skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a local minimum. Serious injuries or deaths only occur when a bike gets hit by a car. Bike-on-bike accidents are pretty much a non-issue.

This is solved by better bike infrastructure, and by holding drivers accountable for the accidents. The more people cycle, the safer it becomes.
Yes. But that doesn't change the fact that given current reality the safety of moving in a car is higher than when using a bike. How it could and should be is a different matter.
Yeah it’s not there yet, it only works for very basic things you may as well write yourself. I don’t think we’ll get there till we find a generic way for LLM type models to run experiments themselves and understand the changes.

We need LLMs to meet world models
What does one have to do with the other? Almost no matter what your field, if your job involves sitting at a desk in front of computer for more than 10-20 hours a week, your job performance can probably benefit from knowing a bit of coding. And that is only going to be more true going forwards.
> then it counts as a written record

Nope. Just like a drawing made by depositing graphite on paper isn't drawing, even though writing letters by depositing graphite on paper is.

> Not in an "I'm trying to pedantic my way around the rule", but in a "these two things are the same; data representing communication between two or more people" way.

I don't see the difference.
This essay brought back memories from the last millenia, from the IRC / ICQ / webchat days. Except things were much simpler then, and the whole point of chatting with someone was to meet them IRL (OK, I was young back then, maybe older people had different motives). And the least important thing about it was how "realistic" of an experience it was, because of the textual interface things were very restricted anyway, but in hindsight it was all the better for it.
Given the changes in health over the past century and a half as we've adopted "science" into food, I'm not sure that I agree.
November 2020 I ordered a Swytch e-bike kit and fitted it to my bike. It replaced the car for many things (weekly grocery shops, city centre trips).

I moved to London last year and this turned out to be a fortune timing.

My car, a Honda Civic 2007 diesel, is not ULEZ compliant and I will have to pay £12.50/day to drive it from August 2023 due to the low emission zone expansion. I plan to sell it in July.

Guess what? I've been using my Swytch e-bike happily here in London to get around the suburbs. There are even some Amsterdam style bike lanes to get further into the city.

Pros when I get rid of the car:

* no insurance, tax, ULEZ charge, fuel, trip to fuel station, servicing charges, worries about people scratching it...

* Uber for when I really need a car (eg. I have a group with me)

* able to take short-cuts and bypass unpleasant town centers/sometimes

* feeling of getting fresh air and exercise

* helping a cleaner environment for next generation

Cons:

* weather has a big factor when riding and planning trips, all you really need though is gloves, a waterproof jacket - maybe waterproof over-trousers for when there is heavy rain.

* cold weather waters my eyes and hits me in the face

* have to unlock & lock the bike and carry a D-lock

I doubt I will ever own a car after August 2023.
I think people are overreacting.

A lot of larger tech companies started hiring like mad during the past two years because the economy was over juiced. I work at an enterprise and was chatting with my boss about it and she mentioned that there was this idea that companies that weren't hiring were going to fall behind the those that were.

This is those companies undoing all of that panic hiring.
I got laid off late January and was able to find a job within a month. I've got a senior title and 6.5 years of experience.

Like most US tech workers, I was getting paid comfortably, but nowhere near the level of FAANG/fintech/top startups. I took a small pay increase with this new job.

I've got friends who were part of the FAANG layoffs who have been struggling because they only want to work at FAANG or top tier fintech/startups. That said, they are also not trying too hard due to generous severance.
Just skimmed beginning of article - this article talks about teslas "blowing through stop signs" and the regulators having to recall them for this.

"Blowing through" stop signs was a rolling stop when it was a 4 way stop with all roads at 30MPH or less and no relevant moving cars are people or bikes. The rolling stop never was more than 6MPH, and often much lower (think 1-3MPH).

We have folks blow through stops signs where I live at 35 MPH when others are present, I've got dash cam of this. No action by cops. But teslas roll through at 0.5MPH, and it's end of world. The description by these "journalists" is wildly misleading.

What's weird, there are issues that drivers really really wish would get addressed because they are bad for quality of life and safety. Basic adaptive cruise control / autopilot / phantom braking stuff that seems worse not better from the mobileye days (??? - how is this possible).

Not sure what solution is. Having some kind of better radar, at least one lidar unit to ground truth the vision a bit more? Better mapping and navigation so it can cheat and for example avoid unprotected lefts a bit more?
In the Netherlands there was a huge debacle in relation to Chrome VI used in camouflage paints on tanks and fighter jets. The paint is carcinogenic.
250,000 tech workers impacted sounds like a lot, but this is less than what the companies hired during the covid job boom; this can be simply (a step towards) a reversion to a more normal state of the tech employment.
So how does palette.supply qualify? It’s a hard-to-navigate scrolljacking feast. But it’s certainly visually appealing.
In the crypto communities, it's usually posting the suicide number hotline.

I don't think we'll ever be there yet. Tech people are still one of the richest in the US and the Earth.
Depends. How strong is the headwind?

IIRC, the US record is 231 MPH at Mt Washington. You could take off a 747 in 0 feet in that.
I'd be very interested to know what Ask HN posts will actually be answered by HN better than by ChatGPT. Maybe those will be things that we excel at.
They can't lay off everyone, someone still has to take care of the tropical jungle and polish the 6th Avenue spheres in Seattle.
Most people are still in their severance period. Expect panic in the next couple of quarters.
For anyone wondering nextcomputers.org has the necessary rom files available in their file section.-

Along with just about all the public ally available software ever made. It’s really a treasure trove.
Depends on what other options are available in "the afterlife". Program or burn in hell - sure I can do a bit of programming. Program or spend time on the beach in good company - I'll have to pass on the programming thing.
Sure, but these things come and go. I would not be surprised if in 12-24 months Amazon has more engineers than they do today by a significant margin.

And "in tech" is right. At my current company, we have more PMs than we do developers. This leads to a really poor feedback look where the PMs are trying to justify their jobs, so they "look busy" and start generating cruft that is probably not important (like changing text without really a great reason, sure maybe it is "polish" but ... there's real things to do and it distracts the engineers).

We don't need more PMs than we have engineers!
I once had an office in an only somewhat renovated area of mill buildings in an old mill town in New England. One building always had a number of down at the heels looking bicycles parked outside. Eventually I found out it was an addiction rehab.

There was no public transport in the area. I'd rather have them getting to rehab on a bike than not going at all.
It sucks that you've dealt with bad recruiters and bad HR. I hope you get to work with really good ones someday, because it can be incredible.

One of the best things a former employer did was hire an in-house recruiter who was actually good at the job. Because he wasn't working on commission, he cared a lot more about getting the right person for your team rather than just a butt in a seat. He had enough technical background to talk intelligently about the position when I was interviewing to work there, and a year later when I ended up writing a job description, he was able to do a very good job walking me through how and why each part was there. Recruiting is really hard to do well, and lots of companies do it really poorly. But it can be done well, and it's a real pleasure to work with a good recruiter both as a candidate and a hiring manager.

HR as well, to a point. Yeah, it's to protect the company and control costs. But it can be done well or poorly, and when it's done well it can be reasonably pleasant to deal with.
I'd be curious to see how many of these layoffs are coders - I know given the scale of the layoffs the numbers in engineering affected can't be small even if the percentage is, but anecdotally I've only heard of HR layoffs among friends (anecdata isn't data but I'm an engineer so I know relatively fewer HR folk overall).

Fwiw those I do know that've been laid off have gone travelling/career break (severance helps here) or pivoted (all from HR, none from engineering).
> I know there be dragons, and I'm going to date them all

I want to steal that quote. (Pessimistically I know I will forget it, so optimistically I'll try to have it printed on a T-shirt!)
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HN downplays all jobs other than programming to a horrible degree.

"Why do we even need hr?"

"Why do we even need managers?"

"Why do we even need sales?"

I've seen it all on this site. It's pretty disrespectful to those professions especially when hr is on the front lines when hiring slows and layoffs take place. The talk of outsourcing in particular is amusing since HN will talk endlessly about how outsourcing programming can't possibly work.
You managed to bring politics into a conversation about ...spiders?

Sigh.

And by the way, I lived in Texas for 17 years and never once saw someone "wave a gun around", and only once saw someone carrying openly.

I grew up in the north east though, and guns were everywhere, I remember going to a movie with my wife, standing in line for tickets and a gun fell out of the jacket of the man in front of me, who appeared to be a gang member.

But please, let's just keep with the knee-jerk political comments. Maybe we can bring them into a discussion about daffodils or something next.
You seem to be overlapping your experience (hobbies, class structure 20 years ago when you went to school, which school you went to, how you focused your electives, etc) with what "colleges teach"

There are lots of "foundational knowledge" materials out there you can pick from the realm of "CS" - there's a theoretical track, practical track, grad school track, "just enough CS to be CS while I have fun doing other stuff" track ...

If it's vital [to you] that an intern (which, most often, is defined as someone you'll only have for a few weeks or months and who is distinctly still in school) have all that "foundational knowledge", then put it in the job posting :)

Most internships I've ever seen have far fewer requirements (because the company is going to do some amount of training for the interns during their tenure). They're more along the lines of:

- Jr majoring in <degree> with minimum <GPA>

And ... that's it

I knew "a lot" coming out of high school - more than ended up being covered in pretty much every [core] class I took over the next couple years

Didn't make me at 20 comparable to someone who'd been doing the work professionally for a decade or more :)
I'm not sure I care about how it does the work, I think the interesting bit is that the model doesn't know when it is bullshitting, or the degree to which it is bullshitting.
Between weird self bondage exercises and this sort of pop culture time wasting, it looks like GCHQ maybe has too much time on their hands.
Longer term projections on 2.5C look more hopeful.

Globally electricity production has gotten significantly more green, though offset by increased demand. But, new coal power plants for example were down 66% globally in 2020 vs 2016 and existing infrastructure only lasts so long. Project things forward to 2040 and emissions should be noticeably below current levels even with increasing demand simple because of economic forces.

In 2022 10% of all new cars globally were EV’s and that number keeps rising. Combined with an even cleaner grid and things could look quite different in 2040 again even with increasing demand for cars.

Now I don’t want to project those trends over the following 60 years, but lower emissions give even more time to lower them further. 2.5C could easily hit in 2200 rather than 2100, or even be avoided entirely.

Thus we might be able to shift 1.5C by a few years, 2C by decades, and 2.5C by literal centuries.
> Are people finding placement?

LMAO no. Admittedly I have been out of the job hunting circus for a decade, but the number of positions I've applied for in the past few months that have resulted in a first interview is laughable. Recruiters are still useless and such an active waste of my time I don't even reply to them any more.

I'm seemingly having better luck these days getting freelance contracts through non-standard avenues (but I'm holding off from celebrating as I'm still negotiating and haven't signed anyone just yet)
I definitely would like to know that.
Surprised to see cloud computing will be affected, but then again some analysts reported that AWS growth slowed to only 20% at the end of Q4. But based on what we are seeing they are still having a lot of success with on-prem to cloud migration deals (Southwest Airlines being the most recently announced one).

We've also been tracking the shift in cloud spending patterns that Amazon is describing on earnings calls and how that may be compressing margins. In Q4 this was particularly noticeable, https://www.vantage.sh/cloud-cost-report/2022-q4
As the sibling comment points out, gp is clearly talking about the source mesh from which the normal map is generated. But that there is never a higher-detail intermediate mesh during rendering is also wrong since the engine could use tesselation or geometry shaders to do just that. Doing it all in the fragment shaders means you either need to limit yourself to small displacements, have visibly wrong rendering at oblique viewing angles or add a lot of complexity to the fragment shader to simulate self-occlusion via raymarching and still end up with visibly wrong rendering in some cases.
Yeah. This makes me really happy I did not transition to some soft-skill based job. Soft skills are really important, but if all I had going for me right now is "management experience" I'd be more worried.
But now GPT can code. It’s possible the narrative is changing.

I’m NOT saying that software engineers are getting replaced, but the kinds of things you learn in a boot camp, gluing APIs together and searching StackOverflow for code snippets, seems like it’s on more shaky ground than a few years ago.
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In Stargate it's a matter transporter so it literally takes all your molecules turns them into a collimated beam and shoots that beam at close to the speed of light to some other place to be reassembled.

In star trek I believe it does full matter to energy conversion and back again. I'm not entirely sure how piecewise motion of said energy is accomplished.
I regularly interview and am continuing to grab offers every couple weeks. Just make sure to bypass the application portal with inMails from LinkedIn as the recruiters are lazy and will just send you in rather than read through the pile and you are fine.

I suspect anyone with a decent network is fine. If you are applying through portals though, the competition is steep.
Thanks, I had no idea Vinegar existed. The default embedded Youtube player is awful and had me using other browsers to avoid it, none of which I find very good. You’ve made Safari on my iPad usable again.
You should still learn to code, even if you're not in a programming job. It's just basic literacy, like being able to write a competent 5 paragraph essay. It doesn't mean you're going to write books for a living.
There are a ton of non-engineering roles at those divisions ...
Trees, grass and shrubs might be costly to kickstart but they retain water in the soil and that kind of thing compounds. It’s obviously an effort to kickstart the greening of a desert.
So legal and virtue signaling? It appears these positions were NOT safe, so like the others they were cut. If companies _really_ cared about DEI they would look other places to cut. I guess, unfortunately, the ROI on DEI isn't apparent.

I haven't seen many pitchforks about it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/diversity-roles-disappea...

https://www.businessinsider.com/layoffs-diversity-department...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo...
The question is how many of them don't consume dairy I guess. Probably most do.
> It’s a little more corporate than the museum in the article,

Seems like the UK has a rich history with video games as well! :D

I wish there was larger Venue for this kind of thing. I would like to see Commodores line of computers and it's games up for people to experience.
Is there a spec for SWF?
There are tons of social media websites out there that would exclude and demonize me. But I don't visit them, and I don't waste my energy complaining about them. Why would I? It isn't healthy to obsess over people who would exclude and demonize you. It is, in fact, itself a "toxic pattern", as you put it. I don't want to expend my finite mental resources worrying about, I dunno, Truth Social or Stormfront or other such places. It isn't some grand injustice that they exist and exclude different people and points of view, it's just how the decentralized nature of the WWW (and people, generally) works.
https://jalopnik.com/charges-dropped-against-driver-who-open...
Who gets promoted faster: The person who spends an extra hour or two on every code review investigating the behavior of hacky wrappers 50-year-old awkward file APIs, looking for the one and 100 critical security bug? Or The person who gets more features launched?
Anecdotally, the folks I'm seeing on LN most impacted by the layoffs seem to be more on the senior/higher paid side of things, probably more folks that chose the tech track than people management (but I'm seeing those too).

Seems like companies are focusing on cutting folks that don't contribute (code, reports, something tangible) directly to revenue streams.
My kid is in university now, and I tell him to read the textbook chapters or online references the prof gives in advance of the class. It won't necessarily make sense, and he shouldn't spend hours untangling it - read it, do the best you can, prepare 90 minutes for a 1 hour class.

Even if it doesn't sink in while reading - and it probably won't - it will make the lecture make so much more sense. You'll learn much faster than you would without the preparation.

In my view, those classes and the education in general have exactly the same role with respect to your first job. They won't sink in fully during those four months, but they will provide context for the experiences in your first job and allow you to gain experience much faster.

In other words, view that new graduate as somebody who hasn't covered the material in class yet, but has done some reading to prepare.
I live in big-ish EU city (Warsaw, Hamburg/Glasgow level of population) and have been cycling for 10+ years, moved to car for various unrelated reasons.

But car commute is still faster. I can get from home to work in ~35 minutes at lower traffic (say 10AM, blessed be flexible work hours) and in MAX hour in more of a rush traffic. Best time by bicycle is around 1h10m. I do park at work building so that's 5-10 minutes of looking for parking saved there. Technically I can get there by 50 min if I get with bike to metro but that's pretty much possible only on off hours.

It's definitely pretty nice way to keep in shape, now with more remote work I just use the time saved to do some cycling. Did it pretty much "from when it stopped snowing to when it started", 20km a day (I went via metro in the morning, came back cycling, just didn't wanted to do all the mess with arriving sweaty and having shower at work every day), including few in pouring rain at near-zero 0C which was.. experience and I have now learned to stop shivering by force of will alone.

Thought I'd get less fat but it didn't work, tho I did get more healthy overall. Diet is the key in the end.

> - somewhat dangerous when the infrastructure is lacking.

Yeah I try to not share any road with cars as much as I could. For 10 years I don't think I had a day where I didn't saw some car doing something sketchy or just driver not paying attention. Not that cyclists were holy here just... much less potential for damage.

> - you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;

please just don't
> It's probably true that a huge number of sites providing online content without a paywall don't have a solid business model. They'd probably mostly go away absent ads though and subscriptions for those with a paywall would increase.

IMO that would make the Internet a much better place.
So is understating the impact.

This take is seriously dangerous.

"1.5C is not so bad, chill people"

When the fact is - we don't know the impact - if we go beyond 1.5.

What we do know (because it's already very much measurable) is that much of the worlds glaciers will melt, causing drought.

What we do know is that eventually the sea levels will rise and drown many extremely valuable coastal areas.
I find it funny you bring up Ukraine in this conversation, it is considered the 2nd most corrupt country in Europe only behind Russia[1], has a long history of far-right ideologies [2]. And recently during this conflict have supported multiple groups that use literal Nazi imagery, most notably the Azov Regiment, which the Ukraine government are telling us are totally not Nazis despite using a bunch of imagery(such as the Black Sun and the Wolfsangel) that would likely get you arrested in some of the other countries you mentioned. [3]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-index?c...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade
> You live in a city bubble

Or relatively, you live in a suburban bubble? Different lifestyles, different modes of transport.
At my first job, this never got solved. One day a camera showed up, pointing directly at the communal sink.

I didn't use any of the dishes in the office, so it didn't really bother me. But it seemed like those most bothered by it were the ones leaving messes in the first place, why else would you have a problem with it?

Kind of a culture killer, the important lesson learned is you can't let these issues work themselves out, eventually you'll have a war with two sides.

Leadership matters, even in the most mundane of topics, like dirty dishes.
That's correct. Drunk drivers are frequently completely unconscious by the time they crash a car, and can have been for quite a distance down the road. Can't happen on a bike.
It's only an issue for people who insist they are 'worth' FAANG jobs. Outside of the big players theres ample opportunities.