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Yeah, Pandas would provide a pretty big improvement, but I wonder how much of an improvement one could get even by just replacing the c-style loop:

> for qs in combinations(all_qs, K):

> > ...

> > corrs.append({'qs': qs, 'r': r})

>

> corrs.sort_values(...)

with a python style list comprehension:

> def build_q(combination):

> > ...

> > return {'qs': qs, 'r': r}

>

> max(build_q(c) for c in combinations(all_qs, K), key = lambda v: v['r'])

> I prefer "endemic", because it is baked into the operators of the system...

There was a pandemic of racism that we fought a war over, now we have to pretend it doesn't exist anymore to keep the economy going and 'live our lives'?

So much of my potential productivity would be lost if Dyson Sphere Program or Captain of Industry ran on macs.

Without wanting to underscore the seriousness of those problems, a day or two in the woods without access to email or a constant stream of news (Discord and SMS seems fine for me in that situation) really dampens a lot of mental health issues I have, even after going back to civilization.

Oh boy, I can't wait for insurance to start telling people that being able to smell or taste isn't medically necessary.

I would guess that it would be interesting if:

1. It's a sign that the tech layoffs are part of a more general wave of layoffs

2. Most of the layoffs were on their eCommerce platform

3. If there was a blame towards Amazon. Just as an anecdote, I recently bought a whole set of camping gear on Amazon for about a third of the price as REI (and actually for cheaper than their rental rates.) Quality might not be the same, but I don't really need anything heavy duty.

> people who are likely 25%+ and even sometimes 30%+ body fat that think they're in a healthy BMI range a

Something I've observed is that people don't perceive weight on an absolute scale, but relative to other people. Really skews things depending on their local obesity rates.

Not GP, but an ongoing concern I have with covid is that the "severity of current variants" is something that you can really only know after the fact and mild cases can still cause long term effects. I also think that, even if there is a really dangerous strain that evolves, there's no way that in-office companies will go back to WFH, so it might make sense to plan for that possibility.

It could also be the case that they're fine with the risk of covid when it comes to actually living life (travel, hanging out with friends and family), but doesn't want to take that risk just to make zoom calls in an office instead of at home.

Yes, but with traffic (or reliance on public transit, and the Bay Area's n different transit orgs), a 10 mile commute could easily be more than an hour each way.

> who is building a product that is profitable?

Just my experience from being on the job market, but a lot of places I've interviewed at have traditional ML models (network security, ecommerce, image tagging) that are now rebranding as AI, without much of an actual change.

AI in games (well at least NPC style AI) is also kind of unique in that it's actually good to try to trick the end users into thinking it's more intelligent than it is.

Yes, like GP said: "marketing"

As always, "it depends" but it's very possible if you go with the understanding that you're going to live like a poor college student for the next half decade and don't want or need your expenses to go up like your peers that go into industry.

You also have to take into account that you're going to be working more hours than a traditional job and that you're going to be stuck there for half a decade, but also you get something out of it at the end which you won't get just working some other low pay job.

Same, although I appreciate the work OP's putting into this, and would find value in the aggregated statistics (especially stats about the interview funnel.)

For me, I just have a big plain text file where I keep notes and stuff about companies once they get back to me after I send off a resume. I also have two email folders (one of all job search related stuff, the other for messages about upcoming or pending calls) and iCal.

Doom and gloom article leading to doom and gloom HN discussion, just digging a bit more into it:

The Meta layoffs [1] are hitting a 600 person department.

The Amazon (Twitch) layoffs [2] are "significantly smaller than the March round, which included more than 400 people."

Sucks for the people being let go, especially in this weird job market, but it doesn't yet seem like it's a repeat of those massive layoffs last winter.

I also wish layoffs.fyi or similar had more historical data, just to compare this to, but even in good times small layoffs do happen.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-lay-off-employees-me...

[2] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/twitch-makes-another-round-of-...

I went the exact opposite way as you claim, no reason to push yourself harder if you're still likely to get stuck with an arbitrarily decided layoff.

> I also found myself working longer hours, not having solid disconnected time

To the frustration of my then boss, I noticed that I (and a lot of other coworkers) used RTO as a way to reduce our hours to ~40/week and not spend our nights and weekends with our work laptops open nearby.

Well flu vaccination rates are down from pre-covid levels, I'd guess more antivax sentiment's also impacting other common vaccines.

Good luck, there's still academics debating about the 1977 "Russian" flu [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu

Again?

> including accelerating the vesting schedule.

Just curious, but how useful are stock options in a company that's 30+ years old and still private?

You joke, but I could see Epic one day being like "if your EGS account only has free purchases and you've never actually paid for anything, your account/games will be removed in 30 days."

Possibly a misleading title, the paper [1] is mostly of Microsoft affiliated authors, with one member of PG.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.03926.pdf

edit: I'm not sure what's particularly exciting about this paper otherwise, it just seems like they parsed the PG html format and then applied some previously developed speech model to them.

Number of years since birth of Christ tops 2023 for the first time.

The time series chart shows a pretty strong decrease in the number of layoffs the last month, which is something I've noticed on the opposite side, where I'm getting a lot more interviews recently. Might just be my imagination though.

Also I did some analysis on this dataset a few months ago, and it seems like layoffs tend to happen near the beginning of the month, but I'm not sure why that would be.

Also, as an aside, this doesn't cover all places and I'd guess smaller startups would be less likely to show up. My last place went from about 45 to 10 employees over the last year (layoffs, RTO bs, terminations for "performance," etc.) and isn't on this list, for example.

I don't understand why companies can be so self destructive when it comes to this kind of stuff. I had a brief stint at a place that mandated a full RTO early 2021, started time tracking people, publicly screamed at coworkers that showed up five minutes late, wrote up employees for wearing masks, fired people that made ADA requests, etc.

Cult-y startup, but still.