skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix employee here, there are no "mass layoffs" that I'm aware of (would also have WARN act require issue of notice >75 employees). We have involuntary attrition when people do not meet "the keepers test" in performance/impact and are exited from the company with severance. This is a regular part of the business and explicitly called out in the company's culture memo (see the top of the HN comments). Perhaps, the friend of a friend falls within this category, or just hearsay.
Yep. Good point. Updated the title of this post to a question. I know they definitely did some layoffs today but maybe it wasn't as extensive as I was led to believe.
I'm in UK and I also don't have it.

I suspect there is a Great Deal of Precautionary Rationale (eh) protecting the Eurosphere from the worst privacy abuses.
Better stack traces for profiling tools when you don't have debugging symbols, or can't use them for whatever reason
> gives roughly the same effect

It does not, and that can (and has been!) be empirically shown. Salt gets into the food and changes both chemical properties and how it responds to cooking. Pre-seasoned meats, for example, are more tender.

If you prefer to salt at the table, by all means, eat your food however you like it, but it is simply false to claim that there's no difference or "chefs just add too much salt".
> modern agriculture can provide enough grains and legumes to feed somebody for around 30 cents per day

This just 30 cents for feeding are not real. Wheat is not the same as bread. It must be processed. Baking bread for 100,000 people will require also a lot of energy and water that aren't free normally. Would be 30 + X cents.
why do you trust that the setting does anything?
All risks are hypothetical

Many items on the endless list of hypothetical x-risks don’t have big picture forces acting on them in quite the same way e.g. roughly infinite economic upside by getting within a hair’s breadth of realizing the risk.
It's also a balance between having new companies that can start up with lower overheard and fewer jobs concentrated among larger companies that can afford it.

The only companies that treat their employees poorly are those that have people lined up to work for them. The employees must think the tradeoff is worth it.

Employees should be able to choose a company with stability and lower pay or higher pay and less stability. The other option is to take the high pay job and pay for additional private insurance to cover what your employer will not. The people who want stability shouldn't force it on the people who are comfortable without it.
What about non-tech workers? Don't they deserve the same?

The fact that you have no security net in the US is probably also harmful when it comes to startups. Few can take the risk.
> What Tesla did was to create an electric car with good user experience without developing any revolutionary tech

Which would be fine, if they weren't claiming robotaxis any day now.
> Paying does not help.

As I pointed out in the very next sentence of my previous post, yes, in this particular case the journalist was paying.
Who is going to pay for them?
Past success... at what? The relevance of past success is likely a lot narrower than you may think. Neither person here has "past success" at pushing a vague idea-less organization through to value and profitability. In fact, I would wager both would caution against such an idea, absent their personal involvement.
Thanks for that article, it confirms what I'd long suspected. The bit about traffic cameras is a good one, and the very same problem of trying to judge health supplements efficacy without RCTs.
> If all your brain/tongue perceives as horrible is the taste of the aluminum can, you could always switch to buying Coke in glass bottles

Or just pour it in a glass?
All of the Falcon 1 payloads were expendable (which includes low-priority). It was a test vehicle conducting test flights in all but name. Had they continued developing it instead of pivoting to Falcon 9, it would have been its own test vehicle.

Suppose that the eventual production vehicle has a fairly different design, a different name, and it succeeds on its first flight. Would it then have used the same methodology that resulted in Falcon 9?

I'm only asking rhetorically. The Ship of Theseus is an interesting philosophical question, but the way you define "methodology" shouldn't depend on your answer.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629963, which has the source (such as it is) that this points to.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Those examples look nice and would be trivial to automatically cut out/trace into transparent vector with inkscape
I don't have it (from EU), so this may be limited to a subset of users, but in any case I believe that it would have to be opt-in for EU users.
>If the law is huge and complex, and a large company wants to make your life hell...

Newag's revenue is about $300 million. This isn't Siemens.
Err... LLM in general? Sure. Specifically CLI LLM stuff? Certainly not 70%...
> The Nvidia card is far superior.

I mean, you're probably right, but MLX framework was released just a week ago so maybe we don't really know what it's capable of yet.
What’s the disease? Is it the body’s down-regulation of opioid receptors? If so, then you’re right. But if it also includes the impact of an active opioid addiction on one’s lifestyle, methadone clinics help treat that, which in turn makes it much easier to address the former.

I think for practical purposes, it’s most helpful to ascribe it to a recent and controllable factor.
Otherwise, you could say that the “no medical benefit” scheduling of cannabis also contributed. Restricting medical pain management options to (with a few exceptions) just opioids when there was an unexplored (medically) class of less addictive, less destructive, physiologically safe medicine, definitely didn’t curb the opioid issue.

I agree that stigmatization is a good thing, but if all tobacco products got taken off shelves overnight, people wouldn’t stop smoking, they’d just have to buy on an unregulated (unsafe) market. Not saying that current regulation is perfect, but at least it can be controlled, which allows the market to move in (hopefully) the right way.

> The thing about opioids is that you develop tolerance.

This isn’t really unique to opioids, and I picture the legalization/regulation being discussed in this thread as more along the lines of existing cannabis programs, though obviously stricter in whatever necessary dimensions.

> It's the addiction that kills

Not necessarily, now at least. Lifestyle, maybe, but plenty of people now are overdosing on fentanyl from just experimenting, not even necessarily with opioids. And yes it is dumb to experiment with unknown street narcotics, but I’d be surprised if you took your first sip of alcohol when you were 21, and it’s the same principle of doing something that feels forbidden (and will make you feel good). And, if it were during prohibition, that sip could have had methanol in it. Now it can’t because of legalization and regulation.
> Why are politicians trying to pass a law that is, "deeply unpopular?" Do they want to lose elections, or something?

That is an interesting question which may have something to do with Game Theory and Prisoner's Dilemma. Even though Republicans as a whole will lose votes because of this, each individual Republican candidate will stand to gain an advantage over their primaries rivals by being perceived as more uncompromising, more principled.

And it is curious if not silly, 6 weeks is seen as, conceived to be "more principled", than 7 weeks.
Surely there is no risk the US will be cut off.
It’s not that the own a jet, it’s the fact that financial capitalism extracts money from people through rentier economics that enable them to make such exorbitant profits so they can afford to buy a jet.
This is my problem as well. I try to use context clues from pictures and reviews but often I can only find out once the product is delivered and in my hands.
Yes you need to install CUDA and MSVC for GPU. But here's some good news! We just rolled our own GEMM functions so llamafile doesn't have to depend on cuBLAS anymore. That means llamafile 0.4 (which I'm shipping today) will have GPU on Windows that works out of the box, since not depending on cuBLAS anymore means that I'm able to compile a distributable DLL that only depends on KERNEL32.DLL. Oh it'll also have Mixtral support :) https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/pull/82
Those are Google's algorithm's choices. The algorithm shapes what people watch, instead of giving them what they'd choose to watch naturally
There are approaches that try to get the best of both worlds. Interestingly, the micro-services architecture is just like that, but it gets a bad reputation for being easy to devolve into a distributed monolith anti-pattern. Another cool model is maybe the propagator model. The point is maybe to find a way that you don't have to opt either for generic or specific implementations, but have many models of the same domain through different lenses operating cooperatively.
I'm interested in the way covers vary for different countries. Even when the language is the same.

The Josh Kirby covers for Discworld [0] were a big draw when I saw them in Ireland the UK. The covers in the US and Australia much less so.

/u/cstross [4] has written in his blog about how little control an author has over the cover of their work. That's visible when comparing the UK and US version. Slinky sexbot in the US [1] vs galleons in space (or whatever that is) for the UK version [2]

[0] https://www.tor.com/2014/08/25/12-reasons-to-read-and-love-t...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Saturns-Children-Freyaverse-Charles-S...
[2]https://www.amazon.co.uk/Saturns-Children-Freyaverse-Book-1-...
[4]https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-6-...
It's the artists own work, they can do whatever they want with it. If people don't like that they should be filtering this out of their dataset before training.
Sans 2023 Holiday Hack Challenge
Is this the first year you have to sign up with vendors to complete the tasks?
Aside from the threading mismatch,

- There is a version transpiled from C to Go. A transpilation from C to Java (or even the JVM) would be considerably more difficult, a naive translation would likely undergo a much larger performance hit. Maybe with Valhalla this will change.

- Modern Java deployment is not generally complicated by JNI/JNA (it's already that complicated to start with; Maven already wrangles some of it, although it's still a pain in many cases). Go deployments are simpler if no C linkage is involved.

- Some of these are not database/sql, the equivalent of JDBC, drivers. They're purpose-built drivers that expose rich SQLite-specific features. With the huge popularity of Spring most developers don't even interact at the JDBC level today, only e.g. JPA. IMO Java developers are missing out on richer SQL features in their DBs, but well, they seem to mostly manage.
I changed the title of the post to a question. I know people personally affected but it may not be as extensive as I was led to believe. Apologies for the FUD if so.
How did they get the idea that their landlord observing a guest would impact their benefits?
I could be misremembering. Looking at what is probably the product, yes, it says “spices” and also “artificial flavour”, but no cinnamon by name:

https://www.amazon.ca/Imperial-Cinnamon-Spread-250g/dp/B00FO...
Should the US Capitol look like a Wal-Mart?
Does Dropbox not use S3 as its backend? I would not be shocked to learn that it does
Low-frequency sound can reveal that a tornado is on its way
Thoughtful and still true. Even within the USA, there are still places that can compete against SV by arbitraging talent and regulation.

Lots of people don't want to move to SV and many SV startups want in-office workers.

We're seeing a resurgence of industrial policy and I don't think tech is any different. Take for example Georgia's 'Alternative Fuel and Advanced Vehicle Job Creation Tax Credit'. https://afdc.energy.gov/laws/all?state=GA or Miamis focus on AI startups: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/watch-out-silicon-val...

(I'm less sure about the third option, business models.)
If you feel that ‘indexof "" in "" is 0’ is unintuitive, consider that indexOf s in s is zero for all strings s (including for the empty string).

Similarly, indexOf st in s is invalid for all strings s if t is non-empty, that is if s is a proper prefix of the search string. Your example ‘indexof "abca" in "" is invalid’ is just one case of that (with s = empty string and t = "abca"), completely analogous to ‘indexof "babca" in "b" is invalid’.

So I’d say your intuition needs adjusting. ;)
^^ reformatted

- tons of visual clutter, all those gradients and lines like the header or hero image

- a floating ToC which insists on jamming in 'recommended links' (?!) the entire time

- no outlines. Every single image or screenshot blends into the actual article.

- a visual summary which is hard to read because it has tiny text and looks like a correlation heatmap instead of a table

- highly inconsistent use of linking. Like, why does 'We have evaluated Gemini across four separate vision tasks:' link only 2 of the 4, and then not to the section in this article?

- highly repetitive screenshots, which add nothing, and in conjunction with the lack of outlines for the images and the many outlines inside the images, means that the benchmark sections are a frustrating visual jigsaw puzzle where you have to decode the screenshot again and again to look at the tiny text inside it. It would be better to provide one (1) screenshot of each model's UI, which is all I need to see to get an idea of what it looks like and the implied workflow and what sort of metadata/options it has, and then for each task simply show the image/prompt and each model's responses as a normal blockquote or text.
Ah, but here you assume that the FCC is acting in good faith. Assume no good faith, and follow the same trail.
I once worked on a project for a company that made food flavoring products. I helped build their digital cookbook.

They had different recipes for the same flavor depending on the usage. For example, ranch chip powder and ranch dip would have different ingredients and cooking instructions.

Also that had so many different ways just to make vanilla flavoring depending on the customer's needs. So two soda makers might use different artificial vanilla flavorings.
(almost a) dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38600031

Also, as the finished product is more epoxy than wood by mass, the naming is a bit misleading.
Remember a couple years ago you’d constantly hear that “everyone needs to learn how to code!” and “we should teach programming in high school!”

Now that the layoffs have started I haven’t heard a peep from that crowd.
Apple to be hit by EU antitrust order in fight with Spotify
Except they just came to an agreement https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bill-c18-on...
I was going to write a long essay about the relation between C and assembly but after thinking for a while, I think there is an easier way to explain it.

Stack frames are basically a (single) linked list of information about the call stack. Every frame corresponds to one function call, and says where the local variables are stored, and where the function should return after it has finished.

The head of this list is stored in a register (a scarce resource, superfast memory). So to use frame pointers, you have to spend one register, and also every function has to do some work to maintain the linked list. Two instructions worth of work when the function is enterred, and one when it exits.

The alternative to doing this explicitly is to keep track of it all implicitly which is faster but a bit more complex.
IBM, somewhat unofficially, is behind this recent fork. It might take a bit but if this fork gains traction then I would assume it gets this functionality.
While I don't necessarily agree with all of these points,

> link only 2 of the 4, and then not to the section in this article?

This one is particularly prevalent on websites and it's quite annoying. When the site has any topic explainer articles, the terms that refer to those topics are always linked to those other articles, presumably to increase ad impressions and keep users on their site- but when there are legitimate article-specific links (which are almost always what I want), I have no way to locate those links (for instance when finding an original source).

Back in the day websites would use a different link style for this sort of "internal plug" style links, which was helpful. I guess it died out because users didn't want to click them. So the solution is, make it hard to tell which ones are internal plugs!
I think elon's decision to go harder and tell the rest of the advertisers to gfy is in part a strategy to scare everyone else off. If there was a chance they could go back to normalcy, the lbo lenders might push him into bankruptcy, or use some technical violation of a loan covenant to push him out.

It's like a comically bad hostage situation: back off for the bird sleeps with the fishes.
Same here. Nothing AI related from Google is available in Canada. This sucks.

To add insult to injury, they have nice press releases and demos of their latest AI but aren't easily accessible or available until next year. The press and Wallstreet love gob it up and the stock rises. Is it just for them?
You're going to need to do a lot of work to demonstrate that wealth is zero-sum, as it doesn't comport with any well-respected economic model I'm aware of.

But even granting that, a government that creates a "survival floor" would protect against wealth-seeking in a world where it was zero-sum. The floor only needs to be high enough to allow people not to be held to the floor should they desire to participate in the accumulation of wealth and its ensuing benefits.

The whole point is to incentivize value creation.

Edit: You really won't like what this paper [0] has to say:

> Globally, zero-sum thinking is associated with skepticism about the importance of hard work for success, lower income, less educational attainment, less financial security, and lower life satisfaction.

[0] https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/...
I fixed that bug in zsh two years ago. It got released in zsh 5.9. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/commit/326d9c203b3980c0f841... I'm going to be answering questions about it until my dying day.
Ah the old "welfare queen" trope. That's a lot of anecdotal speculation where I think the reality is probably a lot more complex in a chicken-or-the-egg type of way.
How to learn business skills as an engineer?
I just don’t get it. I just want to build software to give to someone else to sell it. Do I really need business skills when building a startup?
This will determine who has a shot at actually being Nvidia competitive.

What I like to say is (generally speaking) other implementations like AMD (ROCm), Intel, Apple, etc are more-or-less at the “get it to work” stage. Due to their early lead and absolute market dominance Nvidia has been at the “wring every last penny of performance out of this” stage for years.

Efforts like this are a good step but they still have a very long way to go to compete with multiple layers (throughout the stack) of insanely optimized Nvidia/CUDA implementations. Bonus points nearly anything with Nvidia is a docker command that just works on any chip they’ve made in the last half decade from laptop to datacenter.

This can be seen (dramatically) with ROCm. I recently took the significant effort (again) to get an LLM to run on an AMD GPU. The AMD GPU is “cheaper” in initial cost but when the dollar equivalent (to within 10-30%) Nvidia GPU is 5-10x faster (or whatever) you’re not saving anything.

You’re already at a loss unless your time is free just to get it to work (random patches, version hacks, etc) and then the performance just isn’t even close so the “value prop” of AMD currently doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. The advantage for Apple is you likely spent whatever for the machine anyway, and when you have it just sitting in front of you for a variety of tasks the value prop increases significantly.
Nitter link: https://nitter.net/Werner/status/1734890651378975007

It took a while, but the arc of history is starting to bend in favour of that guy who said 'just use rsync' on Drobox's Show HN post in 2007.
Would you be so kind as to link to a guide for your method or share it in a comment yourself?

I installed following the official docs and found it much, much slower, although I sadly don't have a 4090, instead a 3080 Ti 12GB (just big enough to load the large whisper model into GPU memory).
do reporters not use spellcheck anymore? the number of spelling mistakes in that article was ridiculous.
About the tech stack, the linked landing page is built with Astro and Tailwind CSS. The app itself [1] was made with React, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Jotai for state management & Pocketbase. Text processing is built on top of retext, unified.js, and compromise libraries. Using Jotai turned out pretty nice and I really like the atomic approach to state. Basically, I've split the state into few different stores, one for text stats, one for settings and one for auth. `atomWithStorage` is great and makes storing and reading data from localStorage a breeze.

Pocketbase was also easy to get started with and to deploy it. I'd say if you don't need things like cloud/edge functions and also want to self host it, it's easier than Supabase or Appwrite.

Currently everything is deployed on Hetzner arm VPS behind Traefik.

[1] - https://gorby.app/analyze/
> Most billboards are from [inter]national corporations. Local businesses usually rely on the most effective form of advertising, word-of-mouth.

Your experience of this will depend on where you're living.

When I lived in a 100,000 population city, the local theatres and museums weren't really big/organised enough to run billboard marketing campaigns and could fill their seats without. On the other hand, in a 500,000+ population city you were more likely to see such organisations marketing.

Places like theatres tend to have location-specific marketing needs, because if you're 90 minutes travel from the opera house you will not be attending a Tuesday evening performance that ends at 22:30*, and marketing it to you would be a waste of time.

I still hate city advertising though, and the way the ad infestation spreads once it's started.

* Yes, people will travel more than 90 minutes for a Christmas performance of The Nutcracker, as a special treat - perhaps even staying in a hotel. But if you're trying to keep your theatre open in months other than December, you've got to fill the seats. And of course, patrons who buy interval drinks can't drive home, further shrinking your core market...
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/dropbox-confirms-security-...
Yes, specifically they use the OpenAI API to implement their alpha AI features.

https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-...
Especially when Tesla has stated in filings that @elonmusk or whatever his Twitter handle is "is an official communication channel of Tesla" (which was part of the SEC's issue), though I realize that many of those statements were elsewhere too.

Musk, in 2015, viewed FSD as a solved problem just needing implementation: "I view it as a solved problem. We know exactly what we need to do and we will be there in a few years."

Somewhere along the line, the problem got unsolved. In 2022, "Our focus now is just on solving this problem".

https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-elon-musk-says-autonomou...