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There's more in play here than math. An interesting idea is the concept of a "Vibecession", coined by Kyla Scanlon.

It's more a focus on how people "feel" about their situation than it is math. It's resonant to me.

https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-vibecession-the-self-fulfill...
Through the Looking Glass, and What Zheludev et al. (2024) Found There
I found this to be a really interesting read throughout, and I'm fascinated by this discovery of Obelisks (apparently not yet confirmed or refuted after almost a year since that preprint). And it ended on such a funny note about how weird this microbiology stuff is when you zoom out:

> Like: Yeah, we found a virus. It’s in this tube. It looks like it’s water, but I promise, there’s viruses in there. How do you know? We extracted the virus’s vital essence and then ran it through a machine with some other vital essences we made for this purpose, and the machine said it was there. And this makes people sick? Well, we fed some of this water to a rabbit, and the rabbit got sick. Can I see the rabbit? No. You can’t go in the same room as the rabbit. Also, the rabbit died. Can I see the virus, then? No. It’s too small. Can YOU see it? Yeah, we took a picture. Can I take a picture myself? Probably not. Electron microscopy is really hard. Here, look at our photo, though. This is a gray blob. Yeah, we had to take the photo with electrons instead of with light, because the virus was really little and colors don’t exist that small. That cannot be right. Hey, we’re doing our best. Relax. Have a beer.
That's my question. I'm also under the impression that optimizations CAN be made manyally, but I find it surprising that "current compilers aren't smart enought to find them" isn't improving
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(Gory, if anyone's sensitive to that.)

No hint that the pilots need to go through military basic training, pass fitness tests, or wear uniforms. It does note "The vast majority of personnel in drone units were never in the military before and largely ignore the service culture of ranks, including saluting or waiting for an order to get on with their job."

Sustained wars have a long history of stripping out the non-essentials.
> Yes I realize "heavy breathing" calls are more akin to sexual harassment

Really? I was quite sure we were ghosts or other monsters when we did it. Did adults do that to get off?

Just making sounds was the 'coward' way to do prank calls, anyways.
One of my favorite bands (Igorrr), a friend described to me as "musical ADHD, they can't pick an instrument to stick with for more than 20 seconds on any given track."

It's perfect.
The subset of software that I can’t opt out of is small.

Not that the regulators are competent… but for opt in software it’s user beware
That's not how it works at all. Of course you can fire someone with proper cause, you just can't fire someone __at will__. Lack of demand for the position is proper cause. If you don't need staff you can fire them, but you cannot fire someone and hire someone else in the same position.
This should have a (2021) tag.

Whatever system you create to make them semi-objective, managers will cut corners and just default back to taking the ranking they need to produce, put people in, then post-rationalize. I have been in enough of these in large companies with complicated frameworks to derive the conclusion that these frameworks are just a facade of fairness.

Even the simplest scale saying "at this level you should XXX" where you're supposed to align examples is ignored. Let alone more complex things where you're supposed to compare impact with opportunity to kinda balance for people who work on less shiny projects.

Sure, the odd manager will care, but the vast majority will just default back to a basic "did do big project I feel like important? Yes, then good boy/gal. Nah, then you should raise yar impact".

Compose that with the fact that these are supposedly chaperoned by the top, which is traditionally filled with people who have been there since you were an infant and definitely don't want to change how they do things, and you create morose cultures where this will never change.

On top of that, it's arguably very hard to follow the work and performance of 6-10 people, especially now that we're remote, and especially when every middle level manager is dawned in meetings rather than managing. If you mix this with a low level (or absence) of training, then it's impossible to produce something remotely fair.

And finally, it's almost an impossible task to do. Rankings and evaluations by a single person are an extremely noisy process. Sure, sometimes there's someone with an obvious problem who doesn't do what they should, or a star who's carrying projects on their sole back (and yet again, are they really, or is that how it's seen). Most of the time, the distinction between abvo and below average is too fine to be reliably judged by a couple managers
This has to be the most out of touch comment I have read ever here.
It is an interesting experiment because they seem to have actually really tried to make hybrid work and… it worked. All it took was a little effort on the part of the people coordinating the schedules.

One study shouldn’t change your entire worldview. But going forward, I’m skeptical of the management competency of companies that can’t work out this type of scheduling.
Pretty much spot on. That's why I consider performance reviews to be mostly worthless bullshit. They're typically political exercises that have little to do with people's actual performance.
hell yeah when we fight we win
>"Despite the effectiveness of current unlearning methods, little attention has been given to whether existing unlearning methods for LLMs truly achieve forgetting or merely hide the knowledge..."

This is a great question as applies to LLM's (and philosophically, as applies to knowledge in general)... in the context of an LLM, what is "forgetting", what is "remembering", and can things "learned" by an LLM be "unlearned", and if so how, and if so mathematically and computationally, specifically what does that mean?

And, can an LLM be made to re-teach itself things from its existing knowledge, through logical processes (implication, derivation, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, etc.) things that it previously forgot?

And, if so, what's the tiniest kernel of an LLM that would be able to do that, and why?

(I suspect this isn't the first paper and won't be the last paper about that subject matter...)
I hope they can be scanned and made available - assuming, Mr. Crumb is ok with it.
Tokyo Was Built Atop the Head of a Decapitated God
interesting , really interesting !

I looked at the website unfortunately I couldn't understand what this really is for ? (skill issue I know) , could you please try to explain it here / have a tldr on the website (maybe a gui example , hey I recommend asciicinema and converting it to gif and adding it to homepage)
Columbus says ransomware gang stole personal data of 500k Ohio residents
I'd like to hear more about this Monkey-God, randomness-universe-age, cross-over theory.

If it had been proven opposite, that Monkeys could create Shakespeare, would that have disproven the existence of God?
> And if they have static addresses like labs often do, NAT will already need to happen.

Only if the static addresses also need to be static global addresses, which, if you were to use NAT for network portability, they wouldn't be anyway. So what you end up with instead is two addresses on each machine: Static ULAs for internal use, SLAAC/DHCPv6 from the parent network for dynamic global addresses, and no NAT.
He really was a gem. Here's my favorite interview of all time with the same vibe: https://www.vulture.com/article/quincy-jones-in-conversation...

>Marlon Brandon used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He’d fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.

>He slept with them? How do you know that?

>[Frowns.] Come on, man. He did not give a fuck! You like Brazilian music?
> They might not have prepared much marketing material because they aren’t really selling anything to those of us in the general public, right?

NYT isn't a highly regulated interstate employer like Boeing or the rail industry or the dockworkers so it's dispute with the union isn't a de-facto matter of national politics like those strikes were so appealing to the public to have a particular opinion on the matter is not of as much use therefore neither side of this dispute has invested heavily in it.
Right, I use SOL, not Bitcoin. Transactions are pretty much instant and cost a couple cents.
Doesn't GitHub Pages have a CDN?
> How does the orchestration work?

Github Actions CI. Take this and make a few more dependencies and a matrix strategy and you are good to go: https://github.com/bhouston/template-typescript-monorepo/blo... For dev environments, you can add post-fixes to the services based on branches.

> How do you share storage?

I use managed DBs and Cloud Storage for shared storage. I think that provisioning your own SSDs/HDs to the cloud is indicative of an anti-pattern in your architecture.

> How do the docker containers know how to find each other?

I try to avoid too much communication between services directly, rather try to go through pub-sub or similar. But you can set up each service with a domain name and access them that way. With https://web3dsurvey.com, I have an api on https://api.web3dsurvey.com and then a review environment (connected to the main branch) with https://preview.web3dsurvey.com / https://api.preview.web3dsurvey.com.

> How does security work?

You can configure Cloud Run services to be internal only and not to accept outside connections. Otherwise one can just use JWT or whatever is normal on your routes in your web server.
Also covered on The Verge:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/4/24287600/new-york-times-t...
It does cause more memory pressure because the kernel will have to look at the user-space memory for decoding registers.

So yes it will be faster than alternatives to frame-pointers, but it still wont be as fast as frame pointers.
Because I am
Unfortunately, your source is offline, so I couldn't see where it got its data.
Good read, but the many OCR issues were very distracting at times.
It is still a symbol of the country. Settling the US was a meat grinder, and you basically turned up and sank or swam. You weren't ever a cost back then; you were an asset.

Now with all the various welfare programmes you can easily become a cost, although of course that's only a proportion of the people coming in, just as it's only a proportion of the people born in the country. But it's silly to equate what happened back then with what's happening now. And it's unfair to hold the US to this standard and not any other country. Particularly when the US takes in more (legal) immigrants than any other country each year.
I'll evaluate this during my next CDC endeavor. Also on my list is Dozer: https://github.com/getdozer/dozer
> They're called juniors

I’m 20 years into this, not a junior. And the people I’m talking about certainly aren’t juniors.

I’m not questioning the existence of people who stop caring. I’m saying that this is a choice, and one that many people can’t bring themselves to make.

> That's the prevailing attitude at the moment

Attitudes and actions are two different things. If people in many of those professions were acting like many do in the tech world, people die as a result.

I’d be careful not to project your own view of this matter on the broader workforce.
>I’m sure getting it that low means ignoring housing

No. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

>and making everything in the “basket of goods” worse.

Given that food, energy, and shelter makes up the bulk of the CPI, I'm not sure how this can be done. The most plausible thing I can think of is "food is less nutritious than before", but I doubt that's an actual factor. "Food is getting less nutritious so I'm forced to shop at whole foods" isn't exactly a popular sentiment.
From what I understand their lawfare approach is using japanese software patent law, they have notably not tried to do the same using trademark or copyright infringement.

If they could get away with what you're suggesting, I imagine they would have tried it on digimon decades ago: https://digi-battle.com/Content/CardScans/CP-22.png vs https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/e/ed/0098Krabb...

There's a laundry list of these comparisons actually https://preview.redd.it/what-if-digimon-adventure-was-pokemo...
The ability to instantiate multiple types by redefining the defines (as it were) is a pretty clever approach. I also love the idea of using small, self-contained "no bloat" libraries such as this one to build software. I was able to get a test program up and running in less than two minutes. Nice!
War crimes have entered the chat.
I was intrigued because the development environment problem is similar to the data scientist one - data gravity, GPU sharing, etc - but I'm confused on the solution?

Oddly, I left with a funny alternate takeaway: One by one, their clever inhouse tweaks & scheduling preferences were recognized by the community and turned into standard k8s knobs

So I'm back to the original question... What is fundamentally left? It sounds like one part is maintaining a clean container path to simplify a local deploy, which a lot of k8s teams do (ex: most of our enterprise customers prefer our docker compose & AMIs over k8s). But more importantly, something fundamental architecturally about how envs run that k8s cannot do, but they do not identify?
I totally support their demand for remote work. NY Times should hire more remote! They could save a lot by hiring offshore without hassle of providing benefits or fighting unions.
The time to do this was 10 years ago. Best of luck. Half of these jobs won't exist in a couple years.
Time zone requirements will destroy your retention.
I don't think a lack of imagination is a particularly American trait.
My bad, is it the general rule that I should delete the post then? Didn't know since there are some comments under this one as well.
Mazda owner here, love the physical controls but using Google/Apple maps with the joystick is painful
In this scenario, you would go through redundancy processes instead of simply firing people.

Depending on the laws and the country, it involves consultations, handing out offers for alternative roles in the company, mandatory notice periods and timelines, and severance pay.

Or what many multinationals do, you offer non-legally-redundancy severance deals by paying the employees out.

Severance already happens in many industries in the US, however it’s generally only for those paid very well, which arguably need the legal protections less. So such laws are designed to level the play field and prevent abuse of the system. For instance, if you make an accountant redundant, you can’t go and hire another one for a period of time because that means the role was required the whole time. If you want to remove a specific person from a role, you fire them for cause (say bad culture fit or inadequate work) or offer them a payout to leave.
I don't think the 'craze' is thinking LLM-based AI will be the singular technology that changes everything.

The craze is that all combined breakthroughs across all types of AI/ML, including techniques that have not yet been imagined, represent a theoretical near-future technology that changes everything.

Besides, 10-15 years is nothing. I don't think 3D printers are a truly transformative technology compared to AI, however let's remember that WW2 aside, it took both airplanes and computers about 30-40 years until they had a broad societal/consumer impact (excluding military uses)
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Sugar is not poison. It can be, in certain situations, "bad for you". But sugar is found naturally in a variety of fruits and vegetables and has been a staple of the human diet for all of history and pre-history. There's no way to describe it as "poison".
Phew, it is absolutely true. Building dev environments on k8s become wasteful. To add to this complexity, if you are building a product that is self hosted on customer's infrastructure. Debugging and support also become non homogeneous and difficult.

What we have seen works especially when you are building developer centric product is expose these native issues around network, memory, compute and storage to engineers and they are more willing to work around it. Abstracting those issues leads to shift in responsibility on the product.

Having said that, I still think k8s is an upgrade when you have a large team.
The comment section on these sites are always so funny.

"Yep, this time for sure. This is the straw that breaks the camels back - next week Apple will announce their forfeiture of all European assets. Any day now."
> the creative folks you really want working there bail for greener pastures

This is the main reason. Either pay 100k with boni and I work as a code monkey for some years. But even then I will bail after some time. A strategy that cannot be viable for any company, even those that just need a quick software solution to a problem. The knowledge management with changing employees only makes it even more expensive.

If you want to burn money to see the commit log glow, please do so. I am unlikely to take any ownership of the code produced, but probably will come up with a commit here and there.

Not every form of coding requires creativity, there is also a lot of mundane logic that just needs to be given form. But even those developers should not be subjected to such metrics or anyone really.

What we created in other industries like logistics and call centers amounts to slavery aside from the fact that the employees decided to work there at some point. Something that also can be disputed how voluntary that decision was. Managers with such strategies are a liability for any company.
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Mods usually merge them.
Roast potatoes can't be called baked potatoes because baked potatoes are a well-defined product. The name transcends cooking method - a baked potato made in a microwave is still a baked potato.
> I won't laugh at the pet bereavement leave request, but I most certainly will laugh at the ask for unscented cleaning products. What's the point then?

The point of cleaning products is to clean, which can be done perfectly well with no scent. If they're just covering up uncleanliness with a pretty scent, then they're not cleaning.

Some people have serious allergies to common scents, and some people just find them unpleasant and slightly nauseating.
I would summarize your points as:

We need to create a whole new body of law for enforcing copy write protections in the age of AI.

Does the AI adequately attribute its sources? Does it paraphrase in acceptable ways or just repeat large swathes of text from its corpus with minimal changes?

The laws should force any LLMs not yet capable of complying with these requirements off the Internet until they can comply.
This is exactly right.

“ If you want them to MAYBE change, talk to them directly. If you want them to get stabbed by management, put it in their performance review.

Anything you say can and will be used against... your co-workers.”

Doing this also creates a culture of fear.

Live by the sword.

Die by the sword.
This is also technically a different article. The one you sent comes from the NYT itself, which feels weird.
Where do you have your information's from??

I was apparently reading off the latest UnixWare marketing material.
High school math is barely motivated by practical exercises. If you made it fully abstract nobody would learn anything from the class.
As far as I can tell, there actually is no AWS equivalent to GCP Cloud Run. The closest equivalents I know of are ECS on Fargate, which is more like managed Kubernetes except without Kubernetes compatibility or modern features, or AppRunner, which is closer in concept but also sorely lacking in comparable features.
It's very much up for me. In any case here's an archived version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241009171432/https://www.bls.g...
I don't think that's correct, or at least not everywhere. From what I get, when you're laying off people for economic reasons, you need to make vertical cuts of services or roles that underperform economically, but you can't use individual performance as the basis.
Echoing the parent you're replying to. You built up all of the context and missed they payoff.
/etc/systemd/{user,system}.conf.d/dont-wait.conf:
[Manager]
DefaultTimeoutStopSec=5s

There, done. That's all the timeouts you'll ever need. Go and complain to your distribution they are setting the wrong defaults, even desktop environment(s) already recommend[1] setting it to a low value.

You can stop hating on systemd now, everything you needed was in `man systemd-system.conf` all along.

[1] https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommenda...
You’re fine. Parent is not chastising, but pointing out for others that there might be more discussion over here. Leave your submission as is. Mods will merge the two if they see fit.
It's darkly funny and tragic given what we know about her suicide attempts, although we should separate fiction from autobiography, I'm reminded of Virginia Woolf's contemporary novels where it feels like there's always adult characters making jokes about committing suicide, it really stands out now since Woolf chose the river.
A "marketing" way of putting it is: "Exceptions are reserved for situations that are truly exceptional."
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