skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a bureaucratic mistake led to my position falling into question, despite plenty of support for keeping me around from my immediate management chain

That's a hell of a way to lose a 17-year veteran. Wish I could say I'm surprised, but having exited FB due also to a short-sighted bureaucratic decision... such are the policies of a FAANG
Saw a clip on YouTube of him on the Joe Rogan show talking about caffeine. I was somewhat surprised by how strongly he talked about his caffeine addiction and how not using it negatively impacted his life. I've been caffeine free for over a decade after being a chronic abuser for most of my life. Maybe I'm simply too removed from my old caffeinated life but most of the downsides to not using it seem to be false. Most of the downsides I remember were during withdraw periods. Drinking caffeine would get me back to my baseline but by being off of caffeine, I don't need to get back to the baseline because I don't fall off it in the first place.
To be honest, Canadians have way less guns & stronger gun control.
For those wondering, the footage took place at Ocado’s grocery warehouse, in the south-east of London.

I’d be curious to see something similar in Amazon’s warehouse.
Is AI really needed for this?
95 of the shootings (roughly 1/4 of them) were in Chicago [0].

The Chicago MSA is just under 3% of the US population, and about 25% of the shootings.

[0] - https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-inde...
I agree, it sounds like this person either 1) hasn't looked very hard and is relying on streaming services to feed him a selection of movies, or 2) has no interest or experience with "world" cinema.

Stuff like Aleksei German's Hard to be A God, Edward Yang's A Better Summer's Day, Maren Ade's Toni Erdman, or Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love, are recent movies that are incredible and very different from Hollywood style movies. They're long, not in English, and situate the viewer in a different cultural context that requires some effort for understanding, but the payoff is immense. They are movies you can get lost in.

Also Toni Erdman is the last comedy movie I watched where I truly came close to pissing myself from laughing so hard.
When then you ask, what is 2+2=...

Is 5 a more intelligent answer than 4, because it is new? Copilot is an autocomplete engine, not creative writing.
According to this wiki article[0], 2018 (last year for which data is available) had around 14k non-suicide gun deaths. Looking at other figures suggests that this is close to the yearly average. So that's just under 40 non-suicide gun deaths per day in US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
Not that it really matters to anything, but the term is usually "Per capita" or per unit of population. It doesn't matter if it's per 100k, 200k, etc.
The point is that if you are happy allowing people to learn from your code, you should be happy allowing an AI to learn from it.

After learning from your code people may be able to write some of down verbatim (if they have a good memory). The same is true for AI.

Just because they both can do that, does not mean that they will do it - Github is already working on informing users when suggested code is a verbatim copy.

So in conclusion, it's unreasonable to object to your code being used for training an AI when you are ok with using it to train a person. It isn't a valid objection that the AI has learnt some snippets by heart, because people can also do that when reading your code.
if by small you mean code size, Haiku can do all of that.
Second link in the article:

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

Click "Past Years" for historical data going back to 2014:

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls
The fact it reproduce code verbatim, including comments and even swear words means it is definitely copying some of the time.

Does it copy all the time? Doesn't matter. Plagiarism is plagiarism even regardless of it is done by a student in school, an author, a monkey or an "AI".

You wouldn't accept this from a student, you shouldn't accept it from a coworker (unless you are releasing under a compatible license) and of course you should accept it from Microsoft.
Yeah, but Microsoft reinvented itself a few times already. They started as a BASIC runtime vendor, switched to an office software suite vendor, then to an OS vendor and now to a cloud service provider.

Plus Microsoft was quite diversified very early on, about the time they started selling Office. Even now, they're the most diversified Big Tech regarding revenue, except for maybe Amazon.
Stationary objects, also called obstacles. These systems can give people false sense of security and expectations, exactly at the wrong times. That kind of unreliability may be worse than having to drive and be attentive as a driver.
This is quite simple:

- pay. These companies may be paying more than average and amazing if you compare to non-technical jobs, but as an engineer committing your best years to become great at what you do, you find yourself still not being able to afford even a small flat in the area where you work. Meanwhile you hear your company boasting about another record year and billions flowing in. Unfortunately they won't share those with you. That's demotivating and you feel being taken advantage of.

- lack of flexibility. For example managers pushing for pairing at all cost and with disregard to neurodivergent people. At the same messaging about equality, support for various social issues and so on. That creates dishonest image of the company and makes you think this is all bs and cheap PR rather than genuine care.

- Exploitation. Some companies expect you to do unpaid overtime or that you'll answer your phone outside of work hours. If you want me to work, you pay - I am not a charity.

- Rules designed to appease insecure managers, like having to be in person in the office so the manager can "watch you" and be "hands-on" with his or hers team. Again, company is boasting how great they are for the environment and at the same time they drag hundreds of people each day to the office for no reason. We have great tools to do work remotely, there is no longer a need to be in the office. Sell the office and give employees a bonus.

- open plan office. I just can't focus in those. There is only so long I can stand wearing noise cancelling headphones and I don't want to hear people behind me chatting loudly what they had for lunch, with occasional bursts of laughter that is piercing my ears. I found that often I actually done the work in the evening at home, whereas the whole time in the office I had to pretend I am busy. One time when I was offered a promotion I asked for private office. The CTO said it's only for him and the board. Well, I quit next month.
I don't own a car but where I live (Gothenburg, Sweden), you can rent a car easy with an app: https://m.co/se/en-US/
You're doing pretty much what the GP calls out.

The kindest reading of your comment is that you absolutely don't understand who Carmack is. Understandable; "Industry veteran" is quite the understatement, after all. But maybe don't start immediately assigning employer intent to people who have field experience on what their licensing decisions from long before their current employment led to.
I agree, though I’d also exclude suicides (or break them out separately at a minimum).
The funny thing about that is nowadays a lot of people use both devices at the same time.
I'll remember to keep this in mind while my house rep repeatedly gaslights us on rising violent crime statistics and calls our concerns about violent crime a "hysteria" while doubling down on her defund the police rhetoric.

The moronic behavior of our elected officials in NYC has driven me to leave and sadly I will be gone long before they will.
Overtaking is a big word, you maybe meant passing? With the keep your lane doctrine that is something to be expected.

Here in Switzerland we are allowed to PASS traffic on the right hand side to (since Jan.01.2021). But you are NOT allowed to overtake, as in change lanes actively.
I've seen plenty of brawls involving Sikh men wearing turbans. The turbans invariably come off even without direct impact.

Also there are non-Kesdhari Sikhs (those who've never kept long hair) and those who've had their hair cut (called Patit ("fallen") by hardliners) but still wear a turban to signal religious and communal affiliation. You might be surprised at how many Sikhs have had their hair cut but go back to wearing turbans again.
Well certainly that's one required aspect of many.

I've yet to see a single serious national proposal for hoovering up the vast number of illegal guns from the inner cities however. The 117,000 gang members in Chicago do not care about gun permits or background checks.

The gun control measures being proposed - exclusively by the Democrats - won't do anything to stem the near-genocide rate of murder in US inner cities.

The actual big target is: opportunity, jobs, wealth. If you don't fix that in the US inner cities, you won't stem the murder, gang participation and rate of violence. There also isn't much being done about that equation in the US inner cities.
That is a jaw drop statistic.
This is just insane.
https://www.ocadogroup.com/technology/technology-pioneers

Although 5 hours is quite a bit longer than what I expected. Although for next day delivery it shouldn't be much of a problem.

AFAIK Amazon warehouse are still hand picked by human with item moving assisted by underlying Robert?

This is a fascinating field I am wondering if there are any similar technology for heavy, frozen products. For US that will be something like Sysco?
Article is wrong about Chicago. This site tracks Chicago specifically:

https://heyjackass.com

2020: 456 Homicides, 1,902 Wounded

2021 so far 6 months in: 378 Homicides, 1727 wounded, 2082 shot
Bytecode in practice is almost always more compact than corresponding machine code.
In large parts of the US you can get away with things that any other country would call murder or manslaughter, just by claiming that you were frightened or fearing for your life.
Why does the first mandate the second? A private insurer doesn't compel me to do <X>, it just invalidates cover if I don't.

I'm not fined for being fat, or even given the bill for my own (hypothetical) coronary, despite the enormous liability that gives the state. As long as that's true, I'd say motorcyclists can reasonably doubt that protecting the state is the real purpose.
1. They didn't ask in the interview because you are not going to say something surprising about your degree. They already know you have it and have made their inferences from it. There is no need for further discussions

2. The problem isn't the interview, people can show their knowledge in an interview. Problem is getting the interview.
Companies certainly are to blame, but most OSS projects need support and I want to support them, but they make it impossible.

Why do you want to negotiate? Large corps are burocracies. I can only get mine to donate to a registered charity, is your project one? To pay a bill is easier.

There are few people that have authority to negotiate and their time is expensive. If they spend two hours to "negotiate", they are charging a pile of money the company could have paid you instead.
I think HN is a place that is quite focused on fast-growing tech companies and those are often (counter-intuitively perhaps) terrible places when it comes to workplace politics. This is because:

1. The fast growth creates demands for management and "senior dev" positions and since hiring is difficult these positions are often filled from within. This means that those positions will be filled with people who may not be ready for them yet, and who cannot properly control the politics that develop to compensate for that ("Oh person X is difficult? Just ask person Y instead, it'll be fine")

2. The fast advancements (with often come with large monetary rewards) also creates internal competition amongst employees on who will get to be promoted to the newly created position. This can seriously hamstring the company as teams of competing managers subtly sabotage each other.

3. Hiring from the outside is no panacea either, because this means that whoever felt they were "next in line" for a promotion is now faced with a newly minted superior who won't move away themselves in at least the next 18 months or so. This means that, if they want to progress in their career, they need to find another position either in another team within the company or at another company. The first option creates increased internal competition (see point 2), the second option creates increased turnover which costs money and causes loss of institutional knowledge.

4. Finally, just "being a tech company" can give the impression that workplace politics should be absent since "the tech is all that matters". This is untrue, devs are people too and ignoring interpersonal dynamics in favor of technology can be super problematic.
But if it wasn't copying literally, why was the comments included literally?
The one part of the gun debate I don't understand is that the 2nd amendment was only added to prevent the government of overreaching as it gives the citizens the right to form armed militias to combat that. But realistically speaking, in a time where police forces are using military equipment, is it even possible to fight against them when/if push come to shove?
We have been brainwashed into believing that engineers when left alone will obsess over technical details without business utility, which is something that can happen sometimes but that in my experience is rarely a problem. Quite frankly I think most SW products fail by being an obvious piece of crap, not because resources have been wasted on hard to monetize technical excellence, but the later are more talked about.
> Yet, the average Taiwanese can put together functional English sentences. A great many of them can speak fluently

Not true at all in my experience. I met only a few people there speaking English or French and all where young and most studied in a language department at university. There's surely a big divide along age categories and probably a North/South divide as I sometimes read people on the internet claiming Taiwanese are somewhat good in English, while I haven't seen that at all where I went (mostly Southern part).

That being said I agree with the rest of your post. Anything trying to make learning Chinese fun is actually a waste of time, and rote memorization is extremely effective. In fact, it's one of the most effective way to learn vocabulary (Nation, 2001). I find it very sad that bad methods like Remembering the Kanji are hugely popular when they are in fact a waste of time. The amount of bad content on the internet is staggering. I think the biggest issue is that most people lost the willingness to put efforts in learning, and want everything immediately.

As for learning Chinese, it also helps speakers of Chinese are usually very keen on correcting mistakes and teaching things even when not asked.
I enjoy the nickname Chiraq (as in Ch-Iraq). I've had French acquintances perplexed by this term, because there's been a French president called
Jacques Chirac (pronounced the same way).
ME: BINGO, it's a socioeconomic issue not a gun issue!

It could be both.
According to GitHub Docs [1], GitHub supports several markup languages, including Markdown, AsciiDoc, Textile, ReStructuredText, Rdoc, Org, Creole, MediaWiki, and Pod.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-files-in-a-reposi...
https://archive.is/21RM9
> The best aspects of GPL work didn't manifest

Did someone get sued for downloading a copy of a game with the quake source code in it?

Did someone release a game with quake code in it, only to go after users for patent infringement?

DRM locked devices built on the quake code?

A license is simply the condition for which an author allows others to do things for which copyright law make illegal. There is also a culture and a movement that has been built around common rules for software development.

Carmack does not explain what he wanted out of the license, and so people attempt to fill in the gaps. That people interpret that as "Dismissing empirical evidence" is on those making that interpretation. I do have a word for that, but we should strive to improve the tone on HN and so its better to just explain the purpose of those who replied to Carmack.

(I don't flag comments often but this is a prime example. Hugely frustrated, dismissive, with a bit snarky tone. The comment would be hugely improved by simply skipping the last paragraph. The outcome? A bunch of up and down votes in all the comments below in typical flame war fashion)
A minimum of AES-128, which could mean 100% AES-128 or 1% AES-128 from old iOS devices that haven't been updated in years. And even AES-128 would require doing a 2^64 exhaust on a quantum computer, which would be quite a remarkable feat.
Huh? The data here isn’t for one day, it’s for three days. Further, population differences will massively inflate absolute numbers. You’re making it seem like US is ~1,600x UK when in fact per capita it’s ~61x [1]. Yes, this is still a lot and terrible, but you’re making it seem two orders of magnitude worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
Hasn't Eric Adams, the former police chief leading the race for mayor, promised to end that insanity?

(And when are they going to finish counting those votes?)
I saw a great quote recently (perhaps on HN?):

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

-- Gustavo Petro

This is, for me, very true. I lived in the US and would not say that having to own a car and drive everywhere is desirable. Vast areas of land are given over to cars — roads, parking lots, etc, to the degree that walking is discouraged or even impossible (no sidewalks, 4-8 lane roads). The air is smoggy. The act of driving itself is not enjoyable — traffic is awful (hi 101) and cities are a stop/start grind. It's miserable.
Gun Violence in the United States
> Perhaps this is a uniquely american problem, but I doubt very many people at my company actually uses their 30+ vacation days.

That's actually the American problem. For the bunch of European countries where I've worked/interacted a lot with, most people don't have days off left at the end of the year, or maybe have a handful.

And there are some periods when people are gone for long stretches of time (2+ weeks). In France August is practically a national holiday, it's super common to send someone an email in late July and get a reply saying: "I'll be back in early September".

From what I've seen from my US colleagues, they usually take a peppering of 1-2-3 days or maybe a week at most, and if they do have a ton of days off, I can't imagine they use them up.

In Romania I had a case where I had some PTO days saved and I went away on December 20 or so and came back on February 3 (got a bit lucky that year with public holidays, but still).
For Windows 10 Mobile, app sideloading with any signature has been implemented since the beginning. You can just install a .appx(bundle) directly, with no dev account system being present unlike WP8(.1).
I've been drinking coffee for years. I can stop for a few weeks without any withdrawal symptoms. So it's highly personal.
> a city with strict gun control.

... in the middle of larger area with very lax gun control.
To give citations to GPs "I heard"

> Masters are held solely responsible for all damage or accidents of whatever kind resulting from the navigation or handling of their vessels directly or indirectly by day or night. [1]

And this journalist didn't seem to thing highly of the Suez Canal pilots:

> Technically the pilot took command of the bridge, though the pilot we had was too busy eating his way through the entire menu, and dozing, to be particularly commanding. The second officer had to keep waking him up for instructions [2]

Now obviously that's a single anecdote, but there's plenty more articles and blog posts of a similar vein.

[1] https://www.seawaysmarine.com/SECTION%20%20II%20%20-%20PILOT...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/25/suez-c...
There is a discord server at https://discord.gg/MzhGqQC where you can post your requirement in the #looking_for_cofounder channel. See if someone responds there.
Here's a point for comparison - the number of people who were killed by guns in the UK in the year prior to March 2019 (so pre-COVID) was 33.
1. Gun violence is down in NYC.

> In New York, where gun violence has been rising to levels not seen in years, there were 26 victims from 21 shootings from Friday to Sunday, a DECREASE from the same period last year when 30 people were shot in 25 shootings.

For the month of May, shootings were up 73% over last year.

Robberies up 46.7% and felony assaults 20.5%.

I'm glad that NYC's politburo was able to cherry pick a single weekend of statistics to frame in the positive but if you want to say gun violence is down, I'm gonna have to say "my ass".
I could have created a header of some kind to identify it but I figured it would be more fun in this case to give people some ducktective work to do ;-)
Disable comments are the only sensible way to start using static analysis in an existing codebase.
> from former AWS employees saying they stole customer data to launch competing services

You're reading that a lot differently than I am.

The quoted post says:

>AWS proactively looked at traction of products hosted on its platform, built competing products, and then scraped & targeted customer list of those hosted products

None of that reads, to me, as them having had to use confidential data to do any of these things.

You can identify many organisations that are running on AWS without knowing anything about AWS accounts - blog posts, IP space, public code, social media comments from staff, linkedin and all sorts of other places will often reveal that.

Scraping/finding customer lists can be done using research, too. I've spoken to Account Manager-types at places and they've often used various tools that scrape other public resources to identify customers of competing services.

Swap out company names, and it's effectively what I've seen from a bunch of companies, without it delving into anything unethical.
> Given the choice between two juniors who are otherwise equal(read: no experience), one with a (CS/engineering) degree and one without, why would I ever hire the latter?

They are never really "otherwise equal" though. If they are, your interview process sucks.
Nobody knows who the hell Eric Adams is. Even here in NY. He _barely_ won his primary.

My rep that I mentioned earlier is nationally the press' darling.
It's definitely a tough call. Maybe this is an industry scale problem. The GPL existing hasn't stopped walled gardens from developing, and open source is falling behind in many regards.

Maybe the license isn't the correct place to address this. I'm not sure what the solution is, though...
Having worked at Microsoft, I can confidently tell you that a surprising number of people with long (10+) year tenures are sitting around collecting huge salaries and barely contributing. Tenure alone doesn’t make for value, and in fact can sometimes go the other way.

There was a principal engineer on my team who literally played video games all day.

I know the author isn’t in that category at all, but I can imagine that these companies are using the post pandemic time to prune some leeches.
The actual military couldn’t make a dent in Afghanistan after twenty years. What makes you think they will be any more effective against local Americans who are more familiar with the terrain, have access to better tech, and often are of the same socioeconomic background of the soldiers themselves?
This might be controversial, but as I see it there's a pretty unproductive view in US (moronic, if you will), that social problems are police problems. Police is literally the last line of defence, and not very effective at that.