapped around their finger, everyone goes home after and the most common result is that the feeling fades and nothing changes. When two people go for lunch and one asks 'what's a chicken fajita?' and the other says 'a Spanish potato omelette' and they both have a bacon sandwich and neither of them check a dictionary, it doesn't matter.

Does it matter if Bing Chat reports Lululemon's earnings wrongly? Does it matter if Google results are full of SEO spam? It "should" matter but it doesn't seem to. Who is interested enough in finances to understand the difference between "the unadjusted gross margin" and "The gross margin adjusted for impairment charges" and the difference matters to them, and they are relying exclusively on Bing Chat to find that out, and they can't spot the mistake?

I suspect that your fears won't play out because most of us go through our lives with piles of wrong understanding which doesn't matter in the slightest - at most it affects a trivia quiz result at the pub. People with life threatening allergies take more care than 'what their coworker thinks is probably safe'. We're going to have ChatGPT churn out plausible sounding marketing material which people don't read. If people do read it and call, the call center will say "sorry that's not right, yes we had a problem with our computer systems" and that happens all the time already. Some people will be inconvenienced, some businesses will suffer some lost income, society is resilient and will overall route around damage, it won't be the collapse of civilisation.
It isn't. My exact point was that it isn't and accordingly ChatGPT produces the best benefits for someone who has already done 1, 2, 3 for a given subject.

It was in agreement with the comment above that suggest people with domain expertise will be faster with it.

In those cases, ChatGPT will do 4 far faster, and 5 will be little different.
No, they don't have responsibility here. The security manager is deprecated and will throw UnsupportedOperationException when trying to set it in Java 18. This means the developers of JEB willfully ignored this.
That's the entire business of the company behind this headset, which is why this headset makes the compromises it does.
It’s just good at acting. I’m sure it can be led to behave in almost any way imaginable given the right prompts
I'd say the critical question here would be whether these characteristics can also be found on the edible mushroom or if it wanted to outright poison you :-D
Coding 102: Writing code other people can read
They won't know anything definite. If they've been at the company for a long time and have been through layoffs before ask them what their gut feeling is. Another thing to ask, which they may know, is how it will go down if layoffs happen. You could also reach out to HR and see if you get a "No, nothing like that is planned" vs a scripted response like "please refer to policy x,y,z that states HR will not discuss".

edit: years ago, i was at a company that laid off a group of about 20 people very close to me. I remember my boss having a box of kleenex on his desk where there was never any before. Lots of people left his office crying. Things like that could be an indicator too.
One might argue that the internet is the source of a real zombie apocalypse. I see people walking - staring at their phones constantly. Seems pretty zombie like to me.
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A very long time ago I took over a FOSS project under GPL. It had pretty good support for plugins, a lot of demand for plugins, and exactly zero third-party plugins that were even remotely maintained.

I don't think we ever got many direct complaints about GPL, but our main assumption was that copy left contamination was pushing developers away. We wanted more open licensing to encourage wider adoption, so we started a replacement project under MIT license, I believe.

Once the replacement project was in a good state, suddenly plugin developers started crawling out of the woodwork.

My estimation is that about 30% of our trouble was due to licensing concerns, and the rest was down to the original project being in a very, very bad way. It was very old, had been abandoned by six developers, and about 70% of the code was unused and unusable.

The new project had bells and whistles and was more attractive, but I think the open license definitely helped.

You probably could have built a plugin without needing to use the GPL, but it would have been a lot more difficult. That whole project was a disaster, and I never once regretted letting it finally die.
The key piece here is that the trainees in the humane system were forced to walk for water; that's the part that's specifically rooted it what it means to be a member of the public in a crowd; it's empathetic. Although it's not uncommon for police in the US to be pepper sprayed and tased during training, in a toxic culture that easily becomes "I've been through it, you'll get over it."
> No company is loyal to its employees. People are capable of loyalty, but companies are simply not capable of loyalty.

This is a good point. I have had bosses I liked and trusted and I trusted them, but not the "company" as such. If you replaced them, it wouldn't be the same. Maybe I'd be able to trust the new person or maybe I wouldn't, but that's what would matter.

That aside, the company culture and rules can influence whether it's more likely to hire good people or bad ones. There are some companies set up to do regular layoffs and compete strongly enough that people are sabotaging each other and that just seems miserable.

I work for a place now that's a quiet, enjoyable workplace where everyone is trying to help each other do better while getting good compensation. Maybe I could make a bit more somewhere else, but I'm not sure it'd be worth giving up what I have now. Most people who work here have really long tenures (10+ years) and that's a good thing.
> I don't think you would need to disentangle it from income effects to address the concern

Good point, I was mainly thinking of the 'AI saves lives' argument.

> of someone who actively avoids Teslas on the road, unless they also actively avoid cars

Probably they should avoid hitting _any_ cars =)
Working on it.
https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS/pull/101
i agree. i got my worst bout of burnout while at a very cushy job where i was chronically underworked. it took me forever to realize there was a problem because I had internalized the notion that burnout was another word for fatigue/exhaustion, when they're actually distinct phenomena