skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are you fired for any mistake you make in your job? Generally not

Yeah I think when a layoff is enacted, you made more than a mistake, you fundamentally missed something. Its outside the bounds of needing to be perfect or what have you, something went sideways in a big way, and unless you can actually simply trace it down to market forces beyond your control and you are telling me those people can't be productively moved into other parts of the business, then sure, we have some criteria for layoffs, but then we can be adults and get walked through the failures and how there wasn't anything that could be done.

How many situations do you think this actually applies? I have been apart of 2 layoffs (not affected in either, thankfully) in the past 3 years.

In the first situation, I and others repeatedly warned that our biggest 3rd party integration, which made the backbone of our business, was going to ban us for abusing their APIs and other business practices that we were doing, and we needed to address that. This was repeated all the way up to the highest levels, I was in the meetings with the CEO, talked about precedent etc.

They didn't change anything. The ban eventually happened, and they never recovered, laid off over successive rounds, ultimately ~50% of staff is gone now, because of this very obvious strategic error.

In another situation, they tried to blame it on interest rate hikes, but before interest rate hikes, we were sounding the alarm that we were on-boarding way too many iffy customers (its a fintech place for SMBs to manage AP) with out of bounds credit profiles, and that these new sign ups would dry up way too easily, we needed to re-focus on a better core ICP before we try to further expand the business, try and target customer segments with stronger business profiles etc, and this is prior to the majority of the interest rate hikes. I and several others made this case, and yet again, not headed, layoffs hit 6 months later, because all those customers either went belly up or had to downsize themselves, because they were too credit dependent.

So what commonality do you think this happens? Because I have a feeling its alot more than is acknowledged.
This reminds me of a thing from a few years ago, my vague memory is that it was by Travis Goodspeed.

A smart TV would accept a firmware update from a file on a standard USB stick.

The TV reads the file start to finish to check the digital signature then reads it again to update.

A device that is pretending to be a USB storage device can send a manufacturer firmware file the first time then send your unofficial firmware after.
I know I’m gonna get along with someone if they make or understand this joke.
In about that same timeframe, Y2K is also really good example. Nothing of note really happened. But if people had just ignored it a lot of things probably would have.
But won't the projected value of the project go up with the discount rate? Why would the project still only make $40K on year 3, rather than now making $40K*1.10^3?
Is this cheap or expensive? $60M/year - about $1/user/year. As a reference, Apple paid $50 million for access to Condé Nast + NBC News + IAC.

I only worry about erecting barriers to open source AI by setting such prices to access culture data. And it's our own data this time.
Reddit search works effectively for you? I usually resort to using Google to search reddit.
The "Zero" variants of boards tend to allow power over the OTG port, so you can do some interesting things. (Of course, annoying if your powering-device resets power to it). Particularly, if I didn't suck at DTS/u-boot stuff, you could make a PiKVM for <$75. (You can get $10 1080p/60fps HDMI capture cards, you use the OTG port for kb/mouse).

Still, even if you had to external power it, those little boards have pins for power in. It would still be cheap/fairly elegant. And or a USB-C Hub should power it, and give you a place to put more non-host usb devices like a usb-eth dongle.

I would like to make one with some of the (Raspberry|Orange) Pi 3, but again, I've lost too much of my life to dts/u-boot stuff. BSP/mainline woes. It's just easier to be a software-only, cloud-machines-only guy and live minimally.

This article was exciting because I'd love to imagine cheap old laptops being salvagable as little KVM instances, but it seems like OTG/xDCI is just not a priority.
Excited to try!
Haha wouldn't we all
Developing a Pokémon-sensitive region in players' visual cortex (2019)
I mean, TFA (among others) have made the case that ME/CFS is linked to (if not outright caused by) a number of specific kinds of physical dysfunction... but it's true that fatigue is a symptom of countless illnesses, so it gets difficult to figure out which patients are suffering from which conditions. Hence what happened in this study when they tried to narrow it down to a pool of ME/CFS patients :P
That's like saying remote instruction was a solved problem before Covid.

The problem with the pandemic was that almost every student in the country was suddenly thrown into a remote situation, and nobody was prepared for that.

It's the same with remote work. It may have been a "solved problem" before the pandemic (and I personally WFH before the pandemic), but nobody was prepared for a huge portion of the country's workforce to be suddenly thrown into remote work.
Likely unrelated: I can report that last week my phone number was somehow assigned to two devices for ~3 days.

I use a carrier that leases from a major (Verizon). There were clearly disconnects between the systems that even tier-3 support expected to automatically resolve overnight (i.e., be eventually consistent). Still, after 2 such overnight waiting periods failed, I got someone to spec a fix and see it through over the course of 3 hours. They were clearly surprised that both their system and the major system were not reporting correctly, and the solution came only after making changes while ignoring status.

I got a sickening feeling that enterprise software layers mated with eventually-consistent web persistence across two outsourcing organizations to produce a situation where truly no one understood what was happening -- or could even figure it out. This resolve only when some youngish person had the guts to just make changes that should work -- so we're back to the days of heroes.
The sample size worries me less than the cause/effect swapping possibility - people who think they have X might cause abnormalities that show up biologically. We know it can happen with placebos.
I just got a similar email and I literally don’t understand what is changing.

Are both “deals” (rewards based on credit card numbers and transaction data sent to Google) and P2P payments going away for everybody? Only in the US? Only on iOS?

Is “changes to X” now a euphemism for Google discontinuing X?
I worked with an energy company who has a huge custom accounting package written in Delphi. They got a lot of bang for the buck out of it over the years but is causing obvious problems now with all the logic embedded in the client.
Here's a list of projects using FP+Lazarus.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal
Afaik the few-shots learning abilities of LLMs are much better than what you can achieve with fine tuning when you only have tiny samples.

Of course it is true for real long context but it's not clear if its going to work with the sparse context hacks intended to keep memory size low.

Having the ability to keep the same coding session forever without having the LLM forgetting all the time and making the same mistakes over and over would be a game changer.
The posts you see on Bluesky by default are the posts made by people you follow. There are other options to select whichever feeds you prefer. If you're seeing a lot of that content, it's because you're following people who post a lot of that stuff.
Because they developed and hosted the site and the users agreed to it.
A. Nothing said it was exclusive.

B. Reddit's value is in the community more than the data. A company with Reddit's data but not Reddit's users is worth relatively little.
Twitter/X hasn't seen notable user growth since ~2015/16 and has been absolutely flat since then, coming up on a decade now. It was 325 million active users in 2015 and it's still about 300 million active users today (spring 2024). A decade of no growth. I don't know if twitter is functioning exactly the same as it was before, but if you have to pay the bills, cutting 80% of the workforce and holding the line seems to have worked in this case.

Having 5000 engineers on tap for... potential user growth? Makes sense if you're planning on user growth, but Twitter is kind of the poster child of "we don't need engineers for anticipated growth" given a near-decade of totally flat userbase number.
Copying this right from the Reddit TOS for all those who consider posting anything of any value there, present or future:

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(https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-february-1...)

tl;dr: "We will be able to do anything we fucking want with anything you contribute to our site"
The difference is that now usually the conveyor is smart enough to stop conveying if it notices items falling off its belt.

Human labor is becoming superfluous in the face of self-sustaining capital arising or whatever.
It was called discussions search, and showed up in the suggestion bar with images and whatnot. I was beyond mad when they removed it. Everything's a circle.
It’s going to be a sad day when /u/cumbuster69 doesn’t get the attribution they deserve for their excellent financial advice
It might be that some people feel infantilized, but it seems to work for the majority?

For example, in lots of jurisdictions there is your gross salary, but then there are often additional costs like employer taxes, or social security contributions that are "paid by the employer". But the reality is, that employing me costs my employer 1.2 times my gross salary.

Do I feel infantilized by this - actually I do, but that's the point - some do, but the majority clearly does not. For them it's actually the opposite, it sounds great: "wow my employer pays that, not me, how great".

And it's the same here: "Oh, I don't have to pay, great." People seem to rarely care about the bottom line. Just think about free shipping.
Haven't you seen how discussion lately has improved in quality?

For whatever mixture of reasons, the world is finally waking up.

We should start lobbing some good thoughts and respect on folks around us, and start to bring them around. The government is us, and needs us.

The time is here.
It wouldn't surprise me either if something like half of Reddit's traffic was Google constantly crawling them.
I don't see why Discord would not follow suit if it has not already

Everyone is privacy focused until they're not
Exactly - it was $500 for Plan 9 versus $0 for Linux which included all the sources until nobody was interested in Plan 9 anymore.
Update: Someone already made a hacked client!
> How on earth can you have a sample size that tiny and then use the word “unquestionably” as if you mean it.

Because the first sentence is the lead researcher's opinion (that they likely already held going into the study, due to overwhelming clinical — rather than scientific — evidence); not an expression of the credence that you should hold in the hypothesis, coming from null priors, due purely to the Bayesian evidence presented by the study.

A more pedantic rephrase of the first sentence you quoted, would be something like "no doctor who regularly sees ME/CFS patients would doubt the claim that ME/CFS has an organic — rather than psychogenic — etiology."

Those doctors now just need to conduct enough studies to prove that claim to the satisfaction of people who aren't doctors and who don't regularly see ME/CFS patients. This is the first step of that.

The result that such studies expect to find — at least to these doctors — isn't in question. "A pile of 1000 independent anecdotes of case-histories from professional clinicians that all corroborate the claim" just needs to be replaced with an equally-sized "pile of laboratory-condition-verified tests done in a way standardized enough to be aggregated as data and T-tested."
> so-called "very vocal" group (gaslighting much?)

Says the highest voted comment on the post...
That is the purpose of go.mod/go.sum.
`go mod download` never updates anything unless you change go.mod.
I know reddit has hired a lot. This sort of feel like a fundraising round to keep operations afloat.

This must be the real reason for destroying public API access.
generally they keep chugging along (in tech) because so much of the work has been automated.

As long as they can find people to educate themselves on the systems fast enough it's not an issue.

I'm sure there's chafe in that 10%, but not all of it is.
What's interesting is that capitalist systems often make socialist systems poor through sanctions, military intervention, & other underhanded tactics. It's a geopolitical game of control & socialism stands of defiance over the banking establishment. Times seem to be changing though as the commodity producing nations are gaining leverage & winning wars against colonial nations. The problem for the colonialists is if the peasants walk away, peasant work is no longer as inexpensive & readily available.

I'm all for free markets, but the end-game of capitalism is power cartels backed by military intervention...not free markets. So socialism seems like an interesting alternative to collaborate. That being said, rhetorical systems are used to convince people to adopt an underlying real political order.
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We blow back and forth, windlessly, in the void.

We imagine the story of it, and sell it to others.

From this we build our world from nothingness.
Blacklists feel more like reinforcing the echo chamber than moderation.
Pulling out interesting numbers:

Revenue: $666.7M in 2022, $804M in 2023

Gross margin: 84% in 2022, 86% in 2023

Net loss: $(158.6)M in 2022, $(90.8)M in 2023

DAUq: 57.5M in Q4 2022, 73.1M in Q4 2023
A term which I hate because potentially everyone on the team was “impacted” if they have to do the same work with fewer people. It’s just one person who isn’t getting paid.
Twitter doesn't work if we go by the same definition as before.

They have a ton of outages, the app is constantly buggy, the ad network is ridiculous, the moderation is nonexistent. I faced a bug that new tweets wouldn't load _for weeks_. If it was any other company, we would be saying they are done, but since it is Elon at the helm, some people pretend that Twitter still works.
You overstate how permanent one's "core identity" is.

The mentality that you mention, which really only applies to some small number of people, won't survive (1) a prolonged economic downturn that dries up ad revenue breaks the ad-supported business model, (2) a large war that summons young people away from their homes or impacts infrastructure, (3) a strong economic upswing that open promising new opportunities, (4) a legislative change in the accessibility of social media, etc.

At least some of those things that dramatically disrupt the current social media landscape will happen. It's just not that durable in its current form, and we already see that in its changing landscape, with more of the gardens becoming walled to keep balance sheets stable, more of the previously-leading service bleeding off users, more self-regulation actions meant to outmaneuver legislative hearings and lawsuits, etc

People can have social media as their "core identity" all they'd like, but they'll eventually discover that everyone's life ultimately involves a bunch of chapters where your "core identity" looks real darn different. Most don't get to keep a "core identity" just because it happens to be the one they adopted in their teens or twenties. In fact, most learn that they wouldn't even have wanted to anyway.
pretty sure he talks about that in the book, using his experience as a cautionary tale. i think that's part of the book's central argument IIRC
This comment is confusing. Did the 45-year-old cheat when they were 13.
It still is cherry picking one out of many examples where the headcount reductions were by far not that drastic as in Twitter.

The parent reply has an important point: a good % of headcount reductions tend to affect r&d and the type of projects where cutting investment doesn’t have a negative short or even medium term effect on the company. Sometimes it can even be positive for operations (e.g. infra teams have to support less product teams). This is mostly why it’s very uncommon to see headcount reductions lead to instability, etc.

Long term effects (e.g. stagnation, no innovation..) may manifest, but are harder to see clearly in advance, and when they do happen the connection to those layoffs from N years ago is not obvious/even remembered
I think OP just meant it was working to strip Twitter of the majority of its operating costs so it can be transformed into a sweatshop profit machine (but, in that case, I disagree, since its not making a profit).
Second Pascal -thing I've seen on front HN this week. Is it nostalgia or is it because it's useful and cool stuff even in 2024?

I'm nostalgic about Pascal because it was my first real professional full-time payed programming language and I loved it passionately for years. But now, I kinda don't trust myself when I just see old dated stuff compared to what we use now. It is the past for me, but maybe it's not the case for people without my baggage
Why Toronto should 'be outraged...' over 'indiscriminate' bus stop shootings
And even more confidently wrong.
"summary of plato's politeia"

the answer was good.
two follow up answers were also fine.

just curious: what about the copyright status of the given sources?

the best result I received so far was with MS Bing app (android).

had reasonable results with my local llama2 13B.

cheers
Intel 4 is Intel's 7nm process. Their own marketing slides occasionally say "Intel 4 (formerly 'Intel 7nm')."
Jesus fuck do I wish you could actually buy these parts without a stupid NDA and a massive corporation behind you. IDK how many of you dig through digikey frequently but there are NO modern ARM CPUs available to the public. Most stuff is still A9, best case A53/55/72. If you want real modern capabilities you have to buy a SOM.
I think people would write blogs and stuff, but reddit communities are so hostile to anything off the platform.
Turning off thumbnails has also helped me
When you see something that looks unbelievable, always check the source.

https://blog.google/products/gmail/
Optimizing a brain imaging device's software stack with Rust
Again, please keep in mind that this is my perception of others' arguments, and so may have some bias. I am going to try and counteract that with my wording here, but maybe someone who holds this position can drop by and give their own summary.

I have seen two main complaints:

* This is opt-out not opt-in, and I don't like that.

* BlueSky is bad because it is run by a company (sometimes with a suggestion that Jack Dorsey owns and runs the place), and I think the fediverse should be free from corporate influence, and so I object to the idea of a bridge.
There's something humorous to me about an outcry over generated, fictional images being somehow "inaccurate".
Thank you for the insight. It's really interesting to see the Euro perspective. Moreso considering how I would believe immigration is more common after the establishment of the EU. But I suppose you do have relatively recent major conflicts which may cause resistance to outsiders.

As an aside, I once was considering trying to spend some working years in Scandinavia but read that it was likely I would always be kept at an arm's length by the locals since I was non native, regardless of my fluency in the language. As an American, I found it odd considering how heterogenous my social circle was. Maybe totally false or not applicable to urban centers, but I read it from various sources, and it was persuasive enough for me to switch focus to mainland Europe.
Would it also be preferable for companies to act as de-facto charities and hire an extra 10% (or an extra hundreds to thousands) of people in order to provide some of the people who are currently out of work a source of income and health insurance?

If 100 fewer employees is bad; is 100 more good?
I didn't get my paycheck last Friday. And they took my red stapler.
To be honest, I think Twitter (and other similar sites) are a huge negative for society no matter who dominates the echo chamber. Training everyone to dump 140-char hot takes as a dominant form of "discourse" has been a genuine evil for the world. Twitter delenda est.
Show HN: Achieving Consensus with Go – A Raft Implementation
Reddit DM I just got:

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I'm pretty sure maps caches the data around you if you've used it somewhat recently. It saves Google bandwidth too.
- I think his main point was that due to differences in biology, that women had more extraversion, openness, and neuroticism (big 5 traits) and that women were less likely to want to get into computer stuff.

I'm generally anti-woke and it was more than that. It's not just 'less likely' it was also 'less suited'
As someone in a similar boat, my advice would be to start working on just driving attention/traffic to each one and see what the market tells you. It doesn't matter than your more recent idea is not as far along, there are lot of opportunities for lead generation outside of actually using the product (scorecards, waiting lists, etc...)

It doesn't matter how great either idea is if you can't get people to look at it. Focus there.