skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did I get hat right?

Yes. Like it or not there is a difference between “the person who signs the paychecks” and the person receiving the signed paycheck. C-level employees and folks who own controlling interests don’t always have to play by the same rules, even the rules they themselves set for the other employees.

> one point that keeps being overlooked -- …(shortened for brevity)… -- is that they're not trying to impose any morality.

But they are, though. They are being disruptive to the business because of their morality. If you are unhappy with the bosses behavior outside the organization because of your moral code, but I, a fellow employee, am fine with or frankly don’t care what the boss does outside the organization—and then you spam me on company communication platforms trying to organize dissent based on your moral code you are in essence demanding conformity to your beliefs in a way that is disruptive.

> Also, what's more likely to bring the company morale go down: seeing its owner sabotage it because of his ego, or an internal letter criticizing him for doing that?

In my opinion a small group of employees being intentionally disruptive and causing public drama would be more likely to cause morale issues for me.

It’s not like Musk’s personality and tweeting was unknown. His political leanings shift and all of a sudden he and his behavior is intolerable? Please.
Regarding b) this is irrelevant to the stock market which is a secondary market used mostly for speculation. Trading company stock after IPO and not for active governance has no impact on the company itself and the economy. Company results are just a narrative for speculation between traders.
Perfectly humorless line, to me sounds exactly like Seinfeld.
Ave, Vale!
I don't mean this to sound overly negative, because I absolutely think DALL-E is a killer app amongst recent AI advances. But the thing that made DALL-E astonishing is that it was... good. While DALL-E Mini mimics a lot of the technical advances and you can kind of see what it's getting at with its outputs, they're still mostly garbage. Very clever garbage! But they lack the emotional impact that - woah! - this is doing something superhuman.

Obviously the hope is that somehow this and future advances can be democratised. It was funny that Asimov's The Last Question has been posted here a couple of times recently because it makes such a big thing about world-sized computers and how advanced minicomputers would be. It's easy to read and scoff at the naivety... before realising we could easily be heading back in that direction for many impactful future technologies.
One big hope is it would include video to give context.

Volume of text and consistency should also make decoding easier. Our Linear A samples are mostly fragments without context and they contain various inconsistencies.
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Good thing there are thousands of other companies to work for that pay very well
https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/06/15/wha... Gives a good example (in rust) of a case where complex object ownership could lead to a bug. The summary of the example there looks like:

- you have some AST object and want to lower it in the compiler into an intermediate representation

- you want to add some interesting parts of the AST to your state while lowering and refer to them later in the lowering process

- This seems fine: the AST is first created, then you lower to the intermediate representation, then you can destroy the AST, so while you’re doing the lowering, the AST objects should all be alive and therefore ok to store references to in the lowerer-state

- However there is some mostly unnoticed code that is roughly desugaring some syntax by constructing temporary AST nodes

- So your addition may have your state including references to these temporary nodes

- And those temporary nodes are freed shortly after being created rather than after the lowering is all done

- Giving a quite subtle use-after-free.
Since absolutely nothing could go wrong with disgruntled employees making and launching rockets it has better be back wages, or something that limits the actual, physical damage they could cause. "Rocket science" has a reputation because it is not a forgiving domain.
You may doubt, but most plants can only use a small amount of light. Once that is exceeded, they endure any more, and benefit from relief.

Some crops lose a bit of yield, shaded, like wheat, but the value of power year-round exceeds the loss.
Is this a "native app"?
Too bad these tools run on the server side, which means you can't study how they are implemented.

Also, the pages are filled with big banner advertisements.
You don't need any additives to dissolve 120g/l of sugar into water. Wikipedia lists sucrose solubility as approximately 2000g/l at 25C, and HFCS has even higher solubility. The phosphoric acid is to make it taste better. 120g/l would taste unpleasantly sweet without the acidity.
Good news -- the site has been hugged to slowness.

Although, quick tools enable human procrastination.
There are two possibilities:

- the entire media is in a conspiracy against the world's richest man.

- he really is a jerk and when he initiated the Twitter deal it got the public focus on him and so when stories started churning out they couldn't help but be about what a jerk he is.

I think which of these cases you find most likely will say a lot about your personality and state of mind.
Yeah, the hard wrapping of my link looks bad on my phone, unless I turn it sideways. But it looks good on my laptop.

I guess html has benefits :) Does Gemini handle wrapping?
This is something that I often wonder about.

We often talk about the distribution of wealth, but I wonder about the distribution of labor consumption and physical goods.

I think it would be a interesting lens to look at the same question with different implications.
What's the advantage of heartbeats over a simpler implementation via SETNX in Redis if you still need fencing tokens?
twtxt?

https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

There's also yarn[1] which builds on twtxt to give you APIs and mobile clients, etc.

[1] https://yarn.social
I think we are just in a golden period like the 1920s before May 1, 1933 when gold was confiscated.

Central bank digital currency seems inevitable. I imagine in the far future there will be central bank digital currency and illegal crypto currency that facilitates black market transactions. Crypto holders will be smeared in narratives as drug traffickers and criminals. At some point there will be risk outside of volatility with holding crypto. I just can't see how things evolve any other way.

The digital Yuan is going to be incredibly tough competition for the West that I don't see how a renegade non-central bank digital currency does not eventually come to be seen as counterfeit.
Depends on the roles of the people who were fired.

> the NLRA is restricted to nonsupervisory employees, said Kate Bischoff,

And whether the statements themselves qualify.

According to WSJ , https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacex-fires-employees-involved....
Just from listening to the bats; it sounds to me like they spend at least as much time cussing at each other as they do pinging. I wonder how much information the bats gather from others' ping calls and also from the "other chatter" a crowd of bats produces.
Would love to see how OpenAI does CI/CD. Both with the models and while training.
"no connection to your name" is not really accurate if you are using a credit card issued in your own name, even if you don't reveal that name directly to Amazon.
It is, of the new young far right

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Fren
What stack are they useful in? I’ve never used a binary tree in app development.
Sorry. Not accepting this narrative. Doubly so for the comment I was replying to which was suggesting that the US may “nuke half the world” if it were the only country with nuclear weapons. We aren’t that kind of people. I’d never be convinced otherwise.

> - "And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families" - Trump

Who cares? Should I go dig up a quote by some French politician and then suggest they are the kind of people that would “nuke half the world” too? You can make better arguments, though unlikely on this topic.
I learnt to use a computer very early and I had few friends, so I would spend my days reading Wikipedia. The maths and physics articles for some reason drew me in particularly, and some times I'd also look at other sources. But really, I didn't understand most of it.
>The antidote is simple to prescribe but hard to achieve: it is a return to the goal of efficiency in work—fulfilling whatever needs we have, as a society, with the minimal effort required, while leaving the option of more work as a hobby for those who happen to love it.

What's the acceptable minimum? Society could become like an army, with the same clothing for everybody, a small personal area to sleep and a canteen for food. Everything could be highly automated.

It's my understanding that we prefer individualism and status. The housing market with reduced interests rates has shown that people don't take the opportunity to work less. Instead, they are willing to max out what they can spend per month.

Apart from individual status, don't we want leisure time to be as low as possible to have maximum progress [1]?
If it becomes acceptable to work 10 hours per week, will society stagnate because there is not enough time to transmit knowledge from one generation to the next?

[1] Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31764663
Their requirement to login to your account to verify your age is such nonsense when alcohol websites can get away with simply asking if you're above a certain age.
OP here. Fair criticism thanks.
As I stated in another comment, I was going to make this a list of things you could do, but the argument to why you should do it was not clear, at least for me. This is the purpose of the article: explain my mother why. The how will come later.
I just shared the above comment with my wife and we both agree that it is one of the wisest things we have heard today. Well done layer8 and may you be (voluntarily) slow on all your days!
A powerful AI could help with that! >.>
This one is great! I just wish there were a handful more animation frames, it's a tad choppy.

Heads up, you can add `if_` after the date in a web archive link to show it without the header. I.e. https://web.archive.org/web/20210301032806if_/https://riotga...
Sometimes you are just a small part of a global movement. I doubt any single company Will ever move the dial much by itself. But you should still try.
I quite like my nvidia shield. The pro, not the shitty tube thing.
Thanks a lot for the references!

But do you realize that I was speaking of 20% output and not of a 20% reduction (i.e. 80% output) which makes my speculation worse than what it is actually in the Middle-East?

In my opinion, on a huge solar grid, 50% is still pretty much helpful (solar is roughly forever free energy, modulo the maintenance cost).

> How about indoors? We sweep/vaccum away plenty of dust. Do you people not have to do that?

We're speaking of enough dust hanging on a smooth sloppy surface (not a floor, but a plane with an angle) and thick enough to block more than 80% of the light (for dust, that makes very thick).
It's set up as a non-profit. Which makes some of the budget decisions look a lot more grounded.
This is a big reason microservices are popular in enterprise. Performance rarely matters via minimizing development costs.
Not really, no company hires you for 10 or 20% in software engineering, while still paying enough that you could sustain yourself. The minimum is 80%, because it still the most of your time, so it seems reasonable in the work oriented society.
I agree with collecting data. Monitoring tooling is extremely important. With microservices you need metrics (requests, errors, latency), logs, traces. Every service will have specific signals that the service owner should understand.

The SRE book is an OK idea but to be honest, it's hard to get developers to focus on Google-level theory of reliable engineering via error budgets when they're so operationally immature that nobody is oncall (so everybody is oncall). Sounds like the gap is too wide. If these alerts are 50% "customer reported an incident" instead of a SLI, then that SRE book could spawn a cargo cult that creates work for everybody and achieves nothing because the gap is too wide. I've seen clueless managers latch onto theory that's too far ahead of the stone-age. Like "Hey guys, this month I want everybody to record their SLOs", when nobody is even recording metrics because they don't know how, or what to record.

I'd do extremely boring stuff like keep a spreadsheet of incidents with columns for severity, trigger (eg release, operator error, customer load, hidden bug, system error), root cause (eg internal software bug, bad config, system resources etc). If patterns emerge, they should point to gaps in knowledge, testing, automation, monitoring etc. If there's no pattern at all, then your engineering org is in a bad way. When an engineering department is extremely dysfunctional, it needs external help. Or sometimes it needs a clueless manager / lead to quit, allowing suppressed talent too take over and fix stuff.
The assumption many in the field make is that _someone_ is going to create General Purpose AI, and we'd rather it be people who want it to be 'good' (aka 'aligned').

Best case, that AI can prevent the creation of harmful AI, though that's glossing over a lot of details that I'm not qualified to describe.
Apple: Great hardware, barely tolerable software.
What worries me more are bad people doing bad things with AI, malicious use of AI, or just AI negligence. Deep fakes. Algorithmic decision making taking the human out of the loop (such as bad content moderation and automated account shutdown). Lack of disclosure. Lack of consent. Autonomous systems with poor failure modes.

It's not that I'm not concerned with bias and AI systems going haywire, but the above scenarios seem to get less attention from researchers, probably because their employers might be perpetuating many of these above issues of AI safety.
> an action has to be concerted (certainly the case here)

From the article, quoting a law professor. I'd never heard the term "concerted action," so I looked up the relevant text of the National Labor Relations Act. It says that employees have the right to engage in concerted actions "for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection..."[0]

I am not familiar with this law; could someone explain why employees complaining in a circulated letter falls into this category? I'm (pleasantly!) surprised this was a legally protected action.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/157
Other people in crypto? Haven’t you seen how wild that ecosystem is?
Sure they will. Try selling your BTC for more than what the unregulated exchanges says it's worth and let me know how it goes.

Even if you don't use/trust exchanges, they still set the value of your crypto by sheer weight of their market presence and trading volume. Any way you slice it, you are at their mercy and trust.
I invested a few thousand dollars just before they hit a dollar each. I hoped they would hit $10. It still amazes me they ever hit $100.
With uBlock Origin in default "deny all javascript" mode I was able to read the whole article and did not see a single ad.
I was thinking of Tesla when mentioning climate change. You may be right EV aren't the solution, but then there are barely any (or simply any) mainstream politicians who aren't very confused [0].

Even if EV are not scalable, would you say replacing a single oil vehicle with an EV moves the needle in the right direction, however short sighted the strategy, and regardless of whether a more radical strategy will be needed in the future? Simply because that EV will pollute less than it's oil counterpart.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/10/scoop-dem...
The US had momentum, was supplying the Soviets, had the bluff of the weapons (Soviets had no clue how many the US had) and the US could have engaged in war and then started building more and then using them. It’s also entirely possible that they could have just straight up won a conventional war. They opted not to. Moreso the US would have continued building atomic bombs and would had had enough to win a nuclear exchange with the Soviets and very well could have put an end to any nuclear proliferation and “nuked half the world”. But they didn’t. They chose peace and ending war instead.
It's usually back wages, but that's up to the fired party.
If halved working hours result in reduced output of the needed chemicals and machinery, that would definitely mean that less food will be produced. If Australia can keep up paying more than the rest and purchase the needed resources and machinery, then other parts of the world will starve and Australia will be just fine, I guess.

Ideally, paying more should be able to convince people to work and prevent supply chain shortages but if for some strange reason people all over the world insist on working less some people who are less fortunate will definitely need to change their diet or even die.
>I am amazed at the disdain for leisure and "free" time and "slacking" in the comments here.

There is a strong incentive to craft a narrative where their present lifestyle (live in a filthy city, busy all the time, etc) is, if not the best possible, at least unavoidable.

The alternative is depression.
Sure, it’s just like slavery. Except the part where you get paid and you can leave anytime you want.
We were already in the process of assembling another Fat Man on Tinian. It wasn't likely to be used like the first two, but we were planning on using about five in Operation Olympic, the invasion of the first Japanese home island of Kyuushuu scheduled to begin three months later. In part because the original plan was blown by Japanese military intelligence for once getting the timing and locations correct, the former from simply logistics, and being believed so that nine divisions of troops had been moved to the island, blowing up the usual math required for an opposed amphibious assault and generally successful campaign. Those who didn't know about the Manhattan Project were planning on using poison gas.

The Soviet program to make nuclear weapons didn't get really serious until we demonstrated they could work in Japan, and their equivalent of our Trinity test took another four years.
WW1 and the famines after the revolution were more of a humanitarian low point for them than 1991. Even after considering the dip in life expectancy and the financial crises and the kleptocratic corruption, the 1990s doesn't compare to what Russians (not to mention the minorities like the Tartars) went through in the early years of Bolshevik rule.

I would only agree that the 1990s were an unprecedented low point from the viewpoint of national pride via the prism of nationalism, given the losses in territory and influence that Russia had. Which explains why Putin thinks it's the single biggest disaster - he's a fascist and ultranationalist. Such people care about national pride and empire above all else.
> Almost everyone who is and remains rich or powerful in this world is a crook

That’s an opinion.
True... Also in the stock trading community I think crypto has always been seen with suspicion if not even as pure pump and dump.

(Although the original goals seem interesting, speaking of an inflation defying currency. It's hard to imagine the problem wouldn't pop out elsewhere)
That is irrelevant here. The argument that bitcoin is not inflationary is merely that it has a supply cap. USD has no supply cap but it obviously has lower price volatility. That said, it is the Fed's goal to purposefully reduce the purchasing power of USD by 2% every year, so the trajectory is clear.
You can instead have manual overrides. Not seeing a lock means that at least a person has decided it's safe to run Vs something simply have taken too long to respond.
Failure is failure. It only takes one reason, even if there are a dozen more waiting offstage for their cue.
Too true. I’d prefer a game where you see every action by the agents, not differential equations.
Rust Foundation tweet promoting crypto receives backlash on Twitter
Anti-harrassment campaigns have historically been qualified statements. You're correct that they have to be nonsupervisory workers.
Right. This is proven technology!
Ask HN: Preparing for a Internship
Hey,

I'm a student, who recently finished the second form of education in my country and will participate in an internship around system administration for around 2 months. While I have some experience, running my own server and working with Linux on personal machines for ~4 years, I don't know what would be appropriate to revisit/ learn in preparation for the internship. The company I'm interning at focuses around managed hosting of webshops, mail and other web applications with GNU/Linux.

I wanted to tap into the collective knowledge/ experience of the HN community around internships and how to make the most out them as a learning experience. It would be highly appreciated if you could share some of your tips & tricks around this topic.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Cited in the video.
Do you buy gas online? The thread is about asking to keep the change at a gas station. Changing it to online purchases is moving the goalposts.
nitter link - http://nitter.net/rust_foundation/status/1537752005267136514
Which of these lawyers is a spin doctor?
Unfortunately, while I would love JIT to do such kind of optimizations, this is completely not how it works today.

First and foremost, '&mut' in Rust is a mutable reference. The C# alternative is just 'ref'. Both point to specific addresses. 'Box<T>' OTOH is a handle for a struct allocated on a heap, just like C#'s one is implementation-wise (except in C# they are further managed by runtime but that's besides the point).

Now regarding the arrays - 'T[]' is strictly object withouts ifs and buts. There is no "short array" optimisation that would substitute array type with stack-allocated inline buffer. If you want this, you have to write it manually. See: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/57bfe474518ab5b7cfe6b...

The last but not least, if the method signature accepts an argument by its interface type e.g. 'HandleEnumerable<T>(IEnumerable<T> values)', then the IEnumerable-implementing struct will be boxed before method can be called. C#/.NET doesn't do full generic monomorphization like Rust. Instead, for class-type generics a common '_Canon' method body will be JITted which will also implicitly accept generic-type arguments to correctly dispatch on an actual <T> of the method. OTOH, for structs, all method calls will be fully monomorphized per each struct type. This means that you can avoid struct boxing when dispatching by interface by rewriting method signature to 'HandleEnumerable<T, TEnumerable>(TEnumerable values) where TEnumerable : IEnumerable<T>'. In this case, unless you cast your struct to an interface type explicitly beforehand, the struct will not be boxed.

For the sake of simplicity, this explanation scope doesn't include advanced optimisations done by Tier-1 JIT compilation such as guarded de-virtualization, more aggressive inlining that can potentially elide boxing, etc.