skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that timeline is correct. MSFT did a surprise announcement of Bing chat the day before Google's planned announcement of Bard.

https://twitter.com/xlr8harder/status/1622849293571817472
Let’s stop pretending there’s an “us” that even makes these decisions.
FB pay at this point is highly dependent on when your RSU basis was set, no?

If you joined from 9/2020 to 1/2022, you’ve taken a serious pay cut versus your nominal offer.

Unless there have been adjustments that I haven’t read about?
Legal requirements in some countries?
So you want to lift up impoverished people in the US by exploiting immigrant labor?

There are many reasons why companies hire H1B people and if you do as you suggest you remove any incentive for anyone to want to pursue H1B. The effect will only be detrimental to the US economy.

As a highly skilled immigrant I have personally generated 10s if not 100s of millions of dollars in profits for the US corporations. There are already very strong incentives for companies to hire domestically, that already work to filter our the best and brightest and most capable people in the industry. Plus the US has spent $0 training those people.

By the way I am not saying the US is obligated to hire H1B workers as some humanitarian cause, but if the US wants to continue hiring immigrant workers it has to be mutually beneficial.
Facebook gave out refreshers and bonuses even this review cycle.
I thought those are SVPs, EVPs, etc? "Manager" tends to be line managers, and Directors _their_ managers.
The 7th point which is unfortunately yet another lawyer analogy is chatgpt for software development is kind of like a magic "nolo publishing" where you can ask for any very short programming textbook and chatgpt will push it out.

However, the problem with being your own lawyer (or software developer) is the AI will never exceed its previous accomplishment but your goals and desires and requirements certainly will. So its a rising tide lifting all the boats situation. The game will be upped; you're not getting ahead by using AI you're just not going out of business, and the jobs are going to be even harder and higher paying. The cousin of this problem is if you have no idea what you're doing and randomly file legal papers in a best effort sense, just blindly trusting a liability-free book that may be out of date already, you'll eventually paint yourself into a corner if you try to set up your own LLC, c-corp, trust, will, etc, and as per above the AI was already operating at its limit so it won't be able to help and you're past your limit which is why you used the AI in the first place so you won't be able to help yourself or sometimes even understand the problem. Which is why human lawyers still practice...

In summary point 7 is I expect a lot of money will be made by humans cleaning up after AI "accidents". The purpose of the tech to "do stuff" beyond your skill level, which always turns into a disaster sooner or later.

A pretty good analogy from the pre vs post internet era is being able to blindly cut and paste code, perhaps an algo or an API, doesn't mean you can actually apply it correctly, use it, understand it, or troubleshoot it. And so it will be with AI, its just "nicer looking" code to cut and paste. But everyone who's ever self taught themselves an algo or an API knows they didn't really know anything when they cut and paste, the real learning came after.
Zuckerberg is obsessed with cornering the market for the Next Big Thing. First it was radio, then TV, computers, cellphones, what could the next big thing be? It's got to be VR... because Mark can't think of anything else it could be.

So even though people aren't willing to strap bricks to their faces now, once they understand there's no other Next Big Thing coming, they'll shrug and pick up a VR headset.

Then after a month of ChatGPT hype he wakes up and fires everybody. What a clown.
"Farms are now complex technical operations that use networks of remote monitors that measure soil moisture, or robotic milkers that can detect an infection in a single teat, or environmental control systems that maintain the precise indoor temperature and air filtration needs of a poultry barn."

Both a completely understandable and even desirable outcome of advancements in animal husbandry, and an unacceptably vulnerable solution to a massively important system where low-tech solutions are well available.

Modern massive farming requires tech to be efficient? That feels like a reasonable statement though I have no proof of it.
Maintaining or improving farm output at scale requires massive centralized farming? That feels like less of a reasonable statement, and again, I have no proof one way or another.

Are there studies on this? Can we decentralize, downscale, without compromising outputs?

Just ruminating here (pun definitely intended).
There seems to be an error in the headline. It seems like it's missing a word.

> How NOT to explain the Monty Hall problem to a disbeliever

FTFY.
Thanks for the explanation! As with the original MH problem, your "100 doors" example helped me better understand your variation of the problem.
You're like the guy who says "I'm never sick, why am I being forced into paying health insurance".
You also burn bridges with many people if you do this though, which may not be a good long-term strategy if you're planning to stay in the software business. It is a small world in many ways.
While that might be true:

a) the technical challenges at these large tech companies are probably way more interesting

b) compensation is very likely better

c) you are working with many many more peers who are super talented
Refreshers and bonuses weren't paused during this period.
Can you hear ASCII? Find out
Run "curl ascii.live/can-you-hear-me" in termninal
Kazakhstan Seizes Russian Assets at Baikonur Spaceport
Ah thanks, makes perfect sense now!
Some part of it was highlighted with the mention of an org chart that is both deep and sparse. Many managers had only 2-4 reports with the expectation that the org chart would fill out with hiring. Now that hiring has slowed dramatically, those levels won't fill out, so consolidation makes sense.

There was also a lot of duplicative and overlapping work, which is mentioned as well.
I dont think so they probably fired people like her
https://twitter.com/TMFSunLion/status/1585257328533995520?la...

The company is fine.
As a heartless android, I understand his sentiment - but agree it could be removed to focus on the core message.
FF7 could never have worked on n64.
Meta is in the advertising business - why would we say they are they trailing Apple, Amazon and Microsoft?

I don't really understand why we are comparing a company who develops social media applications and generates advertising revenue against Apple who generates most of it's revenue from selling Hardware, or Microsoft who generates most of it's revenue from licencing software.

If we are saying that Meta are trailing Apple, we might as well say that Microsoft are trailing Saudi Aramco.
I bought a 'Microsoft Modern Webcam' based upon some positive online reviews. This webcam has the bizarre stipulation that it is only certified for Teams if the microphone is turned off!

To make matters worse, this means that the camera defaults to the microphone being disabled, and you need to download their proprietary software to enable it. Which is Windows-only. I've got a mac. So I ended up having to install Windows in a VM just to let me enable the microphone on my webcam. (Fortunately the setting is persistent and you only need the VM once)

I think the auto light settings on the camera need the Windows software too, it's a remarkably bad camera. Avoid!
About 1-2% of GDP each year could have cut global warming in half over the last 50 years.

That’s a monumental amount of resources but wouldn’t have had a particularly noticeable lifestyle impact. We would likely have had more nuclear accidents, but those are really local events.

The path was basically eliminating coal, home heating oil, plus drastically reducing oil use by adding in road electrical power delivery for cars. The specific implementation would have depended on massive R&D plus either carbon taxes/banning coal, or larger nuclear subsidies.
This is an extinction event for the low hanging fruit ideas for the so-called AI startups.

Again, this maybe bad timing since GPT-4 will (probably) gate crash Google's announcements this week, hence why Google has done this today.

But for now, AI copyrighters are going to be destroyed, quickly by the same tech giants: Microsoft (OpenAI), Google, and possibly Meta.
The middle manager thinks, "the time and effort I spend on my job can be automated, yay!", never considering the second order effects.
>Who is bullying who exactly?

People telling that we shouldn't worry about such topic, because companies are aware of them. Because companies never did bad things just to earn more, right?
That was my first though when I say this instantly get to the top spot.
Vegans literally need to take supplements, or else they die. Vegan women lose their menstrual cycles without supplementation.
People are being murdered in offices by the billion?
No need to get rid of computers and backhoes. You don’t have to have work in order to have employees. At least that’s what the parent seems to be implying
>The Romans, aside from committing atrocities

I see this in a lot of historical Wikipedia articles now. I'm not sure what to think of it. It feels like a modern tag added to articles that feels somewhat out of place.

My understanding that at the time, and most of history war, what we think of as war crimes were a standard practice of war.

It seems strange to me to tag the end of an article about a large scale war and saying "hey this one group committed war crimes" and just leave it at that if you're not talking about specific events.

IMO adding that line seems to skew things to indicate one group committed war crimes, not mention other groups involved (it would seem to indicate they did not), and skews / hides the fact that the practice of war at included war crimes as a standard practice.
Facebook’s ads business has been destroyed by Apple with the introduction of ATT. It’s pretty clear this is a permanent shift downward in revenue for them, unless advertisers like them are able to improve ads attribution.
Do you know if people get charged for prompts now on the original chatGPT site now that the API is out? Or is it still free for users that use the original site?
This is just one of the reasons why people here in the UK are so opposed to allowing imports of cheap US meat - US and Canadian animal welfare standards are absolutely disgusting.

EDIT: missed out the word "Canadian" by mistake.
OpenAI hasn't published any information about the size or hardware requirements for running ChatGPT. Reading between the lines, the default ChatGPT Turbo model seems to be significantly smaller than GPT-3 (it's a distilled model), but probably still heavier than the Alpaca and Llama 7B models people are running (very slowly) on their single GPU computers this week. You'd probably need multiple A100s to get comparable performance to the ChatGPT API.
Was This a Bailout? Skeptics Descend on Silicon Valley Bank Response
For starters, there's two SV's: the FAANG and "2nd tier FAANG" companies and the startups. Also, the ethos of SV has changed over the decades. What started off as "let's change the world" in the 60's and 70's has led to the "let's make lots of money" ethos we see today. Things may appear the same from the trenches but they've definitely changed at the top.
I thought 'layoff' was the noun and 'lay off' was the verb?
Because it seems like the sort of thing something would say when they want to observe a change to justify a choice.

And yes, cows are specifically adapted to consume plants and their guts are noisy. I'm using this as an example that just because you sensed a quieting in your intestines it doesn't mean it's positive. I'm admitting I don't know what it means and provided an example where a loud gut is indicative of adaptation, but you seem to be under the impression a quiet gut is a good thing. If you're using fasting as the comparison that seems to indicate you aren't digesting much at all, and I don't know how that's positive if your intestines are full.
i dont see any ransoming.
Just because you host on AWS doesn't mean you get 0 downtime. AWS regions do go down occasionally. Compare that to a hundred thousand node globally distributed network -> https://dashboard.chia.net/d/em15uQ47k/peer-info?orgId=1

> Oh, the real hard problems are creating the standardised representation of a property deed and getting everyone to use it. Something not at all addressed by use of blockchain!

And Oracle databases addressed this? Standardizing property deeds is more of an application level concern not core blockchain infra.

>Cryptographically prove ownership of a property literally no one is asking for this except the sellers of cryptographic proof.

A good UI/UX would make this a push button capability from a wallet. No need for the general public to understand the technology powering push button verification. :)
What to Expect for Data Science in 2023
Signal's New(ish) URI Scheme
>It has taken Silicon Valley a long time to realize there is a limit to what you can do with websites and computers

Through robots in there and I'm not convinced there really is a limit, it just becomes difficult
The 4 year limit is meant to be a process for training a domestic replacement, or otherwise a very short period of time (relatively) for the company to invest in whatever it needs to invest in to be competitive.

The only lawful reason to bring in an H1B is that you cannot find that skill domestically. That's how the program works. Obviously, the program is being exploited by corporations to bring in low-wage workers that are beholden to them.
Many aerospace engineers have left Russia in the last year, too.
In most big companies I've worked at, I thought I could identify the people who made everyone slower and were a net negative to productivity. However, they never seemed to be the ones threatened to be fired. Often they were really good at playing corporate games so that it was really hard to justify firing them, while the ones fired were junior employees who had great potential but weren't as good at politics yet.

So while FB certainly intended to fire underperformers and increase average performance, I doubt they were able to identify the right people for that.
> Back in 2015, YC was actually bribing and extorting people into pumping this false narrative in an attempt to drum up a cancel lynch mob against MOC

Evidence? I sure don't remember them doing any such thing, and I was around here in 2015.
You cannot blame company policies for the poor performance or low motivation of individual junior developers. My team has hired multiple junior developers in the last 2 years, all of whom are 100% remote, and they've been doing excellent.
Amazon details Project Kuiper satellite Internet
Frankly looking at 40 tabs I forget what I am looking for in the time I need to switch tabs.
I'll never even try it because I'm constantly waiting for the service cancellation announcement.
That might be because we're currently part of the control group* in the aerosol geoengineering experiment.
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1633566568528375811

* not controlled for GHGs
The fact that you can fire 10,000 people in a day without noticing just proves that capitalist efficiency is a lie. You still get the same stupid waste of resources as with any other system.

What do any of these people even do? Facebook hasn't changed in the last 10 years. Instagram etc are all finished products. How can you have hundreds of thousands of people in a company when you don't make anything?

You have to give them something to do so you get them to make a new UI because everyone always needs a new UI. But then oh no we need new servers for development so we need a new server team. And then we need a testing team for testing the UI and then we need HR for managing the new teams and accountants for managing the expanded payroll... And yet none of them actually achieve anything because it's a made-up project.
What I think would be cool is taking automatically from highlighted text in any app, falling back to my clipboard as input, and then outputting to my clipboard.

That way it works in any app automatically.
Seamless system wide clipboard read is a big ask though, so ideally you'd want a self hosted model like llama.cpp
It is either intentional or awfully coincidental that that Google would announce this two days before Microsoft's AI event: https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/, which will probably discuss similar product features in Office 365.
...not without the Disk Drive and a can-do attitude!

(you're right though, the sacrifices required for an N64 port would ruin the game)
Tweets fail to send on the first try about a third of the time now
This isn’t true. I personally know gray hairs that retired as ICs in at least three of those letters in your outdated acronym.

It should be MAAAM by now- Microsoft is famous for the IC rest-and-vest to ‘55 lifestyle.
Aka Chief Woke
The whole point of using contractors is you can drop them at a moment’s notice.

Why would you bother predicting labor demand in the future? That is the contracted entity’s problem.
Mobile app onboarding is crucial for user retention. There are several tips for a good tutorial: keep it short, use visuals and simple language, etc. Discover more tips and create an enjoyable experience for increased engagement:
I don't think it was obvious that rates had to go up /faster than they had ever increased in history/.

And what were banks supposed to do? They make money by taking deposits and owning debt. Are they supposed to just shut down because there's no zero risk interest earning debt out there? Or charge depositors for holding their money?

This is entirely the Fed's fault if you ask me.
I'd say >50% of the games in my library were cheap/on-sale and I've never opened. If I were wealthy I'd probably engage in buying even more games. I like the idea of supporting indie devs who do something as simple as make a small game in one of my key genres.
Top brass doesn't get fired anymore, no need for the 3rd letter these days.
Can't trust them?

Bethesda had a deal with Sony to keep Deathloop as a timed PlayStation exclusive. After Microsoft bought Bethesda they honored that deal and released the game excusively on the competing platform.

They never offered to release Starfield on PlayStation just like Sony never offered to release Spiderman on Xbox when they bought Insomniac.
Speaking of copyright, remember that content produced by an algorithm cannot be copyrighted. We've already seen this play out with stable diffusion. Also, the government copyright office is surely unprepared for the coming tsunami.
You can replicate it to multiple sources or use a decentralized storage solution if you are concerned about data availability.
Revenue in 2021: 33,671 M USD

Revenue in 2022: 32,165 M USD

FTEs in 2021: 71,970

FTEs in 2022: 86,482

Revenue-per-FTE in 2021: $467,847

Revenue-per-FTE in 2022: $371,927

That's 21% less revenue per FTE.

[1] 2022 results https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

[2] 2021 results https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
I wonder how that analysis takes into account the general craziness and stressfulness of the pandemic, which was the cause of many employees joining Meta remotely? Not to mention, Meta did a crazy total amount of hiring during the pandemic, ramped up very quickly, which by itself can lead to inefficiency.
Top-Down LR Parsing
Works fine for me.

Maybe they need to rehire the button engineer to fix the button code! /s
No, the crucial thing is that a good human will tell you if they don't know something, or if they are simply unsure.
It's still free. On the site: "Free Research Preview."
Fisheries are closed for certain types of crabs. They are switching to other types.
There's an excellent lecture series available free on Prime called The Roman Empire
> we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services

That's either a lie, or Mark has a serious misunderstanding of what "better" means.
What's the societal harm in karma-farming. It was all fake when it was purely humans, anyway.
Send the link
They aren't as per ISO C++, even though all compilers allow to disable them in non standard conforming ways.
Thank you open AI for breaking the dam on an arms race we could have benefited immensely from five years ago.
Singer’s Animal Liberation in the 70s had an impact on most of the world whereas in the US animal welfare got worse as farm sizes continued to increase and farms industrialized.
Two reasonably valid contradictions: 1) You are having serious problems with nightmares (esp. kids) 2) You're a massively obsessed sex pervert
Ignore the fluff piece. The reality is you're being laid off because the company can make more money by taking your salary and buying government bonds.

When your team got spun up to work on this project, interest rates were low and it was a sound investment to try this project out. If it was successful, it might have made/saved a moderate amount of money. It made sense to invest in it, compared to all the other options available at the time.

But alas, inflation soared and interest rates rose faster than predicted, so now the bonds are a better bet than you and your team doing whatever it was you were doing. According to this spreadsheet, it wasn't nearly as profitable as the bonds.
Aren't technical challenges at smaller companies usually much more interesting? Pay is worse, but smaller companies usually offer much more freedom to implement your ideas and shape the company.
Greg Becker would like a word
And it's over 40 in Providence.

I'm having trouble reading your comment as anything other than misleading about how warm this winter has been.
> our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person

Nothing builds trust like callously laying off tens of thousands of people over multiple rounds of layoffs! Want a trustworthy environment? Earn it. Really though when he says "build trust" what he means is that he (Zuck) does not trust his employees unless he can see them.