skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even a conspiracy that it's commercial real estate driving this... many large investors in these large tech companies have sounded the alarm over the risk to their commercial real estate holdings.

Heck, it doesn't help that recently a subsidiary of PIMCO dedicated to commercial office space in the bay area and NYC declared insolvency.

The cat's out of the bag already. Remote work (at least within a +/- 3 hour time zone) is here to stay. While the fed keeps jacking up rates and companies pretend to be hurting badly we'll see some pushback... but as soon as the economy is on an upward trajectory again they'll have no choice but to relent.

We've already started getting tons of amazing talent applying from amazon thanks to this decision. Good luck getting them back.

Facebook has even read the writing on the wall and started shrinking its commercial real estate footprint.
I don't think it's a timing or execution thing. You can have the best engineers and operations on the planet and it still wouldn't work. The benefits of the solar car are just not big enough when compared to a standard electric car.
They impermissibly used customer's information in the data set? that they knowingly disregarded known risks of harm associated with the product?
I wanted something for my computer. But yeah Overcast is solid for the phone
Tale of a pivot: starting with a tracer bullet
Layman question: why isn't the core of the earth made up of the most dense and heavy elements? One would assume, that they sink in to the deepest.

But of course, there is also the spinning of the earth, that counters it and makes the heavier elements go outside?
Oh, I wasn't aware of that! I thought that Show HN was for anything that I had made. I also wanted to invite people to discuss this with me (as the artist), but I could have disclosed that in the first comment, too, of course.
It's a weird article/website -- they just stole most of the text from CNN. Including a section where they say, "Geoscientists first suggested that Earth’s core might have an imperceptible extra layer about 20 years ago, according to a press release leaked to CNN News."

There's no hint of who runs it/operates it -- is it some sort of auto-plagiarizer?

The cribbed article is here: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/world/earths-core-iron-metall...
I watched the introduction to this video and thought: "Wow, someone should tell this guy about yak shaving." But after watching the rest, their tools are super cool. The profiler where you can see performance frame by frame and then jump back in time to the specific invocation of an expensive function blew my mind.
First, how do you not have a 'you're posting too fast' cooldown with all the posts you are making on this thread?

Second, this isn't playstation though is it? But staying with this example, if I go get a $50 meal my server very much can adjust my bill 'I removed X', 'I comped Y' happens all the time. If I go to a matress store/furniture store the sales person very much has the ability to lower my price arbitrarily on items way more expensive than a Playstation. Your 1 example isn't really all that relevant.
But great for votes in corn producing states
> Facebook has no real way to monetize this (eg they won’t release an api a la OpenAI and they don’t own a search engine). Since they can’t monetize it… why not provide a bit of kindling to lower the barrier for everyone else to compete with your competitors. This strategy is called “commodize your complement”.

Your analysis is good, but that isn't what "commoditize your complement" means.

Strictly speaking, a search engine isn't a complement for FBs revenue streams. Relatively little of FBs revenue can be attributed to search engine traffic leading to FBs walled garden where they can show the user ads.

Complements are generally a required product or service that enables your core, but that isn't revenue generating for you. Examples for FB are data centers (so they participate in the Open Compute Project[0]), and mobile operating systems (which Google already has made a commodity, for their own reasons, with Android).

What FB is doing here is commoditizing their competitors' core offering (or rather, a rather promising future one). That's just the tactic though, there are several strategies this can enable, from undermining the barriers to entry into their competitors' search markets, to actually fragmenting that market by encouraging a diversity of specialized chat interfaces over one big chat model. You can see hints of both in this announcement.

Final note: FB is also protecting itself from relying on a competitor as a supplier should chat become a preferred user interface for the content on social networks, which it hasn't, but if it ever did this would count as "commoditizing their complement", though I would actually expect FB to switch to a mostly proprietary approach in that circumstance (so not much openness on having LLMs operate on social graphs and the like), just keeping the foundation they rely on, and which undermines and prevents gatekeeping by their advertising competitors, open.

[0] https://www.opencompute.org/
"Shortages reported in broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines and courgettes"

Those are the same ones as the UK. Except the turnips (allegedly).
I suspect plenty of Americans would object just to the "apartment" bit! A successful housing solution for Singapore's situation but one that's a million miles from the suburban American Dream.

The safety of HDBs, apart from reflecting Singapore's low crime rate in general, also reflects Singapore not having the idea that high rise government housing projects are somewhere only the poor and desperate would want to live and their condition a reflection of Singapore not having the belief that government budgets are things to be slashed....
GeckoView is literally Gecko with an Android API wrapped around it, so that sentence doesn't really explain anything.

The actual thing is that simply each app embedding Gecko needs to be brought up to speed separately, and if Android is lagging behind, it just is, "GeckoView" or not. (Even before the invention of GeckoView, due to understaffing Android Firefox used to lag behind in terms of multi-process capability, so nothing new under the sun…)
so is this getting logged in layoffs.fyi?
gpt-index is awesome! What should I study to understand the inner workings a bit better?
These 16000 people should dump amazon - all at once on the same day.

That is how you fight ... hit where it hurts.

Do not please for things that are obvious - just change company to one that is not retarded when it comes to work from home topic.
Until legislation clamps it down.
Agreed. Though keep in mind they built on a lot of failed attempts at doing the same to get here.
Phoenix 1.7.0 Released
That's because you're not so much convincing the software provider as you are the cartel who wants prices to rise as effectively as possible.
It sounds like there were disagreements between Google's lawyers and the DOJ lawyers on the scope of the hold and what constitutes "reasonable."
I worked at a startup that did a four day work week. It was awesome for the most part. The problem is, they would rely heavily on the four day work week to be able to pay less in salary, which is completely fair and very worth it to a lot of people. The issue came in when they pretty much explicitly told people they were expected to work on Fridays anyway, defeating the benefit of the four day work week, but allowing them to keep salaries lower and put "four day work week" on job listings.

They've threatened to get rid of it multiple times, claiming it's still a trial period (over a year of having it), which is fine, but they don't mention that it's a trial at all to new hires. I know a lot of the company that would leave in a heart beat if they got rid of it since it was a such a big part of why they chose the job.

I left, got a more interesting job that paid a lot more and they kept trying to get my to stay by referencing the unlimited PTO they gave me but I didn't use (less than a week taken in two years) and the four day work week that I hadn't taken advantage of since I joined. Needless to say, I got a big raise and I work the same amount that I did before.

An extra day off is absolutely additional compensation and is worth a significant amount. It's just that in my (small sample size and limited) experience, it's used as a crutch and there were pretty much expectations that you work on that extra day, negating the time off. I hope most other four day work week companies don't do this and I just had a bad draw, but that's my anecdotal experience.
It seems to be just Tesco's and Waitrose, and the information seems to come exclusively from an online search.
But the prices are incredibly low.

When I came back to Sweden, here we don't have a tomato shortage, but the price has gone up to about 9 GBP per kg - so not much difference in reality.
Supermarkets obsessing over lower prices is a good thing actually. Cheap food is like the first things societies need to be functional. Sucks for farmers, but the rest of us are eating good because of the work the markets put in.
The language model that lies better than any other model in the universe? (just guessing from the training data)
It doesn't answer your question at all but you might find this interesting: https://hackaday.com/2018/03/09/europe-loses-six-minutes-due...
It is the opposite. It is a function of overwhelming levels of competition in the retail business and an obsession with total efficiency.

I am not sure what the solution is but this problem has existed since the early 90s when the industry began to consolidate heavily into the large supermarkets. The industry has kept trying to consolidate which may lead to less aggressive action (supermarkets are fully aware of how damaging their behaviour has been), but the govt has been blocking this to keep food prices low.

One big change was Aldi/Lidl who have introduced more diversity into the supply chain without compromising on price...but that is only in some verticals, and their general position towards farmers is still quite aggressive.

But the pursuit of extremely low prices and consumer value is not a sign of decline.
There is competitive demand with food supply but that is the point. If we did not have surplus corn produced, the USA would be very vulnerable to food disruptions. Because as we saw during COVID, business supply chains are only optimized to current demand without disaster. So if there is another channel to purchase corn it creates more demand and keeps excess production going at a price that is still possible to produce at.

If the USA suddenly had a food crisis, the ethanol production could be stopped.
Minor personal pet peeve: I really hate the term affordable housing. Yes, housing can and should be less expensive. But there's a lot of stuff surrounding housing that needs to be addressed beyond just the actual cost.

To me, the way homes are designed is often backwards. For instance, they're often designed from the outside-in rather than from the inside-out. Instead of starting with a room you want to build and making it the best possible layout for a specific function (say watching movies, or hanging out with friends and talking) houses are often built from the outside-in: they'll usually start with the shell first and then roughly pencil in an area that can be called a "living room" but there's no real care in designing spaces for optimum functionality.

And the way that homes can be laid out relative to other homes can be improved. What about concepts like pocket neighborhoods? Would they work everywhere? I don't know, but they seem like they would be transformative to a lot of peoples' lives.
Just like last time RealPage came up, submit complaints to the FTC against that people! It only works if you actually use the system. The system isn't just magic.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
I agree, everyone will have different priorities. A ten hour day still leaves me around six hours of awake time, so I could fit everything else I wanted into that time and then enjoy the heck out of the four completely open days I had left.
NLP bots we're just in the early stages of dealing with. So far we're relying on community members to tell us about them (so if you think you're seeing that, please let us know! hn@ycombinator.com).

Influence campaigns are an older problem, so we have many years' worth of defenses built up, although it's an arms race where the influencers also evolve.

I'm aware that I didn't answer the "how" part of your question—the trouble is that there's no secure way to do it, so everything relies on a stack of ad hoc techniques that would stop working if we published them. It's basically the old "I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you" joke. But the answer to the "if" part is yes.
A customer of mine had their website hijacked by Godaddy (copied their website text and pointed to a Godaddy IP). The application stopped working of course because that was hosted elsewhere (with me). They did this because they didn't like what was being sold on the website.
Sorry, haven't yet tried DeepL. Had mostly given up on writing german until coming across chatGPT as a swiss-knife type of tool.
I can see this.

I was recently contacted by IP's abuse department about something on my network sending out malicious requests.

It turned out to be an old WiFi router I had, which was fixed by an update. I'm guessing it was compromised a while back and was only recently used.

The Fed reversing monetary policy has some interesting consequences.
You're making the mistake of assuming that the primary purpose of these systems is to help you accomplish something you want. These systems are to capture a commodity to resell; you, and all the other users that engage with the system.

It could be great, but until an assistant of this sort runs on your hardware, and works only for you (really hard to show), it won't be your assistant. It will be some corporation's Carnival Crier.
Kubernetes and Section
Working with the Section platform will feel just as though you are working with a single Kubernetes Cluster and that cluster is provided for you "As a Service".
> in the now 6-day workday

I think its 6 hours for 5 days a day not 5 hours for 6 days a week. I agree with your point that when people do work on a day its easy coerces them work longer hours that day.
Government officials whose campaigns are funded by the potential members of the RICO suit are rarely ones to push for said suit.
I asked chatgpt just an hour ago to tell me how to put a doc at the first position of the navigation with docusaurus (Facebook static page generator).

It told me the sidebar.js way.

I asked it to tell me another option which I can configure in the doc file directly.

Chatgpt got all of that right. If this is just a text prediction engine, it's crazy impressive how well it just works.

I don't even start designing the prompt to get what I need.

I definitely will follow all of this very closely and already have plenty of use cases for this 'text prediction engine '.

I'm hyped because I'm waiting for ml to break through for a while. Google for example has a huge us hospital under it's cloud platform with tons and tons of data.

We will see more and more expert systems.

Chatgpt will push for more investments.

This is not just a hype it's part of the journey we are for a few years now.

And in comparison to shit like crypto or nft there are already clear benefits.

Stabel Diffusion is fun to use and to explore.

Chatgpt is fun to use and to explore.

Not that this is any indication but the interest in SD was huge but the interest in chatgpt is much bigger. We had multiple internal talks about it and due to the interest in it, more got scheduled.

You will no longer search through documentation. You will just ask the product documentation what you need.

All of those real life use cases pushes more and more money into this topic
The same argument comes up in atheism-- "if you don't believe in [eternal damnation], what stops you from just killing people indiscriminately?" It reflects the sad state of the asker's moral compass.

Same with Catholics and confession-- another broken system in which you are free to sin arbitrarily through confession and repentance. The point of the doctrine itself is to transcend the cycle and be better than that. (I know little about it but I'm told there is a similar mechanism in Hinduism re: karma.)

Fear of god/state/consequence keeps people in line, but it's a failsafe, not the governor. The only thing preventing fraud in your tribe should not be the intangible threat of later consequence from a greater authority. You're supposed to respect each other enough to not prey on your own kind.

Another take is looking at crimes like CSA. The state punishes it when it is brought to their attention, but that does not absolve the community from necessarily participating in its policing ahead of that-- the community are the ones best positioned to detect, intervene, and enforce social norms around it in the first place.
Abridgement is not 'sanitising'.
I wonder if the crime bosses send out an email saying they take full responsibility for overhiring during boom times.
Active effort. It also can't just be done passively or archived for later optional analysis by computers or humans.

Further, usually, a judge has to approve. There's at least some oversight and reasonable cause involved.
The answer, as always with engineering is a "yes but"

It's pretty appealing. I also believe MS Visual Studio had something that effectively worked like that albeit without changing the coffee manually.

But - if you've got bugs due to memory corruption, race conditions, etc then the logging doesn't necessarily tell you what you need as you don't know when the change actually happened.

The other issue is that once you've started logging everywhere the string formatting is likely going to be a significant slowdown - at which point you could have used a time travel debugger and probably get better performance.

(disclaimer: I work on a time travel debugger)
Ethanol gas is terrible for most car engines and fuel systems.
>I'm glad the court system and laws exist to prevent people like you from doing exactly such barbaric lawless retribution and ugliness on fellow human beings.

The legal system, as it currently exists, enables and is sometimes the cause of such "barbaric lawless retribution," actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sandra_Bland

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Darren_Rainey

Correcting your strawman of my argument: if a rich and influential person suffering because of the corrupt and cruel nature of the current system results in that system changing to be less cruel and corrupt, particularly towards people who are not rich and influential, then please, let them suffer. In the interim, I will assume that your insistence on perpetuating this system, in the face of its cruelty towards thousands of innocents, in the interest of saving one privileged criminal, comes from either a place of deep ignorance or deep bigotry (implicit or otherwise). In either case, I find myself absolved of any need to give your mistaken opinion any further attention.
And one can always ask security to have a quick look at the back of the sign by the street at Willow Rd & 84.
> There is more to Ethanol than just fuel.

But mostly fuel. The amount of fuel burned by the average person directly and indirectly is wayyyyyyy more than their distilled beverage and hand sanitizer consumption.
I absolutely agree. Sadly, though, I see way too many companies making it harder and harder to negotiate. When I was brought in full time, I tried to counter and was told "This is the offer, take it or leave it." They even went as far as trying to convince me, someone with over a decade at that point, as an engineer that their offer was competitive with the location (I only accepted because I had been out of work for a while and had returned to school). I've been appalled at some of the offers my company has made new hires, then higher ups get frustrated with us because the candidates take other offers.

I learned later we had a "pay committee" that establishes all pay rates for the company based on black-box metrics. We can't offer incentives or anything, no way to reward folks.

But yeah, instead of adjusting the pay scale, or giving us the ability to do spot bonuses for the team pushing hard, I just get to hear how "young people just don't understand what hard work is and just want to coast on easy mode their whole life."

Beyond frustrating.
just don't upload it to your Google drive
I've seen news articles discussing the issue occurring in Atlantic Canada, and have been told that it is also an issue in Vancouver. I do not know about elsewhere.
Yeah it looks like that website just stole the text from CNN and omitted a bunch of it. CNN didn't interview the other authors, but at least their figures are properly attributed (all tagged with Drew Whitehouse/Son Phạm/Hrvoje Tkalčic -- Whitehouse apparently works for National Computational Infrastructure and did the visualizations)and they directly link to the study.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34929145
> We release all our models to the research community.

And from the FB blogpost [0]
"Request Form
Thank you for your interest in Meta AI’s LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) models. To request access to the models, please fill out this form, and we'll review and let you know if your use case is approved. The information you provide below will be used solely to assess eligibility to access these models."

So much for "releasing" the model for research community.

[0] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta...
Commenting because I want to see this drama unfold in the future.
Luxury goods have a definition and has little do with how luxurious the potential buyer is:

In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a greater proportion of overall spending. Luxury goods are in contrast to necessity goods, where demand increases proportionally less than income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_goods
Netflix very much had a dominant position in DVD rentals at its height.

Apple had a dominant position in selling music and in music players by 2006. It was the number one music retailer in the US. It very much used that to get into the phone market and part of its early success in the App Store was that it was built on top of iTunes and it already had more credit cards on file than any other company in the US besides Amazon.

If you're not arguing that a company shouldn't branch out, are you arguing that once a company gets a certain size, it shouldn't be allowed to invest those profits and resources into another industry?

By 2011, Apple was the most valuable company in the US. Should it not have been allowed to start selling watches, home stereo equipment and AirPods?
Thank you – it's formulated too bold indeed. It's one approach to art, and I get the feeling that exploring this might be really interesting. It's also funny to see how the stamp on the backside gets all the attention. I thought I was a painter, but I'm chasing meaninglessness.
Sensible leader would

1) Setup self hosted solution

2) Migrate data from Slack to self hosted solution

3) Switch off Slack

And I am not surprised that Elon did 3) first, because that's the easiest step.
It could become a mediocre project from now on. It's becoming a marginal improvement over Node at best.
It would be hilarious if the hacker hired by a ransomware group extorted the ransomware group by threatening to publicly release a master key. Probably a dumb idea because of the lead-pipe department but still hilariously ironic.
Require phone carriers to block networks that consistently send spam calls. This puts pressure on foreign networks to clamp down on the practice.