skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like... send email circular asking people if they wanted to participate in a survey and maybe sign an open letter posted on SpaceX communication channels you mean?

So far, the only person who has suggested employees felt intimidated is the COO defending the decision to fire them. Just in case you were inclined to actually believe that her priority was to encourage employees to speak out against harassment and not intimidate them into silence she added that the company had "too much critical work to accomplish", no place for "activism" and told remaining employees to "stay focused",

I mean, I accept it's theoretically possible the real intimidation wasn't the COO firing 5 people for the "unacceptable" sending of emails asking people if they agreed with their views about management and the anti-harassment policy "during the work day", but I'm going to file that one away under very unlikely
They have never been audited. They only ever published attentions.
A lot of work, maybe? Also, bug-to-bug compatibility?
10 superheavy launches per colonist does not admit 1M colonists, and 1M colonists is at least two orders of magnitude short of self-sufficient.

It is very far from clear that Mars can physically support 100M inhabitants.
The F150 is the best selling vehicle in America. American's want an F150 the way it is today. They don't care about gross margins and doing it the most efficient way. And if they can get that F150 with a battery that saves them "oodles" in gas money, but delivers an otherwise same experience, you can bet your ass they will pay for it.
> I bargain for myself, thanks.

Well, that's good to know. I guess the rest of the world can stop worrying about themselves since you're taken care of.
Because your employer wants the union to be happy. You also need the customer's permission to work; because if customers ask your employer to fire you, your employer will think that it's a good idea to fire you. edit: TBH, you need my permission to work, too, if I know enough of the customers or have enough followers on my twitter account.
Given that SF is losing people and Boise is gaining them, apparently many people want to make that move.

I guess some people think human excrement on the street isn't very "vibrant", they're probably racists or something for not liking it I'm sure.
Only 15% being activist is usually the case. Most people just participate in conversations and voting.

Internal polling is always skewed, which is why you have the NLRB process. Negative articles in the press about working conditions and demanding that the management accept the union without going through a vote are both normal. Pretending they're "dirty" is kind of weird.

And if the people left, that's fine. I instigated and ran an organizing committee and left the shop after we won. It's a draining struggle, and one that wouldn't have been successful if things weren't already fucked up for a lot of people at Kickstarter. Ultimately, the success of a union campaign shows that people don't think informal channels will get them what they need at their jobs, and they're willing to commit to long-term conflict in order to make it happen. They wouldn't do that over mild dissatisfaction.
There are initiatives in the EU to require -by law- that if it's public research, then it must be released to the public. And there are official guidelines on how to do so:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03318932

I believe such an initiative for chemistry could very well succeed, even if it takes 10 years.

Hopefully this can percolate to other countries and continents too, through EU's normative power.
Because the "meme" was the force pushing them downward, not upward.
Two things to add:

1. The price of an asset need not be a nice continuous line. It can jump.

2. That's why liquidation occurs not at -10%, but at some point before that, to manage this gap risk. Might be at -7%, or whatever. This reduces, but does not eliminate gap risk. For that, the crypto exchanges have insurance funds.
I've met enough people to be confident that adults should sometimes be treated like children.
Your experience is very different from mine!

Using a mouse does not distract me at all. I don't think about it, consciously, any more than I think about the motions my fingers make as I operate the keyboard. I'm not thinking about the tools, I'm thinking about what I'm doing through the tools; my hands move automatically.

I suppose it is like learning a musical instrument. At first you have to learn how to operate the instrument, practicing the motions to build up muscle memory. Then you start learning to play notes through the instrument. Eventually you stop thinking about the instrument, or the notes, because all that has become habit, and you just think about the music you are making; the instrument feels like an extension of your body.

If you have had a long-standing preference to use only the keyboard, and not the mouse, perhaps the mouse feels distracting for you because it is not part of the instrument you have learned to play. Of course this could be a self-perpetuating tendency.
Really? I need a source to explain why provisioning for a 9-month one-way spaceflight is different from a transatlantic flight with food and air where you open the door 8 hours later?
They could have because the US justice system will give him far more time than the UK system would. It is much harsher especially the feds.
In the context of the current debate, I think a good faith reading of someone claiming to be a 'free speech absolutist' would be to interpret the internet as a public forum that is protected by speech guarantees enshrined by the first amendment despite the fact that they're hosted by private corporations. It probably doesn't mean child porn is okay. It probably doesn't mean direct exhortations of violence against specific individuals is okay. It's fair to say he can be more explicit in his definition, but it's easier for us to have a conversation if we try to interpret one another charitably.

The real test for whether or not Musk is being a hypocrite is whether or not he censors critics of him on Twitter. That is an apples to apples comparison. I think it's fair to say that continuing to pay people who criticize you is a different matter.
I read somewhere that his (now ex) girlfriend Grimes once chewed him out for going on twitter whilst tripping on acid.
It's worth remembering that the event that, uh, kickstarted their drive for unionization was the site's management banning a project that was raising money to support violence against conservatives (the actual physical kind, not words). The details are a bit fuzzy now but iirc some of the hard-left employees didn't like the ToS being enforced in that case, because whilst they accepted the project was calling for violence they felt that encouraging people to "punch Nazis" should explicitly be allowed. They felt that strongly enough that they unionized to force management to acquiesce.

So this isn't a classical union that's requesting more money for the workers or anything. It's the new sort of union which tries to force companies to take sides in the culture war.

It's thus not a surprise that a significant proportion of workers wouldn't want to be a part of that, and well, the sort of people who were unionizing the firm were doing so explicitly to support physical violence. US unions have a long history of violence already.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/10/how-debat...
> any application running under your user almost certainly has write access to your entire $HOME, including the ability to tamper with your shell configuration, edit your $PATH, and do all manner of nasty subversive shit.

Not that I'm a fan of it or that knowledgeable about the subject, but isn't this sort of where Flatpak comes in where applications have to be given permission to access some of these?

I know that Fedora is very clearly moving toward the Silverblue (OSTree) endgame where the underlying system is immutable and Flatpak is the default for user applications on top.
A journalist's job is to report the facts. The fact is Davies said he still believes. Seems like good journalism to me!
Being willing to do the job is a hurdle on its own. And there is variance between employee quality for "unskilled" labor too.

E.g. think about customer facing roles and social skills/aptitude. Having all friendly/nice employees can drive greater revenue for a business. Chick fil a and costco are famous for hiring friendly employees, can have meaningful results for the business
One more I initially resisted sharing because I worked on it: https://2019-annual-report.fnih.org/ The hover states on "Understanding", "Breakthroughs", "Solutions".

There's no framework involved by the way, it's just some CSS transforms. :)
And BYD is universally agree on a amazingly successful company.

Tesla revenue: 53,823

BYD revenue: 32’173

And XPeng and NIO started way later when much of the groundwork for EV was already laid and the government in China had a gigantic push to establish EV in the country.

So yeah, the only company that is comparable, BYD is one of the most amazing companies of China and Tesla has done better on global scale.
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Even then, you can't use company time, company resources, and company emails to support that disagreement:
> In her email to staff, Ms. Shotwell wrote, “Blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day is not acceptable.”

These employees clearly messed up in that regard.
Source this. Every Union I've seen continues to support performance based raises, just weighed appropriately against other compensation increases.
What I don't get is that if you have a web presence in the EU, you're STILL subject to GDPR regulations, so really, in practice, for many – in particular larger – companies, you'd have now implement GDPR AND the new british rules.

And it's not clear to me that those two sets of rules would be compatible, rather than mutually exclusive.

What a clusterfuck!
That's not entirely true.

.NET's object is very different from Box<T> from my understanding. My rust understanding is rusty (not sorry), but .NET's object is much closer to &mut than Box<T> as it is the top type in the type system. There's the reference type/value type split "below" object. Reference types like `List<T>` are always heap allocated (like Box<T>), but value types like T[] might not be and may be stack allocated.

Small enough arrays can reify entirely in stack space (function locals) rather than heap space and with some uses of ToArray() the JIT compiler is smart enough to make the right call, whereas List<T> always creates heap allocations and ToList() unavoidably churns at least Gen 0 of the garbage collector that tiny bit more.

IEnumerable<T> doesn't give you enough information of the implementation details to know if that interface is implemented as a reference type or value type. Some implementations of IEnumerable<T> are non-heap allocated value types (structs)! Often many implementations in performance critical areas of the framework are structs.
100%. Trump should have banned TikTok, and Biden should do it now. Do not wait. Sanction ByteDance.

While we're at it -- kill Grindr too. It was sold off for similar reasons, but it should have been killed long ago.
They did actually, it's called MTBE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_tert-butyl_ether#Regula....
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Moralizing is probably a sadder tragedy, though.
With respect to the Wayland devs, as they've been fighting more than an uphill battle for a decade now, but that is so bone-headed.

If their design philosophy is like this in general, no wonder no one is adopting it. It's just a worse X.
> (yes, the lead in gasoline was part of a particular molecule, too—which just proves my point, if we'd outlawed the specific molecule/compound that would have opened the door to finding other technically-different ones that still included lead—but you can't exactly outlaw carbon, so that approach won't work this time)

And that wasn't an edit, it was there from the beginning.
But there’s a chicken and eg problem there. I would argue that we in Sweden have the GDP (per capita) we have because of the few large companies that were started before unionization.

It’s also kind of unsustainable in a globalized world, and even more so with remote work: The Nordic model is that you give everyone more or less the same compensation regardless of contribution. But how is that going to work 5 years from now? It’s already coming apart I would say.
sure. if the relationship was 100% downside it would be hard to convince anyone to do it. everyone understands this. of course there is an element of choice.

but you are underestimating how immediate and real the threat of homelessness appears to the class of people who work warehouse jobs.

>It's exploitation if Amazon is tricking workers into working for less than their time is worth, or if Amazon is breaking labor laws.

these are both literally happening.

if Amazon wasn't getting more utility and value out of their resources than they spent, Amazon would not be profitable. it is okay to call that exploitation. it doesn't require tricking anyone.

as for labor laws, that's still under litigation, but the NLRB agrees.
There are plenty of websites where employees share their wages/salaries, which enable direct comparisons between companies. A simple google search reveals such data. Also, for a lot of these jobs, the companies post the pay ranges on the actual job description.

These wages aren't some super secret data point. Referencing a 2021 Reuters article as the source for Amazon wage data is an interesting choice, when you can find better comparable data by spending 5 minutes on Google.
He’s also become the richest man in the world over the last few years (at least publicly known wealth). That tends to bring you a lot of attention. His politics isn’t the only thing that changed
What's the counterparty risk?
But aren't those low-paid, high skill jobs likely to be unionized? Only issue I see with that term is that union affects pay.
While I agree that we haven't reached "sentience" (or at least, not human-level sentience) yet, I disagree that there's no intelligence in modern machine learning systems.

"It's all database lookups, pattern matching and probabilities." These LLMs, and really all machine learning systems, are not database lookups at all, so I'll focus on the other half of your sentence. I would argue that human intelligence is just pattern matching and probabilities. Intelligence is nebulous to define, but I think the best concrete definition I've heard is that intelligence is a measure of the ability to integrate data in order to synthesize new data. Machine learning systems already do this, and thus have some level of intelligence, though perhaps not as much as humans yet simply because they don't integrate data as effectively as we do.

The example I always like to use is of a person who is born blind, and locked in a room their whole life with nothing but a bed and bland food to sustain them. But they also are given a huge library of audiobooks from which to learn about the world. They have no personal experience with anything they hear about, but from the language alone, they are able to obtain meaning through a recognition of patterns and an integration of given patterns into synthetic new ones.

In that analogy, I think it would be disingenuous to say this blind person is not intelligent -- or, to use your phrase, that they're "dumb as a hammer" -- and I think we'd all agree they are actually learning things through their audiobooks. And yet, they are doing the same thing these LLMs are: collecting linguistic data, finding patterns in it, and integrating information about those patterns in order to encode/synthesize new information.

Having other forms of data to incorporate definitely helps improve the effectiveness of the intelligence -- which is why multimodal language models are all the rage in bleeding-edge research -- but I don't think multimodality is necessary for intelligence.
Most of the people who I knew that died from Covid were not old people. I literally did not know of any old people that died from it. Even my 99 year old grandmother got it and beat it (this was pre-vaccine). She said that she beat the Spanish flu in the 1920s so she would beat Covid in the 2020s, and she did.
Yeah, but, there's a certain class of injectable drugs we should always trust them on, no matter what. Always and forever, and never doubt them, because doubt alone is a conspiracy.
I disagree. The issue isn't housing availability in BFE - the issue is housing availability in major cities. The reason SF is so expensive is because in spite of all the SFH being built outside of SF - it still isn't enough to compensate for the demand required IN the city. This causes run off effects in other cities/regions. If you built enough housing - people wouldn't do super commutes and ruin your idealistic small town vibes.

The reason the peninsula is so expensive as well is because there's very little housing compared to the demand. If we built nice high density housing and got rid of crappy tax-inefficient suburbs then we could have lower cost of housing for everyone (including SFH).
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You could be a millionaire if you are right.
Why is this news? Amazon employs ~1M people. Of course they cannot churn people for long.
If you take a group of toxic people, the current employee base, and institutionalize them as a Union well now you still have a toxic culture but no way to get ride of the problematic employees.
In Preview, just click on the name in the Title Bar & you can change it there. This works in most Mac apps.
Found this by chance, thought it was really interesting. I figured I'd share it on here.
Sure, on what specifically?
It should be obvious that no one plants a glyphosate-resistant crop without the express intention of spraying more glyphosate than the equivalent non-GMO crop can tolerate.
I'm reasonably sure the PRNG being used in the python version came from numpy and was implemented in C (or other native code, not python). The problem was that the necessary control flow and varying parameters around it meant you had to call it once per value from python (and you had to generate a lot of values).

And if I recall correctly there was no allocation in the hot loop, with a single large array being initialized via numpy to store the values before hand. Certainly that's one of the first things I would think to fix.

I was strongly convinced at the time that there was no significant improvement left in python. With >99% of the time being spent in this one function, and no way to move the loop into native code given the primitives available from numpy. Admittedly I could have been wrong, and I'm not about to revisit the code now, since it has been years and it is no longer in use - so everything I'm saying is based off of years old memories.
All of these things (modulo number 5, which is categorically excluded) definitely apply to employee speech.
I mean...50% of the increase since April 2020 is the addition of OCD's to M1, isn't it?

Why wouldn't it be better to look at the total monetary base?
This reminds me of the "Juice It or Lose It" talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

I'm not sure I'd ever do any of this to a normal checkbox, but it's an essential skill in game development.
I'm not sure about the obsession to go to Mars. What is the rational behind it?

The next right step in technology (that would allow real progress in space exploration while having good environmental impact) is fusion energy. Developing chemical rockets to send a human to Mars seems like a misguided endeavor.

Without focuswe may run out of runway to develop and deploy clean energy technology - https://xkcd.com/1732/
ironically in this down turn Amazon offers are extremely appealing since your first two years are all cash. So you shore up on your cash while your future vesting have an upside if the recession is short lived.
Also, how would you know they're part of an isolated population unless you spend time (and money) collecting samples, doing genetic analysis, tracking movement, and observing behavior? And don't forget, having a bunch of researchers running around is going to affect the bears' behavior and introduce some uncertainty into the observations.
I'm not sure I follow. The fundamentals of most meme companies are horrible. I don't see how the meme was anything but the thing that caused the share price to divorce from reality, hence the meme was the upward push.
Rich Harris - Rethinking Reactivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao
My manager built a Gameboy emulator last year for a side project, and he was explaining to me the genius authorization mechanism that the Gameboy used: Every gameboy game starts up by showing the Nintendo® logo. The system checks the displayed value against a known checksum (or hash or something) that has to be perfect or the software won't go to the next instruction. So in order to make an unauthorized game for Gameboy, you have you put Nintendo's Registered Trademark as the very first thing that appears on your game, without permission. So instead of a technical limitation which can be broken with enough effort and engineering, you have to simply violate well-established Trademark law. Pretty smart.
It's difficult to get a clear picture of what exactly people think "web3" is. My general experience is that people who are caught up in web3 hype seem to actually just want simpler self-hosted/distributed resource redundancy.
If a universal basic income existed, I would agree with you. Since it doesn't, this employment model is exploitative. There is a limited amount of paid work to go around. Being able to avoid being one of the people who draws the short stick is inconsequential to the problem.

People like to say, "if you do X like me, youll get ahead or be your own boss or ___". It may be true for some people, but it comes almost directly at the cost of putting someone else in the bad place you were trying to get out of. So with respect to trying to improve the overall system, shuffling people around isnt going to help.
All kinds of speculative assets exist solely to hedge and make money on. The algorithmic traders on Wall Street aren’t trading soybeans futures because they can eat them. They’re making money. If people see price fluctuations in anything, and I mean literally anything, there will be people trying to capture those alphas.

I should also point out I’m not bullish on crypto. I just acknowledge it’s unique asset class, and I don’t think it’ll just disappear.
In my experience there, PIPing wasn't any more aggressive than anywhere else I've worked. The fighting was certainly real, though.
very reminiscent of 2future flash designer
Although two important Ethereum price indices have yet to turn negative, it won’t take much for ETH to fall below $1,000.
The most satisfying checkbox is - don't make me think.
First off, I don’t think the average twitter user is in the market for a rocket so I don’t see the point. Second, the target demographic of Tesla is not people who are all in on voting Republican, they are a lot more likely to be affluent eco conscious types, so Elon shitposting about politics is definitely not great for the brand.