skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even after clicking around the product pages a little, I’m afraid I still don’t understand what an n8n is or what it’s seeking to automate. Is “n8n” a colloquialism amongst front-end people, like “i18n” or “a11y”? And as to “automation,” I’m guessing from context that this is like a Zapier kind of product?

And that the present announcement is that this product has an integration with OpenAI Vision API now, provided you’re willing to store your API keys in the open?

I’m surprised to see it characterized as “no-code” but then require HTTP headers to be entered by hand, and a valid JSON payload to be hand-built to send over to the relevant OpenAI API.

The broader concept, though, seems cool. I can imagine the sort of visual, business-side-person kind of power user who might have a lot of fun playing with this type of workflow tool.
Tax the sale of everything and the entire problem goes away.

At that point, it doesn't matter that they borrowed against their positions because spending the money they borrowed still taxes their stocks indirectly.
All those cash flows are taxed.
Pretty sure the word you were thinking was "taxes", "taxes" is the thing that we once made rich people pay and it funded a lot of stuff so even if they made a lot of money it didn't matter as much.
I'm against DRM and to an extent, anti-cheat.

If we are talking about games whose compatibility will increase Linux adoption though, most of those have anti-cheat and DRM.
I can't thank you enough for sharing that site, bloody tired of all the dodgy TTS YouTube pronunciation vids out there.
For all we know, the death could have been fabricated and the guy is still alive under another identity. This isn’t entirely unreasonable given Iran would have probably tried to kill him anyway, so this could have been agreed by him and the government beforehand to protect his life.
I'm a big fan of the pixel series, if they wind up dropping it or make upcoming hardware terrible its likely to drive me to iphone unfortunately.

The various third party android phones have severe drawbacks in their manufacturers tweaked android or inferior hardware.
Thanks, this is going to be an interesting read!
I'm beginning to believe that it's just impossible to do advertising ethically. The hypothesis is that an advertising firm that attempts to do so will perform worse than ones doing unethical things, and eventually lose customers.
It's just Goodhart's law. Our economy is profit centric. The way public companies are structured, the only metric anyone cares about is profit. Everything else just sloughs off over time.
I mean while we're at it we should also make heroin legal and easily accessible with ads for it. There's a simple solution if a lot of people get addicted just STOP GIVING HEROIN COMPANIES MONEY
After using GPTs I realised that conversation isn't what I'm after. I want to create and use apps to interact with AI. While GPTs are groundbreaking in simulating conversation, I want more. That's why we built ZAPT... Please try it out. Thanks
There are plenty of people on earth living less than $1usd a day and would trade their situation gladly for a very comfortable $50kusd/year.
I wonder to what extent the distribution is influenced by the significant number of people that plow their savings into paying down their mortgage even when it makes no financial sense (e.g. their mortgage interest rate is 3%). I know many people that do this and don't have any stock market investments beyond their retirement account.

People at different percentiles of net worth do not have the same asset distribution.
Venture capitalism, late stage capitalism, and just gross incompetence and lack of empathy.

The U.S. is all about me, myself, and I, and these layoffs are just one result of those at the top keeping it the way they like it.

Another driver is that workers' rights suck in the U.S. So now employees are just back to the first industrial revolution: they are just bodies and line items on spreadsheets. They are not people or assets.
I think the divergence of opinion in these replies illustrates the large difference in the worldviews of players. It's likely why the game remains controversial.
Fortunately I’m not competing with windows :). But real talk, I only have 40 hours a week and I put a lot of energy into providing my users features they ask for. In return, I ask of them to make it easy for me to continue to do that.

If you look at any company’s internal tooling, this is universally well understood. Migrations and upgrades are a pain in the ass in the short term but a net positive in the long term. I don’t want to break their systems, but software evolves over time and if you expect something that worked once to always work, that’s not realistic expectations for any software I’ve ever been a part of.
Perhaps they don't want the communications load of many people opening issues whenever facebook makes changes which break a large number of filters.

It isn't the explanation they give for why, but that doesn't mean it isn't at least part of the reality of it and it would make sense.
I’m curious too - what’s your best strategy for lowering?
I feel like assigning blame is neither here nor there. Leaders in these companies often look at what other companies are doing, and follow suite. There's an argument that Elon laying off 80% of twitter is another catalyst - so why companies not follow?

Ultimately, if hiring managers offered these roles because work was needed but no longer is, would you blame them for adjusting their approach?
I think what's more important is that we used to get interest on our savings accounts, and now we have to gamble with corporations to make any returns.
Highlights from the Comments on Capitalism and Charity
Onlive did Stadia in like 2009. Not really innovative.
That would be up to Docker
I should have specified - important/at-risk people who suddenly fall from a window, especially after they did something the country they were in doesn't like.

> Statistics aren't tracked to this level by most crime reports because it is so overwhelmingly rare for someone to be killed this way.

The real issue here is we aren't comparing the statistics of the "average joe".
For random-person we can predict the reason for their fall was unlikely to be state-level foul play - in fact near zero chance of it.

The likely hood of state-level foul play is substantially higher for spies, rich oligarchs with unpopular opinions, journalists, etc. How much higher I have no idea.

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Anyway my point was the lethality of the cause of death is really not what anyone is interested in. When spies, rich oligarchs with unpopular opinions, journalists, etc die shortly after they did something particularly provoking I don't think people care about the lethality of the incident as much as the cause.
Google never had layoffs before 2022, so maybe they did?
Supabase realtime (especially if you want a managed backend) or other streaming CDC setups (like Decodable, which is Flink/Debezium under the hood) are also great choices for logical replication. Streaming tech will continue to get more cost-effective and simpler to implement in the coming year(s).

I should note: I haven't used Decodable in production yet, I'm just a fan of Flink :)
I feel exactly the same. I was young at the time and this slogan really inspired me. It was the first question you were asked once you got on the "information superhighway" ;)
Microsoft has been innovating way more than Apple, which is always going for the low hanging fruit of taking tested and consolidated tech from others and rebranding it as its own.
It’s the government’s job to provide support in the event of loss of income.
, i.e. a floor for quality of life.
Only 300 software engineers were needed to launch HBO Max
The document I linked explains how why and when. It also explains how we verify that and who does the verification. Also O365 customers have access to audit logs and the rest. At some level everything is about trust there is no way you can verify any large organizations activities.
idk what their profit structure or founding story is, but the poison pill for every company is investment capital. The second you take VC money you are beholden to someone other than your coworkers and clients. If you can get off the ground and become sustainable on sales alone, you are golden. Stability is possible but the problem is that most VCs demand 10x return, not 1.25x return.
> Rhinoceros (typically abbreviated Rhino or Rhino3D) is a commercial
> 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) application
> software that was developed by TLM, Inc, dba Robert McNeel &
> Associates, an American, privately held, and employee-owned company
> that was founded in 1978.

So not a public company subject to the fickle stock market's expectations of constant growth...
What are the relative costs?

It depends very much on the weather, but in Denmark the cost can vary from around 1DKK/kWh (€0.14) to 5kr/kWh (€0.67), or a few hours a year even more.

Recent and future prices are shown here: https://andelenergi.dk/kundeservice/aftaler-og-priser/timepr...

I don't know of any studies done here, but anecdotally I do know people who have the app version of that webpage and will schedule their laundry/dishwasher accordingly. (And of course EV owners will configure their car to charge at the cheapest period.)

Personally, the saving isn't worth thinking about for me. I run the dishwasher overnight anyway and sometimes the washing machine, but that's to avoid the noise during the evening rather than any economic or environmental reason.
We tested the predictive power of astrology. Here are the results
So you have no response to my arguments? I tend to assume that when I see someone using ridicule - they have nothing substantial to say.
I would presume they might not meet voluntary standards, like high performance on IIHS tests, because their competitive advantage would likely be price. At least, in the short term.
Let's be serious. This is just one logical fallacy after another.

One doesn't have to be communist to think that there needs to be some control levers on wealth inequality.
Even if communism were required, communism does not necessarily lead to reeducation camps and starvation.
Layered and purposefully obscured ownership structures make it nearly impossible to 'stop giving money' to the ultra wealthy.
Even if everyone stopped giving money to the ultra wealthy, they're not going to stop being ultra wealthy unless they're especially stupid with their current holdings.
Further, how does one stop giving money to those who partially or fully own monopolies on necessities?
I suspect this is a better URL: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha
It's a failure of creativity and leadership if they can't think of something productive to do with their world class talent and infrastructure.
We are adding a feature where you can select to only record your voice - other voices will be ignored

How: you'll calibrate your voice when opening an app
Read or watch something about how flight simulator was built, as an example
Either that or why not interview, accept a certain level of experience, and then expect to do a bit more training during the onboarding phase.

My previous two companies didn't do a great job with onboarding and I think it can be so varied and not very helpful many times.
Well, hopefully courts will decide you can train on content freely
> You may have also noticed that Apple is much more restrained in its layoffs than the others. Not doing as many layoffs, not doing as well in the market. These things are not unrelated.

Apple stock is down because Apple's hardware revenue is down. Simple as that. https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/11/apples-fiscal-2023-in-cha...
Patagonia is an example of a company that is trying to be "decent" even after its founder is no longer involved. So far, it seems to be working.

In tech, I am not aware of any good examples. I feel like Apple is one of the less bad compared to others. They are at least making efforts to be good about privacy, even if their motivation may be less than pure.
Larger language models may disappoint you [or, an eternally unfinished draft]
> There's no reason to buy a sedan when on the same footprint you can get an SUV with more room.

Sure there is, fuel efficiency being one.

Also I just do not at all like driving SUVs. I like to be closer to the road, and sedans just feel more stable to me.

The proliferation of SUVs is so profoundly disappointing.
ARM builds of Windows already exist, seems to me its up to the Apple bootcamp team to update their drivers. I’d guess no one works in that department anymore considering I have had a pending bootcamp update fail to be signed for several years now for my intel mac.
If you deliberately misinterpret what I'm saying, I suppose I'm mistaken.

The majority of these studies consider a weight loss of 10 pounds over two years to be successful. If you start with 100 pounds or more, that is almost nothing.

Many of them consider anyone who starts at 300, loses 100, and gains 80 back in five years to be a huge success. Is it really?

In healthcare, an obese person is typically considered successful if they lose more than 30% of their body weight permanently. This is extremely unlikely to happen without surgery or medication.
Their about page [1] provides a good clue.

> TLM, Inc. dba Robert McNeel & Associates is a closely held employee-owned Washington corporation funded solely from retained earnings.

So they're a private, employee owned company with a strong niche product that doesn't depend on outside money. They took the slow road, something that is antithetical to VCs but perfectly acceptable for bootstrapped founders that want to live comfortably but don't care about striking it rich.

[1] https://www.rhino3d.com/mcneel/about/
The reasoning behind the banning of cross-server emojis in most "respectable" servers is that you can split an image into a 5x5 grid of "emoji" and post images in channels you're not supposed to. It's a mess.
Who cares of they do or don't have to pay taxes. Taxes shouldn't be punishment. We should strive to all pay less. The government wastes our money frivolously. We should be advocating for better appropriation and spending, not advocating to give them more just because you think the rich are an enemy.
That's awesome, yes.

Here's a great use-case.

A car salesman. THey're on their feet all day, many times just waiting around the dealership for people to walk in.

They go through the motions of their approach.

Let's say they need some feedback mid-sales presentation, they could "Go talk to the manager", and then ask the AI, "Please give me feedback on this situation".

Boom, the AI would tell them, "Pauly is a vain son-of-a-biatch. Play up the aspects of the car that makes him look cool. Show him aspects of the car that will play to his sense of status. Here's an example. XYZ. Also, stop disagreeing with him. Practice just agreeing with everything he says. He says the sky is green and the earth is flat. Agree - something like, 'not a lot of people are open minded like that...', then transition to where you need to go."

See when it comes to sales coaching, this is THE BIGGEST bottleneck to a sales person's performance. There is only 1 sales manager, and they have to decide who to shadow and spend time with. Sometimes they do it evenly. Sometimes they favor the best, sometimes the worse, sometimes the middle of the pack. Sometimes not at all and they sit behind their CRM and play with charts. Sometimes they carry a quota themselves so there's no time.

Here's another use-case:

Sames sales person as above, they didn't close the deal. Now they're back at their desk thinking about how they could have done it better. Or they have "head trash" and they're beating themselves up. Or their blaming the customer for being a cheap-skate, or whatever they're doing. Normally what's not happening is they're getting constructive feedback immediately following the session while the entire situation is fresh in their mind.

If you can solve this the feedback process to improve sales performance would go from, say from never at worse to 99+% post-call.

A smart sales person who wants to become a "master sales person" (Many sales people who choose the trade use that exact language) and who want to earn $500k/year.. they'd find a way to use this kind of tool.

The biggest obstacle I can see with this is the legality of recording people. But if it doesn't "record" but listen because it's an AI - I wonder if you can get around that. Because it would essentially be the same as having the sales manager do a ride-along with you, except that it's an AI rather than a human who listens and offers feedback.
> Fasting gives you a dopamine dump to give you the energy to find food.

The hunger-hormone ghrelin actually has substantial and broad benefits to health, including an evolutionary sharpening of cognitive functions [1], albeit possibly at the cost of a narrowing of focus to food-related topics.

The fast/feast cycle was recently found to recapitulate in humans the improvements in health biomarkers typically observed with caloric restriction, with less detrimental effects on the immune system and bone density [2].

Anyway the line between dietary restriction that improves health and an eating disorder is a fine and dangerous one. The difference is made by meticulously monitoring your micronutrient requirements to avoid any deficiencies. Assuming otherwise optimal nutrition, caloric + protein restriction is consistently associated with improvement in health biomarkers. But long-term human trials with hard endpoints like longevity and suitable controls don’t exist and are impractical.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27993602/

[2] https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(19)...
what makes you think that engineering-driven cultures ignore or don't ask for input from sales/marketing/customer support?

that's the collaboration part. But the final decision over prioritization of feature X over feature Y and planning is done by engineers, not salesmen
All business is inherently unethical and relies on hiding and externalizing costs of production unto the environment, a vulnerable population, or other forms of legal/tax trickery.

Advertising is no more evil than the for-profit healthcare system in the US, or the food industry, or really any other industry, when you really stop to consider it.

People who think they are operating or working for an "ethical" business are simply unaware or willfully ignorant of its costs. Typically it is the latter, or as Upton Sinclair beautifully put it — "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
My PhD advisor stayed up late at night (in the '60s) to get exclusive access to an IBM mainframe that was normally used at UC for payroll. When I joined the lab the convention was to go find a machine that was only lightly loaded (manually; there was no batch queue, just telnet to a cluster of machines) and start your multi-month simulation and hope nobody else popped onto the machine to steal half your processor.
Tangent to this: do you remember the rumor a long time ago about GCP having a deadline to become "something" (I don't remember if 'relevant' or 'profitable' or else). Have it got to that "something"?
I think its nice illustration of simple-easy-complex-difficult dichotomy. On one hand it appears super complex. But I suspect it is also conceptually very simple; each switch, button, dial, and indicator is most likely directly coupled to some one specific functionality. In comparison in modern aircrafts, with their sleek glass cockpits, lot of the same functionality might be hidden somewhere ten levels deep in menu hell and might have all sorts of weird modality etc built-in, so they are in some regards conceptually more complex. In similar vein in Concorde the controls and indicators were probably very directly coupled to their respective elements, again being simple in that regard, whereas in modern aircraft everything is done with impossibly complex computer systems that pilots (or even engineers) would have difficult time understanding.
"Your average colleague is an idiot" is never an unpopular opinion among tech workers. "You are average," now that is unpopular opinion.
The awkward part is that most people I know that have been at these companies for 10+ years feel like they couldn't pass the current hiring bar.
The flowers have a good sense of humor, I thought that was their main purpose :)
Regardless of anything else a layoff at Google is an admission that the leadership team have nothing for those people to do that's worth keeping them around for. They're 'dead weight' because Google's ideas, ambitions, and taste for audacious ground-breaking projects have died as well. We should all be a little sad about that.
At some point I hope Americans realize the extent to which they are being taken advantage of by the politicians they elect, and the companies that lobby them.
The title says "EVs" but really it's "Teslas" they're not selling their Polestars.
yes, I used Outlook desktop for both work (2 O365 accounts with different organizations) and personal email (multiple gmail accounts). With a job change, I am no longer on O365 (new company uses hosted gmail), but I understand there is a plugin for Thunderbird to work with O365.
I much prefer having the same client for all my email accounts, and Outlook worked for that purpose. It was better for O365 calendaring within the office, but it did not play well with google calendar. Thunderbird plays well with both (with a plugin for O365).
The layoff pattern is rising interest rates.
Tell me, what's the big O of having the people working in parallel on the reversing? And as a follow-up, can you explain whether it is better if you have a team of n people doing the cycle detection to do it using a system which is eventually consistent or strongly consistent and why?
Persistent cognitive slowing in post-Covid patients
The name of the language is Go.
they now rely on drones, which are harder to destroy.
I refer you to what I already wrote:

> We don't want to rely on only one mechanism to achieve (a) and (b). Sure, we want healthy markets and skilled workers. We also want workers who have enough flexibility to change industries and to move geographically. But we also want effective regulation. And we ALSO want organizations that can directly advocate on behalf of workers.
He doesn't get younger either. So one day the direction may quickly change.
Turns out macro trends change based on circumstances outside the control of any one company.
because A’s hire B’s that hire C’s that hire D’s /incorrect grammar
Goggle started it, I think it worked well for 1.9 trillion company as gogel
A "B-Corp" designation provides precisely this kind of framework for execs to have formal obligations beyond profit-seeking.
> company constitution

IANAL either, but I feel like the closest we had to something like this was the non profit part of OpenAI, which should’ve had the power to fire the CEO. Reality was a bit more messy than that, and profit won over ethics.

I can’t imagine Google shareholders not throwing a fit for not being allowed their cash cow to grow, and eventually finding a way to bypass the constitution.
Fine tuning is just synthetic data engineering
>But that is also why the "best of the field" get laid off - why pay FAANG salaries to get the best, when entry/mid-level salaries to get "good enough" still meets business needs?

Maybe a better chant for town hall meetings would be "We're number 2! We're number 2!"...
I'm a React developer, pretty happy with it.

What is the core thing(s) I should be appreciating about HTMx?
My favorite obviously scripted spontaneous phrase: "Organic breakthrough moments of creativity".

Companies only want creativity if it (A) helps the directors make their quarterly goals and (B) fits in with "best practices" and the line of business the company is in.
I don't follow. Aren't employee salaries a deductible expense? The above makes me think more along the lines of no longer being able to deduct GPU costs incurred from deep learning research.