skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I'm sure they exist, that's why I said "a lot", not "all". My point is more about how managers perceive the employees they manage. They all want to believe that they found the goose that lays the golden eggs, but in reality so many perceived rockstar engineers are just over-confident or over-eager people mass producing garbage.

That's the important parallel with using AI in production: on the surface it may seem like the solution to all productivity problems, but in reality it still takes a lot of human brainpower to review, assess, fix and maintain whatever the AI model spits out. Especially since generative AIs like to present their work with supreme confidence, and it's getting increasingly hard to separate the chaff from the wheat.
Yup - batteries are also getting fast tracked in the TSO connection queue in NL. Lots of good news for Tesla and other battery manufacturers.
There have been quite a few interesting Kaggle competitions in recent years, as well as other interesting ML/data science competitions on other platforms.

Platforms like Kaggle, DrivenData, Zindi, AIcrowd, CodaLab and others are running dozens-hundreds of competitions a year in total, including ones linked to top academic conferences. One interesting recent one is this one on LLM efficiency - trying to see to what extent people can fine-tune an LLM with just 1GPU and 24h: https://llm-efficiency-challenge.github.io/

Or the Makridakis series of challenges, running since the 80s, which are a great testbed for time-series models (the 6th one finished just last year): https://mofc.unic.ac.cy/the-m6-competition/
>Sorry for the off-topic rambling, tidying is like "clean" code, everyone has their own definition

That's blasphemy. There is only one true clean code and that is what Uncle Bob is preaching himself.
It isn't about pride; it's about finding a new job and having good new job prospects. I'm not a Googler, but have worked in Big Tech. I don't use "Ex-Y", but what is the problem in doing it?

Recruiters filter by such things, and it does carry some weight. Companies like to recruit folks from Big Tech.

Those folks laid off from Google weren't bad performers. Lay-off means that they are laying off people regardless of their performance as a change in their strategy, towards making shareholders happier.

Furthermore, you should stop being envious of silly stuff and focus on your life.
I've worked across the spectrum from 8 people companies to 20,000 employee multi-nationals. From companies 30 years old to startups. It doesn't make a difference.

You likely won't see redundancy coming. Chances are you'll be dismissed out of the blue one random day.
That the international community hasn't recognized Somaliland is a travesty.
The guy is talking about slow dead. The kind of company dead IBM or Oracle? are facing since decades.
Ahhh. Thanks.

I doubt we'll get anywhere thrashing this out, but I'll concede that the apocalypse is undesirable
Weirdly I was listening to a radio show about the Voyager space craft a few days ago and they talked about the nuclear batteries powering those, making me wonder if this was something that could be used here on earth. I know absolutely nothing about this tech so thanks for this useful tempering of the hype.
> There is a clear medical need for better diabetes treatments and a large profitable market for anyone who can deliver them.

True, but with the exception of type I diabetics (a relatively small proportion of all diabetics, about 3% of total), the goal is to avoid insulin treatment.

What you want to do is reverse insulin resistance, while restoring blood glucose control. Basically reverse metabolic syndrome. That's what the therapies like SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP1s, DPP-4 inhibitors, etc.

If a type II patient gets to the point of needing exogenous insulin, you've basically reached the end of the line.
The hashing part is kind of orthogonal. The real negative outcome of quantum computers getting reliable and powerful would be that ECDSA would be broken (using Shor's algorithm variants). This would make every coin stealable by anyone with access to such a computer. Some coins would be easier to steal than others (P2PK would be the easiest - and all of Satoshi's coins are P2PK). The Bitcoin network would keep working, but coin-ownership would be meaningless.
It’s brand recognition
I can't tell from the context of your comment whether you believe the monthly inflation figures are inflation that happened in that month (the "one month's worth of inflation was X%") or if those are annualized figures (the "one month's measure of an annualized rate of inflation").

If you are of the belief that the monthly inflation figures "stack", you are saying inflation is much higher than the 18% in 2 years that GP reported.

If you are not of that belief, then the figures you cite are fairly consistent with the 2 year rise in prices being in the +18% neighborhood.
> Do you need to keep custom structures for each network socket that maintains a snapshot of the state of how things are progressing?

In C, yes.
This is an extremely ignorant article.

1. They should call it Arat Kilos quest for the sea, not Ethiopia. Abiys megalomania isn’t popular in Ethiopia, and even FANO has come out against this “deal”

2. If you read the fine print, the deal is for a commission to examine recognizing Somaliland. Ethiopia will never actually go through with it, because Ethiopia has multiple secessionist and rebel movements.

3. This ignores the unionist factor in Northern Somalia,
the area that is supposed to be ceded to Ethiopia is a heavily unionist area, and given that half of “Somaliland” rejoined Somalia this year ^1, I don’t think that will happen.

Also like all of the anylysts cited are pro-somaliland, like Peter Pham is literally a lobbyist, and this does the typical Reddit mistake of assuming the Somali government is nonexistent or weak (this isn’t 2011).

This is a horribly written article with no research to back it up

1 wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Anod_conflict_(2023-present)
Yup exactly! https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/the-unstoppabl...
I met my first girlfriend on Usenet back in the mid-90s. She sent me a mixtape I still have and her writing Bush(x) next to some of the Bush songs confused me for many years. Lots of college-aged people were around Usenet for help, advice and just listen to me. Same goes for IRC. I don't know if I'd be here if it wasn't for the online mentorship of slightly older strangers keeping me going until I found IRL friends and graduated from the internet.

Anyhow, Google should release the original DejaNews archive to the public minus whatever posts people have told them to remove over the years. I've been told it arrived there on a handful of DVDs, so it's not exactly a lot of data in 2024.
> in fact usenet was often the source of the binaries which then made their way to the torrent services

Nah, it was always topsites and I strongly suspect they still are.
Slack sold to salesforce and became a corporate product suite. The purpose is to do integrations with as many things as possible so that you get locked in, and easy billing between your company and salesforce. It is a business angle not a product for users, like almost anything when the users are not the ones directly paying for the product.
You're forgetting the other very significant part of cryptography on the blockchain: the signing of transactions with wallet keys. If you can crack the public/private key system (and what bitcoin uses is not quantum-resistant), then you can sign transactions on other people's addresses. Now, this is not 100% catastrophic in principle: a break requires an address to have signed a transaction before, so in principle if you are cycling addresses like you're supposed to, you are safe, except you can't publish your transaction to the mempool anymore without risking being sniped by someone else, you need to send it to a miner you trust, which is somewhat damaging to the whole 'trustless' part of the idea.

This is one reason amongst a few to be bearish on bitcoin over longer timescales, even as a 'store of value'.
"Dolphin, an emulator for Nintendo video games", but in this context it refers to "Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper." https://erichartford.com/dolphin
Apache's Event MPM uses epoll too, not just Nginx
The people born in 10 years will have access to a hard money that is time proven, more stable and less risky than it was 10 years ago. They will also see the price of their bitcoin go up relative to fiat. The same goes for people born in 300 years time.

Regarding developing countries, bitcoin provides anyone with a phone access to a bank, and one that offers better savings accounts than any fiat account.
So, all guys
Don't know about burnout, the dogfooding is very real though.

OTOH, they're pretty smart.
Google assistant is awful via the nest mini, I'd hard disagree that the accuracy has gotten better.

I ask it for the time and it quotes some article on wikipedia about what time is or various movies with time in the name.

I ask it to turn of the lights and it tells me 'power control is not supported yet' at least half the time.

It's gotten worse since I bought it, it never did this and that is with even the most basic of tasks.
That the body is a complex buffered system of variable effeciency is not in dispute - nor is it intractable with the thermodynamic position.

It is always realistic to achieve a thermodynamic deficit, that there is some buffer or hysterisis to the curve (i.e non linearity) is not a big deal. The key insight is that the variability in the effeciency of your metabolism is not the bounding factor. A standard deviation of a few hundred calories in the natural variability of metabolism will meaningfully increase the difficulty of weight loss, but this simply means modulating the duration of your activity taking into account the diminishing returns of increased exercise and natural variability in metabolism. Now if this is psychologically or practically easy is an entirely different question.
Americans have been culturally conditioned to be unable to understand the concept of an economic externality.

You might as well tell them that their god isn't omnipotent, because you almost literally are.
the most obvious anecdata is that for some female endurance athletes, menstrual cycles delay or stop altogether. that's one of many things the body can turn off to reduce energy expenditure.
Elisp in Replacement String
> to a first approximation they all do basically the same thing; instead of giving you an array you have to iterate across they inform you about the sockets that are actually active

Well, that's half the story. The other half is that select/poll is stateless, meaning the application–kernel bridge is flooded with data about which events you are interested in, despite the fact that this set usually doesn't change much between calls.

kqueue and the like are stateful instead: you tell the kernel which events you are interested in and then it remembers that.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL?guccounter=1

Look at the 5 year trend. Please tell me where on that graph the AI investor hype starts. I'll wait.
This discussion brought me over to the kqueue paper: https://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/papers/kqueue.pdf

It's an easy read and highly recommended! I think we can learn a lot by immersing ourselves in how good APIs are designed.
Yeah this is what Amazon said about warehouse employees and now they have to pay them $25 per hour and offer free tuition programs in addition to fat sign up bonuses.

Workers have the power. They just need to remember it.
Players can cheat in any game, but I think the designer of Monopoly would be happy that people do it more in Monopoly than in other games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#Early_history:

“The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game that she hoped would explain the single-tax theory of Henry George. It was intended as an educational tool, to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. She took out a patent in 1904. Her game, The Landlord's Game, was self-published, beginning in 1906.”
How different were they (your managers) before and after being laid off?
I have never seen Golang being used for business logic backends, its Java, Kotlin or .NET, and then nothing else for a long while. It is not expressive enough but shines in other areas, mainly infrastructure.

Remember that "Systems Programming", which is what Golang was designed for, isn't necessarily just Kernel and device drivers, but everything that isn't "Application Programming", and that includes the whole K8S networking and container stuff where it is very successful.
C still supports EBCDIC, and other potential non-ASCII character sets one might invent in the future.

It promises e.g. that 0..9 is contiguous, but e.g. "case 'A' ... 'Z'" would behave differently.
That's true, but I'd say that in Europe the ratio is close to 50/50. Prague, for instance, has a few malls in the city proper, and several more (like, e.g., "Europark" and "Fashion Arena") that are primarily accessible via car or public transit. I wouldn't say that one type is in decline whereas the other type isn't.
Cynical, miserable and gray is kinda the point, so it might not be your thing. I loved it from the start. Season 3 is the best of the series btw.
That is an issue of maligned incentives, not layoffs. This community is utterly insane sometimes, and I say that as a staunch unionist. This is literally Google, a company with an insanely large number of engineers, doing an insanely large number of different things, due to massive and clearly-net-bad-for-society consolidation, and there’ll still be hoards of people that’ll claim that the layoffs were the wrong thing to do.
Cannot use them with a Google workspace account? Or cannot use them if you merely have a workspace account?

The former seems like it might be reasonable (and I wouldn't want to lock a piece of home infrastructure to a workspace account anyway); the latter seems utterly insane.
Good point, yes!
Tides and a fight against the sand in the Brazilian Northeast
Hopefully cyberpunk will get an inflow out of this situation. Don't ever trust corporations, even if they promise not to be evil, Lol
I feel I am one of those developers that codes 100 times faster since ai tools came out. I was not slow before by the way. But now I can take a well defined interface and class example, ask gpt4 for a new well defined variant, and out it comes. one tweak and a test later its done.

Some things that would have taken me weeks take days. And some things that used to take days take 1-3 hours.

Novel work can't yet be automated. But... most of the work I do is not novel, and theres files and files of preexisting context for copilot to consume.

As for this effect being widespread and noticed enough to be related to the firing. I dont think its the case.

The people I work with don't seem to get nearly as much out of the tools as I do, and not for lack of trying. They're constantly using the tools too. Even if companies are considerably more productice with the tools, I do not think management would have been attuned enough to performance and costd to have instigated layoffs from it.
I was not aware that fire forensics was on the bullshit list. Kind of scary if that's true.
There are several days that could be candidates for the day Rome fell.

There are several reasons we could argue that the Roman Catholic Church is the continuation of Rome and so Rome never truly fell.

That is what I was trying to say in the previous comment.
I tried reading this post and it just went way over my head. Anyone have any good resources on background material to even start?
There is no underlying value. No intrinsic value.

The value is purely a function of speculative demand. And while previously people anticipated the demand would go up "organically" because of actual real-world usage, you know to pay for stuff and such, that hasn't really materialized in the way we hoped. How many actually use BTC for things like that? At its BEST it has usage to purchase other coins - but that's about it.

It is digital gold, but with seemingly less IRL usage. When I started with BTC 12 years ago, the community was really optimistic on the potential use cases - but mostly the aspect of it replacing expensive wire transfers, potential for being a digital currency you could use in your daily life.

After each hype cycle that belief diminished, and it became more apparent that people only buy it to get richer by the means of speculation.

The days of BTC 1000x'ing are long gone. Even if 1 BTC is to go for $1MM, that's "only" a 21.5x increase, and it would mean that BTC alone has a 21 trillion cap. That's half of the entire S&P500 market cap. And you'd still have a slew of other safe coins that competes against BTC for the same money.

So, my point is: While BTC is still the king of crypto, it lives in a financial market that is mostly driven by speculation and expectations of huge returns. The very same investors can earn a lot more by gambling on "lesser" coins.

There's still money to be made, but that boils down to people buying and selling between the various boom and bust cycles. We're 15 years into this now.
I'm glad to see sanity prevailing here. I only hope this doesn't result in a deluge of automated asset flips making it onto the store.
The original announcement from Valve is here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/d...
I am not advocating for this but you could turn that argument easily around: Not laying off people makes them feel very secure which does not incentivice them to take risks and innovate either. At least when they are no inherently driven to push their careers forward.

Edit: To expand on my comment: At my company the problem with missing innovation is not related to layoffs (which do not happen, thankfully). But rather that hiring is very slow as management thinks teams need to "earn" those additional resources by innovating instead of the other way around: hiring people that are willing to innovate.
I find it shocking that this is news to anybody, or that this has ever (in the last n generations) not been the case.

Your advice is sound: exchange your expertise for money, invest the money, leave.
Wasn't being a Reddit clone the point though?
It's an abstraction of work. All sound money requires equivalent value work to produce. And the work done is stored as protective "walls" in the blockchain, one on top of each block, piled higher and higher as time goes on, to become impenetrable. It's quite beautiful.
The reading process is automatic. It's quite likely that capitalized "Teams" is read by may as the product name. And it's reasonable, because in most daily contexts, "teams" refers to actual "teams" and "Teams" refers to the product. Nobody (including you) is going to teach them to stop doing that. Adapting a rather dumb capitalization rule is a lot easier.

I do agree that editors should read their topics critically and add disambiguating text (if possible and permitted).
Yep, understood - will be adding that soon
Maybe it's simple embellishment, but maybe in some cases it'll be a non-native speaker using an LLM as a personal translator as a way to participate and fit into previously-inaccessible communities. Either way, even with current tools it won't be hard to evade detection; In your example they simply used an inadequate prompt or model.
Better put, the relationship you have with your employer is a business relation ship. It's not personal. They are not your friends, nor your enemies. It's simply a convenient arrangement between the two of you for as long as that lasts. And it might become convenient for either side to change that arrangement at any point.

The more you earn, the higher the risk that at some point somebody decides that they want to spend less / smarter. So, your risk increases with your salary. That's fine because it enables you to mitigate such a scenario by having savings.

I've been part of a big layoff round once. It wasn't personal. That was just my employer rounding up a large group of people to cut some meaningful chunk out of their salary expenses. It wasn't the last round either. The company, Nokia, ultimately got out of the phone and map business (I was in the maps unit). The final head count reduction was in the tens of thousands. A lot of those have since had successful careers and the Nokia implosion spawned quite a few successful companies.

But getting layed off is a bit of a rough ride. You feel bitter, angry, insulted, etc. But on reflection I actually got a fair deal and honestly I needed the wake up call that job security is a big illusion. I was just coasting in my career and a bit too comfortable. The moment was perfect as I was still in my thirties. This stuff gets harder as you get older, less flexible, and more dependent on job security. I've been doing startups and freelance work ever since. Which means I'm my own boss now and I've learned a lot in the decade since that happened.
Axiom – A scientific computation system