skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you are wrong to say that 400k would be better spent on more suicide prevention than on humidity sensors (no matter how expensively implemented, like here.) By all accounts, that's the only money being spent on humidity sensing; with suicide prevention you're very far down the curve of diminishing returns.

Do you have any examples of suicide training or intervention services that need more funding? Are the 24 hour hotlines over-utilized? Do you propose to move the needle by hiring some consultants for flashier training powerpoints? As to the research part, I'm a little curious which aspects of the DoD's suicide research you think need to be enhanced. For my part, I'd like to see base rate data alongside demographic and other statistics in the annual report.
Can a book of this kind succeed while having many authors? Could this be a book project?
Funny you say that because this was part of the NAFTA agreement (I know this agreement doesn’t apply to India). I knew engineers that went to college with sponsorship from this agreement when they were laid off as technicians from off shoring due to the agreement. This absolutely should be the status quo.
I wonder whether Reddit can be a serious medium/long-term threat. My usage of Reddit has gone to 0 ever since "the incident". I've heard the rumors that overall usage is up but I'm curious about whether the niche of developer content has gone down. The assumption is that developers are more likely to understand and be affected by the incident. Reddit won't be a medium/long-term threat if developers don't continuously invigorate it with new content.
https://code-cwa.org/

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1706 ("Treasury Department Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Report on Benefits of Unions to the U.S. Economy")

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/10/us-union-wor... ("Feel the benefit: union workers receive far better pay and rights, Congress finds")

https://newrepublic.com/post/175274/gallup-poll-two-thirds-a... ("Poll: Majority of Americans Support Unions and Support Strikes | A new Gallup poll shows Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of labor unions.")

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/27/unions-tech-industry-labor-... ("Push to unionize tech industry makes advances")

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/microsoft-union-truce-techs... ("Microsoft, meanwhile, announced last year that it would not stand in the way of any workers who wanted to unionize.")

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-first-labor-union-vid... ("Microsoft recognizes its first U.S. labor union as video game testers organize")

> Microsoft president Brad Smith has twice in recent weeks told me that Microsoft is simply doing what it sees fit for its own relationship with workers and not trying to push others. However, labor leaders see Microsoft's move as a potential model for others.

> "I won’t say that it was completely easy for Microsoft to do this but they did it," Christopher Shelton, president of Communications Workers of America, the union organizing at Activision, told Axios.

(last I checked, Microsoft owns Linkedin, but I could be mistaken; I am not uneducated on the challenges and downsides to organizing, but am also not so uneducated and inexperienced to think the power imbalance doesn't require improvement; maybe an individual can do better solo occasionally, but that's luck and not what the data shows)
Google is doing the same thing. Same as my own employer.

Funny that some people think "if we work in the office more, companies won't outsource jobs as much".
Your talking about the multitudes of architectures that stem from the core model.

I'm talking about the core model. Which is crud.

The core model of a typical website is mainly updates to central state with little compute. Think nodejs server paired with a typical SQL database. The very reason nodejs exists is based on this core assumption of web: low compute and non blocking high io workflows.

You're talking about heavy compute... then that deviates from the core model. With heavy compute it turns more into a queue with workers. That is not the core architecture of the web. It's more of popular and important system that exists in conjunction with the core.

That is what your statistical function implies. If your stats function is simple and trivial, then you can indeed possibly achieve orders of magnitude of speed up if you offload that trivial calculation to the database.
I do not know why you are being down-voted, but I agree with you.

Plus with 7.4 you can use ktrace(1) to find memory leaks, I have been waiting for this release since it was announced a few month ago.

No more third party applications to look for leaks :)

FWIW, upgrading is the easiest of any OS I have work with.
There are certainly emergent capabilities that come out of the training process of being able to predict next tokens, and it's shown that LLMs often can solve logic and math problems, riddles, etc. which are not in it's training data because deep in the internal layers of the model it has something resembling logic and reasoning abilities. This can be seen in the "benchmark" results of papers like the GPT-3 and InstructGPT papers, among many others, where they tried pretty hard to test the models against questions which were not part of the training.

This is also shown in the Codex paper, where they trained an LLM to write code and then watched it solve a number of code problems they handwrote originally to make sure the problems could not have been in the training data.

Try it out yourself, make up some little math word problems and ask chatGPT or something.

Of course, advent of code will be much more challenging problems, but to get help with some subcomponents of the problem a motivated participant would likely try to use the most recent, powerful, and advanced models which outperform the results from papers written a few years ago, and outperform the free chatGPT.
Is anyone really surprised? Did you think the end result of the WFH movement was going to be companies continuing to pay you to live out of your Bay Area house?
Surprising. LinkedIn, even more than Google, was the biggest retirement home. You went there if you wanted to while away time being “blocked on another team” and stuff like that while being paid quite well.
Better overall terms than what? As far as I can tell there's no information available yet on what kind of severance package these people got. It's definitely not in the source article.
That or they are opening local offices overseas and expecting people to work on site there.
There's a lot of moaning and crowing here, but no real substance. If one were to design a CPU and its ISA from scratch, what would you do? Instructions, control flow, memory, out-of-order execution, caches, hierarchies, branch prediction, you'd probably end up with all of it down there anyway. I don't get the point about GPUs. Real applications aren't matrix multiplies and embarrassingly parallel numeric algorithms, they run general purpose PLs.

Which basically then boils down to ISA design. If you could design an ISA from scratch for the hardware you design from scratch, what would you do? Well, there aren't that many options. Stack machine, dataflow machine, VLIW machine. All of those have been tried and the modern superscalar CPUs kick their butts on every metric except power.

The whole article kind of misses the point anyway. We should probably be running higher level languages for most things anyway, which shouldn't be overly constrained by hardware design. For everything else, 100% serious, there is WebAssembly, and hardware ISAs will fade below this level of abstraction in the fullness of time.
In the US most things are best paid with a credit card except for the biggest costs because it’s considered a liability to spread bank account info around too much (banks generally aren’t too helpful when a breach occurs, whereas credit card companies will happily wipe away fraudulent charges), plus you’re missing out on points.

The only thing I had to change over when switching checking and savings to a different bank was which checking account my mortgage payments were getting pulled from.
90% of serotonin is made in the gut. So if you look after your gut, you will feel less gloomy / depressed. I take probiotics, kimchi, eat plenty of fiber, and get good fats into my diet (avocados, eggs, nuts).
The Llama name is pretty confusing at this point.

LLaMA was the model Facebook released under a non-commercial license back in February which was the first really capable openly available model. It drove a huge wave of research, and various projects were named after it (llama.cpp for example).

Llama 2 came out in July and allowed commercial usage.

But... there are increasing number of models now that aren't actually related to Llama at all. Projects like llama.cpp and Ollama can often be used to run those too.

So "Llama" no longer reliably means "related to Facebook's LLaMA architecture".
> Ian Banks must have been a kind of fucked up dude, given he invented some particularly dark stuff.

_Contextually_, I've seen a lot worse. Banks doesn't glorify this sort of thing, generally; bad things are done by bad people. (Almost to a slightly preachy extent; the elite of the Empire of Azad watching literal torture porn seems like _slightly_ over-doing it on the whole "have I mentioned that they are bad?" thing...) It's when an author has the _hero_ pulling out fingernails that I start to get a bit worried.
Show me a single one then.
TBH - for any non-server class machine on my network, I'm fine with that.

SSH should probably be running 24/7 on any server(to keep those resources allocated for maintenance access), but if it's my workstation with a monitor - then it's a non-issue.
yeah; not explaining the main platform / device this impacts anywhere clearly is a bad miss. the author / reveiwer should fix.
Damn, I'm going to have to actually go to a doctor now.
Ollama seems to be using a lot of the same, but as a really nice and easy to use wrapper for a lot of glue a lot of us would wind up writing anyway. It's quickly become my personal preference.

It looks to include submodules for GGML and GGUF from llama.cpp

https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/tree/main/llm
Programming != software engineering

> Software engineers who think they are better without AI may quickly be replaced with "lesser" software engineers who get things done much quicker.

Using AI to program is just ctrl-c ctrl-v software engineering, very clearly not the point of programming competitions. High level tools as you mention don't make you a better programmer, they make you a better software engineer.

I think the discussion you're raising is a good one it's just not relevant to a programming competition.
I've been on a 80% job for the last 2 quarters. My employer doesn't exactly advertise it, but they offer it as one of the wellness options that were introduced with covid: voluntary unpaid sabbatical for a few months, etc. I was initially worried that taking the option for personal, rather than health, reasons would be frowned upon, but that does not seem to be the case. We'll see how this performance cycle turns out.

Subjectively, this is SO MUCH BETTER. I went from 2-for-me-5-for-them to 3-for-me-4-for-them which is a much better balance. I'm using the "extra" day for errands and to work on personal projects.

I would not recommend it for people looking to climb the ladder and maximize corporate status, but for those of us whose jobs are not our lives, this is a great choice.
>"We did not expect to share this important update with you all in the midst of such challenging times, but in the spirit of creating clarity, Tomer and I wanted to share some news regarding changes we are making to our orgs....Tomer and I made these decisions with deep consideration - Mohak & Tomer"

Is it normal for a CEO like Satya Nadella not to write this email? Kind of off-putting that MSFT is keeping its hands clean here. Mohak and Tomer aren't making this decision.
> most regular people

I'd bet that this is pretty close to 'everyone' at this point. Haven't we been reading stories on HN recently about how airline points are basically worthless these days? I wouldn't be at all surprised if that were essentially true for all travel-related points.
Sure - new houses/cars are more efficient - the technology is constantly being improved.

But a car from 40 years ago is basically the same ( in terms of how it's used ) as today, even electrification, in the end, won't change things much in terms of how people live their lives.

Modern mobile phones on the other hand ( say starting around 2007 ) have transformed how people live their lives over the last decade or so - however I suspect the next decade or so will be pretty much more of the same in that regard - ie the change has happened very quickly and we are already into the slow evolutionary phase.

What's interesting about the impact of mobile internet devices, is that impact isn't so visible in photographs - yet it is a profound change.

Makes you think what changes we might have overlooked in the past.
Anecdotally, every single time I’ve put effort into answering someone’s question, I got shot down by mods for various reasons despite (generally) being the only answer.

Quickly stopped contributing.
Windows 365 (enterprise) is actually really nice. I started using it to manage an org transition @ work, but I am thinking I might also set up a personal instance at this point.

The dream is to throw away 100% of my desktops and run with just a MacBook and a decent external monitor. I don't have the patience to manage hardcore/gamer hardware anymore.
> idk what kind of legacy orgs people in this thread work for where there are Linux sysadmins working for their companies which directly manage server configs and security settings.

I don't know if you consider Amazon/AWS "legacy org". When I worked there I didn't think it was a legacy org. Yet they needed skilled Linux sysadmins. Sure they are called by fancy names like infrastructure engineer, production engineer, etc. but the work they did used core Linux kernel skills, scripting skills and programming skills, just to name a few of the skills.

A few years later I worked for another cloud provider and it was no different. I don't understand why you think only legacy orgs care about good system-administration skills.
>Your complaint is that you have to understand your web framework before writing a program in it? Is that not the case with ALL web frameworks?

My complaint is that I don't want things in my code affecting my code that aren't code. Most web frameworks avoid this, while the more enterprise stuff like Spring, Dotnet, et. al seem to lean into it. It's kind of the same argument as SQL stored procs. Should you rely on embedding your business logic directly into the runtime? Probably not.

Ultimately it's just personal preference. But if I can't compile something in my head at a glance, it shouldn't be a part of the codebase IMO.
Germany has a huge burocracy problem, but not all countries in Europe do. In Norway company registration is done online in around 15 minutes, for a 370 EUR fee. I am pretty sure Denmark, Sweden and Finland are the same.
I have registered companied both in Germany and Norway, the processes are very different in terms of hurdles.
The person you're replying to is meaning how savings accounts work in the US. You put money in them and let it sit, earning interest. Changing savings account banks is quite easy.

Checking (or "demand") accounts work like you describe and people are slower to switch them for that reason.
In the given example you may choose to believe that slapping others' children is acceptable but when you do so you're going to experience physical violence and no amount of belief is going to change that.

In this manner, love is real because the consequences are real.
I know we have seen some recent advancements with the Large Language Models, but I'm pretty sure they still can't, say, generate a working python Flask server for my specific REST API through only some prompts, can they? Because that would be incredible.
Not about importance. However, it is filtered contact - very different from unfiltered human interaction. You can, for example, always disengage on internet - in real live that isn't always an option (no-one stays physically in your space, for example, or throws up on your shoes).

Internet vs physical is a different skill-set - the messiness level on latter is just much higher.
Those studies seemingly never take into account the opposite end of the spectrum, meaning that men are 3 times more likely to endup homeless than women, an honest non-biased comparison would measure the full economical spectrum and not just the gap at some specific office jobs.
I know it's not a apples to apples comparison, but the same parent company nonetheless. Not a good look after closing the deal on 69 billion for activision blizzard. Couldn't have set aside one of those billions to keep people employed a while longer MSFT?
Laser Guided Hawks to Scare Away Pests
I guess they'll be updating their LinkedIn profile then. But seriously: while I hope they will land on their feet this might be a sign that there is finally an opportunity to start a competitor on a leaner basis.
Love the demo video from the 24h non-stop flight :)

Congrats on the milestone & keep on pushing!!
Meaning: please keep doing it, the fine does not even qualify to be a slap on the wrist.
> I looked, again, at how to remove Edge ... I don't have the will power for their shenanigans, they won that one.

Reboot into "recovery mode" and use the command prompt from there to delete the Edge folder. Alternatively, boot into another OS that can mount NTFS read-write and do the same from it. You can use this "I wasn't asking" method to remove any — and I mean any — component of Windows you don't like. But of course make sure you understand what exactly you're deleting to avoid breaking your Windows installation. Move files instead of deleting them if you aren't 100% sure. I did this to Windows Update on my VM.
Someone should see if GPT can summarize the main points but it's the usual startup problems, growing too fast and failing to deliver on the company's main value proposition because of employee turnover and bad hiring practices.
> You can still do service injection in JavaScript

I know that angular is really good at this, but I'm not sure what pure js frameworks would allow a service to be defined as an interface first, and then injected into the constructor of a controller (or even a handler function) based on the implementation method selected somewhere else. I just haven't seen it happen.
PHEV = plug-in hybrids.
People we're solving AoC problems with ChatGPT (with no human interaction) last year so your questions have already been answered
Could be several things:

- negative goodwill

- investors think their assets are not worth the sticker price

- looming lawsuit acts like a liability but may not show up on the books yet (see Hawaiian Energy - Hawaii wildfires - valustox.com/HE and Verizon - lead cables - valustox.com/VZ)

- investors expect a lower profits, which sort of translates into being equivalent to their assets being worth less.

Some companies, like banks, have vast assets, vast liabilities, and moderate earning power. Tech companies have almost no assets, but huge earning power - because the real asset is arranging engineers in a certain way, and that's hard to measure on a balance sheet.
We use CUPS as a proxy to allow us to upgrade the rest of the network. :)
Reaching out for referrals, yes. Praising the company that threw me out on the street. No thanks.
I really wish someone could resuscitate Javelin (it "Understands the Arrow of Time" to quote the old ads). Where you can create a variable and define its time period: is it a monthly value, a daily value, a quarterly value, and so on -- and then simply chart, compare, add or subtract values without having to jump through hoops or manually try and push values into groupings. Javelin was the 1984 PC Magazine product of the year but there doesn't seem to have been anything since that works that way.
No, having to spend months learning how web frameworks are going to deal with that piece of code is not a good thing. It means that the code is readable only to those who have spent a lot of time working with that framework. And it is one thing to be able to guess what is going on, if you are only superficially familiar with the framework. It is another thing entirely to know enough to be able to debug the code or to make changes without stuff breaking.

And he does have a point about vendor lock-in. I tend to classify these kinds of frameworks as "cancerous" - as they metastasize and define how you can express yourself, and paint you into a corner where it gets really hard to rid your codebase of the framework should that be necessary.

Part of my job in the past has to be technical due dil for M&A. This kind of design approach usually results in a red flag if a major part of the valuation is the codebase.
Is another round of tech layoff contagion starting?
Computers completely dominate humans in, say, chess. A game between humans is still interesting, though--and isn't nearly as interesting if one person cheats with an engine.

In the same way, a human competition in advent of code is an interesting challenge--and wouldn't be, if people cheat with AI solvers.
downsides of Windows software compatibility will trump performance or battery life upsides

Windows is effectively x86 forever

as bad as things are for Intel, I doubt they are losing sleep over this
StackOverflow peaked in 2014, and has been in decline ever since. This is not related to the recent AI boom, although it may accelerate the decline.
If people can work effectively from home, they can work effectively from their homes in Hyderabad.
“Lazyweb, find me an NVMe key-value store” is how we phrased requests like this twenty years ago.

Who could afford to develop and maintain such a niche thing, in today’s economy, without either a universal basic income or a “non-free” license to guarantee revenue?
I mostly fall into the 'set it and forget it' group. But, if you travel it can pay to add another card. Also, there's a middle ground between do nothing and track on a spreadsheet. It's pretty easy to have an Apple Card for 3% Apple things, Amazon card for 5% at Amazon, and then something like Venture X (or other travel friendly card) for everything else. One of nice things about the Venture cards is you simply book travel however you want then apply points to the purchase after the fact - no blackouts.

And since you mention lounges - if you travel 3+/year, lounges and TSA Pre/Global Entry really lower the frustration of travel.
When my father was pushed into early requirement, he got a full years severance and has his pension was topped up to 100%.

Do you think the LinkedIn people will get their pensions fully paid out?
Their reputation is very much exaggerated. It came from the early 2000s where they were 'secure by default' simply for not having services enabled.

They have done a lot of good, but they primarily equate security with code quality which is very short-sighted.
"I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you"

I've been thinking about this for a full year now, and I'm ready to present my opinion: I think AI assistance makes it easier, not harder to get better at programming.

Sure, if you're lazy you won't learn anything because you'll get the AI to do all the work for you. But if you're that lazy I imagine you wouldn't have even tried to learn programming without access to AI assistance, so you're still doing better here!

If you're curious and dedicated to self-education, LLM assistance is a gift that never stops giving. You have to learn HOW to learn with it first, but once you've figured that out you can really fly with it.
An optimistic view is that maybe the future of Windows is users moving over to Linux.
Does ARM64 count?

DC CIVAC: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0595/2021-12/AArc...
Having seen the difference between USA's severance packages vs Europes I think you're wrong.