skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Layoffs are always counter-productive as going forward employees take fewer risks, to evade being the one laid off. Layoffs kill innovation.
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38948444 (NY Times article discussion)
There are plenty of highways in the Northeast where traveling at 78 mph you'll get passed by about as many cars as you pass.

On a recent 750+ mile each way road trip, I averaged 70 mph on a door-to-door wall-clock basis (start the timer, drive 750 miles, stop the timer, divide). That was with three short stops one way and two on the way back, and we got passed by almost no one.
"HR is not your friend."
I empathize with this POV, and I largely hold it myself. That said, there is something incredibly insulting about having a layoff when making billions of dollars.

Look, if a company is going under, everyone can understand they have to lay off huge number of folks (otherwise, they'll lay off everyone). But laying people off when you're profitable just because you want to be more profitable..?

We need some regulation for it, the problem is what regulation. But I don't think it's controversial to say that this behavior shouldn't be encouraged (despite the fact that it is not illegal, and very few would say that it should be illegal).
I re-read Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Antarctica a couple of months ago. Characters in the book refer to leaving Antarctica as "going back to the world". To me it seems like it might be similar to returning from another planet. I wish I'd had that experience.

(Good book, btw. Recommended.)
>“Our members and teammates work hard every day to build great products for our users, and the company cannot continue to fire our co-workers while making billions every quarter,” the [union] group said in a post on the social media site X.

I mean no disrespect, but fundamentally a company is only able to do one of the two things: either hire, or fire people. Nobody is taking this away from them, and why would they? Once the leadership has spoken, it's up to employees to either listen, or ignore what the leadership has to say. The union statement reads awfully like "We refuse to believe."

I'm not sure that's helping anybody!
> Bluetooth for headphones so everyone doesn’t have to hear?

This is a critical missing feature. I would never ever use this unless it's in my ear alone.

And I hope it doesn't become socially acceptable to be carrying these around forcing everyone else to listen to whatever this device has to tell the user. There is already far too many noise and inconsiderate people in this world.
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>Scala isn’t dead.

Scala isn't dead. It went to play between the stars with Pearl and Ruby.
Intel is only around today because the leadership was decisive enough to lay off most of the company early in its history, and they then proceeded to release a whack of innovative microprocessor products after these massive layoffs.
I agree, I remember learning Ceylon few years ago in the metro while going at work, now it is probably one of the rarest programming language that we can say for sure it's dead (has been archived few years ago iirc).
Hive Cities: Reality or Fiction? (DamiLee) [video]
> stubbornly slogging through counterpoint for four months and hating every moment of it, only for you to forget it all because you want to write rock songs.

Counterpoint is a great ingredient to progressive rock à la Gentle Giant.

That brings us to the nature of innovation: applying a technique in a novel way or in a market where it was unknown.

Bring your moves to new horizons !
In the last quarter Alphabet reported "total revenues of $76.69bn, an increase of 11 percent year-on-year (YoY)."

Google Cloud alone grew 22%.

https://erp.today/storm-clouds-for-google-as-q3-misses-analy...
Yes unfortunately, but I mostly miss null safety in domain classes, not in the stdlib. It remains to be seen if this is "good enough" or not.
This would be so sick!
So basically you have nothing. Thanks for confirming I guess.
Does this allow folks who are out of the country use it?

For whatever reason, most US tax filing systems refuse to allow non-American addresses.
Another excellent architecture video.

Interesting idea of HiveQuakes.

I was big into Warhammer 40k when it started in the eighties, but didn’t keep up.
I think you may have a point. At mature companies, they have largely solved the product market fit and uses a stable stack that just works. I have worked worked for such companies, and developers jumped at the chance to use the latest (untested) technologies for greenfield projects if they had the chance.

In my startup we also use a "boring" stack, but the problems we solve are innovative and motivation in itself. The developers work closely with customers and can see the impact that the product has. They are no longer working in a Jira-factory and while they are still interested in technology they also find motivation in the product itself.
If you're an employer or employee in the United Kingdom, you've probably heard the term "PAYE" being thrown around quite a bit.
Wow, that's really accurate. At my last job, I didn't think anything was wrong but I fantasized about leaving almost every day. When I actually left, I realized how burned out I actually was.
Boeing should develop a 737 MAX 9 "Fuselage Integrity Edition"TM. For a premium price, the walls will no longer spontaneously turn into points of egress. This is an incredible marketing opportunity!
No. Mixtral Medium is one of the proprietary models by Mistral AI, and only accessible via their API: https://docs.mistral.ai/

It currently ranks 4 in chatbot arena leaderboard (slightly behind GTA-4 ELO rating): https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Which is probably why now is a safe time to release employees into the labour pool i.e. conduct layoffs. There’s a low risk those people will be absorbed into a competitor, until money gets cheap again.
Romeo here flexing about how he has an actual girlfriend. Sorry, Casanova, we’re busy refining mobile-ready inference models and leetcoding while you go on your so-called “dates”
> As someone who chose for personal and ethical reasons not to reproduce, and also struggles to maintain lasting relationships, I sure am glad I'm not Japanese at least! :)

I don't follow the logic - wouldn't it be better to live somewhere where this is a known problem that there are processes for dealing with, than somewhere where you'll be a unique case?
>And eventually Java is going to integrate those features better than Kotlin

Kotlin has better syntax and is less verbose. That matters for a lot of developers. Kotlin deals with null in a better way. Kotlin has better types.
For over 10 years now, my online banking password has been my ATM PIN, which is only 4 numbers. I believe MUFJ and SMBC have similar systems. I was actually impressed by JPPost's system, which required a 6 digit PIN.
> Whether February 22, 2024 comes in like a lion or a lamb, that
day will always be September 11131, 1993.

> And one thing is
sure: If September is eternal, then Usenet is eternal, too.

Amazing. Love this.
I don't know whether your comment is true, but the way to do layoffs while keeping innovation as high as possible is to do one round that is big enough that you can and do give guarantees to the employees that are left behind that they have jobs for life. Multiple rounds of layoffs is what really takes your innovation to zero.
I think the suggestion is that you make a profile for "Adults + Kids" (separate from your individual profiles).
this is misleading at best, outright disinformation at worst. coal generation accounted for only 7% of hawaii’s electricity. the vast majority, 70%, is diesel and oil generators. just like any other island in the world. once again we demonstrate how worthless utility scale batteries are in the grand scheme of things
I ended up digging around on the channel and tracked it back to some people of that type, and they had some other uploads that were basically gloating that the video was immune to moderation. It was a rip of the Undertale soundtrack, so laser-targeted at kids (if you're unfamiliar with Undertale, it's recognizable enough that one of its characters got added into one of Nintendo's games)

Sadly if the Undertale soundtrack was aggressively content ID'd/DMCA'd, that would have been a way to take it down. But that would penalize everyone who uploads footage of that game, so obviously that's not done.
And yet IKEAs have signs notifying you of shortcuts. If you know what to get in an IKEA and know which department to find it in you can get in and out with some real quickness if you pay a little attention.

It's clearly not their main target, but it's also obviously still a target.
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I don't know whom you are quoting, but none of this was in my post.
He's definitely doing a good job showing that the easiest way to create a $10B company is to start with a $43B company, that's for sure.
A company can do a whole lot more than hire or fire people
The last (interpreter only) version mentioned that neither GC nor modules were implemented. Did that change?

The JIT work is exciting but even more exciting would be a faster, fully featured interpreter for platforms with runtime code generation constraints (e.g. iOS) for integration into engines like Love
Perhaps because I’m not on a paid subscription, I either never hear from Twitter after a report or they reply along the lines of ”we found no issues with a photo of Hitler doing the Nazi salute in a thread concerning Jews”.
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Kodokushi
> hamas supporters

If you have to label everyone who goes against the narrative that Palestinians are "human animals" that must to be wiped off the Earth, and other things Israeli politicians said while the IDF is doing it (or even just anyone who cares about factuality full stop) a Hamas supporter, that should tell you something.

As Bernie Steinberg said here https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/29/steinberg-weap...

> If Israel’s cause is just, let it speak eloquently in its own defense. It is very telling that some of Israel’s own supporters instead go to extraordinary lengths to utterly silence the other side. Smearing one’s opponents is rarely a tactic employed by those confident that justice is on their side.

The same principles that condemn the crimes of Hamas condemn the Israeli atrocities. It's really not complicated once you strip away all the labels of pro-this and anti-that.
It's what happened. Intel was primarily a manufacturer of DRAM memory chips in the early 1980s. They pivoted hard to CPUs instead when it started looking like the IBM PC clone platform is a winner and their 386 chip could define the industry.
If we accept the premise, then why wouldn't it make sense to fire developers in specific positions? If a position is no longer viable, it won't matter to you if you fire that person, since presumably any person you choose would also be a "good developer."
Google has been cooperating with Samsung very closely lately. Maybe there's a pressure on Google from Samsung and the other big Android vendors to scale down the Pixel effort.
Yeah, like running old coal powered plants to power mining facilities[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...
CICO simplifies dieting so much that 2000 calories from drinking cola are equal to 2000 calories from eating a stew of chickpeas, beans and nuts. The human body is not a furnace literally burning fuel, it's a complex chemical reactor in a tight feedback loop with what it actually processes.
from a consumer perspective, the Fitbit acquisition has pretty much been a disaster/no-op:

- bizarre, fitness-feature-removal "updates" to the iOS Fitbit app

- piss-poor UI refresh

- very buggy "move Fitbit to your Google account" post-acqui-process

i suppose i was an idiot as a paying (G Suite) Google user + paying Fitbit user to expect anything other than Google:

1. acquiring fitbit

2. integrate Fitbit user tracking data into waves hands Borg

3. do All The Things that Google does with human tracking data etc

4. kill the app
it won’t make any impact on the prices there because it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what they spend importing oil and diesel to burn for the majority of their electricity
I'm curious about whether the temperature at the pole presents any difficulty for handling tapes (and hard drives). How easy is it to keep media within a safe temperature window in situ, and during transport in/out?
A company with $1.823 billion in revenue[1] would have a sizable IT department and do a lot of forecasting, maybe even using machine learning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger
That's region-specific. Certainly not a feature of the language.
I understand some of these words.

In all seriousness, are self hosted GPT alternatives really viable?
Well it is true and there's a book which goes into the details, Andy Grove's "Only the Paranoid Survive", and it's a fantastic page turner.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/66863
There are only 3000 legal kanji characters. But people have started naming their children in hiragana and katakana. Still no romaji allowed. Yet.
> but it will no longer be the be the guaranteed path to being a millionaire after 5-10 years of working.

For the vast majority, this has not been a thing in the first place.
I have multiple Google Home speaker devices at home. My experience that about 1/3 of the time, even in silence, it does not understand simple commands like "Stop" or "Pause". Sometimes I say "Stop" and it interprets this as "Stocks" and starts reading out stock prices. The fact that it only works 2/3 of the time makes it a frustrating UX, I hate trying to "use" it. (First world problems..)
So the only difference between Bitcoin and stocks in 2024 is that stocks are backed by an actual underlying company. Nice.
> employees take fewer risks

Like going to the masseur during working hours?
How is this comparable to Intel? Is Google struggling financially ?
I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to say, unions shouldn’t ever comment on decisions they disagree with because they are not helping anyone?

> either listen, or ignore what the leadership has to say

Or openly criticize those decisions if they have the guts for that?
I'm a Tolkien purist, read all the works. I even had a beef with the Peter Jackson movies though I think he came from a place of love and the movies themselves were a pkeasure.

I wanted to hate Rings, and in fact partially do for its significant digression from canon, but at some point I decidsd to accept it for what it was - a money play with some teasing points - and not waste time feeling bad about it.
That's definitely not how Google does hiring anymore. They don't do true generalist interviews, that's for sure. Every Google interview gauntlet I went through was at least 50% specialists asking me specialist questions, and in the end when I got hired it was when I got interviewed by specialists appropriate for my domain, and I was hired for a specific position.
i understand you might perceive bad or hidden intentions, and i agree there's plenty of that around, but in this particular case, for myself, i'm just trying to communicate that i think marriage and family are good values that have been unfortunately very distorted and corrupted, and this having overall negative outcomes for society in general.

and definitely, most definitely no need to include or limit this to anything "american" whatsoever.
Isn't it the exact opposite? Interfaces we use every day can be dead simple, all they need is that they don't change behind our back. The accelerator pedal does not come with a footover pop-up "keep pressed to make car go". Interfaces we use once in a leap year on the other hand, that's where we need all the hand-holding we can get.
Advanced Swift Actors
… khod-Kushi in Persian means suicide.
I'm impressed with the breadth of Shoelace's offerings, particularly its emphasis on accessibility and framework compatibility. For a project I'm working on, which involves creating an interactive e-learning platform, components like adaptable quizzes and responsive drag-and-drop interfaces are crucial. Could Shoelace be extended to include such interactive elements, maintaining its accessibility standards?
The greater fool theory is the only mechanism for converting crypto to dollars, so this is a feature.
What makes you think they're not still using DOS?
> but it is a good point on that topic that Switch games can be distributed without the software store.

Perhaps, yet despite that the Apple app store is considerably more open in almost every other way.
> I have never seen Kotlin used in environments other than Android

I have seen several companies that use Kotlin as a backend language (often with Spring). I personally don't find the differences enough to bother switching from Java, but I also don't mind working with Kotlin in existing projects.
The Alphabet stock went up ~50% over the last year.
Yet everyone I know that owned a pixel despises it.
Glad to make your acquaintance as my folks used to say. I'll check out the link and remember the handle.
Yep. And shaming individuals for an inconvenience, unfunded collective mandate is unhelpful when this is a problem to more cheaply and efficiently solved by single-stream recycling. Most Americans are too worried about their jobs, living paycheck-to-paycheck, is too distracted, or has a family to raise and so don't have the time or mental bandwidth to do everything perfectly properly. Also, very little recycled material actually is ever recycled in America so it's generally a virtue signal to look down on others for not conforming to their habits.
Yep, it may come from that, or maybe as it often happens someone wrote a best practice in the coding style rules, something reasonable like "try to avoid returning from the middle of a function".

People didn't understand that, too vague, hard to enforce. Someone else decided to make it clearer, "try to avoid multiple returns inside a function".

Then someone else comes and decides to tidy up the coding style document, put it in imperative form: "All functions should have a single return statement".

Give it a couple of years, people forgot why the advice was there in the first place and now they just blindly apply an insane rule, teach that to new hires and enforce it in reviews. All functions now look like big arrows and every once in a while the max line length rule has to be relaxed a little to allow for all those levels of indent.

Maybe that's how it entered MISRA-C in the first place.
Or fiat currency in general. Let's not pretend modern fiat is backed by something solid. The only thing backing it these days is the promise of our grandchildren & their grandchildren being good to pay back debt, eventually.
Very underwhelming. They just added user created GPTs to the existing Browse page. What about it makes it a store?
I've owned 3 generations of Pixels and they've all been great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> [...] reported the leaked credentials and stopped.

But, and this can be a significant differentiator from a legal standpoint in multiple jurisdictions[0], they did not use leaked credentials, nor did they circumvent any barriers. They used a publicly accessible endpoint to create their own, completely new user that just had access rights from the get-go.

[0] Sticking solely with US examples, most notably United States v. Auernheimer which was in part overturned on jurisdictional issues, in part due to the following: "We also note that in order to be guilty of accessing “without authorization, or in excess of authorization” under New Jersey law, the Government needed to prove that Auernheimer or Spitler circumvented a code-or password-based barrier to access. See State v. Riley, 412 N.J.Super. 162, 988 A.2d 1252, 1267 (N.J.Super.Ct.Law Div.2009). Although we need not resolve whether Auernheimer's conduct involved such a breach, no evidence was advanced at trial that the account slurper ever breached any password gate or other code-based barrier. The account slurper simply accessed the publicly facing portion of the login screen and scraped information that AT & T unintentionally published."
I'm using your same browser on my phone.

I touch a spot and something appears at random. I touch the same spot again and it's replaced by something random. I don't think there is a way to chose what to place in a given spot or to empty it so I don't see the purpose of the game (is it a game?)

Anyway it's OK as first prototype. Just add a menu to choose plants from and it's done.
Sure, the hardware gap isn't that big. The problem is NVidia controls the software side with CUDA.
I think they've partly implemented C# version of pattern matching.
That's bad news for the IT jobs market. The big tech companies are firing people - those people will have no problem finding another job, but that's a job taken away from more average folks.

Combined with high interest rates, that prevent businesses from starting new projects financed through credit. Also ChatGPT and other AIs increasing developers, artists, etc. productivity - so fewer people can do as much work. Probably demand for IT roles in 2024 is going to be lower than previous years and salaries may stagnate or go down.
Yeah option C and D. Both or neither...
Opex to capex is a reverse machine that goes ping.

And so the pendulum swings.
Remember it's compressed, so a higher pixel resolution at the same bitrate could end up lower quality.
This is exactly what I thought: why not just save state to a file?
I'm sure there are some advantages, but I couldn't quickly figure out how to get it running with the various jump hosts required (and I also often use port forwarding...). Just having tmux on the other side gets me most of the advantages, I think...