skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It also doesn't care much for societal norms that stand in the way of what it conceives of as progress – even ones shared by all cultures..."

Great. That's "we're going to chase our idea of progress, even if the rest of the entire human race doesn't see it as progress".

Real progress is not just economic. In the 19th century, there was much more of an idea that there could be moral progress - an idea echoed today by the progressives. (You don't have to agree with the direction the progressives think represents progress - I don't - but their idea of progress is much more than economic gains.)

Having an environment that isn't polluted is progress compared to having one that is polluted. It may not be worth having people starve to get there, but it's one axis of progress.

And having people not starve is progress. Having them not die of diseases is progress. Having them able to read, and to access information, is progress.

Having them not die from violence would be progress.
Well not quite. They exist because they are profitable on average.
I think 'slave' is overly negative usage in this case. A 'slave' implies people that were enslaved with no justification, imo. You don't normally hear POWs or inmates referred to as slaves. The fact that inmates are made to work is hardly the worst part of their punishment.
Nice app! Would be nice to have an option to show more details, kinda like the stats for nerds on YT to show the assumptions being made made. One thing I didn't see is anything related to IRA accounts.

As an aside, I've been wanting a financial service that keeps tracks of all my assets AND doesn't compromise on privacy or try to upsell me. I'd be willing to pay for that.
> On the other hand, there has to be some capacity for this type of discussion to occur. Musk owns less than 50% of SpaceX, and I generally think employees should have some manner of input into the operations of the company they work for.

The other 50% are not woke.
For sure. It's so close to being amazing, which makes it all the more frustrating.
Same plan we use for drugs. Test if it's safe, if it's safe we allow it's use, if not we don't.

Initially it will probably need to grandfather stuff in but having a whitelist will make it easier to ensure unsafe things aren't replaced by even worse things.
What do you think society is made of, if not people?
None.

I set up shell twitter accounts for each issue I'm interested in, follow all the relevant people, take a month or so to adjust by deleting irritating flame baiters and accumulate a few sharers of high quality information.

Twitter's algorithm recommends a bunch of similar content, but because I only follow one issue per twitter account, it's all (or mostly) on topic, without distractions.

Use web archive to get around paywalls, uBlock Origin to remove the irrelevant parts of the twitter web UI, and Video Speed Controller to quickly watch video content at 2, 3, or 4x speed.

This gives a quick, easy, and extremely effective way to scan important info on a topic. Since many "news" sites get their material from social media anyway, you just get the "news" a little earlier than everyone else by going to source. It's more cumbersome than Zite (remember that?), but very effective.

For this to work you must be ruthless about navigating around attention sinks (like worthless twitter squabbles).
Robots which get "thirsty" for electricity and seek out a source for such have existed for decades: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/87819/5051279...

Even GPT-3, mechanistic as it is, has "goals" which differ from my own: I might want it to answer questions for me; it vehemently just wants to construct probable strings of tokens, which often do not answer my questions.

There even exist AIs which have non-predetermined goals. Dwarves in Dwarf Fortress are an example of such. Human goals are just particularly rich in that, thanks to language and advanced reasoning, we can construct arbitrarily complex goals, and justify them in a rich manner.

What do you see as the gap between such AIs which are programmed to act on goals (predetermined or not), and AIs with true free will?
That is a tremendously confusing set of names to glance at.

Also, it looks like a great phone.
There are very strict sanitary rules in Poland. The whole system had to be aprooves by sanitary inspection to operate, so pretty sure there is a proper cleaning procedure. It is however interesting if it is also automated
Compare with an "up or out" system [1], which many companies have, as does the US Army.

When I was at Google, it was generally understood that you were expected to be promoted to senior engineer eventually, but I never knew how much it was enforced.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out
It sounds like the Android app is worse than the iOS app. Unfortunately, that means my recent discovery won't help you, but will hopefully help others:

With the Apple News app, you can log in to your Economist account and get access to the economist content through the News app.
TL;DR: People who learned from a young age that trying new things is dangerous, and that praise is rare, will tend to stick to only doing what they know works and jump at any praise they get now.

...well, yeah. The things we experience as kids strongly shapes who we become as adults. My dad was an asshole who constantly made me feel like I knew nothing and did everything wrong (even in the cases when I was right about something and he was wrong). I now have a diagnosed anxiety disorder, which isn't entirely his fault, but the core of all my anxieties is a feeling of being useless/worthless/inept, and I don't think that's a coincidence.

Parenting isn't easy, but ffs, if you can't raise your child to be independent, kind, happy, and self-assured, then you shouldn't have a kid.
Amazon has never struck me as a company that would prioritize doing the right thing.
No idea but I figured I might as well try. I would have been willing to pay a few bucks extra if it was - relatively cheap just for sunday delivery as it is. Mainly thought it was funny they were so confused
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To quote the article, rather than OP:

> Kraken despises office politics (i.e., activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal interests). If you have worked in a big company environment in your past (even if it was years ago), you may want to reflect on what behaviors, tendencies, or habits you have been exposed to (or have unintentionally learned) and make a point to not do those things here.

Yes, so being diplomatic rather than manipulative is still political, so "no politics" doesn't make a lot of sense. And by "improve personal interests", a big "at the benefit of the interests of everyone else" is surely implied, since there's nothing bad about about improving your personal interests at no cost. The wording is simplistic, so nitpicking aside: perhaps grouping all manipulative influence tactics as "office politics" is a way to strike down on bullying through in-group hierarchies and aggressive behavior. I don't know if having a document that says "Don't bully!" prevents bullying; a proactive counter-culture does.
As a result of GMOs the carrying capacity of the world increased. Isn’t it the case that the population tends toward the carrying capacity? If so then the delay of GMOs would only mean that the world’s population today would be lower and not that the amount of overall starvation would be higher. We still have episodes of starvation in the world even with GMOs.
Note I said what the Rule of Law can't do, not whether it succeeded in doing anything.

A Fortune 500 company I worked for had anti-discrimination training that said it was okay to discriminate against 45 year olds. And their harassment training said that it's not illegal for a bisexual manager to flirt with or grabass everyone because they're not being selective about it. I hope to god some later employees figured out how twisted both of those were and that, even if they are both true, you shouldn't call attention to it in ethics training, ffs.
Countries "ban" all sorts of things with the government being exempted from the ban.

Some animals are more equal.
Does this mean Goonies is now based on true events?
That's not the apocalypse I meant, I was talking about the one that Produced Tenochtitlan. The deaths from smallpox and the vanishing of the cities they're now finding evidence of happened before the Spanish conquests.
People in the EU aren't starving to death though.

Appropriate laws for appropriate circumstances. Given high standard of living in EU they can afford to take the long road with many improvements to food security favoring safety over reduced cost or expediency.
Get a library card and most media including newspapers and magazines are free… Libby is also a really great and performant app and on top you get books, audiobooks, some video and audio streaming it’s an incredible value.
They still have freedom after speech. They can continue to say what they were saying about Musk anywhere they like (including on Twitter).
"to bring prices in line with historical norms."

How can you determine if that is the correct/desired course of action?
He doesn't need, or want, the woke ones. No one does.
You've more or less summarized my major issue with him. He seems to have interesting things to say, but every time I read him I'm never sure to what extent I'm listening to the voice of a mathematician or a salesman.

He's the only serious-seeming mathematician/philosopher wannabe I've read that makes me want to check my wallet's still there, so to speak.
Very amusing wikipedia article. The only things that aren't speculative are when they started, how much funding they raised, and how many flights their prototype has had.
It feels weird to me to read/write prose in monospaced fonts.
The difference is that we (America) can change China and the Indo-Pacific, but not the US prison system. Something about balance of powers, executive branch balanced by whatever it wants...maybe I'm misremembering what I learned in school though.

Anyway, it's just common sense. I believe we have the tools to change things in that area of the world, but not domestically. Our hands our tied here, so how will we deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of citizens do commit crimes that lead to long sentences. If we don't jail a few hundred thousand of these people, then will it lead to problems in society or the economy? Inflation is already hard enough on the rich and poor. Around Xinjiang, we have more tools available to stop the prison labor there, like industry sanctions.

The ROI of working on Xinjiang is higher than the ROI: the conditions there are worse according to what I've read and we have more powerful tools at our disposal. So, let's keep our head clear and focused on China.

(Hopefully it's clear I don't truly believe what I wrote. It just sounds logical to me.)
It's not dues, it's health insurance.

And it's not really "scummy" of the union that health insurance had weird loopholes for kids.
Wasn't the alleged event and the settlement actually both a hearsay to begin with?
My issue is with your style of debate, because it takes work to come up with these definitions and citations that you will inevitably disagree with. It's a waste of time. To imply that this means I am against civil rights, women's suffrage, and free speech... all I can say is go fuck yourself.
Klarna's Valuation Slashed by Two-Thirds
I wonder if it is still possible to subscribe by mail. I originally subscribed that way awhile ago, but within the last couple of years let my subscription lapse and that was the end of it (other than the frequent letters trying to get me to re-subscribe).
Since there are only 3 major carriers, mind sharing which one you're on, assuming you're on one of them?
>If you're earning less than $130,000 a year, you are eligible for an FSA

Assuming you mean a flexible spending account (for healthcare out of pocket), you're certainly not capped at $130K/year in the US. Your broader point is of course true.
It will take a few of these to make the point and that’s okay. If the free market isn’t willing to pay a reasonable wage (which was already dismal at $36,000), then we just won’t have symphonies for now.
I miss RAD tools too. Visual Basic was hugely popular two decades ago. The ease of building GUIs was unparalleled. That experience carried over to some extent with Windows Forms, WPF, Adobe Flex, etc., but not quite the same.

A decent blend of RAD and visual programming is the Max/MSP that ships with Ableton Live. It's fairly straightforward to build little audio/MIDI devices, then switch to visual programming for the implementation (objects/patchcords/control in Max terms).

> Doing GUIs only in code is tedious and boring.

Totally. But given that most GUI software these days involves client/server, I'm not sure if there's a simpler solution.

I work on Nitro[1] these days, and it's an attempt to make GUI development simpler and less tedious, primarily by trying to abstract away client/server programming and opting for a simpler way to program UIs without dealing with callbacks or event-handlers.

[1] https://github.com/h2oai/nitro
Around 1 PB of the Archive is available via torrent for backup. The full Archive was around 10 PB back in 2012 so I imagine it's quite a bit bigger, now.

https://help.archive.org/help/archive-bittorrents/
I'd go back in a moment, if we were able to recreate the actual standard of living - with vegetables (and meat) that was vastly more nutritious and hella tasty. Fresh Jersey milk from unmodified cows not fed hormones delivered to your door every morning. Which we could, perhaps, in fact do, agribusiness notwithstanding. But note that what you can buy as a "heritage tomato" in a store today, isn't. It's the same styrofoam with a different shape. I'm 65, "I wuz there, Charlie" to use the old phrase from a 1920s radio show. So I'm not kidding about being willing to go back. The politics were horrible, that part I don't want to see again, but the living standards, sure.
I wasn't comparing oil to cigarettes in terms of products, sorry if that's how it came across.

I was comparing the practice of large corporations who are actually to blame for societal problems deflecting that blame down to the end user.
Not a subscription, but in the competition for my time, I like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events -- it fills a similar role for me as the Economist did in another era (I used to read the paper version religiously) -- globalish coverage of important events, some pleasurable idiosyncracies, bias toward Western culture and politics due to language and authors.

LWN.net is the only news subscription I can recommend without reservation, but of course it's not general news. :)
My comment was rhetorical in response to your prior comment on saying you can't use certain data points because of uncertainty. It was about that principle. The citation of the source of data here is okay, I'm not suggesting they were wrong to indicate where the quote/data point came from.

The greater point is about source/data selection. MAX(Walmart) > MIN(Amazon) is a weird comparison to make. And choosing to quote two completely different sources for both the MAX(Walmart) data point [resolves to $25] and the MIN(Amazon) data point [resolves to $18] is strange, and I feel should have been explained if they're going to use quotes to communicate what might be happening in objective reality.

How was Sheheryar Kaoosji, of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, able to communicate what the max wage for a Walmart worker was, but unable to provide any comparable data point for Amazon (or it was provided, and an editor/journalist excluded it)?
Lots of people can hear you on Substack, Gab, etc. Accept that other people will practice their right not to associate with you. If so many of you aren't going to admit someone else's right not to be fired for trivialities then I do not want to hear about this right to be heard crap either.
You have to take a long time to walk a long distance. Regardless of whether your speed is constant.
i think thats great because you had the context for what the state of the art was at the time, and then were presented with something clearly beyond.

i'm interested in how to do that, but with extra added context for those without your context. maybe like a "ghost" view (like how people do in speedrun games) of where you'd be/what you'd have to do without the thing.
I know! Let's make it EVEN MORE satisfying, perhaps some confetti and cheering Alegria people!

The most satisfying checkbox for me has at most four frames of animation: checked, unchecked, clicked on and will toggle upon release, and (optionally) grayed out. It should respond immediately to mouse/finger presses/releases.

Even in game controls, unless charging (e.g. Guile's Sonic Boom) or intentional control jank (the whip in Castlevania) are part of the game's mechanics, the character should respond immediately and unceremoniously to inputs. Save the "juice" for the after effect (e.g., when a punch or shot connects). Mario's feet leave the ground the frame after the jump button is pressed. This makes the player's actions feel directly analogous to the characters, like the player is the character.

Even the Castlevania whip follows this rule in a sense. Belmont winds up as soon as the button is pressed but it takes a few frames for the whip to crack. If you were holding a whip in your hand, there would be a split-second delay between your swing and when the whip cracks. So the Castlevania whip controls loosely simulate your actions if you were using a real whip.
> One major thing I like about having to implement a defined interface is that it forces people creating an API to actually define what that interface is. And in typing out that interface there's a fair chance they'll actually write doc comments.

This has another interesting beneficial side-effect, when embraced: it often leads not just to better API design, but better design in general. Defining an interface necessarily means thinking about it. Which in turn generally leads to thinking about how it’s consumed, at least a fuzzy picture of the code implementing it. All of which can also percolate out into other parts of a system.
The motor for my dryer was no more proprietary than the brake pads on my car. It cross-referenced to many different models of dryers, was available from the OEM and some third-party suppliers, and even the OEM part (an exact match right down to the stickers) was $119.47, tax included, shipped to my door from Amazon before the load of laundry inside could get moldy.

Would I rather have paid $100 instead of $120? Sure, but I don’t know how much better it could have gone overall.
This is nonsense.

You cannot compare at-will employment with public speech within the letter of the law.

Simplified:

Woke Cancer Culture != Protected Class
It depends on what you mean by mitigated. Java mitigates null pointers by deterministically raising an exception (as well as out of range situations), but indeed it doesn’t handle them at compile time (though the latter can’t even be solved in the general case, and only with dependent types)
The future will look unkindly at our present day pursuit of profits whilst ignoring negative externalities.
i think that absolutely qualifies. also its pretty neat that the Loom video just unfurls inside of HN because i have the Loom extension installed! nice hack Loom.
> My Amazon account is not connected to any individual person or personal address ...

Except your card and the delivery address? Along anything other you ordered on this account?
You can be a champion of free speech in public in the sense that you do not have your freedom of speech taken away from you. However SpaceX is not a public forum for your speech. You can't abuse internal email lists to have your speech reach more people than it would normally.
I like it and think he makes good, thoughtful points and has insights I might not have arrived at myself.
A New Path to COO
The point still stands: other employers are offering competitive wages for similar roles and are forcing Amazon to react. Otherwise Amazon wouldn’t be struggling to hire warehouse workers.
Getting fired for being a whiny woke jerk at work is not cancel culture.

Trying to destroy someone's life for a wholly-subjective slight is cancel culture (social cancer)
Or we can be a little more nuanced and view CR as an organization that tries to do the right thing but also has some bad calls.

I support CR for their work on testing products, I also support GMO as I feel it is one of the best ways we can feed people in the future. I also hate the over use of pesticides and hate Monsanto for many reasons.
CEO Jesse Powell, at work, ridiculed preferred pronouns.

At work, he debated who is entitled to say racial slurs.

At work, he asked "If you can identify as a sex, can you identify as a race or ethnicity?"

At work, he said women may have intrinsically lower intelligence and risk appetite than men.

His workplace culture document extols "libertarian philosophical values".

All this shit is ultra-political, and he brought it all into the workplace.

But if you say so, you're guilty of "bringing politics to work".
Hope springs eternal, but stimulus from the fed does not.
Its also pretty ambiguous what that means.
"toxic culture" almost always means managers abusing staff.
Does that mean open source work should count as slavery? You're right that the natural minimum wage is zero, but there's more to slavery than simply being paid nothing. I would think the enlightened you speak of would also know the difference between volition and compulsion.
> Not talking about it is politics. You cannot avoid that. It's literally impossible.

No it's not. Trying to change society is politics. What you're saying is akin to "silence is violence" which is just as ridiculous.
Words have meaning, but that doesn't mean that:

1) The meaning of a phrase is the same as the meaning of stringing together the individual word definitions of the phrase.

2) There is a universally accepted, obvious definition of a phrase

I think you could reasonably call yourself a free speech absolutist, because you will never kick someone out of the public square for saying their peace, but you are still be allowed to not invite that person to your house for dinner.
> SpaceX was sold as different and the illusion of that is fading.

The "illusion" of what, building actually working and affordable space hardware? The only way that could "fade" would be if someone else like Boeing replicated their successes. As long as SpaceX is technically successful and others aren't, SpaceX being different will be not an illusion but reality even just on that basis alone.
Thanks. Do you have a link or reference to more material on the certificates. I dont understand a bit, but I want to learn more.
Promotion-orientation is bad, but so are promotion levels that are considered "almost impossible to reach".

Levels.fyi doesn't seem to agree with your title inflation evaluation: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Amazon,Microsoft&trac...

It's only 3 data points, but it seems that Amazon Senior is comparable to Google senior, and it's Microsoft that inflates the Senior title.
That actually doesn't contradict my point. It's fine if you like it better, the problem is pretending it's the same thing.
> it's best to be transparent with our uncertainty

Why is it best? I'm not interested in reading a bunch of gibberish disclaimer that I already know, and that all readers should know when consuming media. People can be wrong, facts are not black and white, and truth is a spectrum. It's not the job of a journalist on a deadline to spoon feed you critical thinking.
Hi! I built Shottr to address my own needs mostly, and I don't think it's exactly a gold mine, you know. Besides, I'm way behind on answering the feedbacks, it's not criminal yet, but if I charged money and provided such a lackluster support, I'd probably get sued, haha : )
Interesting! They have a nice logo btw.
Remind me why people still worship musk again?