skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As companies get bigger they tend to get more bloated and disorganized. A lot of initiatives end up not being worth continuing on, so they lay off the people working on those initiatives. Better companies will reallocate talent to new, better initiatives so they don't lose the knowledge in their workforce, but that seems rare.
I thought "29 Delphi" was the name of a star
> If people on reddit wanted to get paid for their opinions, they wouldn't be posting them for free on a publicly accessible forum that does not even require an account to view...

People post on the internet 'for free' with the expectation that they're discussing ideas which have their own value, not providing training data. Yeah yeah ToS blah blah blah, but the goodwill that sites have built – even ones like HN – is on the premise that we're participating in the marketplace of ideas, not enriching shareholders.

This will ultimately be bad for the open internet.
Large companies reinvest most of their profits as bets on the future — building new arms of the company, that initially do nothing but quiet R&D for months/years — but which might bring the company entirely new revenue-lines years down the line.

Much of a large company's headcount at any point in time, is people hired to work on these bets on the future. You can fire all of these people, and nothing will happen to the company's day-to-day operations.

But the company's stock will take a nosedive nevertheless — because the promise of future increased returns had already been factored into the share price, and that factor now has to be removed.
I love Bluesky, but not having DMs is a deal breaker!
HD DVD is pretty dead. ;)
If it was really over hiring, and the end of ZIRP, why have their financial results been so strong? It’s not like profits dipped to losses from these “headwinds” — companies have been strong and AI is increasing demand for cloud services, chips, etc.
Most of the commercial solutions break financially when you have a freemium tier; orgs that don't pay below a certain size or usage. Yet the auth provider charges you the same fee for each such org.
He has written many versions of that book. He is one of the Delphi old-timers.
Guess that explains a lot of the recent changes (API, etc) over the last couple years.
Twitter's still working, but it's in a state that I think is worse than before. The spam bots alone seem to be orders of magnitude more prominent. I don't think I'd ever seen a spammer pre-headcount-change, and now "MY PUSSY IN BIO" is a running gag on the website because spambots are so prominent.

They also changed their content rules to allow drastically more content, which reduces the total amount of work to be done. You could argue that this is a good thing because the moderation was useless and censoring before, but the moderation also made it a friendlier place for major advertisers who have since pulled out—so changing the moderation resulted in a business model change. That's naturally going to reduce headcount.
For a new React Native developer, I think it's minimum a full day of work to get your head around setting up a new RN project (even with Expo), finding out what dependencies your app needs and trawling through different documentation to learn it, things like that.

Differences to Expo - HyperFast is built on top of Expo. With Expo you get a great developer experience but you don't get code. HyperFast is a white-label best-practice UX app template, with

- app intro screens
- signup/login/logout
- an onboarding screen
- a news feed
- an item detail page
- ability to "like" items
- an account settings page where you can edit your info
- a push notification service that lets you set up pre-built recurring local notifications

This is what "boilerplate" or "starter kit" means to me, but if that language isn't correct I'm keen to know how you'd describe it! Expo is an amazing tool but the purpose of HyperFast is to actually give you an app that you can customise.

As for the heavy lifting on publishing to the app store - yes, kinda, it can handle submissions, but HyperFast tells you _what to write_ in your app store listings, what kind of imagery is needed, gives sample text, etc.

Not to mention the huge benefit of having me on our private Discord channel giving advice, code feedback, debugging help etc. All of this is included _on top of Expo_, not in competition with it.

Thanks so much for your feedback! I think it shows that my sales page isn't quite there yet.
Yeah, the legendary politician's fallacy:

1) We must do something.

2) This is something.

3) Therefore, we must do this.
>1. It is pointless to compare total company value with an annual payment.

Mozilla being an exception, I suppose?
When I clicked that link, I heard a lot of horrible noise and saw some racial epithet spam in a chat box. Was that supposed to happen? Anyways, 10/10 would click again.
Has anyone tried laying off most of the executive team - instead of the workers?
This question narrows the scope of "safety" to something less than what the people at SD or even probably what OP cares about. _Non-random_ CSAM requests targeting potentially real people is the obvious answer here, but even non-CSAM sexual content is also a probably a threat. I can understand frustration with it currently going overboard on blurring, but removing safety checks altogether would result in SD mainly being associated with porn pretty quickly, which I'm sure Stability AI wants to avoid for the safety of their company.

Add to that, parents who want to avoid having their kids generate sexual content would now need to prevent their kids from using this tool because it can create it randomly, limiting SD usage to kids 18+ (which is probably something else Stability AI does not want to deal with.)

It's definitely a balance between going overboard and having restrictions though. I haven't used SD in several months now so I'm not sure where that balance is right now.
...but really though.

Y'all are the smartest people I know, and with a little banter we could figure things out. A win for all parties.

"Yes, Mom, I took my pills today"
Lol
SD3 is a new architecture using DiT (diffusion transformers), so those would be out of date.

The older ones have drawbacks like not being able to spell.
I don't think it's clear at all that it's better to be a minimum wage button pusher working multiple jobs for a modern lower class life style than it was to be a subsistence farmer. Not to say that either is enviable. But modern comforts are also creating modern horrors.
Yes Avast is from Central Europe as far as I know. So probably not putting enough into local PACs to be left alone.
Absolutely. Hell, I live in a major urban center and the healthcare here still sucks. Years of getting the runaround and "Wow, that's so bizarre, you should go to the Mayo Clinic to find out what's wrong with you" only for an answer to emerge from something as banal as a colonoscopy.

On that note, I maintain that the opioid epidemic hit the US uniquely hard precisely because of the lack of access you describe. (And I'm always surprised how few conversations re. the opioid crisis ever mention it.)

When it's hard to find doctors, when it's expensive and time-consuming to visit them, when tests aren't offered or are too expensive and time-consuming for people to pursue them, when the medication for the condition they finally get diagnosed with is expensive and requires you to jump through a million prior authorization hoops to acquire... of course they turn to cheap, generic painkillers.

We're not good at treating the underlying causes of pain, and the treatments that do exist are too often out of reach. We don't have adequate safety nets. People need to work, and it drives them to mask their symptoms.
They are using a service that allows them to make their opinion public and publicised and to know other people's opinions. Or does that have no value now?
What's on your shortlist?
Thank you for the reply, I'd like to congratulate you on the release, first. I'm a bit of a minimalist with regard to signups, unfortunately, so unless this is a known limit then I'd likely just spectate the thread and be happy for you from a distance.
"Often wrong, never in doubt"
> I work on climate and hope / hoped that the same would happen, but it's looking like it will soon get everybody's attention regardless.

Unfortunately those fixes are slated for Humanity 2.0, Homo extinctus.
Pity I can't do that with my AMD Ryzen ThinkPad.
To be fair, “they were only as insane as everyone else” doesn’t necessarily mean that they didn’t vastly over-hire. I mean Jesus I got hired in Silicon Valley in 2022, it was crazy out there
One of difficulties with content moderation is it's been targeted by some as a tool available for the few to control and shape public opinions to far narrower degrees than legally required, which is harmful to free speech. I'm not completely sure but externalizing that part probably mitigates that issue a bit.

EU is moving towards requiring all social media obey EU laws, under loose notion that their laws is the least restrictive and most reasonable. No one is, and the sum of all ethical standards on Earth is not going to be something very popular, so that's nonsense. OTOH, it's perfectly reasonable that content served at scale in a region will have to be lawful; "this content you want removed is lawful in MY country" is sort of nonsense too. So moderation decoupling and, ahem, moderation localization is going to be necessary for social media. I suppose that's where they're going.
The modern process to become a doctor 1) selects for incredibly obedient, follow-the-rules type individuals and 2) implicitly and explicitly enforces those norms.

If becoming a professional programmer required 4 years of grade grubbing in undergrad, 4 hellacious years of graduate school, then 4+ more years as a resident, and once you started working your customers could sue you every time they encountered a bug you wrote, I bet you we would see similar risk aversion/coherence to accepted wisdom in the profession that we do in medicine.
>Lots of people said this during the entire hiring spree from 2010 to 2020, but most of those people are still there paid and working. If they listened to people like you most of us here would be out of a job since the job market wouldn't have grown that fast.

That assumes I'm taking an absolutist position like you shouldn't hire or hire rarely, and I'm not. There needs to be successive indicators and re-evaluation of conditions that need to be balanced. In many (most?) cases, they simply weren't. I would say the accurate time to call this out would have been 2021, not 2009, and that is the timeframe in which I looked at everything and thought to myself "this won't last more than 5 years at best". By late 2020 to early 2021 I created a thesis that we crossed into artificial growth rate and too much "free" money being pumped into everything around us, to be clear about this.

The steady growth from 2009-2019 in tech was relatively organic by comparison, and far more moderate for most of the industry if you compute only non FAANG companies (FAANG companies, and those near that acronym, simply had outsized growth by comparison, by many multiples)

All this is to say, that I think if people listened to me, it would have nothing to do with 2010 to the start of 2020.
It's kind of astounding to call someone dishonest and then equate air conditioning to opening a window.
Intel announces new roadmap at IFS Direct Connect 2024: New 14A node
I don't think it has anything to do with routing by looking at the comments on down detector. Many people report they are in the same household, and one person out of six (in the household) experiences the problem while all are on ATT.
It sounds more like an upgrade that went through halfway, or, considering the time it happened, maybe a rollback that went only half through.
This makes a lot of sense, thanks.
It also doesn't really mean anything unless you're a strict mind-body dualist, because the brain is an organ. People with depression also have brain activity differences and are more likely to have elevated inflammatory markers. Having an autoimmune disorder increases your likelihood of being diagnosed with depression and vice-versa. There is no clear boundary between the biological and the psychological; emotion and cognition are biological processes in exactly the same way as digestion or respiration.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9540243/

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.2...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5338810/
Surely those are typically when the manufacturer was taken to have made an implicit promise of safety to the user and their surroundings, and the user got injured. If your fridge topples onto you and you get injured, the manufacturer might be liable; if you set up a trap where you topple your fridge onto a hapless passer-by, the manufacturer will probably not be liable towards them. Likewise with the classic McDonalds coffee spill liability story - I've yet to hear of a case of a coffee vendor being held liable over a deliberate attack where someone splashed someone else with hot coffee.
An Interview with Arthur Whitney (2004)
It absolutely isn’t functioning the same.

Technically maybe everything works more or less as well as before, after a year.

…but the experience is quite bad now: every other thread is full of crypto and/or onlyfans promoting bots. The algorithm displays a lot of obvious attention grabbing posts which have 300 replies, 10 of which are from humans. There’s a constant stream of bots trying to connect with you via follows or likes.

It’s a mess and a fantastic example of why anonymous and free communication platforms absolutely need professional moderation.
It would be fine if it wasn't so ridiculously expensive. I do wish there was an open source alternative that actually worked. Most of the ones I've tried are either too complicated or just don't work.
What makes you think a cargo ship can't have a NASCAR paint job?
You guys made the right call. You're not trying to become the next TikTok.
Yeah, there's nothing preventing someone from running the PDS server on other distributions. The installer just does a few convenient things for you (like install Docker, opens port 80/443 using ufw, etc) and we haven't added and tested support for other distributions.

There is a Docker compose file in the repo, and advanced users shouldn't have any problems running the code on another distribution or even without Docker if they prefer.

Advanced users can just view the installer script as documentation.
Agree, this is likely future. It’s really just an extension of The existing tiered CPU cache model
Sell access to the community-generated data for $60M ARR per license...
Students Aren't the Obstacle to Open Debate at Harvard
Again, we don't have a precise understanding of what distinguishes syntax and semantics, or whether there's any difference at all. You're just asserting that logical relationships are not semantics, but that's not a proof, nor are fallacious thought experiments like Searle's Chinese Room legit proofs that this distinction is meaningful.

At the end of the day, semantics are about making meaningful distinctions. If all I gave you was a formula that related entities X and Y, but you didn't specifically know what X and Y represented, it is simply not correct to say that you don't know anything about X and Y despite not knowing what they are.
Is it nostalgia or is it because it's useful and cool stuff even in 2024?

Or maybe because Wirth died recently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473042

(Why NYT is just getting around to an obit, I do not know.)
ME/CFS sufferers have been pushed to the fringes and gaslit for decades. It's reassuring to see studies that validate these conditions and try to find some answers instead of outright dismissing it.

I wonder if the ever-growing cohort of Long Covid sufferers are making this a problem that can no longer be ignored.
Anauralics Lack the Ability to Imagine Sounds, Auditory Analogue to Aphantasia
I didn't know about them. I recently watched the whole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series) and was mesmerized by it - it's alternative reality fiction, where a private company comes to land on Mars!
Hate on HN all you want, I’ve been without my ADHD meds (warning: the company “Done” is not technically a scam) and spending way too much time on each for the past few days, and I can say this for sure: at least people on HN pay heed to the concept of premises and careful, non-combative argument. Most responses on Reddit are “no, that’s dumb” or “yes, that reminds me of my metaphysical takes”…
It's sad that you cannot even get through the workflow that gives them money. They must be in absolutely terrible shape.
> I successfully turned a 7KB image into a 9MB video!
It "works".

The main app is generally functional, but it's easy to see the deterioration of the smaller subsystems that large platforms like that need for a good user experience. For instance, I have an account that I am unable to log into because their password recovery/change feature doesn't seem send me anything when I click it. I'm sure frequent users have a litany of little things they've noticed that are flaky or outright broken, even if they can still send and read tweets.
Executives and bloviating. Peanut butter and jelly unfortunately.
Openzfs-NVMe-Databases
Front page worthy effort?
You're right! It solved it. I didn't know about the Code/Search distinction. I still struggled for it to write me the unit tests. It does write them, they just don't pass. But this is definitely much closer to GPT4 than I originally thought.
A fun little challenge I like to give LLMs is to ask some basic logic puzzles, i.e. how can I measure 2 liters using a 3 liter and a 5 liter container? Usually if it's possible, they seem to do ok. When it's not possible, they produce a variety of wacky results. Phind-34B is rather amusing, and seems to get stuck in a loop: https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=clsxpravk0001la081cc9dl45
There's a product for that called Google Image Search.
HN: "Why do you need 1000 people for that? It's a weekend project."

Also HN: "You can't have less than 1000 people for that!!"
Thanks for the links. It seems like it switched to Phind-34B, which is worse.

Phind-70B seems to be able to get the right interface every time. Please make sure that it says Phind-70B at the top of the page while it's generating.
I keep trying to find ever more succinct ways to put this. The best I
got so far is:

Progress is a vector.

Look at all the people here shouting for Progress!! Progress!!

Progress to where? We require direction as well as magnitude.

We keep making lots of progress, against ourselves.
People don't generally need to communicate the difference between 20C and 20.6C (68F and 69F) unless measuring it directly, in which case you would use the exact decimal number.

I also don't think most people can tell the difference between 68F and 69F unless they are experiencing them very close between, and the perceived heat at that precision is dependent on a lot more than just the measured heat.

I don't get why saying "in the 70s" is better than saying "around 24" besides being used to one way or the other.

Fahrenheit is not better and for any scientific/engineering/proper measurement you would use celsius or kelvin (which shares a scale with celsius but with a different zero-point) anyway, so why keep fahrenheit? Unless for purely traditional or cultural reasons.
A significant portion of the US population wants to believe the convoluted theory over the obvious explanation.
>I think you just have a fundamentally different view of what a layoff means then the executives, board of directors, and general shareholders.

Most likely, and I personally believe that is part of the problem, not the problem.

I recognize how damaging layoffs are to people. Its unfair to act like they aren't. Its people's livelihood and we as humans often make decisions around these things, and when its yanked out from underneath them without notice, its very damaging.

Its not numbers on a spreadsheet, it is human lives.

>But what if the customers survived? What if interest rates didn't hike as fast? You're suggestion would have been horrible. The risks of over-hiring is a layoff which no one else views as really that bad vs failing behind competitors.

We would have hired more modestly, and could focus on making the business more generally efficient, cut down on process, and focus on keeping the business nimble and responsive.

If I'm wrong, we end up primed to take on more customers while continuing to hire modestly. Ironically, our smaller more nimble competitors ate a bunch of market share from us with much smaller overall staff, because they could move faster, and I can directly trace that to the hiring spree.

Now, I will admit, if we had stronger safety nets in the US that made layoffs relatively painless for the unemployed, I'd feel differently about this.
Bias exists in training data generally because it reflects reality.

Considering the example give the article, the average CEO is a white male; so surely you would expect that unless you explicitly asked for diversity!?

It's should be down to users to alter their prompts if they wish to generate images outside of statistical norms.
It’s a bad thing for everyone who depends on the company for their livelihood. The company that decided to hire them, the management that used their headcount to justify a higher valuation.

People are burning out, working the jobs of 3 people and are told they’re lucky to have a job. It’s not bullshit if it’s unsustainable.
If you report you get blackballed. So the payoff has to justify that. 5-10x lost wages. Maybe more. Also 20x plus punishments for anyone caught blackballing because it’s so damn hard to catch the consequences need to be extremely harsh
Fair example, then. I can’t help thinking that these people are kooks but I’m sure they think I’m a kook. (Maybe at long last, we have uncovered the consensus: kooks all the way down?)
In the states it’s a new tax thing going live.
Unfortunately, screening requires spending time and money, and both are things businesses/schools would rather not do.
So what would you call the social movement and ideology being described?
I agree unironically
Who would abuse a free service like that?

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I wonder if this will actually be adopted by the community, unlike SD. 2.0. Many are still developing around SD 1.5 due to its uncensored nature. SDXL has done better than 2.0, but has greater hardware requirements so still can't be used by everyone running 1.5.
Awesome! Why did you choose Caddy as a proxy for PDS? (Caddy creator here.)
I've been using this on Android for a couple years and love it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Maps

You click a few buttons to download OSM tiles and then it does routing. The latest OSM even has a decent amount of stores, restaurants, etc., listed.
Urban centres give you choice but not necessarily better doctors in general. You still need to shop for a good one. Reviews don’t help. Cost is not an indicator.
> However you choose to be upset about this, you always have someone crazy to point at.

Scary! I hope nobody finds a way to exploit this dynamic for profit.