skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I have an MBA that I never used so there is that..,

When Google pays Apple 18B to be the default search engine, it goes in two accounts. It’s recognized as revenue and it goes into owners equity. That revenue is then used to fund expenses. Just like when equity is injected into a company, it is used to fund continuing operations.

And the only reason that Apple has any debt is because in a zero% interest rate environment, it made more sense than to have to repatriate earnings.
Given the other comments saying that many tech jobs have been replaced by AI, I would say the AI bubble hasn't reached its final form yet.
Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid
> Teaching is a skill, which is why we don't ordinarily just let random people off the street start teaching kids.

We do in fact. Parents (what you term "random people off the street") are expected to take an active role in educating their children. Ask public school teachers in America what frustrates them the most and the two top answers will be their administrators and parents who aren't involved in the education of their children. Parents like the article author who think there is a "unspoken contract" that schools will handle all education are the bane of teachers. Teachers hate people like this. I have several school teachers in my family and they all rant nonstop about parents like this.

If a parent tries and fails to teach their child how to read before the first grade, that's fine. They can let the teachers know that and the teachers can start giving that child special attention right away. But a parent who doesn't even try because they think the education of their child is the sole responsibility of the school are the kind of parents that teachers hate. It's neglect, not legally actionable neglect but certainly neglect nevertheless.

By the time a child gets to the first grade they are already 6 or 7 years old and the window for easy reading acquisition is almost closed. The article author found this out too late and now her daughter still struggles to read. Incidentally...

> When it became clear that my daughter was also among the roughly half of all kids who will not read fluidly without explicit phonics instruction, I left my job, in part to help. [...] My daughter’s progress has been slower, perhaps because her tutoring took place online.

She left her job to help her daughter learn to read, yet her daughter is being tutored ineffectually on the internet. Why isn't she tutoring her daughter in person, if she left work to help? Because...

> I left my job, in part to help. I also embarked on a doomed crusade to persuade our school’s administration that—

Her idea of "leave work to help" apparently means leave work so she has more time to write angry emails at the school. The teachers must absolutely hate her.

Yeah I get it, not everybody knows how to teach kids to read, but she took off work for this so she should have the time to figure it out. She should go to a public library and tell a librarian that she wants to use the phonics method to teach her child how to read. Librarians can direct her to appropriate books and probably give her a ton of supporting material as well. But she's not going to do this because she's locked into the mentality that teaching her kid to read isn't a job for her. She wants schools or internet tutors to do it for her, and when that doesn't work she takes to writing articles complaining about the situation instead of doing it herself. Meanwhile the days tick away and her daughter becomes less and less likely to ever read well.
I don't mean to make that assumption. I'm only interested to know why people would prefer to see ads for things they are not interested in vs things they are interested in.
The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space
> Why is a divine Mind not “scientific” if the evidence points in that direction?

Because 1) begging the question / assuming the conclusion is NEVER scientific and 2) the fact that we evolved in a universe that happens to present the right conditions does not in any conceivable way amount to evidence that anything “tuned” those conditions, it only amounts to evidence that life could find a way to exist and adapt to the conditions present.

Is it pretty damned amazing that we are here? Absolutely. Does that imply something planned us? Nope.
Students... :/
Throwing an unlimited amount of investor money at a problem without caring about profits isn't exactly great execution.
A way to deal with the problem?

I think this is how the problem was created in the first place: the authors wrote the reference implementation, but then didn't test it enough, didn't think of all possible ways things can go wrong.

Also, I'm not saying that this necessarily results in bad formats. Eg. I don't particularly like Thrift, but it's kind of OK in the sense that it doesn't do much weird stuff unexpectedly. I don't believe they had any formal way to verify that their plan is going to work, they were "lucky" because they had to work with Protobuf a lot and figured some of its shortfalls before they wrote their own.

So, unless you have some sort of a mechanical way to verify that your goals are achieved by the format you are creating, it's going to work just in the same way how any given C program won't corrupt memory: you might get lucky, or after a lot of testing you'll conclude that it's very unlikely that the program will corrupt memory, but you can never be sure.

And, really, I don't blame the authors. I'm not saying they were lazy, or didn't pay enough attention. It's just hard to do when you don't have a watchdog who will absolutely not allow any and all transgressions. I wouldn't count on myself to do that w/o such a watchdog -- I don't have that kind of confidence even after implementing many different formats used for similar purpose.
Saying "without ads, YouTube cannot exist" is not the same thing as saying "services cost nothing to host" at least in my view.
Just use OneDrive! You think they give a shit about your local file and printer sharing that is only used by nerds like us?
O'o: The Last Voice of Kauai
Of total current jobs, sure. Of total current hiring? Take a look around LinkedIn.
Is cPanel really a similar technology? It’s more geared towards offering shared hosting than maintaining your own server, right?
From your linked post:

> What made this result so shocking at the time was that the common wisdom was that RNNs were supposed to be difficult to train (with more experience I’ve in fact reached the opposite conclusion). Fast forward about a year: I’m training RNNs all the time and I’ve witnessed their power and robustness many times, and yet their magical outputs still find ways of amusing me.

This reads more like humanizing the language of the post then any legitimate surprise from the author.

The rest of the post then goes into great detail showing that “we DO really know what happened” to paraphrase the definition the op provides for their use of “surprise”.

> Conclusion We’ve learned about RNNs, how they work, why they have become a big deal, we’ve trained an RNN character-level language model on several fun datasets, and we’ve seen where RNNs are going.

I am pushing back on people conflating the innate complexity of a high dimensional polynomial with a misplaced reverence of incomprehensibility.

> In fact, it is known that RNNs are Turing-Complete in the sense that they can to simulate arbitrary programs (with proper weights).

Mathematically proven to be able to do something is about as far from surprise as one can get.
>I am not sure what precipitated this whole layoff trend

Money no longer being almost-free to borrow.
it's ironic, because wouldn't marx be considered the OG accelerationist?
Oh man, I can't remember the exact quote but it went something like:

"Silicon Valley is just making companies that do for you now what your mom used to"

With AI rom-bots, it's not exactly that, but that feeling of being driven to a middle school dance in the mini-van comes out quite strong.
The author completely misses the second very important reason why someone might be against companies collecting sawths of personal data: government surveillance.
There are more and more cases where individuals get their phones searched without permission, their internet browsing history spied on, etc. Articles like this "I don't care" really don't help. In fact, they only do damage.
> We can barely produce enough weapons and ammunition for Ukraine

Ukraine is fighting a completely different war, with a completely different military doctrine, which requires different type of weapons and ammo. We're rarely sending what we are actually using. The US is not depleting its own ammo warchest to supply Ukraine. For example, the US is not big on artillery shells in general. We prefer rockets.

If the US moves to a wartime economy, I bet it will have a production capacity never before seen in history.
Show HN: Compiling algebraic effects and handlers for Arduino using tinygo
I like this narrative, but don't these charts include all non-farm jobs? From what I've read, seems like tech is being hit harder than other areas. I might be wrong about that and, at any rate, I prefer your approach over over-indexing on anecdotal data, but seems a bit rougher than necessary to depict the full picture.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213330 - June 2023 (234 comments)

Yes, that's a dupe by HN standards. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Data sources are listed as geoBoundaries, OpenStreetMap, OSM Boundaries. But no links although the medium (the website) makes it easy to add links.

For example to https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright or https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Guideline... "Static images must be generally attributed the same way as interactive maps" "static images of fewer than 100 features do not require attribution. In addition, static images of areas less than 10,000 m2 do not require attribution. Small thumbnails/icons do not require attribution."

I'm not arguing that the works can't be licensed (https://supermap.world/licence), it's my understanding OpenStreetMap data can be repackaged and sold, but I think the works need to keep the original attribution, too. Creating and maintaining the county boundaries of a whole country is a lot of work by the OSM community (and is more than 100 features) https://supermap.world/m/36339-mercator-projection-map-of-tu...
> a > which usually indicates quoting

And followed by -- and a link, which usually indicated the source of the quote.
Ironic this is coming from Gizmodo which is guilty of its own dystopian AI bullshit.

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/18/23798164/gizmodo-ai...
Do these datasets discriminate between job levels/types/incomes, or would two new ditch digger jobs count as a net gain over a lost senior sysadmin job?
C3 IOT I'm guessing
Unemployment is quite low, which is contrary to your claim.

If this piece is representative of the site, I would not use it for the basis of arguments
Yes because the past data is so good to predict the future.

I guess technical analysis isn't that bad!
Inside Macintosh Volume 1?
It feels like "covid" and "supply chain issues" were a great excuse to wildly reshuffle prices, item availability, item quality and packaging quantity. ... And yet it doesn't seem visible in corporate profits. It's not very visible where that price difference is going. So I don't know yet. I'm open to useful data (which the current CPIs really are not.)

By this I mean, corporate profits have increased but are still most often (never mind Apple) a small fraction of price in the retail world.
Apple has an edge over its competitors in the fight against climate change
IMHO, a separate AI leader-board should be created which encourages users to use AI to it's fullest extent. That would give people who want to do so a way to do it legally and might make them less likely to infiltrate the standard leader-board. Not sure how technically challenging this would be.
Not that I think there's an actual argument at play -- since OP was talking in jest I believe -- but while we're at it, that's the fallacy fallacy.

Referring to the brand by a previous name (one still on the site I think?) isn't the same as referring to a person by a previous name. No one feels bad about it when my mum calls Starbursts "fruit chewies", it doesn't make a social situation uncomfortable.
The associated repo is here: http://wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/

It even contains slightly more than three packages.

A distribution is much more than just the superficial aspect of its primary GUI. So dig a bit deeper first.

Might be a good idea to first have a closer look at the things questioned instead of being led astray by just a few few random screenshots...
Technically you don't even need to loop through the bank account, you can also do statement credit. It doesn't count against your minimum payment, but it does count as a credit/payment towards the statement balance.

But yes, always charge the full amount and then handle rewards at a lower layer, never "pay with points".
Everything secure requires a key of some abstraction.
Detailed results of clinical studies that were used to apply for emergency authorisation of vaccines were widely discussed in all kinds of press of all political leanings. They explicitly stated that there were no studies about probability of asymptomatic infection. IIRC Pfizer study counted as "positive cases" (for both vaccine and control group) the one that had both a positive covid test AND two of the six primary symptoms, or a positive test AND breathing difficulties/reduced blood oxygen levels, as a single sufficient serious symptom. They did not count asymptomatic infections.
Seems like a typical story after taking some heroic shrooms dose or LSD.

I mean, end of the day, who the heck knows what is even real. We're here now, whatever this is. YOLO.
In shot form -- The same people that heavily marketed Crypto and NFTs (Which didn't work as promised) are now the same people over-marketing deeply flawed Ai tools for monthly subscriptions.

You can literally develop a front end for an Ai tool and connect it to a social media scraping back-end service in a day, and then hide it behind a subscription pay wall. This is what is driving the flood of tools right now, not well thought out and unique truly Artificial Intelligence-driven projects.
> A video she posted in 2020 of her young daughter dancing attracted millions of views and creepy comments from strange men.

Seems like a good reason.
There have always been naked emperors, but what has changed is the amount of pretend time + energy in the form of currency that society has been willing to produce, and pretendess is the one thing that feeds more pretend ess. The pipeline of pretendness is ignorance, both willing and institutionalized. In prior times, the rubber band would have snapped by now. The fantasy has become so hyper that it seems nobody has a clue whether there is even a "rubber band" at this point.
I've been a digital nomad software engineer for a decade.
Here are some tips that might help you:

1) Wellfound (previously Angelist) can sort job ads by location Remote.

2) Once you get a remote position the employer won't care where you are as far as you do your job on time, having an internet connection and be available on the timezone of the employer is good enough for remote jobs

3) Moving more often than 3 months actually turns into a vacation with little working. I recommend to not move too fast. You can easily get visas for 90 days and stay the 90 days in one city. Some famous places for digital nomads are:

Chiang Mai, Thailand
Medellin, Colombia
Valencia, Spain
Budapest, Hungary

but of course there is a ton more:
https://nomadlist.com
Yeah, Humans do ton of aggregation and filtering. Thus you can't remember individual days of commuting, because it is so similar, the brain just lets it go.

I'd think something like this would be added to the models eventually. Of course, over-simplifying.
When I heard about this, I also associated the two. The report talks about link preview generation, so it sounded like someone could put a webp on the social metadata of a page for link previews, and then send it as a malicious payload.

But that would mean any app with link preview (eg. slack, whatsapp, discord) would also be affected...
Your premise makes intuitive sense given what we've heard about Apple Card approval rates, but articles I read in the past indicate the problem is in fact high charge-off (failure to pay) rates:

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/16/apple-card-future-goldmans-sa...
I don't think http is going away in the short term, anyway. Too many captive portals exist that aren't going to get upgraded to https any time soon.

I'd appreciate if self-signed certs of some kinds weren't so alerty though. Though, that might inspire false confidence.
are you honestly telling me devs are taking jobs at Chipotle? because the jobs data is quite clear - most gains are in the service sector
I always thought people posting material from their kids weekly has some kind of bragging issue. I like your kid but I don’t want to see them on every fking time I scroll knowing the reason you are posting it is to brag “look how cute my kids are today”.
I thought this was a really cool example of people working together to improve computer vision. We're not far off from having glasses or a camera that can stream everything it's seeing as text, thanks to projects like Coco.
"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
I thought the cool thing was all the rookies who install this thing in a way that it's publicly accessible. How many stories have I heard about people who accidentally configure phpMyAdmin to be publicly accessible... Now you might not JUST leak your whole customer DB!
I was going to leave a comment on the linked page that a link to the project's budget should be prominent. I couldn't, because to do so, I had to either login via discord or github. Seems a bit ironic.
You're right about the basic mistakes they can make - they can also excel at the same tasks if prompted differently. But I was making a slightly different point. The point is they can reason about things in a better-than-chance way (I mean, a much-better-than-chance way) when given problems not in the training set. Have you read the Codex paper? Seriously, go look, an LLM even from years ago (which is like decades ago in ML-time) is often able to write code to solve novel programming problems that were handwritten to not be in the training set! Also, the benchmarks against which GPT3, InstructGPT, and GPT4 were tested are illuminating about its problem solving ability on novel problems, these are described in the three respective papers.

Secondly, quality is highly variant and there are traps the context window can fall into which causes especially bad results. Jeremy Howard has a great video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU, starting at 18:05 the 'limitations and capabilities' section is only 13 minutes long) talking about how quality depends on: how you frame your prompts, model power (4 does a lot of stuff that 3.5 can't), and whether you're in a kind of "context trap" of repeated mistakes.

Of course, some people like to point out that if it's so "finicky" and variant, it is "dumb." Sure, if you like. I'm not interested in whatever definitions you're using those things, the objective and observable point is that given well-known prompting practices, LLMs can do something functionally equivalent to reasoning about novel problems, and more powerful ones can reason about more powerful and difficult things.

I re-phrased your prompt (instead of "prove a false thing" I made it like "decide whether this thing can exist, and prove your answer"). And added a little well-known boilerplate prompt sugar. It seems to have done a better job.

https://chat.openai.com/share/53214f0c-17f7-4a3d-95be-8fd676...
There have been plenty of these announcements over the years.

They’re almost always rolled back in some number of months.

See Tesla as the most famous example:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/05/12/elon-musk-says-tesla-wil...
That should just be a matter of a compiler knob, no? Such as -fsanitize=undefined (which is the sledge hammer, but there could be more fine grained ones).
But is this enough information for tech workers to discount the story of 50% more tech layoffs YoY?
I'd take any subreddit's population with a cubic meter sized solid salt crystal.

It's just like all the stories that are a wall of text without a TLDR at the bottom; you know they're totally made up entertainment.
> Another is zero cost for a rarely used tool.

Zero cost is only true for unused services. For rarely used services, it's a rarely occuring full cost that might come by surprise at a bad time.

> I think a nice benefit for an administrative tool is the ability to update it, and reload the updated version.

This is only a benefit if the systemd socket unit is co figured to operate in inetd-mode (Accept=yes), where systemd spawns a new process for every accepted connection, which is quite inefficient resource-wise.

"Normal" systemd socket activation just starts the service and hands over the socket. The service runs indefinitely afterwards as if it was a normal service, and needs to be manually restarted or hot-reloaded after upgrade or configuration change.

> The reason why inetd didn't stick is because it's a pain to use -- it's separated from SysV init, so it needs to be very intentionally set up.

Being separated has a lot of benefits - easy nesting, easy reuse in minimal containers, etc. The integrated model works best for monolithic servers.
And yet, my instagram is full of naked kids pooping in potties and "my little taytay made his first poopy in the potty today" captions.

I mean sure, believe that big tech is not evil, that government agencies are not evil, that 1000s of followers are not evil or otherwise deranged... but that kid will be 15 one day, and his classmates will find that photo, and surely noone believes that 15yo kids won't use that photo to make fun of the kid.
Well Forth is possibly the most minimal VM over a platform, as evidenced by openfirmware.

It does have problems scaling though, in that if you've seen one Forth, you've seen one Forth ie. The variations required to fit a platform make them semi-incompatible.
Also, only global scope, no types and no built-in threadsafe constructs are limiting.

That's not to say that a more lispy Forth wouldn't be useful though, in that a concatenative syntax allows us to pass custom datastructures around like APL, and CPS (delimited continuations with lexically scoped dynamic binding would come from the lisp side (see https://github.com/manuel/wat-js).

Memory management in Forth can handle multiple memory types eg. https://flashforth.com/ so adding something like ref counting (https://github.com/zigalenarcic/minilisp/blob/main/main.c) to handle the dynamic list side of things might mesh well.

In any case, if you're looking for a self hosting lisp that runs on bare metal, https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru has been out for a few years.
It was an okay idea poorly executed. Breaking up and leasing office space into chunks wasn't exactly some revolution thought up by Neumann. Companies like Regus were already doing the exact same thing – profitably – since well before WeWork existed. The only thing WeWork did different was pour billions of investor dollars into advertising and headline-making gimmicks.
Haven't read past Phlebas yet, but as a big Wodehouse fan, can you say more about this?
This article has some details that aren't present in the axios article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/microsoft-owned-linkedin-lay...

- "LinkedIn is now ramping up hiring in India, according to the person familiar with the matter."

- "The reductions come as the business-oriented social network has seen year-over-year revenue growth slow for eight consecutive quarters."
Nothing in the linked article even remotely suggests that.