skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TradFi normally solves this by having a firm have oversite

> $5,000 BTC and $200 ETH are in site

I think you meant to write oversight and sight.
> It's half interesting, and half boring.

I once emailed Grant from 3b1b and asked if he could explain convolution. Not neural-net convolution, but transfer convolution you learn in linear systems: e.g. f * g where you flip and slide g over f.

His short response: "That's too boring." I was a little miffed. Well, yeah, ECC is boring too, until someone like you makes cool graphics.

Anyway, thanks again!
That lawyer INVESTIGATED Musk. I don't think Musk behaved very well in that situation, but if you are a law firm and you rely on Musk's companies for business, maybe don't hire a government lawyer who went after him?
Hmm, I think that’s at the very least debatable. If we had a liberal court I can see how they’d go for that. Right now? Not so sure.
I have privately and openly criticised my employer on several occasions, and never have I been sacked for that.
People have been fired for a lot less at universities. Often time its not even attacking the organization or people, just for saying the wrong thing about a political issue.
I don't really know what I'm supposed to derive from this style of "blog post". It feels like the author wrote down a bunch of bullet points over the last 6 months of software development on Oil and just decided to publish them. There are lots of good links and cool trinkets (like projecting json onto a filesystem), and I'm now, having read between the lines, familiar with the term "narrow waist", but I'm not convinced of anything in particular because there's not a strongly argued thesis. There are a bunch of small assertions, some contradictory. I really struggled to get a "sketch" of.. anything.
> even at inflated prices

Either smart money or inflated prices, pick one
Academia follows some really strange rules, including things like tenure regarding academic freedom and speech. They also hire copious amounts of teacher assistants at poverty wages called "stipends", which also seem to bypass minimum wage laws.

Even though they too act like businesses, because of 500-year precedents, wouldn't be a fair comparison.
Shows that a true minimum wage is not something the government can mandate. There is a natural minimum wage that the market determines. It depends on (at least) the nature of the work and the supply of potential employees. For warehouse work, it's apparently over 2x what the government says it should be.
If they're using questionable means to get contact info, they probably have enough build in layers of buffer for plausible deniability. The recruiter may not know, and by design they probably don't keep a record of that.
This sort of thing sounds like something better left to a proper package manager like Nix. Reproducibility and a complete top-to-bottom dependency chain are key in making sure a package works well into the future.
The guy in the parent comments story loved working at amazon too, until he needed his tooth removed and showed up to work one day to learn that his badge no longer worked.
> Musk believes your right to speech ends where his feelings get hurt?

It could be that Musk recognises that a significant group of his staff - likely the majority - simply don't want a loud minority group - possibly a tiny minority - "making waves" and intimidating others into joining their cause.

I've just started Nassim Nicholas Taleb's latest book, but in previous work he wrote about "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority"[0]

This example could easily be one of those instances.

Back in the old days(!) one was expected to do one's job well, to treat others professionally - and to expect others to treat you well - but don't bring your private causes into the workplace and expect everyone to love you for it. Do what you like on your own time, but on the company's time, follow the rules.

[0]https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
From a recent Bloomberg article: Wealth of bottom 50% doubled between 2020-2022. Top 1% rose significantly. While the remaining 49% didnt budge much. Interpret it for your supply chain concerns.
> The popups are annoying specifically because the rules lumped Google Analytics in with all the bad tracking that evil companies do.

That's because it is the most evil one of all.

Just because you're only using it for one piece of info doesn't mean you aren't violating your users' privacy by handing over a complete record of every site they visit to a company that uses it exclusively for evil.
> Once you start trying to classify the personal tweets of the CEO as "working conditions"

This is way too reductionist. These aren't just "Musks tweets", they are directives about employee policies that are publicly stated, but not private enforced (because, to the author's criticism, they have no strict definitions). Furthermore they have clear (or at least implied clearly) repercussions: "don't behave they way we want to or you're fired".

> all could be considered about working conditions.

Actually, I think what the author is asking for is clarity about working conditions, not necessarily the working conditions are good/bad - they're just ambiguous.
GNOME devs want the users to use drag and drop instead of the file pciker, in their mind file picker is outdated and should be removed, in their mind having thumbnails there is duplicating having thumbnails in the File manager.

I am joking but I think they considered removing tabs because you should use multiple windows and ENJOY the cool Window manager their designed to switch between windows.
No, the media is responsible for people hearing about it.

If the mefia ignored him rather than running a story every time he runs his mouth the world would be a better place.
> Are you saying that academia is "not the real world" ?

Saying it's "not the real world" is unfairly denigrating, but people have made the argument that academia is it's own bubble with different rules to the world of private enterprise. Challenging existing ideas is a core tenet of higher education, but that can cause blowback in the private sphere. The existence of tenure, and sidelining of the profit motive (not quite elimination) also changes things.
I think it's much more likely that the explanation is adjacent to Hanlon's razor.
We have no idea how many other employees agreed with the five, and the point is that we'll never know, because the precedent of "speak up and you're fired" has now been set.

Being an autocrat doesn't mean getting rid of everyone who disagrees with you, just the ones who dare to do something about it (or potentially might).
Awesome, can't wait to test :)
I was more pointing to the fact/class of bugs we don't even know are bugs yet, like "re-entrant" bugs for eth.(logic bugs ?) The cost of having a bug in an eth contract is many many times higher than say a wordpress site getting hacked ! Or having a bug in your online-design tool.

I've seen many a times, "business ppl" just go with lowest cost when wanting some software done. Try going for the "lowest cost bidder" when getting a web3 contract coded !

You right, bugs do and always will exists and we are all but human, but some bugs have a much higher cost than other - even if they are simpler.
They're really pushing the limits of their work force. I think slowing the pace down a smidge in the warehouse and not burning everyone out would really help them keep it sustainable.
> politics and religion were not appropriate topics at work

if executives were bringing these topics into the company through their outside interactions on twitter, would it be a violation of the policy?

> Activist employees are toxic to company culture.

I would argue that musk's personal "activism" (or whatever you want to call his twitter account) is far more harmful than this letter is to company culture
Which makes this whole thread hilarious, because so many people are implying wrongful termination, which, to your point, doesn't really matter. Unless of course the individual is a protected class.
They've also been topping the lists of unreliability.

Many people like the things Tesla does well enough to not be bothered by the things it does poorly so are satisfied.

Tesla seems to have the best EV drivetrain in the business (I'm counting the battery as part of the drivetrain) and the best charging network, but seem to be worse in most other aspects.

My guess is that the other car companies will catch up on EV drivetrains faster than Tesla can catch up on the rest of a car.
There is a data access strategy called cache oblivious algorithms which aim to make it more likely to utilise this property without knowing the actual cache size.

I used that approach once on a batch job that read two multi megabytes files to produce a multigigabyte output file. It gave a massive speed up on at 32-bit intel machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm
> It's completely wild how over the past twelve months the anti-Musk people have somehow eclipsed the pro-Musk people in their monomania

He's a perpetually online guy, it was bound to happen. If he shut up every now and then it would help.

If he realized he can't derive unified theories of social behavior through logic untainted by the real world and then proudly announce them to universal acclaim, he could probably go back to the widely enjoyed persona of a year or two ago where the only die hard haters were Boeing stock holders.

> objectively consider any situation

hHaha, ok, I look forward to the objective discussion of the relative merits of calling someone a "pedo". Super objective!
It's amazing, someone fires a bunch of people for writing an open letter, and it's the latter who need to "get over themselves". Outstanding.
I'm not a user per se Simon, but I work on the Citus team and can share links to a few customer stories.

+ Implementation of the UK Coronavirus Dashboard running on Citus and Postgres, a post co-authored by the technical lead of the dashboard, Pouria Hadjibagheri: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/12/11/uk-covid-19-dashbo...

+ Architecting petabyte scale analytics using Postgres and Citus, based on an interview with the user, Min Wei: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2019/12/07/petabyte-scale-ana...

+ Video of a customer talk about scaling a SaaS application on Citus by Jonathan Denney at ConvertFlow: https://youtu.be/PzGNpaGeHE4
I'm doing a trial of Sugar Shift[0][1], inspired by William Davis[2]. There may be a small improvement in my mood, but not enough to say with certainty. I'm not doing any tests to monitor for the other possible benefits of the supplement. Two weeks into the trial, I have a mouth sore, which is rare for me (less than one occurrence per year). This may be coincidental, but I discontinued the supplement for the time being.

I don't have a blood glucose problem particularly, but I am hoping to reduce inflammation. The manufacturer offers several probiotic supplements, and Sugar Shift seems to be the most comprehensive.

[0] https://biotiquest.com/pages/sugar-shift
[1] https://biotiquest.com/blogs/blog/sugar-shift-challenge-the-...
[2] https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/
Godot 4.0 movie maker mode
I’d argue that a university is a very different type of organization than a company like SpaceX, with vastly different expectations on employee behavior.
I don't think I agree that this is a duplicate of the commit that was submitted yesterday. The release of Citus 11 contains much more, than only the enterprise features that were open sourced. Also this post has a lot more details on what was actually open sourced.
> Here's an experiment. At your place of work, circulate a document criticizing leadership and how they're all wrong. Make sure to publicize this loudly to people outside the organization.

This happens often: I'm guessing about once a month, and nothing happens. The difference is that Zuckerberg is not a needy, thin-skinned billionaire,and will directly address employee criticism in Q&As - as well as press leaks like a well-adjusted adult
I think authors argument is not supported by their examples since in this day and age for the purposes exemplified we use messaging services like Slack etc in place of email. Email remains for many automated messages where you probably want to be able to quickly scan through information - login info, password reset and so on - so styling it is really helpful.
Thanks. So far (8 months in) 30,000 have downloaded it, so I think the potential is there. It is more convenient to have an app, as it provides widgets and notifications.
If an ad hominem attack is all you can muster in response, it doesn't show a good faith attempt at discourse.
That's a you problem. It doesn't entitle you to help google stalk your users.
The purpose of minimum wage is a floor, not that someone has to make that level. If everyone makes more, good.
I can't believe that they are actually going through with such a dumb idea but at least no public money will be used.
Most likely it's on a later page of comments - you would need to click "More" at the bottom of the page, or via a link like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774890&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774890&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774890&p=4

Sorry about that—I really hate having to paginate comments and it's a long-term project to improve HN performance enough to go back to just rendering entire threads in one page.
Right, I'd argue that "Operating system as for-profit-product separable from the computer itself" should have never existed -- any more than e.g. "OS for cars." Bill Gates had a wonderful very awful idea. :)
That sounds like a lot of other third-party screen shot tools on Mac OS, too. The basic, built-in screen shot on Mac OS has a lot of features but it comes from a system-tool standpoint. It works efficiently for those with some experience, but it can be a little hard for new users to learn. The third-party tools add a more visual layer on top of that for beginners.
Yes, it’s a very similar sound. The Welsh <ll> is the voiceless lateral fricative /ɬ/, which is effectively <tl> without the initial ‘t’ at the start of the phoneme.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_and_alveolar_...
It's his organization. Why is that so hard to understand? The leader and some person working there are not the same. If I hired a cleaner and she started posting publicly how shitty my interior design, I would fire this person. It's not what you pay her to do.

I would argue it was a good move. Like I said, its a distraction and completely out of line. Imagine you were managing someone and they think its okay to arbitrarily go above your head and call you out publicly. This is incredibly toxic and not a person living in the real world.
I'm trying to give a working definition of "woke" based on how I've seen it used. If you have a better one I'd love to hear it.
Sounds like a deal might be possible! Maybe Google doesn't fire Damore and Mozilla doesn't fire Eich and Elon doesn't fire ... whoever these people are! We can call this agreement "liberalism"! Or "free speech"!

And yet, all I've heard from the left over the past decade is that corporate employees have no free speech because oh it's not covered by the first amendment, as if that gave you the right rather than acknowledging it, and how oh actually it's not a free speech issue, it's a safety issue, or whatever excuse of the week, and anyway the company can do what it wants regardless. (In this one instance only, of course.)

So! Fine, normally I'd be against this sort of thing of people being fired for voicing opinions, but in this case there is a big heaping of schadenfreude involved.

Leopard fence was good for something after all, was it!
Extortion basically...

They track clicks on profiles and keep tabs on many businesses undercover. I get tons of junk calls and calls from companies that are obviously trying to market to me or from competitors trying to copy my business methods. It's not really been useful to have a google profile, though it's also essential.

The monopoly effect is here, and firmly embedded, they have far too much money for anyone to reliably counter their tactics. Small and medium sized businesses are being squeezed harder than ever by big industry, and by the Internet being shrunken, and everyone wants a piece of your profit now, or you simply don't pass.

I make business web sites and apps, but the cost to customers is mostly going towards advertising them now, even more than development budgets. Because of how ads are set up (based on what is trending at each moment), it's also very hard to get the right reach every time with a fixed budget. Because of the gamifying of SEO and search ranking, customers are often upset by fluctuating prices for our work.

I don't know what to tell people, but things are getting more complex, and insanely mathematical in order to just make a few bucks. Something has to give, and we've got to start boycotting certain things to remind companies that they are not invincible.
Topics that usually include "racial or social discrimination and injustice". They are introduced to the workplace in many different forms and reasons. When it comes to the workplace, some are justified some aren't. There are lots of social issues that should remain muted or non-existent in the workplace, but yea it also just depends on the situation.
> I've not seen anyone using a tiling window manage with 32" and larger 4k displays. It's just an awful experience.

I do this. How is it a bad experience? If anything I get more mileage out of my tiling WM on my large screen than I do on my laptop, where I tend to just use a lot of full screen apps and change tag/workspace a lot.
.. and incompatible with existing train systems in most regions.

In many systems you currently have a central hub which is overhead wired. If you then have a unwired branch line installing a third-rail-system there would require vehicles which can use both. Such systems exist, like the underground in Nuremberg, Germany, which operates with a third rail on tracks, but in the maintenance area has overhead power to make work safer. However that increases cost by requiring custom vehicles etc.
That doesn't mean it's a problem for SpaceX employees in general. Are they still getting their paychecks?
You missed the point. They're not changing the world and they have a cult. The old way also benefits from cults. They are the old way. No change. All they did was make things (in their microenvironment) worse by adding the cult aspect.
What's asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Also the first claim is not falsifiable.
Agreed. "Look at these two articles. We need to take tons of resources away from all of the other problems society has to make sure that everyone lives their lives to accommodate this one!"
Hi, the parsing is done with Jsoup. So it parses the Html content of the website, without opening a browser. Also it has a neat feature that lets you select the number you want to track by simply highlighting it.
It's a stupid joke.

The negative reactions that a lot of people have toward Lisp's parentheses are not because of the call function syntax but because parentheses are used everywhere else in Lisp's syntax.
> No, using custom CSS isn't "dark mode"

I mean, in this case, it literally is as easy as adding an alternate CSS style and then managing the proper dark-mode switching.

...not that this is really a concern in the first place. If you read through someone's blog and the best comment you have is on their website's OS integration, I think you've got your priorities misaligned.
Ah ok - sorry for misreading you! I'd have to see specific links to be able to say what happened. In principle there shouldn't be any difference between YC and non-YC companies/projects when it comes to this.
The file picker has always been one of the weakest parts of our GUI paradigm, and it has been since the Mac.

Navigating file system via GUIs is slow, painful, and for me takes a ton of cognitive effort after a short amount of time of accumulating files. Coming up with a system for organizing files is kind of hard in itself. Reorganizing as the number of files outgrows the system is also painful.

And choosing a place to save a file is often the best time to start a reorganization. But if I save a file in a new location, having to switch apps and now go back to that same spot in the hierarchy and reorganize is painful.

I don't have a good solution, just complaints, unfortunately. But after ~50 years of GUIs and hierarchical file systems I'm surprised somebody more clever than me hasn't come up with a better solution.
Florida, so there's dealing with our sunbiz stuff. Taxes got weirder this year because there are now increased reporting requirements for subcontractors, etc.
It also just seems ridiculous to try to separate Musk from the companies he's built. He's clearly a major factor in their success and it'd be stupid to remove him.
Is there any indication that free speech absolutism of the Muskian kind might also extend to people who aren't "financially independent"?
Visual programming fundamentally lacks the technical expressivity of code.

It works well where the underlying technical "problem" is fairly stable and can be represented through a relatively small vocabulary of elements and relationships.

So it works for some games because a lot of game engine concepts and even many popular game mechanics are established. The expressivity for those games is in the art and narrative layers above the technical layer. But even then, high-production value games and deeply innovate games can't make do with it, because they're pushing on the technical problem and need more expressivity.

Likewise, it actually does work well for a variety of "normal" software domains and is used regularly. It's just the boundaries of these domains are narrow.

Visual programming will always be around and will make stable domains more easily programmable, but there will also always be value in the greater expressivity of coding.

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That said: games also have special opportunity for being an art form, so doing something interesting within the constraints (as of a limited technical expressivity, modern pixel graphics, new games for old platforms, etc) is itself an artistic work to be appreciated. That extra benefit doesn't apply to plainly commercial projects.
Basecamp and github most recently off the top of my head. IIRC one of Basecamp's founders is about the same ballpark as Musk and was called out to his face at a company meeting and on the other side Github kept the Nazi sympathizer who criticized the Jewish employee for complaining about Nazis, but fired the HR decision maker and tried to rehire the Jewish employee.
This surprises me as I read a lot about Aztecs and their iconography was described by an expert as 'dense and obscure' and i never found good examples of any of it, so this is ... interesting.

Some doubts, the 'blood drops' on the skull are - I think - actually pox marks from disease, quite appropriate for the death god. Also, missing is a note on their sandals which if you look, have a high back to them around the heel. This was apparently a symbol of rank (weird eh).

I'd like to see clearer references to explain each, and some explanation of why, as well as what. But good to see this.
> "X" could mean anything or nothing at all.

Somewhat untrue in theory. Completely untrue in practice. There are a few things you legally cannot be fired for, and a whole plethora of things a company would need to very very careful about firing you for, lest they wind up in court.