skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon has a reputation of being frugal to the point of stupidity (e.g. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-use-frupidi...) so that tired conspiracy theory especially doesn't hold water for them. Amazon wouldn't give a hoot about the opinions of "building management, HR, middle managers", etc. if anyone there could make a solid business case that increasing WFH would significantly improve their bottom line over the long term.
It's a multitude of things. The LPs are the start of it, but the data oriented culture has been ignored by rto mandate and the head of HR's apathetic response to the remote advocates. Amazon is a very heavy document writing company and more often than not if you had to write a doc you faced someone saying "so what?" and then that person or their/your leaders requiring proving points and writing narratives leveraging facts through data to challenge biases. Amazon's leadership pissed the workers (formerly "leaders") off by instead explaining all mandates and changes are based upon their feelings and beliefs. There is no data (at least any they care to share) and it's heavily speculated to be a 4th wave of layoffs due to the only data publicly available was aws employee surveying demonstrating 80+% of workers wanted remote as a choice.

The other thing often referenced is something of a company culture thing known as "day 1." The tldr there is bezos coined the term day 1 culture to pretend Amazon was always imitating being at launch day status (day 1) and that day 2 is ruin. MThe rto mandate is a cookie cutter example of "day 2 behavior" listed by bezos and his high level leaders.

Finally, there is the hypocrisy. Executives have tons of exemptions, reasons to bend the mandates for themselves, and the power to choose how and where they work, or influence policies involved. Meanwhile, workers have faced a brick wall when it's come to things even medical accommodations for remote. Workers have posted demands from HR forcing employees to at length detail private and embarrassing medical conditions only to auto-decline accommodations after. Workers have no ability to transfer locations that would benefit both the and the company due to red tape from the RTO edicts. Some workers, having been hired full remote, or to a location not where their direct manager resides are being mandated to move across the country due to no exemption stance taken by Amazon leadership.
Large tech definitely hires in part defensively. They might not need all those people but no one else can have them either.
I mean yes and no. If the supermarket never sells it because they can't make a profit (and it's not in enough demand to be a loss leader that brings people in), then the supermarket won't sell them, driving down demand to the supplier. If that exists for one supermarket it likely exists for others driving down the demand more (even if said demand would have otherwise remained high) .

You see this dynamic in markets fairly frequently and the profitable goods and services will be promoted more heavily. One can get philosophical about what is supply and what is demand, but middle man profitablity is a factor in those things as they're at once a customer and a seller.

TLDR supermarket profitablity definitely drives pricing as well. Just another component.
Someone needs to remake this, just global search and replace “web scale” with “blockchain”.
Yup, move everyone to digital payment system and then add charges on that too.

https://www.outlookindia.com/business/should-you-worry-about...
> Android by comparison feels more like it was designed to look pretty with usability as a second class citizen.

I do think that this comes from the code base not being very good. The base layout and view classes have hundreds of thousand lines of codes, the layout algorithm is quadratic to the number of views. It was originally designed for digital cameras, not for phones. The base classes use many bit fields as well instead of enums, they don't look like Java.

Plus the strange back button concept which comes from the camera.

All this means developers waste a lot of time wrestling the framework.
I was thinking "if there is one feature JS doesn't have, it is a missing library"
Maybe the entirety of the same time zone. There are real efficiencies to not having 12 hour cross-schedules.
Sales was always and continues to be separate from production. Production has always needed tools and inputs. You're not pointing out anything about software that's different from what Marx would have seen in a factory.
Most people who are underpaid don’t want their income to fall further. Budgeting becomes challenging when fixed expenses take up too large a percentage. People often have a sense of how much they can personally sacrifice to accomplish something unremunerative.
The thing that most people are missing are, at both time the aim of demonitisation and this is to cut the air supply of opposition parties before election.

In India there are huge cash transactions at time of elections for buying votes, and all sorts of illegal activities to win elections. Demonitisation helped BJP the UP elections which was just impossible, now this will help with the LS elections.
Minivans are a totally different class of vehicle than the actual problematic vehicles, body on frame suv’s and pickups, though. I wager they are significantly lighter too because they are unibody and based on car platforms. The problem is that most people who are really in the market for a minivan don’t buy minivans anymore, they buy crossovers, which are either cars or minivans (the caravan, the first minivan, was based on the chrysler k platform, anyways) made up to look like a big box, non-aerodynamic, and in most cases, “rugged” (or “sporty”) suvs.
this is an excellent idea. I'm looking at you mr F350 with 2 bags of groceries in the tray.
fairseq has existed for many years and is Fb’s (now Meta’s) AI research group’s sequence-to-sequence modeling toolkit. It’s not specific to this MMS model.
What many of you are missing is, its gonna hurt US in the long run.

1. If US people wouldnt want to RTO, these jobs will be moved out to India. You can get to hire 3 people for same pay and they are happy to work. Or you can definitely hire pretty good engineer with half cost and same output

2. Unlike labour work, you are not competing with local people or can benefit from unions. You are competing with world and there are lot of people who are ready to grab it with same business outcome
Intel on Demand (Software Defined Silicon)
A large percent of the RWKV community ain’t experts. And are here doing weird, dumb or crazy homebrew experiments

So keep doing weird experiments
This is already a thing, but it's also a good thing in many ways.

How many people were all excited about a "random" guy in a small town in Sicily creating a key-value database a few weeks back?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871462

That's globalization, folks.
No, you write a script that runs the sync and shut down the instance. When for instance is stopped you don’t pay for it. Resuming it is a simple api call. You don’t even really need to do the sync, it’s just to be certain if the instance volume is lost you have a backup.

The shutdown / stop on an instance is like closing the lid on your laptop. When you start it again it resumes where it was left off. In the mean time the instance doesn’t occupy a VM.

A caveat is you can’t really do this with spot instances. You would need to do a sync and rebuild on start. But, again, scriptable easily.
do they rent any buildings?
https://sasquatchchronicles.com/category/episodes/
Are there currently any plans to create a RWKV 30B or 65B? That seems to be the size at which the LLaMA transformer models become genuinely competitive with GPT3.5 for many tasks.
Yes, the obvious case is machine learning, so that you can make changes and run your program again, and it uses the same batches as so forth.

Another case are unit tests with random-generated cases. At a minimum you want to know the seed of the last run and have that reported. On CI system you would want it to be deterministic.

Where you want there not to be a seed is in crypto, or possibly a game like poker or even tetris.
If all Amazon engineers made a salary in their first year which enabled them to afford a Seattle home purchase, then home prices would rise even higher... Until you need to work for 8 years to afford one again.
The path to autonomous intelligent agents: what needs to happen
It would be amazing if everyone decided they would make their lives intentionally harder by biking and walking and using buses in places that have been designed to be completely antagonistic to all of those activities. I've never seen that happen anywhere though. People almost always follow the default.

What could happen is governments could invest in making cities walkable, bikable, transit-able by default and people would naturally follow. Even that is a big ask at this point due to extreme sprawl, but it's the only way it's going to happen.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9668217/montreal-rosemont-la-peti...

> Whether electric, hybrid or internal combustion, parking a vehicle under 1,550 kilograms will cost $115 for the year. Vehicles with a mass between 1,250 kg and 1,424 kg will cost $145, 1,425 kg to 1,599 kg will be $175 and 1,600 kg and more will be $205.

(I think that 1550 is a typo and should be 1250 and is reflected in the table below)

| kg | lbs | fee |
|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----:|
| < 1,250 | < 2,755 | $115 |
| 1,250-1,424 | 2,755-3,139 | $145 |
| 1,425-1,599 | 3,140-3,525 | $175 |
| ≥ 1,600 | ≥ 3,527 | $205 |

Some data points:

My old '96 geo metro (four door) was is 1,984 lbs

My '03 Honda civic was 2,500 lbs

I currently drive an '10 Honda insight which is listed as "2,723 to 2,727 lbs"

A 2023 Toyta Prius is 3,097 to 3,340 lbs

A Mazda CX-90 (SUV) is 4,709 to 4,899 lbs

The 2023 Ford F150 is 4,021 to 5,740 lbs

The Mitsubishi Mirage is one of the lightest cars on the market that is still in the practical category and has a curb weight of 2,084 to 2,117 lbs.
Funny how senior came to be "has worked three years". Isn't it?
No, don’t steal this idea. It has sprung forth from the head of a bureaucrat and will lead to externalities like the one mentioned about carpooling. Instead, steal this idea: Stop investing in optimized bureaucracy. It is ever so fragile, eternal, and unforgiving. It creates expensive administrative jobs that waste lives and resources. Invest in a philosophy of creating innovative improvements which can survive in a marketplace of ongoing change and adaptation.
I think that's because surprisingly, it's still a marketable/profitable game. If only it weren't, then maybe it would eventually be open sourced. Only flaw I find is that due to it's age, it wasn't really designed with maximum concurrency in mind, and doesn't utilize the full capabilities of modern hardware, so the simulation slows to a crawl after a certain size.
Typical software jobs absolutely do not "hold the means of production".

The aforementioned "means of production" likely includes years of work from an entire sales team in order to land paying customers in the first place.

that's the means of sales.
> these jobs will be moved out to India.

You mean just like the other thousand times people said this over the decades?
There was a multi-year effort beginning with Trump's election to organize tech workers, and one of the key arguments was that there was a short window of opportunity in which to act, before some combination of automation and changes to the workforce removed the unique leverage tech workers enjoyed. The message was "now is the right time" for maybe three years, and now that ship has sailed. All we're left with is easy message board cynicism.
No, but I use 8x8, which is reasonably priced. I don't see the point of hosting yourself when that is so good, unless it is for privacy / sovereignty sorts of reasons.
Yep, this is exactly how vehicle taxes work in the Netherlands.
It'll be interesting to see what effect it has. It may lead to greater revenue for the city while not changing the trend toward larger cars. This would leave the public worse off than before, all other things being equal.
With AWS (and probably most other cloud VPC services) the disk is remote from the hardware so you can halt the CPU and just pay for the storage until you restart.

AWS also provides accessible datasets of training data:

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?trk=868d87...
Indian castes were a British invention?
Ironically, limiting access to high-compensation jobs by tying them to cities like SF that don’t have enough housing may harm even those who do get employed in SF because their cost of living is high and the economy overall is possibly a double-digit percentage smaller:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2693282
Bureaucracy is just rules. most rules are there to prevent the harm to other members of society. Unless you own all the land and build all the roads you are NOT allowed to do whatever you want if the society that provides the land and roads doesn't want you to.
the nba player's association has secured nba players a nice share of revenue. seems to me like engineers could do something similar.
Good engineers seem to cost quite a lot everywhere. I have yet to see the mythical $10 per hour amazing engineer from overseas, although I’ve seen several amazing but expensive engineers from overseas. I think the era of wage arbitrage is over. This myth is perhaps perpetuated to scare the talent over here into accepting worse conditions.

Any small gains they can make through arbitrage are eaten by time zone issues, communication issues, legal issues, etc when working across huge distances.
I have to laugh at all of you expecting to buy a house right out of school. Where you got that sense of entitlement I shall never know.
> Third, examining official NCBE data and using several conservative statistical assumptions, GPT-4’s performance against first-time test takers is estimated to be ∼63rd percentile, including ∼41st percentile on essays. Fourth, when examining only those who passed the exam (i.e. licensed or license-pending attorneys), GPT-4’s performance is estimated to drop to
∼48th percentile overall, and ∼15th percentile on essays
they have to keep up with the trends https://play.date/
Especially Russia since you can't even pay them due to the sanctions and you also risk your guy getting drafted.
The problem is that the right time for something is usually a sacrifice in a time of abundance. So nobody wants to think about such a negative during good times and thus no action is taken.
Scenario 1: Bad Manager

- manager tells engineer to do something but doesn’t fully understand the context

- the engineer doesn’t fully understand it either but thinks they do, jumps to the conclusion that what’s needed is something complex, and thinks “no problem I’m 1337 and I got this”

- engineer spends the next three months crafting the Mona Lisa of code

- feature gets shipped and users… just don’t care about it since it didn’t actually solve their issues

- three months wasted from the perspective of the business, opportunities missed

- next time the engineer wants to do something technically great, the higher ups smack the plan down and tell them to get in line

- engineer quits in frustration

- company weakens

Scenario 2: better manager

- manager aligns with leadership to understand the end goals

- then works with product and engineers to figure out the best way to achieve that goal. Turns out some of it is minor product changes but most of it maybe is just clearer messaging, education, etc

- then ensures the engineers tasked to implement it are fully aligned on what they’re building and know who to go to for reference, so that there is no ambiguity from what the higher ups want vs what the engineers think they’re supposed to do

- this simpler idea is implemented in a week and released

- users love it

- the team gets more resources from higher up because of a track record of doing useful things

- engineer feels greatly productive and vital to the team

- this is 10x better than scenario 1 outcome and it’s mostly thanks to a good manager doing their job
> All of the ones I've seen have allowed you to just turn that stuff off, but even if you can't, you can approximate it by setting router rules that just forward everything to your real router.

The BGW320 gateway that AT&T provides with its 2g/2g and 5g/5g fiber services has a NAT table limited to 8192 tracked connections. Let me repeat that, a 5 gigabit symmetrical XGPON service has a NAT table that makes a 2004-era garbage tier device look good by comparison. It does not support a bridge mode, only "IP Passthrough" or the standard default NAT "DMZ" mode commonly seen on consumer hardware. Both of those rely on the tiny NAT table, so anyone who wants to establish more than 8192 connections at one time has to get a routed block of static IPs that allows the NAT to be entirely bypassed.

At least officially, for now there's also a method to clone your ONT identifiers on to one that works as a plain bridge, which I have the parts for but haven't installed it yet.

Their high speed DSL "U-Verse" services have a similar issue with a bad mandatory device, those require a complicated bypass involving passing through 802.1x packets to the provided router so it can authenticate while you then use your own to actually send/receive internet traffic.
If you like SR-71 nerdery, clear your calendar for a few hours to read these:

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/105515/

"As flight testing increased to the higher Mach numbers, new problems arose. One, which today may be considered simple with our modern computer techniques, concerned the remote gearbox. The gearbox mounts started to exhibit heavy wear and cracks, and the long drive shaft between the engine and the gearbox started to show twisting and heavy spline wear. After much slide-ruling, we finally decided that the location of the gearbox relative to the engine was unknown during high Mach number transients. We resorted to the simple test of putting styluses on the engine and mounting a scratch plate on the gearbox. We found, to our astonishment, that the gearbox moved about 4 inches relative to the engine. This was much more than the shaft between the engine and the gearbox could take. The problem was solved by providing a new shaft containing a double universal joint."
That's certainly the theory behind collective action. But the problem is you can't go from nothing/online venting to organizing multi-thousand-employee walkouts, any more than you can get up after years of bedrest and run a marathon. The capacity to effectively organize white collar tech workers at Amazon (or anywhere else) was never built up, and now it's too late.
I think the sentiment roughly translates to AI, one way or another, replacing whatever it is you were doing for work and making your contribution obsolete. It is surprising that he genuinely seems to worry that even his contributions can be obsolete.
I'm not saying you can't blame individuals. I'm just saying you're not going to actually solve the problem by blaming individuals.

If your local utility burns coal or natural gas, there's not really any amount of shaming of the consumers that will change the carbon output of those utilities. If concrete and steel manufacturers are emitting carbon at hugely high rates, there's no amount of individual shaming of occupants of buildings made with that concrete and steel that will change that.

But regulations at the governmental level to direct those industries into emitting less carbon, that has a realistic path to actually making a different.
> The vast majority of people in the US and Canada are not buying minivans. They're buying comically large cars that endanger road users...

This is true in the surrounding suburbs but vehicle size in city centers trend smaller.
Can you explain what you mean by psychological safety
Who are the people saying stop wfh? Who are the people who have fought to have a bunch of people under them? Who are the people who lose if they don't have stacks of people to organise and watch over. They are the same people afaics
>And I'm supposed to champion Wistron?

Why would you think that? There's no need to think that at all when considering the actions of Apple.
Show HN: Ditty – Simple Finetuning
Hey all, I spent some time over the last few days putting together a library to make fine tuning easier under specific situations. You're using a GPU, or multiple GPUs on a single box. This comes set up with accelerate for multi gpu training out of the box and support PEFT and Lora, 8bit and a few other things.

You just need to import Pipeline from `ditty.pipeline` and overwrite the dataset method to return a dataloader setup with your dataset of choice. And then instantiate your pipeline and call `run`
Don’t worry, when you’re struggling just to survive, you won’t be worrying about “meaning”.
As a long time Debian user, I agree with their choice. Their thought process is logical and sound.

Not sure I agree with their continued use of GNOME, though; seems the land of the Linux desktop has abandoned GNOME's years of user-hostile actions and moved to either KDE or to increasingly more obscure build-a-desktop stuff (ie, sway + waybar, or river, or bspwm, or w/e).

Some major distros already do KDE by default, and basically phone in their GNOME support by virtue of "GNOME claims it 'just works', so let it 'just work' and hang themselves on that claim".

But yeah, having a Debian-based atomic image distro seems to be very interesting. Would be more useful in enterprise than in the user desktop, but I guess they can do that in the future.
Individual ants in a colony can be understood as cells of a multicellular organism operating at a higher level of independence. It's a fascinating adaptation and one wonders what "selfishness" would even mean in such a context. Do ants have memetic behavioural evolution or are their reactions to environmental stimuli purely genetically determined? It's actually quite a fascinating question with a number of implications and avenues for exploration.
In this context I'm one of those neurotic angsties you mentioned. Biological determinism and categorical thinking of many sorts really get my goat. Maybe I need to recalibrate my sniffer but I thought I caught some whiffs of this stuff in your first comment.

As a "mutt" with some German ancestry, some Jewish ancestry, some colonizer ancestors, some colonized ancestors, some who fled, some who dominated, I've thought long and hard about these topics, about what happened last century. I'm neurotic for good reason. Because there's danger here, especially in being overly confident about any single totalizing framework.

I've been told I shouldn't dance because of how I look. But then when I kept dancing anyway, others affirmed me and my rhythm. Who was right?

Guess I can relate to this guy: https://youtu.be/XGMIEDlOT_I

The omnigenic model suggests that even when there are observable genetic associations, they're probably very dynamic.

Who among us has the wisdom and authority to tell an individual exactly where they belong, where they fit, how they fit, what path to choose? A brand new individual whose genetic combinations and environmental context have never been seen before? A whole new being in an ever-emerging world?

Especially in times of upheaval and shifts I believe we need to keep our minds and hearts open.

I agree with you that new tools could provide insight and benefit, but there's ridiculous potential for abuse, for rationalizing and normalizing collective habits of domination old and new, for reinforcement of stereotypes and limiting beliefs.