skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-point to most of the comments here: I was a billable hourly consultant for the first 13 years of my career, and I never felt the urge to work "just a little more". I made plenty working about 40 hours a week, and valued my free time more than any marginal amount above that.

If anything, the biggest problem I had was knowing that the client had an alloted pool of hours, and I had to make my solution fit within that budget. Many times, I gave them unbilled hours just to ship something I was happy with. That's a separate problem worthy of its own discussion at some other time.

But even if you do work extra hours in order to make more money, that's better than doing the same thing on salary. I see people now working 50+ hours a week, with no incentive other than, I suppose, a go-getter attitude that they hope will result in them working 50+ hours a week for more money, with a fancier title, someday.

My point is that the billing model by itself is neither the problem nor the solution: overworking yourself, or letting your employer overwork you, is something you can do under any system if you aren't careful.
It's mostly just money. If you're a caucasian-looking foreigner, most folks in developing countries will think you have lots of dollars/euros/pounds to spend, which goes a long way in these smaller economies. Same reason store vendors will probably try to charge you higher prices. As someone who's not caucasian but has traveled with folks who are, it's certainly an interesting sight to see.
Selective enforcement is actually literally tyrany - every tyranical organisation createa rules that are vague and ambiguous, so that anyone could be guilty, and undesierable people could be charged at any time convenient.

Someone protesting? Charge them for brwaking the law fuve years ago that noone understands.

Employee speaking out? Fire them for breaking company policy on something random, company policy that no-one follows.
No problem, but when you speak to your elected representative, please also say that they should have local police adopt a policy that all police officers carry business officers with detailed contact information.

At the meta level if someone "gives me a card" and it's just... the phone number to whoever gatekeeps access to them and an email some assistant monitors, then don't expect the same level of trust, deference, or respect as someone like me who hands out the email tied to their real name, the phone number for the SIM in their phone, and the Signal number tied to the phone number they've held onto since they were 16.

(You might notice some of my more recent posts seemed rushed, or erratic. That is because I was posting like a literal dissident: drafting things, posting, then immiedately changing locations.

A lot of the rhetoric around "community standards" of speech is more about things like, well, yeah, someone might stand up a server with Mein Kampf or something on it, and that's ok because sometimes people want to read that for academic reasons.

Anyways sorry for the wall of text, but when folks spoke to me informally, when I was debating certain roles or... companies... a lot of them spoke of things like "analysis paralysis"[1][2]

I see a lot of people nowadays who seem to take the view that if they prominently display a contact phone number and unique identifier, they can move to more of a model where anti-social behavior is the default, and challenge others to report out to some... entity... to come and deal with the issue.

(Versus making a good faith effort to follow the guidlines, and being willing to accept sincere feedback.)

Anyways sorry to wall of text you, but it's been really interesting seeing how people react to me versus others on the internet, especially when I take a long pause from posting here on the orange website ;-)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150921200100/https://theinterc...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150723204817mp_/https://www.do...
I'd add disease to that list. Once I got past 30 and put in some weight, just sitting to study became harder, as back pain/discomfort comes real quickly. Around my 20s I just sat hours straight and read entire books on a computer screen, or spent a entire afternoon doing math exercises. Now with a single hour sitting my back already starts hurting, and my focus is broken.
The first will be the last and the last will be the first!
I'm glad to see others helped out, but please help op out if you can, hate to see my humble donation representing a bit of a letdown of a community-support message from HN. I know it's strange and frustrating and unknown and troubling to give to randos in a directly exposed way rather than teaching them to fish or whatever, but...thanks
That all could be a complete cover up and the cowards sat outside, but we certainly don't know that.

It does seem like the absolute Rambo who busted in and ended it did it while off-duty and perhaps outside of the local PD's control.

It also seems like local PD got at least one child killed through inaction, which should be enough to tar and feather all of them.

But it will be quite awhile before trustworthy details come out.
Sure, but Nix is very weird, and takes quite a different approach compared to other things. Understanding Linux is both necessary, but not sufficient.

But comparing Arch an NixOS:

- Arch requires more elbow grease than Ubuntu. NixOS requires more elbow grease than Ubuntu. I wouldn't recommend either to beginners.

- On the other hand: NixOS is immutable and pure, whereas Arch is a system that can be beaten into shape. - Or the Arch Linux wiki is fantastic, and Nix documentation is .. all over the place.

(Maybe AUR is better than Nixpkgs; but ultimately nix is a much more powerful tool than pacman strives to be).
High speed moving walkways are usually prone to falling, but also are usually bespoke machines with all the maintenance nightmare that entails. It‘s hard to upkeep lots of normal escalators let alone a specialized one.
And what if the thing you want to do pays a wage below livable? Or no wage at all.

Not everyone wants to be a software developer or something that makes a lot of money and it's a damn bleak view of the world where the grand diversity of the human race is squashed into a profit-chasing monoculture of workers. Just throw away your dreams and install air conditioning. It's the will of the market.

We've gone from the Renaissance ideals of being well rounded and interesting people to being the best single purpose cog in the machine, devoid of any values except making money. What a depressing attitude when we could just focus on treating people fairly and with respect whatever their choices.
> almost never going beyond very simplistic syntactic transformations that don’t modify semantics.

I don’t know if this is advanced enough to not be completely hopeless but here’s what I see in my webpack config from 2018:

- hoisting and sharing common constant expressions including non-mutated object literals

- module, function, and variable names are all “abbreviated”

- there’s weird tricks of some kind going on for bound method definitions on classes

- Some elimination of “temporary variables” from object properties, arguments, or module imports

I think all those transforms are enough to substantially reduce the code size.

The real optimization like inlining, monomorphizing, hidden classes, etc are best left to the real compiler — which in Chrome/v8’s case is quite competitive with LLVM/GCC.
Related:

“It's done in hardware so it's cheap” (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19340667 - March 2019 (38 comments)

"It’s done in hardware so it’s cheap" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339024 - Aug 2012 (29 comments)
> Other countries have cable too you know. We don't see them shooting up schools

Neither did the US, before cable TV news.
The article implies the control units are coded to the vehicle's VIN at least to some degree and mentions Freightliner asks people to look out for logged errors indicating someone attempted to use a control unit from a different VIN. There's also mention of a separate password function. However, if there's a market for these units, someone's likely developed a tool to "re code" the control units.

But: "Moving toward" to DRM? At least in the passenger car market this started happening a long, long time ago.

ECUs and dashes on most VAG (VW Audi Group) cars are coded to each other and have been for around two decades if not longer, though in a fair number of cases you can re-pair them with a non-VW scantool and don't need the dealer, but it's usually a complex and very specific process.

Volvo Cars started DRM'ing the fuck out of every single component that sits on the vehicle's data bus in the mid-2000's after they got bought up by Ford.

If you replaced any component that had a bus connection - which includes things like headlights - you would have to bring the car to a Volvo dealer, who might or might not humor you if they were not the source of the part and the ones to install it ("gosh, we're just fully booked up, going to be two weeks before we can get to it..." etc) The dealer would connect the car to their terminal, which would in turn request an encrypted firmware image for the component from Volvo servers in Sweden, specific to your car's VIN and that component's serial number. That encrypted image would then be sent back and written to the control module.

When that server gets shut off, hundreds of millions of Volvo cars and parts will rapidly become useless save for their scrap value. This isn't a trivial matter; at least in the US, the average age of vehicles on the road is the oldest it's ever been, and given the country's worsening economic inequality, that trend is likely to continue.
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Im less possessed by averages and general trends. If there are enclaves of stability & growth & positivity, thay can be enough. But the squeeze is on. Those who are "making it" do so not by noble & good & public causes, but by bring better ur-Capitalists than the rest, to little good effect.

We just need a couple positive feedback cycles to begin. All the cycles are gummed the frak up. Society has so few worthwhile examples about left. Everyone earning a living disappears deep into a corner of some deep massive org chart, lives some strange particular megacorp life.
Unlike UST/LUNA, there's no scenario in which more ETH will be minted to support the price of RAI.
Running a crime prevention system is adversarial. If your law isn't perfect (which is ofcourae impossible), then having a transparent law enforcement system is the same as nit having a law enforcement system.
I understand why Google would choose this strategy but it's still ridiculous. This is positively Kafkian: being accused of something but not being told of what exactly.

If this was Google's The Process, Joseph K. would have been told he cannot know the exact nature of his crime, because that would allow him to subvert "The Algorithm."
Watch the interviews with Jim Keller.

reduced instruction sets don’t have any advantage, because if I recall what he said correctly, decoding and translating are a very small part of the transistor and latency budget. Missed branch prediction, cache and memory access are what matters for a modern CPU. Fetching from main memory has a cost, just like fetching off spinning rust used to, so hoops are jumped through to avoid memory stalls.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, *nor any heat*.

...

18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which **destroy the earth.**
> “We’re developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their whole carbon footprint,” said J. Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group USA, on a panel on responsible consumption. “What does that mean? Where they are traveling. How they are traveling. What are they eating. What they are consuming on the platform.”

The temptation for governments to mandate something like this is too great, especially if big online/hardware platforms implement it as an "optional" feature to help concerned citizens (and amass more data about users, and keep them buying compatible hardware).

If Apple said that the next iPhone was going to track the CO2 emissions of products you buy through your Apple Wallet, and the energy used by your HomeKit devices, and your Apple Car, wouldn't loyal users embrace this? It's really hard to argue against it while it remains optional and securely implemented by a trusted company like Apple.
> The point is that the entire concept of Google is about ranking (a form of discrimination) the relevancy of websites to the search query.

Not really. All you'd have to do is make the algorithm public, and become a commodity. When you're a common carrier, you sell bandwidth, not magic fairy dust.

> Common carrier status means that a search for "Microsoft official website" would not be able to prioritize Microsoft's official website, because that would be discriminating against all other websites that claim to be Microsoft's official website (and, by extension, discrimination against the people hosting those websites, who would then be able to sue Google for that discrimination).

This is absurd. Trademark violators can't sue for not being treated like the real deal any more than I can demand that my phone company say that all of my calls come from the White House. If Microsoft backs up their claims to all be official, then they all should be able to sue.

edit:

> Common carrier status also throws a giant wrench into the already problematic issue of content moderation.

No it doesn't, it decides it for Google. And Congress would be free to allow Google to do whatever moderation it wants, and this shitty court might give it even more latitude. Count me as someone who is perfectly happy with preventing Google from doing any content moderation not required by law. All of the drive to censor has been coming from Congress and the administration anyway; the real danger in the current climate is that Google becomes a common carrier and gets the analog of the Great Firewall dropped around it the next day.
...and daemontools. and djbdns. He was quirky about licensing for a long time, but I think has gotten over that.
Can an idealistic libertarian view survive in a larger and larger world? Bad actors can abuse such a system more easily with more anonymity, and with a larger population, you're going to have more bad apples.
It’s not illegal collusion. To make any of the sports leagues have teams that are even remotely competitive require policies that are not allowed by most other industries. They all have legal exemptions from anti-trust
Is it me or are democracy and socialism not opposites? They are two different philosophies that can and usually do co-exist. Socialism is based around means of production, while a democracy is a system of government which dictates how that government is run.
Oh I can't post on Reddit anymore. People purposefully started sitewide banning me whenever I'd get a decent social media following.

(Have you used Mastadon? I'm considering checking that out)

It was a running joke that I don't look at logs for too long, stemming back to when I did a now deleted blog that listed a way to spoof your location on Facebook and I posted it with zero warning. It was literally just editing Firefo about:config and manually writing out the coordinates, not really even an input sanitization error IMHO.

I got the impression it made some people lose face that I had no security clearance, I was just some random hourly worker who threw my boss' name around too much as I attended a lot of stuff listed as open to the public where people who had TS or TS:SCI questions would show up and ask troll-ish questions.

(That leaks a LOT of information. Don't do that, if you're reading.)

I'll take a look though, thanks for the links, sincerely.
>* Let me opt out of all recommendations. I only want to see tweets of people I follow or tags I follow. Nothing else. I'll find more people to follow via the people I follow. Do not post random popular news, people, related stuff in my feed, period.

Any third-party app will do that. I find it fascinating that people are using Twitter with anything but a paid third-party app.
I love LaTex. It helped me complete my two papers without having to learn various Word typesetting techniques.
Project based billing just creates a different perverse incentive of churning out garbage that technically meets requirements
>I dont think that AWS/GCP will just let databricks eat their lunch.

Why not? The data is still being stored in S3/Cloud storage and computed on EC2/GCE so why should Amazon and Google care that they've been relegated to selling the pick-axes into to the gold rush?
Agree.

To be clear, things are NOT devolving; we hear about injustice that wouldn’t used to make it to the news and we humans have new information processing challenges to handle.

In the radio / TV age, there were only a few channels and sources of information. What you heard was curated for attention, and the only choice was to hear or not hear. And everyone heard from the same, shared sources. It was relatively expensive to spin up your own radio/tv broadcast. It was a few-to-many relationship.

In the internet + personal devices age, there’s a flood of new information sources (some automated even) AND information consumers can now be segmented down to each individual. AND the barrier to creating these many-to-many information pipes is way lower than before. So now, the onus to sorting all this information out is up to individuals: on/off, which channels, and who else “heard” what you “heard”.

More information and disinformation available requires humans to figure out and process information better - def. a challenge, but it can help _accelerate_ improvements to society as well.
If anyone wants to suggest a more accurate and neutral title, we can maybe change it. I don't understand what's wrong with the current title ("Which dinosaurs lived in your hometown?")

Edit: I think I get it now and have changed the title above.
At $2200/share? You would have to work 7.5 weeks at minimum wage to make enough to buy one share.
The article makes it sound like they are VIN locked already (the control software will in any case need to be for the actual powertrain components).
More kids learn those than before. But that is better explained by everyone spending thousands of hours learning math today, kids spending that much time on math 200 years ago likely learned algebra as well.
There was the Technocracy Movement[1] which had (among many ideas) a proposal to use energy-cost as a general currency. Go to the supermarket and pay for your milk and eggs by charging 80kWh to your card.

Just tracking carbon footprint sounds at first blush a little shallow & infeasible, but it's also very close to what to me sounds like an absurd but also informative & useful & not-so-judgemental way to help society better understand the world, to inform ourselves realistically of our choices.

Crimson & vermillion, on and on!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
CEOs simply control more powerful tools so their output is multiplied. Someone driving a tractor might produce 400x the output of someone with hand tools, but its not because of the person, its the tool. Swap the two people and there will still be a 400x difference in output. It doesn't mean the tractor driver, or business leader is some sort of outlier genius.
If someone breaks the law, aren’t they doing something illegal?
Russians Could Use Hedge Funds, Private Equity to Evade Sanctions
I'm generally wary of suggestions to overhaul a working long-lasting sociotechnical system. Everything that has been around for decades is patches on patches.

The the world wide web, ipv4, IRC, the US constitution, the telephone system, email, were all developed in older times, and as times change, they develop flaws which need (ugly) patches. That's a sign that they're successful, that no one company has come and replaced it and then killed it when things got inconvenient.

Think about the opposite situations: Google Groups replaced Usenet, and now it's completely dead; Google Reader took a lot of marketshare from RSS and almost killed it when they shut it down.

So let's not hastily destroy the only online communication system we have left, that's not controlled by a mega tech company.
Your brain is wired deep down where you cannot change it to measure a feeling of safety at the level of a village. The news takes the worst things happening from ALL the villages and shows it to you because clicks. Your subconscious concludes that the village is always on fire/etc.

The solution is you must find ways not to look at news.

For me:

1. Blocking via my hosts file

2. Telling myself that HN is enough- if it doesn’t make HN then it wasn’t bad enough.
You ever been in Courthouse Station? It looks beautiful compared to the rest of the system.

That said, I dont think of the T as particular grungy with graffiti its mostly just poorly maintained.
Probably about the same odds as a company co-opting the common parlance such as "meta."
Living all day every day in enterprise land, Databricks current growth has been set on fire by their integration into Azure. All the bigCo's moving their legacy infra to Azure and finding out Databricks is available OOTB is fueling huge growth.

I have multiple friends from Oracle, IBM, Salesforce, Adobe, etc that are now AEs at Databricks making 3 or 4x total comp they were making previously.

Fun times!
It's definitely not overtly encouraged in the legal field. You'd get disbarred if anyone found out about it. That said, there isn't much proactive looking for fraud.
I think the FBI has a threshold amount to get involved. It wont move a finger for $50.
I worry we're reinventing the wheel WRT tech policy, policy in general, and philosophy (which informs lawmaking).

Ten-ish years ago we didn't even have titles like "Privacy engineer", "UX researcher", or "Public interest technologist" in popular parlance.

I think we have plenty of philosophy, we just need to quit inventing ever creative names for basic concepts like "iterative design" or "client-server model", paired with following ALL the guidelines.

(For example, in an American context, that would mean paying more attention to state constitutions paired with respect for the 9th Amendment[1])

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-9/n...

[2] Ex: Nevada has federal supremacy. Hope you folks enjoyed Defcon!
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NvConst.html#Art1Sec2
“That’s Ryan. He’s a Gen Z entrepreneur unsatisfied with the order of the world, and he wants to change it,”

Lolololololololololo
The exact thing I was speculating about but with tons of prior art, thank you!
> Dude you can't expect Youtube staff to help you out. The food bar is too good! Oh the massage. Oh the yoga classes.

I suspect the YouTube _complaints_ staff are much more likely to be contractor micromanaged call centre staff with 90 resolutions per hour targets and stopwatches on their bathroom breaks, instead of the sort of staff slurping down barista-made solent green smoothies while getting Reiki hot stone massages during work hours...
So should all platforms be forced to allow any content on their platform?

There is an entire internet where you can get any type of information that suits your world view.