skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article points out, this is a very expensive way of operating and requires very high headcount. They don’t want mass layoffs because of the cost of doing so, thus they employ the unethical tactic of making life miserable for the ones they would have tried to lay off.

What it also means is that they can use younger and cheaper workers. They can also outsource their work. Thus my concerns about reliability.

It seems like a house of cards. I truly wonder for how long they can keep this up. Given our reliance on cloud computing and their prominent position within it, it may become a very rocky ride at some point for businesses who have transitioned their operational infrastructure to AWS. I think a lot of people treat AWS as an infinite resource that will never run out and will be completely reliable forever. I think, sadly, many organisations may get a shock some time into the near future.
Yes, I think that's what I described in the last paragraph there, unless I'm misunderstanding you
Oh, Amazon absolutely is cut throat and ruthless. But always within the law, never caught cheating. And it moves incredible fast at incredible scale, so you learn more in a year there than you do in 5 elsewhere.

Some people are repulsed by that, others drawn to it and some thrive under these conditions. Heck, I really enjoy my life and job after Amazon. And still I miss the speed, the fast feedback on decisions and actions, the laser focused pursuit of a common goal, ruthlessly focused on efficiency, risk and details. Thought about going back there myself, lucky I didn't. Propably wouod have been equally lucky if I did.

Amazon is a peculiar place.
Google USD digital currency and you’ll see all the usual media outlets propagating the idea in concept to normalize it
Why could you use someone's previous work or portfolio?
We don't delete posts unless the author specifically asks us to.
Reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
Objectively though: no one owes anything to society. I can take my education and my creative works to my grave and the Universe doesn't care. Your original argument was from a moral high-ground that doesn't exist.

> I'd have bet on that if it weren't a certainty—no good if bookies' odds were only even money. :-)

I held these beliefs long before reading anything by Rand.
Dehumanizing people 101 : it starts with movies. The saying goes 'all Arabs are Muslims' which is false...
The all Arabs, Muslims are inherently violent...
From there you have building blocks, like with Afro Americans, on which people think 'they' don't feel the same thing as 'us', they have a much higher tolerance to pain, they can be killed because, well it's a shame...
I think the point is that people often point to France as "look it works" (while simultaneously saying "there Germany terrible") when the reality is that no France doesn't just work (and yes failure modes are always about multiple disadvantages coincidences, all the other stuff is usually covered).
At any of these companies with monopolist market position, as the writer of this article notes, the only way to keep increasing profits is to get rid of the talent they overpaid to keep it away from competitors. And you could probably cut 25% of the engineering staff in places like Google and Amazon and actually increase efficiency. A lot of guys like this are going to find themselves having to find other employment elsewhere and having to scrape by on $250K/yr...
There's more discussion of that video on selfDrivingCars subreddit (including comments from Kevin Chen who shot the video) [0].

The turn indicators use PWM'ed LEDs and can be invisible in daylight with fast enough shutter speed on the camera.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/18myjc6/dr...
It might enable security but I wouldn't say it _ensures_ it.

It just means that visible or IR light (What are they using?) won't leak through walls the way Wi-Fi does. Depending on how wide the beam is and exactly how it all works, it _might_ still leak out of windows and under doors. But it's not like someone casually wardriving outside your house will get as much as they would from Wi-Fi, I would think.
Which visa is that for the US? The ones I looked at are dual intent. I'm more familiar with the UK (NHS) where imports are expected to stay. I'm also pretty sure that the dual intent is part of the ability to pay under market rates where the immigration potential is a fringe benefit captured by the employer.

Honestly when the current crop of adults from the 'healthy at any size' era get old it's going to be a medical shit show, I'm pretty sure governments will end up resorting to Canadian style MAID for the poor, sick, and old as no-one will have the money for proper care.
Soy has been a filler in processed foods for some time.
I think that's the idea. Not much different than differentiating e.g. German and Italian as they use mostly the same alphabet.

For what it's worth, I can identify Farsi from Arabic as I can read Arabic and Farsi has some additional letters. I suppose that German and Italian would be a similar situation for most HN readers.
Being "managed out" (as this is sometimes called) of a long term role can be very traumatic. Especially if you-the-employee approach the situation with a natural and genuine desire to fix or heal the situation, in the face of the (unbeknownst to you) deliberate and ongoing undermining coming from management. Which then draws the process out as long as possible - max pain.

Sadly, one of the best options is to - as the author is more-or-less doing - resign yourself to cynically playing your side of the game, in order to extract the best possible concessions. While being mindful of the personal cost of protraction.

I've been through it, and, again sadly, one of the more lasting regrets was that I showed any legal or financial mercy or restraint at the time - regret for the significant concessions that I had made from of a sense of personal 'decency'. None whatsoever was shown to me.
But is that any time a book is returned and resold, or is it just for a few "author's copies" that (I would guess) weren't eligible to receive a royalty in the first place?
I received 2 extremely bad books, same press, illegible. Maybe print-on-demand, not sure. Complained, got a refund. Was told not to bother returning the books.
For some reason he is worshipped on this site.
Ah. Plains state here. Maybe that’s to California as Native American history was to us. That, the “age of exploration”, western expansion, very bad revolutionary war history, and the “cradle of civilization” (Mesopotamia) must, collectively, have represented 95% of all our time spent on history, K-6.
How can Amazon be guilty of incentivizing short term profit when their profit margin history looks like this?

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/profit...

Compare to Alphabet/Microsoft/Apple/Meta’s 20%+ profit margins.
Municipalities used to pay for 100-200w street lamps on every lamppost.
For views 2022: I had some idea about Jeffrey Dahmer but holy mother of God, that article is chilling.

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia...

Edit:

It seems top read articles fall into following major categories.

- Serial killers

- Con(wo)men

- Movies, Actors and Directors

- Sports, and famous athletes

- Big Tech apps/sites, and wealthy businessmen

- null (not sure why it’s so high)
Very few people are needed to run the technology elements of these businesses (let’s exclude warehouse/logistics in Amazons case). So why is there an order of magnitude more staff than what’s needed to run those?

There’s this idea that tech companies are laying off folks to boost their stock prices by cutting operating expenses. This reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of investors think about these types of companies and what determines their worth.

Unlike other kinds of businesses, these companies face very little pressure to control costs. They can overhire, and do. They can overpay employees, and do. They can incinerate cash on wacky projects, and do.

This is not because the fundamental constraints of accounting don’t apply to them, but rather because they’re able to optimize for other outcomes because their critical personnel costs are such a tiny portion of what they’re able to bring in: they’re hoarding human resources, they’re trying to develop second acts, they’re able to tolerate bloat and process if they think that’s worth it.

When Amazon turns up the heat, it’s not primarily because they’re worried about costs. It’s because they want to get people out of there who don’t belong there, and because return to office in their minds is a good way to make the org more productive over the long term.

These companies are trying to get a culture they perceive as being a little over staffed, too bureaucratic, maybe lacking in focus, to turn around.

Fixing that has a much bigger impact on long term shareholder value creation — it’s the exact same rationale as overpaying staff, over staffing and spending generously on wacky new bets. Ship faster.
Yes, the https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring was created so users don't have to post the question. It's listed in the FAQ. Expect it to be published Tuesday 5pm California time.
looks like author responded
https://twitter.com/joabaldwin/status/1741202134845247606

"That’s one page out of 600+, I returned 14 books: one was cut to the wrong size (actually cutting the text, like an inch smaller), others had totally bent covers and pages, others were printed beyond the bleed area (offset too far from the max allowed), or printed at an angle."

to me it seems a bit dramatic, if a customer felt that was an issue they'd just get a refund from amazon
I think I may disagree about the causes. Amazon A/B tests just about everything, the implication being hidden costs would have been found in A/B testing to net increase revenue. That is just profit motive and business ethics coming into play.

The scattering of weird microservices I think is the same reason the Amazon detail & home page never get a full ground-up update. It's hard to do large scale data experiments to demonstrate the benefit, and it's too many teams with too much at stake (too many cooks)
Windows have to be in the character of the neighborhood.

Source: https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/publica...
Your talking point was one of the outputs of that American shamefest I was referring to. They were furious at Germany and so said... what you just did.

The graph of Germany's energy mix over time doesnt quite tell the this story, however:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/p...

In fact it shows that nuclear power was never that relevant to Germany and that that loud hissy fit was about a change in < 5% of Germany's electricity mix. Why so controversial?

Well, the reason for this political shamefest are a bit murky - possibly military related - but one thing is certain: it had less than nothing to do with environmentalism. That was a cover.
Recently Amazon has been sending me items that were clearly returned and poorly repackaged or damaged in the last year. This isn’t something I encountered or noticed prior to 2023.

Their screening policy for returned items may have changed.
Can’t wait for the AWS outages. Good times ahead!
Isn't this all noise as the model changes infrequently?

GPT used to have text on the bottom telling it the cutoff date and model version, although now it's missing. I'm not sure if they include model updates in the release notes, but I remember in the past the day over day differences were just noise (model was unchanged).

Does anyone know how often the model gets updated?
It's not even that big an if. Every vendor of every product receives returns. And every vendor of every product has some kind of process for deciding what to do with them. A few product areas have specific regulation, but in general if you get an unused return that is still in new condition you're going to resell it. It's no different for Amazon than your corner bookstore, who does exactly the same thing.

Basically this author did a bulk order of his own book from Amazon[1], found something wrong, deliberately returned them and then laid a deliberate trap just to generate exactly this buzz.

[1] Pretty weird to begin with. Marketing copies of your own work are normally part of your contract with the publisher. Why is he getting them retail?
Poor wording. I think what they're getting at is that, unlike wifi, light doesn't pass through walls, floors, ceilings, etc. Anything that isn't directly illuminated by the light beam will have effectively no signal, making it less likely to be picked up from (say) five offices away.
The problem - or at least one of them, it seems - here is the speed of changes. Britons may be not that much against the lower-paid Eastern European, if their "invasion" doesn't happen overnight and Britons have time to adjust. However it's harder to organize with binary choice "in EU - not in EU", maybe it needs to have a longer period of gradually allowing more and more of the change. Obviously you can't change education system or even re-train the existing workers in the face of sudden coming of a lot of maybe more narrowly specialized but cheaper workforce.
No clue, just received the package. I was just surprised the at the packaging.
Most-Watched Shows of 2023
As a person who experienced both the symptoms and the treatment in the US I can assure you that it’s better to receive band-aid treatment than nothing at all.

Treatments could be—and should be—better, but comparing US to countries where psychological issues are being ignored and stigmatized is not to the benefit of the latter.
Are you implying that amazon allowed remote work prior to the pandemic?
"it wasn't like this X years ago. It is a shame you joined at this time."

Heard that multiple times during my short tenure. Always smelled like bs to me.
From what I remember the venting state of the window is called 'auf kipp'. Not sure if the process is called 'kipping' though
Ugh, don't get me started on how HSAs and FSAs are just a handout to the financial industry.
The U.S. government should be concerned. The U.S. tax base could very well implode with outsourcing, ai, and offshoring in the next 10 years.
> Well, tell that to my cousins who are still working remotely in tech from their ancestral villages in Himachal/Jammu/Punjab.

What I can say is that there is no special treatment for SDEs working from India, especially regarding the WFH policy.
This is a really ignorant comment. Of course this number one because the big money gets in early and gets out early. All the suckers are left behind. Financial capitalism doesn’t care about companies, It cares about profit.
> Do you remember when they Hollyweird degenerates sued a Christian company that wanted to put our G-rated versions of the movies aimed at children? The Christian company never suggested they not pay for the movies. No matter what the Christian company was willing to pay, they were not allowed to publish child-friendly versions of the movies.

If anyone is curious, this is what is being semi-accuratly referenced: https://www.crosswalk.com/culture/features/editing-companies...

Whole I disagree that the motivation is "degeneracy" and I doubt that there isn't a sum large enough to get studios on board, it is a pretty interesting example to bring up when discussing how much control we should give copyright holders.

Notably, it is legal to have a filter that changes playback not legal to provide a modified version of the original, even if you paid for that original.
That first paper is not showing a positive long-term effect for healthy men, it’s showing some cognitive return to normal for people who have a cognitive impairment, possibly associated with their ED. It’s wrong to jump to the unsupported conclusion that it might help old people in general. On top of that, 17% of the very small sample had to bail out of the study due to excessive side-effects.

It’s not useful to say other things have side effects without actually comparing magnitudes or dosage. Everything can kill you if you ingest too much. The call the FDA made is about the relative severity and danger level, and they allow lots of things OTC that have side effects. Why do you not believe that Viagra is more dangerous than Aspirin, why are you armchair second guessing that call? I’m pretty sure Aspirin is far safer than Viagra when used as directed, and that people sometimes take a lot of it because it’s a pain killer and believed to be quite safe. Two thirds of Aspirin deaths are attributed to taking high doses, where Viagra is rarely if ever taken with higher than prescribed dose because everyone knows that’s pretty dangerous.
I've been using wireless adb since 4.4
You make a good point. How to induce people to do the right thing? The carrot? The stick? Having a checklist? Inculcating a safety culture? All of the above? If you are cheating, then typically you know you are cheating. I am going to assume these people knew, even if Toyota at large did not.
Yeah, you'd want blackout curtains (or better, paint) on your windows. Still cheaper and easier than making your office into a Faraday cage.
> One could forgive that because the "build it first, squeeze it later" model /has/ worked for other tech businesses. Twitter comes to mind.

Twitter is a walled garden though. This is more like if Twitter built Mastodon, and nearly everyone ran their own server.

So you what, sell ads? But everyone browses from their own install which doesn't serve any.

Part of the squeezing strategy is that you have a captive audience that can be suddenly asked to pay, or watch ads and they don't want to lose their social network, so they do. But this model had no such thing.

What I heard was that their intended model was "tax the economy", but besides being trivial to work around in the architecture, every content creator I met hated the completely wide open architecture. There's no way to protect content in the system. Not only it's trivial to grab somebody else's stuff, you can't be punished for doing so.
can you actually distinguish farsi and arabic without speaking one of the languages?
Possibly worth noting that this is a crosspost of https://acesounderglass.com/2022/02/04/butterfly-ideas/
Yet that was NOT your initial comment. The author was testing a theory to see what the results would be. There isn’t anything “stupid” about that. Exposing the issues of LLM usage & the steps to do so is valuable.
I really miss these windows from my time living in Europe. They are incredible at 1.) insulating heat 2.) insulating noise, and 3.) being convenient to open, close, and clean!
I was unclear.

My point was that since they are encouraged to cooperate with a stick and a carrot, they might be less impartial and offer more hearsay in the hopes of getting less of the stick.

Pure speculation on my part; I wonder if there was any research into that.
amazon seems to be the place where the worst leaders i've experienced who have been forced out of the organizations i've been a part of all inevitably wind up. based on this, i don't think i'd ever like to work there.
why would he get paid other than the initial buy of a book?
yep those are the ones
And then, you pointing it out so you can get in on the karma train as well! And then this comment, made just for the points, which are worth so much that I'm trading in my cheap car for a flashy new one next week!
What you're describing exists. It's called "embeddings" and it's one of the first steps ChatGPT does to do its magic and it's indeed very useful.

What renders this useless is reducing the dimensionality from thousands to just 3.
Amazon "checks" them hardly at all. I ordered a warehouse item (and I recognize this risk) for a Chicco stroller holder and received a Chicco box with a broken Gracco stroller in it.

That's not very checked. And there's not much I can do but return it (they don't even have a "you got scammed, idiots" option to tell them to check again).
Follow up Q: can you untrain an LLM, or is OpenAI going to have to retrain without the articles?
And they'll be replacing the capacity with fossil fuels, of course.

Didn't we learn anything from Germany?
Been trying this out for the last few hours, other than a minor issue associated with screenshots, this is awesome!
I'm essentially a meat-based LLM and I'm trained almost exclusively on copyrighted material (most of which I pirated).
> Except these aren't databases, so that's generally not possible

Not directly and not in every case, but it IS possible to use embeddings to link to similar material. People are doing it pretty commonly using the RAG approach and Bard is already providing sources, etc. It may not be perfect, but the onus is on the AI companies to figure out how to do it right not just claim helplessness.

> Okay... but then, if I write a book should I be able to opt out of you being allowed to read it? What conditions should I be able to put on who can read my work?

Sites that don't want to appear in search results or have sensitive info they don't want to get into search engines can use the Robots.txt which is as old as the internet. There are many valid reasons to have mechanisms to prevent something from being included in training data, and I would also argue this is a core feature that is necessary to spur adoption by businesses as we've already seen. Otherwise, I am not sure I understand your reasoning.. people can publish websites and opt to have them excluded from search, the same should apply to AI.
If I go into a physical bookstore, buy a book, walk out with it, walk back in and return it still in good condition, should they not just put it back on the shelf? Would that be fraud? It's technically no longer "new" at that point.

True this was returned as "damaged" but how damaged was it? We aren't told and there are no photos.
China pretty much has to go fast on the EV transition or choke on fumes. Even in the 90s many big cities banned gas scooters and motorbikes. The domestic market will tolerate more inconvenience and quirks, but they will get competitive fast.
Ah, I see. I didn't want to brag, if that's how it felt. When I was at a low point in life, I learned to monitor all my expenses and keep money on short leash. I can understand someone who never had to deal with that kind of situation never learned the skill and might have problems with keeping track of subscriptions. Thank you for the elaboration.
Moreover, Wikipedia relies heavily on news articles as sources. It goes without saying that news outlets are not well known for holding neutral positions.
I did 3 months of Swahili, and stopped cold turkey when I realized that the gamification part of it kept me coming back, but somehow prevented me from learning anything.

Would have been better to pass my time with Candy Crush.
MSX 2 had the Yamaha V9938 which added vertical hardware scrolling and supported a light pen and mouse.

MSX 2+ had the Yamaha V9957 which added horizontal hardware scrolling but didn't support a light pen or mouse.
From personal experience: yes. But I don't really see what that has to do with anything, because even just looking at during the pandemic (remote work culture) to now (in-office culture) is a demonstrably different culture, so I still have no idea what you're arguing.
I'm confused how your thought process is working here - your saying corps have the ability to actually do this themselves and they are the only ones that really could.

do you think after they do invest in their own version, no infringement - you think they will still hire thumbnail artists???

Your essentially advocating for ONLY big corps to have this tech, then everyone will still be out work
I just had a strong use case: a broken screen.

A combination of Google Assistant, Talkback, USB-C-to-USB-A-Adapter and Keyboard, a Bluetooth keyboard, scrcpy, Anydesk and a new Pixel phone for practicing helped get some data off the device and even do a migration to the new phone. Needed all of the above and a lot of trial and error and time!!
Odd to profess to be an expert on Britain but not acknowledge sarcasm, one of their main national pastimes.