skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re right. 45.6deg vs 51.8deg N.

The eastward boost you get from the earths rotation is just: 2 * pi * cos(latitude)/day so the difference is: 2 * pi * r_Earth*(cos(45.2deg)-cos(51.8deg))/day = 40m/s.

Which doesn’t sound like a lot but can add up.

I compared Plesetsk (Russia) vs Baikonur (Kazakhstan) in the Silverbird Astronautics calculator for Soyuz v2-1B using 3.3m fairing and without Fregat, and I got 1552kg estimated payload to escape for Plesetsk and 1665kg for Baikonur. 7% performance hit to high energy trajectories.

http://www.silverbirdastronautics.com/LVperform.html

Plesetsk is more established than V, but is 63deg latitude.
Tough inflation fight, now banks collapsing
I don't think this is line managers and their managers. I'm reading this as the people in the 5 levels above THEM, but below Zuck.
Welcome computer scientists to the bleeding edge control scheme of the 1920’s.

Teasing apart, it always amazes me how slow the diffusion of innovation is across different fields.
Are you a new employee? Not sure how to reply to your welcome email your Manager sent?

Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome reply email.
Yet somehow they are more exploitative. I would never ever want to be a taxi driver, but made ~60k/year as a Lyft driver.
Yeah, I think we're talking about the same thing. But taking your example, virtualized list problems recur every few years. They were a problem in Swing, in JSwing, in Flex, Flash, on and on. I mostly use DataTables, which is its own endless hall of mirrors. They're among the glitchiest UI elements because so many things come into play. They try to do everything and be everything for every application and for all browsers, right? But more importantly, there are a lot of different ways of approaching the problem of virtual lists. You could do offscreen rendering in the DOM, or render on the fly, or reuse existing elements, or go nuts and draw the whole thing on a Canvas. So this is like the last thing you would want to rely on an AI to actually write. You could definitely let it embed some existing solution, but then you wouldn't know why it had some code that shifted everything down 3px for Safari.
Ah I got it now. Thanks.

From the gpt-3 paper it looks like they have many variants like

- GPT-3-350M

- GPT-3-1.3B

- GPT-3-2.7B

- GPT-3-6.7B

- GPT-3-13B

- GPT-3-175B

Ada, Babbage, Curie and Davinci line up closely with 350M, 1.3B, 6.7B, and 175B respectively. The names are pretty suggestive.
Common average. Because some people (like me) prefer 11-12". That size fits every paper bag!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100251

Or, if you prefer:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/meta-is-s...
A lot of companies are laying off large numbers of FTEs.

Linked story indicates that Apple is laying off contractors.

These are not the same.
I'm also struggling to understand how you can claim that LLMs cannot learn CFGs when ChatGPT can understand nested quantifiers, which simply cannot be parsed using CFGs. LLMs can actually learn unrestricted grammars.
> because the truth is that the consumer doesn't really care what hardware the games run on

That's baloney. If someone is remotely interested in strategy games for example (MMOs, Real time strategy or Civ like complex games) they are better run on PCs because of keyboard and mouse. There is also the consumer who has the money to splurge out on a high end GPU and wants to run games at high refresh 4K. And there are old dinosaurs like me who could never get used to controllers, and I tried. Got an Xbox controller for my PC for Elden Ring, couldn't get used to it, switched back to KB/Mouse, finished game easy.
And 2019 was the year when they announced the cryptocurrency and the "metaverse" projects...
Seems like its clear that it's AI before metaverse for FB now .. that has to sting for mr zuck.
Personally, if I enjoy my work and my pay stays at or above market rate, I don't need title promotions.
Facebook Parent Meta to Begin New Round of Job Cuts
> Avoidable? Yes, but for which price? Our economy, and thus wellbeing, depend on having huge quantities of cheap energy available.

The world may gain an estimated $78 trillion over coming decades by making this energy transition.

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/06/08/how-replaci...
I know that working in tech can warp your sense of reality, but it's really, really hard to imagine starting an email in which I announce that I'm laying off 10,000 people -- the entire population of my hometown and then some -- with "Meta is building the future of human connection."

I just can't tell a story in which I would end up being a person who does that. It's too alien.
Meta-verse => meta-worse
These people can be rehired in a year for 50% of what they are making now

And many will be happy for the opportunity
You’ve taken a narrow interpretation.

Drivers have zero ability to set their rate.
I think it's within the broad meaning of self-hosting. One thing it means is that there's no random new company that you have to trust with your data.
Where is Ja!?
<insert Shrek/Farquad meme>
This is what I really hate about the people who say "Well, we just didn't know back then" or "We didn't have the evidence we do now" or, the worst one of the lot "They didn't do enough to convince me".

We knew. The evidence was there. And excuse me princess, if you think it's our job to personally persuade you to the correct position, how about you save all of us some time and just don't opine on a goddamn thing. Because if you're not willing to put in the relatively easy work of looking at the available data, you clearly aren't ready for the much harder work of correcting the issue.

I'd even accept, "Well, I was lied to and I fell for those lies." But I've not seen one person go that route. Probably because the entities that lied to them then are still around them today. If you were also a member of certain think tanks, finding out that they were perpetuating lies, kind of calls into question everything about them. Including your perceived status as a thought leader. So the institute can be wrong, but it can't be deceptive. And if the institute is wrong, it's really the fault of everyone else for not doing a good enough job of being logical and rational.
This is true, but I want to point out that conventional DBMS DDLs are horrible schema definition languages, yet are placed at the center of schema design by the DBMS.

They are horrible because because they hopelessly mix in all kinds of other concerns -- which is also why they are difficult to avoid.

IMO, where a schemaless database like this would be useful is not to avoid having a schema, but to allow a clean source-of-truth schema to be used, independent of all of the other concerns related to data access and storage.

(I'm commenting generally, BTW, not necessarily on this particular schemaless database.)
Wise offers US ac
I would agree to that sentiment only if we applied the same ethical standards to parents and people in general, not just scientists.

Babies and children today are routinely subjected to avoidable adverse stimuli, such as circumcision and corporal punishment. That a typical parent can do this at will for no good reason, but a scientist wanting to do something similar to advance human knowledge must seek approval from an ethics board (which they would not get) is ridiculous.
https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/149

> @ukutaht, Apr 27, 2021, Maintainer
> The vision of this project is and has always been to be aggregate-only with no reporting on individual users or sessions.
There were threads here, Reddit, and elsewhere. IIRC all pointing back to Blind. What I mention wasn't a universal opinion and apologies if I made it sound that way. But there was a much stronger segment than I would have expected thinking it was all a bunch of made up FUD
As a GitHub engineer, as far as I know we do this because we want more users so we can flesh out bugs, but we don't want to ship buggy software. If we were to globally ship this (even in a beta) and some really annoying bug was found, users would complain. Or if we let everyone opt in all at once, maybe the feature consumes a ton of resources and causes an unexpected outage. This slow rollout lets us keep a handle on things while still letting our most passionate users try things out.
Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding
There's a huge number of Product people on TikTok who seem to spend their whole day bragging about their cushy, low impact, high pay jobs. They're still around, too - I wonder how much longer.
You can't run yuzu or Cemu on PS even if you wanted too. The Sony's platform is tremendously locked. Also I mentioned Proton in my original post, you get Linux compability for the "Microsoft exclusive" game basically for free.
> who are probably still very much in demand

Honest question, but are they? And, just as important, is anyone other than a FAANG company willing to pay them the same high comps right at this moment?

I can see a high-need-for-people/high-comp scenario still possible in some parts of finance, but with these recent events I'm not so sure anymore. I'm also sure that right now there's a high demand for people in anything related to MIC/the war industry, but I don't think they can provide the same high comps as FAANGs do, unless one choose to go the contractor route (which also comes with its pluses and minuses).
This video published just now is incredible — https://youtu.be/6DaJVZBXETE

Not sure though if it's mostly stuff that's being beta tested as we speak, or stuff that's not even built at all as of yet.
Poor performance is relative to what their peers (Alphabet/Apple/Amazon/Microsoft) were accomplishing for many years in the 2010s.

The market has separated these 5 pretty clearly now, with Meta trailing by quite a bit, Alphabet and Amazon in the middle, and Microsoft and Apple with a decent lead.
1. Sites like https://nft.storage/ (which I dislike as they have a silly bug with content types) or Pinata also go to IPFS. Just because the https URL doesn't look like a well known IPFS HTTP gateway doesn't mean it's not on IPFS.

2. Good point. I haven't investigated this but I should.
I tried to refrain from more radical rephrasing, but yes, it’s not unwarranted.
Not sure what you are implying. They have asked many managers to start coding or leave a while ago, their title is still EM maybe will change to IC now.
Those are called managers and directors.
> When our technology will let us stop polluting without giving up comfort, that will be the right time to stop polluting.

Technology has reached this point a long time ago. Politics have not.
Also for context.

FB stock in 2020: 234
Today: 190

FB revenue in 2020: $86 billion
2022: $117 billion
For most FAANG companies, it's IC -> TL -> TLM -> EM, unless you explicitly insist on remaining IC/TL (and then you're on the chopping block, because promotion trajectory for ICs becomes very, very slow beyond a certain point).
Certainly an applicable analogy - all the people whose standards are low enough to use a doctored-up JPEG as a logo now have a free solution. The rest of us who'd prefer a vector graphic, or maybe a .ai or .psd, will continue paying for quality output and the ability to have a rapport about aesthetics.

When you pay a person, you're paying for more than the output. Maybe they'll use a GPT/LLM model behind the scenes, but I also use bucket-loads of coffee behind the scenes. That doesn't mean a bag of Stumptown can build your analytics architecture.
You talk about consumers who buy a usage-license. But someone must create those content first, and holds the ownership on them. Which is usually the creator, or publisher, or someone who bought the ownership. And there are usually proof of this ownership, like contracts and such.
That’s the thing; the A players are still in demand (even Z players like me are still getting contacted for roles), and I wonder if sending this message out like this is a huge gamble on Meta’s part.

If I were there I’d be seriously considering a less volatile environment. If I were an A player, I’d be able to do so even easier and potentially find more meaningful work. This seems like a bad move for Meta, just leaving the axe up in the air ready to strike like this.

With numbers in the thousands, it gives me the sense that it might not always matter what you do or how good you are.
What features are you looking/hoping for in a ChatGPT-like integration with Google web apps?
Ha, if even YC is doing layoffs you know the valley is in deep shit.
I actually liked Edge and was happy to move away from Chrome. Then they started injecting their content into web pages. And then some shopping feature. I hate seeing the "You can now add extensions from the Chrome..." banner when I'm logged in the Chrome web store. It won't go away even after I closed it multiple times.

I started using Brave.
Energy is life. But we've had commercial nuclear for over half a century. We as a society just chose to pollute instead of dealing with the real / not real risks associated with nuclear.
It's interesting that the example for using an AI to write documents is a job description. It is uniquely suited to the AI because in real life, we've been copy-pasta-ing them for decades. It's also a place where there is some level of legal peril - a job description with material inaccuracies or discriminatory language creates lawsuits.
MS Teams refuses to put some webcams in HD mode on Mac. Zoom may require some configuration for some HD webcams.

Certified stuff makes it easy for procurement groups to defend "IT's" purchase choices and easy to distribute across an enterprise when you know it'll mostly work out of the box.

So marketing, but like any product cert, it's a cya for the buyer with the hope of simpler user experience for a distributed workforce. And, of course, an excuse to charge more.
> Avoidable? Yes, but for which price? Our economy, and thus wellbeing, depend on having huge quantities of cheap energy available.

We've deliberately made choices to not prioritize better sources of that cheap energy over the years. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carter-white-hous...

"By 1986, the Reagan administration had gutted the research and development budgets for renewable energy at the then-fledgling U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and eliminated tax breaks for the deployment of wind turbines and solar technologies—recommitting the nation to reliance on cheap but polluting fossil fuels, often from foreign suppliers. 'The Department of Energy has a multibillion-dollar budget, in excess of $10 billion,' Reagan said during an election debate with Carter, justifying his opposition to the latter's energy policies. 'It hasn't produced a quart of oil or a lump of coal or anything else in the line of energy.'"

> You think pollution is bad? Ask the hundreds of million of people who chose to move from the pristine country to a polluted city along the last centuries!

This was not because they loved pollution, but because the other options were also bad. Ask people who live in LA if they preferred the smog from the 1970s, or the people of Cleveland if they prefered the burning river.
Imagine someone made a slight mistake and receive: “Welcome to Google [Employee name] it’s nice to meet you
I'm very curious as to what constitutes "performing better" in the context of this metric
I used to have a free account with Whitepages before 2016 or thereabouts when they offered a free tier. I doubt it was comprehensive because I only ever got a couple alerts about my email, but it did let you know which breach it was. I'm not sure how good the paid tier they now offer is.
We sort of can, through meditation, habit, study, and chemical alteration - obviously within constraints, barring future technological enhancements.
India thinks it knows more than Apple or Google about smartphone security
I wonder if the eventual result of all this work from home debate will be that it's something that's earned after a period of time. e.g. 1 day a week after 6 months of employment, 2 from 1 year, etc.

That actually makes perfect sense to me from a practical perspective.
Matches my experience.
I think this is a great idea.

The two sites I tried this on still had ads showing and where was rendered entirely unreadable.

I dont think that is really a critique.
The task is exceedingly difficult.
If it works in a lot of sites that is a victory
Yes. That is one of the worst euphemisms of the year.
It still has a bus stop though, the cycle path goes around it...

https://goo.gl/maps/t3kXprqhmxVqWKrd8
People said twitter would fall over after all the influencers got fired but its still relatively functioning fine.

Confirms my theory that most companies are just bloat 80:20 rule.

Get rid of everyones whos not a nerd or directly sells product.
Riley Rojas/Jay Ersapah at SVB is a perfect example here. That was a real shitstorm - spend a lot of time on DEI/LGBT/ERG issues, spend very little time doing productive work.
> What is the value in announcing that layoffs will take place over a period of months instead of doing it all at once?

It seems like that's what Facebook employees wanted, so that's what they get. I'm no fan of Facebook in general, but at least it seems like the guy is listening to the employees on something.

From the press release:

> I recognize that sharing plans for restructuring and layoffs months in advance creates a challenging period. But last fall, we heard feedback that you wanted more transparency sooner into any restructuring plans, so that’s what I’m trying to provide here.
i believe they're already happening. i have one friend at meta who's manager was swapped to an IC role already, and one friend who's an EM that's in the process of swapping to an IC role
The blockchain is a piece of additive technology. It doesn't replace existing relational databases, nosql databases, object storage, etc. You can store data in any location you like (doesn't have to be a centralized location) and then verify it's authenticity later by recomputing the hash and comparing that to the hash stored on-chain in the NFT. Also, just because some data is stored off-chain does not mean you need to run your own infra. You could pay a hosting provider to operate it for you.

Public permissionless blockchains help in easing the verifiability of ownership records, transfer of ownership records, and auditability of transactions. In the digital goods you don't necessarily have to rely on a single third party like a government. Checkout Chia offer files (https://chialisp.com/offers/) for an example of this. You can post these offer files on Twitter, forums, text messages, emails, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100251

Flagged of course, "no way this is true" etc
Live-caption glasses let deaf people read conversations [video]
> We’ll also have individual contributors report into almost every level — not just the bottom — so information flow between people doing the work and management will be faster.
My conclusion is (1) god this map is terrible. My eyes, dear god. Why is the clear button blinking? But on a more serious note

(2) there isn't really a conclusion to be drawn from this map. Correlations are all over the place. Some western countries are high, but others are low. African countries are mostly high (because green is second highest for some reason). This map also does not correlate with age. I'm sure countries with a longer average lifespan have higher rates of Alzheimers/Dementia deaths. E.g. Russia has a lower average lifespan and a low rate of Alzheimers/Dementia deaths. That may be correlated.
1. Work at Meta
2. Be top performer
3. Remain in your role for too many years
4. Get fired because you're expensive with no growth trajectory
NFTs are the tulips of the 21st century.
My friends shared their disappointment over the fact that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) will no longer be an option for their small startup businesses. They had positive experiences with SVB, finding them supportive when needed, and non-predatory on fees. Additionally, they were impressed with SVB's recent improvements to their online banking and app. One of them is now faced with finding a new bank that can understand small startup cash flows and provide helpful connections. They expressed feeling a bit bummed about the situation.
Revenue is nice but revenue-per-full-time-employee is a more meaningful metric.
Giant seaweed blob twice the width of the US takes aim at Florida
Used to be a Lyft driver:. By changing status, it would be possible for Lyft/Uber to restrict drivers from being on the other platform simultaneously. This means probably a takehome drop of 20~30%.

The truly egregious one though is FedEx/Amazon drivers, who (IIRC) are "contractors" and forced to use branded vehicles, wear uniforms, and have their driving monitored like crazy. They are definitely employees, and are ruining it for Lyft drivers.
Even if ownership of digital assets or false scarcity were good ideas, NFTs never did any of this.

The spec was technically amateurish — basically just URLs in a bit of JSON in a slow database, with barely any connection to the asset. NFTs allowed regular non-IPFS URLs without any checksum, which allowed HTTP servers to change the asset at any time! And they had absolutely no uniqueness checks, allowing automating piracy!

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726556/signal-founder-...

You could literally copy an image, and make a new token for it, and there was no way to decide which token was the true one for any given image, except maybe if you trusted some central authority, haha.
Internet Rule 289: Thou shalt complain about layoff announcements
I'm still bitter about FF leaving Nintendo after FF6.
It is easy to make a webcam that performs poorly for certain scenarios, particularly with poor lighting, or when mounted to a monitor that has integrated speakers. Jitter in audio causes problems with automatic echo cancellation.

It is much less important than in the 2010's. At that time, Skype certified cameras to provide h264 encoding in the camera. Those encoded frames would then pass through directly to the network. That kind of encoding is very demanding technically, so certification had plenty of value. Today's MJPEG cameras don't benefit as much.
There was one laptop made by ASUS. It had SO much connectivity in a 12" case no one attempted ever since. And it would be the best if not for poor battery life. But the battery was swappable. The model is U6Sg. If I could buy anything like that today (with good battery life and AMD processor), I'd be happy.
What kind of "newer"? I only consider Spider-Man: Miles Morales as "new enough" and it was still released over 2 years ago. When God of War: Ragnarok will be available on PC? You get Xbox titles on PC on the same day of their console release.
We're talking about H1B visas, which are non-immigrant visas which should be short-term. The only reason a company can obtain an H1B visa for an employee is to certify they can't fill the role with domestic workers. Yeah, they're never going to fill the role with domestic workers if they don't have to train domestic workers.

The wage equation is simple. More available labor means less wages. Nobody debates this.

Let's not act like people here on H1B are some kind of humanitarian cause. They're the brightest and most educated in the country (according to H1B proponents anyway).

My goal is to lift up impoverished people domestically. The best way to do this is to have more white collar jobs that lower-level workers can move into. If those roles are always filled, there's no need for scholarships or apprenticeships from companies to train the next generation of workers. They get to push the problem on the university system, and then ignore the vast majority of those graduates because they're only hiring 'senior level' positions.
> No one thinks the stated reason for the ban was the real one, though.

Was there a poll? Where can I see it?

> That comment was mild by HN standards, especially in 2015

He wasn't banned just for that comment ffs. Bellow it you can see Dang explaining why he was banned.