skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like he just debunked the 'after CEO predicted no more layoffs' part, but confirmed layoffs are coming.
A few thoughts:

1. Waitlists are a scam. In NYC, it's ~$150 non-refundable just to apply, and daycares won't tell you how long their waitlist is (and per the article, are often over subscribed). I wish there was legislation that these are refundable, or capped at ~$20 or so.

2. The cost of daycare here is around $2500/kid. So with two kids, you're looking at $60k/year, which is $100k pre-tax. And so if you have two kids, work, and make less than $100k/year it makes sense to stop working. And really, the real number is probably closer to $140k/year, since who would work to just break even on childcare and not see your kids?
Jeff Sutherland the cofounder of SCRUM gives the secret history of SCRUM's origins. For many, Agile==Scrum.

Article excerpts:

(a) Scrum arose from a paper by two Japanese professors. In 1993, the first Scrum team read “The New New Product Development Game” in the Harvard Business Review. The authors, Takeuchi and Nonaka, were visiting professors at Harvard when they published this paper in 1986.

(b) The Japanese professors described how agile companies looked like rugby teams. companies were using what Takeuchi and Nonaka called a “rugby” approach, “where a team tries to go the whole distance as a unit, passing the ball back and forth.”

(c) In 2001, the Agile Manifesto was created with Jeff Sutherland in attendance. In 2001, 17 developers who called themselves “organizational anarchists” met in Snowbird, Utah, to share their ideas.

(d) Meanwhile, other Americans were studying Toyota and called it "lean manufacturing" which further influenced Agile. in the late 1980s and early 1990s, researchers from MIT had begun to study Japanese manufacturing systems, especially the Toyota production system. They coined the term “lean”

and eventually more agile practitioners came to accept lean, kanban, and their hybrids (such as scrumban and lean scrum) as legitimate applications of agile values and principles.
Used to be the Joint Commision took HIPAA violations seriously. Do HIPAA violations no longer cause risk of losing Join Commision accreditation? That used to be the big sanction everyone worried about.
I explicitly included more cache.

And the memory controllers aren't that big on the die. You could include a bunch more on a 128 core model.
> Now to build a Hello World full stack web app it can take 10+ minutes on a modern PC with 4GHz 16 core CPU and 64GB of RAM :)

You’re doing something extremely wrong if this is the case.

Or more likely, the people complaining about “10 minute” web app compile times are just repeating hyperbole they found in other cynical comments.
Thankfully I don't need to worry about that for my use case, but you could probably solve a lot of this by whitelisting mailchimp, constant contact, and a few other providers that probably cover a large percentage of "legit" marketing mail.
Do you have a link which shows the power consumption of all the components you mentioned?

I've seen this comment over and over again, everytime an increase in processor efficiency is talked about and yet those gains usually do result in a very noticiable improvement on battery life.
Honestly, multiple rounds of cuts are a big failure of leadership.

The research is clear that layoffs negatively affect morale and performance. But one big round of layoffs has much less impact than a series of smaller ones. Employees will be sitting around waiting for the next round of cuts to happen, and many people do not like operating in such an unstable environment and will seek more stable employment.

If layoffs are necessary, you tell the staff why and the correction you need to make, and then you set out to make the cuts big enough so that you can go at least a year without having to do another round. The way Meta is operating is if they don't know anything beyond two feet in front of them.
It won't kill them, but it will slow down Meta for a while, during a critical period where it needs to outrun innovation that will be nipping at its heels through the 2020s. It could be one of those "causes of the IBM-ification of Meta" in an article you read in the 2030s, but it will probably be more like, "the pandemic caused Meta to overstretch, at a critical point in its history and the history of technology, and [along with other companies] suffered as a result in multiple ways."
If you're not arguing over the semantics, rather than OP's clear-enough intent, are you really on HN?
I wouldn't be surprised if half of all cases of an known Airtag following you resulting in an annoying notification whose options were "Trust Airtag" and "Close", people would choose to trust to make the notification go away. Thus enabling stalking.

edit: apparently Apple just disables the airtag in these situations so even the owner can't find it
Hey there! I'm the other half of Depot. This is an awesome tool you have built, I have actually been looking for something like this for myself as well.

Couldn't agree more with the pain points you mention, it was the biggest things that led us to start Depot and we're really excited about what we can do next.

If you ever want to do way with your hacky build process and try out Depot, we have a free tier now.
Serious Eats did a taste test between home grown and store bought eggs. They found that if they added food coloring to the store bought eggs to make the color more orange like the home grown eggs, that taste testers were just as likely to prefer the store bought.
"Scientists prove particles in a quantum system can be rejuvenated" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34895380
you're not an engineer at one of the A's (Apple) if you're shipping your own apps — the employment agreement restricts it.
This is a classic case of Baumol's cost disease. There isn't really a way for productivity to increase in the child care sector, you're always going to need a similar ratio of workers to children, but those workers also need their wages to keep up with inflation. The way it plays out in the US is everyone loses: the employees are underpaid, the employers are low-margin, and it is still too expensive for families. Child care companies can't pay the workers a fair wage while remaining profitable and keeping prices low enough for families, so we end up in this awful equilibrium where it sucks for everyone.
That's so sad.

I had this pain with my kids a few months ago while "looking to kill some time" in the Android world. I don't play a lot of phone games and was dismayed at the crap that was out there.

I like to introduce the kids to more low-fidelity games -- I started with 2048 -- I want to say probably 5-10 different choices; all I was looking for was "lets me buy away the ads", works offline (one choice was a webview to a URL which was not cached, several were very low quality) and has a small number of features that I like (and mostly sacrificed).

I ended up buying mobile version of The Kittens Game[0]. $2.99, minimally updated[1], and worth every penny. The pollution in the market as it were, I would have spent $9.99 for it.

Your comment kind of got me thinking, though. While searching, I used a "mental sorting method" (after I found a game matching my requirements) best summarized as "price, descending" because -- in a hurry -- I equated price with quality and assumed "a more expensive game in this category is not going to have ads/be a scam." In some spaces (slot machine/casino games), I wouldn't touch an app that wasn't "upfront payment only/no ads/no tokens" or "free without ads"[2], yet would happily pay for any that worked anything like the old Xbox Texas Hold'em (without voice/any casino-style game).

[0] https://kittensgame.com/web/ (I'm sorry for those who have yet to be exposed).

[1] So my kids got hooked which meant I went down that rabbit hole, again. I'm not sure when the last update was, but many bugs mentioned in the Wiki aren't present in the mobile game.
ChatGPT Fails the Coding Interview
> Suppose that the parents have two children who need child care. That is $540 per week. The parent salary has to be at least $540 per week to make the choice of child care economical. But that does not take into account taxes.

Even worse than that, it doesn’t take into account commutes, and the opportunity cost of not spending time with your own kids. If you make just enough money at work to pay for childcare, what the heck are you doing?
I get that. But you can preview what micro transactions are offered prior to purchasing, which is progress.
Love it. Thanks for putting this together! The actual challenges here [0].

Though I'm curious: are these different from the chapters in the Maelstrom documentation [1]? There seems to be a bit of overlap anyway.

[0] https://fly.io/dist-sys/

[1] https://github.com/jepsen-io/maelstrom#documentation
You're still incredibly young, I wouldn't assume any of your decisions up to this point are remotely permanent. I'd rather be 23 coming out of prison than 40 and rich. Make a plan and make small steps towards it everyday and eventually you'll have a great life.
> In the standard black hole model, the collapsing matter that formed the hole hits the singularity and is destroyed

Sure, but that's a model for which we don't have any observational evidence whatsoever since it's the black hole's interior. That's why I phrased it that way.

It doesn't matter, though, even if you say the matter inside the black hole no longer exists (and I'm very happy to entertain that thought): Any sensible definition of mass of the vacuum black hole (i.e. not necessarily the ADM mass since it's defined at infinity but e.g. some definition of quasi-local mass) will still give a non-zero contribution to the mass density.
Germany's 'Düsseldorf Patient' cured of HIV
Thanks guys for building depot, it makes things easier and faster for us (aws graviton users)
There are a number of people who will never admit this on a public forum, but they are taking their kid to some illegal immigrant in the ghetto and paying 1/3 of that.
Sorry, I was the person who asked, didn’t mean to get you told off by the attribution police!

I think attributing GPT every time you use it is as stupid as attributing spell check when you use it. It’s a tool, not a person.

Soon it’ll be a click away in the browser and it’ll be used everywhere exactly how you used it.

In fact, pretty soon anyone saying you have to attribute text to GPT will probably be a GPT powered bot! :)

For some reason though, your summary stuck out like a sore thumb. I work a lot with GPT3, I think you get accustomed to how it writes (obviously you can change that with some prompt work).
if you know what HF and LLM meant in this context, i guess
In the list of projects I don't see many that would actually materially change frameworks, beyond changes from -> Box<dyn Future> to -> impl Future or reduced boilerplate due to more concise syntax sugar.

https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap.html
Now that you mention it, I've been getting bizzarre "Award/promotion" emails daily. All easily identifiable. Usually no proper formatted text and an attempt to load images.

Always from someone with "ace" in the email. It goes straight to report as spam but daily for the last few weeks they've been seeping in. It's annoying given how blatantly obvious spam they are.
I thought those chips were inefficient because Qualcomm priotised performance and benchmark numbers over battery life.
Thanks for the very kind words, we're super excited to be working with you all at Windmill!
> at the expense of higher-caste Indians, or at the expense of all other demographics, or at the expense of white people?

I am assuming you mean: demonstrably meritorious members of socially priviledged groups. Well, what gets lost in the discussion of merit is how an individual achieves it and how social factors that are outside their hand influence them in reaching or never-reaching their true potential. Reservations, in my opinion, should be seen as lending a hand to individuals who find themselves subject to antagonistic social structures that are a product of divisive and elitist thinking spanning hundreds of years. It is not a tussle, so as to say, between one group versus another, but a collaboration between the two halves of society (one which enjoyed a higher position in the social hierarchy for centuries and the other which was exploited) to realize the best in all of us. This might understandably entail priviledged members of society letting go of some of their priviledges they enjoy due to their birth in a certain family.
While I'm glad to see this be dome with the W3C (that way it can actually be standardized and used by more than just two platforms), I find it kind of odd that something like the Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) hasn't seen much use. Or at least I haven't seen it, correct me if I'm wrong.

That way the password is never known to the server and we also don't have to rely on hardware keys. Personally I don't know anyone using hardware keys, they're just annoying to use...
People can post links? I have never been able to post a link in a YouTube comment. 100% blackholed when there's a link in it.
This is true only if people work just as well out of fear as they do love. That is a common belief of people who like to manage via fear, but it certainly doesn't match my experience.
How can you do that?! I need this! I have AirTags, family setup and plague of notifications :(
I suspect Section 230 will need to be revamped or at least more thoroughly defined. Some interpretations suggest that any editorial action by a platform (aside from those required by law) changes them from being a common carrier to a publisher with all of the liability that goes with it. It only makes sense that there should be an intermediate zone where a platform provider can engage in editorialism/content restriction without falling under the liability of being a publisher.
>The way I assess where lines cross is by canvassing the opinion of skilled developers that I know. And the answer surprises a lot of folks. Developers find poor quality code significantly slows them down within a few weeks. So there's not much runway where the trade-off between internal quality and cost applies. Even small software efforts benefit from attention to good software practices, certainly something I can attest from my experience.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html

If you expect your business to exist more than a few weeks from now, opt for quality implementation over "ship it" hacks that cause compounding costs into the future.
Show HN: Ask Seneca a question and get an answer with references to his writings
Hi everyone,

I decided to make [Ask Seneca](https://seneca.dylancastillo.co) as a side project because I wanted to try my hand at developing a small search engine with GPT3 capabilities.

It's an app that allows you to ask Seneca (the Stoic philosopher) questions and, hopefully, get an answer complete with relevant references from his writings.

Thought you might enjoy it.
Without a doubt in my mind.
It actually produces the exact opposite, my observation from experience is:

Some people will now work the system and want to be made redundant, by doing the minimum possible.

Good people will leave for other opportunities.

This takes months/years to fix/heal.
The fixing process is reset every time you do a new round of lay offs.
If you know kubernetes, it lets you punch _way_ above your weight in terms of running lean.
That's why you have to change jobs every few years. The real performance review happens in your next employers office.
The Scrum Papers: Nut, Bolts, and Origins of an Agile Framework [pdf]
For many of us, Agile==Scrum. This is the paper authored by Jeff Sutherland describing the scrum process. It is over 200 pages long.
I am referring to the M1 Pro the chip, not M1 Pro as in the Macbook Pro with the M1 chip. 14 and 16 inch Macbook Pros have the M1 Pro and M1 Max CPUs, whereas the plebian tier Macbook Pro 13 inch one has only the lowly M1 chip. I think whoever came up with this product strategy is a mastermind, deserves a raise from the perspective of shareholders and a slow and painful removal of their gonads from the perspective of people who bought the 13 inch MBP.
I'd like to see if they dare to use it in the 3 point contest.
> multiple rounds of cuts are a big failure of leadership.

Not to be ultra cynical but why waste effort calling this out? What accountability is going to happen?

They got hired for leadership roles. They make big leadership money total compensation. Then, they make business 101 mistakes (don't over hire during COVID under the expectation that the escalated demand will remain permanently forever), then nothing happens to them and they continue making big money.

Is that not more or less how this is playing out?
Is it not a service that can be provided by someone outside of the immediate family? Should those caregivers not be paid? If yes to both, that is a market. If you provide it as an entitlement, you still need some mechanism to know how many (coarsely put) units of child care to produce.

[*edit] for the down-voters, I'm curious what is your disagreement here?
Sounds like it's an industry that should be provided as a public service then (or at least subsidized), not something that a free market can sustain.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/upshot/child-care-biden.h...
We paid a lot of money for childcare when there was a (possibly illegal) daycare a few apartments down with a lady watching a bunch of kids. She only wanted $500 a month but we paid $2000 to an expensive one.

Imagine advocating for cut rate care for your own children. Considering I’m leaving my most priceless thing with strangers it isn’t crazy to me that it’s expensive.
Never had that problem my man. Stop entering your email in shitty websites

Also check haveibeenpwned.com
> The goal of software development is not to write code that compiles, it is to have an executing software system that does the right thing.

But there are many UB-laden, compilable C++ programs that produce the right result, they just are implemented with bad, non-standard, leaky code. Rust and other languages that detect this bad code and force you to remove it are harder to start with, because you need to learn everything to get to a running program.

Interactive development (especially REPLs!) have shown time and time again that it speeds up the learning process. Rust takes the inverse approach imo.
> It's... bad. It's spin. Doing it this way makes something that should be a public good (we all want fair elections, right?) into a partisan football. But it's not criminal.

The parent didn't say anything about criminal penalties, they said watch nothing happen. Yes, it's not criminal, but as you say it's also bad and not something we want to happen in our society. And yet, nothing will happen to him. Nothing. He won't be shunned by his political party for his actions, because they support the Big Lie. The problem we have today is that it's completely acceptable to lie to everyone and anyone about elections being stolen, and no one will do anything about that because "it's not a crime".

Even when those lies lead to an assault on the electoral process by the loser of the election, it's still apparently not punished. And so the attempts continue. Today, insurrectionists are in control of the US House of Representatives. People who worked to overturn the free and fair election in 2020 are now sitting members of Congress, chairing committees, and directing investigations into political rivals and private citizens. Again, not a crime for the people to elect insurrectionists who aspire to overthrow American democracy. Just don't be surprised when American democracy is eventually overthrown. No one will be prosecuted for overthrowing democracy when that day comes (prosecutions will indeed follow, just not against the insurrectionists).

> FWIW: it's also not popular. Note that the reason for that party switch in the SoS office is that Brnovich lost his reelection campaign, owing in no small part to his engagement with fringe conspiracist politics. So in some sense he absolutely did get punished.

Actually, he was shunned by his constituents because he wasn't denying elections hard enough; his primary challenger Blake Masters won because his fidelity to the Big Lie was more authentic than Brnovich's. Trump endorsed Masters over Brnovich because Brnovich refused to decertify the Arizona results. That was the end of his political career.

Now, it's true Master's eventually lost. But at the same time, 46% of voters cast a vote in favor of election denialism. Run an election that close enough times and eventually the election denier wins. When election deniers are in control of elections, that's when we need to really question the legitimacy of the elections they manage.
The Russian Social Contract
Wow ... That sounds like a massive power trip.
Related: "I made a site that tracks the price of eggs at every US Walmart. The most expensive costs 3.4X more than the cheapest."

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/118y19...

[1] https://eggspensive.net/

NOTE: Not me. I didn't make the site. Someone on Reddit did.
In a nut shell, this is using openai’s api to generate embeddings for top comments on hn, then also generating an embedding for the search term. It then can find the closest related comments for the given question by comparing the embeddings and then send the actual text to GPT3 to summarize. It’s a pretty clever way to do it.
I guess that's the state of the world today, where actual violence is rare enough that people start calling things that don't cause any bodily harm with the same term.
I'm not the OP but I mentioned this briefly in my other comment[0]: Even vacuum black holes carry mass. As a starting point, search for "ADM mass" or have a look at Wikipedia. [1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898647

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_general_relativity#ADM...
I wonder if making platforms liable for providing the identity of content producers is a fair balance between providing the platform immunity and allowing those potentially harmed by content to pursue the content creator if needed.
Yeah my first thought reading this was… does this dude have kids? Because this isn’t how the parents I know think of it, and not how I think of it.

But I also have income that gives me choices— the option I chose is “employ a full time nanny.”

Curious if he is closer to right than we are.
Right, and some physicists have a nagging feeling that the addition of another symmetry would result in the reduction in free parameters. "We've done it before, so why shouldn't it work again?" is their thought process. So they devise a model which replicates the standard model in observable ranges and to make it testable, doesn't replicate the standard model outside of the observable range. This is an attempt to make the model falsifiable and thus scientific. Then they advocate for expensive accelerators to falsify the model.
Anything that increases capital-intensity of output, compared to labor intensity (good old Cobb-Douglas production function) will be good for the capitalists.

Y = K^(1-x)*L^(x)

Here's ONE WEIRD TRICK that CAPITALISTS HATE. Increase X.
I remember these drives being advertised in Byte with some comparison to domino pieces.
While I don't have children of my own, my ex-girlfriend used to manage a daycare center. The fees charged to parents were quite high, while the salaries of the teachers, including my girlfriend's, were surprisingly low. It appeared that the primary expense was the cost of renting the property. In my opinion, the government should provide financial support to these facilities, particularly in the form of reimbursements for education infrastructures.
Is it illegal? The discrimination isn't based on anything other than the "free market" - if she could get a better offer elsewhere, they'd pay her more. The fact that she can't get a better offer elsewhere due to discrimination isn't evidence of discrimination on the part of the company that employs her, under your framework.